Augustus Under the Horseshoe

"Tsk, tribal chief, well-deserved reputation."

With advanced invisibility, the wizard mage hidden in the sky frowned. He did not expect that the opponent would expel the huge flame element with a spell, and quickly used detection magic to start searching for his own trace. At this moment, if you don't retreat immediately, but instead use spells, you will be caught by the opponent 100%.

However, if you just leave and delay the plan of the tribe’s marching speed, you will fall short! The consumption of his spell slot is a bit serious. If it drags on for another day, the ghost knows where this group of people will go, how many people will be killed, and how many villages will be crushed!

Suddenly, a very terrifying wave of magic came into the ears of the wizard from the West. After the initial stupefaction, the Dove Whispering Court reopened. The Regent and Marshal of the Forbidden Army took the seat himself and mobilized all the forces of Asia Minor to pass There is only one sentence.

"Cuckoo, reinforcements are being assembled and are about to arrive. Cuckoo."

The mage sighed, and after all he endured it, and quickly slipped away before the horses and horses found him. He took his own people and hung far from the flank of the tribe army, and stopped the harassment.

The endless looting and harassment finally stopped. The tribe passed by three more villages along the way. While stopping for a while, they completely wiped them off the map. Some red-eyed men and horses were killed, and even the heads of these mortals were inserted. On the stake, he tried to anger the elf cavalry who had been playing in the distance, but he was unsuccessful.

Finally, the distance between the two armies widened. When the horses and horses are marching, apart from weapons, they have almost no load. The salutes are all carried by three tall and strong war horses.

But the elves’ high-class horses, always carrying their heavily armored masters and a lot of luggage, occupy a great disadvantage in this marathon. As time goes by, more and more horses are sweating profusely. , The hoof steps were exhausted, and the breathing became disordered.

These newly appointed cavalry commanders looked at the panting horses under their hips and sighed helplessly. Suddenly, they had no time to prepare more spare horses, more horse food, and ride on the fastest and strongest steed. Set off directly.

"The soldiers should rest first. Feed the horses with soybeans, fresh water, and forage. Don't ask me why. Anyway, the Persians and nomads feed them like this. It must make sense.

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With the passage of time, the people and horses chose a flat and open land as a camping site. They did not tie up their tents. After dinner, after taking care of the horses, they held a bow in their left hand and an arrow in their right, guided by a cyan dragon flag. Next, they were arranged in a neat and uniform square array, and they fell asleep just standing like this.

And some soldiers in charge of the night watch, like ghosts, patrol around the army, a pair of sharp eagle eyes, accompanied by the gloomy night owl whispering, like the sky full of stars, shining on the dark sky... ·

At this moment, the field battle regiments of Eastern Rome are also gathering to respond under the control of the Dove. The first, second, third, fourth, and four full field battle regiments in the East, marching at full speed based on the intelligence of the scouts, looted three villages and supplemented their supplies, and camped and rested at night, and finally arrived nearby.

After the division of the legion, the Roman military weaving has been very different from the past. The standard number of each team is 1,051. It is further subdivided into ten companies. The standard number of one company is Ten by ten ten-person squads, one hundred soldiers, plus a centurion, a flag officer, and two military musicians, a three-person bard choir, a total of 104 people, The entire battle group is at least equipped with a small team, that is, ten wizards to assist in the battle. The number of wizards assigned by some powerful battle groups even exceeded the triple digits.

The missions of each company are also quite different. One company is directly commanded by the commander of the battle group. It is the elite of the elite. One, two, three, four, and four companies have four hundred people, all of which are the latest and improved Persian heavyweights. Cavalry, wearing double heavy armor, can skillfully use lances and bows.

The fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and four companies were heavily armored infantrymen. Their main weapons gradually changed from thick-spine daggers, which were easy to fight in close quarters, into sharp spears more than two meters long. , On the other hand, the left hand can completely cover itself with the main tower shield. There is no change. The original three armor-piercing heavy javelins have been replaced by a dozen small spears. Although the power is reduced, they can carry more and shoot. Farther-in short, it is better to kill and attack light armoured troops and horses without armor protection. They seem to be facing more and more and more and more dominant cavalry on the battlefield, and made a series of targeted measures. .

The last nine, ten, and two companies are archers wearing chain armor and holding composite longbows. The wealth of the empire can be seen here. Even the safest long-range strike force is equipped with a large number of iron armors regarded as treasures by the barbarians. .

Not only that, each battle group is also equipped with a different number of foreign troops and auxiliary troops to assist in combat. The most terrifying thing is that in order to improve their mobility, even the infantry has at least a mule that can ride on the road. Greatly increase the speed of movement, mount down at the predetermined location, and fight on foot.

In this way, more than 4,000 well-trained Roman soldiers and more than 6,000 foreign auxiliary troops from barbarians and monsters gathered together in the dark and became the spearhead of the empire's counterattack. Marius, Adnius, Gest, Aidron, the four war captains, and the tauren from Crete, the ogre from Dacia, the barbarian from Thrace, and Nomadic auxiliary troops from the north successfully joined forces.

