"Imperial subjects shall not sacrifice their sacrifices, otherwise they shall be confiscated by swords and confiscate their private property." - The Christian Roman emperor Constantius

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Soon, the bodies of Egyptian soldiers under the hillside were as dense as wheat straw, and the subsequent men no longer cared about the integrity of the square. Many people abandoned their spears and rushed up with their teeth and swords. The archers responsible for the cover began to exchange fire with the cunning Romans.

However, the more cunning side of the Roman legion, after two rounds of shooting, the fortress defenders deeply felt that the arrows shot by the Gauls they brought were relatively short. When they landed on the Egyptian positions, many Egyptian archers instinctively took the enemy's arrows and shot them back (this was a very common thing in ancient battlefields). However, when they put the other's arrows on the strings, they found that they could not shoot them out at all - and the other party could use their own arrows to shoot them back - so, about two husbands, Otto Alens's archers could not bear it and were defeated and fled.

This is the original creation of Li Bida, the "Desert Poisonous Scorpion". Of course, he once saw the "December Talk" by the Italian novelist Boccaccio, and knew that this tactic was the patent of a medieval earl and indeed won in history.

On the other side, five hundred surrounded Egyptian companies also began to break through the siege. In the critical moment, Tagus lined up six light scorpion crossbows in front of the formation, making the opponent's vanguard thunder, and then let two hundred-man teams draw their swords to assault. Anthony also rushed down bravely with the cavalry. The Egyptian company, which was like a cake, could only surrender.

"Put down your weapons! If I don't kill you, Anton's descendants will be generous to the enemy." Antony rode his horse, shaking the short sword in his hand, and shouted proudly at all the Egyptian soldiers who were squatting down with their heads in their arms.

Then Tagus' two hundred-man teams retreated again and threw themselves into the position on the hillside to launch a counterattack against Otto Aarons' troops. At this time, the Egyptian army front was completely messy, and he advanced and retreated under the fierce shooting of bows and arrows and scorpion crossbows. He could only be closer and futile to be together, slowly fighting and retreating towards the Perusim Fortress.

"Duzonvier, chase!" Li Bida waved his baton again, and all the Vibichinas people made barbarian calls. He hung the bows and arrows on the saddle, then all turned over the horses, and six scorpions on the wings of the formation were shooting continuously. The Vibichinas cavalry in the middle formed an inverted trapezoidal shape and ran towards Otto Aarons' troops unstoppably.

However, although the soldiers on the fortress suffered heavy casualties and abandoned many corpses and wounded on both sides of the road, these black men did not collapse when retreating. Once Li Bida's cavalry approached, they were close together and extended their sharp spears from all sides. Out of "fear of the sharpness", the horses could only run around the formations of these people. They could not exert the power of pursuit. Some of them were reckless and brave, and after they stabbed in, they either were pierced with people and horses, or they were taken off by many people, and killed by swords or stones. The bodies of cavalrymen who were stripped of their armor were thrown out like spitted grape skins.

Once the Vibichinas cavalry were a little further away, these men would whistle quickly turned into loose formations and continued to run towards Perusim. It seemed that these Nubian black soldiers were specially trained in counter-cavalry and were not so easy to surrender.

"The cavalry continues to harass and block them, let the infantry brigade go up and deal with them!" Li Bida stood on Gao Fu and observed for a while, handed over the order to Anthony, asking them to go up and notify Dussenvier and Tagus.

Then, the Vibichinas cavalry quickly changed their tactics. They tracked and killed the enemy's single team like hungry wolves, and nibbled patiently. Tagus's Thousand-Man Team ran fast and began to bite Otto Aarons's defenders. These guys who were densely tied with spears were not afraid of Romanized infantry. They violently threw out the light and heavy javelins in their hands, and each shot could kill a large number of people. Gradually, the Otto Aarons troops could not maintain the situation of "fighting and retreating" and more and more soldiers who abandoned their posts began to escape aimlessly, but were immediately caught up by the enemy's lightning cavalry, and the number of people willing to form a formation continued to decrease - the number of people and morale quickly melted in the hot sun.

When he walked to the place where Perusim and ten Romans, Otto Aarons's troops had lost more than half. When he walked to the six Romans, the commander-in-chief could no longer control his army. He took the lead in running with his followers. His company shouted again, completely collapsed, and ran like a spider-ant.

In the end, Otto Aarons ran into the fortress, with less than fifty people left.

The next day, at the Eye Fort in front of the fortress, the defender General Otto Aarons took off his armor and, as he was ashamed to ask for a discussion with the Roman commander on surrender with the Roman commander.

Highbreda came down from the fortress platform, grabbed the rope, then looked at Otto Aarons and asked what the other party was doing?

"I hope you can follow the virtues of a victor, pardon the lives of our remaining soldiers in the fortress, and in exchange I will hand over this great fortress." Otto Alens asked in Greek.

"Is there anyone who can speak Greek language? For so many years, I still think their words are like sissy, so young Greek men come to Rome, 80% of them have to live by being male prostitutes." Hebrida said proudly with her waist, but in fact he knew that all the water and food in his camp were almost out of service. If the bastard in front of him holds for another three or four days, the outcome can really be determined.

"You want to surrender, right? Then please let me go out again through the back door of your fortress, because General Libidaus, the supreme commander of our army, is just behind your anus. I am just the chief centurion." Hebrida's words caused laughter from all the soldiers in the camp. Some of them sat in front of the cavalry, some were sitting on the edge of the eye castle, shaking their legs. Maybe they will encounter many battles in the future, and some of them will indeed die. In the colonial city where retired veterans were placed, when they told their stories to their descendants, the battle for the capture of the Perusim Fortress was perhaps the most legendary. "Our general passed through the nostrils of the evil god Taifeng who was struck by mistake, and directly annihilated the main force of the Egyptian fortress. They had to surrender."

There was no choice but to surrender again, Otto Aarons was finally forgiven by Li Bida. At noon, the defenders in the fortress used carts pulled by mules and horses to transport out piles of bloody corpses. Then the Romans stepped on the steps of responding to the military horn and entered the fortress from both front and rear to change defenses.

Perusim, Egypt's gateway to Asia, has fallen into Li Bida's hands. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!