Chapter 18 The Battle with Kautini (4)

Several trumpeters around Segovani kept blowing the horns of retreat.

At the same time, Segovani, who was at the head of the team, led the tribal warriors beside him to speed up.

Seeing that the Kautinis in front no longer cared about their threats and just ran forward, the Dionysian cavalry turned to each other without hesitation, and threw the javelin in their hands in the gallop.

The javelin flew into the dense line and immediately fell.

The attacked Kautini warriors also angrily shot back the Dionian cavalry who were turning away.

The screams and the neighing of the horses sounded uninterruptedly in the two teams, and at the same time, there were also the exclamations of the Kautini soldiers from all over the place: "Cavalry! Cavalry!!..."

Teams of Dionian cavalry and Campania cavalry kept coming from behind, circling around this huge Cautini team, stirring up the sky. They kept rushing towards the enemy, throwing javelins to kill each other and interfere with their progress. Even when they saw the thin formation of the Kautini people at the end of the team, they drove the horses to disperse them, like a cunning pack of wolves swooping on giant beasts, constantly adding pressure and wounds to them. make it frustrating...

Since the Dionysian cavalry suffered a disastrous defeat to the Numibian cavalry and the Celtic cavalry in the South-Italian War more than ten years ago, the cavalry regiment commander Ryders came to the rescue and formulated a more rigorous and meticulous training plan, and at the same time selected more excellent After more than ten years of unremitting training and tactical improvement, the current Dionian cavalry has been greatly improved compared with the original.

Segovani looked at the enemy cavalry squads that were constantly staggering in front of him. While defending with shields and throwing javelins, he kept shouting to the soldiers around him: "...don't stop! Keep going! Keep going!……"

In his heart, he really wanted to order the team to stop, set up a battle, and teach these annoying enemy horses a good lesson. He believed that with the bravery and large number of Kautini warriors, the opponent could completely defeat the enemy. But the increasing number of enemy cavalry also means that his team has become the target of the opponent's key strikes. Once the opponent's infantry arrives...

When Segovani was anxious, he saw a group of heavy infantry in black helmets and black armor appear in the dust mist hanged by the enemy cavalry in front, and he was shocked: How did the Dionysian infantry run to the front?

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Taglu, he was a reserve soldier of the Third Army more than ten years ago. As the temporary chief officer of the La River Fortress, he led the soldiers to successfully block the attack of the rebel Laos. After the war, not only did he His achievements were generously commended by the Ministry of Military Affairs, and he was successfully transferred to the Third Army Corps. More than ten years have passed, and now he is the captain of the Fourth Brigade of the Third Army.

In this assault on the Kautinis, Taglu's 4th Battalion was in charge of the area to the south between Cesara and Lola.

He first led two detachments to defeat a group of enemies with the assistance of cavalry, then led them to cooperate with the other two detachments, pinched another enemy with a larger number, and defeated it smoothly. But in the process of interrogating the captives, Taglu learned that the team from Sarsera had sacked a village and looted some Greek citizens, and was already on its way to the city of Sarsara.

Tagloo immediately led the team to chase, and finally intercepted the opponent before he could reach Sacela. As a result, on the way back, he encountered a scout who was looking for them everywhere, and Taglu led the troops to rush to Atra, because its position at this time was already north of Atra. .

When Segovani saw the Dionian heavy infantry in front, Taglu also saw the hurried, scattered formation of the Cautini army, and the galloping around it. The Dionian cavalry.

The mighty formation of the enemy reminded him of the situation when the Laos attacked the La River fortress more than ten years ago. There were only so many people around him, but he had a solid city defense as a barrier, and today he has no city wall. Protection, but he firmly believes that as long as he stops the enemy here for a moment, his comrades will arrive one after another and completely wipe out this large number of enemies.

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath, feeling that his courage was a little stronger, and the slow walking along the way also relieved the fatigue of their previous pursuit.

He looked around at the soldiers around him, and the soldiers around him were also looking at him, with both nervousness and excitement in their eyes. They were waiting for the commander to make the final decision, and then they would implement it firmly.

Therefore, Taglu shouted without hesitation: "Brothers, the enemies that our legion wants to annihilate are in front! We must stop these enemies here, otherwise they will flee into the mountains and let our legion's encirclement plan fail, This is a great opportunity for Hades to give us merit! Brothers, show your courage to win this rare honor!"

"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!..." The soldiers showed their determination with a powerful roar.

