"I was defeated by Varro first, and then by Hannibal." At the time of the Battle of Cannae, the fallen consul Paulus said that his colleague Consul Varro demanded a decisive battle with Hannibal

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"The enemy is coming again!" The Curio Legion, which was busy with the construction of the fortifications, had no choice but to put on armor and take up arms to fight against the army of King Juba, who had "gone and returned", but no one could have expected that King Juba's army of 40,000 would be five miles away from Rome in front of them, sending troops in a steady stream.

The Spanish swordsmen under the King of Juba also lined up in a horizontal formation similar to the Roman legions, alternating with Curio's men and horses, and Curio's lieutenant Rybrus was able to defeat the opponent several times and drive them back, but there were more and more enemies, even the brave and good Marcy soldiers were extremely tired, and the sand and dust were getting bigger and bigger, and they were constantly being forced to retreat along the cross-section of the road to Utica, and there were more and more wounded soldiers.

In the flying gravel, the Roman soldier with his armor and shield on his back began to get used to it, his nostrils were full of this thing, and thirst and body overdraft also bothered everyone, but Rybruce bravely stood on the left flank of the line, and together with all the senior centurions, he boosted the morale of the front line, repelled the enemy's attacks again and again, and made the chief of the Numidian palace, Sapp, a wolf. On the other hand, groups of Numidian or Mauritanian cavalry emerged from the ground, and they did not pay attention to any positions and objectives at all, but were constantly interspersed and detoured. Run all over the hills and hills. And then it's like a pile of flies and wasps. Launched a haphazard attack on Curio's rear camp, and although most of them were repelled by Curio, after a long time, the soldiers also reached the critical point of their bodies.

"Go, and call the five brigades of Quintus and Rufus, with all the cavalry in the camp, to rush up for reinforcements. We have very few cavalry, and if we continue like this, we will be trapped! "Curio is getting nervous. The previous self-confidence has disappeared, he will only take a small number of cavalry directly under him, constantly but in vain to repel the attacks of King Juba's cavalry again and again, the opponent will throw javelins on horseback when he approaches, but he will definitely not melee with you, it is coming and going, the detachment is repeated.

At this time, Pompey's two legions also ascended to a high place overlooking the battlefield, "Curio is completely finished, and he hastily ordered his soldiers to disperse and build fortifications before the enemy situation completely disappeared." In a hurry, these legions also lacked the experience to cooperate with each other, and simply did not have enough manpower to serve as reserves. The connection with the rear camp was also not smooth and went too deep. Pompey, who was standing above, watched the fierce battle below, and did not forget to comment on it.

"Although I know that I am disrespectful to Rome by saying this, I still have to remind Your Excellency that you should be happy now, and make arrangements for our actions immediately." Dmitrius on the side reminded.

"Yes, yes, I can't get rid of the bad problem of nagging as soon as I meet the military formation. Vibrius, directly with the First Legion; Peletaeus, directly with the Second Legion. Although I myself am the supreme commander of these two legions, you are both chief senior centurions, so let me watch you perform here. The First Army marched forward at a rapid pace, searching for enemy camps and attacking; The Second Army marched towards the city of Utica and told Sù Turas to launch a decisive counterattack, breaking the enemy blockade and expelling them back to the old camp of Cornelius. Pompey issued these orders in a very clear and orderly manner.

The "hare" legion led by Vibrius, each of them was a first-class iron footboard, although it was infantry, but it ran like the wind, and after about two days, the group rushed to the camp of Quintus, when Curio's cavalry for help had just arrived, and then Vibrius did not hesitate, and ordered the soldiers of the First Legion to draw their short swords and launch a rapid assault on the camp of the Fourteenth Legion, Quintus found that the military experience he had cultivated in the Gaul province for several years was not enough to see - not half a momentThe five brigades led by him and Rufus were all routed, and Rufus's opinion was that "go directly to the old camp, and there is still a chance of survival when you go there and board our ships, because the main forces of Pompey and King Juba are coming!" Quintus could not refute his opinion, so he could only run back frantically under the escort of his own cavalry, abandoning all his positions and weaknesses under the front of Pompey's army.

In this way, Curio was really besieged by thousands of cavalry, and then King Juba's cavalry launched a long-standing assault, separating his rear team from the front team of Rybrus, Curio repeatedly refused his cavalry captain's request to leave the team and escape, and continued to insist on fighting with everyone, but now he only had the bravery in a desperate situation, but he had lost his judgment of the whole situation, and he who killed the red eye was to forget to send the cavalry for help to the city of Utica, Because there's a Massis legion there.

In the end, Curio gave the most unsuccessful order, when he saw that the cavalry of King Juba was driving back and forth on all sides of the procession, he thought that going up the mountain was the best strategy to fight now, and if Rybruce was by his side at this time, he would definitely refute this plan: the infantry must set up guards and archers, and constantly alternate cover to be considered a good strategy against the cavalry siege, once they venture up the mountain, they will inevitably be completely besieged.

Previously, when Li Bida fought with the cavalry of Rabinus after coming ashore, he never went to the nearby high ground, but lined up to meet him, and held the water source to the death.

Sure enough, when Curio finally reached the mountain, the enemy's cavalry surrounded the hill very quickly, and although they did not have the bows and arrows of the Parthians, they cut off the connection between Curio and the river.

At this time, the soldiers of the front team of Lybrus still resisted more and more enemies desperately, until a horn sounded, all the Marcy and the soldiers of the Fourteenth Legion, all the soft sand under their feet felt that the soft sand under their feet was trembling and cracking, and the wounded Lybrus stood up with his sword, and he saw that the enemy horses in front of him were running towards both sides, and the smoke and dust in front of him were like a hurricane in the sunset, but it was a windless day, a group of black shadows, in the soldier's sight, getting bigger and closer, and the towering tower on his back, Like a battleship moving on land, with a thunderous roar.

"It's an elephant!" A terrible cry arose, and then King Juba's herd of elephants crushed into the battle of Rybruth, and the soldiers could no longer maintain a dense formation, and they scattered in front of the fangs, and some rolled under the belly of the elephants, ready to draw their swords and stab, but were quickly knocked down by the Numidian infantry who followed closely behind.

"Keep me calm, grab the javelins in my hand, and shoot them at the soft parts." With that, Rybruce bravely picked up the two frightened soldiers, picked up their javelins, and pointed them at the war elephants that rushed to the front. (To be continued......)