Chapter 2: Dismounted Cavalry (Part II)
"Don't look ahead, press me all up the Dukes Mountain!" Li Bida shouted angrily, "Those who hesitate will immediately enforce military discipline on the spot." โ
At this time, in front of the Sewefer camp, the Roman main force of the five legions pressed up, and Aliovistus could only dispatch the main force at this moment, and Caesar's main frontal decisive battle, across the middle of the six Roman long confrontation line, the two sides left, center and right three wings clashed and fought, the young man of Sewover stood on the front line half-naked with a shield, and the middle-aged soldiers wearing long chain mail stood in the second line, and the most stubborn rear was the noble cavalry and attendants of Alio Vistus, who firmly occupied the numerical advantage, Coupled with their physical strength and flesh and bravery, tens of thousands of women stood at the top of the camp, crying and screaming, and stretched out their hands and exposed breasts, so that their warriors should fight with all their might today, and that they and their children would not be insulted and raped by the dwarf Latins, and finally sold into slavery.
And on Caesar's side, in order to meet the decisive battle, in addition to the commander, each legion also arranged for the provincial treasurer to go in, he was afraid that this decisive battle would have a senior general Zuo die, which would lead to the collapse of a certain wing, so these financial officers who were sent to the front line of battle, Caesar's request to them was: Once the commander is killed, you will shoulder the responsibility and continue to command the army with the chief centurion.
And in the direction of arrangement, Caesar abandoned the traditional three-line formation, and he placed the seventh, eighth, and tenth legions, which were the most combative, in the center, in a rectangular horizontal formation of six columns, just as Milou had suggested earlier. There is a distance between each horizontal formation. It's about holding each other accountable. Preventing the soldiers of the front team from retreating in fear of battle is also to strengthen the strength of key breakthroughs. On the left flank, Caesar's Ninth Legion was also responsible for reinforcing the Twelfth Legion in the direction of Dukes Hill, and on the right flank was Appis's Eleventh Legion. At the end of the line was Caesar and his cavalry general, Crassus the Younger, with six thousand cavalry from all the Gallic tribes, ready to meet their gaps.
In this way, the two sides together have a combat contingent of no less than 70,000 or 80,000 people, and they are stepping on each other's dense steps. In fact, because of the speed of the flats, both the Romans and the Severs lost the opportunity to throw javelins, and in an instant they were close to each other.
"Ha Luha, have you seen the Eagle Banner of the Ninth Legion? There is no need to worry about the Severs coming from the rear, the Twelve Legions have only one goal, and that is to take Dukes Mountain! Li Bida saw the Ninth Legion coming from the side of the mountain at the foot of the mountain, and knew that this was the support arranged by Caesar, so he loudly encouraged the soldiers. Attack the top of the mountain.
Now, even the brave Severers. Breaking into the "mezzanine" of the hollow phalanx, but the panic of the Roman front did not appear, and the arrows of the Vibichinas even shot at the Romans and the Severns, regardless of whether they were friends or enemies, and the Swefers finally couldn't stand it anymore and began to retreat in the direction of the top of the hill. Milou, who was standing on the front line of battle, saw that almost all of the Germanic horses were dead or wounded, and raised the flame tongue flag of the hundredth of the first brigade, as a sign, and the hollow phalanx of the Twelfth Legion quickly turned back into a two-line horizontal formation, and the Vibichinas cavalry put away their bows and arrows, mounted their horses, passed through the passage between the hundred teams, and threw themselves into the pursuit of the Zerwefers, who had no chance to regroup, and were stabbed to death with swords or spears by the Vibichinas who were chasing them like lightning in the backThe infantry brigade followed closely behind, gradually tightening the encirclement network on the top of Dukes until the remaining rearguard of the Sewver on the top of the mountain was wiped out.
In this battle, the elite Severvaer cavalry, in front of the formation composed of Li Pida's infantry and dismounted cavalry, suffered a great defeat, killed more than 1,000 people, lost the position of Dukes Mountain, more than 400 horses were captured, and the wounded were all over the grass on the hillside.
Just when the main forces of the two sides were in the midst of a fierce battle, Li Bida's troops erected a bloody spear cloak on Dukes Mountain, and the mountain falcon banner of the Twelfth Legion, shouting long live all over the mountain, and the sound shook the entire Renus River battlefield, and then the special military slaves of the baggage brigade were stimulated by food supplies and rich rewards, and transported the wild donkey stone thrower to the top of the mountain in one day, and bombarded indiscriminately into the car camp of the Severians. The eighteen cavalry guns turned around and began to fire at the flanks of the Colored Weaver Front, and except for the four brigades guarding the established positions, the remaining six brigades, including the chief thousand-man brigade, rested in place for a while, and together with the Ninth Army next to them, increased the pressure on the right flank of the Weavers.
As soon as Li Bida's 12th Army Corps occupied the commanding heights, they fought at several sides at the same time, and the whole game of chess came alive at once - the 20,000 Germanic army on the right flank, the main force was Marcomeni, Nemedes and other small Germanic tribes, and the will to fight was not very strong, under the frontal assault of the Ninth Army Corps and the flank bombardment of the cavalry artillery of the Twelfth Legion, it did not last long and began to break up towards the Che Battalion, at this time the Ninth and Twelfth Army Corps marched in unison, ready to receive the greatest merit of this battle.
"Do you want to take the cavalry to support our right flank?" A noble chieftain said to Aliovistus, but the king waved his hand, and kept talking to himself: "That witch has been following me for twenty years, and the will of God is not wrong, and the vast river Renus will surely help meโsend orders to the Suebi on the right flank, that they form a phalanx phalanx to resist the advance of the Roman infantry, and I will personally lead the cavalry to the left flank, where there is only one legion of the Romans, and judging by the banner and equipment, it is only a weak auxiliary legion, As long as I crush the opponent's right wing, there will be a chance to win, don't worry, the witch's divination will never make a mistake, never! โ
On the right flank of the enemy, a group of servants arranged in a row were stabbed in front of the sword of the Ninth Legion, or turned and fled, but when Li Bida and Koda joined hands to break through to the bottom of the right flank, they saw about 3,000 barbarian warriors with Suwi Hui totem tattoos, forming a rectangular dense phalanx, which was called "Phalanx" by Aliovistus, somewhat similar to the tortoiseshell formation of the Romans, but far less layered and orderly than the Romans. All the members of the phalanx held large oval shields in a large circle, the first one held the shield on his chest up to his ankles, and the middle one held the shield on his head like an umbrella, which was very appropriate for the soldiers of the Ninth Legion to give them the nickname, "Iron Turtle". (To be continued......)