Chapter 42: The Fall of Rome IV
In such a large-scale battle, the boundaries between the Roman legions will naturally be broken, and the reserves will be used in a centralized manner, which is obviously more effective!
Of course, the reservists are not simply complete heavy infantry, they also have light infantry cooperation, in this regard, the Romans are very fond of javelins, because the javelin is thrown when the infantry phalanx hits the enemy, which can bring quite a powerful deterrent and breaking effect, and while charging while throwing the javelin will not affect the strength of the charge at all, to put it bluntly, the biggest advantage of this weapon is to cooperate with the impact of the infantry!
That's why the legendary Spartan Janissaries loved javelins!
After Li Liguo saw the First Legion crushing the frontal attack of the Roman Legion, he immediately invested the Second Legion to the battlefield to support the First Legion attack, and the Third Legion and the Fourth Legion also attacked from the two flanks respectively to attack the Roman Auxiliary Legion that was in a commotion due to the collapse of the Roman Legion in the middle!
Li Liguo is like this, after seizing the opportunity to gain an advantage, he will do his best to expand the advantage until he wins the final victory!
The attack on the orc army is that even if he fights all his capital, he will not hesitate to press all the chips up!
The second array of the Roman legions, which had become thin and panicked, could not stop the attack of the first and second legions of Sparta at all, and completely collapsed after less than half a point, while the third array of the Romans, that is, the Roman reserves with more experience and stronger combat effectiveness, rose up just right and stabilized the crumbling army in the middle of the Roman front!
The approach of the Roman commander is undoubtedly very far-sighted, if the order to put in the reserve army is a little later, and the Spartan army that broke through the central line of the Roman legions all expands the battlefield sideways, it will definitely cause the overall collapse of the chain of Roman legions!
The reservists lined up in the phalanx of the Roman legions roared and rushed forward, and after a burst of javelins, they beat the Spartan legions, which had broken through the morale of the Spartan legions in succession, and then the façade-like rectangular shields slammed into them!
The Roman heavy infantry immediately crushed the Spartan legion and firmly resisted the attack of the Spartan soldiers with a small number of men!
And the stability of the middle front also made the auxiliary legions on the flanks feel resistant to the insurrection, these Roman auxiliary legions did not want to be defeated like this, after all, no one wanted to be deserters and prisoners, did they?
Sparta's main attack was blocked, but Li Liguo was not ashamed at all, but showed a confident smile on his face. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hehe, the Romans have all their hole cards turned over, now it's time for me to strike the fatal blow!
The archers of the Fifth Army of Sparta changed their formation and advanced towards the right flank, and at the same time, Guan Yu also followed with the Spartan heavy cavalry and Spartan lancers who had been grouped together, as well as a small number of Spartan saber light cavalry.
The Romans' reserves were exhausted, and even if the Roman commanders were trying to regroup the Roman legionnaires who had fallen out, they were far less good than the elite reserves!
The archers of the Fifth Legion drove to the front line, lined up, and then, behind the hand-to-hand soldiers, drew their bows and arrows, and at the maximum elevation angle, launched a dense projectile at the rear of the Roman auxiliary legions that were fighting fiercely!
The archers' projectile accuracy was not good, so there were still some arrows that occasionally fell on their own soldiers in the heat of battle, but this could only be attributed to the bad luck of the Spartan soldiers, after all, most of the bows and arrows were fired into the army formation of the auxiliary legions!
The lightly armored and unarmored Roman auxiliary legions, after being baptized by the rain of arrows, the thickness seemed to be eliminated by one layer, and the front was gradually pressed to the rear, at this time the auxiliary legions were far from the point of collapse, and the tens of thousands of auxiliary legions were killed by the rain of arrows There were not as many people as imagined!
The archers were just clearing the way for the next cavalry charge.
Guan Yu held the repaired Qinglong Yanyue Sword, led thousands of Spartan iron horsemen, and carried out a dense cavalry charge against the gap exposed by the auxiliary legion due to the rain of arrows!
Where had these auxiliary legionnaires seen such a strong cavalry charge?
In their impression, it was very laborious for the cavalry to control the war horse, how could they rush up with a weapon in both hands like now!
And these cavalrymen sit more steadily!
The stirrup's technology is crushing......
The Roman legionnaires, who had been reorganized simply, were sent by the Roman commander to support the flank auxiliary legions that had been crushed by the cavalry, but unfortunately, these defeated Roman soldiers did not do anything to turn the tide.
Soon, the soldiers formed by these Romans were also like the auxiliary legionnaires they had looked down on before, crying and crying for their mothers, and they were chased and killed by the Spartan cavalry led by Guan Yu......
The Spartan cavalry units that had broken the flank of the Roman legions were retracted as soon as they saw the situation, and were replaced by the Spartan infantry on the right flank and the thin infantry line rearranged by the reserve in the center to fight each other.
Those reservists were not poorly equipped auxiliary legionnaires, and even if they won with Spartan cavalry, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses, because those reservists had already listed the infantry phalanx against cavalry charge!
Guan Yu was not idle after transferring with the Spartan cavalry troops, and they launched the same charge on the other side of the Roman front!
The same routine, first the archers of the Fifth Legion opened the way, then the cavalry charged, and the auxiliary legions on the other side also quickly collapsed!
The Roman commander watched the collapse of the wings with despair, he was powerless to return to the sky......
If most of the troops of the Roman regular legion had not been defeated during the attack, he would naturally have the strength to support the auxiliary legions on the flanks to guard against the cavalry charge, but unfortunately, the strength of the Roman regular legion was not rich, and most of it was defeated, and the strength advantage of the Spartan legion was completely released!
The auxiliary legion was defeated so quickly that the Roman reserves didn't have time to defeat the Spartan legion infantry in front of them, and they were surrounded by the Spartan legion infantry on both wings!
A full 80,000 infantry, even if their equipment and morale are not as good as those Roman legion reserves, but they are beaten on three sides around you, and the Roman reserves can't bear it!
Li Liguo seemed to feel that this was not enough, and the Spartan cavalry troops carried out another large-scale roundabout, this time blocking the back road of the Roman reserves!
Although Li Liguo can grind the last reserve of the Roman legion without investing in the cavalry troops, the casualties are really a bit big, the current Spartan Kingdom is not the previous one, these legionnaires have been regarded as the main force by Li Liguo, and the fewer people who naturally die, the better! (To be continued.) )