Chapter 368: The rebels' counterattack

"Array! Array! ”

At the sound of the horn of defense, a team of centurions, led by the centurion, divided into two lines.

The rebel armies of Bagauda had been waiting there for a long time, just as Luga had expected, and they had a hand.

"If we attack all, then we will be surrounded by them, so we really have no choice." As he said this, Luga led Andrew and the cavalry guards behind him to the center of the army formation without saying a word, and when he looked around, he saw that all sides were full of Bagunda rebels, and they had lost patience with the siege.

This time, the Bagunda rebels were no longer the 5,000 people who had been beaten away at that time, this time they numbered more than 10,000, and the troops were divided into two routes, and it seemed that they had been prepared at that time. It's just that Luga, who is facing, is unwilling to fall into the net like this.

So they planned not to be so passive, but to take the initiative and fight the legions under Luga's command outside the city.

"Form a regular line of defense, archers are always ready!" Luga raised his cavalry spear and shouted loudly to try to stabilize the morale of the army, as if it was normal training, the remaining soldiers of the two legions formed a semicircle around Luga, the shield spear infantry in the first and second columns, and the shield and sword infantry in the second and third columns, a total of four columns.

"Boom ......"

Then they heard the rumbling footsteps, which shook everyone's hearts. When I looked up, I saw a sea of people, and the soldiers, who had never seen such a big battle, couldn't help but feel a little flustered, and they encouraged each other and supported themselves and their comrades to hold on to the front.

"Archers! Archer! ”

The junior officers shouted, all the archers on the inside of the semicircle, and they raised their bows and arrows at the rushing Bagunda rebels.

"Click......"

With the sound of a bowstring, a huge "dark cloud" rose from the Roman army, and this "dark cloud" spread rapidly, and arrows whistled over the heads of the Roman infantry, accompanied by the sharp whistling sound of metal piercing the air, and fell into the torrent of Bagauda rebels who were rushing straight away, but it was soon swallowed up by the "torrent".

The trebuchets and ballistas also shifted direction, and the sappers turned them to reload in a semicircle.

"Knock knock knock......" Flying stones with fire roared out one by one.

"Boom, boom, boom......" The stone fell to the ground and swallowed the screams of the people, and a stone brought up a blood flower.

"Click-click-......" was another volley of bows and arrows, and countless arrows fell from the sky into the Bagunda rebels, and people continued to fall from arrows, but the soldiers who came up later covered up the fallen and dying people.

"Believe me, this will be the toughest battle we've ever faced since we were founded!" Luga realizes that this is the time when he will be needed as the commander of the army!

He rode up behind the soldier and said loudly to the soldier: "But this will be the time to test your courage, do not be afraid, for you will eventually become accustomed to winning more with less, and today I will be with you, and today, let us take this place!" ”

"Whew! Call! Call! ”

Listening to the commander's words, the soldiers flapped their shields and tried to cheer themselves up with the sound of the crash, but there were too many enemies, and the ground trembled slightly with their advancing steps.

"Steady, don't be afraid, stop them, death to those who fear war! Death to the fears! The Overseers roared over and over again at the back of the formation, the sweat on the hands of the soldiers, a sign that there was no turning back.

"We can't fail, failure means destruction, we must fight, tell yourself that if you are separated from the weapon in your hand, then you will die at the hands of the enemy, don't believe in God's mercy, believe in the weapon in your own hand, at this time, he is your God!"

Listening to Luga's words, the soldiers couldn't help but look down at the weapon in their hands, and secretly prayed in their hearts that he would survive this time.

Blood and death had already made the attacking troops of the Bagauda rebels lose their minds, and they roared in rage, picking up stones scattered on the ground and throwing them at the Roman formation. The soldiers relied on broad shields to resist round after round of stones, and some were even shot in the head by stones because they wanted to see the situation clearly, and the flesh and blood were blurred, and even the injured could only grit their teeth and wipe the blood off their faces, and hold their spears on the shields to hold their posts.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The Bagunda rebels slammed straight into the shields of the Roman formation, roaring in rage and grabbing the shields as desperately as they could to take them back from the soldiers' hands. It is not surprising that the Roman soldiers were shocked by such a crazy move, and they also had a great desire for victory, and if they could not win, then there would be only death. The rebels were made up of slaves who had been sold from all over the province, and their lives were worse than death, and they were finally able to turn over, although the days were tight and hungry, but this was also freedom, and it was better than being reduced to slavery again and trembling under the whip of the nobility.

The frenzied rebels climbed the first line of shields of the Roman army, armed with a variety of weapons, mostly shirtless or in tattered coarse cloth. Even though they were poorly equipped, the Roman soldiers were amazed by their fighting power, they were like red-eyed wild dogs, punching, kicking and even biting when they pounced.

The soldiers of the first column were quickly drowned in the flood of the Ba Gouda rebels, and the second column had already scuffled with the Ba Gouda rebels, and they had to be pessimistic about the development of such shields and spears, although the front was very powerful, but in the face of such a crazy enemy, it seemed that they could not stop their attack at all.

"The third array, go forward and swap with the second array!" Luga also saw the situation in front of him, he stood on the benefit, he saw everything that was happening around him, and he immediately made a deployment, with the soldiers with short arms in front, so that he could be evenly matched with the enemy in an instant when the first array was broken.

The soldiers in the Roman army were hurriedly swapping positions, but Luga knew that this was far from enough, so he beckoned Andrew and said: "Andrew, let the soldiers of the fourth array divide into two ways, you call the cavalry to follow behind me, we can't just tug of war with this mob, we must come up with a feasible plan to annihilate the enemy in large numbers so that we can suppress the arrogance of this group of rebels!" ”

Listening to Luga's words, Andrew nodded heavily, and then went to summon the Overseers of the Fourth Array and began to give Luga's orders.

"Archers back off!" Luga exclaimed, "Retreat all the way to the high ground behind, where you have no use!" ”

"Next, it's up to me!" Luga thought to herself.