Augustus Under the Horseshoe

Chapter 579 : Salamas

Painhuis named the island under his hoof Île-de-France and the small Germanic village Paris, and began to mobilize some slaves. Soldiers came here to reclaim fields and create a gathering area for barbarians.

Different from farming civilization, nomads and barbarian warriors do not have professional soldiers. They take up swords and are soldiers, and when they lay down weapons, they are farmers or herders. The population ruled by Painhurs is far inferior to that of the Western Roman Empire, but the number of soldiers , But surpassed Augustus.

The land of Gaul is more fertile than Pannonia, especially the fertile land near Île-de-France.

Headed by Abhuos, the druids of the tribes gathered together and immediately began to use natural magic to transform the land under their feet, making the land more fertile and more suitable for farming.

The zombie warhorse unloaded its frame and put on a coul plow. The infantry put their swords in their waists and took out their hoes to start farming. Painhurs did not care about Etius’ scorched earth tactics at all. Vigorously operating these abandoned lands, bit by bit cannibalize the flesh and blood of the empire.

Of course, it is the slaves, servants, and even more people who are forcibly transported from the back of the tribe—most of them are the elven population looted from Greece in the last war.

In despair and weeping, they were forced to follow the ferocious monsters to the bitter cold land of the north, and then discovered that the taxation here was actually much lower than that of the Eastern Roman Empire. Except that the weather is a bit cold, the quality of life has improved.

More than 200,000 armored men are still waiting for their lives, and they are constantly training. 80,000 light cavalry patrolled the border repeatedly, vigilant for the next move of the Romans. A large number of logistic troops collected all the food and grass from the entire tribe, and continued to move higher. Lu Transport.

“In this way, we send farmers and slaves from the rear fields to farm, while maintaining such a large army, how long can we last for the past few decades of storage of grain and grass?”

While controlling the situation in the Gaul theater, Painhes confirmed the tribe’s remaining inventory to the veterans in charge of logistics.

“Please make a swift decision as soon as possible to maintain a huge expedition of more than one million people. The amount of food consumed is an astronomical figure-many of our young and middle-aged laborers have been dragged out by you to fight and cannot continue to produce food.

The food and grass reserves in Fort Terror can probably make you toss like this for two and a half years. Counting this year’s grain tax, it’s about three years. If you can get a lot of fertile land and pasture in Gaul within these three years, and you can get a lot of food income, this time can continue to rise a bit, but four years is probably the limit. Up. ”

The tribe elders said helplessly.

“The front is really too long. The food delivered to you will have to be consumed by hundreds of thousands of servants. If you have to fight like this, please try to decide the winner within three years.”

“Understood, I will send some letters to the Eastern Roman Empire.”

Pain Hess sighed slightly. A few days later, the regent of the eastern empire received a letter from the tribe: asking the empire to replace the annual coins paid to the tribe with equivalent food starting this year.

At the same time, the warchief asked the veterans under his command to buy the surplus grain of the Eastern Roman Empire at market prices. If you dare to say nothing or interfere with the tribe’s war plan in the rear, yes, I won’t fight. Gaul is gone, and the warchief will lead an army of millions to go south and hunt in Constantinople with the regent.

“Sold it.”

The Eastern Empire, which has not recovered from the war, clings to the thought that the dead friends will not die, and they simply agreed to the conditions of the warchief. After meeting the needs of the empire, all the grains and grains of Egypt will be shipped to the fortress of terror. Then he passed the Danube, Rhine, and came to the front of Gaul.

However, the Central Field Army, directly under Augustus, also began operations. This reorganized field force based on the original First Auxiliary Corps as a prototype, smashed out of the Alps.

The support troops who came from Spain looked at this imperial soldier directly under the central government, with an unbelievable look: the dress of this group of people is simply heresy! The mane of the helmet, the decoration of the armor, and the cloak on the shoulders are all pure black! Even the iron gray armor was rendered as pure black.

