Augustus Road

Fortunately, the main members of the previous twenty-seventh legion were horse bandits put together by Combano and local Spanish auxiliaries. In Le Bida's eyes, the auxiliary legion is only different from the regular legion in terms of the source of its soldiers. In terms of combat effectiveness, he is confident that he has brought it up. Regardless of the number, its morale and combat power will not be even one step worse than the second-line regular legion. Diandian, especially the 12th and 16th legions, have a solid foundation and rich combat experience, and are close to elites like the 10th legion. Therefore, in this battle, Lepidus also paid equal attention to the newly formed Twenty-Seventh Army Corps, determined to take advantage of their mobility and lightness, and secretly detached half of the artillery unit, carrying six cavalry cannons and some scorpion crossbows, and decided not to carry them with them. Carrying the food and baggage, he ran towards the location of the Combano cavalry.

Normal people would not take military action in this weather, right? But this is also the best time to engage in cunning tactics - the tradition of the Roman Republic is to concentrate its military forces for decisive battles. Its advantage lies in its well-developed transportation roads, including land and sea routes, and its shallow maneuvering depth, which allows them to compete with foreign enemies or in civil wars. , all focused on infantry regiments fighting heavily. However, as the front extended to the north and east inland, the advantages of infantry began to be offset by the large depth, and cavalry and mobility became increasingly important. Of course, there are not many people in this period, Even figures like Caesar and Pompey did not know enough about this trend, so Pompey suffered from the guerrilla warfare of Sethius in Spain in his early years, while Crassus was annihilated by Parthia in the desert of Calle. Lepidus realized, or in the existing knowledge system before he traveled, that cavalry was the queen of ancient wars, but unfortunately he came to the classical era where stirrups had not yet been invented, and the reason why he was unwilling to do so in his There is no other reason why the cavalry team is eager to popularize this simple thing, because the technical content of this thing is too low. But the power was too great. It did not appear, but the people at that time had not yet been enlightened by God and blessed their souls. Once Lepidus figured it out in advance, even the most common Celtic tribe's forging technology would be useless. "It was not the stirrups that drove the cavalry, but the cavalry that drove the emergence of the stirrups." Travelers must be more cautious in ancient times. He has too many seemingly ordinary but exciting things, but for himself, they are more like sharp double-edged swords, if he is frivolous and impetuous. On the contrary, it will bring disaster on itself.

Therefore, Lepidus's innovation must be more "natural and invisible." For this time, the Twenty-seventh Army is the reform of light infantry. These four thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry (including the Mattians) do not have heavy infantry. The equipment is particularly suitable for traveling in mountainous areas of Spain, and is suitable for insertion and roundabout tactics. Six thousand soldiers marched with their heads buried in the heavy rain, including many people at the grassroots level. We still don’t know what role they played in this march, probably in the morning of the next day. They meet up with Combano.

"Look, the bridge pier is still there! Everyone was killed by my cavalry as ordered." In the rain, Combano proudly pointed to the water and said to Lepidah to take credit.

Li Bida looked at what he was pointing at and saw that there were indeed bridge piers, but they had long been covered up by the surging torrent. Only a few hard-to-distinguish tips were still exposed, which was difficult to detect at first glance. It seems that even if Kang Bano is not killed, the pontoon built by these people will be washed away. But the crux now is that the war will begin soon. Pompey's army couldn't get through, and Lepidus couldn't get through either. In that case, even if Afranius's team collapsed, the credit would not have much to do with himself - since the failure of the ambush at Corfinium, Lepidus had devoted himself to annihilating Pompey's legion. Full of interest.

However, even though this is Asase now, the river is still swollen with whirlpools, and it is still raining in the sky. "Wait where you are. Afranius is not in a hurry, and we are not in a hurry." Lepidus ordered.

Over there, Pompey's camp was also suffering in the rain, and everyone was waiting eagerly. "It's time to get ready and leave your fate to God." Afranius said with a sigh. Sextus couldn't accuse him of anything, because this was reality.

In Caesar's camp, the soldiers stood silently in the puddles. Vercingetorius sat on his horse, looking at the dense rain and the blurry enemy positions opposite, and his heart was full of anxiety.

Everyone is waiting.

The sound of dripping rain is like the hourglass of life and luck.

Finally, the rainy clouds slowly rose and dissipated, and the sun suddenly came down unobstructed. Sextus shouted, got on his horse, and rushed to the valley in front with all the cavalry. The five legions The soldiers staggered behind him. Afranius saw that each of his men looked tired and depressed, and saw that all the baggage was abandoned and the seriously wounded were brought along. Afranius was shaken violently in his heart and could not help but feel sorry for such a war. doubts about the meaning of the matter. Maybe he could have been more decisive back then, instead of caring about his son's life, and if he had recognized the situation early and negotiated peace with Caesar, maybe the entire army would not have been reduced to such a state, like a mouse being played with in the palm of a cat. , let alone so many loyal and brave subordinates died.

At the same time, in Caesar's camp, except for Milu who stayed with the most experienced veterans, the rest launched a surprise attack on Pompey's camp from the filled camp gates and trenches. "How can the tricks of Pompey's subordinates be hidden from my eyes? I, Julius Caesar, will only be manipulated by the gods and fate, and will never be controlled by any earthly enemies!" After seeing the suspicious troop movements in the opposite camp, Caesar saw through Sextus's ambush plan, so he let the tenth legion with the strongest combat effectiveness cross the road between the camp and the mountain to guard against the attack of the ambush. The seventh and eighth legions continued to pursue with Vercingetorix's cavalry, while the fifteenth and sixteenth legions took a detour to the mountain, attacked and searched for the ambush and killed it, and he led the new two legions to slowly advance forward to support the battle situation of all parties.

Now, the ambush troops composed of the five legionary chief battalions could not rush forward, and were suppressed and eliminated by the two legions. The terrifying word "annihilation" came to everyone's mind. Soon, under the joint temporary resolution of several chief centurions, everyone began to throw down their weapons and surrender.

The retreat began to collapse. Afranius, who stayed in the rear guard, suddenly shouted to Peletaus, "You continue to protect Pompey's youngest son, but I am only his deputy general, responsible for the lives of the soldiers of the entire army, not his family's retainers or slaves. Let's part ways here. The soldiers voluntarily leave or stay. How about it? Do you want to fight with me?" As a result, Peletaus, with the guards and armed slaves, just nodded to him, and then took the soldiers who were still willing to follow and continued to flee on the road.