Chapter 372: Decisive Victory
Luga's cavalry retreated, leaving behind a corpse, which was not enough to collapse the Bagouda rebels who did not want to return to slavery, and the current battle became more and more intense, and all the soldiers of the first array were finally left in the frenzied battle, and the soldiers of the second array had to join the battle with their swords.
In order to find a better shooting position, the archers came to the left and right sides of the battlefield in two ways, facing the flank of the Ba Da Gao rebels, they formed a scattered formation, and drew their bows to aim at the Ba Da rebels in front of them.
"Click......"
Bursts of dense arrows covered the rebel formations again and again, and the completely unprotected rebel soldiers could not withstand such a constant rain of arrows, and fell one after another. Although each Bagunda soldier fought extremely bravely, in the absence of unified command, with the close cooperation of the Roman long-range and short-range soldiers, he gradually suffered heavy casualties, so the numerical advantage that he had just had was gradually not possessed.
"Impact! Impact! ”
Luga swung his sword at him, and the cavalry roared and charged at the enemy's back again. Again, countless Ba Gao rebels were knocked to the ground and died under the horse's hooves, with the impact of the cavalry, the only remaining fighting courage in the hearts of the Ba Gao rebel soldiers also turned into fear, this large number of cavalry in the chaos of the army like no one, they frantically slashed and killed, killing people for blood, horses for blood horses.
"Ran away, they ran away!"
The almost one-sided slaughter finally became too much for the Bagauda rebels to bear, screaming and fleeing, rumbling like cheap cattle, with thousands of people involved.
"Chase! Pursue! ”
This time it was no longer as orderly as the last time, the Bagorda rebels screamed and scattered, fleeing in all directions, completely aimless, and some of them actually ran into the city, which caused them to block the Roman soldiers blocking the city gates, and a massacre ensued. Blood stained the city gates, and there was no mercy in the whole process.
The cavalry followed closely behind the fleeers, and their blood-stained spears pierced the chests of one deserter after another, and for a time the screams were incessant. More and more bastards began to realize the preciousness of life, and they threw away their weapons, crying and falling to their knees and giving up on the run. The infantry who followed him were trampled to the ground, and at that time they begged for mercy in the Roman language in the hope that they would survive.
"It is not allowed to kill prisoners of war! It is not allowed to kill prisoners of war! ”
In order to prevent the angry soldiers from wantonly slaughtering the prisoners of war because they lost their minds, Luga also asked the heralds to roar all the way up, because these prisoners were so important to him!
"Now we seem to have removed the biggest stumbling block in front of us." Luga said to Andrew as he rode past the corpses in the spot, and the soldiers searched the battlefield for wounded soldiers and dead men.
"Luga." Andrew asked, "What should we do with these prisoners of war?" ”
"I plan to sell all these guys to all parts of the Western Empire as slaves, since they are slaves, they naturally can't escape their own fate!" "You know," said Luca, "they must be worth a lot of money, and there are still large fields to be planted in Italy and Greater Sicily, and they can just make up for the lack of labor there, and the nobles are satisfied, and we get a good sum of money, and of course if possible, sell them to the Eastern Empire or Carthage." Such a large amount of money can still maintain the commission of the army, so that we can sustain our long-term war, and the financing of the nobles of the province of Great Sequanoren can also be used as slaves to offset the price, and also relieve our economic pressure. ”
"So, you are not allowed to kill these wounded soldiers, what's going on?" Andrew still couldn't understand.
"You're stupid!" Luga smiled and said: "There are also minor injuries and serious injuries in this group of wounded soldiers, isn't it a slave who recovers from minor injuries, seriously injured ......" Luga couldn't help but shrug his shoulders and said helplessly when he mentioned this: "Then only send them to God, after all, I don't bother to invest anything in them, you know, Andrew, these sons of bitches should have been damned!" ”
Luga's words left Andrew speechless, of course, more because he agreed with Luga's ideas, influenced by Luga, he now looked at the team of Bagunda prisoners of war not far away and felt that it was no longer a person walking around, but a string of money, and the greedy Andrew couldn't help but swallow his saliva, eager to find a slave dealer to sit on the ground and start the price.
Before they knew it, Luga and Andrew walked under the city gate, and at this time, a group of blood-stained soldiers blocked the way of Luga and his party under the city gate, led by horned helmets and golden scale armor, he was the chief centurion of the Fifth Lark Legion.
"My centurion!" In order to hide the embarrassment on his body, Luga took off the helmet that was dented and deformed on his head and asked the chief centurion: "How is the war now, we have annihilated a large number of the enemy's living forces outside the city, and your pressure in the city is naturally much less, so let's talk about it, has the city been taken?" ”
He trotted all the way over to Luga and reported, "General, we have taken the general city. ”
"Half the city?" Luga was puzzled by the Chief Centurion's words and couldn't help asking, "What does this mean?" Half of the city? ”
"The other half of the city is because we have received very strong resistance." The Chief Centurion spread his hands and showed Luga the blood on his body, a sign that he had done his best. "They are well-equipped, completely different from the beggar troops we faced at that time, they are strong in combat, we have attacked many times without success, and they have been beaten back, and we have suffered heavy losses, and now we will form a confrontation with them, and wait for the general to make a decision."
It turns out that the Bagauda rebels also have such an enemy, or the personal guard under Tiberius, so they are indeed a difficult enemy to deal with, not to mention that the soldiers have just experienced such a huge war, everyone is naturally exhausted and difficult to fight again. Lu Jia secretly thought in his heart, there was no possibility of another strong attack now, at least not now, so Lu Jia had to give up today's attack.
"Order the soldiers to surround the city, guard every exit, and make sure that the enemy can't escape from under our noses." Luga commanded, then lowered his voice and said, "They can't escape, at least not today." ”