"Countless people flocked to Rome for my election, which is unprecedented." -- Augustus's campaign for this position after the death of the historical high priest Lybida

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"For the glory of the High Priest!" Frontally, all the infantry of the rest of the Twelfth Legion, shouting this command, drew their swords without even throwing their javelins, and engaged the legion intercepted by Rabinus.

Entering the hand-to-hand combat stage, the disadvantages of the new recruits of Rabinus were exposed, their veterans were still too few in number, although the recruits had been trained hard, they were all extremely brave young people, but they were all "mountain falcons" trained by the chief centurion Tagus for many years, and they obviously fell into the disadvantage in a short time - the front array was soon too dead and wounded, many fell under the bloody sword, and the rear echelon was taking over the combat moment, Caught by Kalenus, "Assault on all fronts!" ”

With this slogan, the four brigades in the rear array did not take over in a fixed line according to the enemy's way, but suddenly drew their swords and pressed up, along all the gaps, merged with the original first-line brigade, and launched a fierce white-edged assault against the enemy who was still in the key gap of the formation.

The entire position in the valley was filled with the sound of weapons colliding with each other, and the enemy was in confusion, and many of the standard-bearers began to throw down their military markers and flee in the direction of the defeated army in the direction of the city of Waga, while the flanks led by Tagus also ran along the ridgeline of the occupied hill, and everyone encouraged each other, "The honor of successfully rescuing the city of Waga." It's up to us to accept it! ”

The herald was cloaked. Riding a horse. Sweating profusely, he carried the message to the position of the 15th Army Corps, which was still stationed in the same place, which provoked General Selha's heart full of pride in fighting for merit, "The enemy in front of him has all retreated back into the camp, and they have all been shot by our sharp bows and arrows, so leave four brigades to continue to guard the baggage here and monitor the enemy, and I will personally take the remaining six brigades with me to compete with the Mountain Falcon Legion for the first success!" ”

"They've just been through a tough battle. It's not enough to run in this kind of area. The centurions around Serha were enthusiastic, and then the "Serapis" legion, like a giant python in the sea of sand, marched forward one after another.

On the other side of the riverbed, the captains of the new cavalry regiments came to Paruma one after another, "Your Excellency, what should we do, should we just march silently and in arms until dusk, so that the first two legions can achieve the first merit so lightly?" ”

The little pigeon swings its legs on the horse's back and raises its hands to explain to all the imposing figures. "You look at my hair, and yes, it's golden. But this does not mean that my character is as anxious as the warriors of the clan, and looking at the many decisive battles in this world, the reason why the armies of the Republic have won the most crucial wars is that they will always do only what they dare to do, and those who dare to disobey the correct decisions of the consuls, no matter how brave they are, will still be severely executed. I believe that before the battle, the High Priest had repeatedly stated that the task of our cavalry was to fight the fire, and that we would go wherever there was a fire, and that it would be as simple as that—besides, never think of Rabinus too simply, he was the High Priest's old enemy. ”

After speaking, Paluma took advantage of the situation and slashed forward, "After resting, the whole army crossed the riverbed and advanced to five furlongs away from the remaining team of the fifteenth legion, and lined up in a vigilant formation. The captains who received this order shook their heads and could only do so.

At this time, behind a vague hill in the south, a huge amount of smoke and dust was raised, "Look, we have been expected, Rabinus has indeed set up another ambush, he is really a treacherous opponent, he may have deliberately ambushed a weak brigade at the front line, so that our army mistakenly thought that the enemy's means have been exhausted, and then he sent a really strong cavalry, waiting for an opportunity to attack us!" Paruma said loudly, "Stay in this place for the time being, the cavalry is fighting in the current situation, whoever strikes first will suffer!" ”

The second ambush of Rabinus's chain was 4,000 elite cavalry, including 3,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Mauritanians, mixed with about 2,000 light infantry on foot, a total of 6,000 men, commanded by Hamilca, the governor of Mauritania, who quietly lay in ambush at a distance from the Karenus and Serha scouts, until Rabinus's interception corps was defeated, and only then did they get the signal to rush out, and from the heat wave rising from the desert in the distance, the flash of soldiers, horses, and weapons, It is refracted all over the ground, up and down, looking at it as if there are thousands of troops, which makes people chill.

"Ho ho ho ho!" Hamilcar's cavalry quickly crossed a gentle slope and divided into two groups, one rushed towards the remaining ranks of the 15th Legion, and the other bravely cut into the gap between the rear guard of the 12th Legion and the vanguard of the 15th Legion, galloping vertically and horizontally, and then the light infantry also rushed up, shooting fiercely with pikes and slingstones, and the two legions of Li Bida were caught off guard, and were killed and wounded many at once, and the interval between them became larger and wider.

At this time, from the direction of the city of Vaga, Rabinus personally took two legions, and the previously defeated legion to join together, turned back to attack like a tide, strangled with the twelve legions, and by virtue of the superiority in numbers, stretched out the long wings, and constantly detoured, to besiege Callenus, "In this valley, completely annihilate the elite legions that Lipidaeus relied on the most!" ”

Now, from the valley to the river, in the hilly and desert undulating area, five or six legions were agitating and fighting each other from all directions, and the fifteenth legion, under the condescending onslaught of the enemy's cavalry, was constantly retreating in the direction of the remaining troops, "Send me a herald to inquire about the people of Karenus." ”

As a result, before Selha's herald had gone two hundred paces, several Mauritanian stragglers hiding behind the dunes suddenly jumped out and threw pikes and darts, piercing the herald all over the body and falling under his horse.

The archers beside General Serha immediately drew their bowstrings and shot down the despicable desert warriors one by one, when a herald officer with a document rushed out of the smoke and dust on the opposite side, riding a horse and shouting, "I am a herald from General Karenus, asking the 15th Legion to quickly assault and rescue our legion." ”

"I am Serha, the commander of the Serapis Legion, and I now ask your legion to quickly retreat and move closer to me, and you will rush back again and convey this message to Karenus." On horseback, Serha said to the herald, who was stunned and seemed to have heard the wrong words, and then several military slaves pulled the general's horse and kept retreating, "Everyone should retreat and organize a new line of defense, and the enemy is only the power of a melee and a surprise attack." ”

Inside and outside the two Romans, Paruma put on the helmet of two black feathers side by side, then pulled her sword out of its scabbard and shouted to all the cavalry behind her, "Look, now it's time for us to exert our decisive strength, follow my banner, charge over, and crush all the enemy's cavalry!" (To be continued......)