"Chapter Twenty-Six: The Cavalry Attack"

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Half a month passed in a flick of a finger, and the army led by Bai Feng also arrived in the hinterland of the Aceni Kingdom, and the battlefield ghosts and spellcasters who had been carrying out their own tasks before also returned to Bai Feng's army.

Francis's iron-fisted tactics worked, but they did not fundamentally solve the chaos within the Acenian kingdom, with the armies of Nabazani and Assam still blocked outside the mountain pass, and the camp occupied by Upton remained uncaptured.

Even with Francis's personal command, Nabazani and Assam, who had the geographical advantage, stubbornly chose to defend the exit of the mountain road at all costs, and this dilemma made Francis's mental strength more and more exhausted.

Francis, desperate to end the war within the Aceni Kingdom, tried his best to achieve his goal, but Upton, Nabazani, and Assam were not having a good time, and Francis's fierce attack had exhausted them.

When Nabazani and Assam first rebelled against Francis, they had a coalition of 70,000 troops under their command, and after nearly a month of attrition, they had less than 50,000 troops left to fight.

These 50,000 men were the total number of officers and men of the combined forces under Nabazani and Assam, and the rest included most of the wounded soldiers, and if only the soldiers who were intact in combat were counted, then there were only 20,000 soldiers under the command of Nabazani and Assam.

Compared to Nabazani and Assam's situation, Upton's situation was even more difficult, after all, Nabazani and Assam still had natural barriers to use, while Upton could only lead his army to the camp and passively withstand the attack of Francis's army.

Whenever Upton's army could barely hold the camp, the nobles who volunteered to follow Upton always had a vital role to play, always boosting the morale of the defenders and mobilizing the young men in the camp to support the defenders.

With the full support of these nobles, Upton managed to hold the camp with great difficulty, and his army was replenished with about 30,000 warriors, while the enemy army that attacked them fell to less than 30,000.

Upton, who had the advantage in numbers, had no intention of taking the initiative, because of the 30,000 Francis troops outside the city, 20,000 were elite cavalry that had never been engaged in battle, and once he took the initiative, Upton's army could not defeat the enemy at all.

In the past half a month, Francis has been going back and forth between his two armies, and at this time, in fact, Francis regrets not being at the beginning, but what he regrets is not his act of taking back the Atabaz camp.

What Francis really regretted was that he himself should not have allowed Nabazani and Assam's request for recruitment, and that without Nabazzani and Assam's rebellion, Francis felt that Upton's rebellion was a trivial matter.

The generals who can take charge of the entire Aceni kingdom are the four great generals trained by Plasus; Eggers has long chosen Boudicca as his allegiance, Atabaz died on the battlefield, and Nabazani and Assam are the only two remaining generals of Francis.

Upon hearing the news of the rebellion between the two of them, Francis was very reluctant to accept this reality, and before he personally led his army to conquer Nabazani and Assam, he sent them a messenger with a hint of anticipation.

Unfortunately, how could Nabazani and Assam, who were determined to break away from Francis's rule, turn back? If it had not been for the loss of three leading generals in succession, Francis would not have fallen into the predicament of being unusable today.

The battle between Francis and Upton, Nabazzani, and Assam has been in a state of anxiety for the time being, and the strongest Francis, who is the strongest, cannot defeat either of these two rebels in a short period of time, while White Peak's army of Rome has already arrived at the battlefield!

When the six legions of the city of Rome and the Acenian legion approached only twenty miles from the battlefield of Upton, Bai Feng issued orders to prepare for battle with Gamilios and Bronno on the left and right flanks, and the Chinese army he himself commanded directly entered a state of combat readiness.

After more than 100,000 troops completed the battle deployment, Bai Feng led his own army to continue to advance with a fighting posture, and it was not until the army of Rome City approached five miles from the battlefield that the cavalry troops under the command of Francis discovered the existence of the army of Rome City.

The cavalry troops, which were not under the personal command of Francis, hastened to report the situation of the sudden appearance of more than 100,000 troops to their commander-in-chief, and this general, who was not very experienced in combat, gave the order to attack the army of the city of Rome to the 20,000 cavalry.

Perhaps, in the general's opinion, it was impossible for the more than 100,000 infantry in Rome to inflict many casualties on the 20,000 elite cavalry under his command, and even if the 20,000 elite cavalry could not inflict heavy damage on the enemy, they could still deal as heavy a blow to the enemy as possible.

The 20,000 elite cavalry obeyed the general's order without thinking, and after receiving the order, they immediately turned around and began to charge with all their might in the direction of the Roman city army!

Since the attack on the camp guarded by the Upton army, these brave and skilled cavalry warriors have not had the opportunity to fight in person, and they have long been suffocated by the cavalry who are eager to fight by watching the friendly forces fight, and they naturally have to seize this rare opportunity.

The charge of 20,000 cavalry was enough for the army of Rome to feel the ground shake five miles away, and as soon as Bai Feng gave the order for the whole army to stop advancing and prepare for battle on the spot, the Parthian archers who were in charge of reconnaissance in front of them rushed back.

The intelligence of the enemy's 20,000 cavalry attack made Bai Feng's face also show a solemn look, and the youth army of the Chinese army and the Essini Legion hurriedly lined up in front of Peris's longbowmen to protect the longbowmen who had almost no melee combat ability.

The situation of the left and right flank armies is much better than that of Bai Feng's central army, whether it is Gamilios's Tasia Legion or Gatus's Cheetah Legion, the Macedonian phalanx of these two legions is an excellent class of troops to deal with cavalry.

The huge forest of spears will be the end of all enemy cavalry that dares to attack, and Bazel's Tiger Legion and Bronnor's Dragons will also deploy their battle formations behind the spear phalanx of their respective armies to avoid the onslaught of enemy cavalry.

After the three armies were ready to meet the charge of the enemy's cavalry, Bai Feng's entire attention was on the smoke and dust billowing from afar, and judging from this smoke and dust rising into the sky, the enemy's cavalry would never be less than 20,000 people!

In the last decisive battle, the 30,000 elite cavalry under the command of Francis withdrew from the battle unscathed, presumably the 20,000 cavalry that charged forward was the main cavalry under Francis; thinking of this, Bai Feng's face showed an indescribable smile.