Chapter 158 Change of formation

The two men spoke in Latin, which the Skodischi slaves could not understand. But seeing the old man in thick armor and a red feather helmet being domineering, while the sage they respected was a little humble, they were afraid and a little resentful.

Emmerich turned back, but he was calm. He said loudly: "Grizzly children, follow me, I will take you to a safe place!"

After that, he took a flag and raised it high, and walked west first. Others holding flags also followed him automatically.

So, under the leadership of Emmerich, the Skodischi male slaves followed their compatriots and left the battlefield.

Blindly following the large army, Govis had a lot of doubts in his heart. At this time, someone came to him and said, "The sage wants to see him," and he immediately ran to the front of the team.

As soon as Emmerich saw him, he asked kindly: "Gorvis, how many years have we not seen each other?"

"About 15 years... and 5 months... The last time I saw you was when we were defeated by the Romans and you came to heal my wounds." Gorvis recalled.

Emmerich sighed: "You remember it so clearly, I guess you must have had a hard time these years."

Gorvis felt a pain in his heart and asked: "Sage, what's going on?"

"I know you have doubts, I called you here to tell you the answer." So Emmerich briefly told the former Scodischi nobleman in front of him about how he joined the rebels.

"Are you saying that this army that dared to fight the Segestica people was composed of slaves from western Italy?... They had defeated the Roman army many times before?... You have sworn an oath to their leader and joined their team?... And you also promised their leader to take us to join them?..."

Emmerich nodded every time Gorvis asked a question.

Finally, he said earnestly: "Now, the only tribe in this land that is willing to sincerely accept us, regard us as their own people, and can guarantee our safety is the newly established Nix tribe! Only the Nix tribe dares to go to war with the Segestica people and is willing to rescue our other suffering compatriots!"

Gorvis was silent for a moment, looked up at the fluttering flag, and whispered: "Everyone has joined this Nix, what should we do with our tribe?"

"Our tribe has perished..." Aimerich said in a deep voice: "At least now we have no choice, as for the future... no one knows what will happen in the future."

Gorvis blinked, he seemed to understand the meaning of Aimerich's words, and then expressed his position: "I will listen to you, the sage, then... temporarily join this Nix tribe."

Join temporarily... Aimerich Richie glanced at him and immediately understood his thoughts, but he was not going to persuade him anymore. Instead, he mentioned another thing: "Besides you, who else in your team has prestige?"

"We are all temporarily drawn together from various tribes in Segestica. We don't know most of the people in this team, but during the march in the past few days, I saw a few acquaintances..."

Emeric knew the names mentioned by Goves. They were all military nobles and famous warriors of Scodisqi, so he ordered: "When we get there, we will change your shields and spears. You and the others will organize the team well, and then obey the command of the generals sent by the Nix tribe. Then come back here-"

"The Nix people want us to go to the battlefield again and fight with the Segestica people?!" Goves's face sank.

Although he was brave, he was not a fool. He had seen the strength of the Segestica army during the march. Now that he had just escaped from the cage, he vaguely saw the hope of rebuilding the tribe in the future. Of course, he was unwilling to be driven by the Nixes to fight the powerful Segestica army and consume his already small number of compatriots.

Emmerich shook his head and waved his empty left hand vigorously: "No, I'm not asking you to fight the Segestica people! But when they are defeated, you have to rush to intercept them to prevent them from running away!"

Goves immediately asked: "How many warriors did Nixes send to fight the Segestica people?"

"More than 9,000 people." Emmerich said truthfully.

"With only more than 9,000 people, Nixes wants to defeat this Segestica army?!" Goves found it unbelievable.

He followed the Segestica army for many days and knew roughly how many Segestica warriors there were. The difference in strength between the two sides was too great. Although the weapons and equipment of the Nixes and the formations were very similar to those of the Romans, they were not Roman troops after all. They said they had defeated the Roman army, but neither Aymeric nor he had seen it with their own eyes. He was more willing to believe that the Segestica people, who had more troops and had defeated his tribe many times, could win.

Aymeric knew a little about the battle plan made by Maximus and his men, but he was reluctant to say more. After all, even he himself was skeptical about it. He could only whisper: "Don't worry, Chief Maximus once promised me that he would not send you to fight if the enemy was not defeated."

"But..." Goves did not feel relieved because he had realized at this time: If the Nixes were defeated, the Segestica people would continue to attack. When the Nixes were destroyed, what would his people do?

Gowes began to worry about gains and losses.

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The battle is still going on, but there are some changes in the situation compared to the initial fight.

The originally loose offensive line of the Segostika army began to gradually gather forward for three reasons:

Andres couldn't bear that such a huge force had been fighting for such a long time and could not shake the enemy's line even half an inch, so he sent the only cavalry around him to urge the idle soldiers in the rear to press forward. The enemy's defenses exert greater pressure;

The Segestica light infantry at the rear is also dissatisfied with the current stalemate. After all, they have followed Andres in winning some battles in the past few years. They have their own pride and do not allow themselves to do nothing. In fact, before the cavalry urged them, They have already begun to press forward unconsciously;

The more than 2,000 Segestica heavy infantry who are fighting are the most uncomfortable at the moment. Some of them are noble children, and some are warriors who have performed outstandingly in previous battles. Andres gave them this valuable armor. Weapons, equipment and other material rewards. They are not nobles, but they are not ordinary people either. They have their own pride. It is rare for Andres to gather them together and use them. They also want to win new ones for themselves in such a war. glory;

However, the invincible attack in the past encountered trouble today. Their sharp long swords could not cut through the enemy's thick shield. Even if they occasionally hit the enemy's body, the enemy's equally thick armor did not cause any major damage. On the contrary, they continued to attack During the attack, one must be extremely careful about the sudden approach of the enemies hiding behind the shield. When they are close to you, their daggers stab at you, and it is difficult to avoid them. Even if they are wearing chain armor, they are stabbed so hard. , will also be stabbed and cause severe pain;

So despite the fact that the Segostika heavy infantry is the attacking party, most of their sword-holding arms are already sore, their spirits are highly tense, and their physical strength consumption has also increased. Therefore, they gave up using long swords and only used large shields to hold them up. This made them their best choice now, which also provided conditions for the forward pressure of the light infantry behind.

