Later, another promise came, "After the annihilation of the Pontic cavalry, the city of Khersonnes will be forced to hand over more rewards, otherwise it will be released for three days and the city will be sacked." ”

"Don't give them drink, the heat will flow faster." After Calabis regained his ability to speak, he stepped on the snow in the camp and said to several centurions and battalion officers, "Give them more fat, and it is better to send it all out before you leave tonight!" ”

“Alaquingenaria！ (The legion is attached to the cavalry team)" After dinner, in front of the main gate of the camp, Hortensius was on a sword, and his voice pierced the howling of the blizzard, and the golden bull eagle flag in the hand of the flag officer beside him had been covered with snow into a small dot, and he could not see his face, and in the shouting order of Hortensius, the heavily armed "alae" Roman cavalry took the lead in stepping on the snow and rushed out. Later, Hortensius shouted again, "Spearhead, get ahead of the queue!" ”

"Hey, Your Excellency, do you still recognize me? In Pistoria we fought side by side. As the Spearhead stepped out of the barracks, a young soldier with four gold chains stared at Calabis and said.

"Of course I recognize you, you are the hero of the whole battle." Calabis punched his opponent in the chest, encouraging.

"May Mars bless me, and be glad to continue to fight under you, and to be nurtured by you." The soldier gave a military salute and went out with his comrades.

Then came the flag-bearers of the brigade with the Grape Scepter, the various infantry hundreds, the auxiliary slingers, the Bosphorus servant light infantry, the artillery detachment, the engineer detachment, one after another

Zuihou, Calabis with Hortensius. With a team of veteran hundreds. Guarding the Eagle Banner. Following the team, he lit torches that were blown back and forth by the wind, and walked in the direction of Khersonnes, step by step.

Under the city of Khersonnes, the dismounted Pontic cavalry and Scythians attached themselves to the city walls like ants, braving the stones and rockets flying from the city's head, and stormed the towers at the corners. Some of the towers were captured, but they were reclaimed by the soldiers defending the city, and a few puffs of smoke dotted the wind and snow, thinner and thinner the higher they went.

In the temporary camp of the Ponticus, the "bison" Tak Schiller, who was watching the battle, used the ox tail whip to whip his arm, and the snow on his armor splashed from time to time. Not some of Marcha's garrisons, these people were only a small part of them. The main force is the army hired by the city government and the chamber of commerce, as well as the citizen volunteer army, these people have been fighting the pirates and rogues who have attacked this rich harbor city, and the combat experience is very rich, and the people of Pontus cannot defeat it for a while.

When the buffalo learned that his baggage camp had been burned down by a surprise attack, his roar almost overshadowed the blizzard, but when faced with the choice of "whether to retreat from the city of Khersonnes", the buffalo hesitated, and he now found that he and the princess Adiana were both lightly enemy, and after all calculations, he did not count the Roman senate, but actually formed a new legion and transported it to Ponticabion, which is the biggest variable on the battlefield, otherwise with the strategy of the princess Adiana, the city of Ponticabion has already been besieged.

The Romans are really a difficult hydra, they can fail again and again, but they will continue to fight with you, and if you kill a Roman, you must first stab him in the vital point with a sword, and then push his body to the ground with all your might.

In the city, the fall of a tower finally delayed Takschiller, who looked at the wind and snow that could not distinguish between cattle and horses, and decided to take Khersonnes with all his strength in three days, obtain abundant supplies, and then return to fight the Romans.

However, after a day and a half, the wind and snow continued unabated, but the "hydras" suddenly appeared on the land at the exit of the headland behind him.

Stimulated by money and honor, and in spite of the hardships of the march, the gang began to dig trenches along the headland without knowing whether to live or die, completely ignoring how difficult the hard frozen ground was. Takschiller was shocked, and then he was silent, maybe he had fought for the Pontus Empire for thirty years, and sooner or later he would encounter such a day - Ponticus's army was divided into two teams, one group continued to besiege the city of Khersonnes, and the other team began to attack the incoming Calabis army in turn, trying to break through, otherwise he would be caught in this narrow headland.

The Roman army was also divided into two parts, one part erected wooden fences and shields, and was armed with heavy javelin pirums, while the Bosphorus servants and soldiers behind them frantically threw hunting spears and stones outside. Some continued to wield pickaxes and shovels, digging trenches across the headland, and the eagle banner of the Thirteenth Legion was also erected on a high ground, so that the defenders of the city of Khersonnes could easily see it.

The whole sky was full of arrows and stones, and when the cavalry of Pontus could not make a detour to the flank to attack the Romans, their power in fighting on horseback was greatly reduced, and the strength of men and horses in the ice and snow without supplies was quickly exhausted, and the offensive gradually declined after a day of fierce fighting.

The next day, Takschille's cavalry actually dismounted, and also began to dig trenches and erect wooden fences, which shows that Takschiller was trapping the beasts, but everything was in vain, most of the cavalry did not even have the equipment of the engineers, and by the time they had only dug a shallow layer, the Roman camp was unusually complete and strong.

At noon, in the cold wind and snow, the Roman soldiers ate all the food they carried, and between the trenches and the wooden fences, they lined up the offensive formation according to the hundred-man team, first the golden bull eagle flag of the thirteenth legion was raised in the sound of the horn, and then the battalion flag of the brigade, the fire tongue flag of the wing, and the small flag of the hundred-man team, "The Roman dog is about to be put into the general attack." The three of them were fully manned. On the other side, Tucker Schiller, who was dressed in fur, led his mount, with black armor all over his body, pinched his beard and said, because he saw that the silver rings under the banners of the battalions of the three brigades of Calabis were all six, which indicated that each brigade was not missing, and they were all full of six hundred-man troops, and then the "bison" took off the chain on his body, half-knelt on the ground, kissed it, put it in the shallow trench newly dug by his soldiers just now, buried it with his hands, squinted his eyes for a while, and said softly: "The warrior is on the battlefield, and there is no concern. ”

On the other side, when all the Roman ranks were in operation after the fortifications, two horsemen with banners, stepping on the snow, came from a distance, and then dismounted and raised their tokens to the people, "Your Excellency Claudius, Adjutant General, order this army to march to the city of Ponticabion, and to defend the governor Marcha." (To be continued......)