Chapter 198 A Showdown
"Woo woo woo"
As the flames of the fire wall in front of them gradually decreased and showed signs of extinguishing, the patience of the emperors of both sides also disappeared without a trace. The sound of horns sounded from behind the two armies, indicating that the supreme commander of both armies, the emperor, ordered them to attack, and all this should have a result!
"Don't care what's ahead, just move forward! Move forward!"
The warlords took out the leather whips they used to whip their horses and shouted at the top of their lungs, cracking their whips loudly from time to time.
“Snap! Snap! Snap!”
This was to provoke the soldiers in front of them. Some even used whips to whip the soldiers on their backs. Although they were protected by armor, they still felt uncomfortable. At least the psychological humiliation could not be erased, making the soldiers feel that it was better to rush forward and fight to the death than to be beaten here! "Get up, go forward, defeat them, go forward! Go forward!"
Under the whip, a large number of Roman troops rushed towards the Sassanid army across the flames.
But no one expected that at this moment, the Sassanid army, which was originally on the defensive, suddenly roared and counterattacked the Roman charging team.
"Boom boom boom"
The two armies collided violently. To the surprise of the Romans, the Sassanid army showed amazing fighting power this time. It was like oil and water cannot mix. The two sides fought fiercely. The crazy Sassanid Persians even rode on the Roman shields and swung their short weapons to kill. The Romans were not to be outdone. They used their shields as cover and put their swords or spears on the shields to stab the oncoming Sassanid soldiers. Thousands of people were frantically strangling in this empty wasteland full of heat waves. There was no formation or horn. There was only killing and being killed.
"Sassanid cavalry! Sassanid cavalry!"
Amid the soldiers' exclamations, hundreds of roaring Sassanid cavalrymen rushed over from the side, knocking down a group of unsuspecting Roman soldiers in an instant. The Roman cavalry at the rear immediately came to the rescue, and they cooperated with the infantry to cut off the retreat of the Sassanid cavalry before they retreated. They wanted to eat up these hundreds of cavalrymen before they would stop.
However, they did not notice that a well-equipped cavalry was passing slightly behind them. The Sassanid army did not rush directly to attack their backs, but went around them from a distance and aimed directly at Theodosius II behind the Roman army.
But far away on the other side of the battlefield, Orius Luca led his armored cavalry to advance non-stop. His plan was surprisingly similar to that of Yazdegerd. He decided to take a long detour and then use the heavy armor and unparalleled breakthrough ability of the armored cavalry to tear apart all obstacles along the way, and finally capture Yazdegerd, forcing his troops to stop all resistance. They advanced forward under the cover of the cavalry on the left side of the legion. On the side of the Sassanid army, the Roman cavalry turned their spears and rushed straight into the Sassanid army, trying to defeat Sassanid Persia as quickly as possible.
But such a large team would raise dust everywhere when it moved, and the corresponding sound was the loud rustling of armor. Luga made a wrong move. Yizdegerd had already started to pay attention to their every move. Of course, when Luga led his 500 armored cavalrymen to the right of the Sassanid army, Yizdegerd looked at the aggressive Luga and couldn't help but smile. He said to himself: "The method is the right method, but you are a lot slower in execution!"
He calmly mounted his horse and, escorted by his guards, moved to the left side of the Sassanid army, keeping an absolutely safe distance from Luqa.
"Caesar, there is a Sassanid cavalry coming towards us!"
The guards' timely reminder made Theodosius II slowly turn his attention away from the battlefield and look to his right. A not-so-large army was rushing towards them with murderous intent.
The scale of this team was not large, but this small scale made Theodosius II feel unprecedented oppression, because he saw the special features of the armor of these two hundred people. They wore solid armor made of scale armor and plate armor, and wore high-top helmets with wings deliberately carved on their heads. They wore black masks on their faces, which looked gloomy and terrifying. The front half of their horses were also covered with plate armor. No one carried a lance more than three meters long on their shoulders, and they were coming towards him with rolling dust. That's right, they are the Holy Death Cavalry under Yazdegerd. And their mission is almost a decapitation operation! After all, Theodosius II had only him as an entourage.
"Damn it!" Theodosius II's hands began to tremble uncontrollably, because he had never been so close to an enemy who wanted to take his life.
"Come on, Andrew, drive! Let's go!"
The momentum that Theodosius II had just built up disappeared in an instant. He urged Andrew as if the Sassanid cavalry behind him would catch him at any time and use their silver-gleaming lances to pierce the deepest part of his soul.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Andrew quickly tightened the reins, drove the horse pulling the chariot to the left side of his army, and whipped the horse's back with a whip. The chariot sped away, and with Theodosius II's guards following, it fled all the way to the left side of the Roman army.
"Damn it, where are the people!"
Luka, who had arrived late, looked around on the land covered with horse hoof prints. Apart from the battlefield behind him that was crushing countless lives like a meat grinder, he could not see any trace of Yisi'ai! Only the slowly falling dust was left in front of him, floating away into the distance.
"It seems that such a large-scale sneak attack has made them escape long ago!" Lujia looked at the dust that stretched to the other side of the battlefield, and finally found the trace of Yizedai. He was still so far away, so far away that he could only look at that point on horseback. Lujia had to admit that it was impossible for him to catch up with Yizedai with so many people and such heavy armor. When he was feeling discouraged, he accidentally glanced at his own army formation and found that hundreds of cavalry were chasing Theodosius II!
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"broken!"
Luca realized that Theodosius II was in danger. Although the Sassanid Holy Cavalry was a semi-armored cavalry, their mobility was not weak. At least they were much faster than the armored heavy cavalry under Luca! Now was the time to start the war on all fronts. Every unit was tightly holding on to the enemy and was also tightly held by the enemy. They could not get away at all. The only unit that could move now was Luca and his 500 armored cavalry.
"Let me see what you will choose? A thug from the Western Empire!" Arminius was in the cavalry, and he was very familiar with the current situation. If anything happened to Theodosius II, as Caesar's close bodyguard, Luca would be in big trouble if he failed to protect his master. "Then, Orius Luca, you are too late!" Arminius couldn't wait to see Orius Luca go to the military court!
Luga naturally knew what was going on in this situation. He was thinking hard about what to do. Of course, a bold idea gradually emerged in his mind.
"Cavalry, form a cone!"
Luka raised his lance high and shouted, because the shortest distance between two points is a straight line!
(End of this chapter)