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- Herodotus (Father of History)

The army under the command of Bazel is indeed far superior to the warriors under the command of Gatus in terms of combat effectiveness, but no matter how strong these barbarian warriors are, it is impossible to change the barbarian nature of their body, and their attacks are still a swarm of skirmishers.

Such a skirmish attack was indeed enough to deal with the warriors under the command of Gatus, and the war between the barbarian tribes had always been fought like this, but it was not enough to rely on this level of attack to go head-to-head with the army of the Roman city.

The battle formation, composed of four Roman youth armies as the main force and three urban militia as reserve auxiliaries, was like the mainstay in the stormy seas, and the defeated barbarian warriors did not break the battle formation of the Roman army at all.

When Bazel's pursuing army rushed up, they were greeted by four groups of young men who threw javelins, the whizzing javelins were extraordinarily lethal to the barbarian warriors without armor, at least more than 200 of Bazel's warriors fell on the spot, and the Roman army stopped Bazel's attack with just one blow.

At this time, Gatus also led his guards to kill several of the fleeing warriors one after another, which stabilized the form of the entire coalition army, allowing the warriors who had fled in all directions to reunite and regroup in the rear of the Roman army.

Faced with the javelins and shield walls of the Roman army, Bazel did not wait behind and watched his soldiers charge desperately, he personally led the cavalry around him to the forefront of the battlefield, and at the same time, Licinius also led his general guards to fight fiercely.

Licinius and Bazel were both strong men in the realm of high swordsmen, and it was impossible for them to win or lose in a moment, but the cavalry under their command was extremely different in strength.

As the leader of the tribe and the hero of the fight against the Essini tribe, the powerful warriors under Bazel's command must have been scattered throughout his army as commanders at all levels, and as for the cavalry directly under Bazel, they were just some soldiers with decent combat effectiveness.

The heavy cavalry under Licinius's command were all members of his general guard, that is, warriors with the strength of low-level high-level swordsmen, and how could a high-level swordsman, even if he was a low-level high-level swordsman, be the most respected warriors of any barbarian tribe, how could they be willing to serve as Bazel's personal guard cavalry?

Once the two sides engaged in a battle with great disparity in strength, a one-sided battle situation was presented, with Bazel and Licinius fighting each other with good talents, while Licinius's forty-four cavalry directly crushed the more than 100 guards cavalry under Bazeel.

In just three minutes, Bazel's personal guards were slaughtered by Licinius's general guards, and after eliminating the opponents, the general guards did not turn back to help their generals, but directly charged the barbarian enemy in front.

The charge launched by forty-four heavy cavalry with the strength of high-level swordsmen was not at all an existence that the ordinary warriors under the command of Bazel could match, and the battle formation composed of the Roman youth army and the town militia was also slowly advancing, and Bazel's attacking troops were soon oppressed by the Roman army step by step, and could only focus on defense.

Realizing that this enemy force was far stronger than he had imagined, Bazel decisively abandoned the attack, and after evading Licinius's attack with a false move, he turned his horse and retreated to the rear.

Immediately after that, a muffled trumpet sounded on the battlefield, and all the soldiers under Bazel slowly withdrew from the battle under the sound of such horns, and after the unwilling Licinius led his general guard to charge again, he gave up the pursuit.

Although the coalition forces successfully repelled Bazel's attacking forces, the casualties paid by the coalition forces were much higher than the attacking enemy forces, especially the soldiers under the command of Gatus, their performance on the battlefield was simply worthy of their title of warriors, and they would collapse directly under the attack of the enemy!

If it weren't for the Roman army and the general's guard under the command of Licinius to save the battle, I am afraid that the 10,000 troops under the command of Gatus would have been wiped out in this battle, and even if they were lucky enough not to be completely wiped out under the cover of the Roman army, the corpses scattered all over the battlefield are telling of their incompetence.

When Gatus, who was full of shame, came to Licinius to discuss the withdrawal of the army, Licinius directly rejected Gatus's suggestion, and the reason why Gatus wanted to temporarily withdraw the army first was that the casualties of his soldiers in today's battle were too heavy.

The reason for Licinius's objection was that the time for the city of Rome was already running out, and the coalition forces could not afford to delay too much time at such a time, and the heavy casualties of the warriors of the Tasia tribe did not mean that the army of the city of Rome was no longer able to fight.

Licinius, who was resolute, demanded that Gatus send 4,000 of the most powerful warriors from the remaining 7,000 warriors under his command to him, and that he would personally lead the Roman army and these 4,000 warriors to launch the most direct attack on Bazel's tribes!

Gatus, who served as the commander of the coalition forces on this expedition, also understood that the reason why he was able to rise above Licinius and serve as this nominal commander was simply a strategy adopted by Bai Feng in order to conquer these six tribes more securely.

In the barbarian world where the strong are respected, a strong man like Licinius with the strength of a high-level great swordsman is more powerful than the Tasya tribal leader Gamilios, how can Gatus command such a strong man?

What's more, Licinius is still the general in the army of Rome City, and he is also the most trusted general of the Governor of Baifeng, so Gatus naturally does not really regard General Licinius as his subordinate;

Since Licinius asked to take the initiative to attack Bazel's tribes, Gatus not only drew 4,000 soldiers from his own army for Licinius' use, but also personally led the remaining 3,000 soldiers to serve as the rear support force of Licinius's army.

So, on the night when Bazel took the initiative to lead the army to attack the coalition forces during the day, Licinius took advantage of the dark moon and high wind to lead more than 5,000 soldiers to launch a night attack on Bazel's tribes!

When Licinius led his army to slowly approach Bazel's tribal camp, it was already midnight, Bazel never dreamed that the enemy would take the initiative to attack his tribe at such a time;