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Short Story Of Marcus Caesar

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By Fatih Aktas Caesar and ten other of his officers march beside him, 8 legions follow up marching in a narrow path in the middle of a unforgiving forest. The forest was full of fog limiting their vision. To their left was a shallow swamp. To their right was a dense hillside full of foliage. The long dark trees that covered the forest gave an eerie feeling. The legionnaire's segmentata plates would clank as they marched. The veteran legions marched ahead as the inexperienced legions marched in the back. The RAPAX was the mightiest and the most experienced legion out of them all.

A low rumble was heard, the sound began to get closer to the center of the giant column of roman legionaries to their right. A massive ball of flame rolled down …show more content…

Suddenly, Belligerent, animal like warriors charged down hill directly into the III legion, their face soaked in blood, naked with only skinny shorts and small leather skirts. And massive axes, they charged right into the legionaries and bashed into the legionnaire's scutum. In the midst of the chaos, the Centurion of Cohort III broke off from the fighting and found a small gap in the lines he commanded his century to follow him through the gap. Him and his century charged directly through and made it behind the enemy lines. The Centurion then proceeded to engage the barbarians from their flank.

As more dead bodies piled up onto the ground, and the barbarians being overwhelmed on the right, unfortunately the left wasn’t doing as well as at least 3,000 legionaries had died and their Centurion was nowhere to be found, all the other legions were struggling to hold the left has at least 50,000 barbarians hit the left …show more content…

Caesar ordered his legions to encamp in an open field. In front of them was a grassy field full of foliage and life. To their right was a mountain at least 50 miles away. To their left was a small little farm that was recently abandoned about 10 miles away. And behind them was the forest where Caesar and his men were ambushed about 26 miles away. The encampment was about 5 miles wide and about 3 miles in length.

The walls of the encampment were 8 feet high with a canal surrounding the encampment. They made the canals about 6 feet deep. They also built pits a few feet deep with sharp spikes at the bottom around the perimeter of the encampment. They had about 23 barbarian prisoners kept near the center of the camp with guards fully equipped 24/7 watching the prisoners. The prisoners were fed stale bread and distasteful, dirty water. The prisoner’s cells were transported on a carriage. With copper and Silver chains that were locked onto the prisoners were put on very tightly weighing at least 50

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