6. The fall of the Egyptian chariot
"Now, follow me and stay in formation!"
The Egyptian chariots rushed into the battlefield frantically, and at this time, the Roman legionnaires, who had long been on standby, under the leadership of the cavalry commander Maximus, also rushed out from their positions. They have endured it for so long, just for this moment.
Three thousand legionary cavalry and four hundred Egyptian chariots charged head-on, looking like a "dragon and tiger fight". Layers of yellowish dust rose up on the Gobi Plain. As the two armies approached, this battle between cavalry and chariots became more and more exciting.
However, just before the two armies were about to fight together, the cavalry of the Roman legions, led by the commander Maximus, made a powerful sharp turn, and the three thousand legionary cavalry turned around at the moment before rushing towards the enemy's chariots, forming two divergent streams, directly bypassing the imposing Egyptian convoy!
"What are they going to do!"
The commander of the Egyptian chariot was stunned, and like a grizzly bear descending from the mountain to prey, they pounced on their opponents head-on, but ate a face of loess.
The whole convoy crashed head-on into the flying yellow sand, and when they broke out of the dust, they found that the Roman cavalry had appeared directly behind them.
It turned out that this was a tactic developed by Apis before the battle, so that the cavalry led by Maximus would not go head-to-head with the Egyptian chariots, which would cause heavy casualties. Instead, they took advantage of the mobility of the cavalry, went around the rear of the enemy's chariots, and then launched a surprise attack. Cavalry was prone to U-turns, but chariots were not easy to turn around, and when cavalry attacked from behind, these Egyptian chariots lost the ability to resist, and no rider could cope with an attack from the rear.
After bypassing the battlefield troops of Cleopatra, Maximus led the Germanic cavalry and Gallic cavalry to launch a general attack from the rear of the Egyptian chariots. Chase these Egyptian chariots galloping across the gravel flats.
"Nope! Turn around! Turn around! ”
The commander of the Egyptian chariot shouted, but their chariot turned slowly, after all, two horses pulled one chariot together, and the carriage behind it might have just begun to turn after the two horses turned.
However, the Germanic legionary cavalry of Appis did not give such time to the opponent.
"For Rome!"
Maximus shouted to take the lead and lead the charge. Three thousand legions of iron cavalry swept across the gravel field, and spears and spears pierced from the rear of the Egyptian riders.
The most terrifying and deadly axle knife of the chariot has become a useless ornament at this moment, and even after the rider falls, it is cut in two by the axle knife on his own chariot...... Dense figures passed by the Egyptian chariots, and the spears and swords of the Roman legionnaires pierced the riders who drove the chariots, and some of them were even repeatedly assassinated until they were covered with the spears of the Germanic cavalry. The bleeding did not stop.
But the whole battlefield was so large that neither the queen nor her generals knew what was happening on the flanks, and the Egyptian cavalry was still on the other side, trying to storm the Roman phalanx on the flanks. However, it was stopped by another cavalry force of Appis. Caught in a bitter battle.
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"Attack, brothers, trample these reptiles under your feet!"
On the frontal battlefield, Klein roared and led the Gallic legions to assault, first tearing apart the Egyptian army's defenses. The Nile heavy axemen and sword and shield infantry could not stop the savage and brutal battle of the Roman soldiers, and they were defeated in a feast of blood.
The Gallic Legion was like a sword stuck in the Egyptian army, approaching the heart of the Egyptian army, and the elder Crane knocked down an Egyptian soldier with his large shield, and when the Egyptian soldier was about to get up, the short sword was already plunged into his heart, and blood splashed Klein's face. When another Egyptian sword and shield soldier rushed over, Crane, who was crouching, took advantage of the situation to overturn him, and then, holding the short sword behind him, pierced the sword and shield militiaman's face. In the blur of flesh and blood, the sharp Roman short sword was already stained with the blood of the enemy, as well as the broken flesh.
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"Brothers, charge after me! Today, what we do will forever go down in history! ”
On the flanks, the Germanic cavalry had completely killed the Egyptian chariot troops, and at this moment, under the leadership of Maximus, the iron cavalry of the three thousand legions was stepping on a dense pace, like a black tide, rushing towards the flank of the Egyptian army.
The panic and screams of the Egyptian infantry could not stop the Germanic cavalry from trampling on them, and the red-eyed Germanic cavalry blindfolded their horses, and then the horses and riders savagely crashed into the crowd. This was no ordinary charge, the Germanic cavalry charged and trampled and caused chaos within the Egyptian army, and many Egyptian soldiers began to run wildly and flee the battlefield, but the more they fled for their lives in such a panic, the more they could not escape.
Panic provokes rout, which in turn provokes trampling...... In the chaos, many Egyptian infantry were not hacked to death by the Germanic cavalry, nor were they knocked down to death by their horses, but were pushed down by their own companions and trampled to death by the crowd......
By the time the news of the defeat of the chariot troops reached Cleopatra, it was already a matter of Roman time, and by this time, Appis's Germanic cavalry had already trampled the flanks of the Egyptian army.
The horses gasped and neighed, the fleeing crowd was chaotic, and in front of them, the trampled Egyptian infantry piled up an entire layer. Many have been blurred in their flesh. There were also some people who fell to the ground and screamed, but no one rescued them, and their bodies were trampled alive until they were trampled beyond recognition and died in agony.
In the end, Klein led 2,000 elite veterans of the legion to cut through the diagonal rear of the Egyptian phalanx, and the spear phalanx collapsed under the combined blow of the Roman short sword and the great shield.
The surrendered soldiers made up more than half of the entire phalanx, and in the face of death, everyone was afraid.
When the huge army collapsed, Cleopatra stood at the rear of the legion, looking at the scene in front of him, and his heart was like cold water. Her last card was played, and in this game, she was completely defeated by Appis. At this time, Cleopatra suddenly remembered Mark Antony, this man, maybe not smart enough, not generous enough, not broad-minded enough, not long-term enough, but he really loved himself, even if this love was mixed with political use, but it was much purer than Caesar and Appis. Like Antony, Cleopatra, in his last days, reminisced about the years he and Antony had spent together, happy and happy, in Alexandria's palace, raising two children, the sun shining through the windows, they laughed and were intimate......