"Freira, you must go and stop the Romans from crossing the river! There were guards who reported that the Romans were trying to cross the river from the lower reaches of the river. They are numerous, not like a bluff. ”

Sulena's subordinate, Freira's deputy, Burdamans, menacingly warned his commander not to let his guard down. General Sulena repeatedly warned them that this time, the commander of the Roman legions was not a mediocre man, his experience was legendary, and he must not be careless.

But Fureira seemed unheeded by the adjutant's warnings. He looked at the sand and dust rising on the other side of the river and the earth-shattering shouts of murder indifferently. Most of his soldiers seemed to think that it was right to ignore the Romans. They've been teased for almost a week.

"Then let them come, I'll wait for them here, a bunch of cowardly rats."

Freira sat in her tent and returned leisurely.

On the other side, several elite brigades of Appis stepped up the work of crossing the river.

In order to reduce weight, the first soldiers who crossed the river were lightly armoured, did not wear armor, and carried only a large shield and a short sword, as well as all the tools needed to dig the fortifications. Their task was not to engage the enemy in close combat, but to build fortifications as quickly as possible after crossing the river, and to establish a stronghold on the other side of the river. In this way, the next group of people who crossed the river could safely go ashore and fight back against the Parthian cavalry in the fortifications.

In the summer, when the murky water passed slowly, without the cover of torrential rain and clouds, the first Roman soldiers to cross the river tremblingly rowed on improvised sheepskin rafts, but fortunately they were not hindered by enemy cavalry along the way. At this time, Burdaman was still arguing fiercely with Freira, the commander of the Parthian cavalry, in the camp.

"Brothers, put this wall high, speed!"

Centurion Naris shouted. All the lightly armed troops worked in the scorching sun, and each higher fortification base increased their chances of survival, as long as the walls were more than a man tall and thick enough to hold off the cavalry raids and onslaughts. This is the final key to this battle to cross the river. Of course, although Apis did not personally participate in the crossing of the river and the construction of fortifications at this moment, he sweated for the soldiers who were already on the other side of the river.

With the arrival of groups of legionnaires, the fortifications on the other side of the river were gradually completed.

However, at this time, the Parthian cavalry also roared. Burdamáns could no longer stand the inaction of his superiors, and took his men with him and rushed downstream, trying to see if the Romans had really crossed the river. However, when the lieutenant arrived at the banks of the river downstream with a small number of cavalry, he was already faced with a Roman civil fortification that was nearing completion.

"Damn it! Everyone, follow me! ”

In desperation, Burdamans sent only one man back to report, and with his three hundred Parthian archers and fifty ironclad cavalry, he rushed to the Roman legion's light infantry and the small earthen wall, which had been built to the height of a man.

The alarm bell rang out, and several brigades of the Roman legions immediately put down their work, stood on top of the half-built fortifications, and erected their shields, so that the entire defensive wall was equal to the height of two people. In the next second, the rain of arrows was like a torrential rain at the end of summer. Experienced legionary infantry dodged behind the shield wall and escaped. Then, in a hurry, the centurion gave the order to shoot freely.

The soldiers in the back row sent their spears and javelins to the forward infantry in terror, and then a single shot of the spears and javelins of the Legion was unleashed like scattered flying flotsam.

In the next second, the man flipped on his back, and the mournful cry of the war horse and the screams of the rider mixed with the screams of the rider and floated in the air.

Obviously, three hundred Parthian archers and fifty ironclad cavalry were capable of facing an unformed Roman army, but these scarce Parthian cavalry were helpless against the fortified legions. The war horses did not dare to rush forward in front of the dirt slope, perhaps because they weighed the height of the earth wall and the human wall in front of them, and felt that they could not jump to such a height at all, and many war horses rushed to the front of the formation and stopped. As a result, he was shot by the Roman light infantry as a living target......

Under the fire of hundreds of javelins and shotspears, Burdaman and his Parthian archers fell in an instant, and the team of three hundred men circled outside the Roman legion's fortifications, and was hunted and killed more than two hundred and fifty people, and less than a hundred remained, and retreated in a hurry.

There was a round of cheering from the army, but it only lasted for a short time before everyone was buried in the mound again, digging and building in a frenzy.

By the time Freira arrived with a large army, the temporary fortification of the Roman legions had been completely completed. A simple trench was even dug outside the camp. Apis stood above the enshrined camp and stared coldly at Friera and his Parthian army.

An arrow flew into the air, it was Furela's angry arrow, this man who grew up on the grassland had amazing arm strength, and the arrow flew a long distance downwind, but it flew accurately to the location of Appis. But at the end of the crossbow, the speed slowed down, and the guards around Apis easily took it with a shield.

Next, thousands of Parthian troops scattered and launched a siege on the small fortress that the Roman legions had just built.

However, they did not know that all the Gallic cavalry and Germanic cavalry in the army of Apis had quietly rushed out of the camp before the arrival of the Parthian army, and they had ordered a bonfire, and once the campfire was lit in the legion's fortifications, and they saw the long smoke rising from it, they knew that Apis had asked them to launch a general attack.

Furella commanded the cavalry to rain arrows into the small fortification from all sides, and since the range of the bow and arrow was longer than that of the javelin, most of the legionary heavy infantry could not do anything about such harassment, so Apis quickly ordered the slingers to take position and shoot at the Parthian riders outside the fortifications under the cover of large shields.

That is, you don't need to aim, you can throw the stone projectile in your hand as quickly as possible, and you can hit as many as you want, even if you hit the enemy only once in ten hits, you have earned it.

For a time, a strange scene appeared on the battlefield, under the sunset, across the earthen wall of the fortifications, countless stone bullets and arrows flew in the air, and the Parthian cavalry who were "mistakenly wounded" fell one after another, and the Roman legions were also panicked, everyone was holding a big shield, and they didn't dare to put it down for a moment, worried that in the next second, the arrows would penetrate their heads......

At this time, Apis gave the order to light a bonfire and prepare for a general attack......