Tagle immediately gave an order: "All units are lined up in a line, form a shield array, and stop the enemy!"

There are only four teams around Taglu, with less than 200 people. In order to ensure the length of the array, he hopes to be able to stop enough enemies and elongate the front, but its depth is only five columns, too thin and easy to be broken.

However, the soldiers of each detachment under his command quickly split into four small square formations without hesitation, and then formed a row. They even discarded the javelin inserted in the back and the stab gun in their hands, each holding a long shield and drawing a short sword , to face the enemy slowly forward.

Segovani and the other Kautini warriors were surprised to see so few enemies in front of them dared to act to stop them, and they couldn't help but get angry.

"Go up and crush them!" Segovani pointed his spear forward and shouted.

Kautini's warriors roared, increasing their running speed again.

Taglu was not surprised when he saw a large group of enemies rushing towards them aggressively. What he was most afraid of was that the enemy would bypass them and let his attempts fail.

The soldiers stopped immediately.

"Shield formation!..." Each sub-commander shouted one after another.

The soldiers in the first row erected their long shields, which were slightly pointed at the bottom and could be inserted into the ground slightly to reinforce the defense of the shield array.

The Samonites are good at throwing javelins, they know it well.

Sure enough, the shield formation of the Dionian soldiers had just been completed, and the Kautini javelins hit like raindrops, and some soldiers could not help screaming because their arms were pierced by the spear tips that came out of the shield. .

While holding up his shield, Taglu shouted: "Steady! Hold!..."

After the javelin rain, Kautini's warriors roared, rushed out of the diffuse dust mist, and slammed into Dionia's army array fiercely, instantly bending the almost straight shield array.

The Dionysian soldiers marched forward and backward, using all their strength to resist the onslaught of hundreds of thousands of people.

The soldiers in the first column were half-bent down, with their heads buried under the long shield, half-sideways, pressing their shoulders against the shield, and letting the shield make a "bang-bang" sound when they were pierced by the enemy's spear. The gap between the shield and the shield pierced, and I don't know if it hurt the enemy, because the sound of the fighting completely occupied the eardrum, and the screams could not be heard.

Only some impatient Kautini warriors saw that the long shield like a turtle shell could not be smashed open for a while. In a hurry, they threw away their weapons and directly grabbed the top of the shield with both hands, trying to break it apart.

At this moment, a sharp dagger slashed, cutting off their fingers, and blood splattered all over the soldiers.

The Kautinis at the back bypassed the front of the shield formation, attacked the flanks and rear of the shield formation, and surrounded the Dionian soldiers in a blink of an eye.

The soldiers erected long shields to completely protect the entire array. This Dionysian Legion Company was like a small boat in a gust of wind and waves, and was in danger of capsizing at any time.

The Dionian cavalry on the periphery also realized this. They risked being stabbed by javelins and attacked the Kautini more frequently in an attempt to help their comrades relieve the pressure.

But this only angered the Kautini people even more, and under their fierce impact, the shield formation didn't last long before it began to fall apart.

Taglu watched the soldiers beside him being squeezed and stabbed, anxious in his heart. He quickly stabbed the dagger in his hand, trying to stab the enemy who squeezed into the array to protect the safety of his men.

Unexpectedly, the Kautini warrior who was pierced in the chest not only did not fall, but instead rushed forward, and Tagle, who could not dodge, was thrown to the ground by him.

More enemies rushed into this stage.

Tagle, who was pinned to the ground, saw in despair that the soldiers who had lost the protection of the formation were surrounded by more and more enemies in twos and threes, and fell one by one...

At this very critical moment, the high-pitched bugle sound cut through the boiling battlefield...

Lizaru led 2,500 reinforcements from the west, rushed to the battlefield first, and launched an attack directly on the rear of Cautini's team.

It didn't take long for the First Brigade of the Third Army to arrive from the northwest...

Then came the other companies of the 4th Battalion...

And then there's the second team...

"Woo!...Woo!...Woo!..." The bugle sounded continuously around the Kautini team, and successively launched attacks on the Kautini people from all directions.

The Kautinis, who were originally scattered in formation, were beaten, they only felt that they were surrounded by enemies, and they were very panicked. How could they care about the dying Dionysian company that had been beaten by them, and they all fled. .

But how could their legs outrun the pursuit of cavalry.

The battle was quickly over, and with the exception of a very small number of Kautini who fled into the city of Sacera, the vast majority of Kautini warriors were either killed or captured.