Chapter 1188: Living Towards Death
"What should I do? Should I continue chasing?" Romulus did not look good. Although the gap in the fight did not seem to be that big this time, the gap still existed.
And that guy named Ma Chao was a little too strong. When the fight started, he felt that he was completely suppressed by the opponent both in momentum and force.
"Keep chasing. The order Marche gave us is to hold on to the Han army. Let's keep chasing!" Lucius nodded firmly.
It is impossible to win the battle. Now the situation is on Rome's side. As Roman soldiers, they must follow military orders. Since Marche, the temporary commander, has issued an order to pursue, they will continue to pursue.
"Didn't you stop them?" Africanus ran over with a troop of barbarians and greeted the two men from a distance.
" They ran away. The Yuan family has a lot of guards. How's it going on your side?" Lucius asked casually.
"Marché has already brought his men into the city to take over. His orders are for us to chase him until Duke Arnubis arrives. We must keep our eyes on him!"
"Okay! Let's go together!" Lucius nodded and ordered to continue the pursuit.
The three groups, with more than 20,000 barbarians, marched quickly to chase the retreating Yuan army.
"I have sent people to send a signal to Wen Chou and Zhang He. They should be arriving nearby soon. Be careful and take care!" Xu Rong glanced at the Roman army appearing behind him and said to Ju Yi.
"Leave it to me!" Ju Yi knew very well that they still had a large number of wounded soldiers. If they abandoned these wounded soldiers, they could quickly get rid of the subsequent Roman pursuit.
However, if they were to abandon these people, they would not have brought them out.
"You guys leave quickly, I will evacuate with Wen Chou and the others!" Ju Yi stopped with the halberd soldiers and heavy crossbowmen, and began to turn around and form a battle formation.
Xu Rong stretched out his hand and cast a layer of the army's cloud energy on Ju Yi and others. Although it would be greatly attenuated, it could still provide some protection, which was better than nothing. This was the last help he could give to Ju Yi.
"Swoosh!" Just when Lucius and the others saw Ju Yi, a crossbow arrow pierced in front of them.
"Be careful, this is Ju Yi, the commander of the Han Dynasty Army Soul Corps' vanguard of death soldiers. He is likely to launch unimaginable attacks!" Africanus' pupils shrank and he quickly called for a stop.
He had witnessed the torrent of arrows from the vanguard. That torrent of arrows, like the one from the Parthian Divine Cavalry, was truly terrifying and could directly wipe out the three talents and the Royal Guards.
If you don't have the strength of the Tenth Knight or the defense of the Rose Legion, it's better not to go up there, or you won't know how you died.
"Let the barbarian go and see if we can trick the opponent into using his ultimate move!" After a brief moment of fear, Africanus took the initiative to come up with a countermeasure.
Lucius looked at Africanus in surprise. He didn't expect that the fastest learner was this guy who had always regarded the barbarians as trash.
Africanus certainly understood what Lucius's eyes meant, but he was really afraid of Ju Yi. That kind of power that could directly wipe out an entire legion was not something a normal person should face.
Moreover, Marche's guidance was very effective for him. It was very easy for him to accept the idea that the barbarians were tools and hunting dogs, and it did not go against his original will.
So he easily accepted this setting.
"Shoot!" Africanus got rid of his stubbornness and put his full strength into play the military skills he had learned from Penelunus.
The barbarians were naturally arranged by Africanus into a trident shape and surrounded Ju Yi from three angles.
The cavalry in the front and the infantry were meant to create a time difference so that Ju Yi could not turn around in time to defend, and also to create space for the cavalry to disperse to both wings.
At the same time, the archer corps among the barbarians also began to exert their strength, and dense arrows were shot towards Ju Yi.
Without the need for Ju Yi, the halberd warriors with shields naturally stepped to the front, and when retreating, they tilted their shields and held them high to block the arrows thrown at them, thus protecting their teammates as well as their own safety.
At the same time, the heavy crossbowmen naturally stepped forward and fired, while the halberd soldiers retreated as if they had eyes on the back of their heads, making way for the heavy crossbowmen to shoot.
