Augustus Road

The last step of the makeup was for a concubine from Media to tie up Surena's beautiful black hair and tie it into the hairstyle of the aristocratic youth from her place, a bun that towered into the sky. Two colored lines were applied to Surena's forehead, blending with his eyebrows, like the wings of a goshawk. At this time, the actors in the center of the stage have reached the climax of the whole drama. Their necks are shaking rapidly and they are shouting famous lines from the tragedy:

Wow, people in Greece, why are they at war with each other?

"Why are there so many things to fight about? Glory, wealth, beauty, or the darkest impulse in a man's heart?" Surena tied up the Persian hunting clothes with a stand-up collar, then climbed onto his navy blue horse, turned around and met everyone The concubines standing in the smoke kissed each other goodbye one by one, and then a thousand walking warriors of the Rong clan behind him, carrying the flags of intertwined horned vipers and vipers, blowing horns, surrounded the young master towards the battlefield.

After walking out of the vehicle encirclement, Surena left all the Rong warriors behind and ran down the hill like lightning. Wherever he passed, elite Parthian cavalry hidden behind the sand dunes mounted their horses one after another. , began to trot quietly, following behind the front line of troops, so that the Romans could not clearly see their huge strength. Soon, all the cavalrymen in the vanguard saw a young, slender, handsome Parthian aristocratic young man with artificial oriental decorations and a towering barbarian head, riding a horse sideways against the wind and sand. , with a contemptuous and bewitching smile, looked at the Galaxian cavalry on the line of defense, passing by gracefully.

Seeing this figure, Casio on the left held his breath, and he finally uttered a sentence involuntarily. "Surena has appeared. This means that there are more Parthian elites. Hidden behind the line!" He hurriedly instructed the trumpeter beside him to blow the emergency horn, which meant that Megabe's vanguard cavalry should withdraw all the infantry. After the phalanx, do not confront the Parthians who suddenly attack.

But it was too late. Thousands of Parthian cavalry on the front line suddenly accelerated and galloped. Behind them, there was a huge and shocking sound. It was a four-seater cart. There were huge drums covered with cowhide and copper on each of them, and sixteen priests were beating them selflessly. Wherever the sound reached, the Roman horses had never heard this sound at all, and they started shouting in fear. They bit each other, and some simply carried their masters on their backs and ran backwards. The entire cavalry engagement formation began to become chaotic.

Megabe angrily shouted to the bugler to blow the signal for a decisive battle, "Raise your shields and form a formation!" After speaking, the Roman Ala cavalry took the lead in approaching with a roar, raising their shields layer by layer. Then many of Galaxia's cavalry circled around and barely stabilized their positions in front of the Parthian drum. They gathered around their commander again.

Amidst the loud sound of drums, the Parthian cavalry on the front line rushed faster and faster. Many light cavalry were galloping, and they used the recurve bows in their hands to shoot out sharp arrows, crackling across a considerable distance. , one after another stuck on the shields of the Roman cavalry, and as a result, Megabe's team howled one after another. This Celtic oval cavalry shield, which was mainly lightweight, could not resist the arrows shot by the Parthians with increased pulling force. Some shields were torn apart, some even penetrated the wrists of the cavalry, and many arrows directly hit the mounts under their crotches - these little horses were not protected by horse armor, and they were painful. They had no choice but to flee in all directions again, throwing many Galaxia people off their horses. These people could only stumble back to get closer. Some fell in the second round of flying arrows, and some hid in the shields of their companions. behind, he took up arms in an attempt to protect himself.

The Parthians had extremely lethal arrow clusters, but they continued to fire, like basins of boiling water, pouring on the Roman cavalry formation. Flesh, flesh and blood were spraying everywhere. There was a loud sound of drums, and some of the Parthians who were charging suddenly lifted off the animal skins and cloaks covering their horses. Clothes were flying like grass all over the sky. These oven cavalry were obviously carefully "reduced". "Exactly, they all use armors forged from bronze and fine steel, and compared with Herod's traditional heavy cavalry, some unnecessary links and burdens are reduced. In addition, these armors are all from Alma. The hands of the Ghiya people are light and have unparalleled defensive power, which makes them very handy on horseback, holding spears and charging.

There was an extremely violent collision, and the heavy cavalry on the front line easily tore apart the formation of the vanguard cavalry. Megabe was determined not to suffer the immediate loss, and led the remaining men and horses around to the two wings, because he knew that he would get Little Crassus and Kazuo. Xio's reinforcements and rescue - then, hundreds of heavy cavalry and spearheads, with wind and rain, unstoppably broke into the front of the infantry defense of Shensolenus, although most of the soldiers standing on the front line They were crushed and trampled over by them, but Sensorinus strengthened the depth of the team. The soldiers of the Roman Second Legion rushed forward bravely and fought with these armored monsters, stabbing the horses with pilum javelins. Eyes, without much effort, he killed and wounded nearly half of the opponent's troops. Facts have proved that as long as the infantry's formation remains strict and disciplined, it will be difficult for the cavalry to gain advantage from the front no matter how heavily armed it is.

Surena, who was watching and commanding the battle on the opposite sand dune, was very glad that he did not put all his elite troops into the front line, so he easily asked his followers to collectively beat a small leather drum, which was the signal for the front to retreat. The remaining heavy cavalry turned around awkwardly, and then returned to the starting point with the light cavalry of the large group. They were still on horseback responding to the fierce small drums, collectively making a low howl like a beast, which made the Roman soldiers standing there feel quite frightened.

At this time, Crassus suddenly blew the military trumpet, encouraging all the light-armed auxiliary infantry in the large square to carry slings and bows and arrows, rush out of the front of the heavy infantry, and chase the retreating cavalry of the Parthians. When the other officers wanted to dissuade them, it was too late. When these light-armed infantry left the large square a furlong away, the Parthian light cavalry suddenly turned around and shot the "returning horse arrows" that the nomadic people were best at. As a result, a large number of Crassus' light infantry were immediately shot down, and the ones behind also turned around and ran wildly into the large square again. The Parthian cavalry quickly surpassed their two wings and rained down arrows. In the end, only two-thirds of the personnel were left, running back in a panic, and refused their superiors' orders to regroup for battle, and only knew to stay in the square and wail.

Less than half a day later, Surena's overall offensive was quickly launched! (To be continued...)