Tragic and painful encounters are one of the aspects of life that the cycle of fate shows, but we often forget the dark side by the flattery of good fortune, so when we hear a tragic story, we feel as if we have woken up from a dream. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

- Giovanni Boccaccio (a prominent representative of the Italian Renaissance movement, a humanist)

Whether the armies of Rome City can save the fate of Gatus's troops really depends on whether the soldiers of Gatus's troops can resist the front and rear attacks of Francis's army, which is an ordeal belonging to the Cheetah Legion.

The Cheetah Legion, who never expected the enemy army to appear behind them, kept their attention on the enemy army in front of them, and the earth-shattering shouts of killing on the battlefield made the rushing sound of the cavalry imperceptible.

It wasn't until the enemy cavalry entered the valley of Cadiz that Gatus, who commanded the battle, noticed the billowing smoke and dust rolling up in the rear, and the shocked Gatus didn't even have time to react, so he subconsciously ordered the soldiers around him:

"The third and fourth phalanx brigades, all turn around and line up to meet the enemy! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry !!up!"

The pikemen, who had long been accustomed to obeying orders during their training in Rome, did not hesitate to abandon the battle before them and turned back to line up when Gatus's shouting was heard by them.

The pikemen of the Macedonian phalanx were composed of hundreds, sixty-four pikemen, sixteen hundreds, and not all of the third and fourth battalions, commanded by Gatus, turned around and lined up.

It was impossible for the dozen or so hundred-man teams in the midst of fierce fighting to get out of the battle, because once they withdrew from the battle, the entire frontal phalanx of the Cheetah Legion would collapse, and it would be impossible for them themselves to escape from the onslaught of the enemy.

Gatus, who lacked experience in combat and combat experience, gave the wrong orders in the face of an emergency, and thankfully, his men did not fully carry out his wrong orders, or the Cheetah Legion would have ceased to exist.

Even if the hundred-man team that did not carry out the order saved the frontal defense line of the Cheetah Legion, the pikemen soldiers who hurriedly turned around and lined up had not had time to set up their spear phalanx, and the enemy cavalry had already killed!

The pikemen, who had no battle formation to rely on, could not stop the frontal assault of the cavalry under the full charge of the massive cavalry, and in an instant, the improvised formation of Gatus was broken, and then the Macedonian phalanx that was fighting was also broken!

This sudden appearance of cavalry completely defeated the Macedonian phalanx of the Cheetah Legion, and all the pikemen in the phalanx had to quickly throw away the spears in their hands, draw their short swords at their waists and meet the enemy soldiers.

If it weren't for Bai Feng's special order to equip each pikeman with a defensive short sword last time, I'm afraid that the collapse of the phalanx alone would be enough to make these pikemen become lambs to the slaughter of the enemy;

The surging enemy army surrounded the Cheetah Legion soldiers who had lost the advantage of the battle formation, and Francis officially ordered a general attack on the Roman city army, and seeing that the enemy army was struggling to the death was getting fewer and fewer, Francis's face finally showed a happy smile.

The Spartan hoplites and Macedonian royal pikemen were not equipped with short swords, their main weapons were spears and round shields, and the short daggers at their waists were their protective weapons.

One Spartan centurion had been killed, less than a hundred of the two hundred Spartan hoplites remained, and the Macedonian royal pikemen had all four centurions killed, and there were less than a hundred left.

The only remaining Spartan hoplite centurion had the formidable name of Leonidas! Perhaps it was the crushing defeat on the battlefield that had provoked the fury in his body, or the scorching heat of battle that had awakened his subconscious madness.

In the life-and-death battle, he threw away the round shield in his hand, clenched the spear in both hands, and waved his five-meter-long spear vigorously; all the enemy soldiers who approached him were killed on the spot without exception, and they didn't even have the ability to resist!

"Spartan warriors, come with me!" Leonidas, who had fought out of the clearing, shouted a new order to the Spartan hoplites who were still struggling to fight, and the Spartan hoplites, who had found the backbone, immediately followed Leonidas with their spears brandished.

Like the god of war, Leonidas led his Spartan hoplites to charge around in the encirclement of Francis's army, constantly rescuing the other pikemen who were divided and besieged, and even Gatus became a member of Leonidas's back.

Leonidas, who had turned the tide, gathered about 500 pikemen, and soon attracted Francis's attention, and more enemy troops were killed in the direction where Leonidas was.

The fierce Leonidas, spearheaded by the Spartan hoplites and the Macedonian royal pikemen, charged back in the direction of the Cadiz valley, and both the enemy cavalry and the enemy infantry were swept away by the fierce pikemen.

"The warriors of Sparta and Macedonia, continue to advance against the enemy in the valley, the rest of the warriors, in formation, against the enemy beyond the valley, and the reinforcements of the governor will soon arrive, and the victory will be ours as long as we hold on!"

As soon as Leonidas led his army back into the valley exit, he immediately issued a new order to the hundreds of soldiers present, and even with the presence of the corps commander of the corps, Gatus, no one felt that there was anything wrong with Leonidas's order, and everyone carried out the order without hesitation.

Leonidas personally commanded more than 150 Spartan and Macedonian pikemen, desperately resisting the continuous onslaught of cavalry in the valley with a phalanx of pikemen, while Gatus commanded more than 200 pikemen, desperately resisting the frantic attacks of the infantry outside the valley.

Francis, who never dreamed of such a situation, was shocked, not by the strength of the army in Rome, but by the fact that an ordinary low-ranking general of Rome could save the tide of the battle at a critical juncture.

The Cheetah Legion, which had been almost completely annihilated by Francis's army, finally withdrew nearly 400 remnants into the valley and reorganized the spear phalanx, and the soldiers of the Cheetah Legion, who were still struggling with the enemy, were now desperately closing in the direction of the valley.

Before Baifeng's reinforcements arrived, Leonidas, who was born out of nowhere, single-handedly saved the Cheetah Legion that was almost destroyed, which has to be said to be a miracle created by the army of the Roman city system.

While the men under the command of Leonidas and Gatus were desperately meeting the enemy attack, the Doge's Guard of Antio and the Dragons of Brono arrived at the same time and attacked the Francis cavalry outside the valley, and the real all-out battle began!