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The desolate trumpets sounded in the sky, and the soldiers of the huge Roman line began to move frequently, the light infantry in the regular army walked in front, followed by the Roman heavy infantry with large rectangular shields and short swords and short spears, and at the same time, the archers in the Roman auxiliary legions also rushed out of their respective ranks, jogged to the front of the entire Roman army under the orders of the officers, and discharged loose firing arrays towards the Spartan army line!

On the side of the Spartan army, the archers of the Fifth Legion, that is, the long-range troops, stood at the forefront, forming a dense cluster of archers, followed by the hand-to-hand soldiers of the First and Second Spartan Kingdom Legions, and in the center of these hand-to-hand soldiers and archers clusters were torsional trebuchets that had already been erected!

Engineers, who were recruited by the Kingdom of Sparta, are putting the final touches on the torsion trebuchet and placing the projectile, a fire pot that burns continuously when ignited and smashes the oil released when it hits the ground!

This kind of fire pot was filled with the most primitive oil and other flammable liquids, and the amount used was not much, and Li Liguo just ordered someone to take some open-pit oil to make a large amount of this 'ammunition'.

Of course, the actual lethality of this kind of fire pot to the human body is not very strong, and this is not a cannonball, unless a soldier has done too many bad things in his previous life, and his luck is carried to the extreme, and he is directly hit on the body by the fire cup, igniting the whole body and dying.

Otherwise, the fire pot that falls on the ground, the sparks and oil that burst out will burn the human body to a very limited extent, even if an experienced person is splashed on the body by the oil that has not burned out, as long as he lies on the ground and rolls around, he will basically be fine.

The deterrent power of this thing is far greater than its lethality, although the killing efficiency is not high, but the tragic situation of the whole body igniting and dying is still very terrifying!

The Fifth Legion of the Spartan Army was in full position, and when the archers on the opposite side were jogging and gradually approaching the farthest range of the bows, the captains of the companies in the Fifth Legion suddenly shouted: "The test shooters begin to shoot arrows at the maximum elevation angle!" ”

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Among the nearly 20,000 archers, there was a sporadic sound of the strings crashing when the bow and arrow were fired, and dozens or hundreds of arrows flew in front of the advancing auxiliary legion archers, and even sporadic arrows shot to the side of the auxiliary legion archers running in the front, startling several Roman auxiliary legion archers around......

The archer unit was trained by Li Liguo with great energy, from the test shooter to the grassroots officers of each company, they have all been selected and tested, especially those officers, their archery skills and combat courage may not be good, but their eyes and minds are definitely very sober!

After these company officers swept the landing point of the bow and arrow at a glance, they began to count down in their hearts, calculating the time to give the order according to the advancing speed of the Roman soldiers on the opposite side, and with the reference to the landing point of these sporadic arrows, the archer soldiers of each company also had a general understanding of the distance they shot!

As a result, when the soldiers of the Roman auxiliary legion had just entered the firing position, there were shouts among the archers of the Kingdom of Sparta!

"Maximum elevation angle shooting, 5 consecutive shots in a hurry, !! arrows"

"Maximum elevation angle shooting, 5 consecutive shots in a hurry, !! arrows"

"Maximum elevation angle shooting, 5 consecutive shots in a hurry, !! arrows"

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With the shouts of the officer, the soldiers next to him repeated the shouting while moving, and this order was quickly passed on to the entire company!

And then there'......

The archers of the Fifth Legion of the Kingdom of Sparta pulled their bows almost simultaneously, turned their backs diagonally to the sky, and after pulling the strings, released their taut fingers!

A dark cloud rose into the sky, and the scene of nearly 20,000 arrows taking off made the Roman commander standing tall on the opposite side instantly widen his eyes, and the Kingdom of Sparta on the opposite side attached great importance to long-range troops, which was not ordinarily high!

The Romans are naturally not afraid of archers, and the large shields with the façade and the Roman legionnaires wearing iron armor and iron helmets can form a tortoiseshell formation, even in the face of armor-piercing arrows, the loss is not large, after all, the armor-piercing arrows can't break the thick Roman shield......

But......

Now at the front seems to be a group of auxiliary legionnaires with their own weapons and armor......

After the archer of the Spartan Kingdom shot an arrow, he quickly pulled out the arrow that had been inserted in the ground in advance, and continued to bend the bow and shoot with arrows, this time it was done by himself, without the officer's order again, but the interval was very short, and under full concentration, 5 arrows were shot in a row, which was not a difficult thing for the archer, anyway, there was no need to aim, just set up the poss to shoot!

And the reason why the arrow is pulled out from the ground instead of taking it out of the arrow basket is because the archer has inserted the arrow in the most convenient place in front of him before the battle, so that he can quickly pull out the arrow from the front of his eyes when shooting in a hurry, after all, ordinary people are not Hawkeyed Man, they can draw arrows from their back or waist very consistently, and taking arrows from front of their eyes is obviously much faster than pulling them out from behind!

Patches of arrows rained down into the air, drawing a graceful parabola, and the landing point below was exactly where the previous shooter shot the arrows!

The Romans' auxiliary legionnaires simply fired a round of arrows scattered and watched in a daze or panic as the rain of arrows falling from the sky fell on their area!

When the Spartan arrow rain landed, the commander of the Roman legion subconsciously closed his eyes, although those people were only other peoples ruled by the Romans, but after all, they were also their own soldiers, so they were unresisted......

Just a few seconds later, the commander of the Roman legion reopened his eyes, and what he saw was a scene of collapse!

Only a few of the archers of the Kingdom of Sparta were killed by the archers of the Roman auxiliary legion, and the overall queue remained unchanged at all, and the archers who were reasonably disciplined were already holding bows and arrows that had not been drawn and were ready for the next round of shooting!

In stark contrast to the Roman archers, no, now the archers of the Romans no longer exist, except for the corpses all over the ground, only the scattered auxiliary legion archers who threw their weapons everywhere, these people have been devastated by the overwhelming rain of arrows!

I don't complain that these auxiliary legionnaires who are similar to mercenaries are so unbeaten, even the light infantry of the Roman regular legion behind them subconsciously stopped advancing, the scene just now is really terrible, they don't think they can survive that kind of arrow rain!

Under the new orders of their commander-in-chief, the Roman legions all stopped attacking! (To be continued.) )