The sound of the horn sounded leisurely, and Titus turned his head and nodded heavily. He quickly put on his battle helmet, calmly stepped into the Roman army, held a heavy shield with his own hand, and shouted: "All the brigades obey my orders..... go to battle!" ”

With the loud orders of officers at all levels, the five brigades of Roman heavy infantry each lined up a neat phalanx, and the five phalanxes spread out in a single formation, and the footsteps thundered towards the approaching Hun cavalry.

"Captain Titus himself has gone into battle!" At the head of the city, Nanying frowned and said, "Is this the practice of the Roman legions?" It's inappropriate! ”

On his side, several Han army generals rolled their eyes at the same time...... As the saying goes, don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself! The main general will personally go into battle, this is your Nanda general's patent, okay?

"The general doesn't know! My First Legion has ten brigades, and each of them has six hundreds, and the Captain of Titus is also the captain of the First Brigade! Personally going into battle is conducive to commanding and boosting morale before the battle! Pulcher smiled and said, "Please rest assured, the Great General, Titus was able to serve as the commander of the legion not entirely because of his noble status, he is the first warrior of my first legion!" ”

"Oh! I see! In the sigh of the generals of the Han army, the Roman legions changed their formation as they got closer to the enemy.

"All...... Attack Formation! At the roar of Titus, the Roman soldiers roared in unison, and countless large shields were erected at the same time, surrounding the entire phalanx into a solid turtle shell.

"Roar! Roar! Roar! In the midst of the loud shouts, the Roman soldiers stepped on the tune and took neat steps, like five giant tortoises marching proudly.

"This! This is! Gao Tong and several generals from the Bohai Navy looked at each other dumbfounded, and at the same time looked at Nanying in shock.

"What a fuss! The tactics of all the strong armies in the world are also the same way! Nanying's old face was slightly red, but he didn't show the slightest embarrassment: "The infantry combat methods of our Eagle Nest Army and the Bohai Navy are exactly the tortoiseshell formations that we learned from the Roman legions...... Don't look around, learn from other people's authentic originals! ”

Although they didn't know what the authentic original was, the generals of the Han army finally turned their attention back to the battlefield.

The Hun cavalry was getting closer and closer, and countless brutal men with fierce faces appeared from the dust, and the sound of violent horses' hooves was like an angry wave crashing on the shore, one after another, and they didn't seem to put the infantry on the opposite side into account at all, and rushed directly to kill without slowing down.

"Defensive formation!" The phalanx of five Roman legions froze suddenly, and shiny spears stretched diagonally from the gaps in the shield wall, as if a giant tortoise had suddenly turned into an iron hedgehog.

"Not good! The shield wall can't stop the momentum of the cavalry! "There are Han army generals who have changed color.

"Nope! Stop! Pulcher's voice was full of confidence.

The next moment, with a loud bang, a large number of Hun cavalry were not afraid of death and directly hit the shield wall of the Roman legions, and more cavalry rushed to the rear like a tide along the gap between the Roman phalanx.

In the dumbfounded eyes of all the soldiers of the Han army, the shield array like a city wall shrank slightly, and immediately returned to its original state, on the other hand, the Hun cavalry who directly charged the battle exclaimed that people turned on their backs, and many people were stabbed out of the spear into a human flesh skewer, and some people flew up directly under the action of inertia, and fell heavily on the shield above the Roman phalanx, and then the shield was divided, and the Huns immediately disappeared in the phalanx, as if they were devoured by monsters.

"Every Roman infantryman, from the moment he was trained, was told that the shield was life, everything, and that if he held the shield, he won the victory!" Pulcher's voice echoed through the city, and pride and pride were evident: "Especially the young soldiers in the first platoon, they have been trained in manpower, equipment and even livestock ramming, and after more than five years of hard training, they are qualified to become a heavy infantry!" ”

"And that's not all!" He continued to smile: "In order to withstand the tremendous force of the cavalry impact, we have also replaced the single large shield in the first row with a compound giant shield held by two people on the basis of the original!" And there is also a foldable bracket behind this composite giant shield, which can be inserted diagonally into the soil to enhance the cushioning against impact force! ”

Nanying listened suddenly. The Romans were able to resist horsepower with manpower, which seemed to be like a pool of Arabian Nights, but in fact it was very mysterious. First of all, the infantry of the Romans was indeed elite enough, and a group of physically strong young men who had been practicing their shields for more than five years alone could be imagined, and it is conceivable that they not only had amazing arm strength, but also cooperated with each other to the point of perfection. Secondly, the Romans had excellent equipment, and they were unique in the world in terms of ordnance invention, and a simple bracket design weakened the momentum of the war horse to a safe level, no wonder they even invented a simple crane; Third, the enemies faced by the Romans were not strong opponents, the Huns' light cavalry raids and guerrillas were their strengths, and when it came to frontal breakthroughs, they did not have much lethality at all, they were not heavy cavalry, they did not have heavy ordnance, and they did not even have stirrups, and in the face of the tortoiseshell formation of the Romans, there was an embarrassment that dogs gnawed hedgehogs and had nowhere to put their mouths. Of course, the Romans' tortoiseshell formation could not run rampant in the world, at least the Southern Eagle had more than three ways to break the attack, fire attack, heavy cavalry, long-range equipment, etc., which could make the Romans collapse, but unfortunately...... The Huns did not have the same.