In fact, the Segestika people would not be stupid enough to just stare at the enemy's shield array, especially the light infantry at the rear. Some of them began to try to cross the swamp and go around the enemy's flank.

The rebels had anticipated this and had conducted drills beforehand. Some soldiers at the rear of the two wings of the formation took the initiative to form a thin line of defense on the edge of the swamp.

Although the defense line is thin, it is difficult for the Segostika light infantry to break through the swamp. The reason is very simple: the swamp is full of mud, and you have to be careful when walking to prevent falling, let alone gather strength to fight. Moreover, there are some other things in the swamp, such as snakes, blood-sucking locusts, etc. Some Segestikas screamed while the water was flowing, and they finally got out of the swamp, which was very interesting. The rebel soldiers with defensive experience knocked them off center with a square shield, and killed them with a stab of a dagger.

As a result, the Segostika casualties here actually exceeded the frontal fighting.

Of course, some people want to go further around the swamp to avoid the enemy's blockade on the shore, but that means going deep into the swamp. But the further in, the deeper the water becomes and the greater the danger.

The Segestika warriors saw with their own eyes that several compatriots were swimming through a place where the water did not seem to be deep. They suddenly sank in and were quickly submerged in the mud... The frightened Segestika people stopped. try.

"Bang!...Bang!..." Staggs half-crouched, using his square shield to resist the enemy's impact. At the moment when the enemy collided, he would skillfully tilt the square shield at an angle so that half of it could be removed. There is a lot of impact, so although the enemy is squeezing the shield more and more, he can still cope with it more than enough.

Although the enemies in front of them were also heavy infantry, they were still far behind the heavy infantry they encountered that day. The man was so powerful that he split Staggs' shield with a single sword and almost chipped it. Losing half of his arm still makes his heart palpitate when he thinks about it.

Later, Staggs learned that the enemy was a leader of the Segestika tribe named Volris. He also saw his body, which looked like a miserable death, but he didn't feel any regret. A dead enemy is a good enemy.

After that battle, it was difficult to repair his shield, so he replaced it with a wounded soldier's shield. For this reason, he had a deep understanding of the damage caused to the shield by the sword of the Segostika heavy warrior, and he also spent a lot of money on it. Time to ponder.

He proposed the suggestion of "using a shield against the angle to meet the long sword" to the captain Bubius. Bubius reported it to him and quickly promoted it throughout the army. For this reason, he also received the approval of the leader Maximus. Commendation.

Staggs pushed forward hard, temporarily forcing the enemy to take a step back, and then quickly glanced at the situation of his row of soldiers, his eyes lingering on Casaridoa for a moment.

Staggs was most concerned about Casaridoa, not only because he saved his life, but also because he was young and prone to anger.

Their brigade was unlucky and was selected to temporarily join the left wing responsible for the Third Army. The left wing has to perform special tasks and is extremely dangerous. Therefore, the team officers have repeatedly warned the soldiers to save their physical strength as much as possible to ensure that they can escape smoothly when executing the plan. Therefore, the soldiers on the left wing are completely defensive when fighting the enemy. Lord, unless you see a good opportunity, you will thrust out the dagger.

Staggs was afraid that Casaridoa would not be able to control himself and would get angry, which would consume too much energy and affect the defense of the entire queue... But his worries have not happened so far. He acted very calmly, which made him sigh: Some people are born to be good soldiers!

However, Staggs noticed that some soldiers were already showing signs of fatigue, which made him consider whether to change formations now. As long as he shouts the word "change formation" loudly, the soldiers in the 2nd and 3rd columns will put up their shields and be ready to supplement the defense at any time, while the soldiers in the 1st column will seize the opportunity and use their shields from behind. He retreated to the rear during the gap and took the opportunity to regain his strength.

But just as he hesitated, he heard the sound of a brass horn.

The brass horn began to sound continuously behind the rebel army formation to ensure that every soldier could hear it.

Staggs braced himself and shouted: "Brothers, the brass horn is sounding, start retreating!"

He was shouting in Latin, so you don't have to worry about the Segestica people in front of you being able to understand him.

Yesterday, Quintus and the others told every soldier the entire battle plan and conducted many drills, so the soldiers all knew what to do next when the brass horn sounded.

The soldiers held shields in hand to resist the enemy's attacks while slowly retreating...

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At the moment when the brass horn sounded, Maximus and the others on the hill stared nervously at the battlefield.

In their plan: the right wing of the military formation remained stationary, the center slowly retreated, and the left wing retreated faster...gradually transforming the entire array diagonally facing east into the Varidosi Swamp facing north, equivalent to the entire The array rotated about 180 degrees counterclockwise, like a dragon flicking its tail.

But this is not easy to shake off. After all, this is a huge team of nearly ten thousand people. Even during the drill yesterday, it took a lot of money to make the entire array and all the soldiers synchronized without major mistakes. time, not to mention that we are now under heavy pressure from the enemy. If we don't handle it well, it may turn from a tactical retreat into a real retreat!