Chapter 554: Struggle
"Diego! Diego! You bastard! Gaisaric yelled hoarsely, but the Alans were already determined to fight against them, and they did not expect Diego to defect at this time, and Gaisaric was so angry that his face turned blue.
"Regroup the army! Regroup the army! ”
Gaisaric was unwilling to stop there, and although Diego joined the Romans, he still had more than 10,000 troops, and he was confident that he would not accept his defeat.
"Reorganize the army! Formation reorganization! The officers beckoned their soldiers to regain their position, and they reorganized the phalanx under the leadership of the officers, but this time it was defensive compared to the attack just now.
The Alan's cavalry scurried in it like fish in water, and the Alans had no choice but to hide from their horses and pray that they would not be the ghosts of their horses.
Even so, the sluggish ones were knocked away, and the Alan cavalry threw the inner Vandals into disarray.
"Come, form one, shield wall! Shield Wall! ”
Gaisarik roared hoarsely on horseback, making his voice hoarse from exhaustion. The cavalry commanded by Vandal shuttled back and forth in the military formation with exquisitely carved flags, and the front-line officers waved frequently, and their extremely high military literacy allowed them to form a huge rectangular formation in a very short time, with huge shields standing side by side, becoming a huge city wall composed of people.
The Alan cavalry that rushed in was surrounded and could not advance or retreat, and at this time, the Vandal soldiers with spears in hand roared side by side, and the Alan cavalry, who had no power to resist, were picked off their horses one by one.
The Alans who formed the defensive line and the attacking Roman soldiers formed a confrontation situation, so that the Roman army and the Alan's infantry could not tear apart the Vandals' shield wall for a while.
"Luga, my cavalry, my cavalry is trapped inside!"
Diego shouted at Luga, he was so anxious that he would rush into the Vandals in the next second, wielding his weapon to free his cavalry.
"Calm down! Calm down! Diego! Luga was also anxious, he constantly commanded the Roman cavalry to attack the Vandals' shield wall, but this "wall" was too thick, and the horses of the cavalry in the front row of the impact hit the shield not only could not shake the shield wall, because the cavalry without fixed and stable measures ejected from the horse in an instant, and the whole person fell into the Vandals' army and was brutally killed.
"The cavalry can't rush in, Diego!" Luga got off his horse, pointed to the immovable Vandal's shield wall in front of him, and said, "Only the infantry, the infantry can tear through this shield wall!" ”
"What did you say?" Diego's eyes widened in surprise, "The cavalry can't destroy it, so can our infantry be capable?" ”
"Trust your men!" Luga looked at Diego, his eyes were full of determination, which made Diego speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to refute, he had to admit that he was a fool and couldn't win in this regard.
"As you wish, I only want my cavalry!" After Diego finished speaking, he took two steps back, as if giving up the entire stage to Luga.
"Well, it's like in Palermo, let's face it off!" Luga squeezed his hands and turned back to the Roman soldiers and shouted, "Siege cones! Do you have battering cones? ”
"Siege cones! Siege cones! The cavalry shouted loudly, and rode into the barracks outside the fortress, and in a few minutes saw two horsemen dragging a sharp log to the horse.
"Siege cones! Siege cones! The horsemen pulling the logs shouted loudly, and the soldiers swarmed up as soon as they stopped, untied their ropes, picked up the sharp logs, and pointed them at the Vandal's shield wall in front of them.
"Defeat the enemy! Again in one fell swoop! Soldiers, forward! Advance! Luga raised his arms, and the soldiers roared towards the Vandals' shield wall with huge siege cones, like a huge, sharp spear of the god of war, coming with overwhelming momentum.
"My king, the army is stable!" The Vandal's aristocratic officers who came with Gaisaric reported to Gaisaric, who only nodded slightly, and looked around, the alliance of the Romans and the Alans under the command of Diego, who had betrayed him, was constantly attacking the shield wall of the Vandal soldiers, and the shield wall did not move, and his soldiers were faithfully fulfilling their duties.
"Even if the gods descend from the sky with their chariots, it is impossible to shake our military formation, let alone our loyal soldiers!" The officer had not forgotten to flatter him at this point, but Diego was very useful for such a cold boast, and a smile appeared on his face.
"As long as we stabilize the defensive line and continue to kill and wound the Romans and traitors attacking in front of us, it is impossible for them to compete with us with inferior numbers!" As he spoke, Gaisarik carefully wiped the gold ring on his ring finger, which was inlaid with gems found from all over the province of Africa, and the magnificence of the gems reflected Gaisarik's cold gaze.
"Luga, no matter what you do against Diego, I won't let you succeed again!" Gaisaric clenched his fists tightly, and the steady formation made him relax a lot, and he let out a long sigh of relief as he began to prepare for a counterattack.
"Romans! Roman! As he was bowing his head, he saw another officer running panting, and he was pointed straight behind him, and he hurried back, only to see the Roman soldiers rushing up with siege cones.
Seeing such a huge siege cone, the Vandal soldiers were all frightened, they held shields, trembled, and even more panicked soldiers kept retreating, it seems that no one wants to be brutally attacked by this big guy!
"Boom!"
The siege cone instantly shattered the weak shield in front of him, and the soldier holding the shield slammed into the battering cone, and the sound of the armor shattering and the sound of bones breaking was muffled by the roar of the soldiers around him, and the real pain could only be experienced by the poor worm who had been so badly injured. The poor creature fell to the ground in a strange position, blood and tears sliding down the corners of his eyes.
The Roman and Alanic soldiers pushed the two siege cones to the ground, tearing their shield walls apart in an instant. Patches of Vandal soldiers were knocked to the ground like a crumbling wall, and the Vandal soldiers who had come to close the hole were severely injured because they were greeted by pike darts and flying axes.
"Damn! Damn it! ”
Gaisaric shouted hysterically, he looked at the Aran cavalry in the army that had not yet been disposed of, and the Romans who had forcefully torn apart their defenses, and for a moment the little calculations he had just made were all in vain, and the frustration could be imagined.
The "impregnable" shield wall was made a startling void, which was like a butterfly effect, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and soon, the whole shield wall became crumbling, and the soldiers were disorganized, retreating and fleeing in all directions like a disaster.