A week later, Abyss's legion met Octavian's large army in Spain, and although both sides knew that there were tens of thousands of allied troops on the opposite side, Agrippa, like Abys, chose a cautious approach to combat, and did not send the main phalanx to fight at first, but first let the allies of the various barbarian tribes raid the opponent's lone squad. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The scouts engaged in several exchanges in the open space between the camps.

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In these local battlefields, the bloodthirsty and savage Germanic auxiliaries demonstrated their incomparably tenacious fighting power.

After the cavalry of both sides charged, they began to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and the Germanic cavalry after dismounting was simply bloodthirsty madmen. Armed with improvised spears and short swords given to them by the Roman legions, they engaged in bloody hand-to-hand combat with the local tribal cavalry of Spain.

Mandranus, the leader of the Germanic cavalry, dismounted, threw his spear, and shot the oncoming Iberian cavalry off his horse, quickly dodging the charge of the horse. Then, looking for the spear that had fallen from the ground, he clenched the spear with both hands, and attached it to a Spanish barbarian cavalryman who was fighting on horseback, and with another swoop, the thick spear stabbed into the neck of the war horse, and the tall war horse suddenly neighed, and blood gushed out.

The cavalry on the horse did not have time to jump off the horse, and was crushed under the whole horse. The internal organs were immediately crushed.

Then, the raging Germanic men clenched their spears and stabbed the Spanish cavalry in the cheek. Broken faces, countless blood splatters.

These local tribes in Spain have never seen such terrifying warriors. Previously, they fought against the Gauls and later, against the Romans, but never against the Germanic people of the north.

On the meadow hills, a fleeing Iberian cavalryman was sweating profusely and driving his horse up the slope and fleeing from the other side. Unexpectedly, a group of Germanic people had already stood on the high ground in advance, and then, countless spears struck at the face, shooting the hapless tribal cavalry into a sieve, and the horses neighed and fell, and the Iberian cavalry under them was covered with rough spears, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

In every corner of this skirmish, this bloody battle was staged, and the Germans taught the Iberians what it means to fight. A Spanish warrior rushed forward in anger and leaped high to plunge his spear into the Germanic warrior's body, but was cut down by a Germanic man covered in paint with a two-handed axe. The sharp two-handed heavy axe almost cut off the abdomen of the Iberian cavalry, and after falling to the ground, the Germanic cavalry clenched the axe, and while the Iberians were struggling in agony, the axe was brutally cut off, cutting off the arms of the Iberian cavalry on the ground, and blood spilled all over the faces of the Germanic warriors. Like the devil, they defeated the Iberian cavalry, which numbered thousands of men, and fled.

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"The tribal cavalry of two thousand men was defeated by the Germanic cavalry of only five hundred, and there is still the face to flee back?"

That night, the defeated Iberian cavalry fled to Agrippa's base camp. Although he had never thought of taking advantage of the cavalry battle, such a crushing defeat still made Agrippa angry. The group came back worse than they didn't, and their defeat undoubtedly fueled the regular army's suspicion that the army of Abys, and the soldiers would think that it was a terrible army of hell that was going to fight them. Through the feedback of these defeated soldiers.

"It's a bunch of beasts on horseback, and I can barely make out their faces!"

The defeated leader of the Iberian Lukagle cried out, as if he wanted to avenge himself. In fact, it was true that they could not see the faces of the Germanic people, the barbarians who had been hunting in the forests for a long time, and who were accustomed and adept at smearing all kinds of paints on their bodies and faces to conceal their whereabouts, which had almost become their tradition, and which had caused Abyss to conquer them, and now this group of people had become a problem for the local tribes of Spain and a great headache for Agrippa.

"How many people have been lost?"

Agrippa didn't have the patience to listen to the patriarch report everything, so he asked directly about the final result.

"More than 500 people ......"

"Less than a quarter of your troops were killed in battle, and you fled like this?"

Agrippa was a little annoyed and angry when he heard this, but he was a little helpless. In his memory, Octavian had told Caesar about the Gallic Wars, when the 5,000 Gauls were unable to defeat the 500 Germanic cavalry, and now the defeat of these Iberian tribes seemed to be expected.

"In fact, it was not I who ordered the retreat, my people, the cavalry of other tribes, did not listen to the command at all, they were already panicked by the slaughter of these beasts, in fact, only half of them escaped back, and the rest of the group did not know where to disperse......"

Chief Lukagarh sighed.

And Agrippa suddenly seemed to understand why Abyss was attacking Spain in late summer and early autumn. Because this group of northern barbarians lived in relatively cold forest areas for many years, if Abyss had moved south in the middle of summer, these Germanic people would have been unable to adapt to the hot climate, and even lost their combat effectiveness. And now, summer is coming to an end, and the temperatures are relatively cool, and for these Germanic peoples, the climate is like their summer. It won't make them feel uncomfortable in the slightest.

After thinking about this, Agrippa knew that if he wanted to go to war with Abys, he would have to wait until the summer. The hotter the season, the better. After all, the Germanic cavalry was a force to be reckoned with.

"I know, you go down first, take your people, and go back to the field hospital. Damn, tomorrow, maybe I'm going to pay the Barbarians with the Flying Serpent Legion. ”

Agrippa gritted his teeth.

The next day, Octavian's Flying Serpent Legion, formerly Caesar's Fifth Legion, began its sortie.

These legion veterans, on Agrippa's orders, tried to cut off the water source upstream of the Abyss camp, and each soldier carried the tools of digging fortifications and marched upstream, under the protection of the Allied cavalry. Since the upper reaches of the river were mountainous and could not be deployed by large forces, after the cavalry told Abys, Abyss also decisively sent a group of elite Roman infantry to stop Agrippa's soldiers from destroying the water source.

In the evening of the same day, two Roman legions and four hundred-man teams fought fiercely on the mountain. The narrow mountain pass, with the two armies in close combat, was the first time that Abys's Germanic legions had engaged Octavian's veteran legions. Just like the fierce battle between the Gallic legion trained by Caesar and the eastern legion of Geneus Pompey, both sides were experienced veterans, neatly formed, and the soldiers held their large shields to their chests, and while defending closely, they counterattacked and assassinated each other with short swords......

On the long and narrow mountain road, there was a crisp sound of weapons colliding......