"Chapter Forty-Seven: Desperate Assault"

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- Leonardo da Vinci (typical artist of the Renaissance)

Licinius's First Legion had 12 Roman youth soldiers and 4,000 barbarian warriors, with a total strength of almost 6,000, while the presence of four elite youth corps and Licinius' General Guard was the mainstay of the 1st Legion to fight to the death.

With 3,000 powerful veterans of a hundred battles and 7,000 ordinary barbarian warriors, Bazel's Tiger Legion was slightly inferior in combat effectiveness to the First Legion, but the numerical superiority made the Tigers more intimidating.

Gatus's Cheetah Legion only had 9,000 soldiers, of which 1,000 were archers who could not fight in close combat, and the other 4,000 pikemen could play a limited role after losing the phalanx.

The total strength of these three legions of the Roman army was only 25,000, and even with the extremely powerful Governor's Guard, it was still nearly 20,000 fewer than the main force of the enemy army that charged, after all, the enemy's slave army did not all collapse.

Although the Roman army did not lose the slightest advantage in the frontal bloody battle, the Roman army's front was still too weak compared to the strength of the enemy's army, especially after the Roman army's entire defensive formation had been broken through.

If the enemy really broke through one of the three legions in one fell swoop, then the frontal defense line of the entire Roman army would be useless, and the three legions that were in the midst of fierce fighting would be quickly divided and surrounded, and it was not impossible for the main army to be destroyed.

The crux of the problem is that the combat effectiveness of the enemy's main force is beyond his imagination, and even Bai Feng did not expect that the enemy's 40,000 army actually has a combat power that is not inferior to that of the Tiger Legion, which is simply terrifying.

You must know that the Tiger Legion is one of the most powerful of the four infantry legions in Rome City, but now it can only fight on par with the regular soldiers of the enemy army, such a cruel reality makes Bai Feng more aware of how powerful the enemy will be in Rome City in the future!

At this time, the battle on the battlefield had entered a white-hot state, and the armies of the Eastern Alliance seemed to have an unusually high morale, and their soldiers shouted all kinds of battle slogans, and pushed forward without fear of death, even if they were killed.

The entire battlefield was filled with the shouts of warriors and the clashing of swords, as well as the roar of horses, and each of them was stained with bright red blood, either from the enemy or from his own body.

Antio, who has the strength of a high-ranking swordsman, has now changed from cavalry to infantry, and the swarming enemy army stabbed his horse to death on the spot, and if it hadn't been for the heavy cavalry of the General's Guard rushing up to protect him desperately, I am afraid that he would have been injured when he fell off his horse.

Even if he was not wounded under the siege of the enemy, the casualties of the governor's guard rose rapidly, and the four hundred cavalry under Simpson were less than a hundred, and all of them became infantry, and the thousand soldiers under Wendell had been killing the enemy in formation, and the casualties were not as heavy as Simpson's cavalry, but there were less than five hundred soldiers who could continue to fight the enemy.

Picking up a shield on the spot, Antio once again slashed to death an enemy soldier who rushed up with a sword, and it was not a pleasure for anyone to watch his soldiers being wiped out little by little, and Antio, whose eyes were blood-red, was even more irritable.

Holding this shield in his left hand to resist the attacks of the enemy troops surrounding him from all directions, and his right hand was still holding a short sword to slash and slash the enemy one after another, his general's guard had long since changed from heavy cavalry to heavy infantry, and only about thirty people were still alive.

The heavy cavalry of the General Guard, which has the strength of a high-level swordsman, can play an extremely limited role in such a melee of tens of thousands of people, even if you can kill a hundred enemy soldiers, you can't stop the long sword stabbed by the one hundred and one enemy soldiers.

"Simpson, don't fight on your own, follow behind me, let's join forces with Wendell and fight to the death!" With more than thirty heavy infantry around him, he killed all the way to the side of Simpson's department, and at the same time shouted at Simpson who led the battle to the death with a sword piercing the chest of an enemy soldier, and then without waiting for Simpson to answer, he turned around and killed the heavy infantry behind him.

After Simpson, who had less than 100 soldiers around him, received an order from Antio, he followed behind Antio with his warriors without the slightest hesitation.

At this time, there were only less than 600 people in the Governor's Guard, and Antio took over the command directly from Wendell's hands, and then pointed to the enemy commander about 300 meters away and said loudly to the soldiers who were fighting hard:

"Brethren, we have lost more than half of our brothers in the Governor's Guard, and it is impossible for us to kill all the enemies with our strength.

I don't know if the enemy's commander is there, but I know that if you cut down this banner, the enemy will definitely fall into a situation where the enemy is leaderless, and if you want to create a miracle, follow me!"

It turned out that Antio did not fall into a state of violent death this time, but actually called on the remnants of the Doge's Guard to launch a surprise attack on the enemy's banner, and the warriors of the Doge's Guard naturally followed Antio without hesitation.

Bai Feng, who had been observing the entire battlefield situation on his war horse, could naturally see Antio's movements, and when Bai Feng discovered the direction of Antio's advance, he immediately ordered Adrian, the battlefield ghost behind him:

"Adrien, do you see the black-clad Adio in front of you, and now it's time for you to play your part, and you immediately go to the vicinity of Admiral Antio, killing as many enemies as possible on their periphery to relieve their pressure.

The time limit for your battle is half an hour, and I will give you twenty minutes to cover General Antio, and if he can't cut off the enemy's banner in twenty minutes, then you will personally go and cut off the enemy's banner for me in the last ten minutes!"

Under Bai Feng's order, Adrien jumped off his horse without any hesitation and rushed to the battlefield in front of him;

However, Bai Feng was not the only one who could perceive Antio's purpose, the main general of the enemy army was also aware of Antio's purpose, and the young general, who was also wearing black armor, just smiled disdainfully, and then waved the horsewhip on his right hand.

Soon more and more enemy soldiers appeared around Antio's soldiers, and every meter they advanced had to pay a terrible price, and even Antio himself had more and more scars on his body, and blood was flowing endlessly!