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Those who have a humble, pleasant, and sincere attitude, and at the same time a spirit of patience, are very lucky.

- Seneca (famous Stoic philosopher of ancient Roman times)

Regardless of the plans of Carlis, Charles and others, Marius himself was full of doubts at this time; Originally, his idea was to wait for the rabbit to prevent any fish from slipping through the net, but what happened to the large number of enemy troops that appeared now? Judging from the number of torches and the length of the team, the size of this breakthrough force is basically not smaller than the full formation of the army under his command!

Could it be that something went wrong with Antony and Octavian? Otherwise, how could it be possible to gather so many troops with the strength of the Maxentius family; He even broke through the ambush of two legions and came here. Or is there a lot of strength that the Maxentius family hides that they don't know? What's going on here?

All of Marius's doubts and incomprehensions were relieved the moment he saw Carlis and Charles; Although Marius didn't know why the Carters and Richards were so desperate to sacrifice everything for the Maxentius family, these purely guarded and samurai armies could never be the opponents of the Roman legions!

The battle between armies is not a duel between two people, and the most important thing is never the battle of the individual, but the cooperation between the whole; Even if each of these guards and warriors had excellent martial arts, each of them could easily kill more than ten Roman soldiers. However, on the battlefield, they were still unable to shake the powerful battle formation formed by the Roman legions.

This is like the simplest example: a martial arts master can easily defeat a soldier, but ten martial arts masters can only fight with ten soldiers, and a hundred martial arts masters can only end in defeat in the battle between a hundred martial arts masters and a hundred soldiers. The key to victory or defeat on the battlefield is always the cooperation of the soldiers, not the bravery of individuals; This was doomed to Marius's victory.

However, this is also a relatively normal situation, and there are always some abnormal anomalies on the real battlefield; Sometimes an unusually small elite force can change the tide of the battle, at least it is possible to change the local situation of the battle. Moreover, the Tragic Dead under the command of Ares are not considered a small army. After all, there were five hundred of them.

Marius's army of 7,000 was a standard formation, that is, the entire army was arranged in a single formation, blocking the entire road and the surrounding area as much as possible; However, this also meant that they could not have more troops to strengthen every line of defense. So. In the end, the entire line of defense was only three layers; It's not hard to break through.

Carlisle and Charles rushed towards the center of Marius's army with their four thousand guards, and Marius hastened to order his Chinese army to raise their shields and prepare for battle; At the same time, the left and right flanks of Marius's army also began to move, moving closer to the Chinese army.

The shield formation of the Roman hoplites was fairly well-organized, but this did not intimidate Calle and Charles. Without hesitation, they crashed into the shield array with their guards; However, the well-organized shield array was not knocked out by the hundreds of guards at the front, and it was still firmly blocking the front of the guards.

Just as Kalai was about to launch another assault, the hoplites in the rear of the shield array and the hoplites on the left and right flanks threw their short spears at the large army of guards nestled together; In an instant, Calle and Charles' army of guards suffered heavy casualties. Before Carlis and Charles could react, the shield array on the front disbanded on its own, and the hoplites turned into individuals to cover up.

Because it was a battle in the middle of the night, Marius did not dare to use too many short spears to avoid accidental injury; Therefore, after just one round of short spear fire, Marius ordered hand-to-hand combat against the army of guards in front of him. Marius was not Antony and Octavian. He did not need to worry about the army suffering heavy casualties and not being able to replenish it; The order given was also to strangle the enemy forces in front of them at all costs.

This battle was destined to be more fierce and tragic from the beginning, although the cooperation of the guards was not as good as that of the legionnaires, but the cover of the night also magnified the individual combat effectiveness to a considerable extent; Therefore, neither side has an absolute advantage in the battle between the two sides. As soon as the battle broke out, it fell into scorching, and the fighting was extremely fierce.

Charles's combat effectiveness is not very strong, and his role is to command the guards to fight as much as possible; Calle's combat prowess was not to be underestimated, as he slashed and slashed his enemies in an indomitable manner in the crowd of Roman infantry with a huge special battle axe, and behind him was Ares and his five hundred tragic dead men.

Calle's performance is very conspicuous, even in the dark; His single-handedness attracted the attention of the entire battlefield, and the great axe alone was enough to send shivers down the shoulders of the Roman infantry. Mallor watched as Calle continued to rush forward with the guards behind him. Immediately and decisively ordered hundreds of the most elite guards beside him to join the battle and besiege Kale!

Gradually, the Roman infantry around Calle had been killed by the giant axe, and he retreated, and Kalai was extremely excited to raise the giant axe in his hand and pointed at the Roman infantry who did not dare to move forward and said angrily: "You cowards, why don't you dare to come up?" Come on! Come and kill Uncle Kalai with you! Hahahaha......"

From a young age, Kale was not interested in governing the family. His hobby has always been fighting; The reason why he reluctantly gave up his hobby and chose to fight for the family's business was just for the prosperity of the family. Even in the days when he was the head of the Carters family, Carlisle insisted on practicing his martial arts every day in the morning and evening, which made him brave and invincible at this time!

Just as Calle was laughing, Marius' hundred guards finally arrived; Without saying a word, they formed a small battle formation of ten or ten people and began to kill Kale. Kale, however, fearlessly raised his giant axe to face it. The first two guards to rush forward were easily split in half by Kalai, and the guards behind took the opportunity to stab the short sword in their hands into Kalai's waist.

