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The Roman army, which had been stationed in Britain, finally faced their greatest difficulty since encampment, and the grain conscription sent by Apis was seized by the Seclany tribe who had been subservient to Rome. Not only that, but the tribesmen also brought the soldiers of the Appis conscription outside the camp, ready to use the blood of these soldiers to provoke the Roman army......

Dennis walked in and said in a low voice. Through the sad look on the old centurion's face, Appis knew that something was in trouble.

As he walked out of the tent and came to the wooden wall, an ominous premonition came true. More than a dozen Roman legionnaires were held hostage by a tribal army of thousands and pushed into battle.

In the angry eyes of the Romans, these barbarians began to provoke the Roman soldiers in the camp with blood sacrifices.

"They're trying to lure us into battle, Appis, you have to be calm!"

Dennis grabbed the enraged Apis, the old centurion who had some trouble with Apis, but in the face of the survival of the legion, Dennis still did not let his personal emotions affect the command of the army.

"I'm calm, Dennis. I sent people out, and I must be responsible for their lives. Let me fight, Centurion, and I'll bring them back. ”

Outside the city, the first member of the Roman grain convoy had already been executed by the British, and the Sekrani tribal chief brutally slit his throat and then caught the blood of the Roman soldiers in buckets like animals, and they were going to sacrifice the blood of the Romans to their gods.

The bloody barbarism aroused the anger of the Roman soldiers in the camp, but there was also fear, because the barbarians outside the camp were not dozens, hundreds, but thousands, although there were more than a thousand legionnaires in the camp, but who knows how many barbarian soldiers there were behind that forest? Maybe it was only the Britons who came forward to provoke the British?

The soldiers hesitated in horror and anger, and it was not until Appis began to count the legionnaires who had left his camp that they were silent. There is no doubt that it will be difficult to rescue the comrades of the grain conscription team, whether they go to war or not. Any hundred-man team that leaves the barracks gate will face a siege by barbarian troops several times their size.

"Sekras, come here, come with me."

"Asus, Minok, Kurtilas, come, come with me."

It was drizzling in the sky, and Appis took the roll call one by one, and the number of people he brought with him would not exceed forty, not even a hundred-man team, but they were all veterans of a hundred battles in the legion.

When facing barbarians who are several times their size, the number of soldiers is not the key, the quality is the point. Otherwise, no matter how many people you bring with you, you will also collapse when you go out of the camp and see the fierce barbarians pounce on them like wild dogs. When the time comes, let alone rescue, I am afraid that I will become the object of the next blood sacrifice of the barbarians......

Outside the camp, the brutal torture of the barbarian leader continued, and the faces of the veterans of the legion who were named were full of determination, if in such a scene, there was absolutely no fear, it was impossible, but the veterans were like this, what kind of desperate situation, what kind of scene they had seen, and they were mentally prepared for everything that was coming, so that the moment the camp gate was opened, they would not tremble because they were afraid of the impending danger.

"Roaring ......"

The barbarian leader slashed the throat of another Roman soldier with another knife at the roar of the tribal warrior. This is already the third legionary infantry to be sacrificed by blood. The few remaining legionnaires of the conscription party were already shivering with fear, and some of them were even wet under the block. Some of the soldiers bowed their heads and prayed quickly to the Roman gods that they would not die at the hands of the barbarians.

"Soldier, move quickly, follow me."

The companions in front were being slaughtered, and Appis had all the extra time to think about how to arrange tactics, so he led the half hundred-man team and quickly approached the barbarian army. Dennis had already assembled another death squad in the camp, ready to pick up Appis' forces at any time. The Roman centurions chose to unite at a critical moment, because it was a matter of life and death for thousands of legionnaires.

The British drizzle hit the faces of the legionnaires, on the armor. The closer the barbarians were, the more a beastly threat came to the minds of every legionary infantry who left the camp.

It wasn't until the leader of Sekrani roared loudly that the barbarians of all the tribes pounced like a pack of wild beasts on the Roman squad that was in progress......

"Listen to my orders, siege formation!"

Ahead were the barbarians who were charging wildly, and Appis gave the order to form a "tortoiseshell formation" a moment before these barbarian soldiers rushed up.

This was just a short order, but it was all the hope and hope of this operation, the number and strength of the barbarian warriors crushed the Roman soldiers, and only by relying on the superiority of formation and equipment could there be hope of defeating these barbarians. This was Appis' only thought before he set out.

With the Roman shield on his chest and his tight helmet obscuring his vision, he reappeared as he had landed in Britain for the first time, a large number of barbarians brainlessly charging the phalanx of Roman legions that were gathering on the beach under the roar of their leader. The scene here is so similar to the landing battle two months ago.

The moment the barbarians pounced, time tended to freeze. At this moment, not only the legion veterans in the "Tortoiseshell Formation" were looking at this group of barbarians, but also the legionnaires on the wooden walls of the camp were also looking at this battle that was almost self-defeating.

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The next moment, dozens of barbarians crashed into the shield wall of the Roman phalanx, they charged brainlessly, jumped high, and the rough blunt weapon slashed from top to bottom in their hands, Appis saw a black shadow attack in front of him, and a barbarian directly crossed over to the top of the phalanx. However, a legion veteran severed the barbarian's ankle with a short sword. Blood immediately spilled on his face.

Hundreds of barbarian troops surrounded a phalanx of only forty people, and axes, long swords, and wooden clubs kept hitting the shield wall, making a muffled sound. But the Roman veterans also stretched out their short swords from the shield wall and stabbed the Britons who came up with ease. Soon, blood again stained the shields, armor, faces and helmets of the Roman legionnaires' infantry.

Under the strong pressure, the legion phalanx barely had room to move, and the entire "tortoiseshell array" was wrapped in a dense group of barbarians, like a swarm of bees surrounding a strong hornet, making a noisy and uncontrollable howl.

The muddy ground beneath his feet was dripping with the blood of a large number of barbarian soldiers, and Appis gripped his shield again, slamming into the barbarian in front of him who was slashing at him......