The paint of the Imperial Armor is mainly red, and special units will also have some golden or purple outfits. There will be differences in color depth between each battle group.

Except for the traditional colors of red, gold, and purple, only apostate warriors can change their armor. The barbarians under Stirico, after betraying the empire, dyed their robes black and announced their break with Augustus.

Those under Julian’s renegade group who joined the tribe dyed their cloak, mane, and eagle flag in blue to complement the tribe’s cyan dragon flag with eight-pointed black stars.

And other Germanic barbarians who betrayed the empire due to various reasons, large or small, or simply joined the army, cheated a set of weapons and armor and ran away. They even painted the armor with colorful decorations, symbolizing that they were not members of the empire. .

However, what is also unbelievable for the Spanish warbands is that the central field army, which is about 60,000 in number, has black manes, armors, cloaks, decorations, and even the eagle flag! At first glance, I thought it was Stiriko’s Renegade!

The most peculiar thing is that their banner group is not unified, but divided into six distinct totems.

The former lord of the First Legion, now the commander of the Central Army, Ryan El Johnson watched with satisfaction his unrivalled army of death, his dark and terrifying killing angel, smashing through the mountain pass of the Alps. , In accordance with the predetermined plan, began to attack the supply line of Pain Hess.

The black-armored and black-robed Tussauds ride on dark war horses, and the horseshoes are wrapped in soft cloth to reduce the noise of running as much as possible. They are like nightmares, they have smashed out of the dense jungle, and there are a thousand crows. The Winged Cavalry launched a night attack against the transport team on Letia Avenue!

The one-kilometer woodland on both sides of the avenue was completely burned by the tribe, and there was no way to ambush them. These raven-wing light cavalry, who are good at reconnaissance and raids, can only choose to attack at night: all of them have obtained dark vision through various means. , Several senior illusion masters used group invisibility techniques, leading an entire battle group of light cavalry to take advantage of the dark to attack.

And the monsters of the tribe are not vegetarian, they are not born to be dark, obscuring their vision. The anti-reconnaissance ability has been trained to the utmost in the confrontation with countless powerful enemies. Thousands of feet away, I heard the hooves of the horses hooves hidden by the Ravenwing cavalry. When the Romans rushed to 500 feet away, they had already discovered the enemy’s presence through detection magic.

“Enemy attack! Enemy attack!”

The thousand-man team that transported food and grass immediately launched its action. Under the control of the vampire, five hundred zombies armed with spears immediately formed a human barrier, lying between the cavalry and the food cart, stopping the cavalry. On the way to go, the throat that has long been rotten and shattered, howling out of hell.

Accompanied by the horrifying whistling sound, each of the dark and terrifying Ravenwing Cavalry, freed from the curtain of illusion, with the compound short bow in their hands, accurately shot the zombies blocking the road. They are also skilled in Parthian archery. The one in charge, the Thousand-Man Battle Group quickly divided into two groups, trying to circumvent and bypass this rotten meat wall made of rotten meat, and continue to charge towards the grain truck.

The zombies also bought enough time for the tribe members behind them. The sleeping goblins were awakened directly. They immediately formed a circular arc with more than a dozen horse carts carrying food as a natural defensive barrier. Many goblin archers, either standing on the cart or standing in the circle, drew the longbow in their hands in horror, rushing towards the black robe and black armored Roman, shooting out poisoned arrows all over the sky.

A hundred goblin wolf riders who slept directly on horseback waved their whips and ordered the crotch wolf to run directly to the nearest fortresses and guard towers on the east and west sides, calling for rescue.

In the end, a hundred eerie and terrifying vampires stretched out their blood-stained claws, coldly looking at the invading enemy, the nobles of midnight, turned into a cloud of ghosts and ghosts, and disappeared in the shadows. In the next second, a terrifying evil spirit decorated with jagged lightning and scarlet human skin smiled grimly and emerged from the shadow of a crowwing flag bearer!

