Night is falling, and the early summer nights are still cool.

After dinner, seeing that the soldiers had recovered their physical strength, Wang Jun immediately organized several rounds of exercises, and declared that there would be more than 2,000 enemies to sneak attack at night, and asked the army to rest well, and wait for everyone to have a good victory in the second half of the night; It dawned on the soldiers that they were playing a trap on the enemy.

The Commander is so insidious!

This is the evaluation of Wang Jun by all the soldiers; Beyond the troop configuration of ordinary legions, more than 10,000 people against 2,000 enemies, and so many messy names, isn't it insidious?

As the night deepened, most of the legionnaires lived in the "pergola" they had worked so hard to build; said to live, but in fact it is to lie on the ground and sleep in full armor; Although the conditions were a little worse, everyone was tired, and soon there was snoring under the "pergola". As for the commander saying that there may be an enemy attack tonight, the soldiers are not worried, there are more than 10,000 horses on their side, and the enemy is only more than 2,000, not to mention that there is such an "insidious" commander who has prepared a bunch of things, what can happen? Sleep well!

Between the "pergola" and the square walled battlements, there is a distance of 50 meters, and the whole presents an open area with a square outside and an inner circle, and dozens of blazing bonfires are lit; Under the light of the flickering fire, the shallow pits and ravines scattered on the ground near the campfire were full of shadows.

The king's army and Valerius slowly passed through this section of the ruined ground to the battlements; There was silence in the surrounding fields, the chirping of insects, and the occasional wolf howl or two could be heard in the distance.

To the east of the camp is a dense forest, and today's large-scale cutting has only widened the distance between the edge of the woods and the camp by a few tens of meters on top of more than 200 meters; To the north of the camp, more than a hundred meters beyond the walls of Anthony, which was used as the northern battlement, were sparse shrubs, and then woods; More than 100 meters west of the camp, the Clyde River, about 150 meters wide, is flowing quietly to the northwest; To the south, the field where the Fourth Army came, has the widest view, but it is also impossible to see far at night.

The weather seemed to be tilting in favor of the enemy, and the sky was covered with thick clouds of summer rain, which covered the sky with stars, and the night was thick.

Wang Jun did not feel sleepy, after all, this was the first battle he commanded, even if he had countermeasures and preparations, but before dawn, everything was still unknown.

Villeries was also not sleepy, he was the only one who knew the truth of the night except for the ten guards who had followed the king's army to kill the enemy this morning; Wang Jun told him about the situation before organizing the soldiers' exercises.

The ten guards who followed Wang's army in the early morning strictly enforced the gag order issued by the commander, and only returned to the regiment with the heads of 6 enemies, so the officers and men of the 4th Legion now only knew that this scout squad had opened today and killed 6 enemies; As a result, the morale of the Legion has also increased considerably.

The Fourth Legion did not know that their commander had taken the initiative to jump into the encirclement of the enemy with the legion, and the enemy was more than two thousand! Because they didn't know it, Wang Jun tossed the regiment for a whole afternoon today, and was still conducting exercises in the evening, but the soldiers were still able to sleep peacefully except for some fatigue and complaints.

Villeries understood that the royal army did this, no matter how good the soldiers of the Fourth Legion were, but after all, the training time was only more than half a year, and according to the standard, the recruits of the Roman legion had to go through three years of training; As for combat skills, training alone is not enough, and you must go through combat to truly grow; Don't look at the veterans who have been stationed on the defense line of Hadrian's Wall, they don't have much fighting spirit, and they don't even have the courage to step out of the Great Wall to the north, but in terms of real performance in battle, these veterans will not lose to these new recruits who have never seen blood.

What is the greatest virtue of a recruit, which is courage and obedience;

What is the biggest flaw of the recruit, is the panic and disobedience after the courage is gone.

As long as the courage is not discouraged, how many enemies come in the night, the recruits will not have much concept, obey the command of the officer, and take down one by one.

The Fourth Legion also has a hole card, and all the middle and junior officers are experienced veterans, Villeries knows this very well, and he has been following Maximus to win battles since he joined the army, so he is much more at ease than Wang Jun.

The four brigades of hoplites took turns to be on duty for the night, and now the first brigade was on guard at the battlements; In Wang Jun's plan, what should be there is still a must; The 50 agile guards had already left the camp in the night, scattered and lurked thousands of kilometers around the camp.

Time passed slowly, and the night grew thicker and thicker.

Just after midnight, Wang Jun, who was fighting against Scottish mosquitoes on the battlements in the north, suddenly moved in his heart, and looked out, even if his eyesight was good now, but a little farther away, the torches could not be illuminated, it was completely dark, and he could not see anything.

It was invisible, but Wang Jun was sure that a small number of people were coming, and they were getting closer and closer.

The hoplites who were on the battlements didn't feel anything at all, and Valeris stood by with a strong spirit, equally unaware.

Not long after, there were a few soft chirping of gnats in the darkness.

Villeries and the soldiers on duty were in good spirits, and the commander's personal guard returned!

One after another, the guards in several directions returned to the camp; They spotted the enemy's scouts one after another, and hurriedly retreated and returned cautiously according to Wang Jun's orders.

The Picts and Scots' scouts suffered a loss, and found nothing out of the ordinary, continuing to explore the fire-lit barracks ahead.

Most of the guards are hunters and are extremely agile, but that's not the main reason why the scouts won a small victory tonight.

The enemy scouts were not bad, especially those of the Picts; However, they had been fighting with the Roman legions in Britain for a long time, and they had never encountered the situation of the Romans waiting outside the camp at night, and they were somewhat careless.

