Chapter 29: The Sweep (I)
PS: Last night and this morning, there was a power outage, and two shifts were normal at night, sorry.
"Alexander is dead? It's unbelievable, the entire world will emit the stench of his corpse. —An Orator in Athens
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On the eve of the general attack, the front of the Roman army quietly advanced one furlong, six cavalry cannons, four wild ass stone throwers, four bellows guns, thirty scorpion crossbows, plus six small unimproved bellows Spitfire Run, forming a powerful firepower group. Four infantry brigades, four auxiliary archery brigades, surrounded the fire position, forming a powerful assault corps.
Li Bida stipulated that the flagpole of the commander's camp was raised with Amon's sheep's skull, representing a volley of artillery fire, and the flag was lowered and raised again, which was the signal of the infantry assault - in this era of relatively backward means of communication, the combat signal should be as concise and clear as possible, and all centurions of the centurions were in their respective posts in advance, watching the commander's signal.
Subsequently, Li Bida and Sabo climbed to the top of the Nameless Mountain, which was convenient for them to look at the battlefield situation, and the morning light in the desert area came much earlier than in the ordinary world, "Oops Sabo, I seem to see the reflection of the metal shield in the Garamane Theche camp, swaying around, and the enemy seems to be moving!" ”
Because the Garamatans had mastered the more advanced techniques of blacksmithing, many of their soldiers preferred shield weapons made of bronze, unlike the rest of the barbarians, who mostly used skinned wooden shields, so Li Bida came from this kind of flash. Detected them in action.
Saab next to him made a quick decision. Immediately stand up. Waving the eye-catching "Tyre Purple" flame tongue flag in his hand, the flag officer in the camp below saw this signal and immediately raised the sheep skull flag.
“VOVOVO!” The four infantry brigades, which had been crouching in front of the enemy's chariot camp, immediately took off their shields and armor with leather shawls or cloth covers, and the sand was covered with the glow of metal, which was intertwined with the reflection of the shields of the Garamantheus, and then the sound of trumpets and whistles echoed through the desert like a bird rushing up from the ground. Even though only half of the artillery fire was ready to be put in place, the gunners saw the signal for the general attack, and poured out the stone bullets and javelins in their hands without hesitation, and the light scorpion crossbows on the flanks also fired heavy arrows violently, and soon the leather of the Garamane Theus's vehicles was densely covered with holes and smash marks, and the smoke in the camp was loud, and the sound of sparkling wheels was all - it turned out that the Garamane Thesians had been prepared, and after they removed the leather, each car had personnel in place. And the rope on the stone "anchor" has long been cut, after a shout and the crisp sound of a horsewhip. More than 30 chariots at the front jumped out of the slope ditch one after another, and the horses unstoppably pulled the chariots and samurai forward, braving the whistling incendiary stone bullets, and the whole battlefield was like thousands of thunderbolts rumbling over people's heads!
"Formation, formation!" The brave trumpeters stood on the flanks of the centurions, puffed out their cheeks and blew, and all the centurions turned around and saw the flag in the commander's tent raised for the second time, so they slowly stretched out the grape cane in their hands, and hoarsely encouraged all the soldiers under him to advance forward with their shields, and in the gap between each hollow phalanx, there were squads of Madjie, Egyptian native archers and slingers, whooshing at the rushing chariots, many of which were full of arrows, and the javelins thrown by each other, It's so dense that it almost collides in mid-air.
With a loud bang, even Li Bida on the top of the nameless hill stood up in horror, it was a chariot of Garamane Thees that crashed straight into the Roman shield wall, like a heavy throwing stone, under the effect of the impact, with smoke and sparks, flew into the sky, flipped, threw weapons and crew in all directions, the wheels were still spinning rapidly, and the various parts fell at different times, it disintegrated, and the two warriors in the car were also finished, but it was enough to terrify the advancing Romans.
At that moment, many chariots still broke into the gaps between the various formations, expelling the auxiliary lightly armed archers and slingers in all directions, and many Roman soldiers crouched down, staggered their shields and javelins up and down, and inserted them into the wheels of the Garamantheus chariot, and one after another the chariots flew into the air in the depth of the Roman formation, flipping, disintegrating and splitting. But many of his men were stabbed to the flesh by the spears tied to the chariots, or were stabbed with javelins as they fled.
"Send a signal to the second front!" Fortunately, Li Bida left a hand in advance, and reserved Alp's Meadjet Guard as a deep defense line, with the Medejie Guard as the main force, more than 800 archers gathered together, and stepped forward to shoot sharply in turn, but they did not shoot accurately, because the captain of the guard, Alp, had confessed in advance, "Just keep firing at a predetermined distance and keep the enemy's chariots out of the formation." They also knew that if their hands were weakened at all, the enemy's chariots would mercilessly drive in and run over their corpses.
Like a torrential rain in June, the arrows kept piercing five hundred Roman feet away, forming an ancient barrage, and the horses in the chariots were constantly fleeing backwards, their owners bleeding and covered with clusters of arrows, crawling in vain between the fallen wreckage of the vehicles, mixed with a few Roman legions' own men, all shot indiscriminately. In the end, more than a dozen remnants of the Garamantheus chariot could only avoid the flanking attack of death, and began to scatter and flee in the direction of the left and right flanks.
At this moment, the cries of bats rang out, and on the other side of the valley, thousands of Essioans who had spontaneously come to the war, with ostrich feathers on their heads, screamed and ran, and regarded the battle as a great celebration, and they also summoned up their courage to throw stones at the single chariot that had fled, dragged the wounded crew down, pressed them into the hot sand, and then smashed them with stone hammers, and brought the shame of the long time.
Having thwarted the chariot assault, the centurions began to mobilize to push the various siege artillery artillery to the further front, and were about to break through the enemy's chariot camp with fire and stones. When the surprise arose, most of the Garamanese jumped on their chariots and wagons on the flanks and in the rear, and with a roar they scattered the camp, leaving the pursuing Romans behind, and galloping away in the direction of their own borders, like frightened antelopes, even if the Romans were cheetahs.
Because the attached cavalry brigade with piles of sick people had not yet recovered, and most of them were still resting in the barracks, Li Bida could not dare to flank him before the operation of the Garamane Thesi chariot, and he was so anxious that his face turned pale - although the battle was won, it was not a battle of annihilation, not even a breakthrough battle, but only repelled the assault of the opponent's front army, but the main force of the Garamane Thess people was taken off.
After the war, the remains of more than 20 chariots, scattered around the fragments of the crew, and the bloody corpses of Roman soldiers, after the vicious battle, the Romans immediately gathered all the flesh and blood, regardless of friend or foe, together with the chariots, set fire and incineration, if not dealt with in time, the outbreak of the epidemic is not funny. (To be continued......)