Chapter 1029: The Undefeated Legion
The patched-up front may seem precarious, but in fact it is as solid as a rock.
Gretz on the periphery frowned, he was half the commander of this battle, the eighth and thirteenth eagle flags had to charge, the second and thirtieth eagle flags had to attack from both wings, and he was the only one who had time to command.
But he found that something seemed to be wrong. Logically speaking, the two breakthroughs on the Roman side should be able to open up a certain gap. After all, in a field battle, the attacking side can gain a certain advantage.
This is what is called taking the initiative.
Because the defending side must be evenly deployed, while the attacking side can freely adjust the center of gravity of the breakthrough.
Hide the elite troops in inconspicuous places and then break out of the formation.
If we fail to advance the front line even when we have the initiative, then we can be said to be completely at a disadvantage.
What's worse is that Gretz can't see any problem. There is obviously nothing wrong with Roma's performance, but they just can't make any breakthroughs. It's as if the opponent's hard power is crushing them.
This seemed impossible to Gretz. Apart from anything else, the 8th and 13th troops clearly had the advantage in their directions, but because they were heavy infantry, their advancement was extremely slow.
But the Parthian side seemed to be retreating as a whole. No matter how the Eighth and Thirteenth advanced, Parthia as a whole looked as if it had not made any breakthrough.
Gretz could not see the problems on his side, but Temujin on the other side could clearly see the problems between the various Roman legions.
The barbarians from various places had no training in teamwork, and even the various Roman eagle flags had no experience in joint combat.
So much so that the barbarians were hindering each other in places that Graz couldn't see, and Temujin then cleverly used them, making the barbarians' side like a tactic of adding fuel to the fire, constantly giving away heads.
By now, Temujin has acquired some abilities of precise command. Simply put, Temujin has been able to overwhelm the level of a single hundred-man team with such accuracy. In other words, a legion of ten thousand people can open more than ten command paths.
This level is quite scary even in the current Central Plains. Of course, don't talk nonsense about people like Han Xin who opened hundreds of lanes at the beginning and pulled people to convert everywhere. That is simply not something a normal human being can do.
A commander like Temujin can display his strength normally. At this moment, Temujin is also a qualified commander of a large army. If he were a cavalryman, his performance would be even more outstanding.
"A group of miscellaneous soldiers who can't even fully control their own power and don't even have the will to control their own, the birth of two so-called elite talents are nothing but miscellaneous soldiers." Temujin sneered at the barbarian army.
In his eyes, the barbarians who fought to the death with Ardashir might be considered double-talented elites.
But those who came with the Eagle Flag were more or less barbarians who were psychologically afraid of death.
There is still a gap between these dual-talented barbarians and the real dual-talented elites. The so-called real dual-talented elites do not have only two elite talents, but may have several or even dozens of talents. The so-called dual talents refer to the manifestation of the two strongest talents.
If we have to make an analogy, the truly elite ones would master two intermediate skills and a bunch of low-level skills, and if all their dual talents are pushed to the extreme, they would be able to defeat those with three talents.
The Barbarian Legion is different. They only have two intermediate skills, no other supporting skills, and they don’t even master these two abilities very well.
This is also the reason why Temujin could easily command the Parthian elite to suppress the Roman barbarians. No matter what, the Parthian elite were considered regular troops, while the Roman troops that could be considered regular troops did not come to Parthia.
There are gaps in all aspects of coordination and organization between the two sides. This gap is not obvious when a single legion is fighting, but it will immediately become apparent on such a large battlefield.
This gap is not a simple problem, but a problem of hard power. Graze, who was commanding such a large-scale battle for the first time, simply did not have the ability to correct it.
He didn't even notice these problems. He was suddenly dug out by Augustus using the Eagle Flag. He didn't even know how to use the Eagle Flag, let alone give commands. It was a bit like forcing him to do something he was not prepared for.
Although Gretz couldn't find the specific problem, seeing that the front line had been unable to be breached for a long time, his intuition and instinct helped him realize the problem.
In the final analysis, there is only one reason why the defense line cannot be broken, and that is that the attack is not strong enough and cannot bring heavy pressure to the opponent.
"Attack!" Gretz waved the battle flag and gave the attack signal to the left and right wings.
"Hmph, it's finally our turn!" Camillo snorted coldly at the signal.
