43. Hunting & Layout

The barbarians slaughtered in a frenzy, their long golden hair fluttering and their axes swinging in the air like a black flood rushing towards the thin line of Roman grain carriers. The sound of flesh and blood being pierced and torn immediately sounded in the air, accompanied by the crisp sound www.biquge.info of weapons hitting the shield, and the forest path once again became a devilish place of death.

The barbarian soldiers roared into the three-layer defense line composed of the Roman legion infantry, the Germanic giant axe and the Batar sword frantically slashed at the shield wall of the Roman legion, making a terrifying blow, and the Roman soldiers hiding under the big shield were desperately protecting the shield in front of them, looking for the opportunity to aim at the enemy's white belly, coldly stabbing their short swords from the gaps in the shield wall, more than a dozen barbarian infantry were ruthlessly slaughtered after the killing, their abdomen was pierced by the sharp short sword, cut, blood sausage and various internal organs flowed out, and then, the fallen Germanic warrior screamed and was killed by the Roman soldiers in the front row with a short sword.

Some of the Germans in the back row rushed directly to the baggage convoy, and the cargo boxes pulled by the horses became the treasures of these Germanic people, because they believed that their teammates would be able to finish off the Roman dwarfs who were still resisting in a short time.

Several barbarian soldiers excitedly walked to the front of the carriage and opened the closed carriage door, but the scene that followed was not countless gold and silver jewels, but cold spears and sharp swords, and the elite Roman infantry lurking in the carriage stabbed their heads with spears the moment the Germans opened the carriage. A Germanic warrior was impaled in the cheek on the spot, blood gushing out, and he collapsed weakly, disturbed by the sudden ambush, even the bravest warrior would panic, and several Germanic people immediately threw down their weapons and fled. The counter-ambush arranged by Apis was not intended to allow the barbarian infantry to escape, and soon, more Roman soldiers poured out of the wagons full of grain and straw, and each wagon carrying grain had lurking legionnaires, and the barbarian soldiers who attacked the convoy panicked.

The Germanic warriors who tried to retreat and flee were shot to the ground with javelins by Roman soldiers who jumped out of the carriage. Soon, the besieged Roman grain conscription squad began to fight back, and the Roman soldiers, half-kneeling on the ground, fought with the barbarians under the protection of iron armor and heavy shields.

However, the barbarian soldiers, who had no way out, were also extremely fierce. They grabbed the shields of the Roman soldiers and dragged them hard, trying to remove these annoying big creatures from the bodies of the Roman soldiers, so that their axes and long swords could slash at the opponent's body, but the Roman soldiers held the shields tightly, and the comrades on the side brutally cut off the barbarians' fingers and arms, and the scene was extremely bloody, and the stumps and broken arms were covered all over the battlefield, and the blood flowed and soaked the black ground.

The leader of the tribe swung a huge battle axe and smashed the steel helmets of the Roman legionnaires in front of him, and blood continued to seep through the broken helmets. When another legionary infantryman tried to approach his assassination, he was struck by the barbarian leader's axe and fell on his back, before being brutally beheaded by the barbarian leader. However, more Roman soldiers then pounced, they threw away their large shields in order to make their bodies more flexible, and when the barbarian leader shook his battle axe to threaten the approaching Roman infantry in front, the legionnaires who came up in the rear sent the short sword directly into the barbarian leader's body, and the Roman soldier held the sword in both hands and plunged it into the tribal leader's spine from top to bottom, and the thick blood suddenly splashed the Roman soldier's face, and the barbarian leader almost immediately knelt down, and he tried to stand up, He was assassinated by two other Roman soldiers, one on the left and one on the right.

The sharp Roman dagger pierced the chieftain's leather armor and pierced the barbarian leader's body full of holes. It's like bleeding from a corpse. The barbarian chieftain in charge of the raid died a painful death under the sword and sword assassination of the Roman soldiers.

The wild forest trails were littered with corpses in less than a Roman time, most of them unrecognizable and mutilated......

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"Apis, according to your request, the soldiers are kept alive as much as possible, this is our trophy for today."

Oscar returned to the barracks from the bloody land, and before he had time to take off his bloody armor, he found Appis and reported on today's exploits and encounters. Behind him were dozens of Germanic people who were tightly tied. Their muscles bulged, their faces looked angry, and they were obviously extremely reluctant to be tied here and become prisoners of the Romans.

And Appis has its own special use for these people.

"Oscar, you deserve to be commended for your bravery, and the Twelfth Legion should be proud of you. Sekras, take your men down to the tent and receive five hundred dinars as a reward for the Oscars. ”

Looking at the low-ranking centurion Oscar, who was covered in blood but was extremely excited, Apis said with a smile. Despite the blood stained on the centurion's body, Apis leaned in and embraced the brave centurion of the Legion with the friendship of his comrades. At the same time, a bold anti-plan took shape in Appis's mind.

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"So, you deliberately kept the Germanic spies in order to wait for this day to come?"

Back in his own tent, Apis revealed his plans to Crane, Crassus Jr., and Flaminius.

"Yes, all the Germanic spies who entered the camp came from a difficult place, those barbarians, who wanted to bribe the Gauls to achieve their own ends, but their bounties were too small."

After Appis finished speaking, his mood couldn't help but relax. In Germania, the war that had been suppressed for a long time could be opened up by this time. Crassus, on the other hand, disagreed with Appis's plan.

"If these Germanic spies won't go back and report to their leaders, or if the Germanic leaders won't come to the rescue of their accomplices? Or do they see that this is a trap we have set? ”

"Yes, there are some possibilities, but tactical fiction has always been the case. We can't guarantee that the other person will believe it absolutely, but as long as it is possible, it is worth trying. It's been a month since the Germanic spies infiltrated our barracks, and now they are reluctant to leave, proving that, in their minds, they still think that we are unaware of their presence, that they think that they are well hidden, and that under the influence of this psychology they think that what they see is also true. That's where the opportunity came in. Our Opportunity. ”

Appis replied confidently.