And for another reason, the guards of the royal army had found a very suitable hiding place and retreat in advance, lying there and waiting for the rabbit, while the enemy had to come all the way from afar, and kept moving towards the side of the barracks, so as to move quietly; On the whole, unless Wang Jun's personal guards do something stupid on their own, the Picts and Scots will have to suffer this dark loss.

There was some noise in the Fourth Legion's camp at first, but it wasn't loud enough to be thought it was due to patrolling or changing guards, and then it fell silent.

Recruit Jason stepped on the wooden battlements to form a passage and walked slowly, vigilantly looking at the perimeter of the 1.2-meter-high wooden fence on the right; the short sword was unsheathed and held tightly in Jason's hand; the thick solid wood under his feet creaked. Just below the wooden platoon, except for the lack of a square shield, the heavily armed colleague was slowly squatting into the pit more than 1 meter deep, and then covering the hole with tree branches, just blocking the little dirt that fell from the vibration of the wooden platoon as Jason walked by.

Jason was still quite nervous, but only nervous, not afraid, Centurion Red followed behind him, he was an experienced officer; His hoplite brigade was responsible for seducing the enemy on the battlements around him, and the hoplites of the other three brigades were hidden underneath. According to Red, he only needs to make sure that he is not killed by the enemy in the first round of sneak attacks before he can jump off the battlements...... If you want to have a good time, you can also cut a few swords and jump down, then climb over the 50-odd meters of open land, extinguish the bonfire along the way, and then climb all the way to the edge of the earthen wall under the circular "pergola" and roll into the small and shallow "trench".

After that, there was no more.

The commander made it very clear during the exercise that as soon as you roll down the "trench," no matter who you are, you must lie there honestly and rest, and you will not be allowed to get up without the commander's order.

The campfires in the open area of the camp were not so vigorous, and there were torches on the battlements on the outermost sides, and the whole camp was dim and silent; Jason could almost hear his own heartbeat, well, it seemed a little too fast.

"Bang!"

Jason's head tilted, his right ear ringing, and a feathered arrow flying out of the darkness hit the right side of Jason's covered helmet accurately; Jason felt as if he had been slapped on the right side of his face by his helmet, which was not very heavy, but it hurt a little.

Before Jason could react, Red behind him pressed his body down and roared loudly: "Enemy attack!" ”

Whether this shout was for the enemy or for his own people, Red couldn't say, anyway, afterwards, Red insisted that he was not afraid of danger, pretended to be frightened as planned, and warned loudly; Whether others believe it or not, Jason did.

"Bu, Bu!" The sound of continuous arrows nailing into the wood was incessant, and from time to time there was a "bang! Syllable! The sound came from other parts of the battlements.

The circular "pergola" in the center of the camp shook in response, and Wang Jun sat in a large circle around the mouth of the well with a group of miscellaneous soldiers, shouting in his mouth, "Enemy attack!" "Run! "The weapons are there!" "And so on all the nonsense words came out; There was a circle of light infantry around the perimeter of the miscellaneous soldiers, and Hoge's personal guards were also mixed in, and they lined up in a dense circle of nine rows, facing the perimeter. Outside them were 2,400 archers, with their backs to the well, holding bows and arrows in seven rows of dense circles, and surrounded them inside; Standing in the first row of archers, the edge of the circular "pergola" is above their heads.

From this seat, continue to walk straight out, and there is no shelter in the open space about fifteen meters above and below; Further on, there is the area covered by the huge circular "pergola", which is now the territory of the crossbowmen.

2,400 crossbowmen lined up in four rows; The first row had the largest number of people, reaching 660 people, all kneeling on one knee behind the 50-centimeter-high outer ring earthen wall; There are 620 people in the second row, all of whom are sitting about 1 meter behind the front row, and under the buttocks is a 40-centimeter-high earthen wall; All 580 people in the third row stood solemnly; There are 540 people in the fourth row, in the innermost circle, stepping on a 50-centimeter-high earthen wall. All the crossbowmen were armed with crossbows and quivers at their waists, closely monitoring the open area that was lit by the campfire.

On the battlements, the arrows that flew out of the darkness had extended into the open area of the camp, and the wooden fence on the outside of the battlements was covered with black shadows like geckos; Dense and dull drumbeats suddenly sounded around the entire camp, and groups of dense black shadows, shouting and pouring out of the darkness, went straight to the barracks.

The recruit Jason reacted quickly, Lady Luck obviously liked him tonight, and Jason's face was still facing the outside of the dark camp a few tenths of a second, and as soon as he turned around, the enemy's arrows were coming; In other words, the covered helmet of the Roman infantry is good, almost the entire head is protected tightly, unless the arrow is in the middle of the eyes or two narrow positions under the eyes, it is difficult to cause substantial damage to the head.

Actually lost face in front of Centurion Red! Jason's blood was up, and when he looked up, he happened to see a big hand appear on the wooden fence 2 meters away, and immediately rushed over, just in time for the head of the enemy who was climbing, and with a wave of the short sword, the standard and powerful slashing action that he had trained countless times was completed in an instant, and a crack was directly opened on the huge head.

Well? It feels the same as splitting a stake!

The enemy who was fired fell down, and Jason quickly looked around.

On the nearby battlements, the figures were mixed and swaying, and many enemies had already climbed up, and the sparks of the weapons in the darkness flashed from time to time, and from time to time the wounded people let out miserable howls, and the chaotic and dim night did not know whether they were friends or foes; Three meters behind him, Red was fighting a tall and strong enemy, and it seemed that Red had the upper hand; Five or six meters in front of him, two enemies jumped up at the same time, and near the wooden fence on his right, several big hands climbed the wooden pillar......

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