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Chapter 691 Cavalry and cavalry, breaking through the enemy's right flank (two in one)

Joel Bolin pulled out his sword and said with anger: "Everyone, teach the rebels a lesson, capture Alexander Qin alive, and destroy them in front of the Macedonian people. Our Roman Empire can't do it!" Victory, no provocation!"

"We, Rome, are invincible! We cannot be provoked!" All the generals shouted one after another.

"attack!"

"attack!"

"Rush over and crush them...!"

In each Roman legion there was a cavalry detachment, the number of which varied according to the size of the detachment.

The province of Macedonia is a large province above the middle level, with a large area and a large population, so the regular-scale army under Joel Bolin has a cavalry guard.

Joel Bolin wanted to end this seemingly absurd battle beautifully and perfectly, so he naturally put the cavalry in the first order of attack.

Thousands of rebels in the area, as long as the cavalry rushed to break up and crushed, the Roman infantry behind could rush over and take it down with the most perfect posture.

In order to achieve this strategy and tactics, Joel Bolin transferred 2 troops to the left and right wings respectively, and these two departments were responsible for outflanking.

The [-] troops are the worst troops, they are temporary troops formed by slave owners and nobles.

These people are similar to the private soldiers of the big man's family.

Armed with some strong servants as the cadres, and then their slaves and debtors are incorporated into it, most of them have not been trained at all, and they don't know how to cooperate.

It is a typical patchwork, and its combat power is weak, so it can be used to defend the city.

Of course, it can also be used to fight against the wind and strengthen the reputation.

This is the case now, and the Roman army thinks it has a certain chance of winning.

A main joint army of more than [-] people, coupled with a [-] auxiliary defense army, to deal with the rebel army composed of mud legs, simply don't think about it.

However, there are only ten cavalry teams in a legion, and one team has 32 people, totaling more than 300 people.

The combined legion is about [-] in total.

These more than 600 cavalry were holding cavalry lances in one hand and small bucklers in the other.

This kind of small round shield is two sizes smaller than the infantry's round shield. It is light and convenient to hold in the hand, but it is not very strong.

"kill!"

Joel Bolin directly sent a confidant to lead the [-] riders towards Xu Ding's army formation.

The cavalry of the non-cavalry legion of the Roman army is generally not very effective in combat.

Because they are only responsible for sending orders and letters to the infantry regiment and detecting the enemy's situation.

Fighting is generally the main job of the infantry in the army.

You must know that the structure of the Roman army is a bit similar to that of the Western Han or Qin dynasties in China.

That is, the soldiers are all conscripts, and they must bring their own equipment, whether it is armor, weapons, or horses.

Therefore, those who can become cavalrymen are relatively well-off and wealthy.

What kind of arms a soldier wants to be is also determined according to his wealth.

So in fact, the combat effectiveness of the Roman Legion is not as strong as the legend.

As for the formation that they are proud of, their performance in the major battles is not as amazing as what later generations boasted.

Of course, this will be discussed later, so I won’t show it at this time.

Now six hundred riders rushed towards the rebel army.

Xu Ding didn't rush out to intercept with his few cavalry because he sneered.

The commander-in-chief of the other party is a pig-headed man, he used cavalry to charge the battle as soon as he came up, and it was only this little, so he really didn't take himself seriously.

I really thought that the 6000 troops of the rebel army were vegetarians.

It is also his consideration that there will be no large-scale military expansion after the promise.

One is that he has not yet found a fixed site. At this time, the more people there are, the more disadvantageous it will be, because this will weaken his mobility in guerrilla sports.

Second, his backbone subordinates have not been trained well, and the number of troops has expanded, which is not conducive to command.

There is no time to train during the third march, and the expansion of the army will only be a bloated fat man, but the real combat effectiveness is not strong.

Soldiers are not expensive.

A soldier with faith and faith is a good soldier.

Blind expansion at this time is definitely a disaster.

So he went all the way eastward and expanded to 6000 people, which is considered a lot by economics.

"Shield soldiers! The sword soldiers move on both wings, the spearmen engage in battle, and the archers cover!" Xu Ding also faced the Roman army head-on for the first time. Although the opponent's consul was a little confused and arrogant, Xu Ding still commanded seriously and calmly.

Following his order, Viratoli and Mundu each took a thousand swordsmen and shield soldiers to move to the two wings in front of the formation, exposing the spearmen behind them.

At the same time, they sprinkled caltrops on the ground they left.

A kind of four spikes, no matter how you throw it, there will be three corners standing up, and a black bump with the thorns facing upwards.

Viratoli, Mengdu and the others had no idea what this thing was.

It was promised to be hastily made in Alexandria.

It hasn't been used officially in the West yet, so no one knows whether this thing works or not.

