Chapter 11 Kara (Part 2)

"Rapidly shoot at the place where the fire is raised. That's where Caesar's soldiers are guarding!" Several senior centurions began to give instructions. This is a new tactic they invented when confronting Caesar's army these days. With their own experience in long-range shooters, The advantage is that you can "surprise" the enemy without too much loss, that is, target the fire point of Caesar's soldiers, shoot arrows intensively, and then quickly evacuate to achieve the purpose of confusion.

As a result, when the Thracian archers worked hard and quickly shot five arrows each, after returning it, the centurion who led the team could only hear the mocking sounds coming from the mountain ramparts. With a good look, only Under the firelight, all the arrow feathers could be seen falling on the bare wall: this was just a trap used by Caesar to lure them to waste arrows. Now the opponent had already learned to be smart, raising fire in one place but patrolling in another place.

However, they could take advantage of the contempt of Caesar's soldiers. They thought that Rabinus's night raiding party would quickly retreat, but the soldiers of three brigades and two thousand auxiliary soldiers quickly found mountains that could be covered. Hidden, waiting for dawn to come.

In the early morning, when Caesar's soldiers and military slaves were still collecting water in twos and threes, their centurion pointed to the enemy's fortifications opposite with a stern and low tone, and everyone threw down the clay pots and buckets and hurriedly Rushed to their respective camp posts, because Rabinus had transported all the equipment in the city of Kocula and lined up at the blockade. Trebuchets and ballistae were densely packed. They were about to launch a fierce offensive. .

"The enemy is still fighting in a corner. They are gradually unable to bear the pain of lack of water and are about to counterattack. Stop them." Caesar learned the news. Run out of the camp immediately. "Push all the reserves I have deployed in the rear!"

Soon, sharp whistling sounds sounded on the battlefield. Both sides were shooting stone bullets desperately. In their respective camps, there were flying stones and powder everywhere. The entire mountain range trembled. Amidst the tide of shouts, Rabinus gathered the best soldiers. They lined up a broad front and rushed towards Caesar's fortress line. "Arm up and push back the enemy. The dictator is watching us from behind!" Caesar's camp was full of such encouragement, and many soldiers They were still eating breakfast. After encountering the enemy attack, they used the "kara" they were eating as their first-hand weapon and threw them out across the fortress wall. The soldiers on Pompeii's front line were so frightened that they thought it was some new murder weapon. They all stepped back to dodge. When they saw that this thing was just a soft flour-like thing, they shouted, regained their courage and fighting spirit, and asked the auxiliary soldiers in the rear to shoot wildly at Caesar's camp. Then the Pompeian veterans carried simple ladders, skillfully dodged the stones and javelins thrown by the enemy, put the ladders on the walls one after another, filed up, and started bloody hand-to-hand combat with Caesar's army inside. The sound of swords clashing and the sounds of flesh and blood being separated mixed together.

Caesar's ten legions here and Lepidus's twelve legions were also the elite of the three armies. They endured the enemy's crazy impact and suffered serious casualties, fighting fortress by fortress and wall by wall, fighting Labienus' men and horses. As they fought, more and more corpses became more and more tired, and they were almost aligned with the city wall. "Crash it hard!" Pompey's soldiers got wooden stakes from nowhere and ran to an unguarded area. A dozen people hugged one and violently hit it. They fell down the city wall and poured in, but they were quickly driven out screaming. The Germanic Weaver Guards hired by Caesar filled in as a reserve team. They waved their battle axes and drove the Pompeian soldiers who broke in. After killing blood and flesh everywhere, the defense line was stabilized again.

"They are eating this now! This shows that Caesar is at the end of his rope. The opponent has a small number of people. On average, there are only a hundred people stationed in each Rome. Now they can only eat these things to survive. We must go up with pressure and defeat them!" When Carla When this thing was passed to Rabinus, he quickly and decisively issued the order for a general attack and smashed Kara to the ground.

At this moment, the ambush that had been ambushed in front of one of Caesar's flanks the night before received the order. After receiving the order, they suddenly raised their flags and rushed towards the target with a loud noise. They were so perfectly concealed in advance that the soldiers stationed on this fortress were Caesar's army was not aware of it. Centurion Scava's men only had 200 men. They urgently lit a warning beacon, hoping to get reinforcements from other troops. But in the end, because everything was tight, only the ordinary centurion Zilius came with more than fifty soldiers and military slaves, armed with weapons, to defend together.

Three selected brigades, along with two thousand Thracian archers, totaled nearly four thousand men. The number was fifteen to one, but Skava personally held up his shield and blocked the entrance to the barrier. He encouraged his subordinates behind him and said, "We failed to detect the enemy's ambush. This is their treacherous plot. If the enemy succeeds, this barrier will be lost, and the enemy will be able to bypass Dictado's flank from here." "Comrades, our ship is at the heart of the storm. Try to stop it!"

Then the arrows fired by the opponent pierced the soil under his feet and the stone wall beside him, but Skava showed no fear and continued to hit the shield with his sword, shouting loudly at the enemies who were coming up like a tide. Laughing, the soldiers saw the centurion acting like this, and each took the lead bravely, taking turns on the narrow and rugged mountain road, and repelled the enemy time and time again.

As a result, after two and a half days, the four thousand selected ambushes of Labinus could not break through the barrier of the two hundred and fifty Caesar soldiers. Caesar knew the crisis here and hurriedly came with the chief battalion of the 12th Legion to repel the enemy.

"Assholes, assholes! I am ashamed of you." Labinus was furious when he saw the scene in front of him, but he burst into tears when he learned that even Flaccus, the tribune of the Second Legion, who was killed by Caesar's soldiers despite his noble family, was killed by Caesar's soldiers. He could only watch his soldiers being driven back to their original place after burning out their highest fighting spirit. At this time, fear flashed in Labinus' heart: he had been Caesar's chief deputy general for so many years, but he did not expect that Caesar's soldiers and commanders would combine to exert such fierce fighting spirit. "They are no longer human, I must do my best Quickly break the situation. "

The fortress where Scavo was stationed, when Caesar entered, he could not stand at all. The ground, stone walls, wooden fences and sheds were all densely packed with arrows, which were shot by the enemy during the battle. Later, the military slaves pulled them out and counted the number. There were as many as 30,000 arrows, of which 120 were taken from Scavo's shield. The centurion was shot blind in one eye, but he still did not abandon the battle post or his shield. Acilius, who came to reinforce, had one wrist cut off, but he still held up the shield to disperse the enemy soldiers. (To be continued...)