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- Galileo Galilei (Italian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, pioneer of the scientific revolution)

Francis's 150,000-strong army set out on its march again early this morning, and less than half an hour later they were in the muddy area watered by the torrential rain.

Just as Eggers had expected Francis, he did not choose to stop his march in front of the quagmire, but did not hesitate to order his army to continue deep into the quagmire, but their march slowed down helplessly.

It turned out that the army under the command of Francis was not much stronger than the soldiers of the Roman army, and not long after entering the quagmire area, the 100,000 infantry of Escisine's army all turned into barefoot troops, and the 30,000 cavalry became infantry leading horses.

The situation of being in a quagmire was not pleasant, and the physical exertion of the march was also more than usual, which undoubtedly weakened the fighting power of the Acenian army in many ways, and made them invisibly fall into disadvantage before the war began.

Francis led his army of 150,000 people, and it took more than two hours to walk in this quagmire before he could enter Bai Feng's field of vision;

Francis, who was originally advancing on foot, immediately came to the side of the attendant who was leading his horse after noticing that there were more than 100,000 troops waiting in front of him, and turned over his horse to better observe the situation ahead.

The deployment of the Roman army was quite distinct in three battle formations, and Francis, who was clear at a glance, only smiled contemptuously, and then gave the battle order to the attendants around him, and asked them to convey the order to the two generals on the left and right flanks.

Based on Francis's judgment of the Roman army in front of him, he concluded that the black-clad army not far in front of him was about 20,000 troops on the road, about 40,000 on the hill on the left flank, and about 30,000 on the hill on the right flank.

From Francis's point of view, the left flank of the Roman army was actually the right flank in Francis's eyes, and it was also the enemy corresponding to the 30,000-strong army led by General Atabaz under his command.

The so-called maintaining the formation means that Francis intends to use the 50,000 infantry soldiers and 30,000 foot cavalry of his central army to directly attack the more than 20,000 enemy troops in front of him, and crush the enemy troops on the opposite side with the power of thunder.

The 40,000 infantry on the left flank led by General Assam attacked more than 40,000 officers and men of the enemy army on the left flank, and the 30,000 infantry on the right flank led by General Atabaz attacked more than 30,000 soldiers of the enemy army on the right flank.

In Francis's eyes, this black-clad army that suddenly appeared could not be tied with the same number of elite soldiers under his command, and victory in the war was just a matter of course.

Even if General Assam's army on the left flank and General Atabaz's army on the right flank were temporarily unable to defeat the slightly superior enemy army, Francis was absolutely confident that he would be able to annihilate the enemy's army in the center in one go, which was a full four times the difference of the army!

After Francis's order was given, the entire Essini army was filled with a series of fierce trumpets, followed by the trumpets of Assam's left and Atabaz's right.

As the trumpets sounded, the soldiers of the Aceni Kingdom temporarily threw all the messy things in their hands into the muddy water with solemn expressions, drew out the long swords on their waists, and began to rush forward as fast as possible!

The Assam Division, the left flank of the Escenian army, also after receiving orders from Francis, slightly reoriented to the left and launched an attack on the right flank of the Roman army, while the Atabaz division on the right flank adopted the same strategy.

Bai Feng, who sat back on his horse, could clearly see the deployment of Francis's army, but he did not care about the enemy's attack; the muddy ground became the best help for the Roman army, and the enemy's attack could not threaten the battle formation of the Roman army.

In particular, the 30,000 elite cavalry of the enemy's most striking force have now become cavalry on foot leading the horses forward, and this result is undoubtedly the most beneficial to the Roman army;

One thousand, eight hundred, five hundred meters, when the right flank of Aceni's army came within five hundred meters of the left flank of the Roman army, Perus, who was the commander of the longbowmen, commanded in a loud voice to his longbowmen:

"Once the enemy is within 400 meters, everyone obeys the order to shoot at the enemy, every three rounds of shooting, after which the shooting is stopped, and after a slight adjustment of the firing angle, the firing begins at my command. ”

The silent battle formation made Peris's order clearly heard by all the longbowmen, and Bai Feng also nodded to Peris with appreciation; this professional archer commander is different, and the command of archers is much stronger than that of laymen.

Five hundred meters, four hundred and fifty meters, four hundred meters, when the enemy's Atabaz division had just entered the small hill four hundred meters from the Roman longbowmen, Peris, who had already been ready, shouted loudly:

"Shoot!"

At Perris's command, tens of thousands of longbowmen released their right hands at the same time, and shot their drawn bows and arrows fiercely, and tens of thousands of arrows formed a rain of arrows and hurled towards the enemy in the distance.

Before the rain of arrows had reached the enemy's heads, the longbowmen quickly drew the next arrow from the arrows they had prepared at their waists, and fired them with great force, and then a third arrow was fired again.

When the first wave of arrows appeared in front of Atabaz's eyes, he didn't even have time to give orders to his soldiers to dodge the rain of arrows, and he was pushed down into the muddy water by his followers, and the next second, a dense line of arrows covered Atabaaz.

Atabaaz, who was closely protected by his entourage, did not receive the attack of the rain of arrows, but all the relatives who wanted to protect him were killed by ten thousand arrows piercing their hearts, and the other casualties were even more severe, just this round of arrow rain, Atabaz's troops suffered thousands of casualties!

However, this was only the beginning, and as Atabaz tried to push away his entourage, he heard the sound of a large number of arrows shooting into the flesh, and his surroundings were once again enveloped by an impenetrable rain of arrows.

Three waves of arrows rained down in succession, causing the soldiers under the command of Atabaz to mourn all over the field, and countless soldiers who were shot on the spot fell to the ground like hedgehogs, but even more were the wounded who were shot and bleeding and wailing.

Seeing that the soldiers under his command paid such a price before they had even encountered the enemy, the angry Atabaz jumped up from the ground, his eyes were red, and he held the long sword in his hand high and ordered:

"All the soldiers rushed forward desperately for me to avenge the dead and wounded brothers!