It is rare to have both a strong body and a sound mind.

- Jade Waina (Roman satirical poet)

The three elders, led by the second elder of the Maasai tribe, led the 13,000 troops of the Maasai tribe who still had the strength to fight at the end, slowly left the city of Marseille and entered the darkness where they could not see their fingers; Looking at the army engulfed by darkness, the Maasai leader always felt an indescribable sense of something wrong in his heart, as if the army of this Maasai tribe would be swallowed by darkness forever.

Of course, the Marseille chieftain also knew that such darkness was the most unique condition for the army that launched the night attack, and it was also a favorable guarantee that it could launch the night attack smoothly. However, the Gauls still attached great importance to things like telepathy; At one point, the Marseille chieftain even had the urge to call back the entire army.

However, the Marseille chieftain resolutely suppressed this impulse; Because he knew that this was already the last chance for the Maasai tribe to give it a go. If this opportunity is lost tonight, the Marseille army tomorrow night will be an army that has been starving for a day, and its combat effectiveness will be even worse than tonight, so it is better to attack tonight.

The second elder who personally led the army out of the city was not as hesitant as the leader, because he knew; Tonight, I can only take the last thirteen,000 soldiers of the Maasai tribe out of the city. If you win, the crisis of the Maasai tribe will be solved, and you can even make the future Maasai tribe stronger by capturing the enemy's advanced weapons and equipment; If you are defeated, you will die!

Therefore, in such a situation, the second elder had no choice but to take the initiative to stand up and shoulder this burden without hesitation. After the army left the city of Marseille, the second elder did not immediately lead the thirteen,000 troops towards the camp of Calabes, but began to readjust his forces more than 300 meters away from the camp of Calabes.

The Fifth Elder, who had always been known for his bravery, was personally awarded by the Second Elder with three thousand of the most elite Maasai soldiers, whose task was to storm the enemy's barracks from the front; The Sixth Elder was ordered by the Second Elder to lead 5,000 Maasai soldiers with the worst combat effectiveness to launch a sneak attack from the left flank of the enemy's military camp, and the time was the same as that of the Fifth Elder's army.

As for the second elder himself, he led a team of 5,000 soldiers with medium combat effectiveness to hide behind the fifth elder; After the Fifth Elder and the Sixth Elder launched a sneak attack on the enemy's military camp at the same time, the Second Elder would find the enemy's cavalry camp and wait for the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on the cavalry and war horses in the enemy's military camp, so as to completely disrupt the enemy's military camp deployment.

In fact, such a sneak attack deployment is quite reasonable and realistic; If the situation really develops according to the expectations of these Maasai tribe leaders, maybe they can really turn the tide of the war and turn the Maasai tribe into a safe one! But is it really that smooth?

After the second elder divided the deployment of troops, he let the fifth elder and the sixth elder lead the army at the same time to quietly approach the enemy's military camp; Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters, fifty meters, ten meters, and until the last ten meters, there was still no movement in the enemy's barracks, which surprised all the Maasai soldiers who participated in the operation, and everyone seemed to have seen the dawn of victory!

After approaching within ten meters of the barracks, the five thousand troops led by the Second Elder also stopped at a distance of one hundred meters from the barracks; After making sure that the enemy was not aware of it in the slightest, the five elders immediately drew their weapons from their waists and shouted to the soldiers under their command: "Warriors of Marseille, the opportunity for revenge has come; Kill them all! ”

After that, he took the lead and rushed towards the gate of the enemy's barracks, and the three thousand soldiers behind him also shouted slogans with enthusiasm, and rushed towards the gate of the barracks together; At the same time, the headquarters of the six elders on the left flank of the barracks, after discovering the movements of the five elders, immediately launched an attack on the left flank wall of the barracks, in an attempt to attack the barracks from the left flank.

With such a huge sound of attack, there was not the slightest movement in Karabes's barracks, and even the most basic patrol did not appear, which couldn't help but make the second elder in the rear feel inexplicably surprised; However, the Fifth Elder and the Sixth Elder, who were on the front line of the attack, didn't have time to think about it so much, they still had to hurry into the barracks!

With the destruction of the barracks gate and the left flank wall, the 3,000 soldiers led by the Fifth Elder and the 5,000 soldiers led by the Sixth Elder rushed into the barracks in a swarm and rushed towards the military tents that were still not moving; After storming the military tent, the soldiers of the Maasai tribe were completely dumbfounded, it turned out that the military tent was completely empty, and even the entire military camp was empty!

Worst! Hit the trick! This was the idea of the three elders of the Maasai tribe at the same time, but unfortunately it was too late. As all the 8,000 troops poured into the barracks, a large number of armies armed with torches appeared at once in three directions five hundred meters outside the barracks; Looking at these slowly approaching armies on three sides, all the people of the Maasai tribe knew that they had changed from hunters to prey.

