The barbarian army ran past the scorpion bolts tied with red ropes, and one of them even kicked down the ones tied with red strings, which disappeared into the chaotic footsteps of the barbarian charging ranks like a landmark in the crowd.

"It's time to get to the position, shoot! Shoot! ”

The officers shouted orders, and the soldiers worked on their scorpion crossbows and trebuchets in order.

"Click..."

The snapping of bowstrings and instruments sounded, and countless crossbows fell like stones dripping on the tumbling sea in the dense ranks of barbarians on the opposite side.

The hapless man was crucified to the ground, and blood flowed down the flesh-torn bolts and watered the ground below, though it had long since become barren to withered weeds.

The barbarians did not stop their attack at these insignificant casualties, they did not have time to mourn the dead, but roared angrily, and the so-called grief turned into strength to move on.

The barbarian army was getting closer and closer, and their overwhelming momentum made the Roman soldiers in the front row break out in a cold sweat.

"Don't have the idea of retreating, and don't be intimidated by the enemy's momentum!" Their centurions reminded them, "Because you have the idea of running away and act, you will be the first target for the archers in the rear!" ”

"Archers! Archers ready! ”

Seeing the barbarian army in front of them running to a distance of less than eighty meters from the Roman army, the archers raised their bows above their heads at the orders of the officers.

"Shoot! Shoot them! ”

"Click..."

There was a snap of bowstrings, and hundreds of arrows flew into the air and swooped down on the oncoming barbarian army.

Why let the barbarians with shields be at the forefront, in order to wait for this moment!

"Dangdang..."

The rain of arrows landed on the barbarian's erected shield and bounced off, and the archers hired by Aetius had no effect on it.

"Launch! Launch! ”

The scorpion crossbow was finally ready to be reloaded for the second time, and seeing that the two armies were about to fight, everyone was so impatient.

A dozen crossbow bolts approached the hapless soldiers, lining them in a string.

Less than fifty meters, the traps that littered the ground became the worst nightmare of the barbarians, and people kept falling into the traps in their path, and then their feet were pierced and twisted by the sharp sticks and stones inside.

But the roar of the charge still drowned out the screams of the wounded, and it only meant that they could slow down a little so that the archers could shoot them one more round, and it could not stop the barbarians from attacking.

Beyond the trap area, there are more spiked obstacles in front of you.

By this time they were less than twenty meters from the soldiers at the very front of the Roman formation, and the angry roar of the barbarians was deafening, and they increased their speed and raised their axes.

"Defense!"

The battle-hardened centurion had fought the barbarians several times, and he was familiar with such a barbarian, so he realized the danger and hurriedly called the soldiers behind him.

But as soon as he finished speaking, countless axes came at him, tearing apart the wooden shield, and even flew in through the gap of the oval shield, tearing a terrible wound on the flesh of the soldier facing the vacancy.

The wounded fell, their screams far less than a tenth of the barbarians' roars, and the officers who were busy meeting them had no time to care about their safety.

Taking advantage of the gap in the Roman defenses, the barbarian soldiers in the first row climbed over the obstacles set up along the way.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The barbarian, who had drawn his battle axe again, crashed into the shield wall, and the force of the impact made the entire centurion phalanx take a step back. Fortunately, more than 100 people in the four-layer military formation broke down this impact force in time, but the real battle had just begun.

The first barbarians to attack amounted to 3,000 men, while the Roman soldiers who came to defend were only a little more than 1,000, so the barbarians began to outflank the 1,000 men while attacking the front of the Romans.

"Reinforcements, reinforcements! Thyus. Aetius shouted to Theris: "The soldiers of the first front cannot be easily repulsed, they must stabilize the line and buy time for reinforcements!" ”

"I know what to do, Captain Soldier!" Theseus shouted, and set out with his cavalry guarding, followed closely by three hundred heavily armed infantry with shields and spears.

Aetius left himself with seven hundred men, the only thing he could do to save his life, and he ordered them to form a second line of defense, in the middle of two large watchtowers.

There were a few archers in the watchtower, but fortunately they had enough arrows to deal blows on the enemy on both sides of the battle. Although the arrows bounced off their helmets and shields, as soon as someone fell from an arrow, more people would pay attention to them and not be able to concentrate on the fight.

The 3,000 barbarian soldiers "bited" the 1,000 people like a huge open blood basin, and the next thing was to crush them and then "chew" them carefully.

The Roman soldiers who struggled in it relied on their shields to hold back the barbarians in front of them. The barbarian soldiers squeezed through the wall of their shields, and in hand-to-hand combat the spears were far less effective than the short hand axes.

Axes were raised, and one Roman soldier after another fell in a pool of blood with his face covered in blood. The casualties took a toll on the morale of the Roman soldiers, and the desire to fight was far overshadowed by the desire to escape.

"Quick, divide into two parts, one hundred and fifty people on the left and right, block them! Block them! "Fifty meters behind the battlefield, Terus commanded the infantry behind him, asking them to speed up to support the army in front.

The three hundred men then split into two parts, and they very bravely charged at the barbarian coalition, desperate to stop them.

It is brave but it is difficult to resist the explanation of numbers, and besides, the barbarians do not have a mere three thousand.

The follow-up armies of the barbarian coalition swarmed in a trap that had already been eliminated by the flesh, and they targeted the fortresses on either side of the Roman army.

A large number of barbarian coalition troops surrounded these two towers, and the archers in them had already been in disarray when they saw such a large battle.

The second group of barbarians included some of the able-bodied, armed with axes and slashing at the wood that supported the watchtower.

"Heh! Huh..."

The sound of the wood breaking caused the pillars of the watchtower to snap, and the whole watchtower turned on its side, and the archers on it fell from the tower screaming, and the broken wood became their grave.

"Damn it! Damn it! ”

It may be that Aetius, who never expected the barbarians to rush the line of defense at all costs, realized that there was a major strategic mistake due to the length of the line, and became angry.

The facts in front of him made him realize that he could no longer stay here! He was pondering and calling back Theseus to retreat to Ludinand, but the army had not yet collapsed, he was just thinking about the arrival of reinforcements, and there was only this turning point at the moment.

"The barbarians thought that after breaking through the North Rhine line, the Roman lands would no longer have a line to stop them, and yes, it would be vulnerable." Luga explained to Odyss: "In fact, they have forgotten that this is no longer the Rome of decades ago, and when they want to break through all resistance, they do not know that they will be mired in war!" And the further you go, the closer you are to destruction. ”

"I don't know why Your Excellency came to such a conclusion." Odyss's mind was full of doubts, because whether it was the former Alans or the Viesgoths, as long as they set foot in Rome, they were all like fish in water. How did you meet such a huge super army now, you Flavis. Luga went so far as to claim that he would solve the problem. "I just want to make sure you're not bragging!" Odysses said with a smile.

"Of course, otherwise, I wouldn't have asked Your Excellency to come from thousands of miles as a witness!" Luga said, pointing around and then said to Odyss: "Look, as long as there is a disaster, there will be war, and the best way to encounter a disaster since ancient times is to deal with the population of the land. ”

"So it's going to be a killing, and I'm going to be a witness to this war?"

"Of course, I don't know what color the wheat produces from the land watered with blood!" Luga smiled, but his smile was chilling under the sun.