Chapter 848: "·The contest begins"

Some people shed tears during the day, and some hide their tears in the deep darkness.
Rabin Deran Tagore (Indian poet, philosopher and Indian nationalist)
Although the fourteenth legion under Louis, although it was rebuilt after being hit hard, its combat power is still not to be underestimated; the sixteenth legion, which is the reconstructed legion with the fourteenth legion, the overall combat effectiveness is slightly less than the fourteenth legion Inferior.
As for the newly-built 56th, 57th, and 58th Legions, the 74th, 77th, 82nd, and 84th Legions who have just arrived in Besançon for a month; The actual combat effectiveness is not even as good as Bai Feng’s five Eastern Legions in the Eastern Empire.
This means that as long as Quintus commanded 30,000 recruits to defeat Louis's fourteenth legion head-on, it would prove that his army is stronger than all the standing legions in Besançon; Provincial Kun Tus, naturally qualified to serve as commander of the army.
If not Quintus was summoned suddenly, then Louis would be the commander of the army of temptation. This can be seen from the composition of the army of temptation; the arrangement with Louis as the commander and Di Maria and La Nokia as the deputy, Almost the best configuration to lure the enemy army.
Because the enticed army is composed of five standing legions and the Jagged Guards, the most qualified commander of the five standing legions is Louis, followed by Di Maria and La Nokia; the former is second only to seniority. Louis, the latter is the representative of Bai Feng.
Therefore, in the absence of a more suitable candidate to serve as the commander of the army, Louis is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate for the commander of the army; Di Maria and Ranok are the commanders of their own army, and it is reasonable to serve as the deputy general of the army. thing.
This kind of thing with a little military knowledge can be seen, how can Louis not see it? Based on this most basic premise, Louis naturally has no affection for Quintus, who robbed him of command.
What made Louis even more angry was that this Quintus, who did not know where it came from, even dared to question his ability in public; in view of this, he left the angry Louis, so he decided to ignore Bai Feng's face and personally Give Quintus a lesson!
After the 20,000 soldiers of the Fourteenth Army retreated to the west side of the plain, Louis began to line up. The elite first, second, and third squadrons in the army were deployed by Louis in the center of the army. Act as the main force of the Chinese army.
The left and right armies of the flanking Chinese army are composed of the fourth, sixth and fifth and seventh wings respectively, and the ninth and tenth wings are the weakest in the front of the Chinese army; the last remaining The eighth wing became a reserve or mobile unit in the hands of Louis.
The core of the formation of Louis platoons is to show the enemy first and weaken Quintus to weaken the enemy, and then defeat the main force of Quintus in one fell swoop with the elite Chinese main force; in Louis's view, only one month of training The recruits will not have strong fighting will.
Is the truth as simple as Louis imagined? An hour passed, and Louis had just deployed his army, and the trumpeters outside the battlefield blew the trumpet where the battle started!
Two thousand horns from the two Royal Legions and five standing corps, and the horn sounded at the same time was enough to sound through the sky; Louis, who heard the horn, immediately ordered the captains around him: "You return to the team, immediately The army advances!"
"Nuo!" The ten captains of the 14th Legion responded.
"Remember, at most half an hour, you must defeat the enemy!"
"Break the enemy! Captive Quintus!!" The squadrons shouted uniformly to the captains who knew their own regiment commanders very well.
"Defeat the enemy! Captive Quintus!!"
"Defeat the enemy! Captive Quintus!!"
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The slogan of the fourteenth legion’s coalition leaders took the lead, and soon the entire fourteenth legion shouted this slogan; War horses are a little restless.
Compared with the massive 14th Army, the 30,000 recruits commanded by Quintus are much quieter; Quintus, who did not propose any slogan, just composed his infantry and longbowmen into a huge Four battle fronts.
Ten thousand new infantry soldiers wearing the Roman youth army standard weapons and equipment, just like the real Roman youth army, with the squadron as a unit, formed a small three-column battle array of one meter every two soldiers, hundreds of small three-column The battle fronts were combined into a large three-column battle front.
Lined up in front of the three battle arrays is a long queue of long archers. The arrows in the quiver behind them are all wooden poles with iron arrows removed, and the top of the wooden poles are also coated with discoloration potions; once there is Two arrows in the body will be judged to be killed.
The infantry's three battle arrays and the long archer's battle formations are flanked by 10,000 cavalry; this 10,000 cavalry who has been specially trained and rides on the high-quality horses of Rome, only on the surface, It's better than Donald's Cavalry Corps!
As the trumpet sound gradually disappeared, the distance between the two armies also shortened little by little, until they both appeared in each other's field of vision; after seeing the former army of the Fourteenth Legion, Quintus Then he ordered his army to stop advancing and prepare for the battle.
Seeing also the Louis of Quintus, he did not plan to stop the advancement of his army; he decided to defeat Louis of Quintus in one fell swoop, instead of slowing down the advancement of his own army, he gave his former army Offensive command.
The four thousand soldiers of the 14th Legion, who launched the charge, quickly approached the army of Quintus, who was immobile; when they reached within 400 meters of the army of Quintus, it was the leader of Kuntus who greeted them. Archers' first round of arrow rain!
The archers, skilled archers, used round-by-round volleys to cover the front army of the 14th Legion, which was not fast; the short distance of 400 meters, the 4,000 soldiers of the 14th Legion, just Paid the price of more than two thousand soldiers' death.
All the generals watching the battle know that if the soldiers of the fourteenth legion were not dead in death, such heavy advancing casualties were enough to completely collapse the former army of the fourteenth legion of the charge; even so, the battle situation is still correct Quintus is favorable.
Seeing the fourteenth legion's former generals who had escaped the arrow rain, they rushed to the melee long archer clusters; the long archers who had been prepared, under the command of their respective captains, followed the third The passage left by the battle fronts was quickly withdrawn.
The extremely flexible infantry soldiers, after withdrawing the long archers in front of them to the rear, immediately shrunk the loose three battle arrays into a dense shield wall defense; the former army of the fourteenth legion with insufficient attack power did not break through the shield at all The strength of the wall defense line.
Blindly defending is not the essence of the three battle fronts. The soldiers of the Fourteenth Legion who were worried about being blocked by the shield wall in the first second, found that the defender had already killed the shield wall in the next second; He was defeated by the counterattack defenders.
Not waiting for Louis to send his main force of the Chinese army and the left and right armies to reinforce the former army, his former army consisting of the two weakest wing has been wiped out by Kuntus without any effort; Kuntus has paid for this The price is only more than one hundred infantry'death'!
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