Under the impact of the fierce shield, the barbarian in front of him snorted, his front teeth and nose bones were broken, and he fell in pain, however, Apis did not give him a chance to stand up again, the sharp Roman short sword pierced mercilessly, the barbarian's face was suddenly shattered, a large amount of blood sprayed from the broken face, every battle was bloody and cruel, and all the legion veterans around him were blood-stained armor. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

From time to time, barbarians climbed on top of the "tortoiseshell array", and their tendons were cut by sharp short swords, and they fell with painful screams, becoming the target of the legion's infantry.

However, more barbarians pounced, and like an inexhaustible pack of wolves, they continued to squeeze the weak Roman phalanx with their numerical superiority.

At this time, the execution in front of them was still continuing, and half of the soldiers of the grain convoy had been slaughtered, and only six legionnaires were still trembling under the butcher's knives of the barbarians. Their eyes looked at the Roman squad that was rescuing them not far away, wandering between antidespair and despair, for the veteran squad led by Apis was no longer able to move, and a large number of British barbarian warriors surrounded them.

"Centurion, we must retreat, we can't go any further!"

Sekras shouted, his sword already stained with the blood of the barbarians, and even some of the broken entrails were still stuck to it. It smelled of blood.

"Hold on a little longer, I'm sure you can do it!"

A spear pierced through a crack in the shield wall and grazed Appis's shoulder. The situation on the battlefield was already precarious, this Roman squad was not the God of War, just some experienced legion veterans, just mortals, and five legion infantry had already died under the barbarian's mad dog-like slashing. However, the blood sacrifice of the Britons to the Roman soldiers was still going on, and Apis couldn't watch them fall one by one, and he was about to reach his goal!

"Hold on, brothers!"

The battle was getting bloodier and the squad was under more pressure, and Appis shouted.

A Celtic sword stabbed through the shield wall and stabbed a legion veteran in the shoulder, who immediately lost his combat effectiveness, his left arm hanging weakly, and was escorted to the inside of the phalanx by his companions as he barely held his body from falling. More than thirty brothers around him covered him.

The sky was cloudy, and the drizzle continued to fall, until another scream rang out from the front, and another Roman infantry of the grain convoy had had his wrist severed with a dagger by the chief of the Sekrani tribe.

But the legion veterans of the squad had exhausted all their strength, and they still couldn't move forward half a step.

"Jupiter is above, there are too many barbarians, we can't go any further, Appis!"

Finally, Seklas also shouted, they had done their best in this rescue operation, but there were too many barbarians, too vicious. If he doesn't retreat, the whole squad may be in danger of annihilation, Sekras doesn't want to lose the lives of these veterans, these are the elite veterans of the Eagle Banner Brigade of the Tenth Legion, each soldier has at least five years of combat experience, and every death is a great loss to the legion, at the same time, out of emotional considerations, Sekras and they are both brothers born and died, don't lose these brothers for the sake of a few recruits of the food conscription team.

……

"Retreat!"

Finally, under the constant siege of the British, Apis had no choice but to blow the order to retreat. The front team of the phalanx was responsible for the rear, and the rear team was responsible for the breakthrough and began to try to retreat.

Ahead, the soldiers of the food convoy screamed one after another, and the British's previous act of cutting their throats turned into an abuse of prisoners of war, and they broke the tendons and hamstrings of the Roman soldiers, causing the Roman soldiers to let out screams and wails of pain, forcing Apis to move on and rescue his companions......

It felt so uncomfortable that it was as if I had betrayed them. The twelve legions of the Levy Infantry had been sent out by Apis a week earlier, and yet, when a week later they were captured and tortured by the barbarians, they were unable to save them themselves, and the feeling was like a steel needle, piercing Appis's heart deeply. The power of mortals is so limited, even if he is called the son of the gods, but Apis deeply feels that he is a mortal, a real mortal, in such a cruel environment, he has no choice. And as a commander of a brigade, any mistake in decision-making may lead to the death of more than a dozen or twenty people.

The pressure on the commander's shoulders was deeply felt by Appis at this moment.

……

"Appis, Apis is retreating, send two hundred-man teams, pick them up and enter the camp!"

Outside the wooden wall of the camp, Appis led dozens of legion veterans to retreat with difficulty, away from the place where the prisoners of war were tortured and killed, and on the wooden wall of the camp in the rear, Dennis saw this scene and immediately sent the corresponding troops. Because the barbarians had completely besieged Appis's location, it seemed that these veterans could not return to the camp smoothly by their own strength.

In front, more than 30 legion veterans led by Apis were fighting bloodily, and in the rear, two Roman centurions under the command of another senior centurion, Tyrentas, rushed nervously and orderly towards Apis's location.

"Attack, for Rome!"

In the rain, with a roar of rage from Tyrantas, the two Roman hundreds, formed a traditional three-column line, approaching the Britons who were still on the periphery of Appis.

It all ended in a bloody and savage assassination, and the barbarians rushed up to the two Roman hundreds, who came to the rescue of Appis, but the well-trained legionary infantry, under the cover of shield daggers, held off the barbarian soldiers' onslaught like a wave.

It wasn't until the rescue soldiers at the front stabbed to death the last dozen barbarian soldiers standing between them and Apis that the thrilling rescue operation was successfully completed.

“****”

The barbarian soldier in front of him was pierced through the abdomen with a sword, and the blood spread a thick layer on Appis's body, and Apis scolded angrily. Behind the squad, the twelve Roman soldiers of the ration squad had all been executed, their entrails pulled out alive and then taken by vicious dogs. The barbarians poured their blood on their heads, and the soldiers stuck out their tongues like wild beasts to lick* the blood that was still warm!

The atmosphere of desolation and misery suddenly echoed above the Roman military camp.

……

"You don't have to blame yourself, you've done your best. There are so many barbarians that we can't break through that human wall. ”

Sekras didn't have time to wash off the blood on his body, so he comforted him with concern.

"We just need to go a little further, even a little more, and they will be saved!"

"At that little distance, at least five or six hundred barbarians gathered, we can't get through. Do not blame yourself, centurion, you did it, and your courage once again admirs us. ”

Seklas tried his best to comfort Appis, but Apis also knew that this was only a word of comfort, and twelve more lives were lost in front of his eyes, and all because of his own mistakes and carelessness. In the end, he didn't save them. The army of the British tribes was still shouting loudly outside the camp, but inside the tent, there were gathered heavy legionary infantry, their eyes like survivors floating in the ocean, waiting for their navigator to give a way to survive.

Indeed, in the vast sea of barbarians, when it was dark, people were surprised to find that the tribal army they saw during the day was only a small part of this barbarian army, and at night, the whole forest was even lit with a little spark, which was evidence that countless barbarian armies stayed in the forest.