Augustus Road

"Don't hesitate, all of you, rush to Mount Dux!" Lepidus shouted angrily, "Those who hesitate, immediately enforce military discipline on the spot."

At this time, in front of the Sewefer camp, the main force of the five legions of Rome pressed forward, and Areovistus could only send out the main force at this moment, and fight with Caesar's main force in front. On the left and right of the six-roman-mile long confrontation line in the middle, the two sides fought and killed each other on the left, middle and right wings. The young men of Sewefer stood in the front line half-naked with shields, and the strong soldiers wearing long chain mail stood in the second line. The last ones to hold the line were the noble cavalry and attendants of Areovistus. They firmly occupied the advantage of numbers, plus the strong physical strength and blood courage. Tens of thousands of women stood on the top of the camp, crying and shouting, stretching out their hands and exposing their chests, asking their warriors to fight with all their strength today, and not let them and their children be insulted and annihilated by the short Latins, and finally sold as slaves.

On Caesar's side, in order to prepare for the decisive battle, in addition to the commander, each legion also arranged a provincial quaestor to go in. He was afraid that in this decisive battle, a senior general would die in battle, which would lead to the collapse of one wing. Therefore, Caesar's requirements for these quaestors who were sent to the front line were: once the commander died in battle, you will shoulder the responsibility and continue to command the army with the chief centurion. If you are afraid to escape, I will never be lenient in enforcing military discipline and will not care about anyone's status.

In terms of the formation direction, Caesar gave up the traditional three-line formation. He placed the seventh, eighth and tenth legions with the strongest combat effectiveness in the center, forming a rectangular horizontal formation with six rows. Just as Milou suggested before, there was a distance between each horizontal formation, which was to supervise each other and prevent the soldiers in the front team from retreating in fear of fighting, and also to strengthen the force for key breakthroughs. The ninth legion placed by Caesar on the left wing was also responsible for timely reinforcement of the twelfth legion in the direction of Mount Dux, and the eleventh legion of Apis on the right wing. Finally, Caesar and his cavalry general Crassus the Younger, with 6,000 cavalrymen from various Gaul tribes, were ready to fill the gap on their side.

In this way, the combat troops of both sides, with a total of no less than 70,000 or 80,000 people, rushed together rapidly in the open area with dense footsteps. In fact, due to the high speed, both the Romans and the Severans lost the opportunity to throw javelins and instantly engaged in close combat.

"Haha, did you see the eagle flag of the Ninth Legion? There is no need to worry about the Severans attacking from the rear. The Twelfth Legion has only one goal, which is to capture Mount Dux!" Lepidus saw the Ninth Legion coming while fighting at the foot of the mountain, and knew that this was the support arranged by Caesar, so he loudly encouraged the soldiers and attacked towards the top of the mountain.

At this moment, even though the brave Sewephians broke into the "sandwich" of the hollow phalanx, the expected panic in the Roman line did not appear. The arrows of the Vipicinus even shot at the Romans and Sewephians together, without distinguishing between friend and foe. The Sewephians finally couldn't stand it anymore and began to retreat towards the top of the mountain. Milu, who was fighting on the front line, saw that almost all of German's horses were dead or injured, so he raised the flame-tongue flag of the first battalion and the first centurion. With this as a sign, the hollow square of the 12th Legion quickly turned back to form a double-line horizontal formation, and the Vipicinus cavalry put away their bows and arrows, mounted their horses, passed through the passages between the centurions, and launched a mighty pursuit of the Sewefers. The enemy had no chance to regroup at all, and was killed by the Vipicinus who were chasing them like lightning with swords or spears. The infantry battalion followed closely behind, gradually tightening the siege on the top of Dux Mountain until all the remaining rear guards of the Sewefers on the top of the mountain were killed.

In this battle, the elite Sewefer cavalry suffered a great defeat in front of the formation composed of Lepidus infantry and dismounted cavalry, with more than a thousand people killed, the position of Dux Mountain was lost, more than 400 horses were seized, and the wounded and dead were scattered in the grass on the hillside.

While the main forces of both sides were fighting fiercely, Libida's troops erected the Blood Spear Cloak and the Mountain Falcon Flag of the 12th Legion on Mount Dux, and shouted "Long live the enemy" all over the mountain, shaking the entire battlefield of the Renus River. Then, stimulated by food supply and generous rewards, the military slaves of the baggage team transported the wild donkey catapults to the top of the mountain within a day, and bombarded the Sewefer car camp. The 18 cavalry guns turned around and started shooting at the flank of the Sewefer line. Except for four battalions guarding the existing positions, the other six battalions, including the chief battalion of a thousand people, rested for a while, and then, together with the 9th Legion next to them, increased the pressure on the right wing of the Sewefer people.

As soon as Lepidus's 12th Legion occupied the commanding heights, it attacked several fronts at the same time, and the whole game of chess came alive - the 20,000 German troops on the right wing, whose main force was small Germanic tribes such as Marcomone and Nemedes, did not have a very strong fighting will. Under the frontal assault of the 9th Legion and the side bombardment of the cavalry artillery of the 12th Legion, they did not hold out for long and began to disperse into the chariot camp. At this time, the 9th and 12th Legions advanced in unison, ready to take the greatest credit in this battle.

"Should we take the cavalry to support our right wing?" A noble chieftain said to Areovistus, but the king waved his hand and kept talking to himself: "The witch has been following me for 20 years. The will of the gods will not be wrong. The vast Reinus River will definitely help me. Tell the Suebi on the right wing to form a phalanx to resist the advance of the Roman infantry, and I will personally lead the cavalry to the left wing. There is only one Roman legion there, and judging from the flags and equipment, it is just a weak auxiliary legion. As long as I break through the enemy's right wing, there is still a chance of victory. Don't worry, the witch's divination will never be wrong, never!"

The enemy's right wing, teams separated by The servants of the barbarians were stabbed one by one by the swords of the Ninth Legion, or turned and fled. But when Lepidus and Koda rushed to the bottom of the right wing, they saw about 3,000 barbarian warriors with Suebi totem tattoos formed a rectangular dense phalanx. This formation, called "phalanx" by Areovistus, was a bit similar to the Roman tortoise shell formation, but it was far less well-organized and orderly than the Romans. All the phalanx members held large oval shields and formed a large circle. The people in the front row protected their shields from their chests to their ankles, and those in the middle held their shields over their heads like umbrellas. From a distance, it was very appropriate for the soldiers of the Ninth Legion to give them the nickname "Iron Tortoise". (To be continued.)