The two cavalry commanders were busy gathering their cavalry, and the commander Tormid, who was in the rear of the Dionian army, was informed of the change in the enemy's formation by the scouts, and of course he had to deal with it.

He pondered for a moment, and then gave the order: let the light armored brigades of the 4th and 5th Corps, which were behind the left and right flanks, move quickly to the front and spread out to the two flanks to block the enemy who tried to surround them, while the light armored brigade of the 2nd Corps in the rear of the center was divided into two parts, ready to support the two flanks at any time.

After all, it is very difficult to confront the light armor and the enemy's heavy infantry head-on, and Tolmid is also helpless, he just wants to delay a little longer.

The order was given, the troops began to move, stirring up dust, and Tolmid, who had been in a state of tension, looked ahead and suddenly widened his eyes: "What's going on?!" ”

Through the gray mist, he saw Klotocatax, who had been resting quietly in front of him, and the 40 palace guards suddenly moving to the right.

"My lord, no one has given any additional orders to His Royal Highness the Prince!" The subordinate hurriedly explained.

"Go! …… Send someone to tell Your Highness that he obeys the order and stays where he is! Tolmid snapped.

Klotocatax saw the heralds rushing behind the array shouting loudly, he immediately realized that the situation had changed, so he took the initiative to order the palace guards to move to the right flank with the fifth legion of light armor brigades, these palace guards initially stopped him from going on the grounds of his safety, but he was the temporary commander of this palace guard after all, plus the citizens of Dionya who did not want to go into battle to make meritorious contributions, these palace guards stayed in the city of Turiyi for a long time, guarding King Davers, and finally had a chance to go into battle to kill the enemy, It is inevitable that he will be tempted, so he is easily persuaded by Klotocatax.

When the herald arrived and demanded that "Klotockataks obey the order and stay where he is", Klotockataks replied indignantly: "Please tell Lord Tolmid that the army is in danger now, and the other soldiers are fighting bloodily, but he wants us to hide aside like cowards, does he want us to be the joke of the whole kingdom?!" ”

Klotocatax's words made the palace guards, who had been a little shaken, immediately become firm, so they did not listen to the dissuasion and continued to follow Klotocatax.

After receiving Klotockatax's answer from the herald, Tolmid was at a loss for a moment as he was able to coordinate and deal with all kinds of complex relationships. On the one hand, it is true that, as the young prince said, if he had left him to sit idly by and wait for the war to be over and return to Turiy, the prince would indeed be ridiculed by the people, and not only would Crotocatacs hate him, but King Davers and Princess Christoya would also be dissatisfied with him; But if he really lets him go to confront the fierce enemy head-on, if he is really injured, he will also be blamed, and if he dies in battle, then it will be ......."

Just as he hesitated, the scout horse galloped in: "Report, Lord Epitenis has led his army to the battlefield!" ”

"It's finally here!" Tormid let out a long breath, and the heart that had been hanging finally fell, and he turned his head to his subordinates and said, "Immediately draw a company from the Second Legion's Light Armor Brigade and accompany His Royal Highness the Prince to the right flank!" ”

With Epitenis' reinforcements, the rout of the Roman reinforcements was imminent, and he no longer had to worry about the safety of Crotocatacasses.

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"Leading the army to land in Latin and attack Rome" was regarded by Davers as his most important strategic plan so far, and he knew that Rome was powerful in his previous life, of course, he would go all out, so he not only dispatched the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth infantry regiments, as well as the first and second cavalry regiments, but he also sent Epitenis, who had just stepped down as administrator and was at home, to Lucania.

Since the Third Army was in Atlah at the request of the Campanians, the Ministry of War later commissioned Zantiparis to form a new reserve regiment in the Lucania area to defend the entire Lucania region in place of the Third Army. The Third Legion was rich in soldiers not only from Lucania, but also from Kopsa and the coastal cities of Enona, Posetonia, Elia, and Laos, and Zantiparis soon formed a new legion.

Davers gave the order: Epitenis led half of the new army to sail to Ostia the day after the army landed in Latium and occupied Ostia.

This is a back-up reserved for Davers, who will use this important flag depending on the development of the war.

As the coastal city-states of Latin were so drawn to the siege of Rome by the Dionian army that they did not notice that another smaller Dionian force had entered the port of Ostia in a large fleet transporting supplies.

And when Davers learned of the news that "the previously defeated Roman army had regrouped and marched eastward to rescue the city of Rome", he immediately sent a messenger to Ostia to inform Epithenes that he would lead his army eastward today to assist the main force in defeating the Roman reinforcements and ensure the smooth progress of the siege.

