At this moment, the Saxon garrison within the city of Ebola was already a bit panicked.

They organized several waves of charges to seize the city gate, but the shield wall formed by the chief Centurion stood as immovable as a mountain. Whenever enemies rushed forward, they were immediately met with lethal short sword stabs, quickly piling corpses three and four layers deep at the gate.

As soon as any place in this rock-solid shield wall opened a gap, someone would immediately fill it.

"Scattering Array!"

At this moment, Kvito had already captured the arrow tower beside the gate. With an angry roar from the chief Centurion, the shield wall started to disperse from the center to both sides, opening up a corridor about three meters wide. Following that, roars and cries echoed as the second echelon of the British Legion directly charged into the town to take over.

In terms of combat skills with shields, the imperial legions were the ancestors of the Barbarian Race. Seeing something like the Saxons' shield wall in the latter-day American TV series Vikings would make the regular imperial Legion laugh their heads off.

If not for military reforms changing rectangular shields to round ones, they could have formed a Turtle Shell Array on the spot.

Moreover, the early imperial rectangular shields, rumored to be the tower shields, could form an indestructible defensive line on the spot, but they were too inflexible, unbearably heavy. In games like Dungeons and Dragons, the defensive ability of the tower shield is unparalleled, even surpassing ordinary magic shields.

The entire combat process was orderly.

The first echelon of the legion, led by the chief Centurion, rested for a moment to recover the strength consumed by forming the array, while the second echelon, led by another Centurion, raised their shields against Saxon hunters' arrows, setting up defenses at the gate's three entrances.

Following closely was the third echelon of the reserve troops, a new force and main offensive power. After the second echelon had steadied their line, they pressed directly forward to engage the enemy in street combat.

The imperial Hundred-man Squad generally consisted of three echelons.

If it was a formation of 120 men, it was divided into squads of forty men each, the first row being a mix of veterans, the second predominantly young recruits, and the third primarily robust elites. In battle, the veterans stabilized the line with their rich combat experience, preventing them from being easily overrun by the Barbarian Race. The young focused on wearing down the enemy due to their better stamina, as it's tough to beat the young in close combat. And when the third echelon pressed forward, it was generally the moment of decisive victory. The robust soldiers, typically thirty-year-old veterans, knew how to fight next without needing the Centurion's orders.

This combat method preserved the elites of the Legion, minimized injuries among the recruits, and allowed them to gain practical experience.

Additionally, it must be mentioned that the veterans of the first echelon received double military pay during wartime.

As for the chief Centurion, his salary was equivalent to a regular general.

Very soon.

The British Legion breached the city gate but did not rush to expand their successes.

Kvito, a veteran himself, knew how to minimize his own side's casualties. As teams of auxiliary archers advanced, the sky rained arrows in counterattack.

A series of changes brought by Duncan had already transformed the frail British Legion into a true main force.

Even without him present, these men could still win battles!

Though it wasn't as easy as when they followed the Governor.

"Loose Formation!"

The chief Centurion roared, and the frontline infantry formed a loose formation. Then the first line of soldiers spread out, allowing the Briton archers to advance a few steps and launch a dense barrage of arrows at the charging enemies, leaving the ground littered with bodies after a rain of arrows.

After the imperial military reforms, the new troops had become accustomed to relying on ranged firepower to damage the enemy.

The whole battle process roughly involved capturing the gate, forming dense arrays to stabilize the defense, assembling shield walls to block the enemy from retaking the gate, then dispersing the shield walls to let the second echelon push forward. After that, they used dense formations to occupy junctions, followed by the third echelon adopting loose formations, launching two volleys of javelins to clear the area, with the auxiliary archers wounding the enemies and robust elites seizing the opportunity for a direct charge to rout the enemy.

It sounds very simple.

It's just the three echelons taking turns engaging in battle, constantly altering between dense and loose formations, yet in the current era, such an army was already quite disciplined, thoroughly outmatching the chaotic charging strategy of the Barbarian armies.

"The enemy is defeated!"

A cheer erupted as the British Legion began a full advance.

The Saxon pirates of this town were completely defeated, driven all the way to the sea, and then pushed back by the seawater to the shore, where only death awaited them.

Around 446 AD, the Britons sent a final plea for help to the Roman administrative official, known in history as the "Groans of the Britons."

The Western Empire's Commander Aetius did not respond to the Britons' cries, did not send troops to help resist the Saxon invasion. The last recorded words of this text were, "The Barbarian Race drove us to the edge of the sea, where the sea again forced us to confront them. We must choose between two deaths: to be killed or to drown..."

The tragic massacres of that year are still vivid in memory!

But the British Legion now was no longer a frail and incompetent army.

Revenge!

The time for revenge had come!

Even Kvito found it difficult to command the British Legion now, especially those native soldiers, who at this moment only wanted to wash away the shame and hatred with the blood of their enemies.

Kill!

A Centurion, crazed with battle fervor, led the soldiers in pursuit all the way to the sea, where the frightened fleeing Saxon pirates were once again driven back by the breaking waves.

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