Perhaps the enemy has noticed that the defense of Hadrian's Wall has been strengthened, or perhaps the enemy has been busy making the next generation recently, anyway, the Hadrian's Wall defense line has been much calmer than the Hadrian's Wall, which stretches for more than 100 kilometers, since the Wang army put all three legions on it; Disturbances still occur from time to time, but they are never encountered again.

On May 1, 183 A.D., under the pitiful eyes of the soldiers on the city walls, the king's army confidently marched towards the north of Scotland with a fourth army of more than 10,000 men.

The legion marched north for six days, crossing mountains and mountains, passing through many dangerous terrains; Along the way, it has been very calm, the expected sneak attack did not happen, except for the alarm of countless birds and beasts, no half figure was found, which made the tension of the entire legion decrease.

Today is the seventh day of the Fourth Army's sortie, and the weather is still good, with a slight breeze in the morning, and it is very cool.

Hogg and dozens of his subordinates personally walked at the front of the line holding the double-headed eagle emblem of the Ninth Army (the empire designed the double-headed eagle emblem as the symbol of the army), while the deputy commander Villeries hung at the end of the team. The whole team was arranged in a column of four people per row, and looking down from the top of the mountain in the distance, the Fourth Army was like a huge python, slowly twisting its body in the mountains and forests to the north.

The procession that looks like a long snake is actually divided into three sections, but because the front and back are closely connected, you can't see it if you don't pay attention.

In the first section, the light infantry carrying round shields are on either side, and the two in the middle are crossbowmen;

the second section, the miscellaneous soldiers and the donkey team full of supplies;

In the third section, the hoplites are outside, and the infantry archers are inside.

If anyone thinks that the miscellaneous soldiers in the middle are easy to bully, then they will be in bad luck.

All of the miscellaneous soldiers were armed with crossbows and Roman daggers, and although the crossbows were not as skilled as the crossbowmen, at least two waves of crossbows would be fired head-on, regardless of which side of the enemy queue attacked. This is definitely not good for the Picts and Scotland, who do not have thick armor.

After two waves of crossbow arrows, what awaits them will be two waves of crossbow arrows from the miscellaneous soldiers on the other side of the donkey cart.

In Wang's imagination, if the number of enemies attacked was not so large, the miscellaneous soldiers might not need to draw their short swords, and the battle would be over.

Commander Wang Jun was not in the marching ranks.

On a small hill overgrown with large trees 3 kilometers in front of the team, 10 of Wang's guards were cleaning the battlefield.

Thanks to the incomparably abundant Spanish soldiers, the soldiers of the Fourth Legion, who could only enter the door after strict screening, were in very good physical condition, and the personal guards formed from among them were not only surprisingly good in physical fitness, but also almost all had some special skills of their own. To put it simply, half of the people tend to be powerful, and half are agile; The 49 sturdy guys who followed behind Hogg in the marching column were all violent men with great strength, and their strength was at the level of 11 points, which was only 1 point away from Hoge. The remaining 50 guards are all agile at the 11 point level, which is on the same level as Emperor Maximus; Because many of them were hunters, Wang Jun used these 50 people as scouts for the army.

From the beginning of the legion, Wang Jun placed four groups of scouts on both sides of the team, and the other group was in front of the team, carefully sailing the ship of ten thousand years; A few days ago, the scouts kept a distance of 200 meters from the brigade, and nothing was found, but today Wang Jun decided to let the scouts enlarge the distance to a distance of 500 meters to 800 meters, and personally led a team of scouts to be responsible for the exploration of the direction of the brigade.

Half an hour ago, Wang Jun, a daring artist, ran on a hill 3 kilometers away from the front of the brigade with 10 guards, and they explored and advanced in the woods halfway up the mountainside, with brisk and flexible movements.

The blue sky was blocked by large expanses of verdant foliage, and the woods were very quiet, with the sound of the wind blowing through the treetops and the soft chirping of unknown insects; Birds appeared in the woods from time to time, and occasionally one or two small animals sprang out of the bushes at a distance, and they disappeared as soon as they slipped away.

