138.The Decisive Battle (I)

"Archer, prepare!"

Rabbi Enus shouted orders to the ranged troops to prepare for the projection. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Finally, when the Gauls came into Apis' sight, Apis saw the most magnificent scene of the ancient Roman battlefield. It is also the grandest scene I have seen since I crossed over.

Tens of thousands of Gallic infantry formed the first line of battle and slowly advanced towards the Roman legionary positions. They are like a sea of dark clouds on the horizon, the black oppressive crowd of people, and the earth shakes with every step. Rolling dust flew all over the sky, making it impossible to see anything behind the sea of infantry. In such a scene, Apis finds that his existence is so small, like a plankton in the sea, the dust of the universe. The sea of tens of thousands of Gallic infantry seemed to drown itself in an instant.

However, I still have to fight, and I have a sense of déjà vu in the movie of the apocalyptic battle.

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"Launch!"

The Gauls marched in unison, and finally, when they were close enough, Rabienus gave the order to shoot in general.

Catapults and ballistae on the high ground were the first to throw the first rounds of arrows and stone projectiles at the place where the Gallic army was concentrated.

Standing in the phalanx of the legions, Apis saw countless meteor-sized boulders cut through the sky and fall into the sea of Gallic allies...... The explosive impact of hundreds of boulders even reaching the Roman legionary phalanx was incomparable. In an instant, the Gallic coalition army, which had been marching on foot, roared and charged after the bombardment......

It was like a crowd of beasts galloping. The Gauls roared and roared, and the Celtic warriors, holding a strong round shield in one hand and a sharp Gallic sword in the other, charged at the positions of the Roman legions. Beside him, there were countless barbarian soldiers, armed with rudimentary axes and short spears, charging bravely.

On the side of the legion, all the soldiers in the front row, also led by Appis, raised the Roman heavy javelin in their hands - Pyrus.

Finally, a second before the heavy javelin was fired, thousands of arrows were the first to sprinkle gold in the Gallic crowd.

"Radiation!"

Appis followed the order.

In an instant, on the first front, two lines of firepower staggered under the cover of the raid. The Gallic soldiers in front of him fell in pieces as if they had been strafed by machine gun fire!

A scream was mixed with a roar, and in the next second, a terrifying scene appeared, those crazy Gauls did not fear half a minute under the dense long-range attack of the Romans, but rushed forward even more bloodthirsty and furious, they stepped on the corpses of their companions, picked up their companions' weapons, and slammed into the Roman defense line.

The tragic moment seems to be another silent moment. The Gallic soldiers, with round shields or brute force, crashed into the Roman legions' defenses.

In the next second, the shield wall even appeared in many cracks under the violent impact, and there were always soldiers who were not strong enough to be knocked down by this terrifying brute force, and the soldiers in the back row did not make up in time. As a result, the entire front line suddenly made many Gauls rush into the gap in the phalanx. Fight the legionary infantry in the phalanx.

"Hold your ground, for the sake of Rome!"

The barbarians had rammed in, Apis shouted, settling the line. However, the next moment, Appis realized that his voice was so small in such a frenzied battlefield, and it was even quickly drowned out in the furious roar of the barbarians. They are like crazy swarms, constantly pouring into the Legion's defenses.

"Hold on, Sekras!"

Appis squeezed into the middle of the Eagle Banner Brigade and patted the shoulder of the legion veteran Sekras, saying, The Eagle Banner Brigade is up to you.

Seklas quickly understood what Apis meant, and nodded at Apis, the blood had stained his face red, and the barbarians were frantically pouring into the phalanx line. There was no time to say a sensational goodbye, and Apis struggled to squeeze into the center of the third centurion, where the pressure on the Legion's defense line was greatest. It seems that the main force of the Gallic infantry was encountered here, and hundreds of elite Gallic warriors were struggling to tear through the Roman defenses here.

Appis rushed forward and slashed a sword in the belly of one of the Gallic warriors who had squeezed in. However, he kicked his body away, and let the blood flow freely.

Soon, the second and third Gallic warriors rushed towards the gap, their weapons and equipment even elite by the ordinary infantry of the legion. Appis knew that they were the noble warriors of the Gallic tribes, who had been trained in military affairs since childhood, and unlike most of the makeshift levies in the Gallic army, they were not farmers, blacksmiths, or hunters. They are the children of the nobility of the tribe, and the only purpose of their existence is to go to war to kill the enemy and win the honor of the family, just like the Romans, the Gauls have their own noble family and their own concept of honor. And most of these Gallic noble warriors existed to go to the battlefield, so their combat effectiveness was actually completely defeated by the individual soldiers of the Roman legions.

"Steady!"

In the midst of the surging crowd, Apis roared loudly and fought with each of the legion's infantry, and the eagle banner stood not far away, symbolizing that the legion's position was entrenched here. Taking a step back from here is regarded by Caesar as an act of escape, and when you return, you will be punished by the Law of Eleven Killing. Stimulated by torture and glory, money, the Roman soldiers also began to fight back like madmen.

The fine, sharp dagger twitched back and forth in Appis's hand, and with each stab into a Gaul, the blood on the dagger became thicker, and thick blood flowed from the dagger with broken internal organs. It would be a hard-fought battle, and Appis knew that even such a terrible battle was only the beginning of a great battle in Roman Gaul.

Arrows and rocks flew overhead, flying and raining down on the Gauls' positions. Blood was like a fountain that stained large swathes of land behind the Celtic front.

A Celtic swordsman threw away the shield stabbed by the Roman heavy javelin and flew into the phalanx of the Legions, holding a large axe in his hand, and when he took off, like a black beast, he pounced into the red phalanx of the Roman legions.

Under the light of the early spring sun, the barbarian's body left a dark shadow above the shield wall of the legionary phalanx, and the moment he saw the barbarian pounce, Appis had no time to think, and directly grabbed the heavy javelin of a legionary infantry beside him, and instinctively aimed the javelin at the direction where the barbarian pounced......

In the next second, the Celtic swordsman flew into the Roman legion phalanx, but was impaled through the body by the Roman heavy javelin in the hand of Appis. The barbarian screamed in the air, and when he landed, he overwhelmed Appis, who had been commanding the entire hundred-man team. Scarlet blood stained Appis's entire body...... (To be continued.) )