"Archer, climb the watchtower!"

The centurion shouted for the ranged troops to quickly climb the tower. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The raid that took place at night caught many of the legionnaires standing guard by surprise, and months of calm led the legionnaires to think that the barbarians would not attack again, and would not rebel again. However, this attack in the middle of the night in early summer reignited the hatred between the Romans and the barbarians.

Quintus struggled to pull a barbarian archer standing on the tower off the tower, and a dull crash and barbarian screams of pain rang out on the ground. The Gallic hunter who had been pushed off the tower had been eviscerated and was lying on the ground under the tower, groaning? Moaning, the ground covered with blood.

"Go and inform the Legion Commander, soldier. Damn it. ”

Tutilis, the centurion of the 3rd Brigade in charge of the vigil, grabbed the signal soldier and shouted, and then an arrow landed against his chest, piercing the plank at the centurion's feet.

Bloody battles in the night, the whole camp was surrounded by screaming barbarians, and the flickering torches were like a sea of sparks, and the Roman legionary camp was besieged in it. By the time Kota came out of the tent in armor, the camp was full of bloodthirsty barbarians. Their skin was painted with various paints, their bodies were strangely decorated, and they were armed with simple weapons, and they were not wearing armor, and they rushed towards the Roman soldiers in the camp.

A barbarian covered in blue paint roared and pounced on a Roman soldier who had just emerged from the tent, and the legionary foot was slashed in the neck by the barbarian's huge axe, and the body was separated, and a large amount of blood spurted out, and then the barbarian grabbed the bloody head and threw it at another Roman soldier who was fighting the barbarian warrior.

Blood, fear, spread in the barracks.

"Appis, hold this line!"

In the midst of the scuffle, Cota, escorted by his personal guards, rushed to the camp area on the high ground, a sloping area where Roman soldiers were gathering and was an important line of defense for the legions on the high ground.

"Yes, Commander."

Appis led two hundred-man teams, and as soon as he set up his defense, the barbarians rushed forward.

The first barbarian to rush up was like a roaring beast, and his upper body was almost naked? Naked, with a heavy tomahawk in his hand, he roared and rushed into the position of the Roman centurs. Immediately, the sound of shields and tomahawks clattering was heard, and the barbarians, after colliding with one of the Roman legionnaires, were also assassinated by other legionnaires, and several legionary daggers were stabbed at the brave barbarian, and at once, Appis saw a bloody scene, and one of them pierced the barbarian's skin without any drag, and then cut open his internal organs.

Blood splattered on the large shields of the legionnaires.

Soon, more wild savages swooped up, their axes and swords slashing at the Legion's shield with a clanging sound. The phalanx of the two Roman hundreds, so strong that some of the barbarians, while unable to penetrate the Roman soldiers' shields, kicked the shield walls of the legion's phalanx with their feet, only to have their heels slashed by the sharp Roman daggers, and the blood splattered the entire line of defense with a thick bloody smell.

"Steady!"

But as the number of barbarians grew, the two centurians began to lose their support. Apis stood in the crowd and took the position of the fallen infantry, confronting the barbarians. The captain of the cavalry had no room to play at all, and all the cavalry did not have time to mount their horses, so they had to engage in bloody hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and the stables were even more ignited by these barbarian soldiers. The flames brought down buildings such as stables and arsenals.

A barbarian warrior attempts to jump over the Centurians line and then attacks the Centurifies' line from behind. However, Appis used a heavy javelin as a spear, and the moment the barbarian leaps into the air, the heavy javelin stabs from the bottom up, piercing the barbarian's thigh. In the bloody battle, the barbarians who rolled down were suddenly besieged by the legionary infantry, and one short sword after another was pierced in and pulled out, leaving large broken holes in the barbarian warriors. Blood poured out of the mutilated limbs. But everyone didn't have time to pay attention to this scene, they had to keep an eye out for attacks from the front, and if they weren't careful, they would be killed by the barbarians' tomahawks and heavy swords.

"Appis!"

Protected by the General's Guard, Kota climbed to the launch platform on the high ground of the barracks, where dozens of ballistae were preparing to fire deadly spears at the barbarians.

And the location of Kota also made Appis instantly understand what his legion commander meant.

"Get down!"

Appis shouted, snatching the centurion's whistle from the centurion next to him and giving the command to all squat. The hundred-man team squatted in unison under the temporary command of Appis, the legionnaires pushed their large shields to their heads, and the soldiers in the first row stood their shields on the ground, steadily forming an impermeable shield wall, and at the same time, the height of the entire human wall was instantly reduced.

In the next second, dozens of giant battle spears flew towards the barbarian who was charging.

Suddenly, a terrifying scream spread from the barbarian crowd, and a high-speed flying crossbow pierced the crowd and pierced the barbarian's body, and a few spears even pierced the bodies of three or four Gallic warriors, stringing them together. The horrific picture caused a small commotion among the barbarians. At this time, the elite infantry led by Sabinus arrived from the southwest corner of the barracks and approached the back of the barbarians.

"Fight back, for Rome!"

Appis also seized this opportunity and ordered all the legionary infantry behind him to attack. Legional troops of more than a thousand men surrounded the barbarians of three thousand and slaughtered them in the camp. The ballistas on the high ground were still firing their bolts. Under the horror and efficiency of the killing, the Gauls' offensive was once again disintegrated.

In the war, he left behind stumps and broken bodies. The corpses of the barbarian soldiers in the firelight showed terrifying expressions one by one, and fear was their last expression before they died......

"We must hold this fortress, this barbarian siege is not an occasional act, it must be a long-planned sneak attack. They were outnumbered and attacked when we were at the most lax in defence. My guess is that the Gauls who participated in the attack must have been from more than one tribe, and that they may have come from more than one tribe. ”

Kota stabbed his delicate dagger into the body of a dead Gallic infantryman to make sure he was truly dead. Blood splattered out of the shattered skin. Stained Cota's face even redder.

"I feel it is necessary for us to report this information to Caesar."

Standing between the two corps commanders, Apis also expressed his opinion. Now, he does have the qualifications to express his opinion in front of high-ranking officers, after all, Sabinus has promoted himself to the rank of cavalry captain, a position equivalent to the lieutenant of the corps commander.

"No, kid, we're under siege now, and no one will live to send the information out."

Sabinus spoke after Cota and Apis, but his words were indeed more convincing, and Sabinus was indeed more experienced on the battlefield. The reason why the barbarian army dared to raid was that the outside of the fortress must have been surrounded by the barbarian army.