Wang Jun, who was on the march, suddenly felt that something was wrong, and immediately ordered his guards to hide in place and remain silent.

After observing for a while, Wang Jun ordered his guards to stay where they were, and he sprang out like a civet cat, his figure quickly flashing among the trees, and quietly but unabated to the top of the mountain; In his previous observations, Wang Jun confirmed that the place where he felt something was very wrong was the top of the mountain.

Very Wang Jun was hidden behind a rock, and when he looked at it: enemy!

On the top of the hill are six men with weapons looking out over the Fourth Regiment on the march; Three were bare-chested and tattooed, with animal skins tied around their waists, and the other three were dressed in linen clothes and were unkempt.

The movement of the 10,000-strong team was so great that it could be easily detected from afar.

Wang Jun did not move, but carefully observed the surroundings of the top of the mountain; After repeatedly confirming that there were no other enemies, he quietly returned to his place and gave the battle order to his guards; The army must fight more battles in order to have real combat effectiveness.

Ten minutes later, at the top of the mountain, 6 enemies were lying on the ground, blood spilling all over the ground, and there was no life.

Ten against six, prepared against unprepared, with a winding bow and crossbow against a longbow still hanging behind the back, such a battle will not be much suspense. Because of the need for confessions, three were deliberately left alive during the attack, but after the interrogation was completed, the dying captives were clicked away by the wolf-like guards.

In the test of blood and fire, Wang Jun has gradually become ruthless.

Before the crossing, the otaku in his twenties, the only record of killing was... 107 mosquitoes have been killed since childhood; But after only 3 years in this world, Wang Jun's hands have already exceeded 100 lives, and today it is 6, and the next conquest is ......

By inspecting the enemy's caste, Wang Jun was surprised by these shirtless fellows.

The average caste of the three Picts is significant.

Strength: 9 (Roman hoplite 8)

Dexterity: 9 (Roman Hoplite 7)

Spirit: 6 (Roman Hoplite 5)

Constitution: 12 (Roman Hoplite 8)

In terms of caste, it comprehensively surpasses the ordinary Roman hoplites! For the average Roman soldier, the difference in the first three castes can also narrow the gap in combat power through weapons and equipment, but the difference in physique is actually 4 points, which is difficult to make up.

What are the benefits of having a high physique?

Wang Jun already has personal experience: he can run or fight for a long time, improve his ability to resist cold and heat, improve his ability to resist blows, and improve his ability to recover from injuries... Wait a minute.

The other three were Scots, and their physical caste was almost identical to that of the average Roman hoplite.

The soldiers of the Fourth Legion of the Royal Army were all carefully selected, and the average body of the soldiers was a little higher than that of the ordinary Roman hoplites; In terms of strength and spirit, he is on par with the Picts, and his agility is 1 point lower, but his physique is still a full 3 points worse.

After mastering the enemy's physical surname data, Wang Jun finally understood a little bit why the Ninth Army disappeared without a trace decades ago, and the gap in the physical fitness of the soldiers on both sides is really not small! If the opponent does not choose the obscene tactics of fighting hard head-on, but only repeatedly engaging in harassment and night attacks, he can definitely drag down the Roman legions that rely entirely on hoplites and battle formations.

The torture of confessions, while highly inhumanitarian, provides very useful information.

First important information: among the auxiliary legions of the Roman legions stationed on Hadrian's Wall, there are annihilators sent by the enemy!

Because the Picts were easily distinguished from other races, they had to let the Scots do the work; After a hundred years of war, the Roman garrison had become accustomed to recruiting soldiers from the local area, and the Scots were not easy to distinguish from the English who had been assimilated by Rome, not to mention that many Scots had indeed thrown themselves into the arms of Rome...

His grandma's! No wonder the enemy's previous night attacks on weak points in the line of defense were repeatedly successful.

The second important information: the news of the departure of the royal army and the Fourth Army Corps has been grasped by the enemy.

