The Numidian cavalry made it impossible for the light infantry of the 7th Corps to move out smoothly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info scattered light infantry was a live target for cavalry. So little Crassus could only order to shoot these desert cavalry with a rain of arrows.

In the next second, the rain of arrows shot by the Roman auxiliary legions was like locusts sweeping across the earth, densely covered, obscuring the light of the scorching sun, with a piercing sound, and sprinkled on the Numidian cavalry in front of the position of the Seventh Legion.

The rain of arrows was undoubtedly a fatal blow to these unarmoured Numidian cavalry. Without stirrups and having to throw spears on horseback, the Numidian cavalry in Africa was not even equipped with a small round shield, and had to hold the saddle with one hand to hold their bodies in place while running and throwing.

Now, a rain of arrows from the Roman auxiliaries struck and shot the scattered Numidian cavalry on their backs.

However, just as everyone was cheering, behind this group of desert cavalry, a roar like a hellish sky sounded. A vague tall figure suddenly appeared in people's sight. Undoubtedly, it was Agrippa's army of war elephants.

Huge African war elephants, clad in bronze armor, neighed and began to charge, like moving hills, and in front of them was a group of Roman legionary hoplites with no experience in dealing with war elephants. The size and size of the war elephant immediately put a burst of pressure on the Roman soldiers in the front row. Even if they're still far away.

"Launch! All catapults! ”

Behind the corps front, the commander of the engineering brigade shouted with all his might. His dagger swung forward. Suddenly, all long-range siege artillery guns were fired at the same time.

Extremely brilliant fires appeared in the sky, and the ignited cannons swept across the sky, leaving behind tails of black smoke and flying towards the Numidian war elephants on the opposite side.

Standing on the high ground on the right and commanding the cavalry troops, Appis saw this scene and sighed with emotion such a spectacular scene on the ancient battlefield, but at the same time he sweated for the upcoming fierce battle, not knowing that his heavy infantry and light infantry would be able to block the impact of the twelve war elephants of Agrippa.

The flint shattered into countless pieces after falling to the ground, and the splashed sparks spread all over the path of the war elephant's charge. However, these big guys don't seem to be intimidated by this. Continue to charge wildly. Immediately, archers and small scorpion artillery of the 7th and 8th legions also began to shoot.

The auxiliary archer plunged the arrow into the flaming fire trough, lit the flame, and fired it without having time to aim, raining rockets down from the sky. However, the Numidian African war elephants charged faster than the Roman legions had estimated. They came faster than even the horses.

Most of the rockets even fell behind the war elephants, while the frenzied African elephant herds had already rushed in front of the Roman hoplites......

With a gigantic body wrapped in copper sheets, and a terrifying and piercing roar, the heavy infantry of Appis's legion felt as if the whole earth was trembling. And the spears fired by the light infantry could not penetrate the armor of the war elephants.

In the next moment, eleven huge African war elephants smashed through the steel defense line composed of Roman heavy infantry with extremely terrifying charging power.

The soldiers in the front row did not even have time to escape, and despite their training before the battle, when these huge beasts rushed wildly in armor on the battlefield, the strong visual and auditory stimuli still made many people frightened, and even frightened. They all ran back.

Eleven Numidian African war elephants roared through the crowd, and the Romans' proud phalanx of heavy infantry was weakened by the onslaught of wild beasts, and fell apart in an instant.

The crushed flesh and blood adhered to the curved armor all over the battlefield, the screams of the soldiers were like the wails of hell, and the so-called courage and glory became worthless.

The experienced centurion tried to regroup the phalanx to counterattack, but the scene was out of control. When a female elephant in ornate armor rushed past the centurion, he raised his heavy javelin and threw himself at the ravaging and manic elephant.

The javelin shot the skin under the eyes of the she-elephant, and the she-elephant was enraged, let out a loud scream, and ran towards the Roman centurion who threw the javelin at her. There was no time to escape, and the raging African war elephant lifted her thigh, which was wider than a pillar, and stomped on the fleeing centurion.

The next moment, a huge black shadow fell, and the sound of bones and steel shattering could be heard in the air...... When the war elephant lifted its legs and left, the ground was already a mass of crushed flesh and broken iron......

The terrifying war elephant rampaged through the crowd, curling the body of a legionary infantryman with its thick nose and throwing him far away like a toy.

The tossed legionnaire "flew" in the air and was accidentally impaled by the spears of other Roman soldiers......

By the time he landed, blood had already poured out of the shattered body.

"Everyone, charge!"

Seeing that the war elephant raid had been successful, Agrippa shouted excitedly.

Ten thousand Numidian infantry, javelinmen, and five thousand Roman legionary hoplites then struck the broken gap of Appis' Seventh Legion......

On the shores of Africa, the yellow sand was rolling, and the Numidian army and the Agrippa heavy infantry raised dust and even obscured the scorching sun, and everyone was in extreme excitement, shouting and killing.

And Appis, who was standing on the high ground, was already in a hurry, all his tactics were disrupted, and he was originally going to let the infantry resist the war elephants, and then outflank Agrippa's African coalition forces from the flank. But now it seems that the infantry battle has not yet begun, and its own phalanx has been shattered. The soldier's experience is a hard wound.

In desperation, Apis had to lead his Germanic cavalry to aid the main army.

The horses galloped down from the highland woods, but were stopped by a large number of Numidian cavalry on the way.

"Kill it!"

Appis roared on his warhorse.

The Germanic cavalry around them suddenly rushed towards the Numidian desert cavalry that was blocking their advance like a group of wild beasts. A bloody battle of cavalry broke out again.

After the skirmish of the previous landing on the coast, these Germanic cavalry had no qualms about the Numidian cavalry. The Numidian riders, on horseback, threw javelins and spears, but were intercepted by the well-armed Germanic cavalry with large shields. The manic barbarian knights then rushed to the unarmoured Numidian cavalry.

Fierce hand-to-hand combat ensued between the two sides.

This time, once again, the results speak for themselves, the Germanic guards of Apis were almost armed to the teeth with hoplites, and the Numidian cavalry was mostly some bare-chested light cavalry. In the short battle, the limbs of the African cavalry were unloaded, and the severed arms and blood splashes flew in the air.

The captain of the Germanic cavalry beside Apis even cut off the enemy's head with a sword as he charged. The rising human head flew in the air, and when it landed, it was trampled by the hooves of the cavalry horses that followed behind, and the flesh and blood were blurred......