Seeing the battlefield situation in front of them, Eumes and Chisonis, who were in the rear of the rebel army, smiled bitterly at each other. In fact, when the rebel side charged, the Spartan regiment, led by Eumes and Chisonis, did not charge with the large gladiator army.

The men who charged with a large army of gladiators were Cabal and Lagertius, the two champion gladiators who were the bravest men at the forefront of the charge after seeing the Romans.

The fighters of the Spartan Regiment were born prisoners of war, although at the time of their capture, they were young fighters of a young age. But after all, Sparta was a militaristic city-state with all the people in the army, and they had been exposed to military training from a very young age, and they were better adapted to the battlefield than gladiators who had only received personal combat training.

Everyone in the soldiers of the Spartan regiment understood that the battlefield was not a gladiatorial arena, so when the gladiators launched a full-army charge, the Spartan regiment spontaneously became the reserve of the entire rebel army, of course, this did not include Xu Mo's group.

Glancing thoughtfully at the small hill where Xu Mo was, Chisionis groaned for a moment and said to Eumes: "Actually, Artemis once told me before he died that he suspected that Arres was hiding his true Spartan name, and it was possible that he was a Spartan from a similar background!" ”

"You mean, it's possible that Aris is a Spartan nobleman?" Omes was startled and hurriedly asked.

"Look at the actions of Ares after the discovery of the Romans, although ordinary Spartan warriors like us also received military training, they would not be like him, who was accustomed to looking for high ground in the rear to observe the situation on the battlefield before engaging the enemy." Chisonis carefully analyzed.

"You're right, the Spartan warriors who do this are typical battlefield commanders. These battlefield commanders are either experienced civilian warriors who have been promoted after many battles, or they are the children of nobles who have been trained to be battlefield commanders since childhood, judging by Arres's age, he can't be the former kind of person! Omes nodded approvingly.

In fact, Xu Mo is really the former kind of person that Omes said, as a modern person, Xu Mo has far more knowledge than the ancients, and of course he also understands some knowledge of battlefield command. However, if you want to turn this kind of knowledge into a battlefield behavior, it is not something that ordinary modern people can do immediately when they travel to ancient times, and Xu Mo can't do it either.

However, Xu Mo is not a rookie on the battlefield, in the night world, the fairy sword world, and the navigation world, he has been in contact with team battles many times, and even personally led an army of hundreds of people. Even if the form of the battle is different, as a commander, observing the battlefield during the battle, and making correct judgments and commands, has become his military ability.

"It seems that we made the wrong choice, if he is in command of the rebels...... "Chisionis said with a little remorse, "it's too late to say this, let's go to the aid of Ragatius, otherwise the rebels will collapse......"

After Eumes and Chisonis led the Spartan regiment into the battlefield, they did not choose to support the rebels on the frontal battlefield, but made a circle, detouring from the right flank of the Roman shield wall to the right rear of the Roman battle formation.

After seeing this scene, the leader of the mercenaries hired by Bardax immediately suggested to Bardax to intercept the Spartan group. This mercenary leader has a lot of combat experience, and judging by the overall situation, his choice was not wrong. If Bardax followed his advice, then the defeat of the rebel army was a certainty, Xu Mo couldn't use his hands for this battle, all they had to do was to leave the battlefield immediately and flee alone.

However, after a moment of hesitation, Bardax rejected the suggestion of the mercenary leader. The reason is very simple, for the death of a Roman soldier, he does not need to pay a pension of half a dinar, and for every mercenary casualty, he must pay a huge pension to the mercenary's family.

As the owner of the Badacus Gladiator School, Bardacus was well aware of the power of the Spartans in team warfare. Once the Spartans were allowed to engage their mercenaries head-on, even if the 200-strong mercenary team could completely annihilate the Spartan regiment, they would have to pay at least twice as many casualties as the Spartan soldiers, which was an unacceptable casualty figure for Bardacus.

Bardax did not hesitate to threaten Governor Lucius, and did not hesitate to pay a large commission to hire 200 mercenaries, for something. Isn't it hoped that a considerable number of gladiator slaves can be captured and the Bardax gladiator school can be rebuilt! In essence, he was a businessman, not an army commander, and his pursuit was not a simple military victory, but the maximization of profits.

