Chapter 11: Counter Attack (II)
"No backwards!" The first thing Anthony did when he rushed down the hill was to use his sword to cut off the two soldiers of his own who had just fled, and the blood in his cavity flew high, and the headless corpse still maintained a trotting posture, and it was inertia for a few meters before falling...... At this moment, the black soldiers who were noisily retreating were numb at the sight of such a scene, especially when they saw that behind Anthony, there were also the horseish cavalry roaring forward, thinking that if they retreated like this, they would also be trampled to death, so they howled again, turned to pick up their shields and pikes, and turned their heads again to fight Pompey's A1A cavalry that was chasing them.
When Antony and Mattia cavalry collided with Pompey's A1A cavalry, he felt for the first time that the original A1A cavalry was also so strong and unrelenting, it turned out that these cavalry were all from Taraco, near Spain, although they submitted to the Republic and served in the military for many years, but the ancestors' fierce tactics still did not change, with a round helmet, plus a chest guard bronze armor, holding a short sword and javelin, the same as the infantry, three or three into a straggler formation, dare to counterattack the Mattias!
But in front of the swift and ferocious horsemen of the Mattias, these Taraco cavalry were useless, and were stabbed from a distance and at close range, and soon left behind the corpses of the men and horses, and retreated towards the top of the hill, but at this time a certain hundred-man brigade of Pompey's right flank was very skillfully rounded to the side of the Antony cavalry, and threw the hunting spears from the side of the cliff, and the Mattians were caught off guard and stabbed many times at once. "Dismount me, don't hesitate, all rush!" Anthony made a quick decision, braving the hunting spear that came from the side with the wind whistling, and raised his shield. He brandished his sword. Dismount and desperately attack the mountain! Mattia is also brave. They really followed Anthony's example, dismounted, and rushed up with the Nubians of the Fifteenth Legion, carrying long spears and howling in formation.
Over there, Pompey's army on the hill also drew his sword and rushed down, and immediately sawed each other on the mountainside!
On the other hand, Serha has finally recovered his strength. Over there, Li Bida kept galloping back and forth, blowing the horn, telling the follow-up troops to give up going to the ambush site, but all of them were deployed with Gaofu, and Serha cooperated very well, lining up the infantry brigade and the archery brigade in a right-angled "1" shape, and lined up three more infantry brigades into a formation with only eight to twelve soldiers on the front, dozens of columns in depth. Like a big centipede, it attacked the hill on the right flank. And in the center. The cross-archers fired a non-stop volley, stopping Vibrius's position and preventing him from arching forward.
Gradually, the superiority of Li Bida's troops began to be highlighted, and Vibrius over there also shrewdly believed that if he continued to fight, he would really be surrounded again, so he blew the whistle of retreat, and the Pompey army of each hundred-man team, after receiving the order, was very brave, continued to form groups of three or two, holding shields, and repelled the charge of the Nubian black soldiers again and again, and constantly counterattacked at short distances to prevent their own side from being outflanked, and protected the golden hare flag of the legion and fought and retreated, these veterans were tired when they were tired, They will exchange positions with each other very tacitly, take a little breather in the back, and continue to fight with one enemy and three in the front, so that Li Bida's people will still not find the signs of encircling and annihilating Vibrius's troops after rushing and fighting in all directions.
In the end, even the cavalry of Duçonville and Vicintoli, who arrived late, also threw themselves into the charge, but they still failed to solve the battle, and if they were left on other teams, this place would have collapsed a long time ago, but the first brigade of Pompey's First Legion, this style was really terrible and tough, and finally a reserve brigade of Machius also came up with the eagle banner, and the two men and horses joined together, along the streets of Baleria, back to back formed a "hard walnut" and retreated, and the Libida cavalry over there was bitter, constantly detouring and crossing, and stepped forward to bite and bite, The feet of Vibrius's soldiers seemed to be made of steel, and as a result, they remained on the same level as the two-legged men.
As a result, the encirclement operation turned into a catch-up operation.
At dusk, since neither side was prepared for a night battle, they had to stop the battle for the time being, but the cunning Vibrius, who left a small number of false troops to build momentum, rushed into the dense forest with the main force, scattered and fled.
The next day, after a day of fighting, the casualties were very heavy, plus the tired Li Bida cavalry, only to feel strange, and as a result, he entered the pursuit battle, but except for the capture of a few stragglers, there were no major gains.
In this way, Li Bida used 3,000 cavalry, more than 5,000 legion infantry, and nearly 2,000 Masi and Penilla servant soldiers, but did not eat Pompey's 2,500 men, and the casualties of the other side are unknown, because even if the men of Vibrius were killed and wounded, their own casualties were real - nearly 1,000 casualties, among which the most elite Mattias, nearly 200 were killed in battle.
Originally, the plan was to completely annihilate the opponent's Xi Brigade and capture the legion flag, but now don't talk about this, a few of his teeth were broken upside down.
But there was still a slight gain, and that was that the cavalry captured Pompey's engineering director, the hapless Machius.
This man who commanded the troops in the streets was brave and invincible, but when he escaped by night, he obviously lacked the experience of an old soldier like Vibrius, and wandered through the woods with a few henchmen for a night, and the next day he came out again!
But seeing the disgraced enemy engineering director, Li Bida's attitude was not as pleasant as before, he was sulking, eager to raise the whip and beat Machius, to vent his resentment, fortunately Caesar came to the camp at this time, poor Machius was able to escape.
Caesar was present, and Li Bida didn't dare to make too much of a mistake, the bald man asked Machius a little bit of information very kindly, and then Antony, who was on the side, secretly made a gesture of release, and Caesar said, "If I'm not mistaken, Pompey is about to abandon Campeña and Capua, so I let you go back and continue to follow him, and you can show your skills in the defense of Brindisi." ”
After speaking, Li Bida and Anthony in the back pouted at each other, and made a helpless gesture in unison.
"But!" Caesar suddenly became loud below, "I still insist on that request, when I was in Rimini before, I said that if I want to restore peace, I will let Pompey come in my barracks, but now that I have reached Kofinium, Pompey continues to avoid me, which shows that he is weak-hearted." Go back and say to Pompey - I hope to see him at Brindisi! (To be continued......)
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