"Chapter 128: Reinforcements Finally Arrive"
It is quite a remarkable thing for a person to know their limitations and be honest with themselves.
- Sadhguru (Enlightened Being, Enlightened Yogi, Mystic, Visionary Humanitarian, Outstanding Spiritual Teacher)
The 26,000-odd Lucy warriors were not firmly encircled by the Roman army's 3,000 hoplites and 6,000 light cavalry, but they could not get rid of the enemy's entangled light cavalry, making it difficult for the heavy cavalry with strong attack power to stand alone.
The heavy cavalry, imitating the Seleucid ironclad cavalry, could still resist the sword attacks of the enemy soldiers with their extremely sophisticated weapons and equipment, and they could even launch counterattacks against the enemy with ease.
This was not the case with the light cavalry of the Roman Spear Legion. Lacking neither sophisticated weapons nor strong combat strength, they suffered unusually heavy casualties in the face of swords and battle axes chopped by enemy soldiers from all directions.
The two flowers bloomed and each showed a branch, and at the same time that the two cavalry legions of the Roman army were engaged in a struggle with the two wings of the Lucy army, the army led by Bai Feng finally arrived at the battlefield after capturing more than 6,000 Lucy soldiers!
The thousands of soldiers of Lucy's left flank army, which had been routed by the Hammer Legion and the Roman Spear Legion, were captured by the army of Bai Feng's army, which was waiting for him, and the two cavalry brigades belonging to the Seventh Legion easily forced down these unmotivated deserters.
The Roman light cavalry and the Roman auxiliary cavalry, which belong to the category of light cavalry, although their attack power is not strong, their mobility is exceptional, coupled with the unique cavalry attack of the Roman auxiliary cavalry, where can those routs withstand such a blow.
After four teams of Roman auxiliary cavalry fired two rounds of javelins in a circular cavalry formation, the rout, who had lost hundreds of soldiers, chose to lay down their arms under the pressure of the Roman light cavalry that followed, and for these surrendered enemy troops, Bai Feng left only 3,000 soldiers to guard them.
The combat effectiveness of the barbarian warriors was indeed good, but it was based on their combat strength under the premise of high morale, and with only more than 6,000 Lucy warriors whose morale was exhausted, Bai Feng felt that he had paid special attention to guarding them with 3,000 soldiers.
The 1,500 warriors of Maxi's department and the 1,500 warriors of Darnell's department were selected by Bai Feng to guard and capture them on the spot, and the remaining Spartan Legion and the Seventh Roman Legion went straight to the front battlefield under the personal leadership of Bai Feng!
At this time, the battle situation had obviously reached the critical stage of deciding the outcome of the battle, and even if Bai Feng led the army to the battlefield, Viriacius, who knew that his defeat was decided, would not be able to withdraw the entire Lucy Army in a short period of time.
The army of Baifeng's army was dominated by Leonidas's Spartan legion, and the two wings of Luculus's Seventh Roman Legion were on the left and right flanks of the central army, and all the cavalry units of the two legions were assembled around Baifeng to serve as the strategic reserve of the army.
The distance of several miles was not a long distance for the Spartan Legion and the Seventh Roman Legion, which were advancing at full speed, and in less than an hour, Bai Feng, who was sitting in the rear of the Chinese army, could already hear the shouts of the soldiers of the two armies on the battlefield ahead.
"White One, White One, White Two, you go and inform General Leonidas and General Luculus respectively, and let them blow the horn of attack!"
"No!"
Because Maxi and Darnell led the army to stay behind to guard the prisoners, Bai Feng's personal guards Bai Yi and others became Bai Feng's temporary retinue and royal heralds, and whenever Bai Feng needed to give orders to the front generals, they would be sent to convey the order.
After receiving the order, Bai 1 and Bai 2 immediately galloped towards the positions where Leonidas and Luculus were located, and about three minutes later, the main force of the Chinese army led by Leonidas and the left flank army where Luculus was located sounded the horn of the attack at the same time!
"Woooooooooo......oo Woowoo...... Woowoo woo ......"
When a majestic and slightly tragic trumpet sounded in the sky, Viriacius, who was sure that reinforcements could not appear in his rear, his first reaction was that he was surrounded by the enemy on both sides, while the Roman soldiers who were fighting on the battlefield cheered and jumped.
The soldiers of the Fifth Legion, the Sixth Legion, the Hammer Legion, and the Roman Spear Legion, all of which were also legions of the Roman city, were so familiar with the trumpet of Rome that as soon as they heard it, they knew that their reinforcements were coming!
The agitated reaction of the soldiers of the Roman army was, to a certain extent, indeed proved that Viriacius's idea was not wrong, and his face turned pale in an instant, and his eyes were disillusioned, and he did not even have the courage to look back.
Whether or not Veriacius wanted to go back and confirm it with his own eyes could not change the reality that the Roman army had arrived, and with the sound of the trumpet, Leonidas's center and Luculus's two wings began to accelerate at the same time.
In order to keep the formation of the army tight, the Spartan Legion and the Seventh Roman Legion accelerated their advance speed, but in the eyes of Viriacius, the two legions on the march were like a flood of beasts, rushing towards his army!
The target of the Spartan legion was the Lucy's army, which fought a bloody battle with the main force of Luquis's central army, and the target of the Seventh Roman legion was the Lucy's flank army, which was entangled in the Hammer Legion and the Roman Spear Legion.
On the Chinese side, the Spartan legion, advancing in the Macedonian phalanx, launched an attack from behind the Lucian army, and the phalanx with long spears not only easily blocked the attack of some Lucy warriors, but also forced the Luci warriors, who could not resist the power of the spears, to retreat step by step.
In front of the Roman youth army and the Roman heavy infantry shield wall defense line to block the front road, after the Spartan army of Macedonia phalanx cut off the back road, the struggling Lucy army, like a trapped beast, empty of the will to fight, but no ability to break through.
On the flanks, eight Roman light infantry, eight Roman youth corps, and eight Roman heavy infantry under the command of two wings of the Seventh Roman Legion, rushed into battle, but did not use javelins to attack the enemy for fear of accidentally injuring their own trapped friendly cavalry.
Even so, the soldiers of the 7th Legion, who arrived on the battlefield in time, managed to rescue the friendly light cavalry that was surrounded by the enemy, and the light cavalry of the Roman Spear Legion on this side had just escaped, and the heavy cavalry of the Heavy Hammer Legion on that side easily killed the enemy encirclement.
Without the drag of his own light cavalry, Antio, who still had more than 2,800 hoplites under his command, led his army to launch a cluster charge against the enemy after a slight adjustment, and the hoplites, who were holding back their anger, decided to vent their anger with an unreserved charge.
The strong attack of the Roman youth army and the Roman heavy infantry, the cluster charge of the hoplites, the javelin throwing of the Roman light infantry, and the soldiers on both wings of Lucy, who were heavily damaged, did not last long before they were defeated by the fierce Roman army, and the whole army collapsed!
No matter how much Roderick and Hall tried to boost their morale, they could not recover their decline, and the second line of Lucy's soldiers, who had collapsed in their army, were surrounded without even a chance to escape under the pursuit of the light cavalry of the Roman Spear Legion.