Accompanied by the sound of metal strikes, the sharp swords and twisted claws collided with each other, bursting out a series of scarlet sparks. The Midnight Lord looked like a ghost, walking through the light cavalry, killing, and the zombie spearmen kept moving their own The position hindered the charge of the Ravenwing, and the majestic arrow rain of the goblins made the dark horses fall to the ground wailing!

Seeing this sudden **** battle, the recruits were dumbfounded. The shivering psionicist was slapped by his comrades before reacting and immediately used psionic communication to contact the nearest tribal army.

“The Roman cavalry was found in the Salamas area of ​​the province of Letia! They were hitting our supply line! Repeat! The Roman cavalry was found in the Salamas area of ​​the province of Letia!!!”

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Sheet 580: Six Wings of the Legion (Part 1)

The head of a hundred vampires: Talos Varkolan, like a ghost, quietly emerged on the saddle of a Ravenwing Cavalry. He was so light that the galloping horse did not feel the back coming from his back. pressure.

The black armored cavalry were bending their bows and shooting arrows to kill the goblin clusters in the distance, and they were defenseless against the shadows behind them. Suddenly, a cold blade cut open his fragile throat gracefully, and the red blood spewed out like the tide of a breaking bank, signalling the end of a life.

Talos sniffed the fascinating fragrance of blood and despair with satisfaction, tasting the sweet blood of the Romans, and whispered softly in the ears of the dying man.

“We are here for you.”

“There are enemies! It’s the vampire of Lord Midnight!”

The crowwing cavalry quickly discovered the anomaly, and the two assault cavalry opened their bows and shot, but the strangely smiling Hundred Chiefs had already turned into a misty black mist, dissolved in the shadow of the horse’s back. Two cone-shaped armor-piercing iron arrows pierced through the shadows, but they only hit the bodies of their fellow-robes, blooming two mournful blood flowers on the back of the dying person.

The vampires succeeded in a blow and immediately retreated, relying on the instantaneous burst advantage of the shadow raid, repeatedly pulling the distance with the Ravenwing Cavalry. They are the incarnations of fear, the messengers of the shadows. Although the number is less than one-tenth of this cavalry, they rely on superb skills to break into the enemy group in the shadows and harvest the lives of the Romans.

For a while, Ravenwing didn’t even know who it was and who was ambushing. Scenes of **** scrolls, both true and false, slowly unfolded before their eyes. The midnight lords used necromantic magic and sawtooth claws to weave the phantom of death, implanting the strongest fear into the minds of the Ravenwing Cavalry. deep.

“Shoot those Romans! Shoot! Shoot!”

Under the double cover of the zombie spearman and the wooden car fort, the bloodthirsty and cruel in the goblin’s bones broke out again. They untiringly pulled the bowstring, raised the spear thrower, and shot the black cavalry round after round to cover the sky. Arrow rain.

Arrows made of sharpened stakes and sharp flint are difficult to cause too much damage to the crowwings. However, once the poisoned arrow hits or even scratches the flesh and blood, the special neurotoxin made by the Goblin Kingdom will immediately It spreads in the target body, making the cavalry sweat like rain, breathing hard, and usually like an arm-driven weapon, it seems to be heavy at this moment, just lifting them, it takes a lot of effort.

At the same time, the bodies of the black-armored soldiers who died in the vampire raid suddenly twitched. The throat cut by the claws gave out a ghastly inhuman growl. The gradually cold body was struggling to get up from the ground. The bloodshot pupils gave off a terrifying red light.

“Vampire spawn! You monsters, how dare you blaspheme the bodies of our comrades?”

The cavalry roared angrily.

The two midnight lords, using the shadows of the horses as a springboard, kept approaching the place where the eagle flag was. Their sharp claws pointed directly at the Crowwing Commander-strangely speaking, the costumes and decorations of these Central Army were compared to Rome. People, closer to the Celtics.

