Eros conquers everything, so let's give in to Eros.

- Publius Virgilius Maro (Roman poet)

So, after the end of this first round of review, Prince Adheba immediately asked for the start of the second round of review, despite Salah's ugly face; With Salah's consent, the heralds were ready to go to Salah's corps and cavalry corps to give orders. However, at this time, Commander Bashirek stood up and made a new proposal.

Because the cavalry unit under Salah's corps consisted not only of six thousand Numidian javelin cavalry, but also four thousand Numidian camel cavalry; Therefore, the commander of the Bashirek corps demanded that all the 10,000 cavalry of the Salah corps participate in the battle. Otherwise, the battle will appear unfair; After all, among the 7,000 cavalry of the cavalry regiment, there are 3,000 long shield cavalry whose combat strength is far superior to that of the javelin cavalry.

In this regard, Prince Adheba naturally wanted to ask Commander Salah again; Salah had not intended to accept the proposal. Because the Salah Legion is an elite legion of the Kingdom of Numidia that has been formed for decades, and the army in front of him has only been formed for four months; If 10,000 cavalry were to be used against 7,000 cavalry, what would it prove even if they won?

Before Commander Salah could say anything about his refusal, Governor Gisgow, who was standing next to Commander Salah, quietly slapped Commander Salah's arm, and then pointed to the dejected Salah Legion infantry not far away; Salah naturally understood what Governor Gisgow meant. Salah gritted his teeth and agreed to Bashirek's suggestion.

In this way, the 10,000 cavalry of Salah's army slowly moved and began to slowly march towards the battlefield of battle; The cavalry regiment of the Combined Legion also set off under the leadership of Rachel and Naiden. Because cavalry operations require more space and battlefields than infantry operations, the arena for cavalry exercises is on a spacious grass field far away from the point general.

However, the height of the Dianjiangtai is still relatively high, enough for the people on the Dianjiangtai to clearly see the cavalry fighting; The 7,000 cavalry of the cavalry corps were divided into two groups by the command of Reicel and Naiden at the beginning, and the cavalry of the corresponding Salah corps was also divided into two groups, and the two sides began to slowly confront each other.

As the battle horn sounded, the cavalry also officially began their battle; The 6,000 Numidian javelins of the Salah legion rushed towards the 4,000 Numidian javelins of the cavalry legion, and the javelinmen of the cavalry corps immediately turned around and ran, with no intention of engaging the enemy.

At the same time, the other 4,000 Numidian camel cavalry of the Salah regiment also charged towards the 3,000 shield cavalry of the cavalry regiment; The shield cavalry naturally quickly turned around and ran. So, there was such a scene on the battlefield; The two cavalry were desperately chasing behind, and the two cavalry were desperately running in front, and the distance between the two sides could not be shortened.

Suddenly, Naiden's shield cavalry and Rechel's javelin cavalry began to charge each other in the direction of friendly forces; Before the pursuing cavalry could react, Nayden and Rachel took their respective cavalry to complete the U-turn again, and switched positions with each other as they turned around.

Now, Raychel's Javelins are facing the camel cavalry of the Salah Legion, while Naiden's Longshield Cavalry is the opponent of the Javelin Cavalry of the Salah Legion. The distance between the two sides was not too short at this time, and it was even easier for the cavalry of Salah's corps to switch positions; In order to act according to the original plan, they also began to switch positions.

However, before they could change positions, Nayden led three thousand shield cavalry to suddenly accelerate and kill the cavalry of the Salah legion who were changing positions at an unusually fast speed. Originally, this would not affect the cavalry of the Salah legion, because the distance between the two sides determined that the longshield cavalry could not be killed before the cavalry of the Salah legion was replaced.

However, there will always be some cavalry who will be terrified by the billowing smoke and dust raised by the longshield cavalry; Confusion ensued, and some panicked cavalrymen began to try to return to their original positions, while others who were eager to show themselves also wanted to ride their horses on the spot. As a result, the cavalry of the Salah Legion, which had been in order, quickly became a large-scale chaos under these small chaos.

Nayden's purpose was thus accomplished, and he led three thousand shield cavalry to charge near the cavalry of Salah's regiment and spared directly from the flank; Before the cavalry of Salah's legion could react, Rachel had already arrived with his own 4,000 javelinmen. After the four thousand simplified headless javelins were thrown, the cavalry units of the entire Salah regiment became more and more disorganized.

