Augustus Road

"You have so many good things, why do you still covet our old tents?" After being captured and brought to Rome, the Welsh barbarian leader Caratacus saw the prosperous city and asked the "Foolish Claudius" Emperor.

Yes, after fighting with this Roman detachment of infantry and archers for such a long time, Surena suddenly remembered that if he wanted to retreat, the women, tents and most of the supplies were still behind the Serhis defense line. He originally raided the Romans here to prevent them from cutting off the connection between himself and the camp, but now he clearly detected that the Roman cavalry in front of him did not find any other numbered teams except the Matthias. Yes, if nothing unexpected happened, another Roman cavalry should be entangled with Serhis. However, however, an increasingly ominous feeling surged in Surena's heart.

He hurriedly led all the oven cavalry and the squires to cross the axis of the Roman team and rushed towards their own baggage camp. However, the flames and whistles of the other side were sent wildly by the wind. The right wing of Lepidus's troops actually made a complex action of changing the axis in a short period of time. From the battalion to the regiment, and then to the smallest unit of the hundred-man team, about six or seven thousand people, they completed this transformation in sequence, facing the volley firepower sideways to Surena's team, and then the "six-column-in-one" shooting technique, pouring a wave of fatal side-shot arrows at Surena's cavalry column every five minutes.

The oven cavalry's armor was densely covered with arrow feathers, and they were still running at full speed. These arrows could hardly cause fatal damage to them, but the light cavalry was in trouble. It was difficult for them to survive with their mounts under such dense volleys. In the center of the formation. Lepidus's cloak was like a scissors. He raised his hand and swung out the gilded baton. Pointing straight ahead, all the soldiers in the center and on the left wing roared in unison, and with the Mattia cavalry vanguard, they launched a joint attack on the remaining Paia team in front! Just as Surena's troops left behind gathered heavy cavalry, under the cover of light cavalry bows and arrows, they counterattacked the attacking Romans, but who would have thought that the Roman vanguard of the Centuriae would give up the passage in unison. The Libyan natives hired by Lepidus drove the Garamante light chariots, lined up in a line, and came forward like a chain of death, cooperating with Mattia's cavalry, the sound of wheels, horse hooves and arrows intertwined in the air.

The Garamante chariot, although only two wheels, has extremely strong speed and impact. A sharp spear was inserted in the front of the car, so that it seemed as if the horse's body was carrying a weapon with a cold glow. In addition, in order to cut off the front line of the heavy cavalry, long and sharp sickles were installed on the axles of the chariots. The wheels rotated with them, making the kind of extremely terrifying buzzing and squeaking sounds. As a result, when the Paya cavalry collided with each other, the horses were afraid of the spears extended from the chariots and instinctively chose to avoid through the gaps between the chariots. The result was the sound of blood and flesh being stirred and torn - the limbs of people and horses harvested by the sickles were thrown everywhere, leaving behind bloody ruts, which penetrated deep into the Paya people, and the horses The Tia cavalry and Serapis light infantry followed closely behind to harvest. They stabbed the oven cavalrymen who fell to the ground and could not move with axes and short swords one by one. "Lift up his skirt, skirt, idiot." Alp scolded several recruits who were slashing at heavy armor. Then the recruit who understood the secret nodded, lifted up the skirt armor of the guy who was struggling on the ground, and stabbed him in the lower part. The opponent's head bounced violently through the visor, and soon fell completely and became silent.

The defeated Paya frontal troops took advantage of their speed and rushed towards the direction of Kalai City. Lepidus ordered the troops to chase ten Stadia and then ordered them to withdraw the formation.

Over there, Surena, who had suffered heavy casualties, was ready to rescue his camp, but he was still a step too late. The cavalry brigade of Marco Anthony and Dusunville had already "broken through" Serhis's interception and rushed into his baggage camp, killing and looting. Anthony even dismounted and personally captured Surena's concubines who were running around naked, causing Dusunville and Hanske to constantly collect the team and follow Anthony's pace.

"What is Serhis doing!" Surena, who was tired and angry, roared angrily at the fire in the camp ahead, and his entourage officers panicked and suggested to the commander-in-chief to take the team as soon as possible, abandon the plan to attack the city of Kale, and go to the city of Seleuria.

Now it was the only way. Finally, Surena went through untold hardships to gather the main forces one by one. He ran to a place 300 stadia away from Seleucia and stopped to set up camp. He still had Crassus's head and Pasianus in his hands. As for the Roman prisoners of war, most of them were lost, or rescued by Antony's cavalry, and those who could not be taken away were collectively executed. In addition, most of the 3,000 talents of wealth originally seized from Crassus were also lost and taken back by Lepidus, along with 70% of Surena's 300 beautiful concubines.

The hero who entered the city of Carrhae was none other than Lepidus, and he had the last laugh.

But his attack on Surena was not over.

In the city, Coponius found Lepidus and asked for a thorough investigation of the responsibility for the consul's death, because Crassus's words before his death had spread throughout the province. "This is equivalent to mutiny, a very serious crime." Coponius said.

Lepidus woke up and said gently, don't forget, Ignatius and Cassius have done such things, and I don't have the ability to punish them.

"Then we must deal with the soldiers and centurions who led the mutiny, and deal with it publicly." Coponius insisted.

"My friend, you should know that my army has taken in no less than four or five thousand deserters, many of whom were rescued from Surena's camp. Now you want me to punish them, I can't do it." Lepidus thought for a while, and then asked to assemble the entire army the next day, and he would announce the disposal matters.

But privately, he had distributed all the seized 3,000 talents of wealth to his subordinates, including the centurions and soldiers of the Fifth Legion, and almost everyone of Surena's concubines also had a share. Antony alone got ten, and Hybrida, Bagulus and Polo also got three each (Sabo politely refused). They clamored for the commander-in-chief to share the rain and dew equally, but because Heleptina and Nicole were there, Lepidus firmly rejected this request and claimed that he wanted to cherish his reputation. So Antony asked for more, hoping to give him all the quota that Lepidus refused, "I need a hundred-man team." So the morale of the army in Carrhae was completely controlled by him, just like Caesar and Crassus bribed a large number of people during the election. (To be continued...)