"Chapter 12: Victory in the First Battle"

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The cavalry brigade with Cabaye was closely monitoring the rogue bandits' every move on the outskirts of the mountain forest, and the actions of Bartloli and the other three of more than 2,000 young men naturally could not escape Bai Feng's eyes, but Bai Feng, who was secretly in control of everything, did not intend to rush to Bonella's aid.

Bonella's First Brigade consisted of two detachments, each consisting of three squadrons of eighty men, led by Nishizawa and Maurice, respectively, and a Roman youth army to assist the officers and men of the First Brigade.

With the combat strength of the 500 soldiers of the 1st Brigade, it should be able to block the attack of more than 2,400 rogue troops; as for whether they can win the victory while blocking it, it depends on the command ability of Bonella, Nishizawa, and Morris.

After all, no matter how elite an army is, it also needs qualified officers to command, and a commander with outstanding ability can always play a vital role on the battlefield, and even directly determine the outcome of the battle.

Although Bai Feng intended to use this battle as a touchstone for the examination of Bonella, Nishizawa, Morris and others, he still took some countermeasures, and Cabaye's cavalry brigade and Hans's fifth brigade were personally taken by Bai Feng to the vicinity of Bonella's military camp.

Before Bonella's army showed no signs of defeat, Bai Feng, who was willing to hone his soldiers, would not lead the army to attack, if Bonella's army really could not resist the enemy's attack, then Bai Feng would send troops to help Bonella destroy this invading enemy!

Bonella, who knew nothing about Bai Feng and the army behind him, had just discovered the more than 2,000 enemy troops that had been killed all over the mountains, so he ordered the first brigade stationed in the barracks to immediately go out to meet the battle, leaving only the Roman youth army to garrison the barracks.

The officers and men of the 500 1st Brigade were lined up in an inverted triangle formation by Bonella, and the 1st detachment of Nishizawa had the first two squadrons lined up side by side at the front, and the third squadron was 50 meters behind, ready to support the two squadrons in front at any time.

Morris's second detachment was deployed on the right side of Nishizawa's headquarters in the same inverted triangle formation, so that Nishizawa and Morris's troops were on the left and right, showing a tendency to rely on each other.

After discovering that the Imperial army they were about to attack was ready for battle, the three rogue leaders not only did not give up the attack halfway, but instead worked harder to encourage the young men under their command, intending to defeat Bonella's troops in one fell swoop.

In the face of more than 2,000 enemy troops in front of them, the soldiers of the first brigade who had just entered the battlefield inevitably showed a trace of panic and nervousness; fortunately, the performance of Nishizawa and Morris was quite calm, and the panic and nervousness of the soldiers did not affect their formation.

"Kill!" "Rush!" ...... When the enemy troops approached less than 100 meters from the officers and men of the 1st Brigade, the chaotic slogans of the other side were already clearly audible; looking at the chaotic enemy officers and soldiers, Bonella decisively gave the order to attack.

Nishizawa, who heard the sound of the military horn in the rear, immediately shouted an order to the soldiers of the two squadrons in front of him: "Stand shields!"

"Wow!" The soldiers in the forefront who were highly concentrated immediately erected the square shields in their hands and built two shield walls.

"Raise your spear!"

In addition to the soldiers with shields in the forefront, the soldiers of the second and third columns immediately raised their short spears in the air.

"Throw!"

At Nishizawa's order, two squadrons of about 110 soldiers threw their short spears at the charging enemy, and at the same time, the soldiers under Maurice also threw their short spears.

More than 200 short spears flew out from behind the shield wall of the 1st Brigade, and the young men who rushed to the front didn't even have time to react before they were nailed to the ground by the short spears with incredible lethality, and even the standard armor of the Imperial army could not stop them in the slightest.

"Raise your spear!"

"Throw!"

Ignoring Nishizawa and Morris, they just commanded the battle step by step, and soon the second and third rounds of short spears flew out one after another, inflicting extremely heavy casualties on the enemy troops charging forward.

Enraged by the tragic situation in front of him, the leader of Vermaelen personally led more than a dozen of his own soldiers to kill the location of the shield wall;

The three leaders took the lead, reinvigorating the young men who had plummeted in momentum, and they scrambled to follow behind their leaders, raising their weapons in their hands, and pounced on the Nishizawa and Morris divisions who were waiting for them.

After throwing three rounds of short spears, Nishizawa and Morris commanded their soldiers to draw their short swords at their waists, ready to meet the enemy troops rushing up, and the front shield wall battle formation only needs to block the first round of enemy attack at its peak, and the subsequent battle will be carried out by the rear soldiers.

"Bang!", "Bang!", "Bang!", ...... The sound of the enemy's body hitting the shield wall resounded in the ears of the shield-wielding soldiers, but instead of taking a step back under the pressure, they used their bodies to resist the shield as part of their previous training.

The rock-like shield wall held out in the face of the enemy's flood of attacks, and when the enemy's morale was exhausted, the originally impregnable shield wall suddenly dispersed, and the second and third columns of soldiers who were ready to take advantage of the situation to kill.

The battle between the recuperated own warriors and the battered opponent's warriors was a one-sided slaughter at the beginning, and the young men of the rogue army were constantly cut down to the ground, and the wooden and bamboo spears in their hands were not the enemy of the sharp short sword at all!

The relatively strong Bartloli and the other three men were surrounded by several besieging warriors in succession, and the soldiers who surrounded them trapped them with a tight circular shield wall, and no matter how much they struggled, they could not break free.

After a squadron leader of the first detachment seized the opportunity to cut off the long sword in Bartloli's hand, the eight soldiers who surrounded him immediately used their shields to hold him in place; Bartloli, who only had the strength of a low-level intermediate swordsman, lost the ability to resist on the spot.

The capture of Bartroli was only the beginning, and then Bony and Vermaelen were also captured, and Bonella immediately ordered his soldiers who had not yet entered the battle to shout: "The enemy commander has surrendered, surrender and die!"

"The enemy's commander has surrendered, so you will surrender and avoid death!"

"The enemy's commander has surrendered, so you will surrender and avoid death!"

The sound of persuasion to surrender resounded on the battlefield caused the young men who had lost their leaders to collapse quickly, most of them chose to lay down their arms on the spot and surrender to the soldiers under the command of Bonella, and some stubborn young men tried to flee back to the mountains and forests, but few succeeded.

Satisfied with the performance of Bonella and the others, Bai Feng sent out a cavalry unit under Cabaye's command when the victory was decided, and the roaring cavalry routed the enemy troops who tried to flee back into the mountains and forests, and only a few lucky ones escaped into the mountains and forests occasionally.

After this battle, Bai Feng obviously felt that the soldiers of the first brigade were much stronger than in the past, and this was exactly what Bai Feng wanted. Soldiers who have not experienced the battlefield and fighting are not real soldiers, and the elites cultivated through training will always be sheep!