The army of the three brigades of Calabis, which was stationed in the middle of the battle formation between the passages of a dozen stadia below the acropolis, and the Bosporus light infantry on the left flank, were now guarding a raised hill, guarding the flank of the Roman legions; On the right flank, a mixture of Roman auxiliary cavalry and the cavalry of the royal court of Marcha, marched along the coast.

Before the battle, Calabis had a slight calculation of about 3,000 men on the left flank, about 1,300 hoplites remained, plus hundreds of auxiliary skirmishers, and about 500 cavalry on his right flank, excluding the previous attrition.

Absolutely, the Pontus army is absolutely at a numerical disadvantage, all the damned Marcha and Claudian mischief, plus a bunch of centurions with only flesh and blood bravery, so that we have to fight, in fact, the safest way is to hold on to the acropolis, wait for the snow to melt in the spring, and the follow-up troops of the Thirteenth Army and the fleet will arrive together to cut off the Simmerian Strait, then Mithridates and Adiana will inevitably be captured. But now fortunately, in this case, I Calabis was familiar with Lucuras's doctrine of battle formations, which emphasized many times that it is not terrible to be at a disadvantage in the number of troops, and in the face of this situation, it is necessary to have a preset and complete retreat and advance position, so that even if you rely on a small number of soldiers and horses, you can still fight with the enemy without falling behind.

This preset position, just behind the whole army formation, sandwiched between the passages of two forests, was an open limestone soil, and a large number of military slaves were directed by Pop, who first dug a circular segmented trench, and left a vertical embankment between each trench for several people to pass side by side, and then lined up the baggage vehicles, bundles of firewood, and mules and horses along the trench in a large circle. Slaves armed with axes, bows, and light scorpion cannons stood by behind them.

Demonstration. Calabis before the advance. was ready to retreat with one blow, which was one of the reasons why Helen Putina and him were angry. However, he was not afraid of being ridiculed for his lack of courage, and after learning more about the history of the war, he always determined that "a general who can charge is only a brave general, and a general who can retreat is a haode general. Gao Nerlius. The validity of the famous phrase "Marcus F".

When the sun has not been seen for a long time, after the winter clouds that have accumulated for many days. When he was stunned and stabbed on the entire sea and land, Calabis made up his mind to "end the battle as soon as possible and withdraw the main force": the great phalanx of Pontus, trembling the whole land, rolling in from the east, this is a "division" of the Bronze Shield Army with more than 4,000 men, a total of four regiments, sixteen battalion-level phalanxes fighting independently, each battalion with sixteen soldiers in a horizontal row, and a depth of sixteen people in the back. The first five platoons of soldiers shared an extremely long Macedonian spear and ran together to increase the kinetic energy of the spear tip. The spears of the last three rows of soldiers are stretched out at an angle, and the spears of the eight rows of soldiers are almost vertical, which can shake the spear forest to resist the enemy's flying arrows. In the middle of each phalanx, there were also "chains" of light shield soldiers and camping slaves, a wing of lightly armed spearmen in eight rows in depth, as well as slings and archers, who served as the maintenance of the line between the camps and prevented the enemy's flanking and infiltration attacks, and with these additions, the entire Pontic army was about 7,000 men on the front line.

Fortunately, Ponticus's cavalry had been lost in the previous battle of Cape Khersonnes, so there were not many cavalry with them.

Mithridates, the great emperor of Pontus, was unable to ride a horse for the time being because of the recurrence of his old wounds, so he let his slaves carry him in a beautiful chariot and walked through the phalanx, all the soldiers shook their spears or beat their shields to salute their emperors, Mithridates did not need to say anything, he only needed to stretch out his hands to the soldiers, and tears flashed in his eyes, which was enough to make his subordinates make up their minds to fight.

At the sound of trumpets, the divisional phalanx of Pontus began to attack the central core of the Roman army along the streets like violent porcupines.

The position of Calabis, on the slope of the hill where the left flank high ground was connected to the central street, he saw in the distance, between himself and the Pontus army, there was the ruins of a quarry, the terrain was undulating and slightly broken, and he then loudly announced the order to advance to several heralds, who nodded again and again, and galloped towards the centurions on horseback, and then the eagle banner shook, which was the order to march on the whole line, and the tenth brigade walked in the front, and the flag bearer held the team flag with the palm mark, and led the rest of the subsequent centurs, Towards the ruins of the quarry.

The armies on the other two flanks also began to advance sharply to the left and right.

"Queen of the Amazons, I want to ride a horse with you, keep up with the team, and perform the command duty." Calabis raised his hand and stood in demand to Helenputina, who was riding on a white horse.

"Ella." The queen spoke briefly, and then Calabis was picked up by Ella, who had arrived behind, and rode with her on a horse, while the queen herself rode down the hill with Al Capa.

The sun faded from time to time, the speed of the Roman legions was obviously superior, they were all loose hundreds, running freely on the rugged terrain, and soon reached the commanding heights of the quarry, at this time the bronze shield phalanx army of Pontus had just arrived at the foot of the quarry, and Hybrida whistled like a lifeless whistle, and in the shouting, the Thracian light soldiers accompanied by the various hundred-man teams rushed out one after another, throwing waves of throwing spears at the phalanx, and many soldiers in the Pontus phalanx were penetrated and fell, but the successors quickly filled the vacant combat position, They shook rapidly with their extremely long spears in their hands, and they dropped a lot of light javelins that flew in, and the sun suddenly appeared, and all the soldiers of Rome were so stimulated that they couldn't open their eyes and couldn't aim at the position with their javelins - Minander, the governor of the Pontic Bronze Shield Army, seized this opportunity and raised his cane to give the order to attack, and the roar of the Pontic phalanx was devastating, and they rushed up the slope with dense spears, and the light shield soldiers climbed up first, Ready to engage the Roman front.

If they are entangled by these light shield soldiers, then when the phalanx rushes up, the Roman army will be scattered all over the field in an instant under the spear charge, and Heblida whistled twice in a row, and the flag of the ten teams with the palm mark almost swings in the opposite direction, taking this as a signal, the hundred teams of each hundred people quickly retreated in turn, leaving only the extremely resilient Thracian stragglers, who have undergone special training and can form groups of three or five, with light javelins, short swords and half-moon shields, and always keep a distance from the phalanx to fight the enemy outside of hand-to-hand combat, Blocks the opponent's forward speed. (To be continued......)