"Peace talks? No, the Romans did not accept peace talks from the weak. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info go back and tell your master that Caesar wants his head, not his surrender. ”

After successfully reuniting with Lepida's legions, the 10th and 12th legions easily conquered Sasilia, a large town occupied by the rebels, and soon after Pharnasis could not bear it, he sent an emissary to the Roman military camp to negotiate peace, but Lepida disdainfully refused the emissary's request.

"Then we can only resist to the death, and the blood will be like a river."

The messenger replied without humility or arrogance, and from his eyes, Apis read the hatred and dissatisfaction of the eastern tribes against Rome. It's not an irresolvable hatred, it's just a problem of the system, and Apis knows it, but he doesn't have time to care about it right now. The road to reform that awaited Caesar was so long.

"Come on, my brother and I have four elite Roman legions, and you, just a bunch of ant-like barbarians, no matter how numerous they are, are powerless. On the day of the decisive battle, my army and I will crush you like giants over an ant colony, and when the time comes, you and your master will come to your knees and beg me for mercy. ”

Lepida's words were extremely tough, and he did not give the envoy any mercy at all, and if it were not for the Roman tradition of not killing diplomats, Apis guessed that Lepida must have beheaded this "low" barbarian in the camp. Hang his head on a spear.

"But do not forget, Your Excellency, that Asia Minor is full of mountains and forests, and that General Pharnacissus is well placed to lead us in attacking you and your legions in the mountains. If there is no peace negotiation, the war will be protracted, and Caesar will probably not be satisfied with the outcome of your dealing. ”

The messenger sent by Pharnacisus replied sharply to the arrogant Roman officer before leaving, however, Lepida was not angry because of such a small role, he waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to send them off, maintaining the usual Roman demeanor for diplomatic negotiations, and no matter how deep the hatred was, it was clear on the battlefield.

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"Tomorrow, I will lead my army against the Romans, this battle is very auspicious, Lepida led four legions to attack us, tomorrow's battle, we will surely suffer heavy casualties, if you do not want to suffer with me, you can choose to withdraw now, take your families, return to your respective villages, live a peaceful life, I do not force you. The rebellion against Rome was my own decision, and it was too late for you to withdraw now. You don't have to follow me to make senseless sacrifices and deaths. ”

On the Lepida side, the Roman legions were already waiting for the final battle against the rebels, the complete elimination of the rebellion of Pharnaciss, they were full of confidence and well-equipped, and in the eyes of the legionnaires, the rebellious eastern tribes were like a pile of low-hanging fruit, gold, and these inferior rebels were just to satisfy them and achieve glory. On the other hand, there was a sad and gloomy atmosphere in the camp of Pharnasis, and the rebel commander used the tactics of sincerity at the right time, and he earnestly asked his generals to temporarily withdraw from the battlefield to save their lives.

However, in full view of the public, no one dared to say that they would withdraw, and the strong sense of shame prompted them to resolutely choose the last battle, and if they defected, if they were caught by the Romans, the consequences would be even more terrible than death in battle, and the Romans would torture their enemies and treat the rebels with cruelty.

"We follow you, Pharnacis! You are our guide and guide! ”

In the crowd, a barbarian man with a tiger's back stood up and shouted the name of Pharnaciss. Immediately, the others present stood up and pledged their allegiance to Pharnassis to the end. And no one paid attention to the barbarian man's mysterious eye contact with Pharnacis.

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The decisive battle kicked off in the expectation of the Romans, unlike the huge Roman Republic with sufficient supplies, Pharnassis only occupied a small piece of territory, two large towns have been captured one, without sufficient supplies, Pharnacissus is difficult to maintain this large army, let alone abandon the large towns for a long time with the Roman legions, after all, they are not a Germanic people, scattered in the forest. The emissary's threats to Lepida were only lip service, and the Romans knew that Pharnassis had to fight a decisive battle with them.

At dawn, 50,000 Farnassis rebels gathered on the other side of the hillside valley, the undulating terrain of the battlefield could not allow the two armies to line up neatly, in the morning mist, the Roman legions and the eastern infantry regiment of Pharnasis each occupied the high ground, neither of them wanted to rush into the low-lying valley first, and become a live target for the other side. So the battle began on two flanks.

The two hills were almost connected, so the rebels of Pharnacissus first attacked the positions of the Roman legions, and the nomadic cavalry from the east, riding fierce horses and wearing no armor, approached the positions of the Roman hoplites with bows and spears in hand.

According to the traditional and old-fashioned way of warfare, Lepida and Apis should first send light infantry dressed in wolf's skin to throw light spears first, but the complex terrain and the peculiar composition of the opponent's army made Apis and Lepida dare not fight the enemy according to conventional tactics, and the Roman light infantry was hidden behind the heavy infantry phalanx, not daring to attack, these nomadic cavalry can not only throw spears at close range, bow arrows to kill light infantry on the ground, but also launch a short charge, use spears as cavalry to fight, and fight under such flexible cavalry, The light infantry had little chance of victory. As a result, several Roman phalanxes on the flanks had to assemble into a wall of ramparts and slowly advance towards the opposing position.

The tactics of the javelin cavalry were tiresome, and whenever the Roman heavy infantry phalanx approached, these lightly armed cavalry drove their horses away quickly, and then, at a relatively safe distance, continued to draw their bows and shoot arrows, or throw light spears, while the Roman heavy infantry did not dare to scatter the tortoiseshell array and throw the heavy javelins, because the enemy cavalry was in constant motion and their positions were extremely scattered.

"Steady!"

Seklas still commanded the assault hundred-man squad to be the first to kill the enemy's position, and in the narrow area of the confrontation between the two armies, Pharnacis's cavalry team could not effectively kill the three centurial phalanxes of the Roman legions, and scattered in all directions, and then, on the horizon, a majestic horn unique to the eastern tribes sounded.

A large number of tribal alliances poured into the three Roman hundred-man teams commanded by Sekras, and even on the flanks, Pharnasis had much more military forces than the Romans, and their soldiers came from all nationalities, tribes, spoke different languages, had different customs and ways of fighting, but under the anti-Roman banner of Pharnasis, they were all temporarily united, but their charge was almost unformed, like a group of peasants marching in arms, wielding all kinds of weapons, and rushed up, Just hearing the clarion call for a general attack, there was hardly a field commander in each squad. Pharnassis devoted himself to learning the art of commanding Roman legions, and copied a copycat Roman legion for his own use, but before he could train an entire legion, Caesar put an end to the whimsical leader of the rebels. (To be continued.) )