"Chapter 120: The Decisive Battle Breaks Out"
When it comes to doing good, in the final analysis, it's between you and God, not between you and others.
- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)
It is undeniable that Viriacius's plan to disperse Luquis's forces was successfully implemented, and Luquis, who had a small number of troops, was only four legions left by his side after he separated two Roman legions into the camp of the remnants of the Eastern Alliance.
The 30,000 infantry of the 3rd and 4th Roman legions, the 13,000 cavalry of the Roman Spear Legion and the Heavy Hammer Legion, and the Lucy army, which had more than 130,000 warriors, would inevitably be insufficient in strength, and its severity would even affect the development of the battle situation.
However, Viriacius was in no hurry to attack the newly divided army of Luquis, and he expected that the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, after they had eaten and drunk, would regret their decision to surrender unconditionally in the face of hunger, and preferably a battle would break out as a result.
Viriacius didn't expect the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, which was inferior in combat effectiveness, to inflict any substantial damage on Luquis's army of unknown origin, what he hoped was that the remnants of the Eastern Alliance would create an excellent fighter for Lucy's army under his command!
In Viriasius's view, as long as the remnants of the Eastern Alliance can cause chaos in Luquis's army and disperse Luquis's army into two parts that cannot be taken care of, it will be an excellent fighter!
It is a pity that the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, who are aware of the current affairs, did not create any excellent fighters for the expectant Viriacius, and after learning that their hometown was occupied by the Roman army, the remnants of the Eastern Alliance soldiers who surrendered behaved extremely well in front of the Roman army.
Even the dozen or so leaders of the tribes of the Eastern Alliance took the initiative to run to Luquis's military tent to show their goodwill to Luquis, who was the commander of the Roman army;
It is no exaggeration to say that the Roman army, which controls the families of the 70,000 remnants of the Eastern Alliance, can actually use these 70,000 remnants as cannon fodder troops, and there is no need to worry that they will defect on the battlefield.
Of course, Luquis would not really do this, because Lucis did not believe in the combat effectiveness of the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, and he was completely sure of defeating Lucy's army, so he would not do such a thing.
While Viriasius was waiting for the conflict between Luquis's army and the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, Lucis was also waiting for Bai Feng's arrival, and the Lucian army that used two Roman armies to flank Viriacius in front and back was undoubtedly the most secure of all layouts.
Although Bai Feng and Lu Quis had not seen each other for more than a month, their connection with each other became closer as the distance between the two armies shortened, and the ghosts and spies of the battlefield who traveled back and forth carried all kinds of information to Bai Feng and Lu Quis.
On the morning of the fourth day when the 5th and 6th Roman legions under the command of Luquis were stationed in the camp of the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, it had been learned last night that the army of Baifeng was only thirty miles away from the battlefield, and at dawn, he ordered the trumpeters to blow the horn of the whole army to assemble.
For the next hour, the soldiers of the 3rd and 4th Roman legions and the two cavalry legions under Luquis took turns eating breakfast and then all gathered on the outskirts of the camp, while Viriacius, who was alert, gathered his army.
After a brief adjustment, Luquis ordered the Fifth and Sixth Roman legions, eight infantry wings of the two legions, to form a huge rectangular formation in three columns, and twelve longbow wings on either side of the matrix.
Each Roman legion had three longbow wings and 6,000 longbowmen, and for today's decisive battle, Luquiste sent twelve longbow wings of four Roman legions to participate in the battle, and the 24,000 longbowmen gathered in one place are probably known only to those who have seen it.
Nelson's more than 9,000 light cavalry and Antio's more than 3,000 heavy cavalry were left by Luquis to serve as a reserve and mobile force for the army;
At the same time that Luquis adjusted the deployment and assigned tasks to the various armies under his command, Viriacius, who realized that the atmosphere was wrong, divided the more than 130,000 Lucy soldiers under his command into a three-way army, which was commanded by himself, Roderick, and Hall.
Viriacius, who personally led more than 50,000 warriors, deployed the 40,000 soldiers under the command of Roderick and Hale on his left and right flanks, and it was obvious that he intended to use the 80,000 soldiers under the command of two famous generals to guard against the enemy's strong cavalry forces.
As for the more than 40,000 infantry in front of the enemy, Viriacius is ready to show the enemy how powerful the Lucie warriors really are!
After about half an hour of preparation, the Fifth Roman Legion and the Sixth Roman Legion, which were ready, took the lead in sounding the horn of attack, and the huge army of Roman light infantry, Roman youth, Roman heavy infantry, and longbowmen slowly advanced forward.
Compared with the strict formation of the Roman army, no matter how famous for the elite Lucy warriors, it was still impossible to list a very neat formation, and Viriacius, who was a little envious of the enemy's uniform formation, used the word 'showmanship' after a little thought.
When the distance between the two armies was reduced to only 800 meters, the Roman army halted their advance, and the longbowmen, who were on the left and right flanks of the main army, stuck their quivers into the ground and began to draw their arrows and bend their bows.
Lucy's army, which was not slowing down, was still advancing little by little, without the slightest intention of stopping, and when the distance between the two armies was shortened to five hundred meters, Viriacius directly gave the order for the whole army to charge!
The distance of 500 meters is only a matter of a minute or two for the Lucy warriors running at full speed, and it is only a minute or two that the longbowmen who are ready to shoot at least ten rounds of arrows in a volley!
When the first round of arrows from the 24,000 longbowmen was fired, the sound of the bowstring being released in that moment was overwhelming the shouts of the 50,000 Luci warriors, and to the unprepared Luci warriors, all they saw was two huge dark clouds rushing towards them.
The arrows shot by the Leng Huai longbow had unparalleled lethality against the Lucy army, which did not even have leather armor, and this first round of arrow rain alone turned hundreds of Lucy warriors into real 'hedgehogs', and died tragically on the spot.
Before the shocked Lucy warriors could react, the second and third waves of arrows had already followed, and the Lucy warriors, who were completely covered by the rain of arrows, had risen faster than the salvo of the longbowmen!
In the face of the overwhelming arrow rain covering attack of the longbowmen, the only thing that the calm and resolute Viriacius could do was to order the stunned Lucy warriors to rush forward under the cover of the rain of arrows!