Titus used his shield to pluck the javelin, lowered his body, and gently turned his wrist to pan Lauriakun's one-handed sword to a third of the shield, and took on the dual wielding position, ready to meet the incoming enemy.

He looked at it with great eyes, only to see that the black shadow was like lightning, and as it got closer and closer, the figure of a masked man came into view.

Titus held his breath, hid behind the Legion's shield, and stared at the man: this person's face was masked, but it was clearly visible that his face was dark, his sword eyebrows were in the sideburns, his face was distinct, his eyes were bright, and there was a scar about two inches long on the corner of his right eye, which contrasted with the slender scar under his left cheek, and he was carrying a large black iron box behind him, which he didn't know what to do

Titus had never seen the light skills of the Central Plains, but he felt that the people who came to act quickly and unbelievably did not dare to be careless for a while, his heart was beating wildly, and a lot of sweat oozed from the palm of his sword.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was getting closer, the man's pupils suddenly dilated, he turned around, turned around and ran.

Titus was horrified and wanted to pursue with his sword, but he heard countless footsteps behind him, and when he turned his head, he saw dozens of Roman mercenaries wearing Augustus' neck guards, sectional slatted cuirass, and Mainz daggers running towards him.

Titus returned the sword to its sheath and asked, "What happened?" ”

The leading soldier hurriedly said in Latin with a slight Sicilian accent: "Sir, the caravan is under attack by sand bandits, Centurion Macrinus, is organizing resistance, let you quickly return to help." ”

Titus put the shield behind his back, turned his head to look at the fading black shadow, a complicated color flashed in his eyes, he bit his steel teeth, his arm fell, and for a while, all the Roman soldiers followed him and disappeared into the wind and sand......

Besides, the black shadow, with the light skill of riding the wind and the sea, traveled dozens of miles in one breath, and only after seeing the ruins of the ancient city of Xiliu did he stop and take off the masked turban, which was Yang Tingfeng himself.

There were already three people galloping in front of them, and it was Shi Wansui, He Ruobi, and Xiao Wolf.

Mu Yunmo led the soldiers of the Qizhang battalion to ambush around the ancient city of Xiliu, except for ten people to guard the horses, the rest of them were all carrying iron bows, each hiding their figures, quietly observing the enemy situation around the ancient city.

After the four of them met in the ancient city, Yang Tingfeng wiped a stinky sweat and thrust Titus's legionary counterweight javelin into the ground for everyone to watch.

His eyebrows have long been blurred by the sand.

His hands kept patting the collar and cuffs, and he saw that the fine yellow sand kept falling from him.

The weather is very hot, and the wind and sand are heavy, which is really not good.

Xiao Wolf quickly untied the water bladder on his body and threw it to Yang Tingfeng.

Yang Tingfeng hesitated slightly, took the water bladder, took a small sip, then tightened the stopper, and threw the water bladder back.

In the desert drought, they carried limited amount of clean water, and the number of times they could drink water was strictly regulated.

Yang Tingfeng moistened his throat with water, spit out the sand in his mouth, and suddenly spoke: "You guys, do you recognize this javelin?" ”

The people looked up and down the javelin for a while, and saw that the javelin had a long metal pole of 4.5 feet at the front, with an iron tip attached, and at the back end was a long wooden pole of 5.4 feet, with a rope around it, different from the javelin of Middle-earth.

Shi Wansui said: "Curious's javelin, I have never seen it before. ”

He Ruobi stepped forward, pulled out the javelin in the field, and said: "When I traveled the world, I heard the merchants of Genoa say that this is a Roman counterweight javelin, which can be used in close combat or at a distance, and the connected part is fixed with wooden nails, and the weight of the spear head is increased in order to increase the penetration force of the heavy javelin. ”

Yang Tingfeng smiled and said: "Sure enough, it is different from the javelin in the Central Plains, when I am free, I will definitely study it carefully." "I don't know why, speaking of javelins, Yang Tingfeng's mind suddenly appeared Cao Wuming's figure, the last time the two met, Cao Wuming was carrying thirteen javelins......

Xiao Wolf asked, "This javelin looks only well-made, and I can't see anything special." As soon as he finished speaking, everyone echoed him.

He Ruobi shook his head and said, "You guys, don't underestimate this kind of javelin. According to the merchants of Genoa, their Roman legions, the whole army were armed with such javelins and sword shields, and there was little difference between the equipment of officers and non-commissioned officers. The battle began, and the first column, consisting of young soldiers, advanced first, throwing javelins. At the same time, the corps completed the evacuation after the javelin was thrown; The soldiers of the first horizontal squad began to charge, and the first two columns of soldiers engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy with short swords. Six or seven columns of soldiers in the back threw javelins. Then, the second column, composed of middle-aged soldiers, was replaced, and the first column retreated to rest. The elite soldiers of the Legion were responsible for covering the flanks and backs of the Legion, as well as retrieving usable javelins to replenish the first column withdrawn. A campaign usually involves several rounds of substitution, and the most elite veterans only have to take part in the battle when the battle is stalemate and the legion retreats. ”

He spoke eloquently, and the crowd listened intently.

Yang Tingfeng suddenly remembered that his master had told him that during the Three Kingdoms period, Ma Chao, the warlord of Xiliang, had a Roman legion under his command.

It is rumored that when Ma Chao fought against Cao Cao, some of the soldiers used the Western Roman phalanx, that is, the shield and the javelin that could be thrown, which was similar to the previous Roman Imperial legions.

That's why Cao Cao's subordinates said, "The Guanxi soldiers are strong, Xi spears, and non-selected forwards can't be either!" ”

It may not be without a cause.

