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The combined forces of the Salah Legion and the Chengguan Legion are naturally not to be underestimated; Compared with Tuka, who led the army alone for the first time, Salah, as one of the two famous generals of the Numidian Kingdom, was more than a step stronger in command.

Tuka is not a person who likes to compete for fame and fortune, and before the expedition, Spartak also specially told Tuka not to act without permission, and only need to follow Salah's orders; Tuka naturally obeyed his orders.

The reason why Spartak trusted Salah so much was not because Salah himself was a trustworthy person; It's just that the Augustus family had just won the war against Hannibal, and it was out of the limelight that it was a moment of glory.

As an ally of the House of Augustus, how could Adheba let Oscar's own brother Tuka face a threat? Spartak believed that Salah would have accepted Adheba's special advice before he left for the campaign, and that he would take care of Tuka.

In fact, after the army officially entered the Gaturia region, Salah's corps and Tuka's chengguan corps completely abandoned the previous marching arrangement and adopted a new joint marching model.

In terms of troop configuration, Tuka's Chengguan Corps is all composed of well-equipped hoplites, with extremely strong combat effectiveness, but poor mobility; The speed of his march was not even comparable to that of Salah's light infantry.

Salah's legion, on the other hand, is a multi-class composite legion; He commanded 3,000 desert infantry and 2,000 Numidian infantry, as well as 6,000 Numidian javelinmen and 4,000 Numidian camel cavalry.

The presence of these 10,000 cavalry gave Salah a powerful cavalry force that was not weaker than that of the Juguda army; As for the infantry, as long as Tuka's chengguan corps is there, it will be useless for Zhuguda to forcibly pull out the infantry of 30,000 rabble!

In order to give better play to the strong land attack power of the Chengguan Corps, and also for the safety of the entire coalition army; Salah did not let the various arms and legions scatter the march, but let his legions slow down the march and move with the Chengguan legion.

In addition, Salah also made new adjustments to the two regiments that did not interfere with each other; Tuca's Chengguan legion remained in the center of the army, maintaining the pace of the march towards Dimidi, the capital of the Gaturia region.

The 5,000 lightly armed infantry of the Salah Corps were distributed in front of the Chengguan Corps to ensure that there would be no accidents on the march of the Chengguan Corps; The other 10,000 elite cavalry were divided into four batches of cavalry battle groups by Salah.

First of all, there are the four thousand camel cavalry under Salah; Although the combat effectiveness of the camel cavalry was very good, but the mobility was not as good as that of the regular cavalry, Salah divided the 4,000 camel cavalry into two and sent them to patrol the left and right flanks of the army.

With the patrol and escort of these two cavalry battle groups, the infantry squadron composed of the Chengguan Corps and the light infantry will basically not be attacked by the left and right flanks; It can also ensure the smooth advance of the entire army.

The remaining 6,000 Numidian javelin cavalry were also divided into two cavalry battle groups by Salah; Among them, Salah personally led 2,000 cavalry in the center to maintain the mobility of the entire coalition command system, and acted as a reserve reinforcement in all other directions.

The other 4,000 cavalry were sent by Salah ten miles in front of the army to serve as pioneers; With 4,000 elite Numidian javelins to open the way, Salah believed that they could scout all possible enemy forces in front of them, and quickly defeat small groups of enemy troops, removing all obstacles to the advance of the large army.

Even if these cavalry encountered the enemy's main army, Salah did not feel that the Jugurdah forces had enough strength to annihilate four thousand elite Numidian javelin cavalry at one time; What's more, isn't the greatest value of cavalry that you can't beat and run?

After determining such a marching formation, Salah has been leading 2,000 cavalry to patrol the entire advancing army; Tuka was in charge of the Chinese army, leading the Chinese army's Chengguan Legion and the Salah Legion of 5,000 light infantry to march forward together.

The heavily guarded Numidian army had no chance of being attacked at all; After discovering the tight disposition of the Numidian army, Juguda's scout cavalry immediately reported this information to Juguda, who was waiting for news from the front.

Juguda originally planned to disperse the cavalry under his command and attack the Numidian army by guerrilla sneak attack tactics; But judging from the current situation, Juguda's plan has come to naught.

With the strict defense of the Numidian army, it was impossible for the cavalry force under Jugurda's command to launch an attack on the Numidian army; Even if they were to attack by force, they would only be trapping themselves and increasing their own casualties.

You must know that the total number of cavalry under Juguda's command is only 10,000; Among them, there are only 5,000 cavalry who can really fight a war, and the remaining 5,000 people are all third-rate troops with weak combat effectiveness.

