If a god tells you, "You will die tomorrow, no matter what, you will not escape the day after tomorrow." Ya_>> bar>>w-w=w-.- "Then whether you die tomorrow or the day after, you must think that it doesn't matter, unless you are extremely mean, because the difference is so small!" So whether you will die in a few years, or tomorrow, you should also treat it as an irrelevant matter!

- Marcus Aurelius (the only philosopher-emperor in Western history)

Even so, the mutual firing of the two armies did not stop; In order to be able to take the barracks without heavy equipment, Antio decisively ordered the gladiators around him to charge when the enemy troops who had left the barracks broke and fled back to the barracks. The gladiators who rushed to the barracks from the darkness were hit hard by the slingers, and in a short distance of 100 meters, the slingers shot at least four rounds of stone rain, causing great casualties to the charging gladiators.

However, this was the end of the defenders' counterattack; When the gladiators rushed into the rout, the enemy slingers had no choice but to abandon the use of slings, and the infantry who remained in the camp joined in the fight against the gladiators. The battle between the gladiators and the Carthaginian infantry was not much of a suspense; It's a one-sided battle.

Although the gladiators of the Samonai Legion used only light armor, their weapons were mainly short swords and short spears; However, the equipment used by the Carthaginian army was much more rudimentary. The slingers in the barracks had no weapons at all, except for a stone bag at their waist and a dagger, and the Balearic slingers were just a bunch of peasants dressed in cloth.

As for the so-called Carthaginian infantry, they were all peasants of the Balearic Islands, and even if they were recruited as Carthaginian defenders, they were only the most poorly equipped militia; Like the slingers, they had no armor and their only weapon was a dagger from the Doge's Palace, so how could such an army fight the gladiators?

The gladiators of the Samonai Legion were all elite who survived one battle after another in the gladiatorial arena, and their weapons and equipment were indeed inferior to the regular army; But this so-called regular army was the standard Roman hoplites, not the grassroots Carthaginian army. >>8＿﹎ｗ=ｗ`ｗ=．`

In the battle at the gates of the barracks. Antius took the lead in carrying a sword into the Carthaginian infantry; With each swing of his sword, Antio could take the lives of several enemy soldiers. The enemy also appeared the unusually brave Antio, under the orders of Siodicris; Dozens of the governor's guards immediately joined forces and brandished their short swords to attack Antio.

Caught off guard, Antio was cut off from the gladiators behind him, and was completely surrounded by the governor's guards; These thirty or so guards were not comparable to those ordinary Carthaginian troops, they were all elite veterans who had followed Hannibal for a long time. He was also Hannibal's personal bodyguard to protect his brother.

The thirty-odd men trapped Antio in a combo formation, and every time Antio wanted to focus on any of them, he had to risk being hit by four; Antio's several attempts to break free had no effect. At this time, with the support of dozens of other personal guards, the gladiators who had already stormed the barracks were unable to expand their gains and continue to go deeper.

With one failed attack after another, Antio, already thoroughly enraged, risked being severely wounded by several men to split one of his guards in half with a single sword; Several of the guards behind Antio also stabbed the short swords in their hands into Antio's waist at this time. The fierce Antio grabbed the short sword that the guards had stuck in him as they tried to pull out it. Then he swung his sword with his backhand and cut off all the heads of these people!

Antio, who does not care about life and death, encounters an elite guard who is also fearless of life and death; Just as Antio turned around and killed the enemy with a backhand, several guards stabbed the short sword into Antio's body from the front, and even a short sword pierced Antio's chest. Antio, on the other hand, turned around once more, as if he were an ancient beast, and slashed the guards in the same way.

At this moment, Antio already had more than a dozen short swords stuck in his body, and the more than thirty guards besieging Antio were less than fifteen; Antio, covered in blood, opened his eyes and shouted angrily at the guards who did not dare to continue rushing forward, "Don't you want to kill me? Come on! Let me see, which of you dares to kill me! Who would dare to kill me!! ”

The angry shout of Antio, who was like a peerless demon god, not only frightened the more than ten guards in front of him to take a step back, but even several ordinary Carthaginian infantry next to him were directly frightened to their knees by the hideous Antio! Antio, whose tyrannical aura had been completely stirred up in his body, ignored the bleeding wounds on his body; Instead, he pulled out the short sword that was stuck in his body one by one. __ W·ww. Throw it at the guards who want to continue rushing up.

Antio's ferocity and tyranny also greatly boosted the morale of the gladiators, seeing Antio besieged to Si; The gladiators began a desperate fight with complete desperation. After the gladiators attacked to the death regardless of casualties, the gladiators, who had the superiority in numbers and weaponry, easily tore through the reorganized defenses of the Carthaginian defenders.

All the guards sent by Siddichris, too, were quickly killed and wounded under the onslaught of the gladiators, and the retreating Carthaginian defenders were forced to the southeast corner of the camp in just a few minutes; At this time, Oscar also came to the barracks with all the gladiators outside the barracks, and Oscar ordered Antio, who was covered in blood, to be treated by a doctor immediately, but Antio immediately refused Oscar's order.

