Augustus Road

"Roman warriors will never abandon two things, the eagle and the consul. We would rather die with the consul!" After Octavius ​​and Crassus hugged each other warmly, he squatted down with all the front-line soldiers, holding swords and shouting.

Over there, Surena, who saw the Roman reinforcements arriving, thought quickly, and then he ordered a cavalry to insert into the plain area between Ikni City and this hillside, isolating Crassus from the outside world, and then surrounded him with cavalry. "Don't shoot randomly, it's unwise to attack, there are other strategies." Surena ordered, while showing a cunning smile. "Novel" Novel chapters are updated the fastest

Because he still has plenty of time to continue to play with Crassus, just like a cat that is not hungry and catches a mouse.

Surena is convinced that Celsis's special forces can block Lepidus in the remaining veins and prevent him from successfully approaching this side.

Celsis did lead 5,000 cavalrymen to form a blockade on the other side of the remnant, but because of his concerns and dissatisfaction, he did not make a speech to boost morale like Surena did. He just casually placed the light cavalry around the formation and the heavy cavalry immediately surrounded the core.

Looking at the Parthian light cavalry running and galloping in all directions, Lepidus said to Sabo, "It seems that we have to fight a battle, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to all the soldiers." After hearing this, Sabo asked the flag officer to imitate Caesar and use a long pole to raise Lepidus's cloak, which was given to this close friend by Ptolemy XII and embroidered with a golden scarab. Seeing such a signal, the legion soldiers who were originally marching parallel to the mountain wall shouted together. Turn left 90 degrees. Then a thunderous sound rang out. The soldiers in the front row crouched and held their shields in front of them, while the soldiers in the back row raised their shields at a 45-degree angle, and then rumbled like a wall towards Serhis's cavalry, shouting with a rhythm of "Huha Huha". Seeing this, Serhis's subordinates also formed a scattered formation of twos and threes, preparing to bypass the Romans' left wing. The Romans were well protected on three sides, with a shield wall in the front and a protruding vein on the right wing. The towering Sinaca Mountain was in the back, and only the left wing could be inserted.

But on the left wing, Lepidus formed a wall of barrages. Four auxiliary archer battalions, all the Aesios, Nubian archers, and hundreds of Cretan and Rhodes archers, holding bows and arrows, whether recurve bows or single bows, were arranged in six rows, and under the cover of the two chief battalions in front, they marched in neat steps. They marched towards the fierce Parthian light cavalry, accompanied by bursts of melodious flute sounds. It imitates the Spartan "Olide" (a flute used to adjust the soldiers' forward movement on the battlefield).

With a loud "hum", the Parthian light cavalry suddenly accelerated the horses' sudu and began to pull the strings close to their ears. At this time, the sound of the flute stopped abruptly, replaced by a short military trumpet. The infantry brigade in the front inserted the lower tip of the new water drop shield into the sand, forming a temporary protection. Then the six rows of archers in the back began to squat and began to put arrows on the strings with their fingers. "Use light arrows, use light arrows", a rustling sound, at this time the Parthian cavalry threw the first round of bows and arrows, but as Crassus observed after a painful lesson, as long as the archers on the left wing kept a relatively low posture with the infantry, most of the arrows flew behind them.

But the Romans on the left wing in front were crouching quietly, and nothing unusual could be seen. The center and right wing were still advancing slowly behind the shield wall. The Parthian light cavalry, who had plucked up their courage, charged forward again, trying to get close and use the tension of the bowstring to pierce the opponent's shield and kill them!

As a result, the archers on the left wing took action in an instant. After they had their bows and arrows set, they quickly merged into one from six rows, and then lined up in three different shooting postures. One row half-knelt, one row stretched out their arms, and the last row raised their bows and arrows, and all of them threw out many arrows at once. The flying arrows almost covered the sky between the two armies, and then hit the heads of the Parthian light cavalry according to different landing points and trajectories. There were figures of people and horses falling and tumbling everywhere. Those who were lucky enough to survive were so scared that they turned around and fled. This was definitely not a pretense. They didn't even dare to pick up the arrows in their hands, and they retreated all at once.

Then, the left wing used this tactic of six rows of bows and arrows and one row of volleys, step by step, and drove the Parthian light cavalry back to escape. Celsis was also surprised, but soon a certain idea prevailed: keep a certain distance from this group of Romans. Anyway, their cavalry did not move out, and it seemed that their desire to chase and attack us was not very strong.

"Why should I waste my elite forces for that guy Surena?" After talking about it, it always comes down to this sentence, so Celsis cautiously retreated more than ten furlongs and re-formed the team. Sure enough, after Lepidus saw that he had achieved a small victory and forced the enemy to retreat, he ordered the entire army to camp and dig trenches relying on the pass and mountains, and said that the day was getting late, we would not take risks.

Angondinus once again raised the topic of how to bypass the mountains and go to the city of Icne or rescue the governor, but only Paulus of the Fourth Legion, Antony of the Seventh Legion, and Lepidus' deputy Petreneus responded. They seemed to have no concern for the life or death of the governor, and only mobilized the soldiers to concentrate on building fortifications, which was completely a posture of conventional warfare.

Finally, it was Governor Chinodosia who comforted him in the tent. Of course, the governor was sitting between the fierce Spanish swordsman and the black man of Medjet, and the two female knights with masks stood behind him. "I heard that you have a very good guide who is familiar with all the mountains and rivers here. I want to let him take the two chief battalions of the Fourth and Seventh Legions at night, through the mountain pass of the remaining veins, to the city of Ikeni to get in touch and search for the traces of the governor."

This speech was quite courageous. Angandinus immediately introduced Feisal. After Lepidus comforted the Arab shepherd, he asked for his offer. Feisal first shook his head and said that his service in the Roman army had ended, but Lepidus frowned and said that this was not possible. Your duty is to save our provincial governor. If you refuse to continue to assist, you will be crucified.

As a result, Feisal was frightened and said that if you are willing to give me another 100 drachmas, I can agree. Libida laughed and said, "I'll give you 5,000 coins, do you want them?" Feisal said he couldn't charge that price because he didn't know what to do with the money.

"Bagules and Polo will be the vanguard commanders of the entire force, and Sabokemus will be the rear guard. All officers and soldiers who participate in the operation of crossing the mountain pass will receive four times the salary." This is the order issued by Libida. (To be continued...)