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The decisive attack, carefully prepared by Botracott, was quickly disintegrated by the onslaught of the cavalry that suddenly appeared; The defeated Spanish army on all fronts was simply beyond the power of manpower, and the Overseers of Botricott were completely dispersed by the rout.

The soldiers who fought on the battlefield, whether they were the officers of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps with a weak will to fight, or the elite officers and soldiers of the Botrecott Legion; Once a rout is formed, anyone can only survive such a rout and cannot extricate themselves.

In the face of the fleeing Spanish soldiers on the battlefield, the assault cavalry did not launch a pursuit, they did not care about the fleeing rout, but focused their new attention on dealing with the Spanish army who wanted to withdraw from the city walls.

All the siege ladders leaning on the city wall were destroyed by these cavalrymen one by one, and the Spanish soldiers who were lucky enough to escape from the city wall could not escape the pursuit of the cavalry, and were killed one by one; At this time, the situation on the battlefield belonged to the House of Augustus once again.

In fact, just as this cavalry was charging the attacking Spanish army, Gabriel, the lieutenant general of the Fifth Legion, also arrived in Córdoba with 2,000 infantry of the Fifth Auxiliary Legion, and entered the city through another gate.

As soon as they entered Córdoba, they rushed to the battle-hardened city walls to reinforce the defenders led by Marcus, helping them to annihilate all the Spanish troops who had climbed the walls but could not retreat!

After the cavalry had taken control of the battlefield, Gabriel and Marcus joined forces to wipe out all the invading enemies on the walls; Although some Spanish soldiers wanted to surrender at the last moment, the heavy losses of their own army still made the defenders ruthless.

The Spanish army fled back to their barracks without looking back, while Botrecott himself returned to their barracks under the protection of generals such as Tecomin, Gezca, Edotta, and Oguz, and began to reorganize their army.

In today's battle, these sudden reinforcements from the Augustus family not only completely broke the Spanish army's dream of taking Córdoba in one fell swoop, but also dealt a heavy blow to the attacking Spanish army and completely reversed the situation on the battlefield.

The Spanish army wanted to attack Córdoba again, and that was not something that could be organized in a day or two; After all, their army had just collapsed on all fronts, and if there was not enough time to reorganize the army, it would be impossible for their army to regain its combat effectiveness, and it would be impossible for them to organize themselves to attack again.

On the contrary, the Córdoba defenders of the House of Augustus instead received extremely valuable reinforcements; Even with only one auxiliary legion led by Gabriel, the 3,000 well-trained men were enough to defend Córdoba until the arrival of the Fourth Legion.

In fact, both Marcus and Gabriel felt that the Spanish army outside the city would not have the strength to launch another attack before the arrival of Tetius's Fourth Army, and it would be impossible for them to launch a new attack.

Marcus then confidently and boldly handed over all the responsibility of defending the city walls to Gabriel and his Fifth Auxiliary Legion, while he himself returned to the city with the hundreds of remaining soldiers under his command to rest.

This time, the Augustus family was able to hold the city of Córdoba, thanks not only to the strict defense of Marcus's troops, but also to the decisive support of Longina; If Longina had not sent Gabriel to lead an auxiliary legion to reinforce Córdoba, Marcus's defenders would not have been able to withstand the Spanish attack, and today would have been the day of the fall of Córdoba.

Before receiving information from Marcus, Ronkina's Fifth Army was engaged in a battle with the Spanish army's Exaca Legion; After the prepared Fifth Army attacked the Exaca Army head-on, the two sides formed a military confrontation in the border area.

Later, the cavalry sent by Marcus rushed to the camp of Longkina and informed the commander of the Third Army of all the incidents of the Dragonkina; Ronkina felt that it would be difficult for the remnants of Marcus's Third Legion alone to hold on to the empty Córdoba, so he immediately sent his own legion's lieutenant general, Gabriel, to lead the auxiliary corps of the Fifth Legion to quickly reinforce Córdoba.

This decision of Longkina has become an important decision to save Córdoba, and it is also an important decision to save the province of Betica! Gabriel's headquarters, which arrived in Córdoba in time, while rescuing Marcus's troops, also completely ruined the Spanish army's offensive plan.

As the supreme commander of the Spanish army, Botricott also understood that Córdoba, which had received new reinforcements, would become the burial place of countless Spanish soldiers; More crucially, the Spanish army, which had just been routed on all fronts, was unable to attack again.

The Augustan Fourth Legion, fully staffed, is about to arrive in Córdoba; After the Fourth Army arrived in Córdoba, it would be a question of whether the Spanish army could even retreat on the premise of completely losing the opportunity to attack.

