Chapter Twenty-Three: Losing Both Sides (65,000 Red Votes Plus Update)
"Whew!" As soon as Lagerseus stepped on the tower shield, the whole person leaped to his feet, crossed the head of the current Roman soldier, twisted and struck down in mid-air, and the short sword slashed the back of the Roman soldier's neck, cutting most of his head and neck.
The young Roman soldier fell to the ground with a dull gaze, and a gap appeared in the shield wall, and the two nearby gladiators were immediately overjoyed and squeezed into the Roman line.
Cabal was tall and not as agile as Ragtheus, but he had his own fighting style. Cabal wears a set of gladiatorial equipment typical of champion gladiators, a helmet with a mask, and an iron shoulder pad over his right shoulder, which is different from the leather shoulder pads of ordinary gladiators, and is made of layers of thick armor with sharp triangular iron cones, which can not only effectively protect the shoulder, but also can be used to ram the opponent.
He carried a chain ball in his right hand and an egg shield in his left hand to protect his unarmored left side. Seeing that Lagseus's side had reached a breakthrough, Cabal roared angrily, and the chain ball slammed into the tower shield opposite, and the huge force was transmitted through the shield to the Roman soldiers behind him, knocking him to a stagger.
Cabal took the opportunity to bow his head and sink his shoulders, blocked the front with the egg shield, and hit the tower shield with a fit, "Bang! The Roman soldiers on the opposite side were like being collided with a heavy truck, the tower shield was torn apart, the whole person flew upside down five or six meters, and even pulled down the two Roman comrades around him, and another gap appeared in the shield wall again.
In fact, this wonderful performance of Cabal and Lagerseus appeared several times in succession after the start of the war, and they also helped the rebels open the gap in the shield wall through superb personal force. It's just that at that time, the Romans had not yet drawn the central sword and shield soldiers, and they always quickly killed the gladiators who broke into the shield wall with a row of knives, or forced them back, and when the gladiators came to their senses, the shield wall had been restored to its original state.
However, with the addition of the Spartan regiment, the Romans finally revealed their numerical inferiority, although 300 to more than 400, only a hundred less, but after all, it was a small battle, and this hundred people were equal to more than 40% of the Romans' strength.
Over time, the battlefield descended into a scuffle, and the Romans exposed their Achilles' heel, which Governor Lucius had planted for the army before they set out on their expedition. They have no veterans, and these young soldiers who participated in the rotation training in Pompeii, although they are no different from veterans in terms of equipment, and their physical strength is slightly better than that of veterans, but their combat experience is too little, and their will to fight is too weak, and once the casualties reach a certain level, the army will collapse.
Fortunately, under the repeated persuasion of the mercenary leader, Bardax put the mercenaries into the battlefield in time, after all, once the battle is lost, he will get nothing.
Bardax's money was not spent in vain, these mercenaries were experienced in combat, and with a strong fighting will, they were the best mercenaries in Pompeii. However, these mercenaries were very clever, they did not fight to the death, but scattered throughout the frontal battlefield, assisting the Roman soldiers against the more hand-to-hand gladiators, but they did not kill the gladiators, but only caused the gladiators to fall to the ground injured.
The situation on the battlefield was stalemate, but it was clear that as more and more gladiators fell to the ground wounded, the rebel army was crumbling at an accelerated pace and would soon be wiped out.
Looking at the frontal battlefield, and then at the Spartan regiment, Xu Mo on the hillside sighed, the battlefield had fallen into a melee, but the mercenary troops obviously still had some strength left. Even if the 30 or so of them are put into the battlefield again, it will be useless, although he still has a backhand, but the prerequisites for launching have not been achieved, it is time to leave the battlefield, and the uprising mission will fail!
Just when Xu Mo bowed his head and wanted to withdraw from the battlefield, there were new changes on the battlefield. The young Roman officers finally made a mistake under the tremendous pressure of the battlefield, and they threw more than thirty reservists around them into battle.
These thirty or so reservists were not actually Roman reservists, they were also young soldiers, but only responsible for protecting Roman officers and acting as reserves. The reason why the five young Roman officers made mistakes was also because the mercenaries did not fight to the best of their ability.