Epitenes, who had been separated from the army for several years, had always been known for his "dexterity and skillful warfare" in the past, and after he led the army to set off this morning, he did not blindly urge the soldiers to hurry, but marched at a slow pace, and at the same time he sent a lot of scouts and cavalry, and frequently went to the camp of the army to understand the deployment of the entire siege and the enemy situation outside the city of Rome, and kept abreast of the progress of the battle situation, so as to find fighters from it.

When he learned that friendly forces were holding off a large Roman reinforcement to the west of the city, he immediately realized that this would be the first target of his attack.

Only then did he give the order: the whole army accelerated its march in the direction he specified.

Just as the troops were about to arrive at the battlefield, Epitenis met the 400 cavalry of the two cavalry commanders hiding in the rear, and after learning of the attack plan of Rydes and Kuzius, he immediately said confidently: "Go and tell your commanders, don't consume your horses anymore, and leave the rest of the battle to me!" ”

With that, he ordered the troops to stop advancing, begin to line up, and let the soldiers arrange their equipment.

Ryders was relieved to hear of the arrival of reinforcements, but he was not prepared to completely abandon his previous attack plan, and quickly agreed with Kuzius: the plan would be carried out as usual, but the attack on both flanks would be changed to a feint, and the surprise attack in the center would not change.

"Woo! ......" The trumpet of the attack sounded, Ryders clamped his legs between the belly of the horse, and the war horse under his crotch opened its four hooves and began to advance, and more than 1,000 cavalry in the rear followed him, and it took a long time from the initial slow walk to the small stride.

On the other side, more than 1,000 cavalry led by Cuzius did the same.

This gave the Roman army, which had been on the lookout for the Dionian cavalry, to react, and Paulus, who was in the rear of the formation, saw this, and of course would not allow the Dionian cavalry to disrupt the attack of the heavy infantry on both flanks, so he immediately ordered: the twelve Roman squadrons remaining in the rear immediately rushed to the flanks to intercept the attack of the enemy's cavalry.

Seeing that the Dionian cavalry was still a hundred meters away when the Roman soldiers arrived on either side, Paulus breathed a sigh of relief for the time being.

At this time, the Dionian cavalry had changed from small steps to medium speed, and thousands of horses' hooves on both sides of the army line vigorously stomped on the ground, dusty and trembling......

Looking from a distance, I saw that under the two gray canopies one mile apart, two black cavalry units formed two huge arrow shapes, like a black tide surging forward rapidly, and in that surging black tide flashed some bright red, which was the banner of the cavalry corps. The largest side was held high beside the corps commander, at the front of the line, and it fluttered high in the wind, indicating the direction in which the whole army was advancing.

At this moment, the vanguard cavalry was already less than seventy meters away from the Roman army waiting in front, and Ryders shouted: "Turn left!" Turn left!! ……”

The Pegasus military flag held high immediately pointed to the left, and the flag-bearers of the brigade and company who had been paying attention to the movement of the military flag also changed the direction of the military flag in their hands one after another, and the leading Ryders and the surrounding cavalry led the whole army to turn ...... Eventually, the entire cavalry team passed by the Roman army in front.

When they saw the enemy cavalry only twenty or thirty meters away from them kicking up the dust in their faces, riding one after another, galloping parallel to their own array, although the Roman soldiers were still a little nervous, they were really relieved: the momentum caused by the countless enemy horses rushing towards them just now was really terrifying!

The Roman soldiers on both flanks relaxed, but the Roman light infantry in the rear of the center became nervous, pointing to the rear and shouting in horror: "Cavalry! Cavalry of Dionia!! They're coming at us!! ……”

Yes, a cloud of dust and mist, gray wrapped in black, also rose a few hundred meters behind them, rolling towards them.

Paulus, who was behind the light infantry, turned around and saw this terrible scene, and felt the same panic: Damn, I fell for the Dionians!

"Go! Just go! Go and inform the squadrons that have been transferred to both wings to return quickly! Fast!! ……”

Unlike the Ionian cavalry on both flanks, the 400 cavalry attacking the center were already running at an accelerated pace, and a distance of a few hundred meters did not take much time.

Most of these Roman light infantry were not Roman citizens, but came from the Latin allies, and of course they would not have the determination of Roman citizens to "fight to the death to defend their homeland". At the shouting, the light infantry scattered and fled.