Chapter 453 Battle of Piacenza (Part 2)

In addition, Caesar also selected 300 of the most elite Gallic cavalry, hiding behind the spear formation, so as to defeat the Nix cavalry more quickly.

The Gallic cavalry under Caesar basically came from the Gallic tribes that completely surrendered to him, such as the Aedui. These tribes were later liquidated by Vercingetorix, so the cavalry had hatred for the Gallic army led by Vercingetorix and were willing to fight to the death for this Roman commander with strong leadership charisma.

Since it has been determined that the left wing is the key to the victory of the Roman army, Caesar brought his staff to sit behind the left wing as he did in the Battle of Pharsalus.

The left wing of the Nix army is the Germanic army and the Japodic army, the middle is the first and third legions, the right wing is the second and fourth legions, and the outer side of the right wing is the cavalry legion. As a reserve, the fifth legion is located behind the connection between the middle and the left wing, and is also deliberately divided into two parts.

There is a special group behind the Nix's central army: there are hundreds of soldiers, hundreds of horses, and thousands of auxiliary personnel. Some of the auxiliary personnel are fully assisting the soldiers to wear armor, while others are struggling to put cloth armor on the horses...

April is a good season with bright sunshine and lush grass, but at this moment, in the area of ​​five miles east of Piacenza and south of the Po River, two armies are making final preparations before the war.

One army is like a harvest land, golden and dazzling, indescribably heavy and steady; the other army is like a thriving flame, scarlet and dazzling, giving people palpitations.

The army formations of both sides are neat and tight, the soldiers are all wearing dazzling armor, holding large shields and short swords, with firm eyes and silent words, like standing steel statues, thus forming two long iron walls. Between the iron walls was a long and narrow open area, like a chasm between life and death, filled with a tense atmosphere. The wind stopped breathing, the birds dared not stay, and even the insects hiding in the grass stopped chirping.

"Woo!!!...Woo!!!..." Finally, after nearly half an hour of confrontation, both sides sounded the attack horn almost at the same time, and the infantry formation began to move forward slowly.

Compared with the slow movement of the infantry, the cavalry was much faster, completing the transition from jogging to acceleration within a minute. The distance of nearly 500 meters quickly became just a few feet away, and the opponent's roaring and ferocious face appeared before their eyes.

The cavalry of both sides were like two surging and roaring waves. At the moment of the crash, the sound of horses wailing, soldiers screaming, and weapons clashing suddenly burst out in the dust and fog...

When the cavalry of both sides began to clash, the infantry formation was still advancing at a steady speed, but the situation was a little different on the Nix army side: there was a looser formation in front of the heavy infantry formation, which was 2,500 crossbowmen led by Dorin approaching the enemy at a faster speed.

Fulvius Postumus was a centurion of the first battalion of the 14th Legion of Rome. He was commended by Caesar for his bravery in the Gallic War. Before, when Caesar was exploring the enemy formation and passing by him, he smiled and called out his name, which made him very excited and secretly determined: he must make new contributions in the next battle to repay Caesar's appreciation of him.

At this time, Postumus stood at the forefront of the central army formation and on the far left of his company's square formation, holding a large shield and a short sword, while advancing steadily and keeping a close eye on the approaching enemies in front.

He had never seen the weapons held by these enemies before, but before the battle, the legion commanders and captains repeatedly reminded him that these were the Nix crossbowmen who had caused great losses to the army led by Antony, and their long-range attacks also had a certain lethality to heavy infantry.

Therefore, he was in a rather nervous mood, and had been estimating the distance between him and the Nix crossbowmen in front. When they were about a hundred meters apart, he suddenly shouted: "Soldiers, charge!"

Almost at the same time, the officers of the entire central army formation also issued the same order, so the speed of the first-line army formation in the middle suddenly increased, but the posture of the soldiers charging was different from before. They held the large shield in front of them and ran with the shield.

Because the Nixlu soldiers had already picked up the double crossbows and pulled the trigger, thousands of crossbow arrows flew out.

Postumus subconsciously lowered his head and retracted his right arm holding the shield, trying to hide his whole body behind the shield.

With a sharp and crisp sound of "ding", his right arm shook violently, slowing down his forward momentum, and then the entire shield became slightly heavier.

Postumus' face changed. He didn't expect that the arrows fired by the enemy would be so powerful that they could penetrate the core of the shield made of fine iron!

Then he heard several screams in his ears. He didn't need to look left and right to know that a soldier was injured by an arrow. His heart tightened immediately and he rushed forward more vigorously.

Other Roman soldiers were like Postumus. Not only were they not frightened by the long-range attack of the Nix crossbowmen, but they roared and rushed forward.

