Woo......

The trumpeter puffed out his cheeks and blew the horn of the regiment's attack with all his might. The whole world www.biquge.info covered with dust, and Caesar's army of 30,000 began to advance.

From a distance, it looked like a burning red flame, in the shape of a wave, surging towards Pompey's position. One of the most spectacular battles in the ancient world was about to begin, and Appis stood in the center of the phalanx, feeling the most magnificent battle he had ever experienced since his time travel. How many times have I dreamed of the scene, but now it finally became a reality, the roar and roar of the phalanx of the legions around him, like a lion on the grassland, first pushed forward in unison, and then turned into a collective charge, in the earth-shattering shout, the earth trembled to meet the fiercest battle.

"Catapult!"

On the opposite side of the legion, Pompey's defenders were also preparing for this tragic bloody battle under the leadership of their own commander.

The engineers, on the orders of the centurion, pulled the cables of the siege equipment to the tightest condition.

"Launch!"

As a roar unfolded, dozens of Roman siege catapults threw boulders with burning flames at the same time in the backfield of Pompey's coalition army, and when viewed from the air, it was like a lava flow from a volcanic eruption, sprinkled on Caesar's infantry phalanx in a terrible whistling......

"Spread out! Disperse! ”

Apis shouted and ordered the soldiers around him to disperse and charge as quickly as possible, preferring to be hit by a handful of soldiers rather than have a hundred-man squad wiped out in a single driftstone bombardment.

Immediately, a boulder mixed with black flames fell from the sky, the visual impact, Appis looked up at the direction it fell, and there was only the shadow of it falling in his pupils, because the place where it fell happened to be where he was standing!

But in the moment before the boulder fell, Apis instinctively raised his shield and made the action of blocking the car with his mantis arm, and in the next second, the flint fell strongly, hitting the ground less than five steps away from Apis, and the powerful impact force generated immediately shook Apis's body away.

Feeling a sharp pain in his body and dizziness in front of his eyes, Apis lay on the ground, looking in a daze at the place where the flint fell, and the bodies of destroyed Roman soldiers. Their flesh and limbs were scattered in the embers, and the legionnaires who had passed by, one arm had been broken, the flames were engulfing his shoulder, and the soldiers were standing staggering in place, shouting in pain, and Appis could not hear what he was shouting.

The whole battlefield was bloody.

Until Apis shook himself again from the shock, all Caesar's legionary infantry had already rushed forward, and there was no time to stay, Apis just covered his chest, gathered the remaining hundred soldiers, and continued to rush forward with the large army.

Those emotional fetters and bedside lingering are all left behind at this moment, and in the bloody ancient Roman battlefield, there is only barbaric fighting, which belongs to the battlefield of the brave.

"Steady! Don't strike! ”

When Caesar's ten legions attacked Pompey's position head-on, Pompey ordered all his soldiers to hold the line and not to attack. The military flag stood proudly in the rear, and no one dared to disobey the orders of the commander-in-chief. They just waited in place, waiting for Caesar's legion to cover double the distance, and then rushed up panting to fight them.

But Caesar's Roman legions were veterans of the expedition to Gaul after all, although Rabienus told the Senate that the legions that followed Caesar were no longer the veterans of the Gaul expedition, but Caesar regathered the veterans who had settled in Rome before landing in Greece. At this time, under the guidance of experience, they made the soldiers stop the charge, and when the whistle sounded, all the legion phalanxes stopped the charge, rested in place, recovered their strength, and waited for the next round of charge.

At the same time, archers recruited from Gaul began to rain arrows in the rear of the phalanx of the legions.

A rain of arrows from 3,000 Gallic hunters swept the sky like locusts over the sky, from behind Caesar's legions, and sprinkled them on Pompey's position.

Those veterans of Pompey hurriedly ordered the soldiers around them to raise their shields, and the tortoiseshell array was temporarily listed, and the rain of arrows was like a storm in late autumn, clanging on the large square shields of those legions. Although one or two unlucky soldiers fell in the rain of arrows, the soldiers behind quickly filled in and took their place.

The entire phalanx of Pompey defended itself in tension against the shots of Caesar's Gallic archers.

At the same time, the large catapults at the rear of Caesar's phalanx were also in operation, and the thick ropes pulled the huge machines and smashed a boulder with the same tar flames into Pompey's position.

Ahead, the soldiers were hiding under the phalanx shield wall to resist the attack of the rain of arrows, and in the rear, flints were like doomsday meteor showers across the sky, thick smoke, and yellow sand covered the entire battlefield.

And as the 10th Legion regained its strength first, Vlanius shouted and ordered all the infantry to continue the charge. All of Caesar's phalanx of Roman legions then ran wildly again, holding their shields to their chests or raising them above their heads, ready to meet the enemy's first wave of spear throws.

Like a sea of red burning, Caesar's army rushed toward the white of Pompey's legions.

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"Soldier, hold on!"

The distance between the two armies was very close, and on the other side of the battlefield, on Pompey's position, Cventus and the other senate generals tried their best to stabilize the battle line, and he asked these recruits to set up their shields, no matter what tactics the opposite side used next, they would stabilize the battle line, and wait until Rabienus led Pompey's cavalry to defeat Caesar's cavalry, and then attacked Caesar's phalanx from behind. This was Pompey's tactic, as Pompey's cavalry numbered six thousand, more than four times the number of Caesar's cavalry.

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"Brothers, throw spears!"

Finally, when they were close enough, Caesar's old centurions ordered their soldiers to throw javelins at the opposite phalanx. These elite centurions knew the distance their warriors could throw their spears. They developed a more sophisticated throwing technique in the Gallic battlefields, where they could throw their spears at greater distances and penetrate. Moments before the enemy was ready to throw the javelin, Caesar's veterans drew their spears and threw them.

In the sky above the narrow battlefield of the two armies, countless flying javelins and spears suddenly appeared.

The battle was so bloody, the veterans of Pompey in the first column raised their shields to defend in a panic, but they still suffered heavy casualties, their recruits had no experience in dealing with special situations, and there was no centurion to predict in advance, many of Pompey's recruits were pierced by the spears of Caesar's legion infantry before raising their shields.

In the dense Pompeii phalanx, it was suddenly like a collapsing Great Wall, and many people fell, leaving many gaps...... (To be continued.) )