Chapter 16: Perseverance (Part II)

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A loud sound sounded, and several hastily built ballistas and projectiles, also loaded with javelins and stones collected on the battlefield, grazed the heads of the fighting crowd, and shot frantically at the ramparts with all the accuracy, "All low, steady!" Bebo, take your guys, shoot at the opponent and don't give them a chance to adjust the angle. Milou clenched his hand in the shape of a trumpet, and with all his might, Calabis rushed out of his hiding place, helping Pope and the other soldiers, using torsional ballistas to suppress fire.

"Calabis, it's dangerous!" As soon as Milu finished shouting, a stone bullet smashed a row of wooden fences with a "bang", and suddenly changed its trajectory, flew diagonally, and smashed a ballista in front of Calabis to pieces, and the weighing officer who was ejected rolled down the slope, and an artilleryman beside him was directly cut off half of his head by the stone bullet, and the corpse also followed him and rolled together.

"Hey, it's okay!" Milu rushed down in a panic, pushed away the corpse lying on top of Calabis, pulled him up, the helmer's helmet cracked, and two tubes of blood flowed out of his nose, and he shouted "It's okay, it's okay", and after speaking, he wiped the blood with his hands behind his back, coughed and got up, "I don't want to die in the hands of Catiline, this idiot, it's only right to change the role." With that, Calabis picked up another helmet and put it on his head, and Pop on top climbed to the edge of the platform on his knees, and shouted at them: "The two wings below have been forced into a corner, and they must make a decision as soon as possible." ”

"I'll take people out through the side door and call them back." Milou shouted.

Calabis grabbed his hand, "No. Here is the Supreme Commander. The soldiers are looking for you. Or I'll take people out. ”

At this time, a recruit of a wing serving as a reserve behind the mesa was half-kneeling on the ground with a shield, and the stone bullets and javelins on his head fell down, and many people's faces turned pale, that is, there was no rhythm of running away for the time being. Calabis pressed his nostrils, sprayed two balls of blood on the ground, and shouted, "Come out with me." Now, put all the money bags on the ground. ”

When the recruits saw this, they did not know what to do, so they untied their money bags one after another according to the order of the weighing officer, and then Calabis said: "These things are only useful if you survive." Now go out with me, some of us will die, will die, but many more will live; If you give up or run away now. It's a one-way street, and we're all going to die. We will no longer be able to enjoy the pleasures that our money bags give us. Put it down and come back alive. ”

After saying that, Calabis also untied his money bag, quickly took out the carving of Pan Shen and the doll that Porti had given him in his arms, quickly kissed it on it, stuffed it back, held his shield and sword, and rushed out after the two auxiliaries opened the side door, and there was a shout of killing outside.

Originally, the two soldiers of the two wings outside had been squeezed into a recessed half-moon shape by the sea of people initiated by Catiline, one centurion was killed in battle, and the others were also painted, and many soldiers would have fled if it were not for the wall behind them. Suddenly, a medium-sized guy jumped out of the side door that was not noticed at all, and silently stabbed down several unnoticed rebels, and behind him, the new force of half a hundred people also roared out, slammed into the side, and the half-moon-shaped defense line that was on the verge of death on the defensive side quickly turned back again.

A fiery stone projectile, like Jupiter's thunderous fury, rolled and flew away, smashing one of Catiline's projectiles into a flaming torch, and then a dozen horns sounded together, thrilling. In the pine forest on the hillside next to the rebels, three or four battalion flags were immediately erected, and the sound of whistles and gongs and drums echoing each other was everywhere.

"You have to get the veteran as soon as possible, take over and rush forward, and stabilize the situation that is about to collapse." "Look, on the hillside over there, there are three or four groups of the enemy attacking our artillery positions. Catiline, did you hear my advice? But by the time Catiline was ready to give the order, it was too late, and the rebels who had attacked the fortress, their fanatical worship of him, had been crushed by the sudden attack on the battlefield, and thousands of men came in a tidal wave, and then went back like a tidal wave.

"It's too narrow here, it's full of defeated troops in front, and I can't send troops up again," Catiline hung his head, and the frustration and frustration that had arisen from being relentlessly attacked and persecuted by Cicero in the Senate rose from his heart, and he could not contain it.

Trying to revive his fighting spirit, Manius pointed to the smashed blockade and said: "If you still want to go back to Rome as an archon, and if you want the veterans to remain loyal to you, then, like your ancestors, put a strong iron hand on your heart—listen, the other side is also the end of the crossbow, and if you strike again, they will collapse, and they will have no hole cards." ”

Yes, Manius was right, Calabis and Milou, and there was no trick left at this point, except for the fortifications that collapsed at the first break: the trenches had been filled in, and all the strange soldiers who had ambushed them had been used. As long as Catiline organized even three more veterans of the regiment and attacked again, they would be able to gallop along this corridor into Liguria, where they could recruit a lot of strong recruits, as well as supplies such as salt and meat

"Take a break." Looking at the dead and wounded everywhere around him, Catiline finally gave this order.

"Don't be stupid!" Just as Manius was about to fight again, several soldiers shouted, and with their javelins, they blocked several Gauls on horseback with braided hair out of the commander's guard.

The Gauls bowed on horseback and shouted in a loud voice, "What do they say?" Catilin, under the banner of the Eagle, sat on the mazar, holding her head weakly, and asked.

"He says that they are the Alobrogis of South Gaul, and that their tribal chieftain had made a secret pact with Lentulus in the city of Rome to raise an army to help you, and now Alobrogis is pleased to welcome your army, and the soldiers of their tribe have occupied the pass of Fijumalbo, and if you go to meet them, you will be able to reach Modier safely to rest."

When Catiline heard this, she slowly raised her head, and looked at these Gallic envoys with a gaze that was half hopeful and half suspicious, and did not know what to say for a while. (To be continued......)