"Chapter Twenty-Seven: Facing the Enemy"
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- Sofia Loren (famous Italian actress)
The elite cavalry of the Aceni Kingdom who rushed over, they did not choose the left and right flanks of the army of Roman City as the breakthrough point, but directly charged towards the middle army where Bai Feng was located, as if they wanted to defeat Bai Feng's largest middle army in one fell swoop.
The reason why the general who commanded the 20,000 cavalry made such a decision was not because he arrogantly believed that the 20,000 cavalry under his command could defeat the more than 50,000 troops in the city of Rome, after all, this general was a first-hand witness of the last battle.
In the battle that Bai Feng named the Battle of the Longbow, the longbowmen on the flanks of the city of Rome and the phalanx of pikemen in front left nightmarish memories for all the soldiers of the Acenian Kingdom who were lucky enough to survive the battlefield.
Therefore, in the opinion of this cavalry general, his 20,000 cavalry must pay a very heavy price if they want to break through the pikemen phalanx on the left and right flanks of Rome, and even then, his cavalry may not be able to break through the pikemen phalanx of Rome.
Comparatively speaking, the middle army of Rome, which did not have a phalanx of pikemen, was more suitable as a breakthrough point, and the large number of longbowmen of the middle army was the real goal of this cavalry general!
The approaching enemy cavalry made the central army of Rome extremely solemn, and the twelve Roman youth troops under Licinius were transferred to the rear of the Eagle Legion by Bai Feng, and the Acenian army of Joshuel was also transferred to the left and right flanks of the First Army by Bai Feng.
At this time, at the forefront of the central army was Eggers's Eagle Legion, which had 17,000 soldiers, and arranged 20 lines of defense lines with a length of more than 500 meters in an unusually dense formation to resist the charge of the enemy cavalry.
The Eagle Legion was followed by twelve teams of Roman young soldiers with javelins in hand, and finally 10,000 longbowmen under Perris, and when the enemy cavalry reached within two miles, Bai Feng immediately raised his right hand, and the trumpeter behind him blew the rousing trumpet.
As the trumpets sounded, the twelve Roman youth corps deployed behind the Eagle Legion immediately split into two, quickly circled from the two flanks of the Eagle Legion to the front of the Eagle Legion, and scattered in a loose formation in front of the Eagle Legion.
Two miles, one mile, eight hundred meters, five hundred meters, when the enemy cavalry entered the 400-meter range of the longbowmen, the 2,000 longbowmen of the Eagle Legion took the lead in firing a salvo;
The roaring rain of arrows made the cavalry of the Acenian Kingdom who charged with all their strength bear the baptism of the first round of arrow rain, and the part of the cavalry covered by the arrow rain also suffered heavy casualties under the overturning of people's horses, as long as the cavalry fell off the war horse, they would be immediately trampled into mud.
The powerful impact of the cavalry is not only aimed at the enemy, but also for its own soldiers, and it is completely impossible for the large-scale cavalry to rush with all its strength to stop the charge in a short time.
The cavalrymen who had fallen from their horses in the rain of arrows were immediately overwhelmed by the robes that rushed up behind them, and the distance of 400 meters was only a dozen breaths for the cavalry, and the cavalrymen who were enraged by the rain of arrows became more and more fierce.
The longbowmen of the Eagle Legion fired two more rounds of arrows, and the cavalry of the Aceni Kingdom was already fifty meters out of the javelin range of the young army, and Licinius, who seized the opportunity, quickly ordered his youth army to throw the first round of javelins.
As soon as the dense javelins were thrown, the young soldiers immediately pulled out the second javelin stuck in the ground and threw it again, and after two rounds of javelins, the young soldiers did not hesitate to turn around and quickly evacuate.
A salvo of nearly 2,000 javelins was more than twice as sharp as the salvo of the longbowmen, and the arrows fired by the longbowmen before could only shoot the cavalry on the horses, and few of them could effectively kill the horses.
The javelin attack was not so simple, the javelins of the youth army could not reach those cavalry, but the galloping cavalry themselves rushed into the range of the javelins, and countless horses galloping in the wind were shot on the spot by the flying javelins.
Two javelin salvos in succession inflicted heavy casualties on the cavalry of the Aesini Kingdom that charged, and even disrupted the cavalry's charging deployment, and the corpses of the horses that were killed by javelins caused a great obstacle to the cavalry rushing up from behind.
At this time, the cavalry had already rushed to within eighty meters of the Eagle Legion, and Bai Feng, who had been paying close attention to the dynamics of the battle, raised his right hand again, and the passionate trumpet sounded again, and the 10,000 longbowmen under Peris immediately began their volley.
The depth of the Eagle's twenty lines was about 100 meters, as were the retreating Roman Youth and Aceni's Legions, and in addition to the distance of 200 meters, Perris's longbowmen could cover the rain of arrows within 200 meters in front of the Eagles.
The salvo of 10,000 longbowmen was much more powerful than the salvo of 2,000 longbowmen, and the first round of arrows alone killed and wounded the enemy cavalry in the middle of the enemy, which had slowed down slightly, but the cavalry of the Aceni Kingdom did not have the slightest fear, and they still charged without hesitation.
As soon as the soldiers of the Roman Youth Army rushed back to their original positions, the surging cavalry of the Kingdom of Esceni rushed into the battle formation of the Eagle Legion, and the cavalry who charged frantically used their powerful impact to break through the six lines of defense of the Eagle Legion in one fell swoop!
The reason why the vital seventh line of defense was not breached was due to the desperate resistance of the Eagle Legion soldiers on the one hand, and the heavy losses of the enemy cavalry in the middle of the longbow under the continuous rain of arrows, so that the cavalry charging forward could not be effectively replenished.
The soldiers of the Eagle Legion, desperately counterattacking, and the charging enemy cavalry engaged in fierce battles in their battle formations, and the cavalry, which had lost their mobility, soon regained their movements, but their spears were still unusually sharp.
The condescending cavalry always has a great advantage, and the soldiers of the Eagle Legion will have to pay a far heavier price than Bai Feng imagined if they want to defeat this cavalry, and Peris's longbowmen are still shooting, relieving the pressure on the soldiers in front.
The enemy cavalry general, who realized that it was almost impossible to break through the defense line of the Roman army, after his cavalry completely lost the motivation and mobility to attack, wanted to lead his troops to withdraw from the scorching battle with the Eagle Legion and re-attack the flank of the longbowmen.
Just as he was fighting bravely to kill the enemy and commanding the cavalry to retreat slowly, Bai Feng gave the order to Adrien beside him to kill the general, and in the next second, Adrien took the nine battlefield ghosts under his command and rushed to the enemy's main general.
Originally, Bai Feng was going to give it to Adrien, but Webster's spellcaster snatched the credit, and the ghosts of the battlefield who rushed away had not yet approached the enemy's commander, and the 'Gathering Spirit Blade' issued by ten spellcasters at the same time killed the enemy general.