Augustus Road

Coponius, at the head of the city of Calle, braved the soot flying all over the city, but among the firelight and corpses, he saw the Payans evacuating the troops besieging the city. It seemed that something extremely important had happened on the other side. , or Surena started to use tricks again, trying to lure the fifth army out of the city to fight with him in the field, and then used a large number of cavalry to surround us and annihilate us.

Coponius was not fooled this time. He knew the tricks of these nomads too well. He kept his composure and resisted the requests of some bellicose and reckless centurions to fight back. He asked everyone to receive the wounded, treat them, and count the remaining supplies. Reserves, the soldiers continued to practice in the city. It seemed that the siege of the Payas would not last long, and their proud cavalry could not get any advantage in this kind of battle.

At this time, Coponius did not know that Surena had really encountered a "major incident". All the light and heavy cavalry were galloping slowly and skillfully, gathering all the groups in the desert with no reference, and the drums and drums were beating. The sound of killings came one after another again. Surena rode his horse and charged at the front of the battle. The fiery wind cut through his temples like a knife. He was full of confidence in his private warriors. He could even recognize them. The names of all the officers in the battalion made it clear how terrifying this team was in galloping into the field.

Now the main force of the Roman partial division is marching in a hurry, completely exposing its flanks to the cavalry. As long as one...

But the rapid change in intelligence broke his idea: a fierce battle broke out between his own vanguard and the other's scouts.

The situation suddenly changed. When Surena rushed to the battle group, he expected to see the weak cavalry of Gaul. It will be quickly defeated under the attack of its own light cavalry. Then the army quickly pressed forward. Complete the raid before the opponent reacts. But the cavalry we encountered this time were the Mattian cavalry from the mountains of the Caspian Sea. They were very large in number. They were not here to scout at all, but to hinder and disrupt his front line.

Amid the sounds of horse hooves and shouts of death, the Matias with long ribbons on their helmets were even better than the Paya Qingqi in terms of combat skills and courage. They were in groups of three or two. The skirmishers fought on their own, and fought with the Paya people in a group. They competed with each other like lightning, letting the other side understand the principle of "there are mountains outside the mountains". The Matia people shot from a long distance, and after approaching, they waved their double-pointed spears. Circling and stabbing, the Paya people fell off their horses one after another. Even the speed and agility of the horses, the Mede horse that Paya was most proud of, was no match for the Matian people's hard-earned mounts.

"Asshole. Don't worry about these humble mountain people, they don't care about their lives." Surena, holding the snake flag, was instantly annoyed. He instructed the guards around him to continuously fire thunderbolts into the air, and asked everyone to bypass the harassment of Mattia's cavalry and go directly to bite Lepidus' main force.

Suddenly, he saw in a trance, among the smoke and dust in front of him and the running horses, a petite rider suddenly jumped out, galloping straight towards him and the flag, with a bow attached, and two consecutive arrows spinning like a top. With that, he flew towards himself and the flag - the personal groom Pomaceris howled, raised his shield in front of his master on foot, and then shook his head back. It turned out that the eyeballs of this man who sacrificed his life to protect the master were directly hit. An arrow shot from El Capa observed.

Pomaceris covered his face covered with blood on the spot, spinning around and screaming. Over there, Surena's Rong clan warriors shot hedgehog-like arrows at El Capa. He nimbly turned the sitting pony around and ran back. Several oven cavalrymen were not angry and chased after him with Kontos spears in their hands. They did not care about Surena's shouts, which made his retinue team They were pulled apart, and soon there were several screams from the horses. The oven cavalrymen on Surena's left suddenly felt as if they were sinking into the sand, and the horses' bellies were swept by ghostly figures like meteors below, and then After being cut open, the steaming internal organs fell down, until they could no longer bear the weight of the wound and the master, and stepped down completely. These oven cavalry were like dominoes, falling one after another in the direction of Surena.

"Bastard rat!" The tendons on Surena's forehead popped out. It was obvious that the arrow shot by El Capa just now was acting as a cover for this side. The assassin looked like a real snake and wore a silver-plated visor. , had already swam over, the chain ax in his hand was spinning rapidly. Surena took the Kontos spear of a warrior next to him, leaned on his shoulder with one hand, and then threw it at Helenputina. With a flicker, he dodged the spear, and the chain ax clicked onto the double snake flag in Surena's hand like a silver thread, and he was about to drag it with all his strength.

Surena reversed the flag, pointed the tip of the hammer stuck in the ground at the opponent, and threw it with all his strength again. Helenputina could only dodge sideways and almost fell down, but the tall horse's head rushed over. Come over, Surena was on top, and stabbed and slashed at her with a knife. Helenputina's two antelope-like long legs jumped back in a graceful arc, crossing Surena's killing range. , then held up the Buddha's shield and fired the tip of the blade. He didn't bother to grab the flag, and stepped back with a short stature. Then he jumped on a pegasus pulled by El Capa, and quickly dodged the spear. And clusters of arrows disappeared into the dust all over the sky...

Not only were the Matians blocking him, but they were also being attacked by the enemy's vanguard soldiers. Now Surena suddenly became a little embarrassed. He could only reorganize his retinue, because all the cavalry were looking at the flags of these people. Those who give orders and act, the war is imminent, and the center must not cause chaos on its own.

Here, all of Lepidus's troops, except for the attached cavalry battalions of Anthony, Dusunville and Hansk, all infantry and archers stopped in the form of columns, and then a line of horse-mounted trumpeters blew passionate tunes and passed through the entire formation. The soldiers turned around collectively with a rumble, and then began to check their equipment and weapons, and raised the tongue-of-fire flags in turn. Amid shouting, Lepidus, wearing a cloak with a scarab emblem given by the Pharaoh, a beautiful breastplate inlaid with the image of King Numa, a cockscomb helmet with drooping horsehair, and riding an "owl", followed by escort slaves holding various legion flags, and three hundred dark-skinned Medet guards carrying bows and arrows, walked from one end of the team to the other with sweat on their faces:

"The yellow sand rolling ahead is the enemy's surprise attack. I don't have much time to give a speech. I just want to tell you that no one dragged down His Excellency the Governor of Syria. It was completely a betrayal. The renegade Surena killed him, and now we are here, the time for revenge has come! We are sure to defeat this cunning and cruel barbarian general today, just like we defeated all the enemies before, let them roll into the underworld and regret it, regret being an enemy of the Republic! "After saying that, Libido waved his hand at Sabo, and Sabo immediately rode forward to arrange the position, and then the commander-in-chief shouted, "Today I want to stand with all the centurions and soldiers to witness the collapse of the enemy!" (To be continued...)