"Brothers, follow me! Rush down the hill and stay in formation! ”

While the Roman legions were under pressure on the frontal battlefield, Antony led all Caesar's cavalry troops to charge down the southern slopes and engage in a decisive battle with the Gallic cavalry of Vicintoli. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info At this time, the Roman cavalry team was almost all Germanic cavalry.

These barbarians, on horseback, under the command of several Roman commanders, launched a fierce charge towards the Gauls.

On the hillside, there was a dense mass of Roman and Gallic troops, but on this side of the hillside, the sparse Roman Germanic cavalry rushed towards the outnumbered Gallic cavalry.

As with the previous tactics, the horses of these Germanic cavalry carried two Germanic men, and the archers jumped off their horses moments before approaching the enemy. After rolling twice in the grass, he quickly stood to his feet, barely taking aim, and drew his bowstring and fired at the Gallic cavalry opposite.

The strafing of five hundred Germanic lightly armed archers on the ground dealt a fatal blow to the oncoming Gallic cavalry. Although the Gallic cavalry had improved at the request of Viccintoli and learned the tactics of the Germanic cavalry, with an archer and a rider working together, when the real cavalry battle broke out, the tactical proficiency of these Gallic cavalry was obviously inferior to that of the Germanic cavalry.

The archers of the Gallic cavalry dismounted awkwardly after the Germanic lightly armed archers had already finished their rounds, but the previous wave of arrows had already caused heavy casualties to the Gallic cavalry.

"Follow me!"

At the moment of the final charge, Anthony shouted, and at the same time leaned over the back of his war horse, and rushed into the battlefield with these Germanic cavalry.

The next moment, the cavalry of both sides savagely collided together.

Many riders were knocked down by the powerful recoil force the moment they collided with each other, and they took off and landed their horses. Then, they were either trampled by other war horses, or pierced through the body by the spears of the cavalry who followed, and the scene was again spurted with blood and screams.

A Gallic cavalryman, armed with a spear, pierced a Roman legionary cavalryman in front of him who had just landed on the ground, however, the next moment, the Germanic cavalry rushed at him and chopped off his head with an axe...... The battle was so bloody......

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Returning to the frontal battlefield, Apis was almost exhausted. Under the onslaught of the Gauls, the Roman legions' lines were constantly retreating. Even the last reserves were sent into battle, and Caesar's guards no longer even served as commanders' guards, but went up to fight with the lowest-ranking Roman legionnaires.

They could not afford to leave any gaps in the defensive line, otherwise the Gauls would rush in and form an encirclement of the Roman legions.

"Brothers, do not rest, dig our defenses, trenches, let the barbarians rush into our traps!"

On the frontal battlefield, the legions had exhausted the last of their strength to resist the Gallic Cables. However, the two sides are still locked in a bitter battle. Appis retreated to the rear along with several veterans. And pulled out the shovel and pickaxe from the waist of the soldiers beside him, and shouted with all his might, and at the same time, in order to make the trench quickly completed, Appis endured the pain in his arm and began to dig this trench himself on the ground.

"Centurion, we don't have time to finish setting and digging traps!"

A legion veteran asked in surprise. Because, in the minds of the Roman soldiers, trenches, trench traps and such things as trenches should have been dug in the ground with a deep trench covered with sharpened stakes, and then, when the trench was completed, a thin layer of soil was spread on top of it to confuse the enemy army.

But for now, the Gauls have only temporarily retreated, and they will not rest for long before they will rush up again to fight the Roman legions. In such a situation, the legionnaires simply did not have time to dig a whole trench and lay stakes, waiting for the barbarians to attack. There was not even time to dig a trench deep enough.

The legionary veteran looked at Appis in confusion, but Apis's answer was very simple and clear-

"Yes, we don't have time to complete a full trench trap, but I don't require you to dig and lay out the trap as a complete one. See, brothers, the soil here is not very hard, and it will be enough for us to dig a half-man-high trench in this short time, and there is no need to arrange sharpened stakes in it! The Gauls were chained around their waists, and if two or three of them fell into our traps, the others would be unable to stand and would fall in with them. And half a person is tall enough to cause them to break bones. At the very least, it will allow us to condescend and pierce them with spears. ”

Appis's statement was quickly echoed by many legionnaires, and it was indeed a way to restrain the Gallic Ferrata army. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and all tactics and strategies must change at any time due to the changes of the enemy. And at the moment, apparently, Appis did it.

In addition to courage, there is also strategy, which is what every qualified centurion should have......

On the blood-soaked battlefield, the rotational legionary infantry continued to form a defensive line with shields to resist the brutal attacks and raids of the Gauls. At the rear of the battlefield, Appis was leading the legion's veterans to dig makeshift trenches. This kind of trench, which was only half a man high, did not do much to deal with the attacks of the barbarians in normal times, but at this moment, it became the most effective tactic to defeat the enemy.

There are too many traps in the movie, and it's easy to mistake people for thinking that all traps are designed so complicated, in fact, sometimes, a shallow dirt pit is enough to kill! This is the conclusion that Apis has reached in a long period of actual combat.

"Roar, roar."

Soon, the Gauls surged up again, like a furious horde of beasts.

The phalanx of the legions began to retreat, and everyone retreated in an orderly manner through the solid soil passage to the rear of the second front. And this second line of battle was a temporary line of defense formed by Appis and some legionnaires. The veterans of the legion did not even rest, and after digging the trenches of the field, they hurriedly raised their large shields and continued to fight, although they were exhausted......

The Gauls marched en masse with a roar, still in chains, marching hand in hand, morale high. And because the number of Roman legions was seriously less than that of the other party, the faces and bodies of each legionnaire were almost covered with blood. All of them had fought against the Gauls, and the barbarian swords and axes left deep marks on each of them. That will become a symbol of honor in the future, but at this moment, it is a fatal knife wound, once the wound is inflamed and suppurated, in this era, it is almost incurable. (To be continued.) )