"Brothers, tonight, Marcus will lead two thousand infantry to storm from the main gate of the city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And we, from here, across this bay, from behind the ass of the enemy, launch a surprise attack! Yes, don't question my judgment, here it is. ”

On the night of the rising stars, when Apis stood on a high stone platform and spoke loudly to the three hundred infantry of the Tenth Legion, the eyes of these Roman soldiers were undoubtedly full of confusion. What they saw before them was a vast sea, and their commander Appis wanted them to cross the strait? To capture the city of New Carthage, on the other side of the sea, was an almost impossible task. A legionary infantryman who had survived the shipwreck thus shouted—

"But Commander, there's a sea in front of us?"

"Yes, it is still a sea of blue death, but Poseidon told me last night that tonight he will be here to carve out a path of victory to the enemy city, to the other side. This is God's instruction, and we must believe it! ”

Faced with the soldier's question, Apis explained aloud. As soon as the words fell, the Roman infantrymen present suddenly showed extremely surprised eyes. Because the previous shipwreck had made them less trusting of the words of the sacrifice, at this time, Apis once again mentioned the god they had prayed to before this trip, the sea god Poseidon. And, this time, Appis's statement is even more mysterious and magical. If, as Apis said, in the second half of the night, there will be a road leading to the other side of the sea, then the soldiers will undoubtedly kneel down to worship their commander, and at the same time offer the most abundant and extravagant offerings to the god of the sea.

The road that Apis refers to as appearing on the surface of the sea is just a special feature that appears here in the second half of the night, after the tide of the sea has receded. At that time, the water level will become so shallow that the soldiers will only need to pull up their skirts and wade through the water, just as the heavens have opened a path for the Roman legions.

Of course, this secret Apis would not tell anyone.

That night, when the moon rose, the main gate of New Carthage was filled with the roar of Roman legions' siege engines. The 2,000 soldiers of the 10th and 11th Legions, who survived the shipwreck, began to attack the main gate of the city frantically, they had no way back, if the siege failed, the defenders of the city would inevitably chase them out, at that time, with the number of survivors, they could not resist these Spanish defenders.

Crassus the Younger led a large force to storm the front, while Appis led three hundred legionary veterans to ambush in a grove on the other side of the city. In the distance, the roar of the siege could be faintly heard, which was supposed to be the sound of a boulder thrown by a catapult hitting the city wall. And the three hundred veterans of the Legion waited with Appis, waiting for the appearance of the so-called miracle in the second half of the night......

"Now, brothers, take up your shields, weapons, follow in my footsteps, and respond to the call of the sea god!"

Finally, in the middle of the night, in the early hours of the morning, the tide on the beach outside the city had almost receded. Appis jumped up from the cold night and cheered loudly, while the veterans of the Tenth Legion beside him looked at the sea in front of them in amazement, and then at their commander, with a bewildered expression.

"But, General, there is no cross-sea avenue in front of you."

A Roman soldier from Numidia shouted.

"Brothers, do not think that the road laid for us by the god of the sea is the dry and square road that you imagine, the road that Poseidon has prepared for us is the road on the sea, he is the god of the sea, not Jupiter, behold, this is the way he has prepared for us."

Appis said, stepping into the icy waters. All the soldiers looked nervous and surprised, they did not know whether what their commander said was true or false, and the guards did not dare to drag Apis ashore, because if what Apis said was true, then now, any of their questioning actions and thoughts would be a blasphemy against Poseidon, the god of the sea.

In the astonished eyes of everyone, Appis stepped into this sea step by step. And the terrain here, in fact, Appis had already been surveyed two days earlier. It is confirmed that this is the place where Scipio crossed the sea and attacked the Carthaginians. At the moment, its waters will be at their shallowest time. Appis was armed and far from the shore, and only then did the soldiers on the coast have to believe that what their commander said was the truth, and that Poseidon had really opened a shortcut to victory for the Tenth Legion.

The soldiers began to cheer, they had never seen such a direct and strange miracle, and in the same way, when Scipio passed through this sea a hundred years ago, he would not tell his men that he had actually discovered the special terrain of this place firsthand, and no one knew, just like Apis at this moment, taking advantage of the worship of the gods of the Roman soldiers, to ignite the morale of everyone.

"For Rome!"

An hour later, when Appis appeared on the shores of the city with three hundred elite veterans of the Tenth Legion, the defenders of the city were almost unprepared, and the commander of the city of New Carthage had gathered all the soldiers to the main gate, while fewer than fifty soldiers remained on the coast, and they were scattered. When Appis's elite veterans raided the city walls, the defenders on the walls even gave up their resistance and fled into the city.

And on the frontal battlefield, the army led by Crassus the Younger almost attacked the city. The Roman defenders in the city had to fight their opponents with the same tactics. There are no tactics to speak of.

They fought at the top of the city, and an arrow shot down from the tower and into the crevices of the armor of the Tenth Legion, making a terrible killing sound. The sound of flesh piercing through the spearhead kept coming, and it spread throughout the battlefield.

In the firelight, Appis led this elite army with high morale to fight from the rear, and surrounded the Roman defenders at the head of the city with the army of Crassus the Younger.

Their spears, heavy javelins, were thrown at each other, and they stabbed each other with Roman short swords. Appis sideways dodged a sword from the Roman soldier in front of him, and then the Roman dagger in his hand stabbed down from the top of the shield and pierced the soldier's cheek. A large amount of blood and slime suddenly wrapped around the short sword in Appis's hand, and when he pulled it out again, thick blood splattered on Appis's big shield. (To be continued.) )