MERCENARIES ON THE MOVE

The moment now arrives for the heavily armed African infantry that Hannibal had held in reserve. These battle-hardened men, bearing the armour, swords and shields stripped from dead Romans at the Battle of Trasimene the year before, smash into the flanks of the Roman infantry. Panic ripples through the cramped Roman army as men struggle to wield their weapons in the crush of bodies. Their struggle will be in vain.