The calm of Hadrian's Wall defense line before the expedition turned out to be the result of the enemy's shrinking forces!

However, the enemy somewhat looked down on Wang Jun and his Fourth Legion; According to the captives, the commander was too young, well, the Fourth Regiment was a bunch of recruits......

The third important news: the enemy intends to ambush the royal army in an area called Glasgow ahead.

In fact, as soon as the Fourth Army was out of the Great Wall line, the Picts and Scots sent people to target them; In the first few days, the scouts sent by Wang's army were too close to the brigade to detect the presence of enemy spies further away; And today, because Wang Jun suddenly expanded the scope of scouts' exploration, coupled with Wang Jun's strong perception ability, he caught these unlucky guys.

Glasgow is a large Scottish village, with a large mountain range to the north, and relatively flat terrain in the other three directions; In the east and west directions, the relatively flat terrain extends to the sea; Due south, upward, the plain stretches to the peak of the mountain where Wang's army is located; The River Clyde runs from southeast to northwest through this flat land, and Glasgow sits on the north-east side of the River Clyde.

Forty years ago, the Roman Empire started at the River Clyde south of the village and built a great wall that stretched for nearly 60 kilometers to the northeast to the northeast edge of the Firth Bay. This Great Wall, called Anthony, replaced Hadrian's Wall, which was more than 150 kilometers away in the south, and became the first line of defense against the enemy in the north at that time. Unfortunately, due to the unfavorable situation of the war, Rome abandoned the area north of Hadrian's Wall, which caused Antony's Wall to fall into the hands of the Picts and Scots; Over time, Anthony's Wall slowly fell into disuse.

Wang Jun felt that this enemy was not the so-called barbarian who could do things in the mouth of those generals, and the enemy's strategy was not simple.

The Fourth Army had been marching in the mountains and valleys for the first six days, and the ambush terrain was everywhere, and according to the captives, it was in this densely forested area that the Ninth Army, which had disappeared decades earlier, had been wiped out, but the enemy had not attacked. Perhaps the enemy judged that the Roman legions had learned from the past and must be extremely vigilant in this area, but it was difficult to attack, so they gave up attacking in this area; In fact, Wang's army was indeed prepared to be attacked, marching at a low speed every day, and the location of the camp at night was carefully selected and closely defended.

According to the practice of the Roman legions, combined with the itinerary of the Fourth Army in the previous days, the enemy judged that the Fourth Army would reach the Glasgow area this afternoon.

If the Fourth Legion had moved out of the mountains and into the plains, it would have marched much faster, and by the afternoon it would have been possible to discover the great village of Glasgow, where the Legion would have chosen to camp in the face of no one or any resistance.

This should be true temporarily, and even more so geographically.

Nearby is the River Clyde--- easy access to water, the existence of villages --- easy to camp, and the westernmost part of the abandoned Anthony Wall--- the ruined bunkers and abandoned Great Wall, more or less defensive value.

Anyway, Wang Jun himself couldn't think of a reason not to camp in Glasgow.

Imagine that after 6 days of trekking through the mountains, the legion suddenly discovered a plain area... Discover another village... And then I found that this is a great place to camp... Well, the Legion didn't have time to find another place to camp.

As night falls, after the exhausting camping work, the soldiers have a full meal, and after that, the soldiers who are in high tension for several days will have a strong need to sleep soundly, because it feels safe and relaxing...... From the mountains and forests into the plains, there are rivers, city walls, and pillboxes, and it is inevitable to be vigilant against the descent of the surname.

No way! The enemy is insidious!

In the words of one captive, the Picts and Scots would recreate their ancestral glory in Glasgow, burying the Fourth Regiment forever in the fertile lands beside the River Clyde.

Wang Jun stood like a javelin on a cliff on the north side of the mountaintop, looking to the north; The field of vision is no longer one mountain after another, but a plain with an unobstructed view; Far around the summit, scattered guards lurk in the rocks or bushes to keep watch.

Glasgow?

Wang Jun raised his eyebrows and stood proudly on the top of the mountain.

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