Just as Calle was caught off guard, Ares jumped out and blocked the attack of Marius's guards with his short sword; It turned out that at this time, there were no enemy troops in front of Calle except for the hundreds of guards sent by Marius himself, which means that Ares's opportunity has come! After Ares silently helped Calle block the attack, he led his tragic dead soldiers to kill Marius in desperation.

Marius's guards thought that the hundreds of people who rushed up were guards protecting Calle, and they did not hesitate to greet them; The legionnaires, who retreated because of the fear of Kalai, also regained their courage to surround them, after all, military law is ruthless, and they have to bite the bullet no matter how afraid they are!

Ares took the lead in killing Marius's personal guards, and only one shot resulted in two guards; The tragic dead soldiers who rushed over in the follow-up also broke out with amazing combat effectiveness. They formed hundreds of small battle formations in groups of three, like harvesters, reaping the lives of the legionnaires; Whether it's a personal guard or an infantryman. All of them were defeated under this sudden onslaught.

When Ares pierced the last guard in front of him with a sword in his heart, the tragic dead behind him also completely tore apart the defense line of Marius's army; The center of the entire Chinese defense line was vividly cleared out of a road nearly five meters wide, and Ares immediately sent a signal to Nusis in the rear.

Nussis, who received the signal, did not dare to delay. With a thousand elite guards under his command to protect the family members in the middle, they began to run wildly; Naturally, Marius was aware of Ares's movements, but he really didn't have any more reserves. The rest of the army was already in a scorching battle, and it was impossible to get out anytime soon.

The most important thing is that the combat effectiveness of this small force of hundreds that suddenly appeared is really amazing; It is unbelievable that the most elite 100 guards under the command of Marillus were slaughtered in one face! But. Marius wasn't out of the question; He immediately ordered three hundred and sixty cavalry (belonging to three legions), unfit for field warfare, to charge Ares' troops!

This is a field battle, and if the cavalry charges, it will definitely injure friendly troops by mistake; Even if one is not well controlled, it may cause more damage to allies than enemies! However, the three cavalry centurions looked at Ma Liu's unquestioning face and had no choice but to accept the order; Even the earth-shattering sounds of the slaughter could not drown out the hoofs of the cavalry, and Ares spotted the enemy's cavalry charge.

Although the Tragic Dead Warriors cleared out a passage, the Legion Infantry counterattacked fiercely, and his Tragic Dead Warriors had to hold this cleared passage steadily; Therefore, there are only about 100 tragic dead soldiers who can be drawn out to deal with the cavalry charge, and the cavalry of the enemy charge is at least nearly 400 or so. It's another battle to the death!

Unfortunately, there was no time for Ares to think on the battlefield; Without hesitation, he could only take the one hundred and eighty tragic dead soldiers around him to meet the charging cavalry and pose for battle. Thankfully, the 360 cavalry in Marius's hands were all light cavalry, and although their impact was not small, they were still very different from the heavy cavalry.

The light cavalry charge was only halted after knocking half of the Tragic Dead into the air, and the rest of the Tragic Dead immediately launched a counterattack under the leadership of Ares; They were not afraid to die and plunged their short swords into the necks of the enemy cavalry's horses, and then pulled them out to kill the cavalry who fell to the ground.

Ares's bloody style of play shocked the cavalry who had not yet approached them, and even some of the cavalry had already turned their horses and prepared to retreat; At this moment, Nusis and his army began to pass through the passage. After Nusis passed through the passage first, he naturally discovered the battle between Ares and the enemy cavalry, and he immediately sent five hundred guards to support Ares.

With the support of five hundred guards. In the end, only a few dozen of these three hundred and sixty cavalry were able to escape, and all the rest were slaughtered; And Ares paid for nearly two hundred casualties among the guards and nearly fifty tragic deaths. After settling this cavalry, Nussi's army had all gone through the passage in the direction of the port; And the enemy troops on both flanks also surrounded and killed.

As things stand, it was impossible to help Calle and Charles, as well as their less than two thousand guards, out of trouble; But Ares was able to keep Calle and Charles out of trouble. So. Ares returned to the battlefield with three hundred guards and the Sorrowful Dead; However, Kalai rejected Ares's kindness, and he chose to fight here until the last moment!

Ares had no choice but to break through in the direction of the port again with less than 300 mournful dead men and less than 200 guards under his command, but Kalai raised his huge axe with angry eyes and once again slaughtered the legionary infantry; Marius looked at the army of thousands of people who broke through, and sighed helplessly, the heritage of the Maxentius family should not be underestimated!

Both battles continued until near dawn. Decius and Sevious eventually took all the 4,000 guards of the Maxentius family and died in the ambush of Antony and Octavian; But their death was not killed by the enemy, but by self-destruction.

When the guards under the command of the two were dead and wounded, the legionnaires surrounded them, but no one could do anything to attack the former family leader; Even Antony and Octavian were unwilling to bear such notoriety, so they did not show up at all. Eventually, Decius and Sevius chose to end their lives with their short swords.

This is not the fate of Carlle and Charles, who was nailed to death on the battlefield by a short spear thrown from nowhere; Kale, however, fought to the last moment with his great axe, and it was not until all the guards around him were dead that he was besieged to death by dozens of enemy troops, but the enemy troops who died under his giant axe were not three hundred, but two hundred.

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )