Roman Slave Owner

Judging from the smoke and dust, the number of troops was at least 2000, which made Sedoliu's heart feel cold. It must be that the main force of the enemy has arrived, and he doesn't know how many troops the enemy has.

Facing the impact of the cavalry, those infantry did not dare to retreat, they knew that facing the charge of the cavalry, once they retreated, it would be a one-sided massacre.

"Set up a circular formation in units of centuries! Form a circular formation!"

exclaimed a military tribune.

After receiving the order, the soldiers who were retreating immediately formed a circular formation with the centurion as a single.

They held their shields up, facing outwards, so they didn't have to worry about attacks from behind.

The cavalry rushed to the side of the soldiers, threw the javelins in their hands violently, and then beat their horses to walk away.

Due to the lack of stirrups, the combat effectiveness of cavalry in this era was very problematic.

When you cut an infantry with a sword, sometimes instead of the infantry being chopped to death, you fall off the horse due to the reaction force.

There is no such thing as the rampant demeanor of the cavalry of later generations, so after Li Wei discovered this, he did not vigorously develop the cavalry, but devoted all his efforts to the development of the infantry.

As for things like stirrups, Levi doesn't plan to take them out for at least a few decades.

The powerful enemies of Rome, the Parthians, the Germans, and the Gauls are all dominated by cavalry. If the stirrups are brought out, that is the biggest enemy.

Those javelins were fired hard into the Roman infantry phalanx, and because the phalanx was extremely dense, the hit rate was quite good. But because they reacted quickly, they set up the tortoise shell formation, but the effect was not significant.

At this moment, the military flags in three directions were flying, and the three legions marched towards Sedoliu in neat steps.

It's just that they deliberately left a gap, and the opening in the southwest direction is particularly large.

Surrounded by three and missing one, it seems that the enemy is not a simple character, Sedoliu thought secretly,

In fact, the West also pays attention to encircling three and missing one. Of course, this tactic is mainly to reduce casualties.

If you want to wipe it all out, you need to cooperate with infantry and cavalry to encircle it, but the casualties are very heavy.

Li Wei actually wanted to wipe them all out, but the casualties would be too great, so he still surrounded three and missed one.

Next, just think about Sertorius and you will understand what will happen. Once he retreats, he will be chased by ambushes, and then overwhelmingly chased by cavalry.

But if you don't retreat, you will really be wiped out.

It's really a question of whether to die early or die later.

After thinking for a while, Sertorius made a decision.

"Order from the Fifth Battalion to the Tenth Battalion to stay behind to block the enemy, and everyone else will retreat with me."

As the saying goes, kindness does not command soldiers, even if you know that you are not the enemy's opponent, then try to minimize your own casualties.

These 6 brigades include not only the 4 brigades in the siege, but also the 2 brigades in the main formation.

There was a silence at first, and the bugle player immediately blew his bugle.

The brigade flag was waved, and the troops who received the order were desperate, but they still obeyed the order and stayed to prepare to stop the enemy.

"Sorry, I owe you this time."

Saidori said apologetically.

But it is not so easy to escape. Seeing that Sertorius was really fleeing to the southwest with his army, the two legions gradually closed in the middle.

Some soldiers took up their crossbows and stood in the front row, one row squatted down and the other stood, all aiming at the gap.

There was only an endless wry smile on Sai Duoliu's face, and he said loudly: "Tortoise shell formation, rush out for me."

Those Roman soldiers immediately formed a tortoise shell formation, the outermost Roman soldiers erected their shields, and the inner ones put their shields on top of their heads.

"Let the arrow!"

said a military tribune.

Those crossbowmen immediately pulled the trigger, and the arrows shot out one by one,

Shooting at the dense Roman soldiers.

There was a scream of screams immediately in Sertorius' army formation, and the crossbowmen quickly retreated, and then the crossbowmen in the third and fourth rows stepped forward and continued to shoot arrows.

The rain of arrows shot at the Roman army continuously, and there were screams one after another.

However, these Roman soldiers were able to bear it, but soon they discovered that something was wrong.

Because the rain of arrows shot at them turned into javelins and stones, the passage Zhang San gave them became narrower and narrower.

If you want to stay and fight, then die. If you want to escape, you must endure arrows, javelins and stone attacks.

This is an unsolvable problem, all kinds of screams appeared around Sertorius, he even witnessed his own soldiers fell to the ground tragically, Sertorius was very careful, but there was nothing he could do.

After rushing out of the gap, Sai Duoliu looked back bitterly. He didn't know who had attacked him. If he found out, he vowed to take revenge.

At this time, the three legions finally completed the encirclement, encircling the 6 brigades of Sertorius and some remnants.

Seeing Sedoliu fleeing here with a group of defeated soldiers, a word suddenly appeared in Zhang San's mind, that is, the lost dog.

"Notify all cavalry to pursue the fleeing enemy, and leave the rest to the infantry."

Levi said.

The bugler immediately blew the horn, and all the cavalry flags pointed to the southwest.

After receiving Zhang San's order, the cavalry immediately got rid of the enemy and chased them southwest.

The city magistrate and others on the city wall cheered, and they were finally saved.

As for whether to open the city gate to help Li Wei, this decision was quickly rejected by them. Their losses were too great to bear any losses at all.

Sertorius hadn't fled far, when at this moment, another cavalryman came out from the slanting stab.

They kept throwing Zheng javelins at the infantry under Sai Duoliu who was fleeing in embarrassment, and Se Duoliu spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

"God dies me too."

There are more than 1,000 cavalrymen alone, and these cavalrymen are completely capable of killing them in the wild.

What's more, there are more cavalry chasing from behind. Once they meet, it will be their own doom.

This cavalry did not charge immediately, but drove them to the southwest like sheep, but kept throwing such javelins from behind.

Some centurions still wanted to organize a resistance, but at this time the 2,000 cavalry had rushed over and joined the cavalry here.

More than 3,000 cavalry looked mighty, and almost all of them were desperate.

Many people no longer obeyed Sertorius' orders. Even the trumpeters and flag officers didn't know where they were. Some even dropped their weapons and shields and fled in all directions with their heads in their arms.

"Sir, you go first, remember to avenge us."

At this time, a centurion under Serdoliu said, and after speaking, he led several soldiers under him and rushed towards the enemy, but they were quickly submerged in the torrent of enemy cavalry.

Sertorius looked at the cavalryman with tears in his eyes. He usually treated the soldiers like brothers, and it was because of this that he won the love of the soldiers.

"Go, if you don't go, it will be too late."

At this time, a cavalry captain roared.