In the face of the onslaught of a cavalry, the tortoiseshell array of the Romans seemed to tremble, but it remained unmoving, like a reef in the waves, indestructible.

"The Roman legions, worthy of their name!" Nan Ying exhaled heavily, and he suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "The brothers of Rome fought beautifully, and the soldiers of the Han army must not be disgraced, the archers are ready!" ”

At the head of the city, a thousand Han forbidden soldiers raised their longbows at the same time. Under the city, thousands of Han cavalry who were ready to attack also opened their horned bows.

Their target was precisely the Hun cavalry, which was constantly passing through the Roman phalanx. Because the suppression of the Roman phalanx has created the most favorable conditions for the cluster of archers...... When crossing the phalanx, the originally loose charging formation of the Hun cavalry inevitably became dense because of the convergence.

"Three salvos! Put! With an order, a rain of arrows like locusts poured towards the Huns who had just rushed out of the Roman phalanx from all angles, almost forming an all-round three-dimensional strike. The archers didn't even have to worry about firing a little longer and mistaking them for Roman allies, because the tortoiseshell formations of the friendly forces were almost always 360 degrees of solid defense.

The Huns, who were at the forefront of the charge, were almost immediately shot into hedgehogs by the men and horses, and they died on the spot before they could even scream. In a few breaths, the corpses of the enemy and horses near the exit of the Roman phalanx had already formed a hill, but the enemy cavalry that was rushing out from the rear was even more tightly blocked.

The Han archers were rich, and the Roman heavy infantry phalanx also made the Huns feel like they were deep in mud. Having lost the initial momentum of the onslaught, the Hun cavalry began to cruise around the phalanx, trying to break through the shield formation. However, the long knives wielded could not pose a threat to the shield wall at all, and could only occasionally inflict minor damage on the Roman infantry through the gaps, but the Romans behind the shield wall stabbed rows of spears in an orderly manner, stabbing a Hun man off his horse.

"Aha! It's a great feeling! At the head of the city, a certain unscrupulous person did not care about the noble status of the general, and began to laugh unscrupulously: "Where is the logistics officer? Be sure to secure the supply of arrows! ”

Immediately, a Roman merchant-turned-sycophant shook his head and posted it: "Please rest assured, general!" Without your command, the delivery of arrows will not stop! ”

"Huh?" Nanying looked at the arrow carriers who were shuttling up and down the city road like an ant colony, and said with some surprise: "Didn't you say that the Roman legions didn't pay attention to archers?" How did you hoard so many arrows? ”

"The general hit the nail on the head!" Pulcher suddenly lost the pride of being a suitable talent, and said with a bitter face: "Does the general know how Lord Crassus failed miserably that day?" Of course, because of improper command and underestimating the Parthian heavy cavalry, the biggest reason for the defeat was that the morale of our soldiers was low under the almost endless rain of arrows of the enemy, and finally completely collapsed! ”

"If our army also had a large number of long-range troops to suppress and counterattack at that time, how could it end up like this?" He sighed deeply: "You Han people have a saying, it is called to eat a trench and grow a wisdom, which is the wise saying that we should follow!" ”

The Southern Eagle imagined the Roman hoplites advancing slowly in tortoiseshell formations, only to be hit by the high-speed Parthian cavalry from a distance, pouring long-range blows from afar, and the sky was overwhelmed with flying arrows...... It's just that this imaginary scene is already chilling and despairing.

"Not bad! Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future.! He exclaimed, "No wonder you have bred such a high-quality crossbred over the years!" The victory of any war is inseparable from the comprehensive cooperation of multiple arms, and if one loses the other, it will only give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of! ”

"General, please look!" Qualcomm suddenly said sharply: "The attack of the Huns has been frustrated, and they are adjusting their attack strategy!" ”

Everyone stared at each other, and sure enough, they saw that the rear horns of the Huns were loud, and the Hun cavalry who were still fighting immediately slowed down the offensive, and some Hun officers even yelled again and again, restraining their subordinates from gradually leaving the battle.

In the distance, rows of Hun cavalry had begun to line up, apparently preparing to charge again with a new method of warfare.

"Pulcher, what are you afraid of!" Nan Ying shook his head and sighed: "After all, the Marquis of the Beard Bone is the head of a clan, and his grasp of the war is beyond the reach of ordinary people...... If there is no accident, he is afraid that he will have to adopt a method similar to that of the Parthians! Because, the tortoiseshell shield array is not without weaknesses! ”

Pulcher's face froze, and he was about to speak, but was stopped by Nanying waving his hand: "Don't worry! The Huns' attempt was doomed to fail! Because, what they are facing today is a powerful army with a strong combination! The tragedy of Parthia is never going to be repeated here! ”

He threw off his cloak and marched towards the city, shouting in his mouth: "All the cavalry of the Han army are ready...... Today's victory or defeat is on us! ”