"Crush them! Show those guys from the 30th Eagle what the real Trajan is!"
Without saying a word, Camillus raised the eagle flag and led the Second Trajan to attack the Parthian flank.
"Invincible Legion, attack!" Laclilek on the other side was not to be outdone. He also raised the eagle flag and led the 30th Invincible Legion to attack the other flank of the Parthian army.
"Don't even think about it!" Jin Wushu led the Iron Tu and charged towards the direction of the 30th Invincible Legion. Second, Trajan's speed reaction was very strong, but his ability to cause large-scale casualties was average, so after repeated consideration, Temujin decided to put Jin Wushu on the side of the 30th Invincible Legion.
"Hmph! Iron Pagoda? I want to see what it is like!" Laclilek's expression remained unchanged. Graze and the others told him the basic situation, but Laclilek only knew the general idea.
But it doesn't matter. Since the opponent has three talents, we are all on the same level. In this case, there is nothing to be afraid of. Just fight him directly.
Laklilek had a good idea, but Temujin thought one step further than him.
The biggest reason why Iron Pagoda was arranged here was because the 30th Invincible Legion was the only one that had never fought against Iron Pagoda.
Hu Yanchu saw that Laklilek was arrogant, so Temujin arranged the Iron Pagoda for him based on Laklilek's arrogance.
The three talents can indeed compete with each other, but Iron Pagoda’s strongest point lies in the collision when they first meet.
Temujin was sure that Laklilek would not believe other people's descriptions and would choose to verify it himself.
And this was the trap he set. In the future that Hu Yanchu saw, the Invincible Legion and Trajan's Legion were from the same school, which meant that they would be restrained when facing the iron wall with extremely high defense.
It just so happened that the Iron Pagoda was an iron wall army. Laklelek realized it the moment the two sides charged and collided.
The opponent was the type they hated the most, and Lakilek's face fell on the spot.
As a three-talent legion focusing on willpower and skills, although it does not have any major shortcomings, it still depends on who it is compared with.
The Iron Pagodas were the type of legion they hated the most. They had thick skin and tough flesh, and their attacking techniques were simple and crude. They simply skipped over all other techniques and simply competed in physical fitness.
The Invincible Legion, which had already become serious at this time, had already entered a state of overspeed reaction as a whole. In their eyes, the speed of the Iron Pagoda's charge had dropped to one third, and their speed had also entered the same state. Under this overspeed reaction, the world seemed to be slow to them.
This state gives them too much time to make precise movements. Unlike other people who find it difficult to control their precise movements at ultra-high speeds, for them, everything is just slow motion when they enter this state.
In this world where the playback speed is one-third of the speed, everyone in the Invincible Army can still think and adjust their movements. Their well-honed movements will not be distorted at all due to the slow motion and can fully produce the desired effect.
All the knights fired a perfect shot under the most perfect circumstances, aiming directly at the vital points of the Iron Pagoda soldiers.
Similarly, Tiefutu also launched the same attack based on his feeling, but the knights of the Undefeated Legion dodged Tiefutu's attack by slowing down the movement.
Just like when they fought the Flying Bear, at that moment the number of people stabbed in the air by the Iron Pagoda was almost the same as the number of people stabbed by the Invincible Legion. However, at the moment when the two sides met, they realized that this stabbing had lost its meaning for both sides.
Not to mention that almost all the soldiers of the Undefeated Legion stabbed the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, nor that almost all the soldiers of the Undefeated Legion dodged the Iron Pagoda's attacks.
Just the feeling of the Undefeated Legion's stabbing attacks hitting the Iron Pagoda soldiers' bodies made the knights of the Undefeated Legion understand that the other side was not afraid of such attacks at all.
"Disgusting defense!" Laklelek felt like he had eaten a durian.
But he quickly adjusted his mentality and issued new orders.
"Three-three combination breakthrough! Let them know how powerful the Undefeated Legion is!"
The soldiers of the Undefeated Legion adjusted their positions instantly. With their super-fast reaction, everything seemed so natural and no one was in a panic.
This time, the soldiers of the three undefeated legions combined, and the three spears instantly pierced into the same vital point, which was equivalent to an explosion of three times the power and instantly broke the Iron Pagoda's defense.
