In August 458, while Qin Dong was preparing for the conquest of Urgan, the Western Roman Emperor Majorian and the Vandals of North Africa began his first battle as emperor.

The reason why King Gaiseric of Vandal landed on the coast of south-central Italy again after a lapse of three years and quickly marched towards Rome was that the Vandal Kingdom had already occupied Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea during these years, and his pirate fleet controlled most of the western Mediterranean, forcing several broken ships of the Western Roman Empire to cower in the port docks and not dare to go to sea.

Since three years ago, Gaceric led his army to break through the city of Rome and burned it for two weeks, and the Roman antiquities were severely destroyed, and "Vandalism" has become synonymous with the destruction of miè culture, and Gaceric has made the Vandal kingdom a Mediterranean power with this battle.

Geseric's qualifications as a king are the oldest in this period, when he conquered the battlefield to dominate the side, during this period, the Western Roman Emperor Majorian, the Visigothic King Theodoric II, the Ostrogothic leader Diordemir, the head of Gepid Aldaric, the Frankish leader Merovy, the Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I, including the current Xiongnu Empire Dadan Enek and the regent Qin Dong are still playing soy sauce, and the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, who is the same era as Geseric, The great general Aetius, the Hun king Attila and his brother Breda, the Visigothic king Theodoric I, the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II, the Frankish chieftains Faramund and Claudio all died one after another, and only he, Geseric, was alive and well. And at the age of sixty, he personally led an army to invade Rome, but such a strong body and terrifying will to fight are rare people.

Gaseric grew stronger and better, and his brilliant strategic vision is rare in the world. He knew that now was the weakest time for the Western Roman Empire, so it was also the time for his Vandal kingdom to get rich, so he always personally led his army to attack Italy every now and then, and always came back from Rome with some loot, and the owners of the Roman city seemed to be used to being robbed and forced, such as one of the current masters of Rome, Richmir, who was already used to being robbed by the Vandals. Grab it, grab it, grab something, the Vandals snatched it. He let his army scrape from the hands of the Roman people, and he could make a fortune, and he knew very well that the current Western Roman Empire had entered a troubled era. In troubled times, only by controlling the army can you have the right to speak. Therefore, he tried his best to control his army and prevent it from fighting with the Vandals, which was not in his interest, and when the army was exhausted, he became useless, so when Geseric again led his army to land on the coast of south-central Italy and march towards Rome, he found a man to retreat to Ravenna in the north with his own army, and lost the entire city of Rome to Emperor Majorian.

Majorian wanted to order Richmir to lead his army to meet Gaceric, but he didn't expect that his order had not yet reached Richmir's hands. Instead, he first sent him news of a mob rebellion near Ravenna, and the military situation was urgent. Li Ximir sent someone to deliver the news, and at the same time led the troops to quell the rebellion, Li Ximir is a good friend of Majorian, and Majorian can sit on the throne of the emperor is also because of Richmir's strong support, in fact, Richmir knows that he is a barbarian, and his prestige and bloodline are impossible for others to support him as emperor, so he chose to support Majorian in desperation.

Seeing that Richmir had led his army to Ravenna to quell the rebellion, Majorian did not want to issue another edict to let him come back, so he had to take his army to meet Geseric, he knew that Geseric's army was coming from afar, and there was basically no obstacle on the way, so he concluded that Gaiseric and his army were defenseless at this time, so he led his army to set up an ambush on the road to Rome, waiting for Geseric and his army to throw themselves into the net.

Gaiseric was careless, and every time he led his army to rob and rob, he was accustomed to no one to stop him, and did not attack him and his army, so it was the same this time, he and his army marched brazenly on the road to Rome without sending any reconnaissance cavalry to reconnoiter the enemy.

Not surprisingly, Gaceric and his army plunged headlong into the ambush circle set up by Majorian, "Kill, kill" shouts of killing came from all directions, the Vandal soldiers were panicked and bumped everywhere, the soldiers in front ran to the back, scattering the soldiers in the middle, while the soldiers in the back turned around and ran, the soldiers on both sides fled to the middle, there was a sense of security in the crowded places, but I didn't know that now there was chaos everywhere, the soldiers crowded each other, some were unsteady on their feet and were pushed to the ground and then trampled by countless people.

Soon, Gazerik and his rebellious army were besieged from all sides by Majorian, whose army was well-groomed and disciplined, and the infantry phalanx gradually crushed Gazerik and his army.

Hunting geese all day long but didn't expect that he would also be pecked by geese, Gaiseric couldn't help but scold: "Damn, this time I was careless, I fell into the ambush of Majorian's little doll!" ”

Gaiseric is already in his sixties, and Majorian is only thirty-seven, and Greseric can also call Majorian a little doll.