However, it was still sprinkled on the ground according to the agreed requirements.

The horses rushed up, and the spearmen lost their shields and swords to stand in front of them, and suddenly became tense.

Although the [-] war horses are not many, they are still on a large scale, and they are still very powerful as they rush forward rumblingly.

The ground was shaking, and many people's hands holding the guns began to sweat, and they couldn't hold them.

In the end, it is a unit that has not undergone hard combat and has not been trained in an organized way.

Xu Ding found this problem, and immediately shouted: "Shop around, hold on to me, if you spearmen give up at this time, I will kill you, only a few hundred riders, if you can't stand it, my army will be finished. Hold on to me!"

Half of his face turned red when he shopped around. He was the one who took care of the spearmen for training. As one of the five centurions in the past, and now the commander of a thousand, his pressure is also increasing.

Standing in front with a gun in hand, he shouted: "Don't be afraid of anyone, I'll be the first to die. In the northern battlefield, I didn't even die at the hands of Roman bastards. I don't even want my life in Macedonia. "

Taking the lead, following the voice of shoppers, the spearmen suddenly changed, and they all looked up to him.

"Woooooooo..."

The six hundred Roman cavalry cheered and shouted with excitement.

Especially when I saw the shield soldiers and sword soldiers of the rebel army retreat to the two wings, opening the middle for myself to kill myself, I was really overjoyed.

The smile on his face was even brighter.

Even Joel Bolin and the others behind were slightly stunned, and then smiled one by one.

"Hahaha, the rebel army is over. I originally thought that Alexander I*Qin would know the art of war and train the rebel army in batches into cavalry, bow soldiers, sword soldiers, shield soldiers, and spear soldiers.

Now it seems that it’s just a show, and it’s okay to scare those softies. Facing my regular Roman army, it immediately exposed their cowardly, bullying nature! "

"Yes, Alexander is nothing but a fool, a stupid fool!"

But just when they were laughing unscrupulously, the cavalry horses on their side who rushed forward suddenly neighed one after another, and then raised their front hooves or raised their hind hooves violently, throwing the cavalry off their backs. .

Or people and horses fall down.

For a moment, the expressions of Joel Bolin and his subordinates froze in place, and they couldn't laugh anymore.

"Release the arrows!" Xu Ding gave another order, and thousands of archers shot out thousands of bows and arrows.

At this time, the charge was affected due to the falling of the front, and the delayed Roman cavalry became living targets.

The flying arrows instantly took the lives of many people and horses.

There are countless people who fall from the horse at one time.

"Shooting!" Xu Ding continued: "The spearmen attack!"

The command flag was waved, Curbi received the order, and with a roar, he led the spearmen and rushed towards the enemy cavalry.

Shopping around, he didn't expect that the little barbed caltrops would be so powerful, and he stopped the enemy's horse. He was overjoyed at the moment, and then rushed forward, stabbing an enemy horse off his horse with a spear.

The spearmen behind them were not to be outdone, and finally overcame their fear. As soon as they sent their spears, one or more people dealt with the Roman knights.

With a gun, they all stabbed off the horse one by one.

The battle between the cavalry and the spearmen was mixed together, and the soldiers on both sides heard a miserable howl.

In the end, the people in the last column of the Roman cavalry saw something wrong and urged their horses to turn around and run back to their army.

The rest who did not run away were basically stabbed to death.

Huobi hurriedly organized his men to return the captured war horses to the rear.

This small victory directly helped Xu Ding capture more than 300 horses.

Xu Ding immediately asked the cavalry without horses to take down the equipment of the Roman army, then get on their horses and join the cavalry sequence.

Joel Bolin here was stunned.

The cavalry on one's own side was killed and failed in this way.

This is too fast.

It's not what they thought at all.

"My lord governor, what... what should I do next?" One of his subordinates asked Joel Bolin, who hadn't recovered from his daze.

Joel Bolin came back to his senses after being asked about the clothes, took a deep breath and said: "The Ninth Legion is attacking, and the auxiliary legion is advancing from the rear. The loser is the enemy who slipped through the net."

"It's the governor." A subordinate replied.

The Ninth Legion belongs to the standing legion and is organized by the empire.

The Auxiliary Legion is a local peacekeeping force in the Macedonian province, responsible for assisting the standing army in combat.

The two forces joined together to form the Combined Legion.

Following the command of the commander of the army, the phalanxes with the brigade as the unit moved forward flexibly and orderly.

It has to be said that the phalanx of the Roman army is more convenient and flexible than that of the famous Macedonian.

They use the brigade as the basic unit of operations, but they can be combined into a large formation, or they can fight independently to form a small formation.

On the opposite side, different enemies and different terrains change from time to time.

