If a man's passion, whether in pleasure or distress, is unforgetful of the creed which reason has taught him about what to fear and what not to fear, then we call every such person a brave man because of his passion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

- Plato (one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of Western culture)

Mikpilus's cavalry troops, when they stormed the battle formation of the Chengguan Legion, were beaten in the head by the strong and powerful defensive formation of the Chengguan Legion; At least hundreds of unprepared javelin cavalry were killed in front of the battle formation of the Chengguan Legion.

After that, the soldiers of the Chengguan Corps quickly launched a counterattack; The Chengguan Corps, which was divided into parts, was instantly divided into fourteen brigades. These well-organized and tightly structured brigades inflicted heavy losses on the panicked javelinmen.

Countless javelin cavalry who had not had time to withdraw from the grappling and more javelin cavalry who rushed forward in a daze were all caught in the siege of the soldiers of the Chengguan Legion; The Javelins were weak in their attack, and at this moment they showed themselves in despair.

Thankfully, Mikpilus himself did not personally lead the cavalry in the charge; Therefore, after most of the cavalry troops were caught in the siege of the Chengguan Legion, he decisively led the cavalry in the rear to make a sharp turn and walked away from the flank of the Chengguan Legion.

In this first round of engagements alone, nearly 2,000 of Mikpilus's cavalry suffered heavy casualties, leaving less than 500 cavalry to follow Mikpilus and bypass the flank of the Chengguan legion; The rest of the cavalry were all reduced to the exploits of the Chengguan Corps.

Tuka's Chengguan legion, having inflicted heavy losses on Mikpilus's cavalry troops, suffered no more than a few hundred casualties; Infantry against cavalry, and such a record, is enough to prove the strength and strength of the Chengguan Corps.

Mickpilus did not immediately flee the battlefield after leading the remnants of his men on a flank detour; For Mikpilus, this is the real beginning of this battle, and the final outcome of the battle between the two sides is still unknown!

After detouring to the flank of the Chengguan Corps, Mikpilus quickly returned to the infantry phalanx and launched another rear charge against the remnants of the light infantry of the Numidian army; The slow-moving Chengguan Legion could only sit back and watch the friendly troops be tortured and severely injured again.

After this charge by Mikpilus, the Numidian light infantry, which had retained the last vestiges of the will to fight, finally collapsed; The remaining Numidian light infantry, numbering less than a thousand, gave up frontal resistance and fled in panic to the rear.

It's a pity that how can the speed of the rout's escape be compared to the speed of the cavalry's pursuit? Of the 1,000 or so Numidian light infantry, only half of them were able to escape back to the Chengguan legion; The rest were killed by the enemy's cavalry on their way to escape.

Having finished the pursuit of the enemy's light infantry, Mikpilus immediately began to reorganize his infantry; The 5,000 poorly equipped Saharan infantry were now less than 4,000 men, but their armament was strengthened.

The Numidian light infantry who died in battle left behind a large number of weapons and equipment that were extremely valuable to the Saharan infantry; Although it was not a good habit to clean up the battlefield during battle, the poorly armed Saharan infantry still tried to pick up the enemy's high-quality weapons to use.

Just as Mikpilus was reorganizing his light infantry and preparing to face the Chengguan Legion again; The soldiers of the Chengguan Legion also welcomed the hundreds of lightly armed infantry of the Salah Legion who returned from the rout.

Tuka knew that if these scattered light infantry were allowed to charge into his own formation, it would inevitably seriously disrupt his stable battle formation; Even if you have enough time to adjust your formation, these frightened routs will affect your morale in battle.

However, refusing to allow these routs to enter the battle formation of the Chengguan Legion would sow the seeds of distrust between the original forces under Adheba's command and the Combined Legion after the end of the war; That's the crux of Tuka's hard choice.

When the rout was about to flee to the front of the Chengguan Legion, Tuka decisively gave an order to the hundred guards around him; Let them personally go out and guide the defeated soldiers directly from the left flank of the Chengguan Legion to the rear of the Chengguan Legion to rest.

In addition, in order to ensure that these defeated soldiers do not interfere with the battle between the Chengguan Legion and the enemy, and in order to better protect these defeated soldiers whose symbolic significance is greater than their practical significance; Tuka also drew out a large battalion of hoplites and retreated to the rear to protect them.

Although the defeated soldiers had been almost destroyed by Mikpilus's army, they were veterans of Salah's army after all, and they still had at least battlefield experience; Therefore, they did not attack the frontal defense line of the Chengguan Legion, but wisely chose to go around from the left flank of the Chengguan Legion to the rear of the battle formation under the escort of Tuka's personal guard.

