Chapter 673: Reinforcements?
The silent fallen leaves were lifted by the horses' hooves.
Then, more and more horses' hooves roared and shook the earth, and a Germanic cavalry completed the detour, rushed out of the hidden woods at the moment, and charged towards the flank of the Roman legions that were in formation, spears and longbows were set up in the gallop, opposite, the Roman array javelins crossed the sky, the shield met up, the body that was penetrated fell off the horse, and the ownerless war horse crashed into the shield, and the hind limbs were thrown up at this moment, tumbling and smashing into the pile, and the dust particles were shaken up.
"Barbarian Germanic people, thinking they are Cyrius from the East? Kill them allβ" The commander of the legion commanded loudly under the Eagle of the Arch Guard.
This Germanic cavalry of only 2,000 people from the time of appearance, as the phalanx of the side of the Roman heavy step has begun to turn, the cavalry rushed into the line, people, horses are in this instant collision rolling, flesh and blood burst, accept the disadvantages of their own battlefield, the Roman legions for cavalry, in addition to the standard short sword, shield, chest armor, short crossbow and long and short spear throwing weapons equipment, another heavy spear was added. The thick shaft of the spear strengthened the resistance to the impact, and the diamond-shaped spearhead pierced the body of the charging horse, and a large amount of blood gushed out, and the horse's grief stood up, and then fell backwards, and the Germanic cavalry rolled on the ground before they could get up and were slashed to death by the dense crowd of swords.
In the chaotic battle, a tall and tall cavalryman with slightly raised chest armor held a shield in one hand and a patterned knife in the other hand rushed in, and there were arrows flying on the side, which was blocked by her shield, and a Roman centurion on the opposite side also jumped up abruptly, in the chaos, I heard the knight who put down the shield over there let out a short shout, it was a woman's voice, and the patterned knife slashed the centurion's short sword, and the sparks splashed out of the gold and iron splashed out.
The war horse deflected, dodging the two spears that stabbed in, to the right of the field of vision of the covered iron helmet, the crowd crowded and pushed away, followed by a loud bang, and the fragments of the shield that burst and splashed were lifted into the air, like the burly figure of a lion, the whole body of iron armor rushed through the pile, and the surrounding spears and short swords ping-pong hit the iron armor and made a sound of gold and iron scraping all the time.
The greatsword swung out. With a loud roar, Gerald rushed forward, his sword slashing down with a whistling blade, the heavy blade slamming into the back of the retreating Roman centurion. The refined chest armor also burst open in an instant, and its body flew forward, and then the front door was smashed from the front by the pattern knife.
"Don't dwell on it...... Hurry up and withdraw, your army is still too far away to fight the Romans! The burly figure dragged the giant sword and ran over and shouted.
"No!!"
The war horse turned around restlessly, on the back of the horse, Stephanie yelled at her brother, grabbed the reins with one hand and moved the direction, and with the other hand waved the knife to chop down, cutting down the Roman soldiers who rushed up to the ground, covering the armor, her light blue eyes swept across the battlefield, and she gritted her teeth: "What the Han Dynasty can do, so can the Germans!" β
When Constantine fell into the hands of Gongsun Zhi, the city of Rome on the Italian peninsula was also actively counterattacking another eastern army on the southern coastline, but the northern defense line was still under the orders of the new emperor Marcus Aurelius Anzunius, that is, Caracalla, to construct three defense lines from Thrace to Macedonia, consisting of two re-replenished Macedonian legions and three Thracian legions, of which the Thracian cavalry recruited more than 25,000 people on the spot.
Stephanie and Gerald's more than 5,000 foot soldiers and cavalry marching eastward were finally discovered by a legion on the left flank of the defensive line, and from the initial battle to the current nearly half a month of fighting, they could not overcome this barrier.
The Roman legion under the banner of the eagle was about forty years old, with a shaved chin and a calm means of dealing with it in half-closed eyes, and when he saw the brothers and sisters over there, as well as the Germanic cavalry that broke through the flank, he reined in his horse's head, "Let the Thracian cavalry go up and rob them of the rear road, and the front row of foot soldiers advance." β
As the order spread as the battle horn sounded, on the plain behind them, a long cloud of smoke and dust swept up into the sky, and the regimental commander looked down at the underside of the war horse, and a small stone next to the horse's hooves trembled slightly on the ground, and he said: "Cavalry? Soon, the fleeing scouts brought confirmation that a cavalry of Cyrius was speeding towards this side from the direction of Constantine in the east.
Soon.
The roar of war horses sounded in the distance, and then it became bigger and bigger, in the eyes of the legion commander who reacted, the head of the hand figure, the vertical horse and the spear, the white helmet and the white cloak swayed backwards in the wind, behind him, the silhouettes of the ten, hundred, and thousand horsemen rumbled towards this side, and the violently churning iron hooves stepped on the stones, and the huge force squeezed, and the fine stones flew out.
"Cylius ......" The Legion Commander under the Eagle swallowed, his will a little shaken.
The movement of thousands of cavalry rushing, and the front line of the battle was also perceived, Gerald used the sword as a shield to push away the joint killing of the two, and then withdrew: "Sister, it's Gongsun Zhi's cavalry......"
"It's his people....." Not far away, as if she was expecting in her heart, the eyes behind the covered armor flashed a smug look, and the corners of her lips curled slightly: "Finally came to greet us, it seems that he likes that kid Dimatt very much." β
The patterned knife was raised, and the woman raised her arm and pointed to the rear of the Roman army, and her voice was extremely hoarse: "All the soldiers obey the order, our reinforcements have arrived, in the name of the honor of the Germanic people, kill!" β
"Kill!"
The Germanic cavalry in semi-iron armor around gave up the opponent, roared and gathered towards the woman, gathered into a torrent on the chaotic front, and spread towards the rear of the Roman formation, at this time, the eagle banner behind the formation began to shift direction, and the perennial formation deployment, the Roman Hou formation, usually very few troops, only about fifty general guards, although the corps commander was recommended by the Senate, but also experienced the battle formation.
"Let's goβ" At this moment, he only had time to shout retreat.
The sound was drowned out by the roaring iron hooves in the next second, the white war horse jumped up, blocking the sunlight that shone down, several Roman guard cavalry were shrouded in shadows, the gentian spear cut through the air, while picking up the blood slurry on a person's neck, it was thrown forward violently, the left hand suddenly drew the sword and slashed downward, the arm of the other Roman cavalry holding the sword fell, the moment the horse hooves jumped high and landed, the white horse returned to the sheath, the jade lion rushed out from between the two horses, Zhao Yun grabbed the gentian gun inserted in the chest of the third cavalryman, Pull it out, wave your arms again, and the cloak will be sprinkled in this instant.
"βThe enemy will give the head!"