Chapter 193: Retaliation (5)
The battle had been raging now for a few hours, the cavalry were successful in routing the opposing cavalry and had begun to nip at the Roserun armies flanks now and a again, the legionnaires meanwhile even with their cycling trick were beginning to feel the intense fatigue from sustained combat.
The front row was still fighting 10 minutes a piece roughly ever hour before pulling back meanwhile the 2nd row had split in two and was ever so slowly side stepping the formation on both sides extending the Latinium battle lines bit by bit, the exhausted Roserun soldiers were unaware of this as their own straight line began to curl around to meet this extension.
From his horse at the rear of the formation Julius could see everything as it happened.
His forces were holding back the advance, while his 2nd line was beginning to zipper in with the first line and slowly encircling the enemy without letting them get wise to their impending doom of being trapped on all sides.
For if they could stop to think about it they surely would route.
Julius may be outnumbered but as the figures stood his army had taken significantly fewer casualties than his counterpart.
The heavy shields cover his men from neck to toe the opponents spears and short swords meant nothing in the face of the defense.
Strong Axes might could shatter shields and the arms that wielded them, but the light blows these weapons could deliver merely nicked the surface time and time against without damaging the structural integrity of the equipment itself.
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