The horses' hooves trampled on the ground with a dull sound, as if they were playing drums, and swept through them with the rising dust and mist.

"They...... Charge? Mirates was full of surprise, and he involuntarily raised his hand, full of confusion: "The Eastern Han Empire shouldn't have made such a mistake?" They charged the heavy infantry!? ”

Yes, the fifty horsemen were already in full formation, and all the horsemen were picking up so much speed that the sound of horses' hooves began to become more and more frequent, and gradually the sound of horses' hooves on the ground became one.

In the face of the cavalry of the Eastern Han Empire, the Romans were also stunned, in their concept, the heavy infantry formed a shield array, and then the javelinmen were attached, and any cavalry would suffer heavy losses.

Trumpets sounded again in the phalanx of the Romans' infantry, and javelins were thrown from behind their shields. Because the line of sight is blocked, the javelin thrown out is almost untargeted, and can only play a small role in attracting attention.

Amid the sound of horses' hooves, a desolate horn sounded in the cavalry ranks belonging to the Empire, and the formation that had been Ya Feng suddenly separated and became two teams. They headed for the left and right wings, their shields and spears back into their slots, took out their bows and began to fire arrows at the left and right wings of the Romans at the sound of desolate trumpets.

The range of a riding bow is not that far, that is, it shoots a hundred meters, and if you want to throw a projectile, you even need to enter within seventy meters.

"What do they mean?" Apollodas was slightly stunned and said: "For a moment, I thought that the cavalry of the Han Empire was about to charge, but it turned out to be ......"

Cavalry archery was not difficult for the Imperial cavalry who had fought in the steppe wars, and when they fought against the Hu people on the steppe, they fought a war of movement, and rarely had the opportunity to deal with an enemy with poor mobility.

The Romans were also constantly throwing javelins, but because of their large size, the javelins really couldn't fly fast, and they were not very threatening for cavalry with plenty of space to evade in advance.

"They're trying to keep our people busy." The expression on Ullius' face was grim, and he said, "Only a veteran would have such an experience." Your Excellency, we have encountered a cavalry of veterans of a hundred battles. ”

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers narrowed his eyes, which of the samurai he chose to accompany him was not experienced in a hundred battles?

"They were calm and showed a lot of patience." Ulilius bowed and said sincerely: "Your Excellency, I don't think there is any point in continuing, we ......"

Halfway through the conversation, Kiruslivi. Luce. Scipio. Calvers saw that the javelin thrown seemed to shoot a cavalryman of the Eastern Han Empire, and the cavalryman who was shot by the cavalry disappeared from his horse, he searched for a while and did not find the body on the ground, but the next moment he saw that the cavalryman who should have been shot off the horse suddenly appeared on the horseback again.

The desolate trumpets sounded again, and this time the galloping cavalry scattered irregularly, and the scene became a circle of fifty or so horsemen huddled together in a circle, with arrows constantly being fired in all directions.

"Didn't you just shoot?" Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers was a little confused, and he muttered, "Isn't that right? I saw that it was shot! ”

"By the time the spear approached, the force had already softened, and the cavalryman just turned around and grabbed the spear." Ullius had a nice look in his eyes, and he explained: "When he turned around, the cavalryman leaned down. Speaking of this, he paused, as if he had discovered a big secret, and said with some excitement: "Under their feet, there is that thing to support, let him complete that action!" ”

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Culvers's attention wasn't there, and he was very stubborn in his belief that there had been a shot just now.

In fact, it was really shot just now, and the white scratch on the knight's chest is very indicative of this problem. It's just that almost when the collision occurred, the knight twisted his body, the javelin lost kinetic energy in the collision, and when he twisted, he was caught in his hand, and the knight's body fell down because of inertia.

The Imperial standard plate armor is five millimeters thick, and the surface of the plate armor has been repeatedly waxed, which has a strong smoothness, and has an amplitude as a cushion, which has a good elastic slip effect in the face of the impact of sharp objects.

About ten minutes had passed since the engagement, and the Imperial cavalry was still in a state of zero casualties, and they circled around the Romans, and then distanced themselves to the sound of a desolate trumpet, and then formed two more teams.

"The war horse has warmed up, right?" Tang De has always been as calm as water, and he didn't speak after a long time.

"Do you really want to do that?" Wu Shao frowned and said: "We are not a regular army, in order to respond to the provocation of the Romans, it seems ...... to do that"

"We are Imperials!" Tang De suddenly laughed, and he said: "Believe me, even if there is blood today, no one who sheds blood will not shed in vain." ”

Wu Shao stopped talking.

The two groups of cavalry were again approaching the circle formed by the Romans with their shields, and they did not see any sharp weapons with their shields sticking out, nor did they receive javelins thrown within a hundred meters.

The two armed forces that came to Kangju from tens of thousands of miles apart represent different ethnic groups and have different civilizations, from culture to values, and from values to fighting methods, who is a stranger to anyone, and who has no hatred with whom before.

In fact, the Parthians and Bactrians did not understand, they did not understand that they were two countries separated by tens of thousands of miles...... Or race, is it necessary to communicate in a bloody way as soon as we meet?

"Yes! Very necessary! So don't persuade me again! "Kirusrivi. Luce. Scipio. Calvers was sneering, he was not sneering at the Han Empire in the East, he was sad for these small characters. He said: "Any race should compete whenever it has the opportunity to survive in a competitive world. The weak races, they don't understand the point of doing this at all, they think it's ridiculous, that's that they haven't gone to our level. ”

Ulilius couldn't help but blush, but he didn't dare to show any dissatisfaction because he was being despised for it.

The Parthians and Bactria had only just become independent, and although they could be called powerful countries compared to some weak and small countries, they were still incomparably weak compared to the real hegemons.

