Chapter 192: Retaliation (4)
Thousands of screaming men were charging towards the Latinium battle lines, at they crossed the 100ft range the Legion archers released their bows loosing hundreds of arrows into the sky delivering death from above causing dozens to fall to the field only to die from the arrows or being trampled to death by their own men still charging forth unaware of their own plight at their feet.
As the opposing force got closer together only being separated now by 50ft give or take the legion setup and unleashed a volley of thrown javelins that sailed through the air raining further death down upon their victims, but by now the charging soldiers had learned to raise their shields this became their undoing.
The javalins thrown had been fixed to penetrate shield but be near impossible to pull out of forcing the weilder to abandon their shield, this meant that as they finally came in for the final charge many gripped only their spears and swords in hand having cast aside their shields due to the javalins sticking out of them.
Some unfortunate souls were struck and killed by the lobbed projectiles all the while arrows continued to rain down from the heavens.
*Crash* all along the front the two infantry forces collided and death began come to both sides, The Legions thick shield wall only allowing gaps for blades to be thrust through, while the enemy hacked and slashed with all their might to try and break the legion formation.
As the infantry began to engage the cavalry had begun to move out at well.
All except for 100 horses that remained with a pair of legion cohorts forming the rear guard and Julius’s personal bodyguards during this campain.
The fight against Roserun did not require his direct intervention, the battle would be over sooner if he fought, however Roserun had no warlords worth worrying about so this was the perfect moment to further train his legions and discover how much had changed since he’d upgraded the military tree of his Tech system.
The cavalry set off after the tens of horses on the Roserun side charging off in a wedge formation, the infantry battle meanwhile continued to rage as the bodies continued to piled up, but the Legion itself was losing ground not because they were being pushed back but rather because every 10 minutes or so a whistle would sound and the lines would shuffle those at the front line would cycle to the back of the line to rest while those behind them were now become the new front line.
This allowed for fresh forces to always be fighting on the front line limiting the number of casualties brought on my clumsiness and mistakes due to exhaustion.
As the infantry clash had happened the archers had ceased their firing for fear of their arrows falling short and hitting their own men in the back.