"No retreat!" The first thing Anthony did when he rushed down the hill was to use his sword to cut off two soldiers who had just escaped. The blood in his mouth flew high, and the headless corpse still maintained a trotting posture. It took several meters of inertia before falling down... At this moment, the black soldiers who were rushing down were numb when they saw this scene, especially when they saw behind Anthony, there were Mathia cavalry roaring. If they retreated like this, they would be trampled to death. So they howled again, turned around and picked up the shield and dart, and turned again to fight with the ala cavalry of Pompei who were chasing him.

When Anthony and the Mathian cavalry collided with Pompei's Ala cavalry, he felt for the first time that the Ala cavalry was so strong. It turned out that these cavalry were all from Taraco, near Spain. Although they surrendered to the Republic and served for many years, their ancestral tactics remained unchanged. They wore a round helmet, plus a brass-protected bronze armor, held a dagger and a javelin, and like infantry, they formed a scattered formation in groups of three or two, and dared to launch a counterattack against the Mathians!

However, in front of the two flexible and fierce horse spears of the Mathians, these Taraco cavalry were useless and were stabbed by long-range shots. Soon after, a hundred-man team from Pompei's right wing team skillfully went around the side of Anthony's cavalry and fired their hunting spears downwards on the cliff. The Mathians were caught off guard and stabbed a lot of them. "Drop off the horse, don't hesitate, rush up!" Anthony made a quick decision, and held a shield and waved his sword, and then got off the horse and attacked the mountain! The Mathians were also brave. They really followed Anthony and dismounted one after another, and together with the Nubians of the 15th Legion, holding a super long horse spear, rushing up in a row with the roar of the wind.

Over there, the Pompei army on the top of the mountain also drew their swords and rushed down, and immediately tug at each other on the mountainside!

In addition, Seerha finally came back and forth. Li Bida kept running back and forth, blew the trumpet, and asked the subsequent troops to give up going to the ambush site, but used Gaofu to make arrangements. Seerha cooperated very well and arranged the infantry brigade and the archer brigade into a right-angle "l" shape, and arranged three more infantry brigades into a formation with only eight to twelve soldiers on the front, dozens of rows in depth. Like a big centipede, they attacked straight towards the hill on the right wing. In the center, the archers in the horizontal line shot continuously, shooting Verblius's formation tightly, preventing him from arching forward any further.

Gradually, the strength of Libida's troops began to become prominent, and Vibrius was also very smart to think that if he continued to fight, he would be surrounded again, so he blew the whistle of retreat. Pompei's troops from various hundred-man teams were very brave after getting the order. They continued to fight back the charges of Nubian black soldiers again and again, and continued to launch short-distance counterattacks to prevent their side from being roundabout and protecting the Golden Hare Flags that protected the legion and retreated. When these veterans were tired, they would exchange positions with each other tacitly, breathing at the back, and continuing to fight against three in front, and after the one in front, Libida's men rushed and fought fiercely, they still could not find any signs of encirclement and annihilation of Vibrius' troops.

In the end, even the late Dussenvier and Vicintoli's cavalry were charged and failed to resolve the battle. If they were placed on other teams, they would have collapsed here long ago, but the first brigade of Pompei's First Legion was indeed terrible and tough. Finally, a reserve brigade of Machius also leaned up with the eagle flag. The two men and horses gathered together and formed a "hard walnut" along the streets of Paleria, and retreated back to back. The Libida cavalry over there became bitter, constantly detouring, and he went forward to bite but couldn't bite it. The feet of Vibrius' soldiers were like steel, and the result was to remain on the same level as the two legs.

As a result, the siege battle turned into a chasing battle.

At dusk, since neither side was ready for a night battle, they could only stop the battle for the time being. However, the cunning Vibrius left a small number of virtual soldiers to create momentum, and led the main force to quickly rush into the dense forest and flee in dispersion.

The next day, after fighting for one day, there were heavy casualties. In addition to the tired Li Bida cavalry, he realized something was wrong and ended up in the pursuit. However, except for capturing a few scattered soldiers and brave men, there was no major victory.

In this way, Li Bida used 3,000 cavalry, more than 5,000 legion infantry, and nearly 2,000 Masi and Penelian servants, but failed to eat Pompei's 2,500 people. The other party's casualties were unknown, because even if Vibrius's subordinates were not separated, their own casualties were real - nearly 1,000 casualties, and the most elite Mathians died in battle.

The original plan was to wipe out the opponent's chief brigade and take away the legion flag. Now let's not talk about this anymore, a few of my teeth were broken.

But there was still a little gain, that was, the cavalry captured Pompei's engineering director, the unlucky Machius.

This commander in the street was brave enough to fight, but when he ran away at night, he obviously lacked the experience of an old corps like Vibrius. He took a few entourages and wandered in the woods all night, and came out again the next day!

But seeing the dilapidated enemy engineering director, Li Bida's attitude was not as pleasant as before. He was sulking and wishing to raise his whip to beat Machius to vent his resentment. Fortunately, Caesar came to the camp at this time, and poor Machius escaped the disaster.

When Caesar was present, Li Bida did not dare to act too rashly. The bald man kindly asked about Machius's situation, and then Anthony, who was on the side, secretly made a release gesture. Caesar said, "If I guess correctly, Pompey will soon abandon Campenia and Capua, so I will let you go back and continue to follow him. You can show your skills in the construction of Brindisi's city defense."

After saying that, Li Bida and Anthony were slapping each other and made a helpless gesture at the same time.
Chapter completed!