Caesar Triumphant by R. W. Peake

Author:R. W. Peake [Peake, R. W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: samurai, julius caesar, legionaries, caesar, legions, rome, japan
ISBN: 9780989734813
Amazon: 0989734811
Publisher: R.W. Peake
Published: 2013-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

It was over, the Wa general now recognized. He still wasn't sure how it had happened, but he was now sure that at the very least his attempt to breach the wall had failed, and the taste of that was bitter ash in his mouth. Now the only thing he could do was to leave those of his men who had managed to get up the ladder and over the wall and were even now fighting to their fate, and pull the rest of the men gathered at the ladders to join their comrades in the fight against this new force. At this point in the battle, if the general had been Roman, Greek, or even Han, his goal would have been to fight his way out of this predicament to preserve what remained of his force to fight another day. But this was not the Wa way. To be defeated was so shaming that no Wa with any self-respect would dare to show his face back at the capital, and no man in the rank and file would do so, either. No, what remained was only to die with as much glory as could be salvaged and to take as many of these grubworms as possible. To that end, the general now began pushing his way to the front, no longer needing to direct matters. He was determined that he would wet his sword to the hilt, and that his gods would be so impressed with the number of his kills that they would forgive him for not bringing victory to his people. It helped that he was sure that the battle itself was won; it didn't occur to him that the force assaulting the camp holding the grubworm general would fail. So, even if the strategic aim of this prong of the attack was foiled, the loss of this camp would undoubtedly send the barbarians skulking back to their ships. And no matter what happened, they had crippled the invasion force to the point where it would be impossible for them to continue.

What this Wa forgot—which could be forgiven under the circumstances—was that this attack had been an all-or-nothing proposition and that the only troops left at the capital were the personal bodyguards of the emperor and men who were too sick to fight or still recovering from wounds received from the other engagements with these grubworms. In fact, the only hope of the Wa at this point was that the mauling the Romans had received was so savage that it removed from them any thought of continuing their thrust towards the capital. To help ensure this end, the Wa general made his way to the front, standing just behind the front line, where his warriors were still slashing and thrusting at the shields of the grubworms, who, in contrast to his own men, still stood in ordered lines several men deep. As much as he despised these pale creatures, he was nevertheless admiring of the discipline and

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