Moreover, in his opinion, the Roman army had an advantage on the battlefield, and even the addition of the Spartan regiment would only offset this advantage. When the Roman army and the rebel army were exhausted, he threw himself into the mercenary army to clean up the battlefield in order to get the sweetest fruits of victory. It's just that Bardax doesn't know that sometimes, the victory or defeat on the battlefield is only between the lines, and if the best fighter is lost, then the victory will also quietly slip away.

The rear officers of the Roman battle formation also found themselves in a crisis on their right flank, and these young officers reacted quickly, and immediately commanded the sword and shield soldiers of the second horizontal column of the Roman battle formation to divide the same number of soldiers as the Spartan regiment and intercept the Spartan regiment.

However, these officers soon discovered the strong combat strength of the Spartan regiment, and the same number of Roman sword and shield soldiers could not intercept the soldiers of the Spartan regiment at all, and they were shocked and retreated, and the battle formation was almost collapsed.

In desperation, the Roman commander once again transferred the sword and shield soldiers in the central part to support the right flank, and finally in front of the sword and shield soldiers who exceeded the double number of the Spartan regiment, the Spartan regiment fell into a bitter battle.

The Spartan regiment can have such combat effectiveness, in fact, it also has part of Xu Mo's credit. If it weren't for Xu Mo's foresight to concentrate the armor and log shields obtained from Bardax Manor to arm the Spartan Regiment, in the face of the Roman sword and shield soldiers armed to the teeth, the soldiers of the Spartan Regiment would not be able to take advantage of the battle even if they were strong in combat, let alone fight with the Roman sword and shield soldiers twice as large as themselves.

At this time, there were finally new changes in the frontal battlefield, which were favorable to the changes of the rebel army. After the initial large number of casualties among the gladiators of the rebel army, the corpses of their fellow gladiators began to pile up under the Roman shield wall, although it was only a few dozen corpses, but after all, it was only a small battle, and the casualties of these dozens of gladiators had reached more than 15% of the total number of the rebel army.

If it were a normal war, such a casualty ratio would have been able to crush an ordinary army, and the elite army would also have a decline in morale and a weakened will to fight.

But the gladiator rebels were different, the gladiators were dealing with death all year round, and for the precarious gladiators, death was a relief, so that they could not worry about the next day's gladiatorial match every day, and they no longer had to kill their brothers and partners who trained and ate together.

The rebel army composed of gladiators was able to accept more than 50% of the casualties without a drop in morale and a waning will to fight, and they could even fight until the entire army was annihilated and all the troops died on the battlefield.

With a fearless fear of death and a tenacious will to fight, the gladiators' armies are above most armies in the world today. It can even be compared with the most elite "King's Guard" in Sparta, the "Black Legion" in Persia, the "Holy Order" in Carthage, and the "Toliari Legion", which consisted entirely of Roman reserves.

The gladiators began to step on the corpses of their comrades, climbed over the shield wall of the Roman battle formation, and jumped over the shield wall, and began to attack the javelinmen and sword and shield men directly behind the shield wall. On the two flanks of the frontal battlefield, the neat shield walls also exposed relatively large gaps due to the shield soldiers interspersed with the encirclement, and the gladiators also began to fight into these gaps.

Originally, this situation could have been avoided, provided that there were a large number of sword and shield soldiers behind the shield wall to do hand-to-hand combat support, and a small number of enemies who could quickly cross the shield wall and penetrate into the gaps of the shield wall, but because the Spartan regiment contained a large number of sword and shield soldiers, the flaws in the Roman battle formation appeared naked in front of the gladiators.

As more and more gladiators crossed the shield wall and passed through the gaps in the shield wall, the Romans' shield wall finally completely lost its effect, and the Roman army lost its neat and unified battle formation, and began to fight with individual gladiators with skilled combat skills, and the situation on the battlefield began to favor the rebel side.

However, at this time, Bardacus finally threw two hundred mercenaries into the battlefield under the repeated persuasion of the mercenary leader......