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As far as the age of cold weapons is concerned, Hannibal's ability to command a group of mercenaries fighting for money to that extent can indeed be called great. Well, that's just a poor point of view.

If they defended the city, with the advantage of the city walls, these slingers could even throw stones fifty or sixty meters away.

Not to mention the distance, just talking about the lethality of heavy infantry and so on, it is much more powerful than ordinary bows and arrows.

Well, with the number of troops on both sides here, it should probably be called a battle.

In any case, just looking at the location of this battle, the commander of the ancient Roman side should be Scipio the Great.

What made Wei Xiaobei a little puzzled was that there was no existence similar to a commander in front of the battle formation on the Carthaginian side, it was empty.

In any case, the scene in front of him has surpassed the largest war scene Wei Xiaobei has ever seen.

To be honest, even those costume war dramas on TV can organize a battle scale of two or three thousand people, which is very good.

And here, just the soldiers who have gathered together, there are more than 20,000 people on both sides.

The entire battlefield was silent, except for the slight crash of footsteps between the ancient Roman and Carthaginian soldiers as they converged.

As time went on, the number of ancient Roman soldiers pouring out of the city gates began to dwindle.

At this time, the number of ancient Roman soldiers counted by Wei Xiaobei had exceeded 28,000! There were more than 6,000 cavalry, while the number of soldiers on the Carthaginian side exceeded 30,000, and the cavalry was much less than that of the ancient Romans. There were only about 2,500, but there were four phalanxes of more than a hundred war elephants. The Carthaginian side was not necessarily much weaker in terms of cavalry than the ancient Romans.

Time continued to pass, though no one spoke. But the atmosphere in the entire battlefield soon became solemn and oppressive.

Everyone's heart seems to be beating a lot faster.

This atmosphere made Wei Xiaobei feel very uncomfortable, like a mountain pressing on his heart.

At this time, there were no Roman soldiers in the gates of Barcelona.

Time seems to stand still.

The large shield in the left hand of Scipio the Great, who was standing on the white chariot, paused slightly, and the herald with the huge golden horn began to blow the horn, and a different sound was heard than before.

Suddenly, all the ancient Roman phalanxes began to change their positions and regroup.

To be honest, Wei Xiaobei didn't know what the horn meant, but he had to change directions with the ancient Roman soldiers around him.

Well, although Wei Xiaobei's reaction was very fast. However, due to the unfamiliarity with the transformation of the ancient Roman military formation, it can be said to be the worst performance in the phalanx.

The Eagle Banner officer who led the team glared at Wei Xiaobei more than 20 times from beginning to end, of course, those young soldiers were also more or less stared at by him, but Wei Xiaobei, who was standing at the back, was the most stared at.

If it weren't for Wei Xiaobei's full set of reserve uniforms, I'm afraid that the Eagle Banner officer would have pulled Wei Xiaobei to the first row to stand.

After a few moments of more than fifty infantry phalanxes were formed, three lines were formed, each consisting of more than a dozen phalanxes. The front and back are staggered like fish scales.

And the fifteen cavalry phalanxes, five heavy cavalry phalanxes were placed on the left flank, and ten light cavalry phalanxes were placed on the right flank.

Just after the ancient Roman phalanx was adjusted. Scipio the Great on top of the chariot raised his shield, and the herald blew a slow trumpet again.

Guided by the sound of this trumpet, all the ancient Roman phalanxes began to advance slowly.

See the ancient Roman phalanx advancing. The Carthaginian phalanx on the opposite side also began to move forward slowly.

The distance of five kilometers is not too close for ordinary people, but for the battle formations of more than 60,000 on both sides. But it's not far.

After about an hour, the distance between the two sides was only two kilometers away, and they both stopped. At this distance, both soldiers could roughly see each other's formations.

It must be said that experienced veterans are not the same as those recruits.

Even Wei Xiaobei could feel that there was something strange in the light infantry phalanx on the ancient Roman side, but he quickly calmed down under the scolding of the leading officer.

And in those phalanxes mixed with reserves, there was no movement, and the tens of thousands of neatly arranged and magnificent enemy troops not far away seemed to have never appeared in their eyes.

This pause does not mean that the flames of war are extinguished, but that it is necessary to rest before the Great War.

The three-kilometer journey may not be much fatigue for a sturdy soldier, but it will more or less consume some physical strength, and if you don't rest enough, then the disadvantages for the next battle can be imagined.

Another half-hour break, Scipio the Great even sat the soldiers on the ground.

The same is true of the Carthaginian phalanx opposite.

This kind of waiting makes Wei Xiaobei's heart a little unpleasant.

