The hidden gold and jade is tantamount to rubble buried in the ground.

- Horace (founder and founder of Roman classicism)

Even if Oscar had acceded to Ares's request to allow him to remain with less than three hundred tragic dead men to deal with Marius's pursuing army; However, Oscar also has his own order, that is, Ares must take the dead soldiers who fought hard all night to rest for an hour, and no matter what happens in this hour, Ares is not allowed to take the dead soldiers out from behind a hundred meters.

Oscar's order was not so much an order to Ares as Oscar's love for Ares and these elite dead soldiers; Ares understands this, too. Moreover, the tragic dead do need to stop and rest; Such a high-intensity continuous battle and march is also extremely unbearable for the most elite tragic dead soldiers.

Ares silently carried his battle axe and took his three hundred tragic dead soldiers, and sat down to rest in the open space a hundred meters away from the archers; Oscar, along with Mary, began to prepare to take on Mario. Marius's army was dragged down by Charles and Carlis' death, and it was only a detachment sent by Marius who took the lead in pursuing these escaped breakout troops.

Although Marius's army did not completely encircle the breakout army, the superior strength and more powerful combat ability were enough for Marius to slowly eliminate those breakout troops trapped in the encirclement in the following time; Still, Marius was still haunted by those who escaped. Because his intuition told Marius that among those who escaped, there must be people who were more important to him!

Of course, this is just a kind of Marius's own intuition, and it does not necessarily represent the truth. In Malho's view, this unusually large breakout army has been clearly formed by the combination of the Maxentius family, the Richard family and the Carters family; Its head is supposed to be the leader of the Maxentius family, Decius, Sevious, Marcus, and two other families.

The present situation was that Decius and Sevius and Marcus had been intercepted by Antony and Octavian at the front, and that the cavalry from the front had just come to tell Marius; On the battlefield set up by Marius himself, the leader of Charles of the Richard family and the leader of Carlis of the Carters family are also about to be besieged, who else can escape?

At this time, Marius did not know that the thousand guards he had arranged in the city of Rome had launched an attack on the Star of Casa because of a stupid and selfish servant; Marius didn't know that Prisca and Old Carabes, who had originally planned to establish contact with the Augustus family, had been rescued by completely isolating the Maxentius family, which was fatal!

Marius believed that as long as he could hand over Prisca and old Carabes unharmed to the Augustus, and give the Augustus family more benefits after the complete destruction of the Maxentius family; Then, the House of Augustus will definitely establish an alliance with him, which will also be beneficial to his future annexation of the House of Scipio, and even the unification of the six provinces of Rome itself!

Yes, that is, to unify the six provinces of Rome itself; Marius's overall strategic plan was to establish an alliance with the Augustus family after annexing everything from the Maxentius family. After that, step by step, the Scipio family was annexed, and after the Brutus family expanded into the Greek peninsula, they invaded the two southern provinces belonging to the Brutus family.

As for the two northern provinces of Rome controlled by the Julius family, Marius believed that if he could establish a closer alliance with the Augustan family, he would be able to join forces sooner or later to seize these two provinces; This is the real plan of Marius, and it is also a typical long-range close attack strategy.

It is a pity that Marius only bribed a foolish servant and destroyed all his beautiful arrangements and ideas with his own hands; And all this, Marliu still does not know. Marius, who was still commanding the army near the encirclement to speed up the strangulation of the breakout army, based on this intuition, sent a partial division of 2,000 hoplites under the leadership of the chief captain to continue the pursuit of the deserters.

This detachment had been pursuing not far behind Ares and his warriors, and Ares had thrown all of them out of sight, but they were still unyielding in the direction of the port; Half an hour after Ares arrived at Oscar's location, the pursuing army finally appeared with torches!

Looking at the small army with torches that appeared in front of him, Oscar did not directly give the order to attack; Instead, after they had entered the 200-meter range, they gave an order to the archers around them: "Archers! Salvo! Shoot the arrows! "The heavy infantry with torches in the middle of the night was a living target for the archers, and the best archers of the House of Augustus shot their arrows with decisiveness!

The rain of arrows falling from the sky stunned the pursuing Marius army at once, and they did not expect to encounter an ambush during the pursuit; However, they were all hoplites armed to the teeth, and a mere bow attack did not cause much casualties to them. As it was true, even though Oscar commanded the most elite Cretan archers, the casualties inflicted on the heavy infantry were extremely limited.

