"Hold your ground! Don't take a step back!"
"Push back! Push and fight your way through!"
"You cowards! Stop being a wuss always hiding behind your shield! Be a man and punch back! Show your fangs!"
"Swing your weapons men. Swing your weapons and open some free space. Or you will all die."
The officers tried to make their men counterattack the Margraves and Lord Parker forces like this, wanting to ward off the attackers, but it was to little effect.
The enemy just kept a safe distance and kept poking and prodding the formation with their long, sharp spears, like any good spear formation, not killing the legionaries outright but instead piercing their flesh with many small, painful wounds, ones that caused unbearable pain.
The legionaries were unable to withstand such torture for long, the many cuts and wounds quickly starting to add up, as their bodies instinctively recoiled to try and preserve themselves, even though their conscious mind told them to stand and fight.
