Augustus Road

Just as Cassius had thought in his heart, don't give Parthia any chance to make a detour or any gap, because once they make a detour, you can't force them back: the Roman square of twenty stadia in radius was instantly surrounded by the Parthian light cavalry, and arrows flew in from all directions with special whistles. The shields in the hands of the legion's heavy infantry were finally much stronger than those of the cavalry. After being covered with wood, linen, leather and copper, they could barely block the penetration of arrows. At this time, the cavalry on the left and right wings also dismounted and formed a shield formation to protect their mounts. "This is simply a rainstorm in Sicily in winter!" Many soldiers who fell under the shadow of the shields were miserable and lamented in their hearts.

"We will wait quietly for those mountain barbarians to finish shooting arrows, and then we will launch a counterattack. We are all holding our breath. Friends, centurions, and heroes who have experienced wars, we must retaliate fiercely, right now." At this time, even the fifth legion behind was shot hard, and they were very close to the light infantry teams that had suffered many casualties before, so their morale and order were greatly affected. Ogutavis was worthy of being an old soldier and the first warrior of Pompey's land warfare. He walked directly to the front of the queue with a helmet with eye-catching feathers fluttering, constantly waving his arms to cheer up the fifth legion with the worst combat effectiveness to prevent them from collapsing quickly. "Those auxiliary infantry are standing behind you, and you are under the eagle mark. What is the eagle mark? It is the line that soldiers cannot cross. Don't be afraid of those cavalry. The arrows they shoot can't bring them any benefits. Just rely on the weapons in your hands. There are also companions and officers you can trust. These skin itches can't do anything to us." However, Ogutavis's prophecy did not come true. Because it would take time for the light infantry to recover their morale, the Roman line had no protection against projectile weapons, and the scorpion crossbows had already been trampled to pieces by the Parthians in the first round of charge, so the Parthians' light cavalry were simply unscrupulous in their siege and archery, and people were constantly shot and wounded, dragged into the center of the square, and tremblingly begged the stray arrows not to continue to greet him. Moreover, the Parthians' sawtooth or barbed arrows made it impossible to do anything. Once pulled out, the damage to the wounded could only be described as unbearable pain. As for mules, horses, and war horses, more than half of them were shot dead or wounded. Moreover, the arrows in the hands of the Parthians seemed to never run out. They divided the light cavalry on each side into several groups and took turns to shoot. Behind each group, there were hundreds of camels carrying huge quivers. This enabled Surena's soldiers to maintain a vigorous and endless firepower.

The nightmare-like moments passed slowly, the sun's shadow tilted and changed constantly on Crassus' cheek in the center of the square, his followers and servants ran around in vain without knowing where to go, some holding medicinal herbs, others carrying various boxes, and there were more and more wounded soldiers lying on the ground beside Crassus, the screams and curses almost made him hallucinate, but he could ignore these noises and clearly hear the sound of the wounded's blood flowing out quickly and being evaporated by the sun, dust and heat, and the sound of death approaching quietly.

"We must fight back!" Crassus suddenly shouted, and he kept repeating this sentence, as if the long-dormant blood in his body was boiling. The standard-bearing officer beside him lifted his cloak on the flagpole and waved it. Soon after, Crassus and Sensorinus on the right wing came and asked the governor to issue a clearer order, "My child, you take 2,000 elite Aedui cavalry and 500 Cretan archers. In addition, Sensorinus and Megabe will each take four legionary battalions to follow you to fight, to drive away those annoying flies, and to get rid of the despicable thieves who are hiding in the despicable Pull out the Parthian commander in the abyss and crucify him—Roman legions never passively take a beating! "

Crassus nodded immediately and returned to his wing with his flag. Not long after, when the Parthian light cavalry approached the Roman front again, he led the Gaul cavalry and shouted terrifyingly like a hurricane, and rushed into the enemy's light cavalry from the side, cutting down and stabbing many people at once. At this time, Sensorinus and Megabe also asked all the infantry to shout a demonstration and rushed out quickly. Soon the enemy cavalry in front of them retreated across the board.

"Blow the trumpet, wave all the team flags, and follow General Crassus to continue to charge forward!" Megabe shouted excitedly, and the buglers behind him stood at attention one by one, blowing the exciting music. Eight battalions of Roman infantry, waving swords and shields, sweating all over, shouting the slogan of victory, and chasing the defeated Parthian light cavalry.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!" A messenger cavalry from the left wing was whirling his horse's hooves in front of Crassus. "Treasurer Cassius requests that you withdraw the pursuing infantry and cavalry, because Surena may have hidden a large number of counterattack forces in the second line!" "No, no, now is the time to fight it out. I don't want to give these flies that spread the plague of death a chance to come back. Hey! My shield slaves, prepare horses for this brave old man. I will personally lead three battalions and continue to charge forward to completely defeat the enemy." Crassus did what he said. He got on the horse forcefully and ran towards the direction of the vanguard, where everyone was running frantically. In this case, Crassus was about to think that he had won the victory and the enemy was retreating, wasn't he?

But Surena on the gravel hill looked coldly at the Roman chasing team in a cloud of smoke, just like a poisonous snake seeing its unaware prey. Then he waved his hand, and the flag officer beside him immediately Flags of horned vipers and vipers were raised. From the sand dunes and the depths of the plains, the Parthian second-line cavalry rushed madly and surrounded Crassus's cavalry in a flat desert. Arrows rained down. Then, a thousand oven cavalry formed a wide front line and rumbled towards the Aedui cavalry who were struggling to break through. Seeing this life and death situation, little Crassus still did not give up his courage. He shouted He said to the cavalry from Gaul, "This is just the enemy's counterattack before they die. They are looking at those clumsy armored monsters. Is there anyone who knows less about the martial spirit than them? I know that you are from the cold north, Neither men nor horses are used to this hot weather, but we have to defeat the enemy in order to get hot food and water, draw our swords and spears, and fight them to the end!"

At this time, all the Aedui people showed stronger honor and loyalty than the regular Roman legions. They took off their chain mail, discarded their shields, and directly equipped themselves lightly, bravely following Crassus towards the young. The oven troopers galloped away. (To be continued...)