This is a major feature and advantage of the Roman army.

Coupled with the huge population base of the Roman Empire, they were invincible in battles with various Western nations.

So this is the same as the big Han in the east, with a huge population advantage, which can crush the barbarians around.

Even in the case of the loss of the main force, a large army can be pulled up quickly, which can continuously supplement the battle.

So at this time of war, no matter whether it is the East or the West, the essence is to fight for population, money and food.

Population is the most critical factor in the development of a country.

Facing the real Roman army, the phalanx began to move and pressed over.

Xu Ding glanced at the two wings, and then made a new decision.

"All the cavalry followed me to attack the enemy on the right flank, the spearmen followed, the sword soldiers followed, the archers were in the middle, and the shield soldiers were behind, and attacked the enemy on the right flank with all their strength, together with me we defeated this group of enemies and drove them to the middle." Xu Dingran I also saw the difference between the strength and weakness of the Roman army.

The enemies on the flanks are visibly disorganized and poorly armed.

Whether it is the flag or the spiritual outlook of the army on the front, there is a big gap with the two wings.

He guessed that this was the standing Roman army, and its combat effectiveness should be the strongest.

Because if he came to set up the formation, he would put the strongest army on the front, break through in the middle, and encircle the two wings.

However, the opponent's strategy is correct, and the mistake lies in being impatient. In order to cooperate with the cavalry, the enemies on the two wings came out first.

So it was a good opportunity, Xu Ding seized the opportunity, and 6000 troops rushed directly to the right wing.

It's better to hit a game than to get beaten.

At this time Xu Ding has [-] riders, although they are all amateurs and have not practiced much.

However, many of them are also captives from the northern ethnic group, and their horse skills are not bad.

Besides, the Roman army had no cavalry to fight against it now, so Xu Ding took the lead and charged into the enemy army wielding the spear he had made.

"Let the arrows! Let the arrows..."

Commanding the right-wing army was a big slave owner, and when he saw the cavalry of the rebel army rushing towards him, he hurriedly shouted.

The subordinates shot arrows in a hurry to stop them.

Xu Ding waved his long spear, blocked a wave of arrows, and then charged forward with his horse, the horse stomped on it, and rushed directly into it.

Suddenly several soldiers flew upside down.

Then Xu Ding swung his gun to sweep away the blood, and several people fell to the ground howling.

"Death!" Stabbing left and right, Xu Ding shot frequently, and no one could stop him, all of them died under his gun.

Although the five hundred riders behind them couldn't keep up with the rhythm, dozens of people died under a wave of arrow rain, but they still rushed into the gap and killed them.

Cavalry has an advantage over infantry.

Especially for these miscellaneous troops, the weapons are all light infantry equipment, how can they stop the cavalry.

"kill!"

Swords, lights and swords, spears like dragons, five hundred cavalry were infected by Xu Ding's spirit of taking the lead, and they were also brave and invincible.

They and Xu Ding went deep into the heart of this right-wing Roman army, and the land they passed was a mess, full of corpses.

Soon Xu Ding rushed to the headquarters, the great slave owner was still in shock.

How come the rebel army is so strong, and the leader is so capable of fighting, but no one can fight with them, and they are all defeated and killed.

Seeing Xu Sha coming, he was so frightened that he hurriedly urged his horse to retreat.

"Where are you going!" Xu Ding stabbed with a spear, directly piercing the man's chest, and then picked it up.

The big slave owner did a beautiful backflip in the air, and then smashed into his own team.

Once the big slave owner died, the slaves had no leader. Seeing the fierceness of the rebel army, they retreated one after another, and the whole army became even more chaotic.

At this time, the other four divisions of the rebel army also rushed forward, and then the spearmen rushed forward with their spears, and the swordmen slashed behind them to completely kill the undead.

The archers and shield soldiers cover the back formation, and the archers sometimes shoot and kill the enemy fleeing from both sides of the formation, reaping the enemy's life.

"Damn it! Speed ​​up and chase them and bite them. We can't let them mix with the right-wing legion." Joel Bolin was so impatient, his cavalry was beaten by the opponent, but the opponent's cavalry smashed his right wing all at once. , this ten is too ironic.

You must know that most of the war horses boasted by the opponent's cavalry were just captured from his cavalry. Whoever sees this feels uncomfortable.

Moreover, the defeat of the right-wing army suddenly woke him up. The rebel army was not as weak as imagined.

Although the number of people is small, although there is no training, but the organizational experience is very high, especially that Alexander Qin's personal bravery is too strong, he kills first alone, rushes all the way, hits Huanglong, and kills the big slave owner.

If this changed his side, whether the Chinese army could stop it made Joel Bolin a little worried.

(End of this chapter)