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Chapter 24 Oven Cavalry (Part 2)

Several groups of legions and Bosphorus' light shield javelin soldiers had just run outside the formation and were about to shoot the javelins to disrupt the charge of the Bendu cavalry. The Bendu cavalry's column was one and a half away from the formation, suddenly like a crocodile's long mouth, spreading in left and right directions like a crocodile's long mouth, surrounding the two wings of the Roman legion!

At this time, the scattered troops were at the core of the "crocodile mouth". The Scythian light cavalry, who followed the heavy armored cavalry of the oven, shot a wave of bows and arrows centripetal towards the scattered troops in a half-arc shape.

The scattered soldiers who were shot down had completely lost their basic fighting spirit in the sound of horse hooves, and they ran towards their own formation with their backs to the enemy. The Scythian light riders, Ru Jiedian, had locked three arrows on their fingers in advance to achieve the purpose of continuous shooting, so the second wave of arrows arrived immediately, and almost all the remaining scattered soldiers were shot in the back and fell on the grass, "Build the shield wall, build the shield wall!" The first two rows of Roman soldiers in the horizontal line, one half-kneeling, one team stood up, stacking a shield wall, and the third wave of arrow rains intertwined on both sides were many of them running through the soldiers' heads and necks. In the screams, in front of the shield wall, the corpses of Roman soldiers fell down in groups of three or two.

The flag-holder next to Karabis was also shot on the shoulder. Karabis felt at least seven arrows flying over his head, but he still lowered his body and held the shaking flag-holder and the team flag. Several companions rushed up and helped him drag the people and the team flag back together. Although the flag-holder was injured, he still gritted his teeth and raised the eye-catching flag high. He hoped that all the soldiers present could see their flags flying on the battlefield, not only losing morale.

Good guy. There are at least three hundred cavalrymen in this group. No wonder they dare to attack so rampantly.

The loud trumpet sounded, and Hebrida on the left wing and a senior centurion on the right wing howled together, taking the lead to erecting a heavy spear. When the Bendu cavalry opened their wings and rushed half the side of the legion's "door" formation, on the galloping horse, he reached out on his "Goritos" (a special box for the Scythians to install arrows and bows to prevent them from getting wet) and put the strings, he rushed out with his long columns of wings, left and right, and launched a counter-charge.

Now, the two crocodile mouths were instantly bitten together. The Bendu cavalry, who wanted to circumvent the Romans on both wings, were confused. They did not see the Romans arranged in columns. This formation was the "crystal" accumulated by Hebrida and Arminius for a long time in Xiaoya. As a result, the arrogant Bendu cavalry was hit hard and could only fight with the Romans. The result was almost self-evident. The handover of weapons was the Romans. The abdomen and necks of the Bendu cavalry were stabbed by swords and spears, and the riders were pulled down, especially the heavy cavalry of the oven. They had almost nothing under the back of the horse. Many people fell to the ground clumsy, leaning on all sides, and even being beaten to death by the military slaves who rushed up with stones and axes.

Not long after, the cavalry of Bendu fled in all directions. Centurions blew whistles and waved their canes, indicating that all soldiers should not lead to formations or pursue the enemy. They must maintain restrained victory.

Several military slaves and servants failed to stop, but they were shot down by the Scythians' return arrows, even though they were dozens of Roman rulers away from the formation.

In the dusk, Roman soldiers and soldiers brought the dead bodies of men and horses together, and the rest of the troops were still building fortifications and camps. A Bendu oven cavalry, stripped of armor and helmet, was pulled to the hills, and Karabis, holding papyrus and the centurions, "Where is your baggage?" Karabis asked politely in Greek.

The cavalry shook his head stubbornly. Karabis said nothing. The papyrus in his hand was blown around by the wind. Then several soldiers began to beat the unlucky cavalry with sticks with thorns. Karabis waved his hand and several tax collectors walked up. "Look at the picture I sketched, which marked the several markets we had just collected taxes. Is it right?" Karabis pulled the papyrus away, and two or three soldiers each carried the lights under the glass cover.

Following the tax collectors studied for a while, nodded, and said that it was generally reliable. Karabis called the draftsman to come over. These were all the disciples of Pop and there was no problem in terms of craftsmanship. Pop's craftsmanship was not a problem. Pop's planks were engraved with the map, Karabis asked the tax collector, "Based on the several market towns we have been to as the basis point, please ask you to scrape the island of Pontikabiang from east to west, and all the large market towns can be scraped into taxes. Mark them out in the blanks that are not drawn on the map, and there is no need to be particularly accurate."

The tax collectors chattered and reminded each other that they quickly completed the task under the light, and they marked it from this end of the sea to the other end of the sea in turn - making Karabis scared. If they didn't bring these gangs of skin-breaking ghosts, they would definitely regret it.

Then, Hebrida, Aminius, and Hottenhus, a few old guys, began to understand and use lead ink to draw the Bendu cavalry team they encountered in the past two days in turn. The directions and routes of their robbery and attacks - finally, all the routes, roughly like hands of clocks, pointed to a certain "center" in the northwest of the island.

"Don't smash my hand!" Below, the captured Bendu cavalry, when the Roman soldier held his hand and was about to smash it with sharp stones, he finally couldn't help but scream, "Our baggage is all pulled by ponies and mules, and they act with the cavalry, and will only stay in place when we attack in all directions."

"Yes, they had to stay. The cavalry all went out with the baggage team as the assembly point. Because the robbery supplies were all taken back. There were no big rivers here, and there were dense mountains and forests in the south. Their activity area was in the northwest and west areas with groundwater." Hotenhus said, pointing to the map board.

Karabis nodded, pointed to the center of the circle, and said to the tax collector: "Recalling the terrain around here." Then he took a large piece of meat with grilled sesame oil, and squatted in front of the captured cavalry with a smile, saying, "Eat it, after eating, tell everything you know."

The next day, when he was drawing up the camp, Karabis handed over the flag of the 10th troop to Hebrida, "You are responsible for commanding and walking along the foot of the mountains that run across the east and west, which can effectively prevent the surprise attacks of the enemy cavalry."
Chapter completed!
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