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The killing of Segudus on the spot aroused the bestiality in the hearts of the defenders of the Third Legion on the frontal wall; They really didn't expect that their legion commander would die in front of their eyes.

Although the Augustan family did not have a system in which the death of the main general affected the soldiers of the legion, the Augustus family never had a major general die on the battlefield; How could such a thing happen to the Third Army?

What is even more unacceptable to the soldiers of the Third Legion is that Segudus is also a corps commander who loves the soldiers quite a lot, and he has a respectable position in the hearts of the soldiers of the Third Legion; Now that he is dead, can the soldiers of the Third Legion not go berserk?

The soldiers of the Third Legion, who were completely aroused in their hearts, immediately turned the hard defense into a Jedi counterattack; They did whatever it took to attack Segudus, vowing to recapture his body!

Unfortunately, Edota did not give the defenders of the Third Army a chance; When he discovered that Segudus' death had had a huge impact on the defenders of the wall, he immediately ordered the fanatics around him to drag Segudus' body to the rear.

In this way, the officers and men of the Third Army are more and more fierce to launch a surprise attack forward, and they have a great will to die if they cannot recapture the body; However, this move fell into Edota's trap.

At this time, the situation on the frontal wall was at a naked disadvantage to the defenders of the Third Army; Even if Segudus had not been killed in battle, the defenders on the wall would have resisted desperately, and would not have the strength to expel the enemy troops who had climbed the wall.

And when Segudus was killed in battle, the defenders on the wall launched a desperate counterattack; The defenders of the counterattack did achieve some success in the direction where the body of Segudus was, but in other directions they lost the last trace of defensive ability.

When the defenders of the wall broke through to the edge of the wall, they successfully recaptured the body of Segudus, but the price paid for this was the death of countless soldiers and the collapse of the entire defensive line.

Edota succeeded in using the remains of Segudus to completely disrupt the Third Legion's defenses, taking advantage of the decisive assault launched by the defenders of the Third Legion, while continuing to effectively kill and wound the defenders with superior forces, while taking the opportunity to capture a large number of walled positions.

By the time the soldiers of the Third Legion had recaptured the remains of Segudus, they were flanked on either side by a dense crowd of Spanish fanatics; Even, their rear lines have already been caught in a melee with the enemy.

Previously, the soldiers of the Third Army were able to break through the enemy army in one go and recapture the remains of Segudus; It was all based on his own resentment and will to fight to the death, plus Edota's deliberate relaxation of resistance.

Now that momentum had been lost with the recapture of Segudus' body, Edota's deliberate relaxation had turned into a siege on all sides, and the situation of the defenders on the wall immediately took a sharp turn, and the casualties rose rapidly.

Edotta, who had a clear target to attack, did not gain the upper hand in the wall, and focused all his attention on the wall; In addition to ordering his soldiers to continue to besiege the defenders, he also sent a small group of soldiers to enter the barracks immediately and open the camp gate!

At this time, the defenders of the wall were in a bitter battle, and it was impossible to stop the enemy troops under Edota from opening the camp gates; And the reinforcements sent by Marcus have just started, and it's too late in time!

With a creaking sound, the gates of the Augustus barracks, which had been closed, were finally opened by the fanatics of Edota ; Oghuz's department, which had been waiting outside the barracks for a long time, immediately began to charge the barracks gate on all fronts!

The swarming Spanish shieldmen, led by two thousand of the most elite bull warriors, attacked the hoplites and light infantry sent by Marcus; And the soldiers of the Third Army also met it fearlessly.

These well-armed hoplites of the Third Army burst out with great combat effectiveness; Instead of forming a tortoiseshell formation in the same way they had been trained, they improvised a shield wall to deal with the onslaught of the enemy.

The defensive formation, consisting of hoplites, was simply not something that the Spanish army could easily break through; Even if they are elite troops, the defense line of the hoplites needs to be broken through with blood.

The Spanish army's assault was blocked by the hoplites behind the shield wall, and the Spanish army, unwilling to be defeated, immediately launched various attacks on the hoplites' shield wall, in order to break through the defense line composed of steel shields.

The hoplites, as they did their best to resist, began to counterattack again; They very tacitly left half of them to continue to maintain the shield wall, and the other half of them turned their shields sideways at the same time, using the lateral gap to attack the enemy troops outside the shield wall.

In fact, under the command of the centurions and captains of the Third Army, the hoplites counterattacked quite well, and at least more than half of the Spanish troops near the shield wall were either killed or wounded in this counterattack.