The European side of the Roman Republic has begun to move towards a hegemonic power, and they initially have the ambition of "invincible with me", and it is precisely because of this mentality that the Romans breed in their hearts, so Rome will continue to grow stronger.

The fact is also that the strong will never be afraid of challenges, the strong should have the courage to challenge, the strong without the heart of challenge is not the real strong, even if it is a short-term rise, it is bound to be quickly replaced by someone else.

The upper echelons of Rome have long known that the world is nothing more than a larger Colosseum, and that any race is just a beast in the Colosseum called the World. In this great Colosseum called the world, the strong should have the courage to challenge, defeat and devour all competitors, so as to make themselves stronger and stronger, in order to deter some weak beasts from obeying them.

"When you come into contact with different races, no matter how strong or weak that race is, there is always something to learn." Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers was full of wisdom, he said: "The Parthians and Bactrians, they repeatedly emphasized the strength of the Han Empire in the East, then there must be something worth learning from as a strong man, especially the Han Empire in the East is far enough away from us!" ”

Ulilius did not understand, all he knew was that over time, at least seventeen of the fifty Romans who had entered the battle had fallen, and that the Roman hoplites had been slowing down as the battle had become longer.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers didn't care when he saw that Ulilius didn't understand. His eyes stared at the cavalry of the Eastern Han Empire who began to charge again, and the corners of his mouth hooked, thinking, "Why are they all stupid?" Watching the strong fight is also a kind of learning in itself! ”

This time, the Imperial cavalry that launched the charge did not look like a feint, there was no reason to reach within fifty meters, and as the distance between the two sides got closer and closer, their speed increased again and again.

A shout of shouts came from within the Romans' shield walls, and the javelins, which had been stopped for a long time, were thrown again, because the Imperial cavalry was walking in a straight line, and because the two sides were close enough, the javelins thrown by the Romans finally had their first results.

There was a scene on the field, it was a galloping cavalryman who hit a flying javelin, and he seemed to want to raise his shield to block, but because the distance was so close, the shield didn't know if it was missed or what, and it actually fell. The expression on his visor was stunned, but his body reacted on its own, and only had time to turn his upper body sideways, and the javelin pierced directly through the writhing shoulder.

The inertia of the war horse rushing forward and the javelin oncoming made the kinetic energy of the knight and the javelin invisibly increase, and the javelin instantly completed penetration when it touched, and the bloody sharp object pierced the human body, and then stuck, leaving directly on the knight's body.

"Hit!" Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers was frowning, and he said: "It seems that the armor of the Eastern Han Empire is very strong, and none of the opponents we have encountered before can prevent the throwing spear thrown within thirty meters from getting stuck. ”

Ullius was more concerned about the other point, and he said, "The knight didn't stop charging, he still kept full speed!" ”

What appears here is not the standard mounted heavy cavalry of the Empire, but a more common kind of assault cavalry, although the assault cavalry and the mounted heavy cavalry are both armor-piercing cavalry, but in the real sense, the armor equipped with heavy cavalry is much thicker than that of assault soldiers.

As the distance got closer, more and more cavalrymen were hit by javelins, but most of the javelins still missed, and the few javelins that hit were blocked by the shields raised by the knights.

I don't know if it was the bad luck of the Romans, or the protection and experience of the imperial cavalry, only one was wounded and one was killed in the process of charging.

The fallen cavalryman also dropped his shield during the gallop, and he almost rammed his own chest into the javelin, which jammed into the corpse and pierced the saddle, leaving the knight "nailed" to the horse. Because it didn't fall, there was a lot of dust at the scene, and no one knew that one of them had died under the javelin, except for the knight who charged together.

"Sure enough, the same weapon, facing different races, will not have the same effect!" Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Kalvers didn't look worried about himself at all, and his face was full of anticipation: "Let's see what happens when the collision happens!" ”

Ulilius identified with Kiruslivi. Luce. Scipio. Calvers's statement, however, began to wonder if Rome needed to carry out reforms, they had not yet encountered an enemy who could resist the javelins, but today he saw the cavalry of the Eastern Han Empire so easily maneuvering against the javelins, and realized the slightest danger, because the medium-range weapons of the Roman legions were really only javelins.

It was indeed about to collide, and a flurry of trumpets came from the mouths of the Romans inside the shield wall, and the words they understood were a reminder to prepare for the impact.

The Imperial cavalry that launched the charge were still silent, and they did not point their cavalry guns at the shield wall, but pointed them at the sky.

The full set of armor of a commandoper is about eighty catties, and if you count the people and the corresponding weapons and horse armor, it should be about three hundred catties, so plus the weight of the war horse itself, how many tons of energy should it bring when galloping and impacting?

In the past, they were always able to rely on the parallel shield walls to defend against any enemy impact, waiting for the enemy to be out of formation, or the attack was frustrated and crowded, that is, the moment of counterattack with a spear of about three meters.

There was a loud bang, and the horse collided with the shield, and then there was a second, and then a third......

The Imperial cavalry flanked from the left and right like pincers, and the horses let out a wail when they hit the shield wall, and the horses on their horses actually flew into the air during the impact. As if they had known this was going to happen, the knights held their breath before the impact and instead abandoned their rifles and held their sabers. The knights who rose into the air looked down, and they saw a number of Roman soldiers armed with spears and short swords.

The Romans knew that riding a horse against a shield wall would throw the knight out, and they were just waiting for this moment. However, things seemed to be a bit unexpected, at least the Han Imperial knights who took off into the air did not shout in a panic, nor did they look panicked.

Some Roman soldiers subconsciously stabbed their spears at the enemy in the air, and the enemy in mid-air swept with the strange weapon in their hands, and the two sides finally collided with the short soldiers in their hands for the first time...... (To be continued.) )