The first round of sudden blows only brought down less than twenty or thirty heavy infantry; The rest of the heavy infantry, who were well trained, immediately threw away their torches and quickly struck in the direction of the archers. The archers again launched two rounds of arrow rain attacks, but with little success; So, Oscar directly ordered the archers to retreat to the port immediately, and the Hidden Commando immediately met the battle!

If it is in the daytime, a fierce duel will be fought on a flat position; Then 2,000 hoplites with orderly coordination and moderate advance and retreat were enough to completely strangle the 800 Shenyin Commando Regiment. But if the battlefield becomes the night it is now, then it is not known who will kill the deer; Moreover, Oscar believes that the Hidden Commando may be the most elite existence in this era if it fights at night.

You know, the Hidden Commandos themselves are the most elite presence in the Roman army; When the Romans established their own country, they relied on night battles to raid the enemy to achieve the final victory. From that time on, the Romans had the habit of forming an elite army for night battles; Such an army is generally called the Hidden Commando!

The value of the existence of the Hidden Commando is not limited to this, in the later expansion of the Roman kingdom; The Hidden Commando also played an important role. They were often used for sneak attacks on city walls, night battles, destruction of enemy facilities, etc., and their usual equipment was leather armor and a short skull and a black robe that covered their entire body.

Although their weapons and equipment are not very advanced, their combat is unusually flexible; In sneak attacks and night battles, a Hidden Commando fighter can easily kill a hoplite with his nimble combat skills. However, with the turmoil within the Roman Kingdom and the long period of war-free after entering the Republic, this legendary army gradually faded into obscurity.

The reason why Oscar was able to form a thousand-strong Hidden Commando is due to the tragic dead soldiers; One of the clan leaders of the House of Augustus had a chance to obtain the training method of the Hidden Commando Soldiers, but it was not perfect enough to train qualified Hidden Commando Soldiers.

But the leader did not give up on this, but gave this training method to the Sorrowful Dead to experiment and perfect; At that time, the Tragic Song Dead were limited to their own limited ability and scale, and did not have a perfect training method for the Hidden Commando Regiment. I know that more than ten years ago, the tragic dead finally perfected the training method; But the House of Augustus was not capable of raising such an army.

It wasn't until Oscar had established himself in Sardinia that the Tragic Dead once again gave Oscar this training method; Oscar was able to train the Hidden Commando Regiment, which had disappeared for hundreds of years! The soldiers of the Eight Hundred Divine Hidden Assault Regiment and the two thousand heavy infantry who were running and killing quickly rushed together; The heavy infantry fought with fear of accidentally injuring their comrades in the dark.

This is not the case with the soldiers of the Hidden Commando, who easily use their flexibility to move between the heavy infantry; The left side stabbed a heavy foot into the neck with a short sword, and the backhand thrust a short foot into the chest of another heavy foot from the right, and then rolled on the spot under the attack of the besieging heavy infantry, escaping with a death.

These super armies that Oscar has poured a lot of effort into not only have everything that the Hidden Commando Regiment should have hundreds of years ago, but also have things that the former Hidden Commando did not have; The soldiers of the Hidden Commando Regiment formed by Oscar are all proficient in two-handed combat, and they all hold an unusually sharp short sword in both left and right hands.

Don't underestimate these short swords, their casting cost is even equivalent to the casting cost of four short swords; This also had the extraordinary effect of being able to easily tear through all existing armor, including the current standard of armor in the Roman Republic. Therefore, the so-called excellent protection of these heavy infantry is nothing more than a void under the shortcomings of the Shenyin Commando Regiment.

The battle between the 2,000 heavy infantry and the 800 Shenyin Commando Regiment was completely one-sided, and in just one face-to-face confrontation, at least hundreds of heavy infantry fell to the Shenyin Commando Regiment with a blank face, feeling the loss of life; The rest of the heavy infantry had no idea where these black ghostly men had come from, and could only fight with them with horror on their faces.

Although Oscar personally formed the Hidden Commando Regiment, he didn't know what the combat effectiveness of the Hidden Commando Regiment was; After all, this is an army similar to special forces, which is not very convenient to test, and their combat range is not a head-on engagement. However, this scene in front of him still shocked Oscar; He never thought that the night combat ability of the Divine Hidden Commando Regiment was elite and powerful! (To be continued.) )