Spring always comes earlier than usual, and perhaps this is what the priests call heavenly punishment, and God uses the hands of barbarians to punish the already degenerated civilized world.

The snow is melting much faster than expected, and the streets of Augusta-Treville are crowded with citizens and nobles. They stood on the street.

The air of early spring still revealed a hint of chill, a cold wind blew, and everyone present couldn't help but shiver, at this time they snuggled up to each other, trying to feel the warmth from each other's bodies.

Everyone's eyes were confused, they didn't know when to set off or where they were going, they just waited for the order to retreat from the center of the city.

In Marenius, he led ten field regiments as the vanguard troops, and the mighty retreat was finally about to begin.

All four gates of Treville were opened, allowing the citizens of the city to get out of the city as quickly as possible.

It was no small feat for the citizens of a city to try to flee the famine, and the last thing Luga wanted to meet at this time was for the barbarians to know prematurely that such a large army wanted to flee south.

The first was the north, and in the distance north of Treville was a huge amount of smoke and dust, accompanied by the neighing of warhorses.

The citizens who heard the sound were like rabbits frightened by the sight of a predatory eagle, and for a moment they screamed and fled back to the city despite the large bags they were carrying. Suddenly Treville became a besieged city, and those on the outside wanted to get in, but those on the inside wanted to get out.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! ”

On the street of the north gate of Treville, heavily armed soldiers pushed away the citizens who were blocking the road in front of them, ran out along the city gate that had just been cleared, and assembled more than 300 meters outside the city and formed a long defensive line.

Andrew led the force of three thousand men, ready for battle in front of the smoke and dust billowing in the distance, and they stacked two thousand infantry into four huge phalanxes. They deliberately extended their spears out of their shields, and the soldiers in the first column crouched down and pointed their spears in both hands at the increasingly clear barbarian army in front of them.

"Alemanni people."

A heavily armed veteran in the middle of the formation whispered, as if he was familiar with the barbarians north of the Rhine, and he knew exactly what kind of race the barbarians were approaching.

It may be that it is very surprising to see the soldiers of Rome come forward to defend, yes, it is actually outside the city, and the leading officer of the Alemanni army thought so.

"What the hell are the Romans doing?" Stopping two hundred meters away from the Roman formation, Alemanni's officers rode to a high ground and looked into the distance, keeping an eye on the citizens who were hurrying out from behind the Romans and retreating south around the walls.

"Are they running away? Timid Romans. A contemptuous smile appeared on the lips of Alemanni's officer, but he was not in a hurry to throw his hundreds of cavalry into battle, they simply turned over and dismounted, and in front of the Romans, they took off their sheepskins, tightened their chain mail, and took off their hats to protect against the cold, and replaced them with iron barbarian helmets.

They must be preparing for battle, but why swagger in front of the enemy and not attack? All doubts lingered in the minds of the Roman soldiers at this time.

It didn't take long to see only a large number of barbarian infantry behind the cavalry, who trotted all the way, in large numbers, and here played the role of the main attacking force.

"Quick, order the infantry to go out and attack them from both sides!" Alemani's officers led the soldiers forward, and Alemani's infantry came to the sides of the Roman line with tomahawks and shields.

"They want to wrap us, they want to wrap us!"

The soldier reported to Andrew, his words full of urgency. Andrew couldn't help nodding, and then stretched out his hand and ordered: "The two field regiments on the left and right are back on the defensive and keep an eye on the enemy who will attack at any time in front of you!" The rest of the soldiers continued to defend, and our purpose was to defend rather than attack. ”

Presumably seeing what the Romans meant, the Alemanni showed a stronger desire to attack, and the infantry were about to attack after a short rest.

But the first to come up were the Alemanni slingers and javelinmen, which were the most hated by the Roman soldiers, because their javelins and other weapons could easily tear through their chain mail, and their chain mail was more like a defenseless garment than that, not to mention that a considerable number of soldiers had no armor.

Everyone looked very nervous, and everyone hid their voices behind shields made of wooden planks, the strength of which was predictable.

"Ready, boys, they're coming, give them some color and see, quick!"

Watching as the javelin-wielding Alemanni javelinmen set up their javelins in an array away from the Roman soldiers' defenses, the archers behind the formation opened their bows and aimed their arrows at them.

Dense numbers of arrows covered the heads of the Alemanni people, who defended themselves with small shields, but such defenses always felt overstretched.

People kept falling, and it seemed that the rush didn't get them where they wanted to be.

The Alemanni did not seem to have any intention of confronting the Romans, and their cavalry had already begun to move, while the soldiers of the Roman field regiment kept an eye on the cavalry in front of them, moving with their movements.

And Alemanni's infantry rushed over, straight at the infantry on either side of the Roman formation.

"Go up! Go up! ”

The officers of the field regiment in the center beckoned to the soldiers behind them, they had to hold off the barbarian onslaught in order to maintain their existing position, so in order to protect their allies on the left and right, they had to stand up to the onrushing Alemanni and countercharge.

"Whoa..."

Before they could stand firm, they were greeted by a pile of stones and throwing axes, which was very dangerous for the weakly defended soldiers.

"Click..."

The dull sound of the axe sinking into the flesh sounded so terrifying at this time, and several soldiers covered in blood wailed and fell to the ground, such flesh wounds could not make them die instantly, so not being able to die meant that the pain was constantly tormenting their bodies and minds.

"Knock knock..."

The Alemanni rammed into the Roman army, and their fierce attack was stopped by the shield wall formed by the Romans.

The infantry continued to assault the Roman formation, but the cavalry did not choose to cooperate with the infantry to continue the torn attack of the Roman line.

Andrew's eyes were on the movements of the Alemanni and saw that their commander and cavalry were preparing to bypass the battle.

"Oh no, they're not targeting us!" Andrew exclaimed, and hurriedly beckoned his cavalry to defend, but the number of two groups of cavalry was too many.

"My lord, there are thousands of them, and we are only two hundred!"

"Don't care so much, rush up and stand in front of the citizens!"

Under Andrew's command, the Roman cavalry split into two groups and pounced on the two groups of Alemanni cavalry.

"Turn around! Turn around! ”

When the Alemanni officer saw that the Roman cavalry was preparing to launch a suicidal attack, he immediately beckoned the cavalry to nod, and at this time, Andrew saw that the Alemanni cavalry dodged and revealed a large group of javelinmen, and he suddenly felt a sense of despair.

"Kill them! Kill them! ”

Alemanni's javelinmen roared and angrily hurled their javelins at the oncoming Roman cavalry.