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Chapter 13 The Execution of the High Priest (Part 2)

The soldiers in front ran the fastest. They lifted many corpses around them, then poured sand into the burning trenches to put out the fire, paving the way for the attack of their own legions. Behind the army team were the new light infantrymen of the "Lius Legion" holding round shields and long swords. They were fully equipped with exquisite armor forged by Adiana from the Kingdom of Korkis or introduced craftsmen. They were equipped with sharp swords that were easy to stab. They were responsible for harassing and assaulting in the intervals of the array and the two wings. Now their task is to harvest - draw out the sword and stab the enemies who were still groaning and seriously injured.

Li Bida's entourage led the high priest and his mount to the center of the hill, where they found the flags of the enemy falling, and the bodies of dead people and horses formed a hill. Rabinus, who was terrified, spread his legs and sat down with blood. He leaned on his face, his eyes hung on his cheeks, but he still raised his head and gasped slightly. He wondered if he could still see the winner riding a horse looking down at him from a high point.

"Rabinus, can you still hear it?" Li Bida asked loudly.

Then, Rabinus nodded, as if he had been looking forward to Li Bida for a long time, and slowly grabbed the broken sword and showed it to Li Bida.

"You are eager for death, are you unwilling to fight anymore, is it Rabinus?" Li Bida's voice trembled a little.

As if he was relieved, Rabinus croaked and said two words of unknown meaning, and then nodded heavily.

So Li Bida looked at Alp behind him, pulled out the Habashi sword he was wearing and walked forward. "Stop Alp. You are not qualified to seize the head of this enemy - let me do it." Then Li Bida slowly stretched out his hand. Alp felt that the High Priest was not good at using the curved Egyptian sword, so he untied the sword from the belt of a passing soldier and handed it to Li Bida's hand.

"Listen to Rabinus, I, Emilius Libida, who killed you today, was not any ordinary soldier or centurion."

After hearing Li Bida's words, Rabinus raised his head with satisfaction. As if he was laughing, he exposed his throat completely. Then Li Bida leaned over in the saddle and sent the sword in his hand into his neck.

"Take the body back to the doctor in the back camp, take off Rabinus's head, and then burn the body with the rest of the dead, take out the heart, and send it back to his hometown Jinguloum to bury in the future." Li Bida ordered Alp, then he stared at Rabinus's body, then dismounted and took off his blue cloak, covering his body carefully and solemnly, and chanted a poem casually. "Mother, I came wisely or unwisely to the middle of the enemy, but everyone loves his motherland, and saying they don't love it is just a word, but what they think is another - Rabinus, isn't that true?"

At this time, after learning that his commander-in-chief died in battle, Rabinus's troops could no longer hold on. Some of them knelt on the front line and begged for mercy. Some of them fled into the camp with no future. More people fled into the mountains next to the Tumu River. After hearing the high priest's words, "If you can't capture the enemy camp at dusk, I will go up by myself, and don't bother all the generals." The sixth, twelfth and fifteenth legions were filled with

Ashamed, they suffered from fatigue, casualties and thirst, many soldiers and military slaves retreated to the enemy camp, and struggled to form a tortoise shell formation to cover the equipment. After smashing the enemy's rod-casting device, they used a hook to pull the earth and wooden grate to collapse. Finally, before the prescribed time, they attacked three of the camps in the entire line, capturing all the baggage and military slaves inside. Then, the rest of Rabinus' camps collapsed one after another.

The battle finally ended before dusk. On the battlefield, the Rabinus army abandoned six thousand bodies, ten thousand people fled, and the rest surrendered; while Li Bida lost fifteen centurions, nine cavalry captains, and nine hundred soldiers.

When everyone lined up in the enemy's fallen camp, piled up the captured military flags and spoils in the square, cheering Li Bida's guards into the inspection, the high priest found that the little pigeon in the front was crying, "What are you crying? Is it because of the joy of defeating the strong enemy?"

"No, Fan Lundingna's father is seriously injured, and the doctor is performing a craniotomy and bloodletting surgery on him."

After hearing this, Li Bida was silent for a while. He was powerless about the medical skills of this era. The doctors were bold and had complete tools. Just like the ancestors of Katilin were amputated by them and installed fake iron hands. They used something similar to the bottle opener of red wine in later generations to perform this operation on people, but they died of nine out of ten diseases. I am afraid that the prospects are extremely unoptimistic. "Do your best, little pigeon, you immediately offer a rooster and a rabbit in front of the altar of the God of Medicine."

Then, it was time to clean up the wounded and bury the bodies. On the night of the bright bonfire, all the legions rested in the camp of Rabinus. The next day, the doctors and assistants with candles tied on their heads walked into the camp tent tremblingly and reported to the high priest who was lying on the bedside: "We can report to you, Your Excellency, about the operation last night."

"This is of course, because it is my request." Li Bida stood up tiredly and asked.

"The operation was very successful. We successfully uncovered the skull and removed the bloody mass." The doctor rubbed his hands and said, "However, the patient would never be able to speak, and his mind would be taken away by the Sleeping God and the Underworld forever."

Li Bida sighed, and then ordered Matthia beside him, "This is not something that power can force, and reward the doctor with 300 dinars. Also, send 400,000 Sess to the Hebrida family, remove him from his service, and let him go back to enjoy his old age."

Then, Li Bida stood up, walked out of the tent, and issued an order to all the messengers waiting for him, "Send Paruma as the vanguard, take the new cavalry army along the Tumur River, capture the enemy's movements, and after obtaining the exact information, our army attacks on the entire line and then annihilates it!"
Chapter completed!
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