These cavalrymen did not know that they had not been condemned to death, nor did they know what they should do after they were condemned to death, after all, everyone was now mixed together, and they could not just dismount; In short, these cavalrymen of the Salah regiment fell into great confusion, and accidents occurred one after another.

In this matter, there is no point in continuing the battle; Reicel and Naiden also feared real casualties to the cavalry of Salah's legion, so they stopped the attack. Prince Adheba on the platform has also fully understood the powerful combat power of the United Legion, even the Desert Legion and the Cavalry Legion have such combat effectiveness, and the Chengguan Legion of the Augustus family does not need to ask at all.

After Prince Adheba ordered the extremely ugly-faced General Salah to clean up the mess, he praised Spartak on the side: "General Spartak is indeed worthy of being the general of the Augustus family!" The ability to train soldiers in this way is an eye-opener for us people, the desert legion and the cavalry legion can form such a combat effectiveness in four months, and General Spartak is a great contributor! ”

Before Spartak could stand up and be modest, Governor Gisgow next to Adheba also stood up and said, "General Spartacus's ability is really rare in the world; Not to mention the cavalry legion for the time being, these 6,000 recruits of the desert legion were able to become real desert elites in just four months, all thanks to the work of General Spartak!

I still have a small question, though; I also hope that General Spartak will give advice. That is, what kind of combat effectiveness does General Spartak's current desert legion and cavalry legion have compared to the Augustus family legion? And what about the army of Hannibal in relation to the Kingdom of Carthage? ”

Such a question is not easy to answer, and if it is answered truthfully, it may hurt the self-esteem of these Numidians; But if it is not true, Spartak fears that these Numidians will have some unrealistic ideas. So, after pondering the language for a while, Spartak said:

"Your Excellency Governor Gisgow, although the desert legion and cavalry legion in front of you have successfully defeated the Salah legion of the same size; However, the premise of such an engagement is arranged in advance, and it is impossible to truly reflect the combat effectiveness of an army. In addition, in the first four months, these two corps had only completed the grinding battle at the brigade level, and it was far from the level of training completion.

If I were given another two months, I would be able to complete all of my regimental-level joint operations and regiment-level tactical training; At that time, the desert legion and the cavalry legion will form a real combat effectiveness. After those trainings are completed, the desert legions and cavalry legions will have the combat effectiveness of our Augustus family legions; But there was still a gap with Hannibal's army.

No matter how well the army is trained, an army that has not undergone actual combat is not elite; Hannibal's army was a true lion of battle. It seems to me that if the 20,000 men of our combined army meet the elite of Hannibal; Then Hannibal only needs 5,000 troops to strangle all 20,000 soldiers! ”

After Spartacus had finished speaking, the faces of Prince Adheba and Governor Gisgo were unusually ugly; Then he hurriedly ended the review, and left without even presiding over the evening banquet. They were joined by the Desert Legion's Legion Commander Sinrida and the Cavalry Legion Commander Bashirek; Spartacus sensed something.

So, after seeing Adheba and the others leave; Spartak directly approached the contact person arranged by Tahiti's brocade guard in the barracks. Two hours later, Tahiti himself appeared in Spartak's tent and delivered Spartak a parchment full of North African intelligence.

This parchment contains a detailed account of the recent wars between the kingdoms of Numidian and Carthage, as well as the rise of Hannibal after his return; According to the latest intelligence, Hannibal had annihilated the tens of thousands of troops of the Kingdom of Numidia stationed on the border between Numidia and Africa ten days earlier.

More importantly, Hannibal's general Amikas had led an army of 15,000 Carthaginian to occupy the city of Numidia, the capital of the Kingdom of Numidia, and the entire province of Numidia; This also means that the actual territory controlled by the Carthage Kingdom already borders Mauritania, and it may even face a direct attack from the Carthaginian Kingdom army at any time!

No wonder Gisgo asks about the difference in combat effectiveness between the Combined Legion and Hannibal's army, because Hannibal's army is about to fall into the city! However, this was not something Spartak needed to worry about; Therefore, Spartak did not show any abnormalities after learning the information, but still trained the army step by step.

However, following the appointment of the Desert Legion and the Cavalry Legion as the Adjutant General and Chief Captain of the Desert Legion and the Cavalry Legion in the last assault, Spartak officially appointed Almini as the Adjutant General of the Chengguan Legion and Heyman as the Chief Captain. Although Heyman did not get any excellent results in the Augustan Military Academy, he easily reached a good relationship with the soldiers, and he also won the chief captain twice, and he performed very well. (To be continued.) )