"What are they doing? These crazy people! ”

On the second day of the confrontation with the Roman legions, the Parthian guards saw the Roman soldiers on the opposite side of the camp, sweating and working, digging up piles of dirt from the lawn in front of them, along the Tigris River, horizontally, every fifty paces, a small dirt bag, everyone did not understand what the Roman legions were doing, and immediately reported the situation to King Orodes.

"Damn, I don't understand it either, but it's certainly not a good thing. Appis, this bunny cub, what the hell is he up to? ”

However, Orodus's climb to the watchtower to watch the actions of the Roman legions is also inconclusive. What does this do? Camped? But no, how can a camp be built like this? Every few dozen steps, a small mound was dug up, and did the Romans want to connect them to build a new protective wall? It's not realistic, and there isn't that much wood around for them to use.

"Anukis, I don't see what Appis wants to do, tomorrow, if the Roman soldiers continue to behave in this strange way, you will take the light cavalry, go and check, and harass them by the way, and prevent them from continuing their work. No matter what they do, it's not always a good thing. ”

Coming down from the belvedere, Orodes looked confused, and immediately gave the battle order to the general Anukis.

The next day, a thin mist shrouded the Tigris, and the gentle early autumn breeze blew the grass on both banks. The Parthian general Anukis led thousands of light cavalry from the camp and rushed straight to the Roman soldiers who were digging the lawn opposite.

However, the tremendous movement of the Parthian cavalry soon attracted the attention of the Roman legions.

"Drop what you're doing and get in a tight formation! Fast! ”

The sound of horses' hooves approached, and in the morning mist, the veterans of the Roman legions, led by the centurions, quickly threw away their tools and hid behind the anti-horse stakes, lined up in a neat and dense defensive formation.

Since the fortifications were dug separately, many soldiers stood in groups of three or five, squatting together, and in front of them were rows of rows of wooden stakes that were mounted backwards. The stakes are pointed outwards and the bases are tied together with thick ropes to form a neat and indivisible wall of spears.

"Come on, let the labor and management see how capable you are."

Belutius hid behind a half-man-high stake and roared. Immediately, rows of Parthian archers appeared in front of them.

They were still about fifty paces away from the Roman legions and began to rain arrows. As with the previous tactics, they didn't aim at all, just fired indiscriminately at the place where the crowd had gathered. The dense rain of arrows suddenly fell like a torrential rain in early autumn.

At this distance, the Javelins could barely counterattack and shoot the enemy, but the experienced centurion observed the situation on the field and decided not to attack. Because the Parthian cavalry was quite numerous, almost as numerous as the Roman infantry. In this comparison, the counterattack will not have a good effect, on the contrary, the Roman soldiers who stand up are easily injured by arrows. If there is no shield wall to protect it.

As a result, the heavy infantry of the legion, under the protection of the large shield, defended with difficulty. They were like a black steel position, resisting the Parthians from a rain of arrows.

However, due to the presence of anti-horse stakes, the Parthian cavalry did not dare to approach. They wandered outside the position, and some of the dismounted cavalry tried to move the stakes, but they were so close that they were shot through the body by Roman veterans with javelins and fell with a muffled thud. No one dared to go up and save them.

But Anukis, under the orders of King Orodes, had to figure out what exactly the Romans were doing.

A small group of Parthian cavalry began to try to rush through the middle of the two stakes to see what was buried behind these small mounds.

However, they failed.

The army led by Apis, although small in number, was indeed the elite of the elite, and those centurions noticed the movement of the Parthian archers, organized spearmen, and charged the Parthian archers who rushed through the stakes. In the panic, a dozen Parthian riders were stabbed to the ground by Roman spearmen, and their horses neighed and were covered in scarlet and black blood.

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"It's just to probe the military intelligence, can't you find it clearly?"

After a morning of bitter fighting and stalemate, Anukis returned to the barracks in despair. Orodus was a little annoyed, but helpless. Appointing a relative of his own as a general, he is assured that he will not rebel, but his ability is poor, not as good as Sulena, which is also a reality.

"The Romans were well prepared, they used anti-riding stakes."

Anukis replied aggrievedly.

"Then send out the infantry!"

Orodus roared.

On the third day, five thousand Eastern militiamen, led by another Parthian general, Mufid, set out from the camp. This time, the Roman legions once again taught them to be human beings. Klein personally led the team and organized the legion to counterattack.

The steel-walled Roman legions rained javelins from behind the shield walls, shooting all the Parthian infantry trying to approach the fortifications into a sieve.

Blood was flowing and seeped into the land where the two armies were facing each other.

The battle continued sporadically until on the fifth day, when Orodus, standing on the lookout, suddenly realized what the Romans wanted to do. He saw that the vast plain was already covered with a dozen long and winding aqueducts, like those needed for agricultural irrigation. However, there are no crops and the meadows are very moist and do not require much water. Well, the only explanation is that the Romans wanted to channel the water of the Tigris River into this meadow, turning it into a swampy wetland! In that case, the ironclad cavalry and archers will no longer be able to run rampant in this land!

"Anukis, there is no time, the Romans must be routed before they finish this fortification! Otherwise, our cavalry will become a pile of scrap metal! ”

After guessing Appis' motives and intentions, the Parthian king Orodes immediately ordered the whole group to attack.

A large number of Parthian infantry and archers swarmed out of the camp at dawn, looking like an armed procession, they were scattered on the battlefield, led by their respective lords and patriarchs, like a plate of scattered sand, and their morale was high-pitched towards the Roman legion position on the opposite side.

And Orodus himself, led the two thousand most elite ironclad cavalry in Parthia, at the rear of the battlefield, observing the results of this "dragon and tiger fight", Orodus knew that although the Restoration Army was large in size and large in number, the real elite was only a little bit, and it was necessary to wait until the critical moment to attack.

The massive Parthian army rushed towards the Roman legionary positions like a tidal flood.

Such a momentum, magnificent, the Roman legionnaires who were working were dumbfounded, even if they had fortifications to defend, but in the face of a large number of enemy troops, everyone was actually bottomless, and even fearful, the crowded Parthian army was almost boundless......