Chapter 203: Roman Legions
Some old and weak women and children were so frightened that they fled, but some young people did not hide from it, but watched the excitement with a smile on the sidelines. Originating from the nomadic peoples of Central Asia, the men still maintain a trace of fierceness, and when they encounter fights, they do not think they are messing around, and often cheer and cheer on the side, and even help with fists.
But this time, the two arguing men pulled out their knives, and they went a little too far. The sword had no eyes, and others did not dare to persuade him, but there was a young man, who seemed to be good at it, drew his scimitar, and helped the short man to join the battle group.
At this moment, the men who were watching the excitement all around were stunned, and some people shouted that it was unfair, and they also drew their knives to help one after another. After a while, there were help on both sides, and the square was like a martial arts training ground.
"Zhang Bai, it's all like this, do you want to take care of it?" Nanhua said with a frown.
"You don't need to, let them call, the more lively the better, I have already arranged it. Zhang Bai still didn't move, and he also transmitted the message to everyone in the Air Force Regiment, and everyone was not allowed to move.
Because the more lively is about to begin.
Sure enough, seeing the fight in the square, the city patrol guards finally couldn't hold it back. Either with a sword drawn or with a whip, they poured into the square. A few civilians blocked the way and were whipped and knocked to the ground, and a few had begun to wield scimitars and cut down on sight.
As soon as Ma Ge saw that something was wrong, he immediately ordered the mercenaries to come up and line up to protect some of the civilians, and the soldiers raised their spears and shields against each other, and the people on both sides were crowded, and the sound of swords and spears intersecting inside and outside the shields was endless.
However, the number of Ma Ge and the mercenaries was too small, and the enemy on the opposite side was ten times larger, and it meant that they were surrounded. As a last resort, Brother Ma commanded the horizontal team, changed the formation and shrunk into a circle, taking care of each other back to back, which was resistant.
At this time, the situation in the square changed unexpectedly. The two groups of men and horses who had been fighting in the square before suddenly stopped, and inexplicably formed a group, brandishing swords and killing the mercenaries.
At this moment, even the people who were a little farther away were frightened. Zhang Bai saw that the time had come, and the voice transmission asked Nanhua to open the temple door and let the disciples hurry in to hide.
In the panicked crowd, someone suddenly shouted: "These people are forbidden soldiers, and their scimitars are all the same." ”
The crowd became even more chaotic, some fled along the streets to the city, some fled to the Kabuli gates, and most entered the temple. Along the way, someone was trampled down, someone was crushed.
Those who were called the forbidden army were the people who fought each other in the square, Zhang Bai had already seen that something was wrong in advance, and he also guessed that these people dressed as civilians might be the forbidden army, but he didn't expect that there were so many people in this group, there were hundreds of people.
At this time, Ma Ge's mercenaries were surrounded in one place, and there were many dangers with one enemy and ten. Zhang Bai hurriedly transmitted a message to Hetri, two words: "Do it!"
Hetry, who was guarding in front of the food stall, had been waiting for a long time, and as soon as he heard the command, he immediately ordered his men to give instructions. The strong men who followed immediately rushed to the side of the ox carts, and at the end of the carts, two of them were covered with cloth curtains, and when the cloth curtains were lifted, there were large and small boxes inside, and one of these people was particularly anxious, and directly picked up a box and smashed it on the ground.
The contents were revealed, and it turned out to be weapons and helmets. The men hurriedly put on their helmets, took up their weapons and unfastened their robes, revealing the armor inside, and after a while, formed a square formation.
I saw that everyone's helmet was decorated with a large row of bright red helmets, a silver-white helmet, a silver-white armor and a short skirt, everyone held a rectangular bronze shield, and a snow-bright bronze short sword. Shields and shields were next to each other, and the ranks shouted slogans with neat steps and crushed them like a torrent of metal.
In the middle of the procession, a flag with an eagle-shaped carving on the top of the pole was suddenly erected, the red felt flag was trimmed with gold, and the golden eagle logo on the top of the pole shone in the sunlight. It was the Legion Eagle Banner of the Roman Empire.
"The Romans, it's the Romans coming!"
"The Roman legions are in the city!
"Run! The Romans are coming. ”
The fleeing crowd immediately turned around and fled, with the Forbidden Army disguised as civilians in front and the Roman soldiers rumbling in the back.
The crowd had nowhere to flee, so they had to flock to the temple, and Nanhua opened the temple door to the maximum, and loudly reassured the people, coming one by one.
This temple was changed from a tour boat in Zhang Bai's previous life, and this tour boat could have accommodated thousands of people, not to mention that now it is not afraid of shipwrecks on land, and the garage has been opened, so even if there are thousands of people in the square, they can still accommodate all of them.
Now, except for a few civilians in the square who didn't have time to run, it was basically the Romans and the Forbidden Army facing each other.
The Kushan Empire is a horse empire, and most of the elites in the country are cavalry. The forbidden army is the only elite infantry in the country, mainly responsible for defending the city, the troops are good at using spears and longbows, climbing the city tower can be defended, and the field can temporarily resist the cavalry impact.
However, this group of forbidden troops in the square, apparently came to make trouble, so they were only equipped with scimitars, not spears and longbows, and they also lacked command, and when they fought with the Roman phalanx, they were immediately defeated.
These Roman soldiers were highly skilled and well-trained, and wherever the phalanx went, their shields were invincible, or they were knocked into the air or knocked down. Bronze short swords were constantly pierced from the top of the shield, and the timing and angle of the sword were accurate and tricky, and from time to time some people were stabbed in the face and neck, and some even had their arms cut off and their eyes blinded, and they screamed in pain; some people were knocked down by the phalanx and trampled on, and died instantly.
The forbidden army was defeated miserably, and the guards patrolling the city were even more useless, this group of people bullied the soft and feared the hard, and when they saw the Romans coming, many people were so frightened that they turned their heads and ran.
In a few moments, the square was empty, and there were only wailing wounded soldiers and dead bodies on the ground.
Zhang Bai looked at this Roman army with great admiration, his commander was Maximinus, and this team was the Roman Guard.
Alexander didn't come at all, according to him, the Guards were super powerful, and if he played again, it would be too easy and boring. This sounds arrogant, but now that I look at it, it's actually quite true.
Not only Zhang Bai felt admired, Nanhua who adhered to the gate of the temple was also very shocked, the reputation of the Roman army spread far and wide, although he Nanhua knew, but he only listened to it as a rumor, and never really took it seriously, when he saw it today, he really felt it.
It's just a few dozen Roman infantry, hundreds of Kushan forbidden troops, and they collapsed in an instant, and it was really polite to say that the Roman soldiers were ten with one.
Nanhua thought about it, but he was a little worried, no wonder Zhang Bai, this kid, had spoken of Rome several times before, and he was very solemn.
Sure enough, this Rome is not an ordinary country, not comparable to the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xiqiang, and Nanban, and it is far stronger than the Kushan, Parthian and other empires, even if it only talks about military affairs, only Sassanid can barely compete.
Fortunately, Rome is far away from the Central Plains, otherwise it must be the strongest opponent.