So far, the rebels have suffered heavy casualties, but the Romans have also suffered heavy casualties, especially the small battlefield on the side of the Spartan regiment, if it were not for the fact that the situation on the battlefield was still in their favor, this Roman army of young soldiers would have collapsed.
According to this battle loss ratio, the Romans are afraid that the casualties after the war will reach an incredible level, even if the battle is won, as officers, they are duty-bound, after all, they are dealing with "defected slaves".
Under the influence of this mentality, the young Roman officers inevitably made mistakes, and when the rebel army still retained reserves (Xu Mo and others), they took the lead in investing in the reserves when the battlefield posture was favorable to them.
Xu Mo looked at this change on the battlefield in disbelief, and suddenly felt a sense of pie falling from the sky, and a huge sense of happiness came to his heart. At this moment, he found that he began to like this exciting game of leading troops into battle, Romans, what a gift......
If Xu Mo was now surrounded by 30 light cavalry, he could already take a detour from both flanks of the battlefield and take the enemy's commander directly. Of course, Xu Mo did not have cavalry, but the rear hand he prepared had already met the conditions for use, and in Xu Mo's instant battle information screen, a three-dimensional mirror image appeared, which readily showed the location of the five Roman officers, which was Dinah's true heart.
Xu Mo raised his head and cast his gaze to the rear of the entire Roman camp, and seemed to see three figures hidden in the distance behind the Roman officer at three angles, which were Dinah and the other two female reincarnators.
"Max, take our men to support the Spartan regiment, after defeating the enemy in front of you, go around the back of the Romans, and flank the Romans with the gladiator rebels!" Xu Mo suppressed his excitement and said calmly.
"Boss, look at us!" Max and Hrington looked at each other and grinned.
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"No!" A Roman officer roared frantically. Right in front of him, his companion had his neck slashed by an almost invisible figure, and the head that flew in the air still had a blank expression, as if it didn't even think that he was dead.
When Xu Mo quietly appeared on the edge of the grove where the Roman officers were, the five Roman officers on horseback were unmoved, and even when they found the three Dinah behind them, they were only slightly surprised.
Five knights against four slaves who didn't even have armor, three of them were women? The Roman officers were embarrassed to draw their swords, and the five of them gave in to each other, as if they felt that it was not necessary for them to fight such an enemy.
Soon, however, they discovered that the other three female slaves were not attacking them, but were just moving and swapping places. However, no matter how they moved, they would definitely form a diagonal line with Xu Mo on the opposite side, sandwiching a certain Roman officer in the middle.
Then, and then there was no more, and they found that the only male gladiator on the opposite side was gone, to be precise, before they reappeared, and they couldn't see each other. And when Xu Mo reappeared, he was often close to a Roman officer, and he was still in high-speed motion, Xu Mo only needed to put the short sword in his hand in the right position to shoot the Roman officer off his horse.
When all five Roman officers fell from their horses, the battle turned into a tragic death, and in front of Xu Mo's instantaneous step, the Roman officers who were just ordinary people could only use the move of losing both sides, and when they were beheaded and disemboweled, they also left a huge wound on Xu Mo's body.
The Roman soldiers and mercenaries who saw this scene desperately returned to their commander. The Roman soldiers screamed and lunged at Xu Mo, and even when the gladiators behind them took the opportunity to stab their short swords through their bodies and cut off the back of their necks, the Romans did not stop to help.
At this moment, the Romans broke out with the strongest fighting power since the beginning of the war!
The Roman soldiers were brave, and with their will and the cooperation of the mercenaries, the Romans took back two Roman officers who were seriously wounded and unconscious before Xu Mo could slaughter all the commanders.
When the battle was over, the 300 Romans who had left the battlefield before the battle were finally left with less than 100 soldiers, and the mercenaries suffered heavy casualties at the last moments, and the Romans were the first to leave the battlefield with their wounded comrades, leaving behind the remnants of corpses and broken weapons.
The exhausted gladiators did not even have the strength to cheer for victory, and they fell to the ground, breathing heavily, enjoying the joy of victory......
"Ahh On the other side of the frontal battlefield, the position belonging to the Spartan regiment heard the mournful screams of Omus......