In view of this, Botricott did not hesitate, and he decisively decided to lead the Spanish troops in the barracks to retreat on all fronts and return to the Spanish barracks in the border area for rest; At the same time, he also sent a personal guard to Charles VII of the Spanish Kingdom to ask for help, asking the Dinoit legion stationed in the border area of the Gaul barbarians to immediately reinforce his army, otherwise, the victory would be completely lost with the Spanish Kingdom!

This is not that Bautricott is alarmist, but the most helpless assessment of the actual situation; After this day's casualties, the 15,000 directly subordinate legions under the command of Botracott were reduced to less than 8,000.

And Tecomin's first legion is only 5,000 people left; Slightly better, it was Gezka's Second Legion, the cost of losses was controlled by less than half, and the entire legion was still able to have 7,000 men left.

But the crux of the matter is that this final count includes not only the wounded soldiers of the various legions who have recovered from their wounds in the legions and have not played, but also the wounded who were wounded in the border area during the initial attack on the Augustus camp.

In other words, the once brilliant army of Botrikot has now been sharply reduced from the original 35,000 troops to less than 20,000; Moreover, among the 20,000 people, there are at least 8,000 wounded, and there are only about 10,000 soldiers who can actually fight.

Will Botracott be able to use these 10,000 newly defeated soldiers and 8,000 wounded and wailing in pain to fight against the elite Fourth Legion of the House of Augustus? The answer, of course, is no, such a fight is not a fight at all, but suicide!

Therefore, Botricott was not willing to continue to waste his limited military strength under the city of Córdoba; He was even more reluctant to let his soldiers face the attack of the Fourth Legion of the Augustus family, so he had no choice but to retreat.

Of course, the Spanish army did not necessarily retreat if they wanted to retreat, as long as the Fourth Legion of the House of Augustus launched a counterattack against the Botricott Division, then they could easily wipe out the Spanish army in the province of Betica.

You know, with thousands of wounded in tow, the Spanish army could not have marched very fast; Coupled with the threat of the strong combat power of the Fourth Legion of the House of Augustus, Botricott had to ask for help from the last elite Dinoite Legion of the Spanish Kingdom.

In fact, Botricott's request for help is not just to better preserve his strength; In his heart, there is another idea of turning defeat into victory, that is, to gather the full strength of his own army and the Dynoy Legion to fight a decisive battle with the Fourth Legion of the Augustus Family!

Botracott had reason to believe that the Fourth Legion of House Augustus, when it arrived in Córdoba, would decisively pursue its own army; At that time, as long as your army is reinforced by the Dinoy legion, you will definitely be able to fight a decisive battle with the opponent.

With the two most elite legions of the Spanish Kingdom, supplemented by two newly formed legions, their own army is at least twice as large as the fourth legion of the Augustus family, and if they have a decisive battle, they may not have no chance of victory.

After all, in the army of the Duke of Dinoy, there was still a considerable number of Joan of Arc; The weapons and equipment of those soldiers may not be strong, but their combat effectiveness is extremely fierce, as long as they are used properly, they can definitely help the Spanish army completely open up the situation!

According to Botricott's idea, he chose the location of the decisive battle with the Fourth Legion of the House of Augustus in the border area between the Kingdom of Spain and the province of Betica; This is where the Spanish army first attacked the camp of the Third Legion of the House of Augustus.

Using the place where the war began as the place where the war ended, and setting the life-and-death battle between the two sides in such a place, Botricott's heart was also quite satisfied; No matter what the price of that battle was paid by the Kingdom of Spain, it still won in the end, didn't it?

The day after the decision was made, Botricott slowly withdrew from the barracks with the reorganized Spanish army and began to withdraw rapidly to the border areas; Even the remaining air battalions were set on fire by order of Botricott.

The raging fire, in the eyes of the defenders of the House of Augustus in Córdoba, reflected their own victory; All the soldiers who participated in the battle to defend the city did not show a look of joy, but involuntarily clenched their weapons, ready to take revenge at any time!

There is hardly any suspense about the next development of the situation; The main force of the Augustus' Fifth Legion was still facing the Exaca Legion of the Kingdom of Spain in the eastern part of Betica, and the Fourth Legion, after arriving in Córdoba, launched a decisive pursuit of the retreating Spanish army, as Botricott had expected.

However, this pursuit was not the pursuit of one corps of the Fourth Army, but the joint pursuit of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Legions; In addition to the 2,000 infantry under Gabriel's command who remained in Córdoba, the cavalry of the 5th Auxiliary Regiment was also personally led by Gabriel to participate in the pursuit, and Marcus participated in it with 300 heavy infantry who were not seriously wounded! (To be continued.) )