54. Bloody battle
"Follow me, stay in formation!"
In the early morning, on the misty Ticulas Boulevard, when a large number of Pompey's allied forces rushed out of the grove, Appis's soldiers were clearly ready for battle. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Everyone almost immediately erected their shields and drew their short swords, and the sound of hundreds of Roman short swords rubbing against their scabbards in the early summer morning mist could be heard, and the shield wall was organized in a short time.
Since the outbreak of the civil war, the most tragic war is about to begin.
Relying on the large number of his army, Sextus commanded his cavalry to charge down from the hillside. At the same time, ten brigades led by Rabienus instantly surrounded the pitiful half of Appis's legions.
In the entire valley, countless manic shouts and killings were heard in an instant.
"Brothers, welcome our old enemy, today, is the day of the battle on the battlefield of Spain!"
Appis shouted from the crowd. Dozens of elite veterans beside him immediately stacked their shields, and the thick shield wall protected their commanders from enemy arrows and spears.
At the same time, in the army, the drummers played the standard Roman military music of the "Apis" for the first time. The standard rock music from the future society is like a demonic voice, inspiring the blood of the whole regiment of soldiers.
In the next second, the Pompey coalition army on the periphery stepped forward and sent a heavy javelin like a storm and smashed into the phalanx of the legion where Appis was.
The 10th Legion, under the orderly command of the centurion and the corps commander, set up a neat "tortoiseshell array". All the spears and arrows were suddenly blocked out of the shield wall, and the legionnaires hiding in the shield wall could clearly hear the clanging sound of the throwing weapons hitting the shield above.
Some of the more powerful heavy javelins even pierced the large square shields of the legionnaires, nailing the soldiers' wrists to the wooden shields.
However, there was no time left to treat the wounded, and in the next second, hundreds of Pompey's legion infantry crashed into the Gallic Tenth Army led by Appis from all sides.
Like a pack of hungry wolves frantically pounced around a male lion, Sextus hired local Spanish savages, along with legionnaires, to flock to the Tenth Legion's defenses.
Countless short swords, axes, and hammers struck outside the shield wall, back and forth, making a dull sound of weapons clashing.
In the air, countless hunting spears and arrows flew each other.
From time to time, soldiers fell on the terrifying and bloody battlefield, their armor was shattered, their skin was torn apart, scarlet blood and viscous internal organs continued to flow out, and the entire battlefield was stained with a strong smell of blood in just a few minutes.
With a whistle in his mouth, a heavy shield in one hand and a short sword in the other, Apis, under the protection of the veterans, squeezed to the front and fought with all the soldiers of the Tenth Legion.
A barbarian's hammer fell from above, and Appis instinctively raised his shield to block, and the next second, the hammer struck the wooden shield with a dull sound. At the same time, the splashed dust was stained with a faint blood mist. Feeling the heat surging in his body, Apis stabilized his body, and the short sword stabbed out from under his ribs, but the barbarian was also familiar with the tactics of the Romans, and seemed to be ready to block, and the hammer suddenly fell down. The Roman dagger was blocked diagonally by the hilt of the hammer. However, Appis then slammed his shield forward. The barbarian soldier didn't have time to make a parry and was knocked into the back row, and soon, another barbarian rushed up, only to be pierced in the chest by a spear flying from the phalanx.
Blood rushed and immediately stained Appis's eagle helmet. Dyed the originally bright red mane into a bloody dark red.
Blood ran down the edge of the helmet. The battle continues in such a brutal environment.
Behind the legion, the first cavalry raid organized by Sextus failed to deal a fatal blow to Appis's phalanx. At most, several soldiers in the front row who were hit by war horses were killed and wounded. The sharp heavy javelin was used as a sharp weapon to assassinate the war horse, even if the javelin pierced into the war horse, the spearhead would be broken in the body of the war horse, it was just a disposable, but this was enough, the first charge, Sextus almost fell off the horse, and the body of the cavalry in front of him blocked the pace of Szectus's mount to continue the charge, but it just saved his life. The elite infantry of the 10th Legion were undaunted even when the cavalry charged en masse.
The three lines of defense were superimposed, and countless spearheads were preparing for the direction of the cavalry's charge, and many of the horses suddenly stopped charging when they suddenly saw a sharp object, causing the perfect charge of the Sextus organization to die halfway through.
The most pressure is still in the middle. The large force led by Labiaenus was constantly squeezing the six hundred-man squad commanded by Crassus the Younger. The same right-hand man under Caesar, the same equipment of the soldiers, the same tactics, made the battle extremely cruel. Both sides used shields as cover, and then the sharp Roman short sword stabbed coldly from the dark corners, and many Romans, Roman soldiers died in such a brutal civil war. Their bodies were riddled with holes from the weapons forged by their own countrymen. Due to the speed of Roman dagger assassination, but not a single sword, the process of being assassinated to death by a Roman dagger was more painful than the barbarian slash, and many Roman soldiers died of excessive bleeding after several swords in their bodies. The process is nothing short of painful.
However, the battle continues.
In the melee, Appis and the guards around him squeezed into the middle of the most stressed legion. The scene at this moment reminded Apis of the scene when Caesar faced the Narvins on the Sambur River, and the commander of the legion shouted the name of each centurion in a desperate situation, arousing the infinite morale of the legion and finally defeating the barbarians. But at the moment, which centurions are still alive Apis no longer knows. As soon as the battle began, Apis stood with the lowest-ranking soldiers, looking at the eyes of an ordinary legionary infantryman.
And when they squeezed into the middle of the legion, the guards could no longer concentrate on watching over their commanders. The situation here is that every inch of land is a battlefield, almost every soldier is fighting, and the formation has been squeezed to the point that it is not in shape.
"Send a signal! Send a signal! Just go! ”
In the midst of the scuffle, Appis shouted to the messenger beside him. At the same time, Appis saw the Roman legion commander in ornate armor and holding an ivory dagger not far in front of him. And he was still accustomed to the old style, without carrying a helmet, and his pale hair was exposed* in the bloody rain. That's right, he was his former superior, the kind old Rabienus. (To be continued.) )