As soon as Gaceric finished speaking, his son Huneric drew the great sword at his waist and said in a rough voice: "Father, we fought with them!" ”

"Yes, we fought with them!" Several other generals also loudly agreed, which shows that the Vandals were indeed a warlike people.

Gaiseric is also a generation of heroes who have experienced countless storms, he is not chaotic, and after observing the shape for a while, he calmed down and said: "Don't panic, don't panic, you immediately go to control your own men and horses, now the encirclement in the rear has not been fully formed, even if we are surrounded, the enemy behind is very weak, we can completely break through, just use the king's slave cavalry to lead the team to break through!" ”

Geseric had a cavalry of slaves numbering about a thousand men, but the mounts of these slave cavalry were not horses, but camels that often crossed the Sahara desert, and the soldiers fought on camels had an advantage over the cavalry on horseback, although the camels did not run very fast, but the camels were larger and taller than the horses, and the cavalry on the camels had a condescending attitude over the cavalry on horseback, and this slave cavalry on camels was not only armed with sabers suitable for chopping, but also each was armed with a spear and a shield, Every slave soldier was proficient in horse fighting, and his individual combat effectiveness was strong, perhaps this was the prototype of the Mamluk cavalry that later defeated the Mongol cavalry.

Several people listened to Geseric's words and immediately agreed: "Yes, king! ”

Huneric and other generals separately went to control their own men and horses to prevent unnecessary casualties caused by the chaos of the soldiers, and at the same time organized men and horses to prepare to defend the approaching infantry phalanx of the Western Roman Empire.

Gaiseric is worthy of a generation of heroes, his command ability can be called superb, in a very short period of time to stabilize the chaos in the army, and organize their own slave cavalry began to break through to the rear, with his order, a thousand slave cavalry on camels lined up in a long formation of more than twenty columns, the leftmost soldier hung his shield on his left side, the rightmost soldier hung his shield on the right side of the body for defense, each holding a spear and began to gallop to the rear.

The soldiers in the back saw that this slave cavalry was Geseric's personal guard, and immediately divided a road to let the thousand cavalry pass through Guò, while Gaiseric personally charged in front of the slave cavalry, and when he passed through his army and saw the oncoming phalanx of infantry of the Western Roman Empire a hundred meters away, Geseric shouted: "Raise your spear!" ”

The slave cavalry all raised their spears, and as soon as they approached the phalanx of infantry of the Western Roman Empire, Gaceric shouted again: "Throw! ”

......Rows of spears were thrown with the help of camel galloping and sprinting power, and these spears fell in an instant, and a large area of the Western Roman Empire infantry was shot down, and the spears not only pierced the shields of the Western Roman infantry but also pierced their bodies after penetrating the shields.

After the infantry of the Western Roman Empire was shot down in front of him, a gap appeared in the encirclement, and Geseric was leading the slave cavalry through this gap to break out of the encirclement.

After seeing this situation on horseback, Mayorian immediately ordered the surrounding infantry to close and block the gap, but the slave cavalry who were galloping behind did not give Majorian's infantry this opportunity, and the rows of spears were thrown out again, and the Western Roman Empire infantry that was closing on both sides fell twice, and the gap not only did not shrink, but became larger, which made the Vandals soldiers who were surrounded in the middle see hope for life, and they rushed towards the gap under the leadership of their generals.

At this time, on the nearby high ground, Mayori quietly watched the Vandal soldiers rush out of the encirclement one by one and in groups without speaking, and a general next to him said a little anxiously: "Your Majesty, the gap is getting bigger and bigger, please allow the last general to take the cavalry of the headquarters to surround the gap!" ”

"No, no, no!" Majorian shook his head and said three words in a row without allowing the general to lead the cavalry to plug the gap, he said: "The cavalry is not used like this, the Vandals want to run, then let them run, they don't have many cavalry, most of them are infantry, now their courage has been lost, and they have fled, this is the best time for our army to follow and kill, it is said that Augustus will order, all the cavalry will chase and kill the Vandals all the way, and the infantry will follow closely to clean up the mess and capture the prisoners and collect the spoils of war!" ”

"Yes, honorable Augustus!"

Geseric has experienced countless battles in his life, and the number of defeats is only a handful, and this is one of the only few, he was defeated, but he fled to the ship, and with him fled back to the ship with all the cavalry and a few infantry, his son Huneric was lucky and also escaped, as for the rest of the men and horses basically could not come back, this battle made him suffer heavy losses, and at the same time, Mayorian became even more famous with this battle, and sat firmly on the throne of the emperor, even Li Ximir did not dare to disobey the yin again. (To be continued......)