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Germanic Total War 5200 Eastern War 064 The Real Battle Plan

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    Standing on the high earth fortress, seeing the battle line between the Roman legionnaires and the Bilge warriors gradually moving towards the direction of the Bilge spear phalanx, Vannius knew that the collapse of the Bilge army was not far away.  %net

    It¡¯s not that the spear phalanx doesn¡¯t have melee capabilities.

    But it was too reluctant and too wasteful for those warriors who were accustomed to using spears to assassinate enemies at a safe distance to suddenly draw their swords and engage in hand-to-hand combat with Roman veterans who had served in the army for seven or eight years or more.

    For this reason, Vanius simply asked the messenger to go forward and convey his order: when the battle line was squeezed to a certain distance close to the spear phalanx, the Bills would immediately retreat.

    After hearing Vanius¡¯s order, the Belgeans instinctively felt that they had been underestimated by Vanius and had lost face in front of the gods.

    Such humiliation and anger made some Belgeans roar and jump over people's heads, smashing into the crowd of Romans and killing them.

    But after all, they were not warriors like Vanius with extraordinary strength and exquisite scale armor protection. Although they successfully killed several Romans when they fell, before they landed, they were attacked by shortcomings from all directions.  Killed by sword.

    This heroic act inspired by a moment of righteous indignation did nothing to change the situation.

    After that, the Romans accelerated their advance.

    Immediately afterwards, the Bills also began to retreat.

    This time, they were assisted by the heavily armed elite axemen of the Germans.

    Holding their battle axes high, they looked coldly at the rushing Romans. The strongest Germanic warriors roared and slashed hard, chopping the shields raised by the Romans and their arms into pieces.

    While chopping, the heavily armored elite axemen roared and strode forward, putting the Bilgemen behind them.

    And when the Romans gathered more warriors to rush forward side by side, trying to use their numerical superiority to surround and annihilate these Germans, the heavily armored warriors wearing burqas had already retreated.

    This time, what appeared in front of the Romans was an array of spears without any gaps.

    Using the time gained by the heavily armored elite axemen to advance forward, the three field legions adjusted their arrays and sealed those passages with spears.  At the same time, assault troops were placed in front of the gunners.

    When all this was completed, the heavily armored elite axemen retreated and hid behind the cover of the forest of guns.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????? Immediately afterwards.  A total of 30,000 soldiers from the three German field legions shouted in unison and charged forward with firm steps.

    Many Romans who were caught off guard were pushed down and stabbed to death by the assaulting spear array, while more Romans formed a shield formation in panic, trying to withstand the Germanic attack with manpower.

    But when the number of people is equal.  The Romans were obviously not as powerful as the Germans.

    One after another, the spears were broken due to the hard pushing of the soldiers on both sides. At the same time, one Roman soldier after another lost his balance and fell to the ground, and was then stabbed to death by several spears - before Vannius.  When the Bilge warriors also gathered up and allowed them to rest, facing nearly 30,000 Roman soldiers from six legions, the three German field legionaries made a weak victory.  But the advantages are obvious.

    However, at this time, excluding the cavalry troops on both wings who were basically playing soy sauce, Caesar still had four legions that were not used, and Vanius already had only 30,000 soldiers of the Praetorian Guards on hand.

    Of course, this comparison does not include the disintegrated Gallic warriors and the Bilge warriors who were ordered to retreat - these two families were reorganized by Vannius.  Twenty thousand people were gathered again.  And is resting.

    After another stalemate, Caesar sent up the three legions of the third line.

    But this time, these three legions did not directly engage in hand-to-hand combat. Instead, under the cover of friendly forces, they threw javelins at the Germans.

    Originally, the German men were gunning for the first three rows of soldiers.  The assault infantry at the front were protected by small bucklers and burqas, while the soldiers in the back three rows used super long guns to hold up the tent cloth to defend themselves against javelins and arrows.  A single person's projectile equipment cannot cause much damage to them.

    But after a stalemate for a while, the tent cloth in the last three rows has been removed.  Then the next three rows of men's spear warriors also joined in supporting the front line. At this time, the Roman javelins caused great damage to the Germans.

    Seeing this scene, Vanius frowned.

    Although the archers of the field legions and the assault infantry who were not on the battlefield also fired back at the Romans with javelins and arrows, everyone on the Roman side had large shields, and the losses suffered were obviously much smaller.

    After a moment¡¯s hesitation, I noticed that the Romans threw two rounds of javelins.After continuing to throw javelins, Vanius was sure that Caesar had equipped a large number of javelins to the third line of legions. In this way, if he did not take measures to stop it, the three German field legions would surely suffer heavy losses.  .

