Chapter 13 Decisive Battle (Part 2)
Sure enough, Lukulas raised the sword in his hand, and the cavalry behind him immediately raised their trombones and ran and blew up as a signal. With this, the entire team started fighting and shouted for a decisive battle, which instantly increased the speed of advance. This roundabout unit, accompanied by Lukulas, were 600 legionary cavalry composed of the Gauls and Celtics, as well as 1,000 Thracian cavalry, and more than 3,000 Thracian light infantry. Karabis, who followed Lukulas, saw that the Thracian warriors who had climbed the coast of Amisus, were originally stupid and obscene, but now they were ferocious.
The ground was scary: their cavalry were all wearing Sky Thai fish scale armor, naked, cloaked, and light spears; the infantry held a giant shield decorated with tassels, painted with monster patterns on one side, and carried a formidable killing weapon - a specially modified light sickle called "Romfia" reverse blade machete; the light infantry had no armor at all, only a small half-moon shield, plus a scattered tool, or Greek scimitar, and both infantry and cavalry were wearing a coarse cloth cloak embroidered with geometric patterns on the side. As the number of heads cut by the owner increased, the lace of the geometric patterns would gradually increase.
The goal of this group of people is the hills at the bend of the river.
Before Tegranis's eyes could be removed, an officer beside him shouted and pointed his finger at the opposite bank of the river. "The Romans are also moving in front of him!" The King of Kings hurriedly turned his gaze directly in front of him - a Roman army, arranged in three large arrays, with all the officers holding golden eagle flags in front of him, and advanced slowly in a burst of clamors.
This unit was about two thousand people, and Qingyishui's heavy infantry marched in a standard three-row horizontal formation, just like practicing on the school ground. This was the first brigade of the 11th and 7th legions, mixed with light auxiliary infantry of Gerasha. The two chief centurions of the legions walked in front of the team, quarreling with each other, warning each other not to steal their own credit. Their noise sometimes caused everyone's laughter and sometimes caused everyone's generosity.
"What are these people doing? Only these people, what are they doing?" Tegranis in the carriage looked at the Lukulas detachment that was galloping rapidly towards the river bend, and then looked at the first brigades of the two legions that were quickly approaching his front. They held the carriage bars and were sweating. The barbarian army on the front also began to be nervous. They shouted loudly to each other, waiting for the orders of the king or Tegranis. The little Tegray and the generals standing also loudly urged the King of Kings to issue combat orders.
As a result, before the King of Ten Thousand Kings made a decision, Mitiren, who was standing on the front line, couldn't bear it anymore. They howled, pulled the compound bow in their hands, and shot the first wave of arrows indiscriminately!
Arrows were thrown down one after another. The soldiers of the First Battalion skillfully raised their oval shields, knelt on one knee, blocking the arrows, and then stood up again slowly and continued to move forward. At this time, they found that the 7th Legion's Eagle Flag's flag officer had two arrows wedged into the neck. He leaned on the flag and knelt on the ground. He was in a hurry and died.
The chief centurion of the Seventh Legion took the eagle flag and shouted to the soldiers behind: "Who will humiliate the legion's flag today?" As a result, the four veterans and 100-man teams behind him shouted together: "No one, unless all of them are killed in battle!" Then, the first brigade of the Seventh Legion quickly changed into a front-array formation and launched a decisive and rapid charge on the other side of the river!
"You can't fall behind the women of the Bucks Legion!" The chief centurion of the Eleventh Legion also shouted, leading his subordinates to follow and charge.
The first brigade of the two armies quickly formed a charge line that spread hundreds of meters. Asase, who had walked across the river, ran six furlongs in one breath. Before the Armenian barbarian army could react, they started to fight!
"They actually dare to attack!" Tegranis saw this scene and shouted in panic. Then he was at a loss. He made several gestures. It was too late to correct it afterwards: the flag officer next to him quickly turned the commander's "order" into a flag language, and the commander's soldiers were hahaha, and they rode all over the horse. Tegranis's gesture meant: attack with the two wings and the second line.
At this time, the Miti people on the front line were almost collapsed. They didn't even have time to retreat, but they died under the sword of the Romans. The crying sounded trembling. Many people's shoulders, wrists, and internal organs were removed by the Romans' short swords, chopped off, and splashed on the faces of their companions behind or beside them. Everyone lost the courage to fight. Many people were so shocked that they sat on the ground and allowed the Romans to slaughter.
Soon, the cavalry on the flank of Armenia, who received the "order", came up from both sides indiscriminately. Not only did they fail to defeat the Romans, but they made their own formations chaotic. The first Romans' first brigade was the main force of ten hundred-man teams, four of which were veterans and 10-year-old veterans. These soldiers skillfully changed the formations of the brigade and squad, making the entire formation wedge in a triangle: on one side, tearing the enemy's defense line and resisting the enemy's flank attacks on both sides.
At this time, the remaining eighteen brigades of soldiers from the two legions behind shouted in unison and followed them up in a dense manner.
The first line of Armenia was completely finished, and even the second- and third-tier troops were violently shaken. Many people had armor forged by steel, but were afraid to fight with the terrifying Romans! They lined up in huge and clumsy square formations and could not effectively resist the flexible and fierce attacks of the Roman team, just like a stupid elephant fighting a group of hungry wolves.
On the other hand, the detour of Lukulas also quickly crossed the river bend and rushed towards the hills. There were four furlongs in the middle, all of which were flat.
"This is crazy. There are famous Armenian guard cavalry on the hills, all of which are wrapped in two layers of scales. How can Thracian mercenaries like Lukulas resist their terrifying charges from the hills?" Adiana, who was watching the battle on the tower, said to herself.
But to Adianna's surprise, five thousand Armenian guards stood blankly on the hills, watching Lukulas' troops cross the plain below, but failed to exert their maximum power, rushed down and defeated the Romans.
The reason is also very simple: the generals of the Imperial Guard, because the so-called orders were not known just now, were conveyed by a messenger "accurately" and asked them to participate in the flank troops to attack the first Roman brigade on the front!
The general was confused at the time. The order he received in advance was to stick to this place and wait for an opportunity to annihilate the Romans who crossed the river. The situation is indeed the case now. Lukulas's detachment had already been forced to come up, but why did my king give the order to participate in the flanking attack on the front Romans?
In addition, after walking for a long distance, we climbed this hill. The men and horses were wearing extremely heavy armor and holding huge spears, so they were very tired. When the generals were hesitating, the cavalry all inserted their spears on the ground and lay on the saddle for a while, and were not ready to fight.
Chapter completed!