Not to mention the color, they even abandoned the traditional vertical and horizontal bristles of Roman helmets, and replaced them with white wings on both sides of the helmet.

“stop!!!”

Seeing the two groups of shadows coming straight to him, the battle group leader reined the galloping steed and shot a sharp arrow towards the sky.

Suddenly, the calm shadows boiled over. Two ghastly vampires broke through the shackles of the shadows, their claws pointed at the leaders of the cavalry, and the **** smell from their fangs and claws was strong enough to be suffocating. !

But at this critical moment, the battle group commander slammed his left hand down, borrowing the time from a few seconds later, and borrowing the present time. The sharp sword in his right hand whizzed across the night sky and accurately chopped off the neck of the vampire. The two fractures are as flat as a mirror.

When the sequelae of the swift outbreak rushed to the battle group leader like a tide, making him completely dizzy, the second vampire also launched a surprise attack with a grinning smile.

Just as his sharp lightning claws were about to cut the enemy’s throat, the arrow that the cavalry commander shot into the sky also began to fall downward, accurately piercing the evil spirit’s throat, and nailed the undead creature fiercely. To the ground!

Amidst the sky-shattering battle drums, the Central Army’s large units, after receiving the news of the failure of the Ravenwing assault, also roared out of the dense forest. The iron-wing units drove huge carriages and charged forward. The chariot of the dwarves carries a series of triple scorpion crossbows newly developed by the dwarves and heavy catapults.

At the speed of the cavalry, they constantly adjusted their shooting positions, shooting at the zombie swarms, shooting siege ammunition that could destroy the city wall.

A heavy catapult’s bomb silo was filled with hundreds of bottles of flaming glue, acid bottles and other chemical appliances. They were directly thrown thousands of feet away by precise dwarf craftsmanship, and covered the sky with blazing acid. , Like a torrential rain, in patches turning zombies into flames, or stinking acid.

A scorpion crossbow, accompanied by a roar that shook the sky, shot thick and heavy spears, ploughing a ravine of flesh and blood in the zombie swarms. With each spear, after smashing five or six rotten flesh, there were still Enough power to nail a dozen zombies together.

The hurricane wing’s equipped cavalry roared out of the forest under the rain of arrows. Unlike the lightly outfitted assault cavalry of the Ravenwing, these men, together with their war horses, were all dressed in black armor and black robes. The sound of horseshoes smashing the earth shook the sky and the earth.

When the Iron Wing’s siege troops smashed the zombie spearmen, the heavy cavalry of the Hurricanes launched an unstoppable destruction charge, like a ruin, crushing the rotten front of the zombies, and roaring to the goblin’s. Right now!

The goblins trembled in fright, but they still bent their bows and arrows under the warlord’s whip. However, these cavalrymen were equipped with armor, and their poisoned arrows had nothing to do with the heavy armor!

Hurricane Wing did not do too much entanglement. Each of them threw a bottle of fuel at the food truck. After a torch, they immediately retreated. Accompanied by the Crow Wing and Iron Wing, they quickly retreated. They disappeared before the tribal reinforcements arrived. In the vast forest.

Hundreds of vampires have a pale face. Even if the flames on the grain truck are extinguished with water and soil, these damp grains mixed with soil are difficult to preserve and use.

The psionicists immediately contacted the warchief and reported the situation here. Under Painhurs’s dispatch, the two-footed Wyvern troops directly under the beast Leonardo, in desperation, left the Gaul war zone and talked with Kangra. The midnight lord of Germany and the ghouls of San Giles converge to protect the safety of the food road.

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Celerity (Phb2)

Variation

Level: Bard 4, Warlock/Mage 4

This spell is very similar to “Less Swift Burst”, but can draw more time to the present. You immediately get a standard action after the spell is cast, as if you are ready to act, you can cast this spell on the turn of other creatures. But in any case, you will be stunned after the standard action generated by the spell ends, until the end of your turn in the next round.