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- Thucydides (ancient Greek historian, philosopher and general, known as the father of the "science of history")

Just as the Aceni tribe officially launched its third all-out attack, about eight miles north of the battlefield here, the 10,000 elite cavalry of the Aceni tribe met the pikemen of the First Legion and the Cheetah Legion under the command of Licinius.

In fact, as soon as Licinius set out with his army, he sent his Parthian cavalry troops, so that this group of Parthian cavalry cavalry could reach the enemy's cavalry first, and block and harass the enemy's cavalry along the way.

The Parthian archers carried out the orders given to them by Licinius perfectly, and when they were desperately rushing to fifteen miles north of the barracks, the cavalry of the Esthenian tribe had just begun to land, and the chaotic landing of the enemy army gave them the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

They seized the opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the massive cavalry of the enemy that was landing, and the kite tactics of the Parthian archers were as effective as ever, and the Essinian cavalry paid a heavy price for the surprise.

At least hundreds of landing horses were frightened into the Cangluo River when they were attacked by a rain of arrows, and the random running of these horses also caused serious casualties to the cavalry on the side, and many cavalry even reacted and were trampled to death by their own horses.

The Essinian cavalry, once in disarray, resisted the rain of arrows from the Parthian archers with their superb horsemanship, and then the reorganized thousands of landing cavalry began to pursue the Parthian archers cruising near the riverbank.

The Parthian archers, who were proficient in archery tactics, naturally could not really stay in place and engage the enemy's elite cavalry head-to-head, but under the desperate pursuit of the enemy, they began to move more quickly and guerrilla tactics.

After nearly half an hour of chasing after me, the cavalry of the Essini tribe who pursued the Parthian archers paid the price of nearly 300 cavalry killed, but they did not even touch the shadow of the Parthian archers.

However, their efforts were not in vain, at least their follow-up cavalry units had all landed in the half an hour, and as a gathering of trumpets sounded, the cavalry of the Essini tribe gave up the pursuit of the Parthian archers, turned their horses, and returned to the riverbank, after which the cavalry of the Essini tribe began to gallop southward.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry wanted to get to the battlefield as soon as possible, the centurion of the Parthian archers ordered his three archers to report to General Licinius' army immediately, while he himself led the remaining archers to continue to harass the enemy's large army.

Perhaps the cavalry commander of the Essini tribe also sensed the intentions of the Parthian archers, so he ignored the harassment of the Parthian archers at all, and just led his cavalry to run south with all his might.

How could it be really possible to rely on just a hundred or so Parthian archers to effectively block the tens of thousands of elite cavalry of the Essini tribe from moving south, and Licinius soon received information that the enemy cavalry was about to arrive at the location of his army.

Since the Parthian archers were no longer able to stop the enemy cavalry from moving south, the only force that could take on the responsibility of blocking the enemy cavalry was more than 10,000 soldiers under his command.

The pikemen of the 4,000 Cheetah Legion were deployed by Licinius in the most central position, and the 800 pikemen lined up to form the first battle array, followed by four equally strict battle formations, which were the main force of Licinius to meet the onslaught of the enemy cavalry.

On the two flanks of the 4,000 pikemen were twelve Roman youth armies, each flanked by six Roman youth armies formed a shield wall, and they were the real main force of the battle under Licinius.

The last 4,000 soldiers of the 1st Legion were all placed at the rear of the pikemen by Licinius, and if the pikemen could not stop the charge of the enemy cavalry, the 4,000 soldiers of the 1st Legion would immediately rush forward to hold back the enemy's cavalry charge.

As for Licinius himself, this time he did not lead his generals' guards to stand at the forefront of the soldiers, but sat in the rear of the 4,000 soldiers, commanding the soldiers of the various phalanxes, which was also what he had to do as a commander.

When the elite cavalry of the mighty Essini tribe began to approach, Licinius had just seen the smoke and dust rolling up in the distance, and then he felt the slight movement of the earth, and the march of the large-scale cavalry was really huge, and Licinius had to admit the strength of the enemy army.

Even so, Licinius was full of confidence in his soldiers, after all, when Licinius was marching and fighting in another Roman world, he had not dealt with the enemy's cavalry troops, not to mention that he himself had been a cavalry general.

The cavalry of the Esceni tribe was getting closer and closer, and the smoke and dust they brought up also covered the sky and the sun, and its movement was even louder in the sky, and even Licinius could feel the earth trembling, and soon, a sea of green appeared in front of Licinius's eyes, and it was the enemy's cavalry!

"Hold your formation, don't move! The enemy cavalry is not terrible, as long as we can resist their first charge, they will become our lambs to the slaughter! Remember what the Governor said, we are heroes when we live and martyrs when we die!"

Neither the 4,000 pikemen of the Cheetah Legion nor the 4,000 soldiers of the First Legion had ever experienced a large-scale cavalry encounter, and when they faced the enemy's tens of thousands of cavalry charges, they inevitably began to stir in fear.

Sensing the commotion of his own soldiers, Licinius immediately rode his horse to the front of the army, loudly motivating his men and men to keep their formation, otherwise the charge of the enemy cavalry would completely overwhelm their own formation.

Under the encouragement of Licinius, the turbulent battle formation finally returned to stability, and at this time the enemy cavalry was only 500 meters away from the phalanx of pikemen under Licinius, and the soldiers on both sides could even look at the faces of their opponents!

"Kill, kill, kill, kill......"

The distance of 500 meters was only a matter of moments for the cavalry charging with all their might, and as soon as Licinius rode back to the rear, tens of thousands of cavalry from the Essini tribe rushed into the phalanx of pikemen under his command.

The cavalry of the Aceni tribe shouted the slogan of charging and slaughtered into the phalanx of pikemen, and the cavalry who rushed to the front was directly stabbed to death on the spot by the spearmen's spears, but the cavalry behind them continued to charge forward without hesitation.