The number of arrows shot was not large, but in terms of the results, the killing rate was almost enough to kill one barbarian with two arrows.
The barbarian cavalry came rushing like thunder, the heavy crossbowmen retreated, and the halberd soldiers naturally took over.
It was just natural that a dense gun array consisting of hundreds of people formed in the front.
The barbarian cavalry ran headfirst into the spear array and were completely unable to break through the halberd soldiers' formation. Under the attack of halberds and swords and shields, they left hundreds of corpses in a panic and scattered to both sides, intending to launch an encirclement and suppression from Ju Yi's rear.
"Shoot!" Ju Yi calmly divided the heavy crossbowmen into two camps and shot at the barbarian cavalry on both sides.
For the heavy crossbowmen, such a close distance was as easy as target practice. They shot calmly, cocked the bow, shot, and cocked the bow.
Almost 90% of the crossbow arrows can accurately take down a barbarian.
For Ju Yi, who mixed the two imperial guards together, these barbarians were nothing more than appetizers. The only meaning of their existence was to consume the number of crossbow arrows.
Africanus was terribly disappointed. He felt that this pattern was very familiar, but he couldn't think of where he had seen it before.
It was not until he saw Lionel catch up from behind that he realized, isn’t this the ideal way of fighting for the Fourth Eagle Flag?
It’s a pity that the two legion commanders of the Fourth Eagle Flag don’t get along at all. Let alone exquisite cooperation, if they are not watched closely together, they might even fight.
So much so that Africanus felt it was familiar, but he did not think of it as the fourth eagle flag at all.
After seeing the cooperation between the halberdiers and heavy crossbowmen, Leonardo couldn't help but get angry. He wished Filippo could cooperate with him to achieve such a cooperation.
Not to mention being ranked in the top five in Roma, at least there is no problem in confronting three talents, and even if a miracle happens, they can still fight.
However, he and Filippo seemed to be in conflict with each other and could not get along at all, so that the fourth eagle flag appeared in a split form in most cases.
"Tsk, we should transfer Filippo here as well, so that the two of them can get along well with each other!"
After Marche felt it, he saw Ju Yi standing firm among the barbarians, and said something meaningful.
Leonardo's face darkened, but he couldn't refute it. The cooperation between him and Filippo was really terrible. Back then on the battlefield of Parthia, if they had such cooperation, defeating Babak would not have been a dream.
"Tsk, the highlight is coming!"
Ju Yi, who had always been relaxed, finally became serious. There were more and more people coming from Rome, and his pressure was increasing day by day.
The moment he saw Marche, he knew that this was a legion commander who could unite the barbarians. If the other party really wanted to kill him, it would be better for him to run away honestly if Wen Chou and Zhang He were not there.
What he wanted was a desperate situation with a chance of survival, not seeking death with no chance of survival.
However, Marche did not command the troops. It was good enough to just kill some barbarians. Moreover, he felt that Ju Yi could not escape. The Yuan family lost two guards to cover their retreat. Capturing these two guards would be a big profit. There was no need to continue chasing him.
It was freezing and snowy, and he was an old man, so he didn't want to go through any more trouble.
When he entered the city and saw that there was not a single civilian, he more or less understood the Han Dynasty's plan.
If they continue to pursue the matter without any tact, what if the Yuan family launches a counterattack and scatters their ashes?
Even if Rome could avenge them later, they would not survive, and he did not want to die on such a meaningless battlefield.
Marche just watched Africanus command, giving him some advice from time to time. He was still very concerned about the things that Penilence had given him.
He would not miss such a good opportunity for on-site teaching.
When Alnubis arrived, the barbarians' side was already a river of blood, dyeing the ice and snow red, adding a touch of enchantment to the battlefield.
"Why are you coming so slowly?" Marche complained first, then turned the tables and questioned Arnubis's slowness.
Arnubis' face darkened. It was impossible for them to be suppressed by a cavalry and had to run here for a long time.
"What's your situation now?" Arnubis did not give a direct answer and changed the subject.
