275.Battle of the Eagles (Part II)
"Follow me and rush forward!"
The next day, the fighting continued...... The two armies lined up in a long line, and began another round of vicious fighting, fighting bitterly. Klein, on the other hand, was ordered by Apis to continue to storm the high ground with his troops.
It's just that today's offensive will be more difficult than yesterday's battle. For by night Anthony's soldiers had set up makeshift fortifications on the high ground.
Crane led three teams and launched a surprise attack at dawn, but was still discovered.
In an instant, on the high ground, behind the fence, countless javelins and spears appeared. Again, like an autumn rainstorm, it sprinkled on the Roman soldiers who were climbing the slope in front of them.
Many raised their shields to defend themselves, but a few soldiers still had no time to defend themselves, and were shot through the body by javelins, and fell screaming. The soldier in front of Klein was too late to squat down and protect his body with a large shield, and several heavy javelins pierced his body, and blood suddenly poured out of the soldier's body. By the time Klein ventured in, the soldier had lost his breath, and judging by the javelin's penetration, his internal organs had been completely penetrated...... In the blur of flesh and blood, blood continued to flow.
But the enemy's frantic resistance failed to stop the legion from continuing to advance and attack.
All of them, led by the centurions, step by step, kept approaching the high ground. Take advantage of the gap where the enemy throws spears to advance. Then, when the defenders on the high ground saw this scene, they simply gave up their unified command and threw freely. Javelins and hunting spears were thrown at random intervals, catching Crane's men off guard. Soon, however, after four rounds of javelin rain, the soldiers of the Gallic regiment rushed to the heights.
Through the wooden fences, Antony's soldiers stabbed the onrushing enemy with their spears, while the soldiers of the Appis Gallic Regiment fought back with javelins and ropes around the fences, and then a dozen men pulled the improvised wooden fences together. The Roman soldiers in the camp cut the ropes with daggers and daggers, and immediately another rope noose were thrown at them.
In the dusty dust, many soldiers even dug the foundations under the fence under the cover of their companions, which did not look very hard and were easy to excavate. Protected by several large shields, the infantry of the Gallic legions swung shovels and pickaxes and dug desperately.
Crane then leaped into the camp with the corpse of his dead companion, clutching his shield in one hand and knocking down one of the legionnaires who pounced on him, and stabbed another Roman soldier in a pool of blood with a short sword in the other.
Many people rushed into the camp on the corpses of their comrades and comrades, and then again there was bloody hand-to-hand combat......
Those who were pierced through the skulls by short swords, those who were pierced through their bodies by spears, those who were smashed in the heads by war hammers, bloody and brutal battles, and the thick smell of rancid and bloody permeated the entire mountain.
On the battlefield on the plains, there were also fights again, and rivers of blood flowed like rivers......
And the real purpose of Apis was not in the heights, nor in the frontal battlefield, but in the flanks. The storming of the heights in the morning attracted Anthony's attention. Although he did not devote his cavalry to the battle for the high ground, Anthony had already put all his energy on the high ground. He even personally commanded his soldiers to rush to the high ground in an attempt to regain the right to occupy the high ground. Leave the cavalry under the leadership of his subordinate Sumirtius.
Then, after several battles on the high ground, Appis saw that the time had come, and launched a fierce attack on Antony's cavalry with the Germanic cavalry, which had long been waiting for him.
Two thousand Germanic cavalry, two thousand Gallic cavalry under the personal leadership of Appis, rushed on the flank of the legion line, Sumirtius did not have time to report to Antony, with all the cavalry strength, head-on against the Germanic cavalry of Apis.
"Stay in formation, charge!"
In the golden sunlight, Appis rode and waved his sword and shouted.
The Germanic cavalry behind him was like a mad and bloodthirsty beast, shouting wildly and charging on his horse. The sound of horses' hooves shook the sky, and the earth trembled with yellow sand, and then, a moment before charging at the enemy cavalry, the Gallic cavalry of Apis suddenly changed the course of their charge and dispersed with the main team. Like a forked olive branch, the main force rammed Antony's Greek and Roman cavalry head-on, while the Gallic cavalry avoided the edge and ran along the flanks of Antony's cavalry units. While the Germanic cavalry was entangled with Antony's main cavalry, the Gallic cavalry of Apis had quietly circled the rear of the enemy.
Then, with a loud trumpet of charge, the bloodthirsty Gallic cavalry charged from behind Sumirtius and his Greek cavalry.
The horses neighed and kicked up a long dust, and by the time these Anthony's cavalry found themselves surrounded, it was too late. Sumirtius tried to order the Greek cavalry and legionary cavalry to retreat, but could not wait for them all to withdraw from the battle, and the Gallic cavalry of Apis had already rushed from the rear and flanked Antony's cavalry with the Germanic cavalry.
Bloody battles broke out.
The two cavalry forces interspersed and passed, and many of Antony's legionary cavalry did not have any space to escape, and were squeezed into the ever-closing encirclement to assassinate, and the cavalry drove the war horse to try to turn around, but around them, there were dense barbarian cavalry. These barbarian riders of the northern forest, their ability to fight on horseback is top-notch.
Appis shouted with a sword and slashed the helmet of the Greek cavalry in front of him, who fell from his horse with a bloody face, and then was trampled by the chaos of horses' hooves and disappeared into the dust.
Maximus rushed head-on to a Greek cavalry who was fighting with the Gallic cavalry, when the other party turned around and rushed, Maximus lowered his body, and at the moment of rushing towards the enemy, the long sword swept across his waist, with the power of the war horse charge, the knight's sword cut through the armor and cut deeply into the flesh, and the next second, the Greek cavalry who was cut fell from his horse in pain with his belly covered, and the wound, small intestine and blood were gushing out......
In the midst of the blood mist, Antony's cavalry strength continued to dwindle. By the time the fleeing cavalry reported to Anthony about the flanks, it was too late. Appis had already charged Antony's main army with his bloodied Germanic cavalry......
The bravery and bloodlust of the barbarian cavalry, coupled with the invention and use of the stirrup, multiplied the cavalry charge. Like a black tidal wave rushing towards the crowd, the Germanic cavalry and the Gallic legions in front launched a trap on Antony's main phalanx, which was in hand-to-hand combat. The blood-stained war horses are spread out in a straight line, and they charge neatly. The roaring Germans, wielding axes and swords, were covered in scarlet blood, like hordes of demons rushing out of hell.
In an instant, the dense Roman phalanx was squeezed, trampled.
Even though the soldiers used heavy javelins as temporary anti-cavalry weapons, they could not stop Appis's devastating Germanic cavalry.
After the barbarian cavalry charged, many of Antony's Roman legionnaires were either knocked over by their furious horses or slashed with axes and swords by horsemen on horseback. The blood flowers are like red wine on the Dionysian Festival, swaying wantonly, and a person's head falls to the ground, wailing all over the field......