Antio let his own blood flow, and said to Oscar firmly: "Leader, please wait, it will not be too late to heal the superior who will bring Siodicrius to the leader!" With that, Antio led the archers and javelinmen with murderous spirits towards the remnants of the tortoise.

Looking at the trembling remnants, Antio waved his hand to signal the archers and javelinmen to attack the remnants at close range; The dense rain of arrows and javelins gave the huddled defenders nowhere to escape. They were killed and wounded before they even had a chance to surrender, but Siodikris survived by the sworn protection and arrows of the remaining guards.

Standing alone in the pile of corpses, Si Audicris looked blankly at the corpses lying next to him, knowing that the Balearic Islands were finished, and he had not only failed his brother's expectations. It also lost another important maritime communication hub of the Carthaginian kingdom; Completely immersed in defeat, Siodiris has completely lost any life, like a walking corpse.

However, Antio is not a soft-hearted person, he doesn't care what Siodichris is thinking, and he will not indecisively give up the decision to kill Cialodicris; I saw Antio holding the sword in his hand and striding towards Siodicris. Until he met Cialis face to face. Antio raised his sword and slashed off Cialacris's head.

After slashing and killing Cialodicris, Antio finally couldn't hold it anymore, and his eyes were black and he fell next to Cialodicris's headless corpse on the spot; The gladiators behind Antio hurriedly carried Antio to find the doctor. Oscar, who was standing next to him and had been watching Antio's behavior, sighed helplessly, this Antio is just a fierce general after all!

Originally, Oscar didn't plan to kill Siodicrius on the spot. Because Oscar can use the living Siodiris to take Parma bloodlessly; However, Oscar did not bother Antio's angry slash of Ciddichris. On the one hand, Antio, who paid a heavy price for this battle, is qualified to decide the life and death of Siodicris; On the other hand, it is also a test for Oscar for Ateo.

If Antio chooses to keep Ciaudikris at the last minute, it means that he is the same as Licini. is not only a fierce general, but also has the potential to be independent; The reality is that he is more brave and ferocious than Licinius, and he is even less capable of commanding war. In other words, Antio is only suitable for a fierce general who charges into battle, not a general who commands the army!

The 3,000 so-called Carthaginian elites were wiped out here in less than half an hour, and the price paid by the Samonai legion was more than 400 killed and 500 seriously wounded; The most important thing is that Antio has been hit hard again. However, the lack of lightly wounded and the valiant performance of the Samonai Legion also came at a price; That is, the battle fatality rate is much higher than that of ordinary armies.

This battle of besieging the barracks would have been carried out if it had been left to a normal Roman legion. Then the number of dead and seriously wounded in battle could never reach a thousand, and a maximum of five hundred casualties would be enough for them to capture this barracks; It's just that they will need several times as long as the Samonai Legion. Samonai's Legion's attacks are fast-paced and fast-paced; But the casualties are indeed high enough, and they can't be easily used in the future!

After leaving behind 2,000 soldiers of the Samonian Legion to build the battlefield and rescue the wounded, Oscar took the remaining 5,000 soldiers of the Samonian Legion from the woods to Parma. In fact, the battle in the jungle did not hide from the defenders of Parma and the army of the House Augustus who surrounded Parma; As soon as Licinius and Marie led an army to surround Parma, the defenders of the city began to mobilize.

More than 5,000 temporarily recruited Balearic slingers, led by the legion commander Brialos, stood by the city walls, while Licinius led 5,000 cavalry to patrol and blockade the city walls beyond the range of the slingers; Mary's army, less than 500 meters from the city walls, began to build siege equipment in a step-by-step manner.

This confrontation between the two sides is just a disguise on the surface, and everyone's focus is on the jungle where the killing sound is shaking at this moment; Although neither side knows what the battle is like in the jungle. But they all understood that the battle in the jungle would determine the victory or defeat of the entire Balearic War. If Carthage had won, it would have been impossible for the Augustan army to take the whole of the Balearic for a while; The troops inside the city will also have higher morale to defend against, knowing that they will have reinforcements that may appear at any time outside the city.

Once the Augustians had completely annihilated the three thousand Carthaginian defenders in the jungle, it would only be a matter of time before Parma fell; The isolated defenders of Parma could not resist the attacks of the House of Augustus. Morale will also plummet. It doesn't matter why the Augustians knew that there was an ambush of the Carthaginian army in the jungle over there; Now that the battle has begun, the most important thing is the result.

Although Mary and Licinius knew that the Augustan family would definitely win with their absolute superiority, they could not completely annihilate the three thousand enemy troops; Then even if the battle is won, it will not change the strategic defeat. The fighting ended in less than half an hour, and the regained silence of the jungle became the common focus of both sides; Will the House of Augustus be able to decide the outcome of the Balearic War in a single battle?

The result is, of course, positive; When Oscar walked out of the jungle with five thousand neat soldiers of the Samonai Legion, the Augustus soldiers on the battlefield cheered their leader with the warmest cheers. But. Mary's heart was still not at ease; Because she didn't know if Oscar had completely annihilated the enemy, and she didn't see Antio! (To be continued.) )