"Steady! Steady! ”

A chaotic stream of stone bullets and arrows poured into Ptolemy's Macedonian phalanx of spears, and Egyptian soldiers lay on the ground covered in blood, groaning and lying on the ground, their faces smashed by stone bullets, and their arms everywhere. The commander of the pen www.biquge.info phalanx, Cambinut, knew that this was a conspiracy and plan of the Romans, who wanted to cause chaos within the spear phalanx through the strafing of archers and slingers, and then let their heavy infantry phalanx attack and crush the unformed Macedonian phalanx.

"It's a trick of the enemy! Steady! ”

Cantenus shouted as he ordered the guards to signal his ranged troops and slingers to rush forward again and fire at the Roman slingers in order to reduce their numbers and stabilize the phalanx.

The battlefield was full of blood and fog, and the Egyptian infantry who had been hit in the head fell to the ground one by one, and when the Egyptian archers and slingers rushed forward again, the Roman archers and Balearic slingers withdrew from the Roman phalanx......

This was originally a bloody battle of men's blood, but the battlefield has been carried out until now, but there has not been a little scene of hand-to-hand combat, Appis stood in the phalanx, feeling the subtlety of Caesar's pre-war arrangement, the entire Roman legion front, more than 10,000 people, lined up in a long line with no end in sight, but Caesar insisted on through pre-war drills and arrangements, the timing of the light infantry attack was perfectly mastered, at this moment, when Ptolemy's long-range troops pressed again, the Roman heavy phalanx on all fronts launched a general attack... …

At the same time, the Egyptian heavy bow and arrow chariots on the flanks also began to move, and the horses dragged the heavy chariots, whistling and galloping on the flanks, rolling up the dust. The Romans had a very early understanding of chariots, and it was common for chariots to slaughter gladiators in the arena, and for how to deal with this kind of battlefield killing weapon, legionnaires had a good plan and experience. Caesar deliberately strengthened his flanks before the war, that is, he was waiting for this moment.

The whole battlefield began to be bloody, frontal battlefield, the Roman infantry rushed up after throwing the first round of javelin rain, and on the flanks of the battlefield, Ptolemy's cavalry and chariot troops were rushing to the flank of the Roman heavy infantry phalanx like crazy beasts. Cooperate with the main phalanx to form a fan, open its mouth, flank and devour Caesar's six heavy infantry phalanxes.

Crassus the Younger and Fabius commanded the flanks, and all the soldiers, under the field command of the two commanders, lined up an impermeable shield wall, and the hundred-man detachment of eighty men was expanded to one hundred and twenty men, and the area remained the same, and the iron-clad legionary hoplites huddled together for the most tragic flank harvest of the chariot.

At the same time, they stretched out all the javelin spears, forming an impenetrable array of hedgehogs.

The Egyptian chariots roared past, and their archers were all one of the best archers in a hundred, but when they were close enough to the phalanx of the Roman flank legions, these originally skilled Egyptian archers were completely overwhelmed, and their arrows could not even shoot a Roman infantry in the phalanx, but the commander-in-chief of the Ptolemaic legions, Thutmose, was not present, he was leading the Egyptian desert cavalry to pursue Antony's Roman legionary cavalry, and the chariot flanked the battlefield, These Egyptian archers and charioteers had to use their own judgment to decide whether or not to engage the Roman phalanx in chariots.

Finally, after several attempts to approach the Roman phalanx, the chariot commander gave the order to storm the Roman legion's flank phalanx with all his might, and hundreds of heavily armed archery chariots rushed to the Roman legion's flank at full speed under the command of his commander's death.

The half-curved axle knife reflected a dazzling white light in the warm summer sun, and all the Roman infantry knew that once swept by this chariot in the field, the limbs would be directly absent, and the chariot in the high-speed charge with the sharp axle knife would mercilessly cut off the feet of any warrior, even the body of steel, could not resist this beast-like power.

But at this time, the phalanx on the flanks of the Roman legions was in a state of stacking people and piles of people, and their dense javelins stretched out slightly from the gaps in their shields, waiting for the moment before the chariot rushed to pierce the deadly spearhead into the wheel of the chariot. This tactic was once used by Caesar in Britain to deal with British chariots, but now, with the Chariots of the Egyptians, it is necessary to work harder and be careful, because the Chariots of Egypt and the battlefields of Britain are not of the same grade.

"Steady!"

The centurions roared, and the morale of the legionary infantry rose, and immediately, the wild chariots swept across the entire flank of the battlefield with lightning speed, like two groups of galloping beasts, violently swept through the flanks of the Roman legions, but, as Caesar had expected and rehearsed in advance, a second before the Egyptian chariots swept the entire Roman legion's flank, countless heavy spears protruded from the gaps in the Roman legion's phalanx and stuck into the wheels of the Egyptian chariots of archery and arrows.

The Egyptian chariots that had been marching in a straight line suddenly changed the direction of the charge, and the horses no longer obeyed the command of the riders, and in pain they pulled the chariots and scattered in all directions, and some of them threw themselves directly into the phalanx of the Romans.

The scattered chariots were torn apart, wooden frames, wheels flying over the crowd and smashing into the hapless legionary infantry, while the horses were pierced through the neck with sharp spears, blood splattered everywhere.

The Egyptian archers on the chariot flew out sideways, pierced through the air by countless spears. The scene was bloody, but Caesar's legion veterans were accustomed to wiping the blood from their faces, plunging their short swords into the bodies of the dying Egyptian riders, and then continuing the battle.

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On the frontal battlefield, the 9th and 10th legions were close to Ptolemy's main phalanx again and again, but this was only an illusion, and all Roman officers knew that it was almost impossible to tear through the defense line of the Macedonian phalanx head-on, so when the two sides fought fiercely, the 12th and 14th legions had quietly moved the battle line to the two flanks of the Macedonian phalanx of Ptolemaic after defeating the Egyptian chariots.

Seeing that his main phalanx was about to be surrounded and flanked by the Romans, Ptolemy's reserves also rushed forward to join the battle, protecting the two flanks of the main phalanx.

However, those mercenaries, consisting of slaves, peasants, were no match for the regular Roman legions at all. The Egyptians attacked again and again, but the experienced veterans of the Roman legions also kept these slave armies out of the shield wall again and again, and then, the bloodier horror encroached on Ptolemy's Macedonian phalanx. (To be continued.) )