After the four battle commanders argued, the three original commanders obediently gave way, allowing Marius, the former commander of the fifteenth Apollo Army, to become the commander-in-chief of the night attack.

Marius was full of spirits and hadn't commanded so many people to fight for a long time. At this moment, he finally got back some of the feelings he had in the past.

Under his order, four battle groups, a total of one hundred mages, gathered together. For their unified dispatch, one thousand heavy armored tauren, one thousand heavy armored ogres, two thousand Thracian barbarians wearing chain armor and holding giant sickle blades were deployed on the central front line.

One thousand six hundred imperial soldiers were divided into two parts and ranked on the two wings, one thousand six hundred Persian heavy cavalry, two thousand northern steppe archers, stood by in the rear, and the center was the Marius battle group. Long, one hundred mages, and eight hundred heavy armor longbowmen.

"Look! We stay on this high ground, let the wizard shoot endless fireballs of flames, forcing them to attack! How about three times as many as us? First use large-scale magic to disrupt their command system, and then Occupying favorable terrain continuously consumes their vital power. If soon, we can give the head of the white horse to the regent tonight!"

The Romans came quickly and concealed. After the assembly was completed, the group launched a storming attack directly under the cover of night! Accompanied by the sound of the blazing flames that shook the sky and the earth, hundreds of blaze fireballs roared across the dark sky, bursting into groups of gorgeous and beautiful fire clouds in the centaur camp, which almost dyed half of the sky red!

"What did the scout eat! Didn't it respond to being touched so close?"

The warchief opened his eyes in the blast of flames and the dazzling flames, and quickly entered a state of battle, shouting a few scouts, and then relieved. These **** elves use fireball, at least If you are four hundred feet away, you might even be six hundred feet away. The centaur can only see sixty feet in the dark, which is far beyond the alert range of the scout.

The first round of arcane fire, which fell from the sky like a meteor shower, did disrupt the formation of the horses and horses and caused great damage. However, these nomads who stood in a phalanx sleeping, opened their eyes, and were in front of the banner officer and Under the order of the head of a hundred households, he entered a state of battle, not at all in the chaos expected by the Romans.

The warlocks of the Wind Howl clan took the lead, breaking through the curtain of flames, coming to the front line of the battle, and directly preparing to counter the spells and release the magic.

When the terrifying meteor swarms in the second round shredded the silence of the night, the warlocks started their actions one by one, destroying, disintegrating, and countering the flames and anger of the sky, making them disillusioned like bubbles. The sky stained red returned to darkness.

On the battlefield, a few cat-headed nighthawks soaring in the night sky also brought back enemy intelligence for the Druids of the Withered Bones. The number is small, about 10,000, but they occupy a high hill. The cavalry rushed up, I'm afraid there will be heavy casualties.

"Don't pay attention to them, we are here to save our compatriots, not to entangle with the elves, to sound the horn of retreat, hurry!"

Pain Hess weighed it, and decisively chose to retreat, letting Christina and Abhuos lead the army to continue to the west, while he took Christian, the Wind Howler, the Poet Dead, and other spellcasters behind, to counter and destroy With the Romans’ super long-distance magic strike, harassment.

"Oh, barbarians, the number of spellcasters is quite large."

Seeing that her own flame bombing had not achieved the expected effect, Marius frowned solemnly.

"No, it's obviously that we first perfected this set of counter-magic tactics! Even if they have enough casters, why are they so proficient in dispelling and counter-magic?!"

"Don't we also learn the cavalry tactics of a large number of nomads? What these people learned in the empire five years ago is no less than what we learned from them."

The other commander said in a muffled voice.

"Mariaus, listen! The other party is blowing the horn of retreat. We recorded their habits back then! Now there is a very serious problem: the opponent's cavalry is almost ten times as large as ours. They retreat like this, we have to give up The location is right, do you go straight up to chase it?

The commander of the battle group who led this battle held his forehead helplessly. If he didn’t chase, his blocking mission would fail. If he pursued, his 7,000 infantry and more than 3,000 cavalry would give up the geographical advantage and go to the plain to chase a force of about 30,000. , The quality and number of casters, cavalry units that don't seem to be much worse than themselves?

"Everyone, don't act rashly! It's not just this group of gangsters who have broken into our land. We are already at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. If we are chasing, we will have great fun when we hit the second unit!"

Marius' face was somber as if he could wring out the water. If it were still in the Legion era, I had a well-trained 10,000-thousand corps in my hand, adding a mix of foreign legions, auxiliary legions, and conscript cannon fodder forcibly enlisted from nearby towns and villages. I would go straight up without saying a word.

But now...Forget it, if it is still the Legion era, it is estimated that it will not be able to catch up with this swift and windy nomadic force.

"The mission failed, I bear the responsibility!"

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