Knowing that this was the case, Wei Xiaobei might as well stay in the city, and more or less be able to brush some evolution points.

Of course, for such a large-scale war, Wei Xiaobei is still looking forward to it.

In such a war, it would not be too difficult to obtain evolution points.

Half an hour later, the soldiers on both sides slowly stood up under the officer's order, moving their hands and feet in place to eliminate the possible numbness.

The opposite Carthaginian phalanx suddenly split to both sides, and a commander on a tall horse, escorted by hundreds of elite cavalry, slowly came to the front of the formation from between the separated phalanxes.

Immediately the soldiers on the Carthaginian side became excited, and they began to cheer as if welcoming the arrival of a god.

The commander was no less tall than Scipio the Great, and like Scipio the Great, he wore a white robe with a golden armor over it, but his countenance was full of wisdom.

Hannibal?

Wei Xiaobei probably heard the syllables of the name from the cheers of those Carthaginian soldiers.

It turned out to be Hannibal?

Wei Xiaobei's heart was inexplicably a little excited.

Hannibal, the greatest commander of the Carthaginian Empire and one of the four greatest generals recognized in Western history, was invincible in the war with the ancient Roman Empire, turning war into an art, an art of killing.

Under his command, the Carthaginian army crossed the Mediterranean, crossed the Alps, conquered southern Gaul, and almost half of the Italian peninsula fell, and his army defeated the ancient Roman Empire until it did not dare to confront it head-on!

As soon as Hannibal's banner appeared, the morale of the ancient Roman soldiers would suddenly decline.

If it weren't for Quintus. Fabian disregarded his own status and the delaying tactics adopted by his cheeky skin, I am afraid that the ancient Roman city will be breached by Hannibal.

Of course, every famous general has a tragic history, and this Hannibal is no different, behind the invincibility, Hannibal's prestige caused unease among the Carthaginian rulers, and they frequently dragged their feet, and finally in the battle of Zama, Hannibal was completely defeated.

But in any case, this famous general is indeed powerful, and his art of war, even in modern times, still has a high research value.

It can be seen that Hannibal's prestige among the Carthaginian soldiers is extremely high, and only the slight raising of his right hand immediately subsides from the constant cheers from the Carthaginian phalanx.

“%#@￥！ ……”

Well, Wei Xiaobei didn't understand this sentence that came out of Hannibal's mouth at all.

Although the 24 commonly used phonetic alphabets of Carthage are the prototypes of the Greek, Aramaic, Arabic, and Brahmi alphabets, the Greek alphabet extends to Latin, Cyrillic, Rooney, etc., and Latin extends to Spanish, French, etc.

But this extension also made it really impossible for Wei Xiaobei to understand the Carthaginian language spoken by Hannibal.

Perhaps, of course, that Hannibal's language was just a secret language used in the military to give orders.

Because even the high-ranking officers on the side of the ancient Romans looked dazed.

You must know that ancient Rome and Carthage have been at war for many years, and they have a great understanding of each other's languages.

In this way, Wei Xiaobei judged that it should be a military secret language, to be honest, in the BC era, the creation of this kind of military secret language should be regarded as a fairly advanced military technology.

There is no doubt that the ancient Romans did not understand what the Carthaginian army was trying to do.

Soon, those Carthaginian phalanxes were mobilized, although compared to the ancient Roman side, it seemed a little chaotic, but the battle elephant phalanx arranged on both sides made the ancient Roman side dare not have the slightest idea of taking advantage of the fire to rob.

In less than twenty minutes, the Carthaginian army formed a half-crescent formation with a bulge in the middle.

To be honest, Wei Xiaobei is already a little numb to the adjustment of this formation.

This is the war of the Cold Weapon Age BC.

The two sides lined up in a relatively flat place, adjusted the formation, or adjusted their own formation according to the opponent's formation, etc., in short, a battle of tens of thousands of people like this, the initial assembly, the approach on foot, plus the time required to adjust the formation, had already taken more than two hours.

If you add the time that Wei Xiaobei delayed in Barcelona before, more than three hours have passed.

And Wei Xiaobei has now entered the gray realm, and the time he can stay is only about seven and a half hours.

In other words, after Wei Xiaobei entered the gray realm this time, nearly half of the time had been spent.

The Carthaginian army on the opposite side was still in the midst of some minor tweaks, and the ancient Roman side began a new round of rest, most of the soldiers sat down on the spot, and even the cavalry dismounted to feed their beloved horses.

Seeing such a state, Wei Xiaobei simply focused on the attribute panel, the big war is imminent, it should improve some strength, in such a large-scale war, even Wei Xiaobei does not dare to say that he will be able to hold on to the end.

It's not about fighting some brainless monsters! (To be continued......)