"Chapter 118: The First Encounter"
Love starts with the people closest to you, that is, your family.
- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)
After leading the army to drive for three or four days in a row, Bai Feng, who was only more than fifty miles away from Lucy's army, saw Adrien and Ivan who had rushed in the dust, and the information they brought to Bai Feng made Bai Feng's face involuntarily show a somewhat playful look.
It turned out that in the process of fleeing westward, about 10,000 or so remnants of the Eastern Alliance, who had been frantically retreating, were annihilated by Lucy's army, which had caught up with them.
As a last resort, the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, which had gathered more than a dozen leaders of various tribes, chose a nearby tribal camp as their foothold, and after entering this camp, the first thing the 70,000 remnants of the army did was to rob the people of the camp of their rations.
How could the people in the camp, who had only a few days of rations left, sit idly by and watch the rations they and their families relied on to survive be snatched away, so a fighting and scuffle within the Eastern Alliance inevitably broke out.
Because this tribal camp selected by the remnants of the Eastern Alliance was the camp of a vassal tribe under the Dat tribe, the actions of the 70,000 remnants of the army were not only not stopped by their respective leaders, but were tacitly approved by their respective leaders.
The trees fall and the macaques scatter, and the walls fall and everyone pushes them, this is the law of survival of the tribes of the Eastern Alliance; under the premise that the leader of the Dart tribe, Maren, has been killed in battle, and the elite warriors of the Dart tribe have been wiped out, do the vassal tribes of the Dart tribe still have a status at all?
It is no exaggeration to say that if the remnants of the current Eastern Alliance army can survive this large-scale attack of Lucy's army, the first thing the Eastern Alliance tribes who survived the war will not do is to recuperate, but to divide and annex the Dat tribe, which is only left with the old and weak, women and children.
The Eastern Alliance, which has developed through reckless military expansion, is best at neither decisive battles on the battlefield nor governance and development, but conquest and annexation;
Unfortunately, the Lucy army led by Viriasius did not give the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, who were full of good fantasies, a chance, and on the evening of the second day when the remnants of the Eastern Alliance occupied this tribal camp, 150,000 Lucy warriors completed the siege of this camp.
Viriacius, who had enough rations, did not rush to attack the remnants of the Eastern Alliance army trapped in the camp, partly because his soldiers really needed to rest, and partly because he knew how difficult the situation of the remnants of the Eastern Alliance army was.
The scuffle that broke out in the camp last night resulted in the killing of most of the camp people, and at the same time allowed a considerable number of camp people to flee from the camp, and these people who escaped from the camp told all they knew after being captured by Lucy's army.
From the mouths of these people, Viriacius easily learned the details of the camp, and to his delight, the rations left in the camp for the 70,000 remnants of the Eastern Alliance were only enough to last them a paltry three days!
This means that the 150,000 soldiers of Lucy's army only need to surround this camp for three days, and the 70,000 remnants of the Eastern Alliance in the camp will be exhausted, and at that time, the 70,000 Eastern Alliance soldiers will be lambs to be slaughtered under the sword of Viriacius.
But the development of events is always not subject to human will, and the siege of the remnants of the Eastern Alliance's camp by Lucy's army actually lasted less than two days before it was declared a failure, and the swaying army of Luquis was repulsed by the 150,000-strong army of Viriacius.
Luquis's army, which arrived on the battlefield before Lucy's army completely annihilated the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, confronted Viriacius's 150,000 Lucian army with nearly 60,000 infantry and 14,000 cavalry across the camp occupied by the remnants of the Eastern Alliance.
According to common sense, Viriasius, who had 150,000 troops under his command, should not be frightened by Luquis's army, which had only more than 70,000 troops, but the fact is that the first confrontation between the two armies caused Viriasius to suffer a small loss.
Among the first two cavalry regiments under Luquis, Nelson's Roman Spear Legion only had 10,000 barbarian light cavalry, and it was impossible for him to take the initiative to provoke 150,000 Luci warriors.
In the face of Antio's provocation, Viriacius, who had an absolute advantage in strength, did not hesitate to send 50,000 soldiers to counterattack, and in this regard, Antio, as the commander of the Hammer Legion, led his 4,000 heavy cavalry to launch a fierce charge.
It is self-evident how strong the impact of the 4,000 hoplite cavalry, modeled after the Seleucid ironclad cavalry, can produce when they charge, and how can the 50,000 guerrillant Lucy warriors be able to resist the cluster charge of the 4,000 hoplites?
The 4,000 heavily armed cavalry, led by Antio and his generals' guards, easily tore apart the loose battle formation of 50,000 Lucies, and all the Lucy warriors who stood in front of the cavalry were trampled into mud by their draped horses.
The stormy attack of the Hammer Legion was like a tiger entering a flock, and the 50,000 Lucie warriors were dizzy, and Antio, who was in a frenzy of battle, did not forget to command his cavalry, charging left and right to divide and cut the enemy.
The half hour that Antio led the army to attack was as long as a century for the 50,000 Lucie warriors who were attacked, and the formation was completely unsustainable, and the Lucie warriors who could not be organized at all to effectively counterattack were so heavy that Veriacius was discolored!
After the three rounds of back and forth charges, Antio, without the slightest hesitation, led his heavy hammer army to retreat, but Nelson, who had been roaming on the periphery, took advantage of the chaos of the enemy army and led his army to rush up and wreak havoc on the enemy army.
The first confrontation between Luquis's army and Viriasius's Lucy's army lasted only an hour, but the result was that Antio's Hammer Legion and Nelson's Roman Spear Legion lost more than 500 cavalry, while Viriacius lost 20,000 soldiers.
The forty-to-one casualty ratio not only shocked Viriacius, who had never seen hoplites, but also Nelson, who also did not know how terrifying the hoplite charge was, and for the first time, Nelson felt that his regiment might not be able to keep its number.
Why is the Roman Spear Legion called the Roman Spear? Or what is the Roman Spear? The so-called Roman Spear is naturally the sharpest offensive spear of the Roman City, and the legion that can afford this call must be the Roman City Legion with incomparably strong attack power.
The cluster charge of the Heavy Hammer Legion just now, and its fierce offensive, made Nelson, who thought that the cavalry under his command was extremely elite, truly understand the difference between light cavalry and heavy cavalry;