Chapter 6 Wings (Part 2)

The charge of Pompey's army, organized by Labienus, was neither haphazard nor hesitant. It took only half a day to cross in an orderly manner, braving the arrows and slings fired by Caesar's army. Nearly a third of the troops passed. - Le - Reading - Novel.{2}{3}{}{x}. "We can't ask the enemy to bring in more people. It seems that we are their main attacking wing. We will press those who cross the river to the shore and eliminate them." Fall!" Lepidus on the hillside ordered the flag officer to raise the Centaur flag of the Tenth Legion. Then the trumpeters lined up in a row and blew the C-shaped bugles in their arms, echoing the melodious flutes of the enemy on the opposite side. And, then the Agrians bravely rushed out of the array in twos and threes, lowered their hands, some stood, some half-knelt, and quickly turned the sling. This reading somewhat surprised Lepidah. In fact, he was playing before crossing. During the game, I always thought that the slinger was circling the sling on the head, but now I understand that the slinger is leaning sideways, arching his waist, and keeping his hands parallel to the waist.

But once the flying stones gather together, they are much more lethal than arrows. In the hands of skilled mountain people, these flying stones can be fired from a distance of fifty Roman feet, smashing a dent in the city wall as big as a table tennis ball. When it comes to people, it is not nonsense to open their heads and break their backs, and those who read lightly will also break bones.

In an instant, each of the Agrians threw three or four stones. The Pompeian soldiers were holding their legs in various postures, or covering their necks and foreheads. Some of them fell down quickly and silently. , and the soldiers who followed paused for a moment, arranged their formation, and then shouted again to the sound of the flute, pressing forward like a tide.

Because the person commanding them at the end happened to be Lepidus's enemy, General Lelias.

Of course Li Bida also knew. He faced. They should be the elite swordsmen of Pompey's army.

At this time. On both sides of the Apsus River and on the beach, there were soldiers of the Roman Republic in the same uniforms, fighting each other. Both sides of the civil war used their most elite main force. Caesar's was the one who made his name in Gaul. The "Bacchus" Tenth Legion, and Pompey's side was responsible for its frontal combat mission. It is the "La Loconia" legion with a greater reputation and seniority, and it is also the first legion in the Macedonian province. These two legions, under the command of Sulla, have fought in the east from Greece to Asia Minor, including Most of the other legions that Luculas valued most before were also recruited into his own team by Pompey, so this battle was simply a fratricidal fight between former comrades - many veterans who had served for more than twenty years. , all calling each other’s names. Then without hesitation, he stabbed the dagger into the opponent's chest again, of course they believed it. The other party would have done the same thing, and the river was clogged with blood and dead bodies.

Over there, Lepidus' fierce attack had a miraculous effect. He first used Agrian skirmishers to disrupt the two wings of Pan's army, and then he personally led the cavalry to lead the battle. He followed the hillside and relied on the terrain to ravage the scattered infantry. At one point, he drove the opponent back a distance of more than one furlong, but Lepidus' mind was also spinning during the chaotic battle. He vaguely felt that the enemy in front of him was not right. He had fought against Pan's army, so of course he had rich experience. When did this legion become so weak against a cavalry charge? Previously under the city of Sarona, Lepidus's attack on the city was just the siege equipment and barbarian servants of Lelias. As for the regular soldiers of Pan's army, Lepidus emphasized many times beforehand, "Don't force them." It’s just a loss of troops.”

But this time?

Looking at the thin and rough equipment and armor of the dead on the ground, Lepidus seemed to understand something. This was Rabinus's conspiracy!

In fact, Rabinus's formation on the right wing was just holding the eagle flag of Pan's legion. Then of course he could grasp Lepidus's mind, so he sent Laelias, who was "enemies on a narrow road", here as a smoke bomb. , but in fact so many teams, many of them were just temporary auxiliary troops, such as Thessalians, Thessalians, etc., and at this time Labienus personally led his left wing to break through, Of course, his face-to-face enemy was Caesar's Eleventh Legion, whose general was Calenus.

Half of Qirapinus's left wing, which had been hidden in the camp, now rushed out in an instant and rushed forward unstoppably. Celeste's eleven legions were originally brought out by Lepidus during his campaign against the Kingdom of Bosporus, but after he handed them over to Caesar, the legion withered away. Under the leadership of Apis, it also Being able to carry out flanking missions is now almost synonymous with "the always-defeated division", which is completely different from the 12th, 13th, 15th and 10th in the auxiliary legion sequence.

Therefore, Rabinus used a cover-up method and actually placed the main attack on the unlucky Eleventh Legion, the "Lightning Throwers" Legion. The four thousand legionnaires could not withstand the attack of wolves and tigers. , began to collapse in an instant, and Rabinus drove them back for more than a furlong with a single attack, and subsequent large groups of troops were arriving one after another.

In this way, two days after the start of the war, the battlefield situation took on the following peculiar situation. Caesar's left wing defeated Pompey's right wing and broke out; but Caesar's right wing was defeated by Pompey's left wing and lost its position. ; As for the central government, it has been in a state of brutal strangulation and confrontation. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is advancing and retreating.

Next, within a day, the left flanks of both sides were working hard to engage in coercion tactics. Rabinus tried to go around Caesar's exposed flank, while Lepidus led the cavalry and continuously launched attacks on the lower back of Pompey's army. charge.

At the critical moment, Caesar's other deputy general Callenus, regardless of the prior military order, left the designated siege position and rushed over with the chief brigade of the 12th Legion to block Labinus's offensive, thus saving Caesar's central troops.

At this time, a strong wind suddenly blew up, rolling up the sand and soil on the other side of the mountain, spreading over the entire army. Everyone could not distinguish between friends and enemies within a short distance, and could only retreat.

But there is no doubt that although the main lineup did not completely collapse, Caesar lost at the tactical level. He burned down the front-line camp that night, took the 10th Legion, many of whom were injured, and retreated to Bugalotum to rest and breathe, and ordered Lepidus's troops to continue to hold the existing positions, because he did not want Labinus to surround him too calmly.

At this time, Caesar, who retreated back to the city to defend it, could no longer admire Labinus. People are like this. No matter whether they are enemies or friends, you admire them because they have not yet caused you harm. When the harm becomes a fact, perhaps all that is left is hatred!

"Maybe if Labinus is captured by me now, I will chop off his head on the spot." Caesar said. (To be continued...)