Augustus Road

Finally, they found traces of Antony's troops in a Gaofu village adjacent to the sea. He had destroyed many villages and warehouses along the way, but was also pursued by two phalanx companies from Perusium Fortress. Antony commanded the cavalry. His skills are very proficient, or he is a natural cavalry general. Because the number is very small, he did not separate a hundred people, but gathered them together. After robbing a village and obtaining necessary supplies, he did not hesitate. Drive away the people and animals mercilessly, burn all the houses, and constantly get rid of the pursuit of the fortress army, constantly wearing down and dragging them down, and launch counterattacks against the tired enemies from time to time.

Finally, in this village, he was bitten to death by the garrison commander, but Anthony still showed no fear. He left seventy men to guard the mountainside, and he took the remaining thirty cavalry to ambush on the side road. In the dense forest, they constantly attacked the defenders' rearguard, killing the lightly-armed archers or seizing their luggage. The two phalanx companies that came to attack, with a total of 500 defenders, were not attacking the top of the mountain, but they were separated from the battle line. Fearing Antony's surprise attack, he could only stay in place, but encountered Lepidus's troops who came for reinforcements.

"Our cavalry brigade can defeat these enemies with a single charge!" Dusonville ran to the front of the attached cavalry brigade and replied to the Commander-in-Chief with great confidence.

Under the flag of the iron hand, Lepidus was silent for a while. When he saw the enemies trapped under the Gaofu by Antony and his army, they ran around in panic. Some of the brave ones started digging fortifications under the encouragement of the officers. , some people on fast horses were attacking in all directions, seemingly asking for help from Perusim.

"We also build fortifications to block the road here, let the enemy's messenger cavalry pass, attract the main force of Perusim Fortress out of the wild, and then annihilate them all!"

This is Lepidus' method of besieging a city and calling for reinforcements. "If the enemy does not dare to send reinforcements, tomorrow we will completely eat up the enemies in front of us, and then attack the fortress from both sides. Perusium is still ours. The nostrils of the evil god Typhon discovered by Anthony are... This small road simply brought the whole battle to life.”

Then, the Romans began to dig and build a larger siege on the periphery of Gaofu and the streets. The situation soon became subtle: Antony was surrounded by two phalanx companies of Egyptian troops in the core village of Gaofu, and Lepidus took this place again. The two companies were surrounded by an encirclement, and according to Lepidus' vision, he also hoped that Otto Aarons, the "chief of the Asia Gate" in the fortress, would "encircle" him.

Therefore, the situation in front of General Otto Aarons became complicated. He was the first to hear that a Roman surprise attack of more than a hundred people appeared in the rear. He was surprised and thought that this was purely an accident. It was probably a lost Roman army. Then send two companies to annihilate them. But who would have thought? First, the frontal enemy Thirteenth Army's offensive was so fierce and tenacious, and second, more enemies detoured back to the rear of the fortress.

The soldiers were panic-stricken. What they were most worried about was that there was a temporary fortress on Sepi Island. When the tide was low, there was a road connected to the land. When the tide was high, you could use a boat to get there. It was a refuge for the soldiers' families and livestock. If the enemy finds out and destroys it, what's the point of holding on?

Otto Aarons, who was looking forward and hesitant, was still determined to stabilize the morale of the city defenders, so he left the soldiers of the three missing companies to continue the defense, while he led the five main companies and marched from the back door of Perusium. Go out and prepare to fight against the sneak attack Le Bida.

However, Otto Aarons was still very cautious in his actions. He found that many villages along the way had been poisoned by the Romans. Lepidus' cavalry swept everywhere like a whirlwind, so Otto Aarons knew that the other side had looted quite sufficient supplies. He had the confidence and willingness to fight with himself, but he must not be careless. He asked the company captain to hold the eye-catching paint sign in his hand and carefully guided his team to advance towards the established goal. In fact, Otto Aarons had already prepared for the worst, that is, once the enemy became stronger, he would completely abandon the two besieged companies and retreat to Perusium again. This would count as an attack. Let me give an explanation to all the soldiers. As for the safety of the families of the soldiers on Sepi Island, I am sorry that it has nothing to do with him, a Macedonian noble. His family has gone to visit the Thebes temple with the Pharaoh and his wife, and they are very safe.

As long as he holds on until Archelaus leads the main force, the military medal will still be his!

About sixteen miles behind Perusium, Otto Aarons discovered the position of Lepidus' army. The hillside was full of soldiers in full formation. They were actually divided into two sides, one side sending him out before the other. Two companies were surrounded, and one side was waiting for him in formation!

"How many people are there in the enemy?" Otto Aarons asked angrily to several dark-skinned soldiers who had broken out earlier to ask for help. The other party talked all over the place and gave an annoying answer through the translator: It's really not clear. How many enemies are there.

So they could only scout on the spot, and five companies with a total of 2,500 Egyptian soldiers formed a line. The entire battlefield was deathly silent, and the Roman camp on the opposite side was also silent.

Several Egyptian cavalry scouts came out of the camp on horses and ran back and forth several times along the line of confrontation between the two armies, and then gave Otto Aarons the strength of the troops: probably a thousand-man infantry brigade. , because they were flying a special iron hand flag, which was different from the palm flag of the ordinary Roman infantry brigade.

"We have the upper hand. Cooperate with the two surrounded companies to wipe out this enemy!" Otto Aarons waved his hand, and the five companies of Egyptian soldiers shouted together, forming a dense spear phalanx, rushing towards the hillside without distinction of priority. The main part of Ptolemy's army was the native soldiers under the command of Macedonian officers. The tactics were no different from those of Alexander the Great three hundred years ago, but mixed with some local customs of the Nile River. For example, slingers were recruited from Libya, and archers and light infantry were mostly Nubian blacks.

"Tagus, I leave you two centuries, and the enemies surrounded on the mountain are left to you." On the hillside, Lepidus, wearing a red cloak, shook the white feathers on his helmet twice, and then raised the gilded baton and chopped it down heavily. The flag bearers beside him waved small flags of different colors. Amid the shouting, the Vipicinus cavalry on the back of the hillside threw away the wood and branches used for concealment, and rushed out with bows and arrows in hand.

This was something Otto Aarons had not expected. He only knew that the enemy general had a large number of cavalry, but he did not expect that they were cavalrymen who could shoot arrows. Waves of arrows fell, and the Egyptian soldiers in the dense phalanx fell down layer by layer. In this case, the Vipicinus people did not need to aim.

Otto Aarons, who was holding the line behind, had a grim face, but under this situation, he could only continue to attack. (To be continued.)