Chapter 29 Sweeping (1)
ps: Last night, there was a power outage this morning, and there were two normal updates in the evening, sorry.
"Is Alexander dead? It's incredible that the whole world will smell the stench of his body." - A speaker in Athens
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On the eve of the general attack, the frontier of the Roman army quietly advanced a Furlong, six cavalry cannons, four wild donkey stone throwers, four bellows cannons, thirty scorpion crossbows, and six small unimproved small bellows fire-breathing runs, forming a powerful firepower group. Four infantry brigades and four auxiliary archers brigades surrounded the fire position to form a powerful assault corps.
Li Bida stipulated that the flag of Amon's sheep skull raised on the flagpole of the coach's camp represents a rapid attack on artillery fire. When the flag is lowered and raised again is the signal of infantry assault. In this era when communication methods are relatively backward, the combat signal should be as simple as possible. All centurions of the Century Team were in their respective positions in advance, and they acted at the coach's signal.
Then, Li Bida and Saab climbed to the top of the unknown mountain to see the battlefield. The morning light in the desert came much earlier than that in the ordinary world. "Oh, Saab, I seemed to see the reflected light of the metal shield in the Galamante Scar camp, shaking everywhere, and the enemy seemed to be acting too!"
Because the Galamantes mastered more advanced forging techniques, many of them liked shield weapons made of bronze, unlike the other barbarians who mostly used skinned wooden shields, so Li Bida discovered that they were acting from this flash.
Sabo next to him made a quick decision and immediately stood up. He waved the eye-catching "Tyre Purple" flame-tongued flag in his hand. When the flag-master below saw this signal, he immediately raised the sheep skull flag.
"vovovo!" The four infantry brigades that were originally crouching in front of the enemy's chariot camp immediately took off the leather shawls or cloth covers on the shield and armor. The metal light was everywhere on the sand, which was intertwined with the reflection of the Galamantesen shield. Then the sound of the warrior and the whistle echoed in the desert like swans rushing up from the ground. Even though only half of the artillery fire was ready to take place, the gunner saw the general attack signal and poured out the stone bullets and javelins in his hand without hesitation. The light scorpion crossbow on the flank also fired heavy arrows. Soon, the leather of the Garamantese people was densely filled with holes and marks of hitting. The smoke in the car camp was full of rippling wheels. It turned out that the Garamantese people were prepared for a long time. After they removed the leather, each car had personnel in place. The ropes on the "car anchor" of the stone had been cut off. After a burst of shouts and a crisp sound of the horse whip. More than 30 chariots on the front edge jumped out of the slope ditch in turn. The horses pulled the chariots and the warriors unstoppable running forward, braved the burning stone bombs that were roaring. The entire battlefield was like thousands of thunder rumbled over the heads!
"Form formation, form formation!" The brave trumpeter independently on the side of each hundred-man team, puffing his cheeks and blowing it up. All the centurions turned around and saw the flag in the commander's tent rise for the second time. They slowly stretched out the grape cane in their hands, and hoarsely encouraged all the soldiers under them to advance with their shields. In the gap between each hollow square formation, there were small teams of Medetz, Egyptian indigenous archers and stone-trollers, shooting at the rushing chariots. Many vehicles were running over with arrows. The javelins thrown by both sides were so dense that they almost collided in the air.
With a loud bang, even Li Bida on the top of the nameless mountain stood up in horror. It was a Galamantes chariot that hit the Roman shield wall. It was like a heavy throwing stone. Under the influence of the impact force, it flew into the sky with smoke and Mars, flipped, throwing weapons and crew everywhere. The wheels were still spinning rapidly, and each component fell one after another at different times. It disintegrated, and the two warriors in the car were also finished, but this was enough to shock the Romans who were moving forward.
At that moment, many chariots broke into the gaps between the various formations, expelling the auxiliary light archers and stone-treeers into the scattered flight. Many Roman soldiers squatted down, interlaced the shields and javelins up and down, and inserted them into the wheels of the Galamantes chariot. One after another, chariots flew in the depth of the Roman formation, and disintegrated and split. However, many Li Bida's troops were stabbed by the spears tied to the chariot, or were pierced by the javelins while running away.
"Send a signal to the second front!" Fortunately, Li Bida left a hand in advance, and reserved Alp's Medez Guard as the deep defense line. With the Medez Guard as the main force, more than 800 archers gathered together and took turns to shoot the line. They did not shoot accurately, because the guard captain Alp told him in advance, "Just keep shooting at the predetermined distance and blocking the enemy's chariot outside the formation." They also knew that if their hands were slightly soft, the enemy's chariot would ruthlessly drive straight in and run over their bodies.
The arrow clusters were like heavy rain in June, and they kept piercing into five hundred Roman feet outside, forming an ancient barrage. The horses driving the chariots were constantly fleeing back and forth. Their owners were bleeding and covered with arrow clusters, crawling around in vain among the wreckage of the fallen vehicles. There were also some of the Roman legions' own people who were shot and killed indiscriminately. In the end, more than ten remaining Galamanteis chariots could only avoid the attack of death and began to escape along the left and right wings.
At this time, a sound of bats sounded. On the other side of the valley, thousands of Essians who came to participate in the war spontaneously, with ostrich feathers on their heads, jumping and running, treating the participation in the war as a huge celebration. They also mustered up the courage to smash stones at the single fleeing chariot, drag the injured crew down, pressed them into the hot sand, and then smashed them with stone hammers to make a long-lasting shame.
After defeating the chariot assault, the centurions began to mobilize various sieges to push them to the frontier, and they were about to use fire and stone to break through the enemy's chariot camp. Unexpectedly, most of the Galamantes jumped onto the chariots and baggage chariots on both sides and behind, rumbling away the chariots, leaving the chasing Romans behind and eating ashes, galloping towards their own borders, like a group of rushing antelope, even if the Romans were cheetahs, they were far from reaching.
Because the cavalry brigades with many patients had not recovered before and most of them were still resting in the camps, Li Bida could not dare to carry out flanking encirclement before the Galamantesi chariot operation, which made him look so anxious that his face turned gray. Although this battle was victorious, it did not become an annihilation battle, and it was not even a breakthrough battle. It just repelled the attack from the opponent's front army, but the main force of the Galamantesi people escaped.
Chapter completed!