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Chapter 23 The Savior of Kalai (Part 2)

When Li Bida arrived at the right wing of the army, several entourage officials who had followed Crasus had held the relics of the consul - the cloak that was cut by the sword, and was stained with Crasus' blood. They gave it to General Li Bida who dismounted. Mattia then nimbled the cloak as a flag, tied it to the spear, and raised it high in front of the entire right wing!

"The wings of the goddess of vengeance will descend on the enemy's head!" All the soldiers shouted loudly, raising all the fighting swords and shields.

Surena received a report from the vanguards that the Romans were strange at the forefront, "There were chariots moving rapidly."

The Romans and the chariots, Surena could not combine the two together. He personally led his entourage to investigate. Sure enough, there were about twenty chariots, including Celtic four-wheeled chariots and Libyan two-wheeled raid chariots. Surrounded by hundreds of Mathian cavalry, he wandered calmly in the area in front of the ten Furlongs, the main Roman positions.

This scene surprised Surena. The shadow of being attacked by the Roman vanguard just now appeared. He decided to be cautious: let thousands of cavalry come forward to monitor. As a result, the cars suddenly stopped. The crew on it unloaded the cavalry cannons loaded on it and imitated the raid chariots made by the Galamantes and the cavalry sanitation surrounding the surroundings. At that time, both sides were outside the range of bows and arrows, but the Romans suddenly attacked and ten cavalry cannons shot out.

The first wave of stone bullets hit the team of the Parthian vanguard's light cavalry. The broken limbs of the horse flew away in the smoke. Now their horses were frightened and ran away in horror. In this way, outside the range of the bow and arrow, the cavalry cannons fired the second and third waves in one breath. Surena, who was stunned by this scene, did not expect that the light crossbows, which were usually used by the Romans to siege and defend the city, could be transported on vehicles and used for field battles.

On the other side, in the conventional way, the giant bronze drum carried by the Parthians with vehicles were slowly pulled to the forefront. The priests smashed the drum face desperately, but to their surprise, the cavalry in frontiers of the Romans were frightened by the sound of drums and ran around. Since Li Bida, who had obtained Parthian "secret weapon" information in Cyrene, had long imitated this bronze drum and constantly trained the horses to resist strikes while accompanying the army. The horses were very smart animals. As long as they were used to this sound and were not sensitive, the drum sound could not disturb their array at all.

"What kind of team is this? It's full of strange and obscure feeling." Surena, who was originally commanding on the battlefield, felt less and less confident.

The firepower of the cavalry cannon was like a drum beat. It became tighter and denser. Finally, a crisp sound passed through, and a stone bullet smashed through the bronze drum cart, shaft, drumstick and several blood-covered priests. In the grief of the surrounding cavalry, more than a dozen Roman rulers flew backwards, like piles of garbage, and could no longer be afraid of it. Then Li Bida's skillful cannon hand used a ruler to hurriedly locked the target that had hit again, and then concentrated the firepower. The stone bullet kept hitting the bounce on the bronze drum cart and around. The surviving priests no longer dared to stay under the cart, but ran around, and most of them fell under the fragments of the flying stone bullets.

The unbearable Parthian light cavalry began to charge against Li Bida's frontier forces regardless of the commander's order. However, the opponents faced this time were completely different from those of Crassus's troops. The chariots were very nimble and pulled the cavalry again from the pulley plate back into the carriage, shook their heads and left. The Mathia cavalry followed in two and retreated towards the two wings of Li Bida's position.

Then the Parthians who charged forward found that Li Bida was actually lined up in a large square array with all sides facing outward, but after rushing closer, the other party's large square array was actually composed of small square arrays with spacing like fish scales, with light archers in the middle, and at the forefront of the shield wall, there were long horizontal archers of six arrays, most of which were Nubians and Cretans. They stood proudly in place. After the string was finished, they concentratedly combined the six rows into one row, and all shot the arrows in their hands like rainstorms. The sound of the string was like a sudden thunder in a desert area without a cloudless, blowing the Parthian light light that was just about to pull the string.

The rider was on his head and neck. After shooting this wave, the opponent calmly retreated behind the deep shield wall. However, more than half of the Parthian light cavalry on the front line had died and injured. However, many brave people were still carrying arrows and shouting with pain, like a thick black arrow, trying to rush to within a 120-meter Roman ruler from the shield wall to shoot quickly. However, the two wings of the Libida square formation, including the troops on the second line, began to use single bows and composite recurved bows, and fired violently. Many Parthian light cavalry gritted their teeth, with arrows all over their bodies, and tried to shoot at the Romans' silent shield wall, which was as silent as ice, and then fluttered down.

The light cavalry came like a tide and went like a stream. The horses and riders' bodies, and some who were still dying, fell on the sand covered with arrow feathers. Some dying people struggled, with arrows on their backs and chests, trying to sit up hard, so the black team of the Serapis Legion walked out and threw the jaws at the area. So everything calmed down and there was no sound of moaning.

Next, the battlefield fell silent again. The Roman positions were like a solid and cold ice belt in the desert, and they remained silently. Surena held the twin snake flag and wondered. He really couldn't understand what the other party was playing, but the information earlier was indeed true. This partial division had an incomparable excellent cavalry, a large number of auxiliary archers, and the previous main body of the Crasus army, clumsy and heavy infantry, and a small number of weak long-range soldiers. This pattern was incomparable.

After a stalemate for half a day, the second cavalry charge was shot back again. Most of the archers in the opposite team only knew how to shoot in the stairs. Rather than pursuing precision, it was more important to say that they were engaged in the ancient "primitive barrage interception". In terms of individual skills and the Parthians, they were not on the same level as those of the Parthians, but they were well-trained and strictly followed the commands of the marching officers. Group shooting became particularly threatening.

In addition, according to the wounded soldiers who ran back, the Romans here also solved the supply of bows and arrows and stone bullets - they had even more camels than ours, all full of bags and quivers.

When his subordinates suggested that Surena take a roundabout approach, the general shook his hand and said that this situation would not be possible for us to easily succeed. Since so many people have been killed or injured, the city of Cale behind him may break out at any time. We should retreat for a while, and expect that the Romans would not dare to pursue us.
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