"As you can see, the Yuan family has run away, and there is no civilian left in the city. This troop is the last one left!" Marke made Arnubis understand with just a few words.
"No wonder I always feel the danger!" Arnubis shook his head and looked at Ju Yi. "Hehe, you're in my hands this time!"
At the beginning, he and his personal guards were almost captured by Ju Yi's vanguard, which directly cut off his chance of competing for the position of emperor. It can be said that he and Ju Yi had a deep hatred.
Now Ju Yi is about to fall into his hands, which is a happy thing no matter how you look at it. Although he may not be able to kill Ju Yi, directly destroying the army that Ju Yi has carefully cultivated can also be regarded as revenge.
He had lost most of his personal guards at that time, so it was reasonable for him to kill two of them now.
"Report, Duke, cavalry units have been spotted approaching from the north, south, and northwest!" Benito's report stunned Arnubis.
"They don't even want to keep the two guards. It seems we have to be more serious in our pursuit!" Arnubis laughed.
This is exactly what he wants. Since you abandoned the city on your own initiative, let him see Xu Rong's true level.
The five guards cooperated to escape safely from so many people, which was a bit of an underestimation.
"Defeat them first, then we can talk about other things!" Arnubis planned to take revenge, so he waved his hand and took over the command of Africanus.
Ju Yi felt the pressure of the attack almost instantly. If the rhythm of the battle was in his hands before, it was now in the hands of the opponent.
"Wen Chou and the others should have arrived. It looks like this is the final moment!" Ju Yi took a deep breath, knowing that this was the moment of life and death.
As long as you can hold on, it will be dawn. If you can’t, this day next year may become your death anniversary.
"For glory!"
"In the name of the North, we will kill the enemy in front of us!"
When facing his enemies, Alnubis had no intention of hiding his abilities and directly displayed his talents as a monarch.
The raised Roman dagger shone with a destructive glow.
At this moment, everyone was swallowed up by the pale and dim light, and the future of Ju Yi's defeat and death fell into everyone's memory.
"Defeat them!"
Alnubis gave the order coldly. Although in this future, Ju Yi's counterattack before death was as sharp as ever, he died in the end.
Several legion attacks hit the halberd soldiers from all directions. Facing the barbarians, the halberd soldiers, who were like a solid wall of steel, lost hundreds of people in an instant.
The numerical disparity between the armies was so great that after the barbarians' auras were connected, they could mobilize the excess clouds and launch an attack on Ju Yi and the others.
Even with the weakening of the clouds, hundreds of people were killed instantly when they fell into the phalanx of halberd soldiers.
"Fight to the death, be the first to die, there is no life!"
Under the huge losses, the halberd soldiers and heavy crossbowmen were distracted and their morale unconsciously began to decline.
Although they knew from the beginning that they would face an extremely desperate situation, when the legion's attack fell and took away hundreds of people, they couldn't help but feel fear in their hearts.
However, Ju Yi's will was conveyed to them at this moment, so that the fear they had just felt disappeared in an instant.
"kill!"
With angry roars, the halberd soldiers launched a counterattack, and the heavy crossbow soldiers also began to burst out rapidly, shooting arrows into the barbarians like they were free.
"Report, the arrows are used up!" Soon the heavy crossbowmen ran out of arrows. They had no supplies, which meant that they were completely out of stock.
"Follow me!" Ju Yi was waiting for this moment. Whether he could succeed depended on this.
"Charge!" The heavy crossbowmen followed Ju Yi and launched a charge. Following behind Ju Yi, they felt an infinite amount of power surging from their bodies.
No, it's not a feeling; it's real. An infinite amount of power is surging from their bodies.
"It's done! It's done!" Ju Yi laughed wildly.
He succeeded.
To accomplish the possible from the impossible is a miracle.
He actually used himself as the landing point to directly pull the soul of the vanguard army, which was thousands of miles away, over here, and then directly covered the current halberd soldiers and heavy crossbowmen through the landing point from the vanguard army's body.
"What the hell is this?" Arnubis' scalp tingled, as if he had returned to that day when the vanguard's explosion was aimed at him.
