The sky was covered with a blood-colored haze of slaughter, the smell of blood was running out of the air, and the whole front was full of Romans and barbarians fighting. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info even Rabienus, Cicero, Brutus, and Fabius personally joined the battle.

The participation of the legionary commander brought the morale of the Roman legionary infantry to the highest ebb, and they held short swords and used the Latin shield as a cover, constantly assassinating the Gauls who pounced on them. Under the constant charge of 50,000 Gauls, not a single position of the legion was lost, until the corpses of the Gauls were piled up on the front line of the legion.

A large number of barbarians seemed to begin to flee in fear, and Appis was covered in blood, and could not tell whether it was the blood of the Roman soldiers or the blood of the Gauls just now. Blood dripped down his cheeks and fell to the ground, and that's probably what the bloody battle looked like.

However, just as the centurions were about to raise their swords and cheer, a majestic trumpet shattered everyone's illusions. The Roman soldiers were surprised to find that the Gallic infantry group, which had just fought with them for a long time, was only the vanguard of this large army, and even said that it was only some of the weakest militias, some farmers and hunters temporarily recruited by various tribes, and the army that appeared next was the real main force of the Gauls in this battle.

Apis and the other centurions saw that a terrifying Gallic army was approaching in the places where the Gallic stragglers had been defeated.

Vicintoli mimicked the Cimbri man-wall tactics of a hundred years earlier, in which the Gallic soldiers were chained across their waists and marched in unison, and although the whole line seemed to be moving very slowly, it was like a human wall.

Because, dozens or even hundreds of people were chained, and the soldiers had no chance to escape. Imagine that when a soldier wants to flee, his waist is tied to his teammates, and the entire chain must be chosen to flee before the team can truly escape. However, with heavy chains around their waists, the soldiers could not run fast and were easily overtaken by the Romans. The chances of escape are slim. Therefore, today, all the Gallic soldiers know that since they have been tied to this team, they have no chance to escape on the battlefield, and the only way to survive is to defeat the Romans.

The main force of the Gallic coalition came from the opposite side. This kind of scene was never seen not only by the Roman soldiers, but also by the generals of the legions, and Rabienus had never seen such a formation in the eight years he had followed Caesar in Gaul. And Appis, only in the history books, read about similar tactics and formations. The chain of Germanic human walls, at the beginning, Marius led the new Roman army that he had just trained to fight against the group of Germanic madmen. Eventually, the Romans fought a bloody battle with the Cimbri. However, historical records are words after all, and at this moment, when Apis himself stood on the battlefield of blood mist and confusion, facing the crazy counterattack of the Gauls, his heart still unconsciously trembled for the scene in front of him.

"Archer!"

Rabienus regained his composure and shouted to the hundreds of Roman auxiliary archers behind him, perhaps, there was only one way to stop the beasts from advancing, to destroy them with ranged weapons before they could approach the Legionary phalanx. At the very least, every fallen Gaul would drag the soldiers on the entire chain forward.

But......

The Romans had too few ranged troops, with only eight hundred Creek archers and a very small number of Germanic hunters, and the siege troops pulled ropes and loaded ammunition on the high ground with all their might. However, this also takes time. And the Roman legionnaires below the heights were already panicking. Although they had defeated the Gallic army in numerous battles before, this time, it seemed that a crisis had arrived.

"Brothers, do not flinch, do not fear. No matter what we are about to face next, the gods are with us! God bless Rome! ”

Appis returned to the position of the First Brigade and stood at the head of the group, yelling.

The two guards beside him, one on the left and one on the right, looked resolute as if they were protecting important military personnel of the legion.

Soon, the Roman legions, organized by the centurions, regrouped and formed a tight phalanx, and the soldiers gathered their shields and lined up in dense "tortoiseshell formations".

On the opposite side, the Gauls rained down waves of arrows.

obscured the sun's brilliance.

Then, a rain of arrows struck the phalanx of the Roman legions, making a tinkling and knocking sound, and the entire Roman legionary position was the sound of this dense blow. It's like thousands of locusts sweeping through the town in autumn.

The Gauls were advancing, and all the Roman soldiers in the front row were staring closely in the direction the barbarians were coming, and the soldiers in the back row observed the movement in front through the gaps in their comrades in the front row. Everyone clenched their daggers and waited for the worst moment to come.

"Fight! Like a lion, go to battle! ”

Finally, a second before the Gauls approached the phalanx, Rabienus gave the order to attack.

Appis led the phalanx and squeezed towards the oncoming wall of the Gallic Irons.

One of the most tragic scenes since the Gallic Wars took place, when thousands of Roman and Gallic soldiers fought in close quarters on a narrow front, with strong wooden shields, sharp weapons, and the determination and courage to fight to the death. The Roman soldier stabbed the Gallic man into the left shoulder, while the opposite Gallic soldier cut off the Roman soldier's right shoulder with an axe. The Roman soldiers slammed their shields into the chest of the Gallic infantry, and the Gallic soldiers also responded with round shields, striking the Roman infantry in the face. Everything, here, is so bloody.

Appis dodged the slash of a Gallic warrior and swept with his arm, the short sword in his hand slicing open the abdomen of the Gallic warrior in front of him. Suddenly, the severed belly flowed bloody intestines from the abdominal cavity. However, the Gallic warriors in front of him had not yet surrendered, he had no way to retreat, he could only fight to the death, and his comrades around him were either killed in battle, or they were still fighting bloodily, and they were chained to their waists, and there was no possibility of retreating at all, so they could only continue to fight until the blood dried up.

He covered the place where his intestines flowed out and fought with one hand. The axe slammed down.

However, he was so wounded that he moved slowly, and Appis saw the direction in which the axe was coming from, and brandished his legionary sword, cutting off the Gallic warrior's arm entirely!

The severed arm splattered, blood spurting down Appis's face. A thick smell of blood instantly seeped into Appis's nostrils. With the warm breath of blood, Appis did not have time to show mercy, but directly stabbed the Gallic soldier in the throat with another sword. ended his life happily.

On the whole front, there is this kind of bloody scene, the battlefield of men's blood, here, it is not like this at all, it is so bloody and terrifying, like hell, there is only killing, continuous killing, until everyone becomes a bloodthirsty devil. Even their own soldiers will raise their swords against each other after the killing spree, only to find out that it is their teammates...... (To be continued.) )