This was exactly what Caesar had been asking before the war: to get the front-line soldiers close to the Nix army as soon as possible to avoid being exposed to the long-range attack of the Nix crossbowmen for a long time, causing more casualties.

To this end, he also abandoned the traditional tactics of the Roman Legion - throwing javelins when approaching the enemy formation, and even required the soldiers on the front line not to carry javelins, so as to fight the enemy in close combat as quickly as possible.

The two Roman Legion in the middle of the road faithfully executed this order. They did their best to make the Knick Crossbow have no time to shoot the second round after the first round. Good arrows.

Doline decisively issued an order to retreat, after all, she also has a more important task to complete.

It's almost fifty meters away from the enemy! ... I started to see the Perspoam who was a little panting and saw the Knicks crossbow in front of them quickly turned to retreat, trying to escape their charge at a faster speed.

The only strange thing is that the Knick Crossbowers in front of the side retreated directly backwards. The rows of Knicks crossbowrs in front of them accelerated the retreat towards the oblique back. Crowded.

Are these enemies scared by us! ... Persian Turus spit out with a sigh of breath, and then he froze.

After the evacuation of the crossbowmen in front, a hundred meters of gaps were left. When Persian Turus's gaze passed through this gap, he did not see the Knicks infantry array in the rear. Intersection

The costumes of these cavalry were never seen before: He has never seen it before:

The helmets they wear are not only iron -made, but they are almost fully closed. They only show their eyes and mouths, and even their necks are surrounded;

The armor they wear is also iron, but not only protects the front chest, back and shoulders, but also wraps their arms, large legs, and the entire armor is closely connected to protect the whole body;

The war horses in their crotch were extremely tall and strong, and the whole body was covered by armor, only four horse legs were exposed;

They also carried a spear of more than three meters long, and the sharp spear tip towering in the air flashed in the sun with cold light ...

These Knicks cavalry looks like a steel fortress. The man and the horse seem to be fused by the dark armor, exuding a stingy and cold atmosphere, making the shadow of death in the hearts of the Roman soldiers who faced them.

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These Knicks cavalry also ranked into array and began an charge. It was like the towering Alps collapsed downwards, and the whole land trembled.

Faced with this suffocating sense of oppression, Persian Turus and other centurorns screamed with a trembling voice: "Stop forward !!! Defend immediately!!!! ..." No. 1 "No. 1"

The soldiers of the Fourteenth Corps are indeed a long -lasting battlefield. When the team officials issued orders, they had stopped moving forward, and quickly moved closer to each other, and soon formed a dense formation.

When the top Roman soldiers erected the shield in front of them and formed a shield wall, the latter soldiers used the shield to hold their back and support their strength, Persteu Mus is tight. The heartstrings were slightly loosened slightly. He stretched the short sword out of the gap between the shield like other soldiers, so that he shone in the sun.

But this does not seem to be intimidating the enemy riding ahead. Their speed is getting faster and closer. He can even see the breath sprayed by the tall horses, the huge horseshoe knocking the ground hard, letting the ground forcefully, letting the ground forcefully to let the ground make the ground, let the ground forceful to let the ground make the ground, let the ground forceful to let the ground make the ground, so that the huge horseshoe can beat the ground hard to let the ground forcefully make the ground, so that letting the ground forcefully let the ground make the ground, let the ground hard to let the ground forcefully make the ground, so that the huge horseshoe can knock the ground hard to let the ground force the ground to let the ground make the ground. His heart also shook together ...

But even so, Persian Turus is still reluctant to believe that these Knicks cavalry dare to hit a Roman intensive military array on the front, because he has never seen any forces cavalry in his more than ten years of war. Dare to do this.

The Knicks cavalry rushed to the Persian Turus was called Grnall. The former Posol, the first -class citizen of the Kings Kingdom, joined the Knicks Cavalry Brigade after the Knicks conquered Boy. A series of battles that conquered Taory and defeated the Germans.

Four years ago, the Kingdom of Kingdom formed a heavy cavalry. The reason why he could be picked was not only because he was superb, strong, and weak, but he was not high and weighed lightly.

After being informed of the news that "the heavy cavalry sometimes needs to hit the enemy line and is extremely dangerous", he still accepts it. That's because he can ride on the country as a dreamer. The Poima can also be promoted to his level faster (according to the newly promulgated decree issued by the Ministry of Military, because the heavy cavalry has the greatest risk in the battle, and the fighting skills obtained each time are more than other arms).

Of course, Ghanaro was not afraid of death, but the thick armor from head to toe gave him great courage to impact the enemy.

Looking at the shield wall not far ahead, Genall reached out and patted his neck of the horse.