Chapter 555: Broken
"Order the soldiers, shrink the line, lure the Romans deep, and then encircle them!" Gaisarik is still unrelenting, he is very strong, and he will not allow himself to back down under such a slight decline, which will not only take a blow to his reputation, but also his authority in Africa and other places.
He thought far ahead, and clearly understood that although this battle was unpredictable and accidental, the ultimate meaning for now was that he couldn't lose!
"For the sake of my son, Hunerik, I can't lose!" Gaisaric gritted his teeth, clenched his right hand into a fist, and slammed it into his chest, so hard that when he let go of his fist again, the palm of his hand was stamped with four deep nail dents.
"My king, the soldiers are beginning to waver, now shall we continue to fight, or shall we retreat?" The noble officer of Vandal, who could not hold his breath, began to panic, and he even slurred and vomited a little when he spoke. This is not surprising, after all, there are Romans on all sides, although they are not as numerous as their own, but their morale is extremely strong, and they have broken through one of the defenses, and are constantly meeting the Alan cavalry trapped in the middle, if this group of Aran cavalry goes out, God knows when it will give another fatal blow under the difficult turnaround of the Vandal army. Everyone was worried, they were panicking, the sweat in their palms was pouring out, and they were so slippery that they couldn't even grasp the weapons in their hands.
"Just because they're shaken doesn't mean they're completely defeated." Gaisaric said, grinding the hilt of his sword, "They still have the ability to resist, and I firmly believe that at least I need to deal with the guy who disturbs the morale of the army!" ”
After saying that, Gaisaric suddenly drew his iron sword and stabbed him in the stomach when the nobleman was not looking. Looking at the iron sword stuck in his abdomen, the Vandal nobleman was stunned, he never thought that the unstable factor that Gaisaric wanted to solve turned out to be himself.
"Whew!"
Without a moment's hesitation, Gaisaric drew his iron sword, flashed into the nobleman's back before he could fall, stabbed him in the back, and then the blood-stained blade pierced the man's chest. The poor fellow did not utter a dying wail from beginning to end, but it was his hideous expression of pain and incomprehension that shocked the noble officers who saw it around him.
"Damn it!" Gaisaric yelled and drew his iron sword, and the blood gushing from the back of the Vandal nobleman stained one of Gaisarik's legs, but Gaisarik, who had always been exquisite, didn't care.
"Go, let the soldiers keep fighting!" Gaisarik's voice was not loud, but the gloomy timbre made the other Vandal nobles terrified, and they couldn't help but shiver. After a moment's hesitation, he nodded hurriedly, and then hurriedly exited, beckoning the soldiers below.
In a few moments, the four trumpeters were in the center of the Vandals' formation, and they were facing four different directions, that is, the four walls of the army's formation, and each of them took a deep breath and blew the horn fiercely.
For a while, the long horn sounded throughout the battlefield, one after another, vibrating the ears of every soldier present.
"Don't be confused, regroup and continue to resist! Keep resisting! "The officers and their men kept retreating, and they did not forget to convey orders to them.
"Looks like Gaisarik isn't just going to give up!" Diego, who understood the horn, stepped forward and patted Luga on the shoulder, drawing the latter's attention, "I've never seen Gaisaric fight so desperately. Luga, he's going to be very dangerous like this, and we'll have to deal with it randomly while keeping the soldiers' stamina in check! ”
"It's just a trapped beast, Diego!" Luga looked back, "But there is no way back. ”
With that, Luga got on his horse and shouted at Diego and the Aran nobles behind him, "I have fought against Gaisaric outside Palermo, and thank God for giving me and my soldiers the strength to defeat the enemy with all their might. At that time, I regretted that I could not have been more assertive in my own restraints, and thus watched him sail away from my eyes, and though he fled in disarray, without the appearance of a king, as you can see, he made a comeback! At that time, I secretly swore that if I met him again, I would never let him escape from my hands again! Thank God for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and for you, loyal allies of the Romans, to fight here alongside Orius, the captain of the soldiers of Augustus, the Western Governor of Rome. Flavis. Luga's pleasure! With that, Luga bowed his head and saluted, which made Diego and the nobles behind him stunned, and they didn't know what to do for a while.
When Luga left, the nobles who came back to their senses raised their fists and shouted, "Luga! Luga! ”
Luga rode forward, followed closely by the soldiers behind him, and as he approached the breach, he leaped from his horse and landed on the ground, drew his iron sword, and led the Romans and the Alans along with him.
"Captain Soldier! Our Soldier Captain! ”
The Roman soldiers who found Luga pointed at Luga and shouted in surprise, and the Roman soldiers present raised their arms and shouted when they saw the soldier commander coming to the battlefield in person, and their morale was greatly boosted for a while!
"Andrew!" Luga shouted Andrew's name in a loud voice, "I command you to carry the Eagle Banner, follow me, and fulfill your duties as the captain of the guard!" ”
"As you wish, Luga!" Andrew laughed loudly, snatched the eagle flag from the flag bearer's hand, and followed closely behind Luga with an iron sword in one hand and the eagle flag in the other.
"Romans, forward! Defeat our enemies! Luga shouted, drawing the Dragon's Breath Sword, the sharp Dragon's Breath Sword shimmering with dazzling silver light in the midday sun.
Luga carried it into the chaos of the battlefield and cut down the Vandals who stood in his way.
A Vandal officer spotted Luga, raised his battle axe and roared at Luga, who did not dodge it in the slightest, and slashed it from the left side with his sword, colliding with the officer's axe, and with a sharp dragon's breath sword cut off the officer's axe handle, and cut a terrible wound in his heavy left chain mail.
The officer bent down in pain, and Luga immediately flashed sideways to his side, raised his sword with both hands and slashed down fiercely, like cutting melons, the head separated from the helmet, and fell to the ground with a "hole".
"Tortoiseshell formation! Tortoiseshell formation! ”
Luga responded, and the Roman soldiers around him gathered to form a huge tortoiseshell formation.
"Onward! Advance! ”
The horn of the attack sounded again, and under the command of Luga, the tortoiseshell formation of the Roman soldiers slammed into the backs of the Vandals like a huge iron fist. Any Vandal soldier who tried to get close to the tortoiseshell formation would be severely beaten by the sudden stabbing spear.
Seeing that the Romans were getting closer and closer to the Alan cavalry, the Vandals, who could not take care of the front and back, could no longer restrain the Alan cavalry, they were knocked down by the war horses, and the so-called "chains" formed were broken free, and the Alan cavalry bypassed both sides of the Roman tortoiseshell formation and rushed out of the encirclement of the Vandals.
"Order the cavalry, seal the vacancy!" Gaisaric ordered, "Even if the corpses are piled up, it will not be spared!" ”
"But ......"
"Am I asking for you?" Gaisarik was completely mad, he couldn't listen to any words.
"Woo-woo-woo-" As soon as Gaisarik's order was given, three long horns sounded in the distance.
"What?" Gaisarric's eyes widened in surprise, and he hurriedly looked for a sound, only to see a large number of cavalry on the hillside in the far north, accompanied by the sound of a trumpet.