Chapter 18 The Thunder (Part 1)
"Protect the church, fight against the traitors, preside over justice for the poor, maintain territorial peace, shed blood for brothers, and sacrifice life for God if necessary." - British philosopher John Selsberg's summary of the Knight's obligations
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"He is already in his seventies at the old man's goal, and he must be very tired from afar, right? Let's help him get rid of this endless pain." After nightfall, fifteen selected 100 teams quietly entered the trench in the camp. Behind them were more than a thousand military slaves, carrying door panels, blinds and wheelbarrows, and light scorpion crossbows, which were also well disguised and hidden at the forefront.
As for the cavalry, Li Bida did not intend to use their assault, because the Master's "History of the Masiren War" told him more than once that the only one who can successfully attack the camp while the opponent is defending is the only one who can successfully attack the camp, but is the cavalry completely useless? Of course not, Li Bida has other arrangements for them.
Before departure, Li Bida publicly worshipped Minerva and Somnus in the camp in front of the soldiers and centurions. His congratulations to Minerva are like this, "May every soldier turn into your envoy, and have the eyes and courage of the night in the dark. With your wisdom and courage, they can successfully destroy the enemies of the Republic." This is the congratulations to Somnus, "You are the son of the goddess of night, your golden eyes are tempting to sleep, and even the omnipotent Lord Goddess Jupiter can't resist it. May your magic wand swing and hit
In the cruel and uncivilized barbarians, they could not find the traces of our attack." As a result, at the sacrificial ceremony, a messenger suddenly arrived. Li Bida took a letter from Herod. He carried the comb he had given to Vagisis on the writing board, and provoked Li Bida in the letter. He said whether the Romans were willing to accept a decisive battle with themselves when the sun rose in the future. If so, then the two sides retreated the camp to each other at the fourth stairs, and then left the camp to fight between the empty rivers and mountains.
"It seems that the enemy will launch a night attack on my camp at the third or fourth stairs." Li Bida quickly learned that this was the suspicious plan of Herod, and then handed the font board to Anthony and Petterneus, saying that we started the battle in advance and wanted to seize the opportunity. There were not many opportunities for combat readiness, so we should go to fight as soon as possible!
Next, he gave a speech in front of all the centurions, "Our night attack battles may not be adopted by the Romans, but I have already obtained information. The Governor of Syria, Lord Crassus, was ambushes of the barbarians near the city of Kale, and we had to defeat the enemy in front of us with all our might. Go and rescue them, so friends and companions, what we need for this battle is to fight courageously and quickly and vigorously. Think about the benefits we have made before and in the future, then there is nothing more happy than to capture the camp of the barbarian king again, the wealth there is simply to be picked up. In terms of number of people, we are at a disadvantage, so the barbarian king wrote letters to provoke. But this is the wonder of the war - no one expected that we, who are in a few sides, would take the attack so quickly and boldly.
The Parthians would not even build camps, and the stronger the opponent's skills on horseback were, the worse the ability in civil engineering. Their camps were lined up one by one along the road, and were separated by a considerable distance from each other. They thought that this would support each other in turn to stop us, but this was just a delusion, because I was unwilling to disperse any force. All the selected soldiers were placed in the direction of attack, and everyone went together. As long as the first camp of the Parthians were broken, the battle below would be easy. As for our cavalry, after the battle began, do not be busy with the infantry and enter the melee with the infantry, but should go around and guard the road or the mountain pass. If the enemy insisted tenaciously, then cover our retreat, but if the enemy began to retreat, they would intercept them ruthlessly."
At the moment of the first whistle, the fifteen brigades of the Roman side were fully subordinated. After the soft sound of the warlock, the Esios were led by the eyes, because their eyesight seemed particularly strong at night, and indeed like the owls of Minerva, all of them lined up in large columns to follow them, blowing the warlocks from time to time to time to contact each other, and covering swords, javelins and shields in cloth covers, wrapping the helmets under the cloak, tiptoeing, under the dark clouds and hazy moonlight, they also approached Vagis' camp in a very quiet manner like a cloud of bronze and black iron floating in.
At this time, Vagissis was trying not to sleep. At his age, he only needed a little sleep every night. However, while reading the philosophical file, the noble Assassis, who was camping behind, sent a "bold and proud" strategy to complete the assembly of his troops behind the long fence at the third whistle, and prepare to attack the Romans in the early morning, "because all the enemies were the most burned out at this moment."
Yes, the enemy will be tired, and the people on our side will do the same. Vagissis is a typical example. He and his staff were busy all night, and their energy was on the verge of exhaustion. They were a little dizzy, so they held their foreheads and sat on the tent with a soft pillow to rest. Several servants next to him were preparing exquisite breakfast for him.
Eat first, eat first, no matter what, you must be energetic and wait for Assassin to lead the main force to jointly raid the Romans after one night.
Just as Vagisis stared at the food in front of him in a daze, the fifteen hundred-man team of the Romans had quietly unfolded in front of his camp. The moon had already hidden in the dark clouds. Hebrida half-squatted in front of the team and waved to the back. Many trumpeters surrounded him. Then the cloth cover that had pulled off the scabbard, and then many people heard the neighing of the horses. In the shadow, several Parthian cavalry suddenly jumped out and ran towards the camp. "It's the opponent's whistle! Kill them!" Hebrida jumped up and threw a javelin at the opponent, but failed to catch up. Then all the trumpets made a quick decision and immediately blew a shocking sound. With the shouts of soldiers, everyone rushed toward Vagisis' camp with all their might.
Those secret whistles, because they were greedy for enjoyment, began to slack off in a Furlong outside the camp. They thought that we would raid soon, and it was not very meaningful to be alert at this time. As a result, countless Romans with dark shadows were following their horses desperately, which scared them so much that they didn't even dare to enter the main gate of the camp, and ran around the long fence and walked backwards.
Chapter completed!