Chapter 16 The Messenger (2)
However, in the shock of the enemy's impact, the soldiers of Liwus' army were not in a mess. Instead, the servants and servants around Leo began to panic. They no longer stood in front of the flag, but instead picked up boxes and goods, and moved and ran towards the back of the camp.
Leo turned around and shouted, "Stay it all for me, or I will hurt you earlier than the enemy."
This sentence has worked for most people who are afraid of others, but there is also a twelve or thirteen-year-old servant who holds a box and hurriedly retreats behind the flag.
This servant is loved by both Li Bida and his son. Moreover, most of the reason why he did such a behavior was that he hoped to protect his master's property under the attack of the enemy. However, he had obviously violated the military order. Leo could not help but make up his mind, "Fracus, execute it!" So in front of everyone, Fracus, the chief centurion of Liwus's army, jumped out with a quick glance, grabbed the servant's hair, cut off his throat with a sword, then waved the sword blade, cut off his head, held it in his hand, and walked to Leo.
"Hang it on the tip of the spear of the flag." Leo turned his head slightly and gave such an order.
Soon, the bloody head of the high priest and son's favorite servant was hung on the high flag. At that time, the entire entourage and guard were silent, quietly holding shields, spears and military horns, and in a strict formation. Facing the continuous shooting of guns and arrows, it was as solid as a rock, motionless, and could not even hear the coughing and shouting.
Then, the central army's front was stabilized again, and the Etolia cavalry was killed and injured during the charge. Sinesis was seriously injured and dropped out of the horse. He was snatched back by his entourage and fellow villagers. However, all the cavalry mounts were killed and injured in battle, and the losses of both sides were extremely heavy. Several legions of Brutu began to retreat slowly, and Leo's central army also stayed in place and did not chase.
Suddenly, three or four legions on the left wing of Leo's troops also launched scorpion crossbows and cavalry cannons, striking their heads and faces, and launched a fierce attack on the formation of Brutu's retreating.
Now, the formation of Brutu's subordinates was instantly disrupted. "Don't forget your own ideas, keep your feet steady, and don't be afraid of the enemy!" But this kind of shouting seemed so poor and weak in the retreating and running waves.
"Is it time to pursue me below, Lord Karenus?" Leo asked quickly.
Karenus looked at the enemy's retreating formation, after about three or five minutes, nodded and pointed to the direction of the Brutu army's left wing and the center. "Their left wing was entangled by our right wing. It was not convenient to quickly retreat, but Brutu's central army had already fled towards the city of Athens. The gap among them was already very large - ask our cavalry to charge and tear them apart completely!"
Leo shouted loudly, "Rise up the flag of the assault signal Numa King!"
All the trumpeters and servants acted quickly, pulled out the flag, ran to the highest point and raised it. Then the trumpets were arranged in a row, and the trumpets were blown deafeningly.
"Oh oh!" When all the cavalry saw this signal, they raised the flags of the brigade, the flame-tongued flag, and the fish-dragon flags imitated by the Salmatia and the Dacians. With the whistling sound of wind wheels, after a brief rest, they once again unstoppablely broke into the battlefield that Karenus had previously referred to.
The assault team of cavalry and light infantry stirred up smoke and sand like a dragon python, and penetrated into the left wing of the defeated Brutu and Karata Femius, asking them to scatter and divide it so that they could not take care of each other. "Divide all the team marks into two sides, one facing the enemy's cavalry and the other facing the enemy's right wing!" The brave Karata Femius was fearless in the chaos, jumped off his mount, threw down his helmet, held his sword and walked to everyone, "Brothers, I will stay here against the right wing of the enemy, at the front line, unless each of you returns to Athens safely, I will never retreat, because my hometown is here, and all the fellow villagers are watching me in the city walls. For this name, I will never leave today and abandon my comrades."
"feri,feri!" At this time, the 10th Legion and the 15th Legion had already rushed up in black. With the whistle, they skillfully and mechanically held shields and swords, or Habas' swords, and began to cut down enemies who were hesitant and fearful and lost their fighting spirit. Karata Femius drew his sword and came from the guard, shouting that I was the commander, I was the soldiers of the two legions, first shocked for a while, then flocked toward Karata Femius, and he slashed and stabbed Karata Femius. Without a helmet, he soon fell into a pool of blood, but he seemed to continue to struggle and got up, shouting "Long live Athens", but then he was completely cut off his head by a galloping Dalmatian cavalry with an axe and fell straight to the ground.
Although there was Carata Femius's brave behavior, the two encircled legions still failed to escape the misfortune of most of them being annihilated, and less than one-tenth of them successfully escaped into the city.
The First Legion, which was supposed to go out of the city to fight to support him, saw this miserable scene and actually hid behind the city walls and did not dare to do anything!
When Leo's legion shouted long live, and raised the flags and weapons in his hand to celebrate the victory, the city of Athens was full of wounded soldiers, corpses and fragile helpless soldiers, in front of the city gate, looking at Brutu, who was covered with deserted soldiers and defeated soldiers and soldiers, with his eyes straightened.
"Can't the gap caused by human and financial resources be really not made up with faith and courage? The teachings of ancient sages were really wrong?"
Brutu then looked up and saw the road leading to the Acropolis was full of despair and anger, where Horace and Virgil were waiting for him, so he wrapped the scars on his wrist in rags, held the hilt of his sword, and walked slowly over.
At this moment, under the city of Uripis, all the besieged troops had made all the careful preparations for the attack. The soldiers supported the siege equipment behind the mast and curtain, licked their cracked lips, looked at the slowly sinking sun, and looked back from time to time, waiting for the cloak to symbolize the decisive battle signal to rise in Sabo's camp.
But Sabo was still patient. He was not in his camp at all, but in the Golden Eagle camp tent of the commander-in-chief, where the high priest was receiving two figures, one was Otakilius, who had just arrived from Nicomedia, and the other was Urabella with his head shaved.
Chapter completed!