After dealing with these routs, Tuka began to wholeheartedly command the soldiers of the Chengguan Corps to line up in a neat military formation and advance to the enemy battle formation in front; Mikpilus's army is waiting for the arrival of the Chengguan Legion!

Salah chose to abandon the light infantry in the rear completely, and after galloping to the vanguard cavalry in front of him, he turned all his attention to the battle ahead; At this time, the battle between the vanguard cavalry and the Zhuguda cavalry was still raging.

With the passage of time, the vanguard cavalry of the Numidian army has developed from being semi-surrounded by the Jugurdah cavalry at the beginning, to now being completely surrounded by the Jugurdan cavalry!

The vanguard cavalry, completely surrounded by the Jugurdah cavalry, did not panic, believing that reinforcements from their rear would soon arrive; Therefore, they were still fighting with the cavalry of Juguda with high fighting spirits, buying time to wait for reinforcements.

When all his cavalry had surrounded the Numidian vanguard, Jugurdah let his guard down; In his opinion, the reinforcements of the Numidian army, blocked by the ambush army of Mikpilus, could not have arrived in a short time.

And the absolute superiority of their own forces is enough to completely annihilate or severely damage the four thousand Numidian vanguard cavalry in front of them; After you have annihilated the Numidian cavalry, gather all your forces to reinforce the ambush troops, and the initiative in the whole war will be your own!

However, the truth is far from being as rosy as Jugudah imagined; Mikpilus's assessment of the situation allowed the cavalry led by Salah himself to quickly rush to the place where the cavalry was engaged, and Jugurdah had to use his own cavalry to face Salah's strong reinforcements.

When Salah's cavalry troops came out of the rear of the vanguard cavalry in a fierce manner, Jugudah's heart was extremely shocked; He really didn't expect that the reinforcements from Numidia would come so quickly and in such a huge number!

There is no room for hesitation on the battlefield, and there is no regret at all; Out of absolute trust in Mikpilus, Juguda did not question Mikpilus, but in order to win the battle, he had to throw himself into Michiprusa's infantry corps in advance.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield was as follows: the 7,000 javelins led by Juguda himself surrounded the 4,000 cavalry regiments of the Numidian vanguard, and at the outermost part of this huge encirclement, another 6,000 Numidian reinforcements came!

Salah did not hesitate in the slightest when he discovered the battle ahead; He immediately divided his cavalry into threes. In addition to the 2,000 javelinmen still led by him who continued to attack Juguda's cavalry encirclement, the remaining 4,000 camel cavalry were divided into two routes, left and right, and attacked from both flanks of Juguda's cavalry encirclement!

Salah, who was born in cavalry, is himself a fierce battlefield general; It's just that, as he grew older, his command ability overshadowed his own ferocity, and in this battle, Salah once again took the lead in the enemy formation!

With the lead of the commander, the cavalry under Salah broke out with a strong attack force; The encirclement of the Juguda cavalry, which was facing the enemy on the back, was quickly torn apart by Salah's cavalry troops, and Salah's cavalry directly fought all the way into the encirclement.

The two flank attack forces, consisting of camel cavalry, were less fortunate than the easy ones in the front; The camel cavalry was not advantageous in the face of the javelin cavalry, and the Zhuguda cavalry on the flanks was more convenient to turn, and it was not so easy for the camel cavalry on both flanks to tear apart the encirclement.

However, after Salah's frontal breakthrough, the vanguard cavalry joined up with Saleh's javelin cavalry and immediately began to launch a counterattack against the Juguda cavalry on the periphery; By this time, the Numidian cavalry had already outnumbered the cavalry of Jugudah.

After such a long battle, the number of Juguda's cavalry had dropped from 7,000 at the beginning of the battle to less than 6,000; Of the 4,000 cavalry of the vanguard cavalry, only about 2,000 remained, and the casualties were far more heavy than those of the Zhuguda cavalry.

However, with the reinforcements of Salah's cavalry, the number of cavalry on the Numidian side rose directly to 8,000; However, Juguda's cavalry lost more than 1,000 under Salah's assault, and less than 5,000 cavalry remained.

The situation on the entire battlefield had already been reversed after Salah arrived with six thousand cavalry; The Juguda cavalry, which originally surrounded the vanguard cavalry, had already fallen into the two-sided attack of the vanguard cavalry and the Saleh cavalry, and the battle between the two sides became more intense.

At this moment, the rear of the Zhuguda cavalry, the infantry corps that had been on standby, finally rushed to the battlefield; After discovering Salah's reinforcements, Mitch Pusa did not talk nonsense, and immediately led his army of 10,000 people into battle.

Dealing with the elite cavalry of Salah's legion with a rabble under Juguda is simply self-defeating; But if Salah's cavalry is fighting with Juguda's, then these rabble infantry can play a big role. (To be continued.) )