The Roman cavalry on both sides of the coalition and the Macrinus army were first to confront each other. The Roman Empire during this period was not good at bow shooting, nor did it like cavalry warfare. It was incomparable to the Eastern Rome's emphasis on cavalry in the original world history. Cavalry was only used as an auxiliary to their unique infantry phalanx, or as a reconnaissance ranger. Therefore, these Roman cavalry were light cavalry.

There are many reasons for this phenomenon, but there are two main points. One is that Rome is mostly mountains and hills, and even plains are mostly forests or are divided by rivers and fjords. The cavalry has limited advantages in such terrain. The second is that the early cavalry did not have stirrups, and the cavalry's combat effectiveness is very weak. Of course, the Romans have learned to use stirrups now, but under the influence of historical inertia, they still do not attach so much importance to cavalry combat.

The cavalry on both sides had already fought with swords and guns. In the eyes of the generals of the Liang army, the skills of these Roman cavalry could not catch up with their cavalry battalion and had only been recruited for a few months. The combat method was that after the two cavalry approached, they slowed down their horse speed and greeted each other with swords and guns. Except for them riding horses and fighting against infantry.

Ma Chao was anxious and shouted loudly: "Son, come with me." After that, he pushed his gun and rushed towards the cavalry fighting on both sides of the left. The cavalry under his command had not crossed the sea, and only forty or fifty of his personal guards followed him closely.

At this time, the main square formation of the military formations of both sides was less than twenty battles away. Both sides spread the shield tops of the turtle shell formation and attacked the other side with dense javelins. The dense javelins of both sides interlaced from the opposite direction of the air, projecting mottled light and shadow on the ground, which can be described as covering the sky and the sun.

Blood splashed and howled in pain, a large number of soldiers on both sides were pierced by javelins and fell down in pieces.

The Liang infantry guarding both sides of the Alexander army formation did not launch an attack. Their individual crossbows were not good at shooting, and the shooting at such a close distance was even less accurate.

So they all crouched against their big shields. However, many javelins still penetrated the shields and killed them to the ground. However, the longbowers behind the Liang army's infantry formation were not idle. With their own feelings, they shot heavy arrows after heavy arrows behind the opponent's shield wall.

Some infantrymen in the opponent's formation were about to throw out the javelin in their hands, but the heavy arrows flying over the shield wall and parabolic trajectory instantly penetrated their upward chests. In addition to the longbowmen, some portable crossbows were also set up behind the infantry formation.

A stone bullet with a fist-sized blow, the hot bomb flew over the crowd and the shield wall, and fell into the square formation of Macrinus. The rising flames and the terrifying killing effect of the stone bullet immediately caused a lot of chaos.

The two sides finally came into contact with each other and began close-range hand-to-hand combat. The Liang soldiers who were originally crouching behind their shields suddenly stood up and raised the individual crossbows over the top of the shield with both hands. They had two poles under their shields, which could fix the shields to the ground. Their crossbow guns were shot in rows at enemy soldiers who were only three feet away from them. The other party was also wielding his sword to stab them.

When the tip of one of the Roman soldiers' swords was only one and a half feet away from the face of a Liang soldier, the latter's crossbow gun shot through his head in an instant. Another Liang army infantry was pulling the lever and shooting a crossbow gun up and down, but the opponent's short sword was scratched in his throat.

However, at the same time, the Roman soldier who pulled out the short sword was also shot by two crossbow guns in front and back, and lay down to the ground with all his backs. The two crossbow guns were shot by Liang soldiers in the back row.

After a close encounter for a while, the Alexander infantry and the Macrinus infantry, who were both Roman infantry, were still in a difficult situation, and it was impossible to tell who had the upper hand. However, when the Liang army was facing each other, the Liang army soldiers obviously had the upper hand. This is not difficult to understand. For the Roman soldiers who were close killing both sides, holding short swords, the people in the rear could not help the front. Before the soldiers in the front fell, the people in the rear could only stay idle. However, the soldiers in the back row of the Liang army could continue to output killing.

The cavalry on both sides of the battle were already shaking just because Ma Chao and Zhao Yun joined with more than a hundred personal cavalry. Ma Chao and Zhao Yun, two silver spears flew up and down, and two horses, one white and one black, galloped back and forth among the chaos. The war cavalry of Macrinus who appeared near them were stabbed under the horse.

Macrinus, who was watching the battle behind, felt a secret grieving in his heart when he saw this battle situation. He regretted that he should not have ordered the army to press forward. It would be better to guard the strong fortifications that had been built to encircle the camp that trapped the Liang army. This is called a mistake, a mistake at every step.

However, the situation continued to develop towards the side that was beneficial to the other side. Macrinus made a fuss: "Retreat the troops and quickly withdraw the battalion and defend it."

It’s not that he didn’t know that withdrawing troops at this time can only cause the collapse of the troops fighting in front. However, this is the only choice he can make now. If he spends time with the opponent, he will still be defeated in a short time. Now he can take the initiative to retreat and save more troops who are still in the rear and have not fought with the opponent.

The soldiers behind the Macrinus army fled to the camp like a tide. The soldiers who were fighting against the Liang army and Alexander's army were also defeated in an instant. The defeat was like a mountain, and the coalition forces chased and killed them all the way, continuing from the battlefield to the several miles long road of the Macrinus camp, full of corpses.

Macrinus, who had escaped into the camp, hurriedly arranged defenses, and then found that less than 30% of the troops had successfully escaped back to the camp. Such a rare force would be almost impossible to defend this seven or eight miles long and block the entire cape's battalion, not to mention that his soldiers had already declined to the extreme.

Fortunately, the coalition did not immediately launch an attack on the camp. This was not because they were not brave enough to pursue the "poverty bandits", but because their crossbows had not been transferred. In the evening, the coalition finally transferred five or six hundred crossbows to the front line.

Under the night sky, hundreds of fireballs rose into the sky and rushed towards Macrinus' camp, which was spectacular. After a moment, the camp was already on fire. Nearly 10,000 coalition forces launched a general attack on the front line that was several miles long. The heavy cavalry of the Liang army first broke through the weakest wings of the opponent, and there were almost no enemy soldiers defending it.

Then two thousand light cavalry and five hundred longbow chariots passed through these two gaps and penetrated backwards, trying to encircle Macrinus's remaining army.

At the same time, the Roman infantry under Alexander, who were in a turmoil, broke through the defense line and poured into various camps. Under this form, almost no soldiers from Macrinus who were still resisting were seen. They either threw away their weapons and begged for surrender, or rushed out of the camps from behind and fled to the northwest.
Chapter completed!