Chapter 52: Turning Point

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A disheveled Roman general was pulled in front of the Roman commander by the guards in embarrassment, and the Roman commander looked at the Roman general with a fierce gaze and shouted: "Paulus, why don't you carry out the order and let your men continue to attack?!" ”

The Roman general called Paulus replied with a numb face: "It's over, it's all over, my people can't fight anymore......"

The Roman commander stepped forward and grabbed Paulus's collar one by one, glared at Paulus and said angrily: "Your people still have tens of thousands of warriors, how can you not fight!?" ”

"Hehe, tens of thousands...... But these tens of thousands of troops are just disabled by the rain of arrows, you go and see for yourself what those soldiers look like, if you can let them continue to go to the battlefield, I, Paulus, will immediately kill myself in front of you! ”

Paulus was so emotional that he even forgot his honorific title, and shouted directly at the bull's eye of the Roman commander!

The Roman commander threw Paulus to the ground and said to the guards beside him: "Paulus is not good at fighting, remove the general's position and lock me up!" ”

Paulus, who was held down by two guards, shouted in disbelief: "You have no right to detain me, my position is canonized by the Holy Emperor......"

These guards are all henchmen of the Roman commander, so naturally they will not take Paulus's words seriously, not to mention that Paulus is a subordinate of the Roman commander after all!

The Roman commander irritably asked several Roman generals around him, "How many Roman heavy infantry legions can go to battle?" ”

Several Roman generals glanced at each other, sighed and said: "Your Excellency, Paulus's troops are already the most 'intact', and the other heavy infantry corps have even broken up the basic structure, and many soldiers have broken down in spirit, and they will not be able to go to the battlefield in a short time......"

The Roman commander said angrily: "Then send the second-line auxiliary legions, as long as it is a person, they will be pulled up by me, and the other party will only have one legion of archers, and victory is just around the corner!" ”

The Roman commander couldn't help but think to himself at this time, how good it would be if the Roman cavalry had not been sent to support the rear grain routes......

I thought that the cavalry troops would play little role in this kind of siege warfare, and were sent in advance to support the rear grain routes that were attacked, but now the main force of the Roman legions and the Spartan legions are suffering heavy losses, and the Roman commanders can't even pull out a single elite that can only fight......

A Roman general reminded 'kindly': "Your Excellency, if you let the second-line troops charge, it is easy to be defeated by the Spartan archers on the opposite side......"

Well, the auxiliary legions of the Western Roman Empire were overwhelmed by the dense accumulation of archers!

The Roman commander waved his hand irritably and said: "Divide the second-line troops into waves to charge, the Spartan archers on the opposite side have just exerted great physical strength, and they can't shoot a few rounds!" We now have no way out, we must open the way forward, we must get out of this embarrassing situation, we need victory and time to regroup our forces! ”

The words of the Roman commander made the Roman generals collectively silenced, and silently left to mobilize the army, and if the main force of the Eastern Roman Empire was defeated at this time by the main army of Sparta in the rear, it would face the danger of annihilation!

A large number of second-line troops were urged by the Roman generals to rush to the archer positions of the Fifth Army of Sparta, and the archer troops of the Roman army had already been interrupted in the previous battle, and could not go to the battlefield for the time being, so they could only rely on these second-line hand-to-hand soldiers to attack!

Of course, the second-line troops with average morale were routed by waves of arrows from the Fifth Army, and then replaced with new auxiliary regiments to attack......

The Eastern Roman Empire was going to exhaust the arm strength of those Spartan archers with human lives!

Just when the Eastern Roman Empire was attacking the Spartan defense line, Li Liguo had already received the news, and Li Liguo, who was attacking the grain route, quickly made adjustments to the army, and the army attacking the grain route changed from two legions to four legions!

The cavalry troops that had been dispersed to act as scouts were regrouped, and under the leadership of Guan Yu, they marched all the way to the Spartan defense line that was in a fierce battle!

When Guan Yu assembled the army, the main Roman legion had not yet reached the moment when it was indiscriminately attacked by the archers of the Fifth Legion, so when Guan Yu arrived, the archers of the Fifth Legion were still barely supporting!

It's just that the auxiliary legions of the Eastern Roman Empire don't know how many waves it is, and they have successfully broken into the array of archers, and are engaged in one-sided hand-to-hand combat with the archers temporarily equipped with short swords and spears!

If Ares hadn't been on the front line with a small number of legendary Spartan Janissaries, these archers who were weak in hand-to-hand combat would have been routed long ago!

Unfortunately, the remaining legendary Spartan Janissaries suffered heavy losses in such a battle with a huge disparity in numbers, and when Guan Yu arrived with cavalry troops, there were less than 100 legendary Spartan warriors left!

It is the existence of less than 100 people, and the tens of thousands of auxiliary legionnaires in the attack of the Eastern Roman Empire have never been able to completely defeat the Fifth Legion!

After Guan Yu arrived, he picked up the Qinglong Glaive Knife, pointed at the Fifth Legion that was in the melee, and shouted angrily: "Kill the enemy!" ”

The Spartan cavalry behind them simultaneously raised their spears and shouted: "Kill the enemy!" Kill ......"

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves sounded from the flanks of the attacking Eastern Roman auxiliaries, and the Roman commander looked at the Spartan cavalry that had burst into battle with bloodshot eyes, knowing that his attack had been broken up again......

It's not terrible that the attack is broken, but the terrible thing is that the Spartan defense line on the opposite side has an elite Spartan iron cavalry, how can its own large number of second-line troops break through the defense line defended by the Spartan cavalry?!

Those second-line troops of the Eastern Roman Empire were quickly chiseled and routed under the cavalry charge led by Guan Yu!

These auxiliary legions simply could not quickly lay out the phalanx of the defending cavalry as quickly as the main Roman army, and the Spartan cavalry broke through with great ease, tearing it apart!

The Roman general on the side persuaded the Roman commander: "We are defeated, let's withdraw and retain some vitality for the empire!" ”

The Roman commander sighed helplessly under the persuasion of the people around him, he knew that his future political career had come to an end......

The army of the Eastern Roman Empire did not attack the Spartan defense line with brains anymore, and the army of the Eastern Roman Empire at this moment was scarred, the main legionnaires were unable to fight, and the soldiers of the auxiliary corps could not impact the Spartan iron cavalry, so they had to take advantage of Li Liguo's failure to kill from behind and run away......

Soon after the remnants of the Eastern Roman Empire left, under the attack of the 4 legions of Sparta, the abandoned Eastern Roman Empire grain route garrison and the Roman cavalry sent to assist in the defense were all wiped out! (To be continued.) Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info)