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Chapter 11 Before the decisive battle (1)

"It is never seen that countless people flock to Rome for my election." - Augustus said when he ran for this position after the death of the high priest Li Bida in history.

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"For the glory of the high priest!" On the front, all the infantrymen from the other twelfth legion shouted this command, and without even throwing a javelin, they drew their swords and fought with the legion intercepted by Rabinus.

Entering the hand-to-hand combat stage, the disadvantages of the new recruiting legion of Rabinus were exposed. Their veterans were still too small. Although the recruits were extremely brave young people after hard training, they were extremely brave in playing the sword fighting and their assassination steps were calm and powerful. They were all "mountain falcons" trained by Chief Centurion Tagus for many years. They obviously fell into a disadvantage in a short period of time. The front array was too serious and injured soon, and many people fell under the bloody sword. When the back echelon was taking over the battle, Karenus seized the opportunity and "All-line assault!"

With this slogan, the four brigades in the array behind did not replace the fixed line according to the enemy's method, but suddenly drew their swords and pressed them up, merged with the brigades on the original front line along all the gaps, and launched a fierce hand-to-hand assault on the enemy whose formation was still in the critical change of space.

The entire valley position was filled with the sound of weapons colliding with each other. The enemy was trapped in chaos. Many flag bearers began to throw down their military standards and escaped with the defeated soldiers in the direction of Waga City. The flanking men led by Tagus also ran along the occupied ridge line. Everyone was encouraging each other, "We will accept the honor of successfully rescuing Waga City!"

The messenger covered his cloak and rode his horse and sent the message to the position of the 15th Legion, which was still stationed in place, which made General Seerha feel full of enthusiasm for competing for merit. "The enemies in front of him have all been retracted back to the camp, and they were all shot by our extremely sharp bows and arrows, so four brigades were left to continue to protect the baggage here and monitor the enemy. I personally took the other six brigades to compete with the Yamahara Legion for the first time!"

"They just experienced a hard battle. We can't run in this area." The centurions around Seerha were extremely enthusiastic, and then the "Serapis" legion, like a giant python in a sea of ​​sand, headed forward one after another.

Opposite the riverbed, the captains of the new cavalry corps came to Parumma one after another, "Your Excellency, what should we do? Could it be that we just marched quietly until the sunset, so that the two front legions could achieve the first achievements so easily?"

The little dove swung his legs on the horse's back and raised his hands to explain to all the energetic figures. "You look at my hair, yes, it's golden. But this does not mean that my personality is as anxious as those of the tribe's warriors. Looking at many decisive battles in this world, why did the Republic's army win the most critical war? That is, they will always do things that dare to do, and those who dare to violate the correct decisions of the consul, no matter how brave he is, will still be severely executed. I believe that before going to war, the high priest repeatedly said that the task of our cavalry is to put out fires. Wherever there is a fire, we will go, it's that simple - in addition, never think of Rabinus too simply, he is the old enemy of the high priest."

After saying that, Parumma took the opportunity to slash forward, "After the rest, the entire army crossed the riverbed and advanced to the five remaining teams of the 15th Legion, and lined up into a warning formation." The captains who received this order shook their heads and could only act as they did.

At this time, behind a vague hill in the south, huge smoke and dust were raised, "Look, we were actually caught. Rabinus really set up another ambush. He is really a treacherous opponent. He may have deliberately ambushed a weak brigade on the front line, making our army mistakenly think that the enemy's methods have been used up. Then he sent out truly powerful cavalry to wait for an opportunity to attack us!" Paruma said loudly, "I will stay in this place for the time being. In the current situation, the cavalry fighting first, whoever takes action first will suffer!"

The second ambush of Rabinus's series was 4,000 elite cavalry, including 3,000 Spanish and 1,000 Mauritanians, mixed with about 2,000 light infantrymen, totaling 6,000. Commanded by Mauritanian governor Hamilka, he was quietly ambushed away from the distance between Karenus and Seerha scouts. It was not until Rabinus's just intercepting the legion that he received a signal and rushed out. Judging from the heat waves rising from the desert in the distance, the flashes of soldiers, horses and weapons were reflected all over the ground, floating up and down, and looking at it was like thousands of troops, which made people frightened.

"Hohohohoho!" Hamilka's cavalry quickly crossed a gentle slope and divided it into two groups. One by one, rushed towards the remaining team of the 15th Legion, and one by one bravely cut into the gap between the defenders of the 12th Legion and the pioneers of the 15th Legion, and then the light infantry also went up one after another, shooting fiercely with spears and throwing stones. Li Bida's two legions were caught off guard and were killed and injured a lot, and the interval between them became larger and larger.

At this time, from the direction of Waga City, Rabinus personally led two legions to join with the legion that had been defeated before, turned around and attacked like a tide, strangled with the twelfth legion, and with the advantage of numbers, he stretched out his long wings and kept detouring to siege Karenus, "In this valley, he will wipe out the elite legion that Libidaus relied the most!"

Now, from the valley to the rivers, hilly and desert undulating areas, five or six legions were stirring and fighting with each other from all directions. Under the condescending enemy cavalry, the Fifteenth legion was constantly retreating towards the left-behind team, "Send me a commander to inquire about the information about the Karenus tribe."

As a result, before Serha's messenger had run two hundred steps away, several Mauritanian scattered soldiers hiding behind the sand dunes suddenly jumped out, threw the dart, pierced the messenger's hole, and fell down.

The archers beside General Seerha immediately pulled the bowstrings and shot down the despicable desert warriors one by one. At this time, a messenger holding a document rushed out of the smoke and dust on the opposite side, and rode a horse and shouted, "I am General Karenus's messenger, and I ask the 15th Legion to attack quickly and rescue our Legion."

"I am Seerha, the commander of the Serapis Legion. I now ask your army to retreat quickly and move closer to me. You will rush back and convey this message to Karenus." Seerha said on the horse's back, stunned at the messenger who seemed to have heard the wrong words. Then several military slaves pulled the general's horse and kept retreating. "Everyone retreated as soon as possible and organized a new line of defense. The enemy is just showing off the power of a melee raid."
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