The Spanish army, which had suffered heavy casualties, did not flinch, and the shield men of the Spanish army immediately began to retreat, ready to use the heavy javelins they carried behind them against the hoplites behind the shield wall.

When the Spanish shieldmen handed over all the forward lines to the bull warriors and prepared to shoot the hoplites with heavy javelins; But they themselves were covered by a sudden rain of arrows and stones.

It turned out that the garrison of the Augustus family in the province of Betica did not have time to change the new establishment promulgated by the Oscars; Therefore, the auxiliary legion of the Third Legion still had 500 Cretan archers and 500 Balearic slingers.

These light infantry were sleeping soundly in their tents; After being awakened, he did not have time to catch up with the wall immediately, so Marcus reorganized himself and joined the hoplites in the battle to aid the frontal wall.

Unfortunately, before they could reach the wall, they were attacked by this massive Spanish army; At the beginning of the battle, the hoplites were already in a scuffle with the Spanish army, and they could not attack the enemy at all in order to avoid accidental injury.

Now, it is rare that the shield soldiers in the Spanish army have taken the initiative to retreat to the rear of the battle, of course, they will not let go of such a good opportunity, and immediately began to attack those Spanish shield soldiers with bows and arrows and stones in their hands!

The Spanish shieldmen, stunned by the rain of arrows and stones, did not give up their preparations for the attack on the hoplites; On one side they held their shields aloft in their left hands, and on the other they threw their long-loaded heavy javelins with their right hands.

The extremely brave Spanish shield soldiers showed an extremely strong will to fight in such a tragic battle; They would rather continue to be attacked by the ranged units of the Third Legion than attack the hoplites of the Third Legion, such a will to fight is indeed strong!

The duel between the hoplites and the bull warriors continued, and the attacks of the light infantry and the shield soldiers were also back and forth, and the battles between the two sides became more and more intense, and the casualties became more and more heavy; However, the overall situation was more and more favorable for the attacking Spanish army.

As the battle continued, Edotta's four thousand fanatics had almost completely annihilated the Augustus defenders on the frontal wall; Only the remaining less than a hundred defenders, under the cover of the other defenders, withdrew from the wall with the remains of Segudus.

The fall of the frontal wall also indicates that the Third Army's control of the entire barracks has been lost; The battle on the walls on the left and right sides was no longer enough to affect the tide of battle, and the Spanish barracks that attacked the barracks were as high as more than 10,000.

At this time, the Third Army still had less than 6,000 men still fighting, including 2,000 hoplites and 1,000 javelin cavalry that Marcus had organized again; There were less than 3,000 soldiers of the Third Army who were actually fighting.

When the remnants of the front wall brought the body of Segudus to Marcus, Marcus knew that the Third Army had no chance of winning today's battle, and it was even unknown whether they could break out.

If the battle continues now, then the Third Army will certainly not escape the fate of destruction; After all, the increasing number of Spanish troops pouring into the barracks was enough to completely annihilate the few remaining officers and men of the Third Army.

If there's no point in fighting, why fight? Marcus knew that the army of the Kingdom of Spain would immediately launch a full-scale attack on the province of Betica from this sneak attack.

The Augustus, who were unprepared for war, had only a fourth legion stationed in the port, in addition to the Third and Fifth Legions stationed in the border areas; Cordoba, the capital of the province of Betica, was just a newly formed Governor's Guard.

Once the Third Army was completely wiped out here, the victorious Spanish army could go all the way south and capture Córdoba; In this way, the province of Betica, the House of Augustus, is really about to change hands.

Marcus, who understood this, resolutely decided to give up the battle and take the initiative to evacuate the barracks! However, how easy is it for the officers and men of the Third Army who are caught in the battle everywhere to withdraw from the battle cleanly?

In order to be able to evacuate the remnants of the main army from the barracks, Marcus decided to use the Javelin Cavalry at all costs to storm the Spanish army's formation, at the expense of the Javelin Cavalry, in exchange for the retreat of the main army!

Under the orders of Marcus, the javelin captain led the javelinmen without hesitation to abandon the javelins and began to flank the Spanish army; The small barracks limited the cavalry's striking power, as well as the numerical superiority of the Spanish army.

The Spanish army had no idea that the army of the House of Augustus would use cavalry in the barracks, and their entire formation was disrupted by surprise; Marcus took the opportunity to withdraw the infantry from the battle and withdrew from the barracks with them. (To be continued.) )