Chapter 11: Kara (M)

"Shoot at the place where the fire is raised, where Caesar's soldiers are guarding!" Several veteran centurions began to give orders, which was a new tactic they invented these days against Caesar's army, relying on their advantage in long-range marksmanship, they could "surprise" the enemy without too much loss, that is, to target Caesar's soldiers' fire, shoot arrows intensively, and then quickly withdraw to achieve the purpose of disrupting the enemy.

As a result, when the Thracian archers had made great efforts, each of them quickly shot five arrows, and when they had returned, the centurion who led the party could only hear the mockery coming from the ramparts of the hill, and a good look could only see that under the firelight, all the arrows had fallen on the bare walls: this was only a trap for Caesar's side to lure them into wasting their arrows, and now the other party had learned to be shrewd, raising fire in one place, but patrolling in another.

But they could take advantage of Caesar's contempt, who had expected that Rabinus's night raiders would soon retreat, but three battalions of soldiers and two thousand auxiliaries soon found a sheltered place in the mountains, and hid them all to wait for the dawn.

In the early morning, while Caesar's soldiers and slaves were still drawing water, their centurion, in a stern and low tone, pointed to the enemy's fortifications on the other side, and all of them threw down their clay pots and buckets, and hurried to their respective camps, for Rabinus had brought out all the instruments of the city of Cocula, and lined up in a line along the blockade, with stone-throwing machines and ballistas, and they were about to launch a fierce attack.

"The enemy is still fighting in the trap, and they are gradually unable to bear the pain of lack of water, and they are about to fight back. Hold them back. Caesar after learning the news. Immediately run out of the tent. "Press all the reserves I have set up in the rear!"

Soon, a sharp whistling sound sounded across the battlefield, and both sides were shooting stone projectiles without their lives, and in their respective camps, there were flying stones and powders everywhere, and the whole mountain range trembled, and in the midst of the tidal shouts, Rabinus concentrated the elite soldiers. Lined up in a wide line, they rushed towards Caesar's fortress line, "Arm yourself and hold the enemy back, the dictator is watching us from behind!" Caesar's camp was full of such cheers, and many of the soldiers were still eating breakfast, and after being attacked by the enemy, they threw the "Kara" they ate in their hands as their first-hand weapons, and threw them out through the wall. frightened the soldiers on Pompey's front line, thinking that it was a new type of murderous weapon. They all fell backwards and dodged, and when they saw that it was nothing more than a soft piece of flour, they cried out, regained their courage and fighting spirit, and called the auxiliaries in the rear to shoot wildly at Caesar's camp, and then Pompey's veterans carried improvised ladders, skillfully dodged the stones and javelins thrown by the enemy, and set the ladders up to the wall, and began a bloody white-knuckle battle with Caesar's army inside, the sound of clattering swords and stabbing sounds, and the sound of flesh and bone separation.

Caesar's Tenth Legion here, and Li Bida's Twelfth Legion, which are also the elite of the three armies of Yongguan, have endured the enemy's crazy onslaught, and Yan Zòng's casualties, fortress by fortress, section by wall, and Rabinus's men and horses to the death, the more tired the corpses, almost all of them have to be aligned with the city wall, "Hit hard!" The soldiers of Pompey's side, who had somehow got the stakes, ran to the undefended place, and a dozen men carried one of them, violently knocked down the city wall, and poured in, but they were soon expelled with screams—the German-colored Weaver guards, hired by Caesar, filled in as a reserve, and they brandished their battle axes to kill the intruding Pompey soldiers and re-stabilize the line.

"They're going to eat this now! This shows that Caesar is also at the end of the mountain, the number of opponents is small, the average Rome is only a hundred people garrisoned, and now we can only eat these things to survive, we have to go up and defeat them! When Carla's thing reached Labinus, he quickly and decisively gave the order for a general attack and smashed Cara to the ground.

At this time, the ambush soldiers who had been ambushing Caesar in front of a flank barrier somewhere the night before, after receiving the order, suddenly erected a flag and pounced on the target with a clamour, they hid it so perfectly in advance that Caesar's army stationed at this barrier did not notice, and the centurion Scava had only two hundred men, so they urgently lit the beacon of the alarm, hoping to get reinforcements from other horses, but in the end, because of the shortage everywhere, only the ordinary ten-division Azirius with more than fifty soldiers and military slaves, with weapons, ran over to guard together.

Three selected brigades, with two thousand Thracian archers, together close to four thousand, a ratio of fifteen to one, but Scava himself held his shield and blocked the entrance to the barrier, and puffed up to his subordinates behind, saying, "We have not been able to detect the enemy's ambush, this is their trick, if the enemy succeeds, the barrier will be lost, and the enemy will be able to return to Dicktido's flank from here." Fellow comrades, our ship is now at the heart of the storm, desperately holding it off! ”

Then the arrows were fired, and they struck the dirt beneath his feet and the stone wall beside him, but Skava was undaunted, still striking his shield with his sword, and laughing loudly at the tide of enemies, and the soldiers, seeing the centurion like this, took the lead, and alternately relayed on the narrow and rugged mountain path, repelling the enemy again and again.

As a result, after two and a half days, the four thousand Ambush soldiers selected by Rabinus failed to break through the barrier of the garrison of 250 Caesar soldiers, and knowing that Caesar had learned of the crisis here, he hurriedly came with the chief brigade of the Twelve Legions and repelled the enemy.

"Bastard, bastard! I'm ashamed of you. "When Rabinus saw the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but be so anxious that he was furious, but he learned that even the protector of the Second Legion, Flaccus, even if he was born in a famous family, was also the first soldier, and after being killed by Caesar's soldiers, tears also flowed, and he could only watch his soldiers being driven back to their places after burning the highest fighting spirit, and then Rabinus's heart flashed with fear: he had been Caesar's chief lieutenant for so many years, and he never thought that Caesar's soldiers and commanders would combine to exert such a fierce fighting spirit," They are no longer human, and I have to do my best to open the situation. ”

The bulwark where Skava was stationed, when Caesar entered, could not stand at all, the ground, the stone walls, the wooden fence and the tent were all densely packed with arrows, which were fired by the enemy during the battle, and then the slaves pulled them down, and counted the number, and there were as many as 30,000, of which one hundred and twenty were taken from Skava's shield, and the centurion was shot blind in one eye, but he still did not abandon his battle post, nor did he throw away his shield, and Azirius, who came to reinforce him, He had one of his wrists cut off, but still held his shield to disperse the enemy. (To be continued......)