Chapter 271 Another Battle with the Cavalry

The scene was like a shepherd driving a flock of sheep. Although the number of Segestica warriors was far greater than that of the team led by Pequot, they were already overwhelmed by fear and had no courage to resist. They followed the crowd in panic and rushed towards the army of Desitiate.

"Segestica people, think about your great leader Andres, show your courage, and fight back! Kill the enemies behind you, there are only so many of them, they are not your opponents!..." Temagis, who was at a loss for a moment, rode his horse to the front of the fleeing soldiers and shouted urgently.

His guards rushed over and dragged him away from danger in time.

"Damn it! Damn the Segestica people! Damn it..." Seeing victory was about to be achieved, he did not expect such a big accident to happen. Seeing the defeated soldiers rushing to their front and then pushing their own soldiers like crazy... Desitiate's phalanx began to become disordered... Temagis felt a tightness in his chest. He could not bear to watch it anymore and turned his horse to run forward. He wanted to withdraw enough people from the front fighting team as soon as possible to calm down this ridiculous chaos.

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On the wooden wall of the village, Anlotas stared at the battlefield. It stands to reason that the arrival of reinforcements has relieved the village's predicament. As the leader, he should be happy, but his expression now is wooden.

"Leader, should we send out soldiers to help them kill the enemy as soon as possible?" His subordinates asked eagerly.

"Idiot! Don't you see that the enemy has been surrounded? The team we sent out may not even get close to the enemy. How can we help?" Anlotas scolded.

"It seems that the enemy will be eliminated soon. Should we prepare to welcome them into the village?" someone else asked.

"With so many of them coming, how can our village accommodate them? Aren't the military camps built by the Nix people still there? Let them live there when the time comes, so as not to disturb the lives of the tribe members!" Anlotas said unhappily.

The people around saw that the leader was in a bad mood and did not dare to say anything more.

Anlotas was indeed resentful. He had sent messengers to Kabudes for help many times in the past few days, but he never received a response. He and his tribe members were frightened for so long. Now the enemy is about to withdraw, and the reinforcements have just arrived. What's the use!

It seems that Kabudes still has a grudge against me, which is why he delayed sending reinforcements for so long. In this case, I don't need to show goodwill to him anymore. I still have to unite with Pricas in the future... Anlotas was thinking with a serious expression.

"Oh my God, look! Enemy reinforcements!" someone suddenly shouted.

Amid the panic shouts of the people around him, Anlotas came to his senses and looked west with everyone. He saw a long dragon that could not be seen at the end, moving towards this side extremely quickly along the river bank road...

"Quick! Go and inform Kabudes! Tell him that the enemy reinforcements are coming, and let him be careful!" Anlotas hurriedly told his men to report the news. Although he had a grudge against Kabudes, he did not want to see the coalition fail, otherwise his tribe would be finished.

In fact, the coalition scout had discovered the enemy before, but when he rushed back to report, he found that the battlefield was in chaos and he could not find the leader for a while, so he had to report to Tellus first. After all, there were few cavalrymen and they attacked alone. Tellus was followed by a flag bearer so that he could command his men to charge at any time, so it was easier to identify.

It took Tellus some time to gather his cavalry. The vanguard of Nix's reinforcements had bypassed the village and were heading towards the battlefield. Perhaps they saw the cavalry in front of them, so they quickly stopped advancing and began to reorganize.

Tellus saw from a distance that the enemy in front of him had no armor, no big shield, and only a short stick-like weapon in his hand... He had led the cavalry to attack Aulus's team several times before, but because of its tight defense, he did not achieve much results, but lost some of his men. At this moment, seeing that the enemy's reinforcements were so poorly equipped, how could he miss this great opportunity to annihilate the enemy? He immediately issued an order to attack.

The vanguard of the Nix reinforcements was the Crossbow Corps. They played an important role in the battle on the east bank of the Corana River, and no one was killed or injured. After the battle, they took the initiative to clean up the battlefield, picked up and repaired some crossbow arrows.

Early the next morning, Maximus led part of the army to quickly return to the rescue, and the Crossbow Corps was one of them. Because the Crossbow Corps carried a light load and marched faster than other teams, they became the vanguard.

Of course, this was also because Maximus learned from the crew that the enemy had begun to fight with the Fourth Legion (because the Pannonian coalition's scouts were powerful, Nix could only let the ships explore the battle situation in the river), so he dared to let the Crossbow Corps take the lead.

Although the captain of the Crossbow Corps, Valerius, was already out of breath, he always maintained a high degree of vigilance. When he found that there were enemy cavalry gathering in the distance ahead, he issued the order of "stop advancing and line up on the spot" without hesitation.