However, after all, the enemy's encirclement is surrounded on three sides, and the direction in which the enemy launched the attack is still not surrounded, and it may be too late to evacuate at this time; Based on this thought, the two elders who were already in the barracks and their 8,000 troops immediately began to retreat in a fleeing style, and the second elder also led his 5,000 soldiers to begin to prepare to deal with the enemy's onslaught, covering the retreat of the robe.

Unfortunately, Carabes's arrangement is much more than that; While the 8,000 Marseille troops in the barracks were retreating in a panic, the 3,000 forest hunters who had already been lying in ambush behind the barracks began to exert their might. They lined up in a neat formation, and without hesitation, they tilted a rain of arrows at the enemy in the barracks.

In the face of this sudden blow, the Maasai soldiers who retreated in a hurry behaved even more unbearable; They crowded in the direction of the barracks gate in a panic, desperately trying to escape from this hellish enemy barracks. Since Carabes' infantry did not rush forward quickly, the Marseille army escaped from the barracks, even with the attack of the forest hunters.

After the second elder who was waiting to answer all the soldiers had escaped from the barracks, he immediately led everyone to retreat in the direction of Marseille City; At that moment, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves rang out. Hearing such a deafening sound of horses' hooves, the faces of all the people of the Marseille army changed drastically; Because this massive sound of horses' hooves sounded from the direction of the city of Marseille!

This also means that the 13,000 Marseille army that went out of the city did not face the enemy's encirclement on three sides at all, but on all sides! If it had been surrounded on all sides like this from the beginning, the Second Elder would still have the confidence to rely on the thirteen,000-strong army under his command to fight the enemy to the death; However, the situation is completely different at this time.

Previously, everyone mistakenly thought that the enemy was only surrounded on three sides, so they only thought about retreating quickly, and paid the price of nearly 4,000 casualties; At this time, facing the enemy's encirclement on all sides, how could the remaining army of less than 10,000 people resist the enemy's tens of thousands of troops? Before the three elders could figure out how to deal with it, the more than 4,000 cavalry led by Itami himself had already arrived.

Because he knew that the troops in front of him were all enemy troops, Itami also led his cavalry to launch the most simple, direct and brutal cluster charge without any scruples; The Maasai army, lacking heavy weaponry and hoplites, was still very difficult, or completely impossible, to put up effective resistance in the face of cavalry onslaught!

As it turned out, Itami's cavalry easily stormed the Marseille army and chiseled it into the armies of the Marseilles; Just this round of cavalry charge, the Marseille army paid the price of at least two or three thousand casualties. And it was not only Itami's cavalry units that were responsible for this side of the attack, after the cavalry charge, the hoplites of Tursus and the light infantry of Allah also appeared hand in hand.

At this time, the front of the Marseille army was more than 4,000 elite soldiers of the First Army under the command of Calabes, and the left and right flanks were the Second and Fourth Legions, which were almost fully manned; As for its rear, there were the Itami cavalry units and the forest hunters of Falkus, who had just chiseled it through, and Karabes himself stood with Falkus!

In the face of such an ambush on all sides, the three elders of the Maasai tribe, after smiling at each other sadly, raised their weapons and led the remaining soldiers to launch another charge against the enemy. Looking at these Maasai tribe soldiers who swore to die and attacked again, Karabes also gave the order to launch a general attack without mercy.

In fact, the warriors of these Maasai tribes were far less courageous than they seemed; After the three elders died in battle one after another, as the first recruit, who was frightened by the fierce fighting on the battlefield, chose to lay down his arms and surrender, soon the entire battlefield resounded with the sound of surrender and discarding weapons.

At this point, the last combat strength of the 13,000 Maasai tribes was officially destroyed after more than 8,000 people were killed in battle and more than 4,000 were captured; At this time, the Maasai tribe and their Maasai city were only 20,000 young men with wooden sticks, and those people no longer had any threat in the eyes of Calabes, and the war was over!

The fierce battle outside the city was naturally impossible to hide from the Maasai tribal leaders and the Grand Elders, who had been watching the movements outside the city on the city walls, and when they found that the Maasai army leaving the city was surrounded by enemies on three sides, the two already knew that most of the attacks tonight would not be successful; But as the situation developed, the last bit of thought in the hearts of the two was shattered with the destruction of this group of troops.

After this battle, the Maasai tribe was no longer qualified to hold on; Without an army, without food, without weapons and equipment, what will the Maasai tribe do to continue to hold on? Is it really necessary to wait for all the people of the Maasai tribe to starve to death in the city, or for the enemy to invade the city of Marseille before the end of the war? On this night, Calabes did not take the opportunity to attack the city, but everyone of the Maasai tribe stayed awake all night! (To be continued.) )