Field of Mars (The Complete Novel) (2015)
“The march through mountain passes was hard on feet used to the forgiveness of sand. But game was prevalent here and Parthian hunting parties began adding the meat of wild goat and fox to the legionaries’ diet of beans and hard bread. The skins of these animals were also distributed among the men, for as the hills steepened, temperatures began dropping.
The Xiongnu seemed more at home in this wilderness and dressed in expertly sewn skins that covered them from head to toe. And, though their ...feet were sore, the hearts of the legionaries lifted with the flat desert seemingly behind them at last.
Steep gorges and rugged hillsides hid local brigands. The more adventurous among these occasionally attacked the column, only to be driven off by the arrows of the Parthian archers. Attacks soon decreased and then stopped altogether as the toll of death among them proved a discouragement.
“If we’d made it to these hills,”MoreLess
The Xiongnu seemed more at home in this wilderness and dressed in expertly sewn skins that covered them from head to toe. And, though their ...feet were sore, the hearts of the legionaries lifted with the flat desert seemingly behind them at last.
Steep gorges and rugged hillsides hid local brigands. The more adventurous among these occasionally attacked the column, only to be driven off by the arrows of the Parthian archers. Attacks soon decreased and then stopped altogether as the toll of death among them proved a discouragement.
“If we’d made it to these hills,”MoreLess
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