Chapter 6:
Roman battle horns blow.
Marcus and Flavius charge first yelling "For Rome!" followed 10 meters behind by their cavalry guards, they will not interfere with the actual battle, they are here just make sure nobody gets in their way. Then another 150 yards behind them on either side is the line of infantry at a full out sprint.
Aristoxenus and Amopaon kick their steeds hard and yell "Come Macedonians! Ride! Ride!" Set up in the same formation as Romans. Aristoxenus, Marcus, Amopaon, and Flavius all in full gallop near close to each other, all of them with swords extended toward their enemy.
Amopaon and Flavius are the first to meet in combat, both screaming hard they come within striking range. Amopaon takes his sword and supports the blade side opposite from Flavius with his palm, he intends to end this quick. In a quick motion Flavius swings and is parried by Amopaon. Then with the running speed of his horse and the accuracy of his sword, the blade is slid threw Flavius's neck. Amopaon continues to gallop as Flavius's head in a shower of blood is thrown 20 feet from his body, with a crash to the ground, Flavius's decapitated body falls from his horse. The general Flavius is no more. A second after the beheading of Flavius, Aristoxenus and Marcus Julius meet in battle. This time Marcus is the first to make his move, and swings straight at Aristoxenus's neck, but parried by the fast motion of Aristoxenus's own sword. Quickly before Marcus rides past, Aristoxenus puts the hilt of his sword out breaking Marcus's nose, sending him off his horse to the ground. Marcus scrambles to his feet and grasps his sword expecting Aristoxenus to make another pass on his horse at him. But instead Aristoxenus waits for the guards of both generals to catch up and form a circle around him, he dismounts, gets into a fighting stance.
Aristoxenus turns to Marcus "I called you out here and you were honorable enough to allow me to battle you one on one, the least I could do would be give you a fair battle."
Marcus replies "that is very noble of you good Aristoxenus, too bad you won't live long enough for anyone else to know about it."
Just then the two infantry lines meet around the enclosed generals, the sound of men and metal colliding deafens out all noise for a period of a few seconds. Death is no stranger to these fields, and the gates of Hades shall be busy today. Right after the crash the screams of dieing men fill the ears of all. Arrows soar across the air from both Macedonian and Roman archers flying into the closely packed infantry, up in the front of the chaos Romans and Macedonian infantry drop like flies, both killing each other at a astonishing rate. Blood soon puddles all across the field as the dead number up within a short period of time. All this pain and death can still not mask the tension generated from the encircled generals. The talking between the two has stopped, it is time.