Chapter 463 Struggle
"Diego! Diego! You bastard!" Gaiseric shouted until his voice was hoarse, but the Alans were determined to be their enemies. They never expected that Diego would turn against them at this time. Gaiseric was so angry that his face turned blue.
"Reorganize the army! Reorganize the army!"
Gaiseric was unwilling to give up. Although Diego had joined the Roman camp, he still had an army of more than 10,000 people. He was confident and refused to accept his defeat.
"Reorganize the army! Reorganize the formation!" The officers called on the soldiers under their command to stabilize the situation again. Under the leadership of the officers, they reorganized the phalanx, but compared to the previous attack, this time it was a defense.
The Alan cavalry were like fish that had entered the water, constantly moving around in it. The Alan soldiers had no way to deal with them. They could only avoid their horses and pray that they would not become the souls killed under their horses' hooves.
Even so, some slow-moving men were knocked away, and the Alani cavalry threw the Vandals' internal formation into chaos.
"Come on, form a whole, shield wall! Shield wall!"
Gaiseric roared at the top of his lungs while riding on his horse, which made his voice hoarse from the heavy load. The Vandal cavalrymen carrying elaborately carved flags shuttled back and forth in the army formation, and the frontline officers waved their hands frequently. Their high military accomplishments allowed them to form a huge rectangular formation in a very short time, with huge shields standing side by side, forming a huge human wall.
The Alans cavalry that charged in were surrounded and unable to advance or retreat. At this time, the Vandal soldiers holding spears rushed forward side by side, roaring, and the Alans cavalry, who had no power to resist, were knocked off their horses one after another.
The Alan soldiers who formed the defense line confronted the Roman soldiers who were constantly attacking, making it impossible for the Roman army and the Alan infantry to tear apart the Vandal shield wall for a while.
"Luga, my cavalry, my cavalry is trapped inside!"
Diego shouted at Luca. He was so anxious that he wished he could rush into the Vandal army waving his weapon and rescue his cavalry in the next second.
"Calm down! Calm down! Diego!" Luca was equally anxious. He kept commanding the Roman cavalry to attack the Vandal shield wall, but this "wall" was too thick. The horses of the cavalry in the front row crashed into their shields and not only could they not shake the shield wall, but the cavalry, without any fixed stabilization measures, were ejected from their horses in an instant and fell into the Vandal army, where they were brutally killed.
"The cavalry can't charge in, Diego!" Luca got off his horse and pointed at the motionless Vandal shield wall in front of him and said, "Only infantry can tear through this shield wall!"
"What did you say?" Diego's eyes widened in surprise. "Even the cavalry can't destroy it. Do our infantry have the ability to do so?"
"Trust your subordinates!" Luca looked at Diego with a firm look in his eyes, which made Diego speechless for a moment, not knowing how to refute. He had to admit that he was a fool and could never win in this aspect of competition.
"As you wish, I only want my cavalry!" Diego said, and took two steps back, as if giving the entire stage to Luca.
"Well, let's face it head-on, just like we did in Palermo!" Luca squeezed his hands, turned around and called out to the Roman soldiers, "Siege cones! Do you have any?"
"Siege cone! Siege cone!" The cavalry shouted loudly and rode into the military camp outside the fortress. A few minutes later, two cavalrymen came riding fast, dragging a sharp piece of wood.
"Siege cone! Siege cone!" the cavalrymen pulling the wood shouted loudly. After they stopped, the soldiers rushed forward, untied the ropes, picked up the sharp wood, and pointed it at the Vandal shield wall in front of them.
"Defeat the enemy! Once again! Soldiers, forward! Forward!" Luga raised his arms and shouted, and the soldiers, surrounded by huge siege cones, roared and advanced towards the Vandal shield wall, like a huge, sharp spear of the god of war, coming with overwhelming momentum.
"My king, the army formation is stable!" The Vandal noble officer who came with Gaiseric reported to Gaiseric. Gaiseric just nodded slightly and looked around. The coalition forces composed of the Romans and the Alans under Diego who betrayed him were constantly attacking the shield wall of the Vandal soldiers. The shield wall did not move at all. His soldiers were faithfully performing their duties.
"Even if the gods descend from the sky in their chariots, they can't shake our army, let alone our loyal soldiers!" Even at this time, the officer did not forget to flatter Diego. However, Diego enjoyed this unexpected flattery very much, and a smile appeared on his face.
"As long as we hold the defense line and keep killing the attacking Romans and traitors, they will never be able to compete with us with their inferior numbers!" Gaiseric said as he carefully wiped the gold ring on his ring finger. It was inlaid with gems found all over the province of Africa. It was bright and beautiful, and the gorgeous gems set off Gaiseric's cold eyes.
"Luga, no matter what you did to incite Diego to rebel, I will never let you succeed again!" Gaiseric clenched his fists tightly. The stable military formation made him relax a lot. He took a long breath and began to prepare for a counterattack.
"Romans! Romans!" It happened in a flash. Just as Gaiseric lowered his head, he saw another officer running towards him breathlessly. He pointed directly at the back of Gaiseric. Gaiseric turned around hurriedly and saw Roman soldiers rushing up with siege spikes.
Seeing such a huge siege cone, the Vandal soldiers were terrified. They held their shields and trembled. Some of the more panicked soldiers kept retreating. It seemed that no one wanted to be hit hard by this big guy!
“Boom!”
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The siege cone instantly shattered the weak shield in front of him. The soldier holding the shield crashed into the siege cone. The sound of armor shattering and bones breaking was covered by the roar of the surrounding soldiers. The real pain can only be felt by the poor guy who was hit so hard. The poor guy fell to the ground in a weird posture, blood mixed with tears falling from the corners of his eyes.
The Roman and Alans pushed their two siege cones to the bottom in one go, tearing their shield wall apart in an instant. Groups of Vandal soldiers were knocked to the ground, like a collapsed wall, and the Vandal soldiers who came to fill the gaps were severely injured because they were greeted by javelins and flying axes.
“Damn it! Damn it!”
Gaiseric was yelling and cursing hysterically. He looked at the Alan cavalry that had not been dealt with in the army and the Romans who were tearing through their defense line. In an instant, all his plans fell through. One can imagine how frustrated he felt.
A surprising gap was created in the "indestructible" shield wall, which was like a butterfly effect. Soon, the entire shield wall became shaky, the soldiers' formation was disrupted, and they retreated and fled in all directions as if there was a disaster.
(End of this chapter)