"Do you know how my warriors and I managed to defend against the onslaught of the distant years when the King of Pontus led an overwhelming peasant army to the Roman positions of only 20,000 legionary infantry?"

Outside the city, the roar of the barbarians rose higher and higher, and inside the city, Cota, the commander of the Roman Seventh Legion, stood in the center of the garrison, fearlessly recounting the days when he fought in the provinces of the Far East. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 While the soldiers were nervously defending the gate that was about to be breached, they also listened carefully to their general's testimonials. Those experiences would perhaps be a solace in the hearts of the Roman soldiers at this moment, when they faced a barbarian enemy who was several times larger than their own.

"The answer is simple, because at that time, we had no way back, we burned our baggage, burned our own ships on the coastline, threw all the spare kettles, food, all into the sea. In that case, I and all the brothers would have no possibility of going back, and to retreat would mean death, and it would mean losing one's life. So, we have no scruples, nothing to fear. ”

Kota cleared his throat at the end, and roared—

"Brothers, you have followed me for so many years, and now, we are all in the same situation of being surrounded by strong enemies, defend this town, glory and wealth will be ours, lose this city defense, and all of us will be slaughtered to pieces by these crazy barbarians outside the city. Follow me, fight, roar, Romans! ”

The Legion Commander's final pre-battle speech ignited the morale of all the Legion infantry in the audience.

"Fight to the death! Fight to the death! ”

The legions roared, roared, they were lions, they were eagles, even if they fought alone, they were not afraid of the siege of the beasts.

Fight, Roman legions!

The gates collapsed with the final hammer of the barbarians, and the next moment thousands of Germanic people pounced on the positions of the Roman legions like mad beasts.

"Steady!"

The centurion was at the forefront, commanding the phalanx of the legions against the first wave of barbarian attacks, and the legionnaires tightly connected their shields like a crimson tortoiseshell, covering all the legionnaires under heavy shields, protecting the legionnaires from the barbarians' frenzied slashing.

In front of the shield, above it, there was soon the sound of barbarians slashing wildly, like a storm, like a storm, and the raindrops of beans smashed madly on the shield of the Roman legions, making a ding-dong knocking sound, which was the sound of the barbarian axemen violently slashing the phalanx of the legion.

"Steady!"

Cota roared again in the rear, and the Roman legionnaires, under the personal command of the legion commander, maintained their undefeated morale, waiting for the best opportunity to counterattack.

The Germanic attacks are getting more and more frenzied, and some bloodthirsty Germans have even climbed above the heads of the legionary phalanx, armed with tomahawks, condescendingly slashing the Roman soldiers below, however, the legion is still enduring it, they are waiting for the last order from Kota, waiting for the centurion to make the last order to assassinate and counterattack.

"Attack!"

Finally, when the density of the Germanic people was large enough, the legion commander Kota gave the final order - to counterattack! Stab them all to death in this narrow area, the narrow gap between the city gate and the phalanx of the legions.

Appis finally learned this trick from the Romans this time, using the strong defensive ability of the phalanx to resist the impact of the barbarians for a while, when these barbarians stack each other to a certain density, and then collectively counterattack, at this time, the barbarians in the front row fall, and the barbarians in the back row will have no space and space to make chopping movements, and even be pushed because of the fall of their comrades, in a chaos, no matter how strong the barbarians are not able to fight back.

"Roar, roar, roar."

The legionnaires shouted in unison, shields in hand, and pushed forward en masse, pushing the Germanic people who had squeezed into the city again. Sharp Roman daggers pierced through the gaps in the shield walls and then retracted. The barbarians were splattered with blood, their bodies were mutilated, and the battle was more brutal than Appis had imagined......

This is war, the real war, much more cruel and bloody than on TV and in movies. The enemy didn't even have a chance to surrender, and was stabbed to death in the pile...... The legion marched almost on the corpses of the Germanic people, and where the phalanx of the legions walked, the corpses of the Germanic warriors were covered with flesh and blood......

The tide of war.

The Germans were pushed to the gates of the city, and thousands were slaughtered in the narrow passages, and these barbarians, who had just been furious, could be seen fleeing, and even the strongest beasts would be terrified, especially when they encountered the hunters.

Appis thought so and followed the phalanx forward.

The veterans in the front row were already out of breath and stained their robes with blood. The recruits in the back began to step up to take the veteran's place, and Appis stepped up as well. In a round of cross-rotation, the Roman infantry in the front row was again energetic, while the veterans of the legion who were replaced seized the time to rest. This is the reason why the Roman legions were able to maintain their vitality during long battles, which Apis had only read about in books before, and now experienced it for himself. As soon as the veterans, covered in blood, arrived in the back row, they sat down weakly, picked up the kettle and gulped down to replenish the water.

In the front row, the sound of a tragic fight sounded again.

Five Roman hundreds, four hundred, finally pushed the line back to the city gates, where the Roman phalanx used heavy javelins as spears, the soldiers in the second and third rows rested their spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row, and the legionnaires in the front row held their shields in front of their chests, forming an impenetrable array of hedgehogs. Each Germanic warrior who rushed forward had to face the thrust of at least two spears at the same time.

Apis remembered the ancient Roman saying about war – we fight our enemies in blood-soaked battlefields until they lose their armor.

The scene is as depicted in the book, the Germanic people's bodies are full of holes, stumps are everywhere, and the broken internal organs are like dead maggots, covering the entire battlefield.

The Germans were still besieging the city, and the archers of the Roman legions were still shooting the archers outside the walls from the towers. Like the main force of the legion at the gates, the other legions did not lose their positions, keeping the barbarian offensive firmly out of the walls.

The tide of the Germanic offensive began to slowly recede, and when viewed from the air, it looked like a flood that was receding. And the red of the Roman legions still stood there, standing in the front row, and Appis could see that the brainless barbarians began to stop blindly rushing at the legion's positions with brute force, but turned to the rear, and began to gradually retreat into the forest under the organization of their own chieftains.