Chapter Eighty-Seven: Quintus's Guess

As the leader of this Roman legion, Quintus was not as good as Maximus, but he was the top executive in command of a legion.

And since this invasion of the barbarians, Quintus has also led his army to fight in the north and south, participated in several large and small battles, and won many times, which can be regarded as rich combat experience.

And the long battle has also trained his subordinates into an elite, even if it is not much weaker than the army led by Maximus at the beginning.

It doesn't understand why the other side sent cavalry, stormed its camp in a near-lethal manner, and then suddenly retreated, but that didn't make it despise the other party's commander.

After all, if the leader of the enemy was really so mentally retarded, he would not have directly annihilated a thousand-strong Roman army in less than a day.

Although there were only more than a thousand people in that unit, Quintus still knew its combat strength very well.

Even in the face of an enemy three times as strong as oneself, it is only a defeat, and it is indeed impossible to completely annihilate them.

But when he saw the army pouring out of the gate opposite, Quintus understood.

Although that advance force is also considered a strong army, it is ten times the strength of the enemy......

"The whole army is ready to meet the enemy!"

"The whole army is ready to meet the enemy!"

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Shouts rang out in the camp.

The Roman soldiers, who had just entered the camp tent and had not had time to organize their personal belongings, hurriedly grabbed their swords, javelins and shields standing on the weapon racks, and quickly assembled under the leadership of the centurions.

Shields were erected in the barrier, forming a seemingly solid shield wall.

But when these Roman soldiers received the order to complete the line as fast as possible, the group of enemies on the opposite side was still slowly gathering outside the city gate, and it did not look like they were going to fight at all.

And looking at the faces of the enemies in the distance, the Roman soldiers also talked about it.

"The other party actually attacked first?"

"Falling out of the city? Won't their boss fight? ”

"Do you want to fight us directly?"

"Maybe they're here to surrender, you see they can't even stand in line."

"Haha, I hope they don't surrender, otherwise we won't come for nothing."

"Aulus, I'll bet two dinars, you'll definitely not kill as much as I do."

"Hehe, then I'll bet five dinars...... After a fight, you're bound to be scared out of the way. Hearing the discussion of his subordinates, the centurion of the centurion did not stop it sharply, but followed the soldier's joke.

His subordinates were all recruits who had just joined the group, and they were placed in the first column of the youth corps.

In the previous fight against the barbarian invasion, although this army achieved brilliant results, it also paid a lot of casualties.

Almost a third of the current legion is made up of recruits who have only been added for less than a month, led by their newly promoted veterans.

Originally, he was a little worried that these recruits would lose their lives because of nervousness and mistakes when they were participating in real battles for the first time.

But now looking at the enemy in the distance, it looks like a group of farmers who have not been trained at all.

The situation does not seem to be as bad as you think.

And after this battle, the brothers under him will also grow up quickly after seeing the blood.

The centurion thought to himself.

However, when I remembered that these enemies on the other side had annihilated a thousand of our own troops a few days ago, I didn't dare to be too careless, and after relaxing, I hurriedly scolded these loose recruits: "Cheer up Lao Tzu, if you lose your life because of carelessness, don't blame Lao Tzu for not reminding you." ”

"Yes!" His 80 soldiers replied loudly.

Looking at the appearance of this group of soldiers, the centurion also nodded secretly with satisfaction.

……

Hundreds of meters away, Qi Lin mingled among the infantry, surrounded by a wall of shields erected by the Rhodok sergeants to keep him firmly in the center.

The movement in the Roman military camp in the distance was clearly seen by Qi Lin through the gap between the shields.

Although he was surprised by the speed of the other party's reaction, Qi Lin didn't care too much.

Even if you defend well, with the rain of arrows from the archers to suppress it, and let the infantry rush up and fight in a wave, won't you still be able to take away a large number of you?

Remembering the frightened look in the eyes of the captured Romans after the battle two days ago, Qi Lin laughed secretly.

Even if the other party's commander is shrewd, it is impossible to think that he would let his foot soldiers brave the rain of arrows to fight them, right?

Even if the soldiers on the other side are all beaten with iron, they are still unscathed in the face of this group of arrows stuck in their bodies, and the Imperial swordsmen who only know how to slash and kill will probably think that they are seeing demons, right?

"Charge the whole army!"

It was still a distance of several hundred meters, and Qi Lin directly took the initiative to give the order to charge this time.

More than 10,000 Imperial soldiers who had not yet formed a formation suddenly began to think about the other party's camp and rushed away.

And Qi Lin himself, under the protection of Sergeant Rhodok, followed slowly behind.

……

Like the 1,000 Roman soldiers in the advance force, watching each other start running wild from a distance of hundreds of meters, the faces of this group of Roman soldiers suddenly hung a strange expression.

Even those veterans who have fought many times unconsciously have a trace of contempt in their hearts.

Even Quintus, who was the commander of the legion, began to really doubt whether his opponent's generals would fight.

Charging at full speed from a distance of hundreds of meters is a low-level mistake that almost all commanders do not make, and even ordinary people who have no combat experience know this common sense.

"But it's likely to be a trick by the other side." Quintus suddenly thought.

Although it is impossible to hide people around the surrounding horses, it is likely that the other party is taking advantage of this.

And before that, Namanius was probably also deceived by the other party's strategy.

It was precisely because it was impossible to hide people around that Manius would take it lightly, and then the leader of the other side would send a considerable number of troops to lure Namanius's troops into the city in this way.

After that, it was only necessary to close the city gates and send out ambush troops, and it was not impossible for Mannius's thousand-man army to be completely annihilated.

The more he thought about it, the more Quintus felt that the other party thought so.

And as long as you guess the other party's strategy, then the battle will be much easier to handle.

If you want to lure me into the city, then I won't go into the city.

"Pay attention to the whole army, stick to the camp, and don't attack without authorization!"

"Hold the camp!"

"The whole army holds the camp!"