Augustus Road

"No one gains anything without the loss of others." - Prilius Selus

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Pompey's left wing was the first to be hit. They were still on alert. The cavalry and elephant soldiers were connected in series and deployed at the forefront. The infantry were still behind, holding shovels and pickaxes, working on the unfinished barriers. At this time, they saw Caesar's "Skylark" Fifth Legion, most of whom were sturdy and lightly armed swordsmen, shouting the Celtic battle horn and blowing the golden horse bugle. They rushed in front of the 12th and 15th Legions like a furious tide, with the hunting spears and arrows shot by the 15th Legion in the back row flying above their heads. They waved their long swords and actually killed the elephants directly.

Amid the rumbling sound, the light chariots with fire on the front of the chariots also charged with the Skylark Legion. They rushed at lightning speed, with long scythes on their two wheels humming rapidly, and were involved in the Numidian cavalry among the elephants. The broken limbs of people and horses flew together. The elephants themselves were trampled by the darts, hunting spears, slings and lead bullets shot accurately and densely by the 15th Legion. After receiving Caesar's training on "how to fight elephants", the brave Skylark Legion was very skillful in dividing into teams of ten or twenty people. They did not take a defensive position like Lepidus, but surrounded an elephant, took the long scythe and oars used by the boat rowers in their hands, tied sharp blades on their heads, set them on fire, and stabbed and stabbed the elephant's unarmored body. The result was exactly as Lepidus expected. These large livestock are actually the most vulnerable. They were more afraid of sharp and tiny weapons than humans. Soon some of these elephants were killed. A group of them fell backwards and broke their own formation. Some of them circled and ran wildly. Finally, there was an elephant that was driven crazy by flying stones and long sickles. In the chaos, it knocked over a slave from the Fifth Legion who came to pick up the spoils. Then it knelt down with an angry cry and crushed the slave to death. Then a centurion from the Fifth Legion bravely rushed up. As with Laibrus, he was firmly caught by the beast's long trunk and lifted up. Fortunately, he was using a long sword, so his arms were always exposed, so he chopped the elephant's trunk fiercely, and finally chopped that part into scars. He could only let it go with a sad cry and turned to run away. Several other soldiers from the Fifth Legion rushed forward and sawed the elephant's legs with long sickles. As a result, it could only kneel down in pain and never moved again, indicating its surrender and no longer daring to resist. Then the brave slaves of the Fifth Legion also came up and tied it with chains and ropes, and "captured" it as a trophy.

The Numidian cavalry who were covering the war elephants, or hoping to be covered by the war elephants, also turned and fled under the impact of chariots and infantry. In this way, the 12th and 15th Legions, which continued to follow behind, also lit torches and rushed to climb up the camp of the left wing of Pompeii's army with the Fifth Legion, and launched a brutal battle with the enemy who threw down their tools and took up weapons to resist. The slogan of "victory" was heard everywhere, and the firelight illuminated the night like day. Pompeii's party members in Thapsus and the south of the Myconian Salt Lake were all terrified. Vibrius, the chief centurion of the First Legion of Pompey, held the golden hare flag. After all the soldiers around him were killed or wounded, he stood in front of the corpses and loudly encouraged his soldiers, asking them not to abandon the flag and Monsignor Dictator. Then, in the darkness and firelight, Caesar's Severus cavalry rushed over with the roar of horse hooves, and the javelin thrown pierced Vibrius's forehead, but he did not fall down. He was still there, holding tightly the pride of the legion. Relying on the remaining instincts, the cavalry passed by his body one by one. More and more javelins pierced his body, and gradually he turned into a sculpture like a hedgehog, until several military slaves holding axes and sticks cut off his hands and took down the flag.

At this time, Pompey had just walked out of Mykonin with Peletaus and his entourage, preparing to go to the front to supervise the battle. As a result, he saw the defeated soldiers fleeing like an avalanche, and he understood everything. The First, Second, and Sixth Legions were all elite troops that he had managed for many years. He was confident in the combat effectiveness of any of these legions, but now - that is to say, the great Pompey, the invincible Pompey, probably disappeared in the dust of Africa along with all his glory after a complete defeat!

But he still wanted to die like an eagle. Pompey roared to all the defeated soldiers, "Turn back and die facing the enemy. I, Gnaeus Pompey, am with you!" After that, he rode on the horse himself, picked up a spear, wrapped in Alexander's cloak, and rushed forward with the guards. He seemed to have returned to his 23-year-old self, the handsome, curly-haired and shy boy who inherited his father's army, personally jumped on the horse and held a spear in the battle, stabbing the enemy generals off the horse. He was a hero who won the title of "Imperato" in the army at a young age. All the people loved him, and all the nobles envied him. "Follow me charge, Pompeii's soldiers!" He shouted happily and enthusiastically, as if he had won the victory and was chasing the enemy's defeated soldiers.

Pompey's figure loomed in the melee, but at this moment, the battlefield was full of shouts of "feri" and "feri". This was the customary slogan of the Roman army to chase and defeat the fleeing enemy, but all the shouts were from Caesar's side. The soldiers, this sound even reached the city of Thapsus, and the Thirteenth Legion staying in the blockade was "slaughtering" the Thapsus people who escaped from the city.

Because the city's land and sea were all sealed off, many people could only swim. From a small gate near the sea, they tried to swim up to the land and run away with a wooden plank in their arms, but this area was all blocked by Lepidus' deputy general Petny. Wusi took control and placed four bellows cannons, twelve scorpion crossbows, and two large groups of archers. Fire dragons swept across the water. There was an extremely narrow beach with waist-deep water. Tarsu The people had to cross this distance to escape, but the flames from the bellows cannons scorched their bodies and hair. Many people screamed and slowly fell into the water. Those who were lucky enough to escape the flames and climbed ashore were also shot by bows and arrows. Throw a gun and shoot him to death.

Hearing the shouts of "feri" getting farther and farther, the commander Petheneus could not hold himself back. He summoned the six infantry groups of the legion and spoke, "The Thapsusians have done absolutely nothing, so I am ready to attack, otherwise our army will have no reputation in this war."