"Chapter 498: Surrounded on All Sides"
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While Oscar and Marie were leading an army of 20,000 men from the interior of the Kingdom of Spain to the rear of the armies of the Dukes of Beautrecott and Dinnoy, Luquis also led 7,000 reinforcements of his 1st and 3rd Legions to the confrontation between the two armies on the northern border of the province of Betica.
After more than ten days of rest and recovery, Botricott's army finally regained sufficient combat effectiveness; Most of the wounded were rejoined the battle, and the strength of Botrakot finally returned to 20,000.
After more than ten days of digestion and running-in, Tekomin's First Army and Gazka's Second Army also have a completely different mental outlook from before; Even the momentum of ordinary soldiers has changed significantly.
Needless to say, after participating in two large-scale battles and several terrible sieges, the two legions of recruits were no longer what they used to be; Although their combat effectiveness is still not comparable to the elite legions of Beautracott and Duke Dinoir, they are definitely not comparable to the recruit legions of the past.
It is no exaggeration to say that if the more well-armed Axaca Legion is pulled out at this time, it will engage the First Legion of Tecomin or the Second Legion of Gazca on the same scale; In the end, it will definitely be the latter who will win.
Whether or not there is combat experience is crucial for an army; An army that has not experienced war cannot become a real elite division, and no matter how strict the training is, it is only training, far less than the tempering brought by the life-and-death battlefield battle.
Therefore, the real elite divisions are tempered by war, not by training on the training ground; The First Legion of Tecomin and the Second Legion of Gazka are naturally not comparable to the current Exsaka Legion.
During the period of confrontation between the two armies, the tentative attacks on each other never stopped; The Spanish army's round shield cavalry would often be found near Tetius's Combined Legion barracks, and the hoplites of the House of Augustus were also out of the barracks.
A tentative attack is also a battle, and casualties on both sides are inevitable; Today you have 10 killed and 15 wounded, and tomorrow I will be killed 7 and 20 wounded, these are normal phenomena, and they are also ways for each other to slowly weaken each other's strength.
In fact, in the exploratory offensive phase of both sides, the army of the House of Augustus still had an absolute advantage; There is no way, who let the army of the Augustus family have an absolute advantage in terms of weapons and equipment and the coordination of troops!
The advantage of the Spanish army was in numbers, since both sides deliberately suppressed the scale of the battle, and regarded each other as tentative battles of mutual temptation; That means that the forces of each attack on both sides are roughly equal, and even most of the time the scout troops of the two armies are fighting each other, so it is natural that the Augustus family occupies an advantageous position.
Over time, when Luquis, with 10,000 men of the 1st Army and 7,000 recruits to replenish the 3rd Army, appeared in the rear of the camp of Tetius; The Augustus army and the Spanish army, who were still facing each other, were shocked.
Whether it was the army of the Kingdom of Spain or the army of the House of Augustus, they did not expect that the native reinforcements of the House of Augustus would come so quickly; This is completely beyond everyone's expectations!
Could it be that the House of Augustus sent reinforcements when the Kingdom of Spain went to war? How could it be, unless it was the Kingdom of Spain, which had been betrayed by the Roman powers; Otherwise, such a thing cannot be explained!
Long before the outbreak of the war, the Kingdom of Spain had made a detailed investigation of the Augustan army in the province of Betica; The Augustan army, outside the province of Betica, was also provided by the Roman powers with enough information.
According to all the intelligence analysis, the Augustus family had only the third, fourth, and fifth legions of their family in the province of Betica; The Balearic Islands and Sardinia, the closest to the province of Betica, were not garrisoned by any legions.
In other words, if the Augustians wanted to reinforce the province of Betica, they had to draw troops from Sicily, which straddled half of the Mediterranean; It always takes time for an army to cross the sea by boat, and isn't there only one possibility, when the first legion of the Augustus family suddenly appears on the northern battlefield of Betica?
That is, the Augustus family received the news of the outbreak of the war not long after the outbreak of the war, and immediately sent reinforcements of the army! Spain itself can be regarded as a strict seal on this news, which is only known to some upper-level decision-makers, and there is no possibility of leaking it at all; The only possible leak is the Roman powers!