In an instant, hundreds of Iron Pagoda soldiers were killed, while the soldiers of the Undefeated Legion were rarely hit by the Iron Pagoda due to their reactions.
The casualty ratio in the second round of fighting between the two sides was staggering, and Jin Wushu was completely at a disadvantage.
The Invincible Legion, which had fought against Feixiong before, had also thought about how to deal with such an enemy.
"Hmph, the same trick is useless to us!" A hint of pride flashed across Lakilek's face.
After the last fight with Feixiong, he had been thinking about how to make up for this problem, and now there are finally some results.
After two rounds of fighting, they clearly had the upper hand. Although the probability of a three-on-three attack being successful was very low, they finally had a way to deal with these disgusting Iron Wall Cavalry Corps.
"Form the formation!" Jin Wushu gave the order with a sneer. Laklilek has made progress compared to before, but will their Iron Pagoda continue to stand still?
How could he not be clear about the problem of the Iron Pagoda? The Xiongnu were outstanding representatives of light cavalry and assault cavalry, so they were well aware of the problems of cavalry.
So after seeing the opponent use a combined attack skill to break through their defense, Jin Wushu no longer hid his ultimate move, and directly chose to show it out to compete with Laklilek.
"Is that an iron chain?" Lakilek looked at what Tiefutu took out from the horse's back and suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Get out!" Laklilek didn't care about anything else and chose to break out of the battle. He had a hunch that the chain on the opposite side would be a deadly weapon.
I saw three Iron Pagodas in a group, with iron chains hanging between their armor and horses, connecting them together.
Then, like a rotating flower, it continued to divide into circles.
"Since I didn't bring any barricades today, I'll let you have a taste of my iron chains first!" Jin Wushu sneered.
The Iron Pagoda's tactics themselves required carrying chevaux de frise to fight, but the Iron Pagoda's mobility was still needed in the subsequent battle, so they had to give up the chevaux de frise and choose to go into battle lightly.
The iron pagodas, which are one with the man and the horse, are connected by chains, like an airtight net that traps the Invincible Legion.
Although Lakilek made the decision quickly, it was impossible for two legions to withdraw just like that when they were fighting.
A group of soldiers from the Invincible Legion who were originally rushing in the front were suddenly trapped by the iron net. Immediately afterwards, the Iron Pagoda soldiers jumped off their horses and surrounded the soldiers of the Invincible Legion.
“Damn it!”
Lakilek turned his horse around and looked at the three or four hundred soldiers who were surrounded. He couldn't help but get angry, but he really couldn't think of how to break this bad trick for a while.
The Iron Pagoda came with chains that completely blocked the movement space of the Skilled Legion, and all that was left was to be forced to face the enemy head-on.
For now, all Lakilek could think of was that only the guys in the First Auxiliary could counterattack under such a siege. The other legions would probably be in trouble for a while if they were besieged like this.
"General, these chains can burn talent!" The besieged soldiers roared and conveyed this news to Laclilek, making Laclilek even more upset.
Parthia was indeed Rome's enemy, and had made a new breakthrough in its incineration talent. As a result, the besieged soldiers were in great danger.
He began to think of retreating, but the next moment, Laklilek raised his knife and stabbed his leg.
The blood and the stinging pain suddenly made Laclilek sober. He then looked at the undefeated soldiers under siege with a distorted expression and roared, "Fight, the undefeated Trajan!"
Along with Lakilek's roar, the soldiers of the Invincible Legion all roared and charged towards Jin Wushu, who was like an iron wall!
They are the undefeated Trajan, how could they abandon their comrades and retreat here?
The next moment, blood spurted out. The soldiers of the Undefeated Legion and the Iron Pagoda attacked each other frantically, and a large number of soldiers of the Undefeated Legion fell down.
In just a few breaths, the two sides crossed each other. The Undefeated Legion suffered over a thousand casualties, while the Iron Pagoda's casualties were less than one-third of theirs.
"It seems that although your defense is very strong, it is not so strong that it is unmatched!" Lakilek spat out a mouthful of blood from his mouth and looked at Jin Wushu opposite him. The several injuries on his body not only did not make him weaker, but made his momentum become even more crazy.
"Let's fight!"
The morale of the soldiers of the Undefeated Legion continued to rise, like a sleeping lion awakened from its slumber. The casualties of the soldiers on the Iron Pagoda side began to rise sharply.