    So, Vanius immediately ordered Uncle Goodbye and his engineering troops to set up a riprap tower and use shotguns to hit the Romans' third line of troops slightly behind.

    When the Romans threw the seventh round of javelins, the sling tower finally threw the first round of shotguns.

    Hundreds of fist-sized stone bullets drew an arc from the air, and then fell hard. Nearly half of them fell on the open ground, and the remaining half smashed into the rear of the Roman array.  There was a scream in the array.

    After that, the strong German engineers shouted slogans and loaded ammunition for the riprap tower again.

    At the same time, Vannius also ordered the soldiers from Belger and Gaul to be sent to the two wings - after this period of rest, Vannius believed that these two armies had rested enough, and in  The German field legions withstood and suppressed the Roman legions. After the sling towers blocked their backs, attacks from both wings could at least leave behind Caesar's nine legions, even if they could not completely destroy the enemy.

    Arriving at the two wings at the same time as Bilge and the Gallic warriors, there was also an order conveyed by Vannius to the Britons and the cavalry - a full-scale attack. The infantry advanced to defeat the Roman cavalry, and the cavalry launched an assault on the Romans from both wings.  Strive to separate the Roman array.

    Of course, Vanius knew very well that it was impossible to count on the Gallic cavalry or the Belgean cavalry for such a thing.  Therefore, he sent out Acre's light cavalry and Aloysius's shock cavalry at the same time.

    While Vanius was mobilizing his troops, the German sling towers were still loading and attacking all the time.

    At this time, the Romans were in a very bad situation - their shields were not enough to withstand the stone bullets falling from the sky. If they wanted to avoid the stone bullets, they had to move forward as hard as possible, but the German gun array in front of them prevented them from moving forward.  ¡ª¡ªAs a result, if you want to save your life, you can only dodge to both sides.

    On both sides, it was the place where the soy sauce cavalry threw javelins at each other. No one would want to easily run between the two groups of cavalry.

    At this moment, all the trumpeters in Vannius's Praetorian Guards suddenly blew their horns at the same time.

    Immediately afterwards, the Gaul, Bill and cavalry, who were still leisurely throwing javelins at each other with the Roman cavalry, ran away at the same time, while the British infantry following behind quickly rushed towards the Roman cavalry on the opposite side.  .

    And following these Britons were more Gaul, Bill and infantry.

    This sudden blow made the Romans panic, but Caesar saw a more terrifying side - after Vannius was probably forced to demonstrate his large-area destructive missile weapons in advance, Caesar realized that if  Vannius used it after the infantry on both wings launched an attack and squeezed the Roman soldiers into a dense enough mass. Then his army would be completely finished.

    After realizing this, Caesar ordered the entire army to retreat without hesitation - at least, before his army moved the ballistae and stone crossbows out of the camp to deal with Vannius' new weapons, Caesar could not see that he had any  What a chance of winning.

    However, for the Roman legions, this order came a little late.

    While the Gallic infantry led the army to launch a seemingly useless attack on the Roman cavalry, the Gallic and Birge cavalry simultaneously launched a charge against the Roman infantry from both wings.

    However, for the Romans, the real fatal thing was not the Gallic cavalry or the Belgean cavalry - after the Gallic and Belgean cavalry launched a charge, the sharp whistle suddenly sounded together with the neat sound of horse hooves, followed by dozens of  A neat charge of thousands of colorful armored cavalry.

    The Romans were able to withstand the attacks of the Gallic cavalry with a determined and dense formation.  But their dense formation became the key to taking their lives when facing the super long spears of the assault cavalry - because of the too dense formation, under the fierce impact of the armored horses, the sharp spears easily pierced shields, armors and bodies.  , wearing three or four Roman infantrymen together.

    After that, the assault cavalry threw away their spears without hesitation, drew out their swords, chopped with all their strength, and turned away at the same time.

    After seeing the effectiveness of the cavalry on both wings and the Romans' attempts to retreat, Vanius jumped down from the tower: "Stop the attack on the riprap tower and let the Gotonais cavalry legion attack. Now is the time to win."  At the right moment, blow the trumpet and the whole army attacks."

    Immediately afterwards, with Vanius¡¯s roar, all the trumpeters once againBlow the horn and make a continuous, short and fierce sound - this represents the general attack order for the entire army to assault.

    As tens of thousands of Germanic Guardsmen stood up and roared forward, a dazzling thunder light fell in the direction of the Romans.

    ??????????????? Then, big raindrops began to fall with crackling sounds - and the Germans rushed towards the enemy in this heavy rain, towards victory.  (To be continued)

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