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The 100,000-strong army under Francis's command, after more than half a month of fighting with the Nabazani and Assam armies, the barbarian warriors who were not weak have made great progress, and they are no longer the recruits of half a month ago.

But the real elite is not something that can be cultivated in half a month, and the most elite troops that Francis has are still the 10,000 elite cavalry and 25,000 elite infantry, and these 25,000 elite infantry also include the soldiers who have just withdrawn.

These 35,000 elite divisions are the decisive trump card force in Francis's hands, and the other more than 60,000 soldiers, their combat effectiveness is only an average level, and they are certainly not the opponents of the Roman City army in a head-to-head battle.

The quality of the army was a problem that Francis could not avoid, and it was difficult to fundamentally solve the immediate crisis by leading the army out of this mountain road overnight.

In order to limit the superiority of the Roman army, it was necessary to prevent all the Roman army from entering the battle from the beginning, and in Francis's view, his only chance of victory was to use his elite troops to destroy the Roman army little by little.

It was not an easy task to limit the army of Rome from entering battle, and to force Rome to only throw a small number of troops at a time to engage its superior army, but for Francis, he really had a way!

Francis's army was located west of the mountain road that attacked the Nabazani and Assam camps, to the east by the defending armies of Nabazani and Assam, and to the west by a special terrain area where mountains and forests intertwined with flat land.

On the left and right sides of the Cadiz valley are mountain walls about 100 meters high, and only in the middle is a passage that can accommodate 5,000 troops at the same time.

The Cadiz Valley was the battlefield chosen by Francis, and he had to use his most elite 35,000 soldiers to guard the eastern exit of the Cadiz Valley, blocking the invading army of Rome in the Cadiz Valley, so that his army would have an absolute advantage.

The passage in the valley was not very wide, and it could only accommodate 5,000 soldiers of the city of Rome at most, but Francis could hold the exit with seven times the enemy's elite outside the valley, and slowly destroy the army of Rome with a local advantage, which was the decision of Francis.

After figuring out a way to deal with the army of Rome, Francis personally left the barracks with 35,000 elite and 45,000 ordinary soldiers early the next morning to garrison the exit of the Cádiz Valley, while the remaining 20,000 soldiers were left behind in the barracks.

Of the 20,000 soldiers who remained in the barracks, most of them were lightly wounded, and only about 3,000 were in good combat;

Although Francis did not think that the current Nabazani and Assam could still toss any storms, for the sake of the security of the rear of the army, he still left 20,000 soldiers to garrison the barracks to guard against the remnants of Nabazani and Assam.

When Francis led his army to the Cadiz Valley, the Roman army of White Peak was still about half a day's way from the Cadiz Valley, but the Parthian archers in charge of reconnaissance had already arrived in the Cadiz Valley and discovered Francis's army in time.

The Parthian archers discovered Francis' vanguard cavalry, and when they did, both cavalrymen discovered each other's presence, and a battle between the scouts inevitably broke out.

The Parthian archers, who wanted to evacuate quickly, were pursued by the enemy patrols, and once again their most famous kite tactics played an important role, and the pursuing 300 patrol cavalry paid the price of more than 100 casualties in less than ten minutes.

The patrol cavalry, which had suffered more than half of the casualties, decisively gave up the pursuit, and the Parthian archers were able to withdraw intact to the Roman city's main army.

The nimble ghosts of the battlefield did not appear in front of Francis's army in the open, they were hiding in the mountains and forests outside the flat land to secretly observe the enemy army, and at this time, Francis's army arrived at the mouth of the valley, and they observed more carefully.

After more than ten minutes of observation, the battlefield ghosts had a clear grasp of the composition and situation of Francis's army, and then they quietly retreated from the mountain walls on both sides of the valley, and hurried back to the army to report the situation to Bai Feng.

With Bai Feng's mind, it was naturally not difficult for him to see what Francis's plan was, before Bai Feng didn't know that there was a terrain like the Cadiz Valley in front of him, and even if he knew, he would not accelerate the march in advance to seize the Cadiz Valley.

Francis thought that he had seized the Cadiz Valley and gained the initiative in the battle, but he did not know that the army of the city of Rome did not care about his seizure at all, or that his advance deployment was only suitable for dealing with the armies of other barbarian tribes, which were also barbarian armies.

The multi-class army of Rome not only had a large number of ordinary barbarian warriors as the backbone, but also a large number of elite barbarian warriors as an assault force, and more importantly, the Roman army also had pikemen and longbowmen.

The Roman city's systematic army was now too small and diverse to play a pivotal role, and the only special units that could really change the tide of battle on the battlefield were the newly formed pikemen phalanx and longbowmen.

With the terrain of the Cadiz Valley and Francis's deployment, Bai Feng only needed to let the Macedonian phalanx of Gatus's Cheetah Corps as the offensive vanguard, and Peres's longbowmen followed, and the two armies advanced gradually, and Francis's siege plan was just a joke.

Because of the terrain constraints of the Cadiz Valley, Bai Feng quickly realized that his deployment was unreasonable, and there was no room for a complete Cheetah Legion in the narrow valley, let alone Perris's longbowmen.

Taking into account the actual situation in the Cadiz Valley, Bai Feng immediately adjusted the attack force of the Cheetah Legion into three standard Macedonian phalanxes, plus the elite warrior brigade and the longbow brigade to which the Cheetah Legion belonged, with a total strength of 5,000 people.

In addition, the Macedonian royal pikemen of the four brigades of the Tasia Legion were temporarily transferred to the Cheetah Legion's attacking units, and these four Macedonian royal pikemen and two Spartan heavy infantry teams were at the forefront of the phalanx force, dealing heavy blows to the enemy!

After Bai Feng's battle order was issued, Gatus led the troops that were about to go out to fight first, and Bronno led his dragon army to delay Gatus's troops, and Bai Feng's main army still advanced at the original speed.