Chapter 25 The First Opportunity (Part 2)
Galius' decisiveness made the soldiers' surprise attack achieve unexpected results. The city side was shocked by the three-way attack momentum of Li Bida outside, so it lacked enough manpower protection for this "cecal". During the storm and rain, more than a hundred leather shield soldiers climbed up regardless of their fatigue and occupied a corner of the city wall. "Continue up. If you can't lift the shield in your hand, then bring a dagger or dagger. In short, you will attack continuously!" The centurions stood by the simple "ladder", viciously "lifted" one of their subordinates upwards, and encouraged them...
After a while, the rain gradually became sparse, and the defenders who reacted began to pull out their troops and squeeze and counterattack the twenty-seventh legion who had climbed up the corner of the city. However, Galius stood with the soldiers personally, shouting that there were shields to provide protection for all the comrades. The rest bravely stabbed with swords or threw javelins, killing those who dared to approach the city. In addition, they also launched flag notices to Li Bida's troops on the high slope.
At this time, at the front, the military slaves in the rear and the vanguard of the Sixth Legion also arrived. The two "Massian Lady" cannons had been assembled. It took forty pack horses to split and carry it. In addition, a skilled troop squad was strengthened. They quickly installed the "ghost bullet" like a large iron wooden bar, and after the torque was corrected, they quickly came a "parallel bar out of water" and immediately smashed the tower at the city gate with a string of guards' heads, and the sound was as loud as thunder.
When the opponent was shocked, Li Bida pointed his baton. The guards and their elite soldiers shouted in a dense formation and launched a fierce attack on the broken main gate in the south of the city. Pompei's tough centurion, with dozens of people, bravely squeezed at the city gate, erecting heavy javelins and supporting spears, ready to resist the opponent's tough rushing in. The Medegi Guards flexibly avoided the sparse flying arrows on the tower, and formed the long wings on both sides of the gate. The arrows were shot in like a continuous cannon. In this way, the defenders at the city gate screamed, and the arrows often penetrated from a person's throat and arms, and pierced into the eyes and necks of others next to each other, and blood bloomed like flowers in the Mayfield.
Finally, a wooden bar sent by the "lucky lady" straight through the passage between the two wings of the Medegi Guard. It churned on the ground, then rumbling into the phalanx crowd of the city gate defenders. It suddenly had intestines, limbs, and broken pieces of javelin shields. It flew over the other end of the city gate like a fountain shot, sprinkled blood everywhere on the streets and the cavalry.
These people didn't even have a chance to retreat, and were instantly destroyed into powder, all of which were killed and injured, so that Li Bida's troops rushed into the city gate were walking in with slippery flesh and blood.
"No, Colliberia!" When the "little Thor" Syketus screamed and woke up from the saddle in the puddle, there was a deep sound around him. They were constantly being chased and oppressed by Caesar. This time they were forced to camp in a low-lying area. The cavalry could not go out to collect grass and obtain fodder. Most of the pack horses were killed and dealt with, and many of the baggage were lost. The soldiers were even more tired. The cavalry beside him lie on horseback or saddle, sleeping in the rain, motionless like corpses. The infantry hid under trees or mounds to shelter from the rain, putting heavy and hard wheat bags on the ground. The blue smoke after the fire was like waves, which caused heart-wrenching coughs everywhere.
Syketus had a blue face. Even in this humid environment, his cheeks still had a fearsome red. After walking towards the camp of Aphranius and Peletaus, he asked directly: "Two commanders, what I want to ask is whether our army informed the people of the city of Coleberia and Taraco in advance when we retreated?"
Peletaus replied respectfully, "Don't worry, there are three brigades in the city of Coleberia to guard the stone bridge. In case, I ordered the city of Taraco to send a husband further away to set up a pontoon bridge in the lower reaches."
This answer slightly made the little Thor settle down. The Caesars did not move the army there. Although it had occupied the central transportation hub of Corduba, it would not come so quickly, right? But the strong concerns ripped in his heart again, and he said to Aphranius: "Roll your war trumpet, I will take a thousand cavalry ahead and occupy the city of Corduberia first."
The other party said it was difficult because the entire army had just ended the fierce rear guard battle and long-distance marches, and was resting in full swing. "It was all exhausted soldiers and horses. What can you expect them to do?" But Syketus was still stubborn and irritable. "I don't trust any ready-made characters and combat plans now. I am worried that the fall of the city of Coleberia will give the enemy the lead and we have no way out, so I will take people there now. This is a matter of life and death of the five legions, and I must do it now!"
In desperation, Avranius had to agree to this plan, but the Allied infantry team and many legion soldiers refused to continue fighting, and even if they were staying in the rain, they were unwilling to perform the attendance mission.
After finally gathering a thousand people, Colliberia's help token officer arrived, "a large number of enemies poured out from all over the place, attacking the city with a fierce arrogance."
"Bastard, bastard guys!" Seyx cursed. He didn't know whether the "bastard" he said was scolding Li Bida or his own commanders who were sluggish in his duties. But before he could explain, he leaped onto the horse with a tomahawk in anger. Although the little red horse had not had a good rest, he still cheered up and carried the master in the rain, because it vaguely understood that it was facing an emergency situation now.
Just as Seketus advanced, Li Bida's 27th Legion had occupied the ferry city. Then, the squadrons dismantled the noble lair before they could rest, and carried it on a pack horse to the high hill where the stone bridge was controlled in the city, and quickly assembled it. Then, they asked people to dig the trench beside the city wall, so that the stone bridge would be completely sealed so that the other party could not get through.
At the city gate, Li Bida, who was riding a horse and stepping in on a corpse, suddenly pointed to the Conbano beside him and ordered, "You immediately take five hundred cavalry and follow the Eporo River toward Taraco and search for thirty Romans. If you encounter an enemy brigade, you will repay it. If you encounter a small group of people, you will kill them all!"
Chapter completed!