The crossbowmen quickly arranged themselves into two rows and began to prepare for shooting. Although they had been running all the way and consumed a lot of physical strength, their speed of drawing the bow and loading the arrows did not slow down at all. This was because someone had discovered a trick for drawing the bowstring in the previous battle, which could save a lot of effort: that is, to stand the crossbow vertically on the ground, step lightly on the back of the bow with both feet, and pull the bowstring with both hands. By using the strength of the waist and back, it is easier to string the bowstring.

After knowing this, Valerius immediately promoted it to the whole team. The soldiers quickly mastered this simple and easy-to-learn stringing method, which came in handy now.

They quickly loaded the arrows. The soldiers in the front row held the bow horizontally and prepared to shoot. The soldiers in the back row held the crossbow and were ready to hand it forward at any time.

This time, Terres did not use a column charge, but a fan-shaped formation, ready to push forward and defeat the enemy's vanguard in one fell swoop.

When the distance was about 100 meters, the speed of the warhorse had increased. Terles, who was charging ahead, looked at the loose horizontal formation of the enemy in front and the simple weapons and equipment. He remembered the depression he suffered when he attacked the enemy's tight shield formation before. He took a deep breath, raised his sword high, and roared: "Kill!"

Looking at the aggressive enemy cavalry, the crossbowmen were not panicked. In the previous battle, they easily defeated many more cavalry than this.

After judging that the enemy cavalry entered the distance of 100 meters, Valerius waved the red flag. This was not a misjudgment made out of panic, but because he was experienced in combat and believed that with the speed of the enemy cavalry, it should be just right to fire at this time, and perhaps it would give the soldiers one more round of shooting time.

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh..." Arrows flew like locusts. In a flash, people shouted and horses neighed. The Desitiatai cavalry in the front fell down, and their attack speed slowed down.

When the cavalrymen behind bypassed the fallen comrades in front and continued to charge forward, another round of crossbow arrows came, and another group of cavalrymen fell...

After two rounds of crossbow arrows, the formation of the Desitiatai cavalry had become sparse. Terles was always in the front, and his speed did not slow down. It was not because he was lucky. He was also hit by an arrow, but as the leader of the tribe, he wore an iron helmet and rode the best warhorse. Although the arrow that hit his chest was blocked by the breastplate, the strong impact almost made him suffocate. The cavalrymen who kept falling on both sides made him feel like a knife in his heart. He endured the severe pain, glared at the enemy in front with bloodshot eyes, and kept shaking the reins with his left hand...

Closer... Closer... He could clearly see the faces of the enemies in front, and they also showed panic on their faces, and even turned around...

Don't think about escaping! I will kill you all to sacrifice my men with blood! ... Terles clenched the long sword in his hand and roared again.

Just then, he saw the enemy in front of him turn around and shoot three or four arrows at him at the same time. In a flash, the horse under his crotch screamed and suddenly fell forward. Before he could react, he was thrown out by the strong inertia. He heard a "crack" sound and hit the ground head first, and he immediately lost consciousness...

The Nix crossbowmen fired three rounds of arrows, and almost half of the Desitiatae cavalry fell in the middle of the charge, and their leader, the prestigious and brave Terles, also fell to the ground. Such a large number of casualties frightened the remaining cavalry, and they began to hesitate...

Seeing this, Valerius immediately ordered: "The crossbowmen advance in formation and shoot freely!"

The crossbowmen took the initiative to advance and close the distance with the cavalry. After firing crossbows and shooting down several cavalry, the Desitiatae cavalry, who had lost their leader, retreated in fear, leaving behind a field of wounded and dead companions and horses that fell to the ground and screamed...

The crossbowmen turned and headed straight for the enemy infantry who were besieging the flank of the Aulus phalanx.

Valerius sent a hundred men to guard the enemy cavalry watching from a distance, and divided the remaining 500 crossbowmen into two teams, approaching the enemy infantry array 80 meters away and starting to shoot arrows.

Some soldiers behind the Desitiatae spear army had already discovered the approaching enemy, and their loud shouting had no effect on the entire team that was fighting with all their strength, and they themselves could not leave the array, so they could only turn around to face the enemy and put up their shields to prepare for defense.

In the battle on the east bank of the Corana River, it has been proved that this simple wooden shield cannot stop the powerful crossbow arrows at all. After one round of shooting, more than a hundred people fell down, and another round of shooting fell down more than a hundred people... The dense array made the Desitiatae light infantry the best live target, and almost every arrow was rewarded.

After three rounds of shooting, the casualties of more than 400 Desitiatae soldiers had caused the entire infantry array on the attacking flank to be seriously injured.

Some warriors were unwilling to passively take the beating, so they turned around and attacked the Nix crossbowmen. Others followed suit, and the spear army formation collapsed. Naturally, the threat to the flank of the Aulus phalanx was gone...