34. Forest ambush
The Narvian offensive was like a tidal wave, wave after wave, after the death of a group of warriors, the warriors behind followed by a rush of soldiers, as if they were a group of beasts that knew no fear, no pain, brainless roars, crazy slashing, the veterans of the Roman legions did not even have time to take over the rotation of the new recruits behind, they had to face round after round of barbarian ferocious charges. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The whole battlefield, a sea of blood, the limbs and internal organs of the barbarians flowed all over the ground, and the strong smell of blood even attracted carrion-eating birds a few miles away, who circled in the air, waiting for the legion to finish slaughtering, and then pecked at the corpses and internal organs of those barbarians.
However, in the melee, the barbarians' physical strength gradually could not support it, because the place where Caesar chose to camp happened to be a gentle slope, a gentle slope on the side of the river beach. Although the Narvi suddenly appeared and attacked the Roman legions that were camping, the Roman legions, under the urgent command of Caesar, did not appear in confusion, but urgently lined up to resist the first wave of barbarian soldiers.
The legion built a defensive line on the gentle slope, condescending, occupying a favorable position, coupled with the long-term and hard physical training of the legion infantry, two hours later, the physical strength of the Narvi began to decline, but the legion was still standing in place with vitality, and every time the Narvi offensive weakened, the legion phalanx had time to rotate, and the recruits in the rear were replaced by the veterans who were out of breath in the front, taking turns to rest and recover, while also exercising the combat effectiveness of the recruits and increasing their combat experience.
"Now, counterattack!"
Rabbi Ayrus shouted and ordered the Tenth Legion to begin a counterattack. On the left flank, the barbarian offensive had been defused, and the Ninth and Tenth Legions abandoned the phalanx formation and rushed out in one go, chasing down the defeated Narvi who had fled.
Soon, in the center, the Sixth and Eleventh Legions, led by Crassus the Younger and Fabius, also routed the forces of the Narvians and began to pursue.
However, the victorious pursuit on the left flank and in the center also changed the situation on the battlefield at once, and more than 10,000 legionary infantry slaughtered out, and while pursuing the barbarian deserters, they also gave up their positions. Seeing that the position of the Roman legion in the center was vacated, the leader of the Narvites, Piersonec, commanded his army to cut diagonally into the center and surround the Roman Seventh and Eighth Legions, which were flanking the right flank. At the same time, the barbarian army also slaughtered the baggage troops of the Roman legions in the rear. The situation was even worse than it had been before the centre and the left flank had yet to win.
"Damn, these two brutes are only chasing down those brutes."
Seeing that the Ninth and Tenth Legions came out one after another, vacating their positions without reservation, and becoming a natural location for barbarians to flank the right flank of the Roman legions, Caesar couldn't help but burst into foul language, scolding his right-hand men, Rabbi Eros and Little Crassus are Caesar's most important young officers, especially Rabbi Aerus, who is still close friends with Caesar, but they still lack experience when commanding battles.
"Anthony, take the rest of the cavalry and follow me to support the right flank."
Caesar rode on a tall white war horse and yelled at Anthony in the chaos of the battlefield. A Celtic arrow nearly hit his helmet. But Caesar was undaunted, his eyes were fixed on the most critical position of the legion, and he rode over.
Stray arrows and stone projectiles continued to rain on the Roman legions on the right flank, which were struggling to resist, and the 12,000 infantry of the two legions were constantly reduced by a third under the onslaught of the main Narvian forces. And the dead and wounded continued, and the barbarians had even climbed on top of the legion's siege phalanx, slashing the Roman soldiers under the shields from above. Blood splattered continuously, staining the place where the two armies were fighting with a thick layer of blood.
"Hold on!"
Caesar galloped to the right flank on horseback and, escorted by Antony, dismounted and leaped into the positions of the Seventh and Eighth Legions. There, the legion had been almost crowded by the barbarians and had no room to move, and the soldiers were almost shoulder to shoulder, with the shield of the latter soldier against the back of the previous soldier, and there was no room for assassination. Coupled with the loss of overhead and the continuous fall of rubble, wounding the faces of Roman soldiers, stone bullets even smashed through helmets, and the infantry of the legions continued to fall, and the situation on the field of the seventh and eighth legions was in danger of collapsing at any time.
However, Caesar himself came, took the shield of one of the soldiers, and stood with the soldiers......
"Quintus, Batas, Cromius, Oscar......"
In the midst of the chaos, Caesar shouted the names of every living centurion in the Seventh Legion, and the voice of the Roman legion commander was so loud that his voice even drowned out the roar of the barbarians, and spread through the legions at great speed.
"Caesar? Julius? Caesar? ”
The soldiers on the periphery were still fighting, but the soldiers in the inner circle focused all their eyes on this Roman man in a big red cloak, he was the commander of the Roman legions, the commander-in-chief of the legions - Julius? Caesar.
People couldn't understand the mood of these low-ranking centurions when Caesar stood with each of the low-ranking centurions and called them by name, only that at this moment, all the legionary infantry and centurions broke out. They saw a corps commander and commander-in-chief who endured hardships with the soldiers, took risks together, fought with the soldiers, and fought at the forefront of the soldiers.
"For Caesar! For Rome! ”
Centurion Oscar roared angrily, and soon, more living centurions also shouted, commanding the surviving soldiers of his hundred-man team with extremely high morale to squeeze the enemy back together. The morale of the legion was immediately burned to the extreme.
Gradually, the encircled and combined Seventh Legion began to move, and each legionary infantry used all their strength to push the barbarians outward, and the entire Roman legion, like a flower bud that has been squeezed and bloomed, spreads out. In this way, the legion had room to move, Caesar stood in the crowd as always, standing in the most dangerous front line, fighting with the soldiers, many Roman soldiers may only have one chance in their lives to stand with their commander-in-chief to fight, at this moment, the morale of the legion infantry is extremely high, like an awakened lion, a solid barrier composed of a large red shield, a short sword constantly piercing out of the gaps between the barriers, and the Seventh Legion is constantly fighting back against the barbarian troops who come to besiege with extremely efficient assassination.
However, after arranging the Seventh Legion, Caesar did not let go of the task of commander-in-chief, and he struggled to squeeze to the Eighth Legion under the protection of Antony, although the pressure there was not as great as the Seventh Legion, but the situation was also very dangerous, there were more and more barbarians, they seemed to find that the Roman legion commander was in it, desperately squeezed into the legion, axes, long swords smashed down on the head and face, and the legionary infantry struggled to use large shields to protect their heads and shoulders from being hit by the barbarians' weapons.