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Licinius's attempt to rely on a phalanx of 4,000 pikemen to block the charge of 10,000 elite cavalry was obviously a bit whimsical, and even the Roman youth army he deployed on the left and right flanks fell into the charge of the enemy cavalry at the moment of the battle.

Compared with the phalanx of pikemen, the counterattack of the Roman youth army was much sharper; before the enemy cavalry approached, the young soldiers in the first two rows had already built the shield wall, and the young soldiers in the back raised their javelins and threw them at the enemy cavalry who were attacking with all their might.

Even though the young soldiers and soldiers used the shield wall and javelins to deal a heavy blow to the enemy cavalry at the beginning of the battle, the surging enemy cavalry still broke through the shield wall of the young army officers and soldiers and rushed into the battle formation of the young army.

Because the main charge of the elite cavalry of the Essini tribe was the pikemen phalanx in the middle, the cavalry they actually used to attack the youth army on both wings was only more than 1,000 cavalry on each wing, and the six teams of youth army soldiers were also nearly 1,000 people, plus there were two teams of elite youth army soldiers on each wing as the main force, and their defense was enough to entangle the attacking enemy cavalry.

Although Licinius's two flanks stabilized the formation and entangled all the cavalry that came from the enemy's attack, the pikemen phalanx in the middle was finally defeated by the enemy's main cavalry; under the strong charge of the enemy's main cavalry, the five pikemen lines broke through one after another, and even the last line of defense was scattered by the routed pikemen in front before they could inflict casualties on the enemy cavalry.

"Soldiers of the First Legion! The enemy cavalry has already rushed over, I don't have time to say anything more to you, now only you are the only one who can stop the enemy's cavalry attack, remember your identity, you are the soldiers of the First Legion!

In order to stabilize the battle situation, Licinius had to order the last 4,000 soldiers of his first army to rush up to stabilize the formation.

After seeing the soldiers of the 4,000 First Legion rushing forward, Licinius was not idle, he also led his general's guard to rush forward in the first place, and directly met the enemy cavalry that broke through the pikeman phalanx.

The heavy cavalry, led by Licinius, was unusually sharp in restraining the charge of the enemy cavalry, and launched a counter-charge against the enemy cavalry; seeing that their commander was so strong, the four thousand soldiers also roared and rushed towards the cavalry that pounced.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield was such that the young soldiers on the left and right flanks of Licinius's army had already entangled more than 1,000 enemy cavalry attacking them, and launched an encirclement and strangulation of the enemy cavalry with a strict phalanx.

The cavalry that had lost its mobility was nothing more than lambs to the slaughter, and in the melee with the young soldiers, their desperate breakthrough was nothing more than a death struggle, and they could not change their disadvantage at all, let alone break through the battle formation formed by the young soldiers.

And the pikemen phalanx that Licinius had broken through did not really collapse on all fronts, especially after Licinius personally led the last 4,000 soldiers to join the battle head-on, the pikemen soldiers who were oppressed to the left and right were even more uplifted.

The main cavalry of the Aceni tribe had broken through the five pikemen phalanxes in succession, and they themselves were caught in an unusually strange battle formation, and if they could not continue to break through the last line of defense of Licinius, they would be surrounded on three sides by Licinius's four thousand men in front and pikemen who had already squeezed to the left and right flanks.

If that were to happen, the Essini cavalry would be in danger of being wiped out, and even if they could pull out of the battle with their speed advantage, they would not be able to accomplish their goal of heading south with heavy losses.

As the commander of this elite cavalry, Queen Boudicca's rank is second only to General Eggers' Nelson, he is a member of the Plasus era, and the current situation on the battlefield has been unfavorable to his cavalry, so he naturally has to take measures.

For the barbarian warriors who admired the strong, what kind of measures could arouse the fighting enthusiasm of the warriors to the greatest extent? Undoubtedly, it must be their main general who charged into battle with great sharpness, and this is exactly the measure that Nelson is prepared to take.

When the heavily armed Nelson led the charge with his own personal guard cavalry, he inevitably confronted the leading Licinius, both of whom were also high-level swordsmen, and their combat experience was also extremely rich, so the battle between the two of them naturally fell into a stalemate, and then their respective personal guards cavalry also fought together.

How could Nelson's personal guards be the opponent of Licini's general guards? The battle between the two sides was not a contest of magnitude at all, and in the first round of charge, Nelson's personal guards cavalry were all wiped out by Licini's general guards.

After losing the assistance of the personal guard cavalry, Nelson still had countless cavalry under his command to rush up to help, but the cooperation between them and Nelson was not as tacit as before, but it was Licinius who became bigger and more comfortable, completely suppressing Nelson.

As his general's guard once again cleared the cavalry around the enemy's commander, Licinius also seized the moment of Nelson's distraction and threw the spear in his hand towards his chest; Nelson, who reacted in time, immediately leaned down to avoid the sudden blow, but unfortunately the next second he fell from his horse in the dark.

Because the spear thrown out was a deliberate feint by Licinius, the real killing move was Licinius's short sword with the scabbard drawn, and when Nelson leaned down to dodge the spear, Licinius jumped and plunged his short sword into Nelson's back.

The cavalry of the Acenian tribe, whose main general had died, was still struggling desperately, while Licinius led his general's guard to continue to charge, he ordered the pikemen on the periphery to advance as far as possible to completely cut off the retreat of the enemy cavalry.

After the fierce battle lasted for another half an hour, the elite cavalry of the Aceni tribe finally chose to surrender after the casualties were close to forty percent.