This is only the difference in the number of armies between the two sides, although Juguda does not know how sophisticated the weapons and equipment of the Numidian army is, but he knows the fact that the weapons and equipment of the Numidian army are stronger than his own.

In any case, the cavalry under the command of Jugurda did not have the strength to directly attack the main force of the Numidian army; As for sending out all the infantry and cavalry to attack the Numidian army, it would be just looking for death, and Jugurdah is not such a fool!

Since his cavalry could not play a role at all after being dispersed, Zhu Guda had no choice but to gather all the cavalry back; In this way, Zhu Guda's command once again gathered the entire army of 25,000, while the enemy was a menacing 22,000 elite.

Although on the surface, Juguda's army still has a slight numerical advantage; However, such an advantage simply cannot make up for the gap in the actual combat effectiveness of the armies of the two sides, and Zhu Guda is also well aware of this.

It is no exaggeration to say that all the 15,000 infantry under the command of Juguda were pulled out to fight a decisive battle with Tuka's 7,000 Chengguan Legion; It only takes a maximum of half a day for the Chengguan Legion to completely annihilate all the infantry of Zhuguda, this is the difference in combat power between the two sides!

However, Jugurdah is not a man who is willing to give up; After determining that the main army could not attack the Numidian army, Jugurdah turned his attack into the 4,000 vanguard cavalry of the Numidian army.

In Juguda's opinion, the vanguard cavalry of the four thousand Numidian army was more than ten miles away from the main force of the Numidian army; Once the battle broke out, the main army of the Numidian army would not be able to rush to the aid in time.

Even if the Numidian army sent all the cavalry to support it desperately, it would be only 10,000 cavalry; Your 10,000 cavalry could inflict heavy damage on these 4,000 cavalry before enemy reinforcements arrived.

Moreover, while the cavalry of the Numidian army galloped to help, Jugurdah felt that he could also set up an ambush on the road of the other party's gallop to attack the main force of the Numidian cavalry marching in a hurry; In this way, you can control the initiative on the battlefield.

Juguda has always been a man who does what he wants; So, after drawing up a detailed battle plan, Zhu Guda personally led the elite cavalry of the 5,000 Guards Regiment and the cavalry of the 2,000 Cavalry Regiment under his command to set off.

The purpose of the 7,000 cavalry led by Jugurdah was to attack the vanguard cavalry of the Numidian army; The remaining 2,000 cavalry, led by Mikpilus, the cavalry general under the command of Jugurda, made a detour to the ambush site.

Of course, two thousand cavalry alone was not enough to deal a blow to the galloping cavalry of the Numidian army; So, while Mikpilus left with two thousand javelinmen, he also took with him five thousand of the most elite infantry of the infantry corps.

The last to serve as the reserve force for the Zhuguda attack was the infantry corps led by the infantry general Michipsa under the command of Zhuguda; These 10,000 lightly armed infantry were the last force that Jugurdah used to deal with the cavalry units of the Numidian army!

The cavalry unit led by Juguda was discovered by the vanguard cavalry of the Numidian army when they were less than three miles away from the vanguard cavalry of the Numidian army; After that, the Numidian cavalry did not choose to retreat, but instead formed a formation and began to charge!

In fact, the Numidian army had not encountered Juguda's army since it entered the Gaturian region; There was an atmosphere of eagerness to fight throughout the Numidian army, and the javelinmen cavalry, who were the vanguard cavalry, were even more eager to fight.

Now, the army of the rare Zhuguda has finally appeared, and the vanguard cavalry will naturally not miss such a big battle; However, the commander of the vanguard cavalry was not a reckless man, and while he led his army to launch a counter-charge, he also quickly sent his main army to ask for cavalry reinforcements.

After all, the cavalry size of the Zhuguda army was at least six or seven thousand, while the cavalry of his own army was only four thousand; The commander of the vanguard cavalry did not have the confidence to defeat the enemy, but he only needed to entangle the enemy, which was what the vanguard should do.

The two groups of cavalry, with high fighting spirit and fierce momentum, shouted battle slogans to each other and fought together with their weapons held high; The clashing of weapons and the roar of horses, coupled with the blood thrown and rude scolding, this is the battlefield where the two sides fight.

At the beginning of the battle, the overwhelmingly superior cavalry group of Jugurdah semi-surrounded the vanguard cavalry of the Numidian army into its own cavalry battle formation in a semicircular formation; Although the Numidian cavalry was better equipped and more combat-ready, they suffered heavier casualties when they were surrounded on three sides by the Jugurdah cavalry! (To be continued.) )