Volume II-7 "Fireball" tactics
"Alright! let's go!" cried the centurion.
There was a "whew" sound, and the soldiers lit the oiled straw balls one after another.
The originally dark forest was lit up by a fire.
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers next to the soldiers who were in charge of igniting the fire used metal rods to push down the huge straw balls stained with raging fire.
The enemy soldiers below had already spotted these "fireballs" rolling down the hillside, and in a chaotic shout, they were thrown into chaos!
These "fireballs" slammed directly into the crowd below.
The burning oil on the "fireball" exploded in all directions during the impact, splashing directly on the clothes of those enemy soldiers, and continued to burn.
Below the hillside, all sorts of strange cries mingled.
Behind the soldiers, there was a crackling sound - the enemy troops in the rear began to counterattack towards the hillside.
Several soldiers in the phalanx were hit directly and fell into the bushes.
But fortunately, since it was night, it was difficult for the other party to hit, and the attack just now did not cause too serious damage.
Not far away, the horn of action blew in the direction.
Amid the roars of battle around them, spearmen and swordsmen quickly rushed down the hillside and rushed towards the enemy infantry at the bottom of the hillside.
The "sticks" of the enemy infantry were equipped with sharp blades, and the enemy troops quickly approached and formed a close formation similar to that of a phalanx of spearmen.
Despite this, their shield swordsmen and short spearmen still relied on the cover of shields to attack the enemy's "phalanx" and directly disrupted their formation.
In a dogfight, an enemy without shield and armor has no advantage.
For the infantry of the auxiliary legion, it is not as difficult to deal with such an enemy in the melee link as before.
If you look at it from a distance, you can clearly see that your own infantry is advancing rapidly towards the opponent's side like a tidal wave.
The enemy is outnumbered.
The advantage of the battle soon shifted to the side of the auxiliary legions.
The soldiers who came from behind the place had no way to open fire - the two sides were in a scuffle, and once they fired, they would kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, or even kill eight hundred enemies and lose one thousand!
Those soldiers of the enemy have almost no chance to exert the power of that "unknown weapon".
In the morale-filled battle cry of the infantry of the auxiliary legion, the enemy soldiers with "unknown weapons" were beaten to the ground!
And behind them, the enemy troops who rushed to support saw this situation and began to quickly withdraw - they did not want to fight in this unfavorable terrain.
The trumpet sounded again.
This time, the cavalry began to charge in a "valley" formed by two hillsides, chasing those enemies.
In the charging formation, the archers were lined up on the sides, and the pikemen, in the middle.
The cavalry archers first used their bows and arrows to launch a long-range attack on the opponent.
Enemies without shields and armor are almost ineffective when they are hit by bows and arrows.
After the archers finished attacking, the spear cavalry in the middle accelerated and rushed forward, directly knocking the fleeing enemy soldiers into the air!
Amid the panicked cries of the enemy and the cries of their own troops, the Auxiliary Legion won the battle!
In this battle, more than 50 enemy troops were eliminated, while their own side only lost more than 20 people.
The shouts of victory echoed in the forest at night.
According to the battle plan discussed by the fortress commander and the centurions, the next step is to completely drive the remnants of the enemy army out of this land!