No matter how maliciously Beautrecott and the Duke of Dinoy scolded the Roman powers, it was impossible to change the current tide of war; With the reinforcement of the seventeen-thousand-strong army led by Luquis himself, the third legion with Marcus as the legion was immediately rebuilt, and the army on the side of the Augustus family was also equal in number with the Spanish army.
The military camp originally built by Tetius was naturally impossible to garrison so many troops; As a result, Luquis, who was the commander of the three legions, ordered Raqqa to lead the First Army to rebuild the barracks on the left flank of Tetius's barracks, and Marcus to lead the Third Army to rebuild the barracks on the right flank of Tetius's barracks.
For Oscar's order was for Luquis to defend with all his might, and to avoid as much direct clash as possible with the Spanish army opposite; Therefore, Luquis lined up the three barracks of his own army, and did not make any triangular formation.
The Spanish army on the opposite side, after witnessing the arrival of the reinforcements of the Augustan family, also completely gave up all the tentative attacks and left all the troops in the barracks to prevent the Augustus family from attacking on a large scale!
To be honest, now Beautracott and the Duke of Dinoir are also in a dilemma, they have no idea what to do in the current situation in order to fight for a chance to survive the Kingdom of Spain.
From the time Luquis arrived at the border with a large army of reinforcements, Beautricott and the Duke of Dinoir knew that all the objectives of the Spanish kingdom in waging war had been defeated; Even more tragically, the Kingdom of Spain was already in a dilemma.
In the current border areas, the armies of the House of Augustus already have a huge advantage in both quantity and quality; The army of the Kingdom of Spain simply did not have the strength to continue attacking the Augustus, and even whether it could defend it became a problem.
What is even more helpless is that this war, which was initiated by the Kingdom of Spain, has mobilized almost all the military forces in the Kingdom of Spain; Aside from the garrisons of the provinces, there was no military force in the Kingdom of Spain!
That is, as long as the armies of Beautrecott and the Duke of Dinoy retreated, the armies of the House of Augustus could march straight into the territory of the Kingdom of Spain; The Kingdom of Spain, on the other hand, was powerless to resist.
Therefore, Botracott and Duke Dinoy knew that the longer the time dragged on, the more favorable the situation would be for the Augustus family, and they could only choose to stick to the border area to block any possible attack by the Augustus family!
Just after the Augustus family reinforcements arrived, Beautrecott and the Duke of Dinoy also immediately sent an urgent letter of help to Charles VII, who was in the capital, and informed Charles VII in detail of the situation in the border area at this time; They needed Charles VII to hurry up and raise more armies and send a plea for help from the Roman powers to save the Spanish kingdom from a precarious situation!
No matter how distrustful of the Roman powers were in the hearts of the Beautrocotts and the Duke of Dinoy, they had to bow their heads and ask for help from the Roman powers; This is the helplessness of the weak, who can only pin their hopes of survival on the assistance of others.
The army led by Lucis chose to continue the confrontation without moving, and it was naturally impossible for Botrecott and the Duke of Dinoir to attack with a weak attack; As a result, the armies of the two sides once again confronted each other in the border area, and this time the two sides completely abandoned even a tentative attack, and it was only a simple military confrontation.
At the same time, the 20,000-strong army led by Oscar and Mary was getting closer and closer to the Spanish army's station; In order to put a lot of pressure on the armies of the Dukes of Botricott and Denoir, Oscar and Marie left Longkina's Fifth Legion to the east of the Spanish army, and Exaca's Eighth Army was also ordered to go around to the west of the Spanish army.
In the end, the family guards and the Virgin Guards, led by Oscar and Marie themselves, were left behind; Once all the armies had reached their predetermined positions, they were all five hours' march from the Spanish army.
After entering the predetermined position, the three armies began to rest and recuperate; The next morning, when the sun had just risen, the three armies marched from their respective resting places to the location of the Spanish army at the same time! And Luquis, who had been notified by Oscar in advance, also gathered all his forces on the morning of this day and marched in the direction of the Spanish army!
The Spanish army, which had been closely monitoring the movements of the Augustan army in front, was also organized under the orders of the Duke of Beautricott and the Duke of Dinoit to deal with the Augustan attack after discovering that the Augustan army's army was attacking on all fronts. It's a pity that not long after they walked out of the barracks, they found that the banners of the Augustan family appeared on the east, west, and rear sides! (To be continued.) )