Chapter 26 Horse Raft (Part 2)
Fortunately, the main members of the 27th Legion were the horse bandits pieced together by Conbano, and the other was the local auxiliary soldiers in Spain. In Li Bida's eyes, only the source of the troops was different from that of the regular army. In terms of combat effectiveness, he was confident that he brought it out himself. No matter whether it was morale or combat power, he would not be even a little worse than the regular army on the second line, especially the 12th Legion and 16th Legion, with strong foundation and combat experience, and were close to the elite like the 10th Legion. Therefore, in this battle, Li Bida also attached equal importance to the newly formed 27th Legion, which was determined to give full play to their advantages of maneuverability and secretly drew half of the artillery detachment, carried six cavalry cannons, and some scorpion crossbows, and decided not to carry food and supplies with him, so he ran towards the location of the Kaffano cavalry.
In this weather, normal people will not have any military action! But this is also the best time for military operations to be scheming. The tradition of the Roman Republic is to concentrate military forces to fight decisively. Its advantage lies in the developed transportation routes, including land and sea routes. The shallow maneuver depth makes them mainly fight against foreign enemies or civil wars. However, as the front line extends to the north and east inland, the advantage of infantry begins to be offset by the depth, and cavalry and maneuver become more and more important. Of course, there are not many people in the current period, and even figures like Caesar and Pompei are not well aware of this trend. Therefore, Pompei was suffering from Sethulis in Spain in his early years, and Crassus was wiped out by Parthia in the desert of Cale.
Li Bida realized that, or in his existing knowledge system before traveling, he knew that the cavalry was the queen of ancient wars. Unfortunately, the classical era when the stirrups he came to had not yet been invented. The reason why he was unwilling to rush to popularize this simple thing in his cavalry team was no different. Because this thing has too low technical content, but it is too powerful, and it has not appeared. It was just that people at that time had not yet been enlightened by God and blessed to their hearts. Once Li Bida tricked it out in advance, even the most ordinary Celtic tribe forging technology could be used to build it on a large scale. "It was not the stirrups that pushed the cavalry, but the cavalry that promoted the emergence of stirrups." Time travelers should be more careful in ancient times. He mastered too many seemingly ordinary but too explosive things, but to himself, it was more like a sharp double-edged sword. If he was frivolous and impetuous, he would cause trouble for himself.
Therefore, Li Bida's innovation should be more "natural and unrecognizable". As for this time, the 27th Legion is a reform of light infantry. These 4,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry (including the Mathians) do not have heavy equipment. They are particularly suitable for marching in mountainous areas in Spain, and are suitable for interspersed and roundabout tactics.
Six thousand soldiers were rushing to the road in heavy rain. Many grassroots people didn't know what role they were doing this march. They met with Kangbano about the next morning.
"Look, the bridge pier is still there! Everyone was killed by my cavalry as they were told." In the rain, Kangbano pointed to the water proudly and said to Li Bida for help.
Li Bida looked at the point, and there were indeed bridge piers, but they had been covered by the surge in torrents. Only a few tips that were difficult to distinguish were still exposed. At first glance, it was difficult to detect. It seemed that even if Kangbano did not kill, the floating bridge built by these people would be destroyed. But the crux of the moment is that after the war began soon, Pompei's army could not pass, and Li Bida could not pass, so even if Avranius's team collapsed, the credit had nothing to do with him. Since the defeat of Kofinium's ambush, Li Bida has been very interested in annihilation of Pompei's legion.
However, even though it is Asase here, the river still rises, and there is a whirlpool, and it is still raining in the sky. "Wait in place, Aphranius is not in a hurry, we are not in a hurry." Li Bida ordered.
Over there, Pompey's camp was also suffering in the rain, and everyone was waiting anxiously, "I just waited for the moment to prepare for it, and I could only hand over my destiny to God." Aphranius sighed, and Sextus could not blame anything when he said this, because this was reality.
In Caesar's camp, the soldiers stood silently in the puddle. Victintoli rode on his horse, looking at the dense rain, and looking at the blurry enemy positions opposite him, his heart was filled with anxiety.
Everyone is waiting.
The sound of rain dripping is like an hourglass of life and luck.
Finally, the clouds of rain slowly rose and dissipated, and the sun suddenly fell without any cover. Sextus shouted, stepped on the horse, and rushed to the valley ahead with all the cavalry. The soldiers of the five legions followed behind. Avranius saw his subordinates' expressions of fatigue and depression, and saw that all the supplies were abandoned and seriously injured, and he was violently shaken in his heart. He couldn't help but doubt the meaning of such war. Maybe he could be decisive back then, instead of caring about the life of his son, and if he knew the situation early, he would not have fallen to such a point like a mouse played in the palm of a cat, and so many loyal and brave subordinates would not have died.
At the same time, in the camp of Caesar, except for Milu who had the oldest veterans left behind, the rest launched a general attack on Pompei's camp from the filled camp gate and trenches. "How can Pompei's subordinates hide my eyes? I, Julius, Caesar, will only be used by gods and destiny, and will never be subject to any worldly enemies!" After seeing the suspicious troops in the camp opposite, Caesar saw through Sextus' ambush strategy, so he let the tenth legion, who had the strongest combat power, penetrated the road between the camp and the mountain, guarding against the attack of the ambush. The seventh and eighth legion continued to pursue with Vichentoli's cavalry, while the fifteenth and sixteenth legion took the mountain and rushed to search for the ambush and swept it to kill him. He led the two new legions forward slowly to support the battle situation of all parties.
Now, the ambush formed by the chief brigades of the five legions could not survive, but was oppressed and cleared by the two legions. The terrifying word "annihilated" came to everyone's mind. Soon, under the joint temporary resolution of several chief centurions, everyone began to throw down their weapons and surrender down the mountain.
Chapter completed!