Apis couldn't understand why Caesar was so adventurous, he was like a fanatical warlord, he did almost every battle by himself, and in every decisive battle, he had fewer troops than his opponent, and not by a little. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn Gaul, the barbarians were on average ten times as numerous as the Roman army, and at the time of the civil war, Pompey's army was at least twice as strong as Caesar's, and now, even if the domestic situation was decided, Caesar's army was still much smaller than that organized by Pompey's remnants.

The opposing side, led by Rabienus, Kventus and Metellus, organized a large coalition of 50,000 men. Among them, there are local temporary conscripted soldiers, there are cavalry and elephant soldiers of Yuba of the Numidian Kingdom, and some desert mercenaries and bandits, in short, this seemingly incomparably large team is actually a ragtag army composed of various nationalities and tribes, although Caesar's legion also has many recruits who have just received training, but compared to the ragtag army of Cventus, the combat effectiveness is still much stronger. Perhaps this is why Caesar was so confident?

Before dawn, Caesar ordered the ninth, tenth, and eleventh legions to line up on the battlefield first, and the others followed, and by this time, the city of Tapsos had been conquered, but the legions did not sack the town under Caesar's stern orders. The Romans should not sack the towns of the Romans, this was Caesar's interpretation and stipulation of his own subordinates. The purpose of taking Tapsos was very simple, because the people of the city had already conveyed the information to Rabienus and others, that is, it was worthless, and because he was worried that the soldiers in the city would run out and attack Caesar's legion from behind in the decisive battle of the plains, Caesar ordered a morning to take the city.

Now, the combined forces of Rabienus and Metellus have arrived in this desolate land, once watered with the blood of countless Romans.

By noon, the remnants of Pompey's faction had appeared scattered on the horizon, and by this time, Caesar's 25,000 legionary infantry had already lined up and sharpened their swords on the other side of the plain. By the morning, the cooks had delivered piping hot food to each soldier. Their morale is high, and even the recruits are full of fighting spirit. On the right flank of Caesar's legion were Antony's legionary cavalry, which were mostly cavalry corps served by Gauls during the long Roman Civil War, and had almost been integrated into the Roman culture.

In the center of the entire legion was the main position of the 10th and 13th legions led by Fabius and Appis, who not only experienced the bloody experience of the civil war, but also, before the war, Caesar specially cultivated and trained them in the way of elephant hunting. Undoubtedly, the center of gravity of the battle was once again given to the Tenth Legion. In addition to Caesar, Apis was the leader of the Ten Legions.

At this time, on the eastern horizon, a group of "monsters" of astonishing height and huge size appeared, yes, from a distance, their bodies were much larger than humans, they were war elephants......

Although Appis himself joined the elephant hunting training when he was training in the barracks, it was a non-attacking elephant, and they had no professional military training, and now, in front of the legion, there was a herd of African war elephants with strict military training. For the first time in this kind of behemoth, Apis and the soldiers of the Ten Legions faced them on the battlefield.

Just imagine, when a war horse rushes at full speed towards itself, human instincts are filled with fear, and now, the cavalry charge is replaced by the collective charge of war elephants. Even with formal training, Appis was not sure that he would be able to successfully trap the largest animal on land in the future.

Woo......

Until a strange and terrifying horn sounded in the sky, all the legionary infantry in the front row knew that the battle was about to begin.

Standing on the vast plains of Tapsos, the war elephants roared, as if rushing from the battlefield on the horizon, and their thick paws trampled the earth with a terrifying crashing sound. Even the earth was shaking rhythmically, and Apis stood at the forefront of the phalanx of legions, and the scenery full of Mediterranean desert style seemed to remind Apis of the distant battlefield of Zamagu, where the land soaked in the blood of tens of thousands of Romans was redder than the wine of Gaul, like a rose plain fluttering in the wind.

And today, will everything that is going to happen be the same as the Battle of Zama a hundred years ago? Appis didn't know, but his nerves had reached a state of high tension.

The soldiers of the 10th Legion, like their commanders, kept their eyes on the front, the war elephants charged so fast that the light infantry did not have time to throw their spears and scatter, so everything had to be done by everyone in the phalanx.

Throughout the plain battlefield, the war elephant troops of Cventus were like a sharp knife directly hitting Caesar's Roman phalanx, and they collectively roared and charged, followed by the war elephant troops were the motley army of 50,000 Cventus. Although formally trained by the Roman legions, marching was not as neat and disciplined as the regular army.

On the entire battlefield, one hundred and fifty African war elephants in front of them rushed excitedly, and in the rear, there was a coalition of Pompeo's remnants like a sandstorm. Caesar's four Roman legions were in solid formation.

"Archer!"

As the battle imminent, Caesar rode a white colt and wore a bright red cloak and personally commanded the archery troops and long-range siege troops in the rear.

Under the unified orders of the commander of the legion, the first round of arrows was sprinkled at the same time by a thousand Gallic hunters and Creek archers in the backfield, and, by the way, against the war elephants, the arrows of these arrows were all coated in tar and ignited a flame. Ballistas and catapults were also fired almost simultaneously.

Suddenly there was a spectacular sight in the sky, and in the dust raised by the war elephants, the boulders and arrows with the flames of the legion rained down like a storm on the herd of war elephants in Kventus.

However, the long-range weapons of this era are the waste of waste after all, and even the most powerful Creek archers in the Mediterranean, the rain of arrows they shoot is nothing more than an egg hitting a stone for a sturdy African war elephant. Rocket Rain just managed to scare a few hapless African war elephants, causing them to panic around under the intimidation of the flames, while more African war elephants, with their furious strength, rushed directly to the front queue laid by Caesar......