Battle of Gezer

The Battle of Gezer was a continuous series of engagements in early Shemu III, 75 AEE, east of the city of Gezer in southern Canaan. After the EC victory in the Fourth Battle of Kadesh, it continued advancing south, capturing major Egyptian cities and forts along the way. This task was made easier by Phoenicia declaring neutrality, which deprived Egypt of the most strategically important cities in the Levant and made EC's conquest easier. 
The campaign, taking over a year, resulted in many EC victories and some OFK ones, but not enough to stop their opponents' advance. Eventually, southern Canaan was reached, but the frontline froze as the Egyptian army under general Nechtarhebi managed to stabilize the situation. Yet this changed once Shilhak-Inshushinak returned from his eastern visits to the front, bringing thousands of new troops and raising the morale even more. A new strategy was also agreed on by the generals Eparti and Kindattu, who were given the go ahead by Shilhak to execute a large encirclement maneuver. 
The battle began as Kindattu engaged the Egyptians with his force containing elephants. However, this was just a ruse to move the Egyptian army away from the cities and make them fortify their center, as it was supposed to fight the elephants, while ignoring their eastern flank, due to the elephants making it seem like most of the EC army was with Kindattu, while in reality he had only a small portion of it and never revealed its true size. Meanwhile Eparti managed to circumvent the Egyptian army with his larger EC force, containing chariots and mounted units, and, once everyone was in position, attack it from the undefended flank. Before the Egyptians realized what was happening, much of their force was encircled and destroyed or captured. Seeing that the battle was lost, Nechtarhebi ordered a retreat and so managed to escape southwest with around half of his force, but the rest were mostly captured by the EC. The Egyptians were once again forced to retreat, ceding Gezer and other nearby cities to the EC. The Egyptians retreated to Ashkelon, and the EC soon reached it and prepared to fight the Egyptians there to secure the remainder of the Levant.
Category:The March of Deshret
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