In that year, Crassus, one of the "triumvirate" of the Roman Empire, invaded Parthia to the east, but was surrounded and annihilated by the Parthian army, and the 6,000 Roman army broke through to the east and fled to the Kazakh Khanate.

Later, the Western Han generals Chen Tang (the source of the famous domineering quotation "Those who dare to offend my Han will be punished even if they are far away") and Gan Yanshou, when Kangju was fighting with the Xiongnu's Zhizhi Danyu, this Roman army was acting as a mercenary of the Xiongnu and fought with the Han army.

Eventually, the Roman army was defeated and captured.

At that time, the Han Dynasty was quite powerful, and under the request of Chen Tang and Gan Yanshou, the capital of the Western Regions, it gave extremely lenient treatment to this army with very different cultures.

The Han Dynasty not only allowed the army to build its own garrison and defend the border for the Han Dynasty, so the surviving Romans established their own city at the western end of the Hexi Corridor, called Lijing.

And Ma Chao's ancestor 'General Fubo' Ma Yuan was the military governor of that generation.

Therefore, it is not uncommon for the army of the descendants of the Romans to be in the army of Ma Chao.

In distant Rome, after the military reform of the consul Gaius Marius, there was no longer this distinction between the different horizontal arms in the legions, but this method of alternating rotation was still used.

Relying on this tactic, the Roman legions swept north and south, unstoppable, and destroyed countless countries, from Spain, Gaul and Britain in the west, to the upper reaches of the Euphrates River in the east, to northern Africa in the south, and to the Rhine and Danube rivers in the north, and the Mediterranean Sea became the inland sea of the empire.

In its heyday, Rome controlled about 5 million square kilometers of land and was one of the largest monarchies in the ancient history of the world.

At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of killing outside the ancient city, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air came one after another, and Mu Yunmo hurriedly came in and reported that there was a situation outside the ancient city.

Yang Tingfeng shouted: "Go out and have a look!" And the other rulers went out with him.

Everyone walked all the way, while talking, they walked through the ruins of the center of Xiliu City, this earthen city can no longer see any complete dwellings, only a few hundred mud walls blackened by fire, still standing upright.

Yang Tingfeng first ordered everyone to lie down and not move, and then, like a leopard, he ran forward, ran behind a mud wall, and then beckoned Shi Wansui, He Ruobi, Mu Yunmo, Xiao Wolf and other four people to come over.

When the four of them also came to the mud wall, they saw Yang Tingfeng pressing his palm against the mud wall and muttered: "It seems that we are not the only ones who are eyeing Azadochet!" ”

As he spoke, he slowly revealed a pair of tricks and looked out of the mud wall.

Although he didn't probe out, he could still see the situation very clearly.

It was supposed to be two groups of men and horses fighting, and about 200 people on one side of the caravan, with camels as a wall and Roman mercenaries as a supplement, formed a large circle in a large circle, in which braziers were lit with smoke, and dozens of archers wrapped in linen, wearing Kehpash plate armor, with the sickle of Tutankhamun at their waists, and armed with Anubis longbows, crouched in front of the brazier, lighting arrows covered in asphalt......

On the other side, there was a group of sand bandits and horse thieves, numbering no less than three hundred, all dressed in black, with turbans and masks, riding Kazakh black horses under their crotches, carrying strong bows and sabers, galloping around the big circle array, shooting cold arrows from time to time to kill and injure the enemy.

Among the bandits was a woman, speaking in a hurried Old Turkic language, commanding the horse thieves and besieging the caravan.

Yang Tingfeng looked at it: the woman was wrapped in red and light gauze, without a trace of fat on her body, and there was also a veil on her face, thinking that in order to block the wind and sand, she hung a bronzing and inlaid treasure water bladder around her waist, and a heroic falcon with pure white fur stopped on the woman's shoulder, heroic and extraordinary.

The two sides fought chaotically, and each suffered casualties.

The thousand camels, three feet apart, were connected to each other in their blankets, on which were bound countless thorny barbs, and at both ends they were covered with antlers to resist horses.

But if the horse thieves sprint through the thorns, they will find that the horses are pulled on the barbs, and they cannot advance or retreat.

The Egyptian archers, seeing the horse thieves struggling among the thorns, drew their bows and arrows in unison.

In an instant, the sand bandits and horse thieves suffered heavy casualties.

But these bandits were extremely brave, and in spite of such an unfavorable situation, dozens of people braved arrows, desperately climbed over camels, drew their sabers, and slashed and killed indiscriminately.

At this moment, suddenly in the camel formation, a group of Roman soldiers rushed out, divided into three teams, one team held swords and shields, and formed a tortoiseshell formation; One team armed with spears came to fight the fish that slipped through the net, and the last team drew their javelins and shot at the man who broke through the camel.

The bandits were also divided into three groups, one dismounted, met the Roman soldiers, and fought together, they were agile and strong in martial arts, and in an instant they hacked seven or eight Roman soldiers to death; The other team spread their nets to block the bows and arrows and cover those who threw javelins; The remaining team untied their strong bows and fired from the perimeter carts, killing dozens of Egyptian archers, the eagles of the pharaohs, in a matter of moments

At this time, the sand wind rose sharply, and the shouts of killing on both sides resounded in the sky, and the screams were endless.

Suddenly, a vigorous figure swept out of the crowd and rushed straight at the woman in red, with Lauria Kun's one-handed sword in his hand swinging impenetrable, and the sword light was so bright that no one could stop it, instantly stabbing down several horse thieves and bandits.

Yang Tingfeng knew that this person was Titus, the son of Rome, and when he saw his great bravery, he was taken aback, and said softly: "Good guy, it's him!" ”