The clouds were right in front of me, flowing like an endless white ocean. Li Bida was wearing a beast-haired cloak and stood on a protruding rock, his eyebrows were covered with silver-white frost, staring at the eagle soaring among the peaks. Behind him was the continuous march team.

"Great cause comes from hardships." Li Bida murmured to himself, and he couldn't help but think of Leo, Paruma, and Euerjit, who were all his children. Although there was a difference between biological and adoption, Leo was determined to support him as his heir. Euerjit, according to the mysterious but powerful "Sibir Prophecy", was to become the king of the East, and Paruma would then follow his instructions and go to Mauritania to act as a vassal barrier on the edge of the West.

But the hub of all this, the hub that brings together these kingdoms is Li Bida, and the brotherly friendship between children and brothers, but what about thirty years when he died? Or fifty years, a hundred years later, when their children are passed down for two generations and three generations, will this friendship still exist? When the conquest and expansion of the outside world have reached its peak, the internal strife between relatives must be killed. The war may be rekindled in Gaul, Italy, Egypt and Xiaoya in a hundred years. But I may not be worried about this. The proverb of the Seris Empire mocked this mentality and said, "No one has a hundred years of life, but he has been worried for a thousand years." By that moment, I had already entered that mysterious cave, and turned into a skeleton like Caesar, and feasted and danced with all the dead first and the dead later■◇, and looked at the world on another level, and all the honors and disgraces have nothing to do with us.

Thunder and lightning fell on the hillside inexplicably, as if it fell directly above everyone's heads. People did not expect that this was so close to the angry Heavenly Father Jupiter, "Everyone hugged his knees with his hands, squat down, and squat down with all his strength!" According to the instructions of the guide, on the snow line of the Sierra Nevada, thousands of soldiers and soldiers pulled the uneasy mountain mules and squatted into a dense sloping slope. They did not dare to run around, and everyone put their cloaks and leather on their heads, and were frightened in the rolling flashes. After a while, dense hail and snow flew down. The soldiers moved one after another, and they were shields with cloth, just like defending against the arrows and stones shot by the enemy.

"Will it rain?" Li Bida wiped the frost and asked Colora who was shaking around. "The guide just said that it would not be here because of the rainy clouds. They all sank to the foothills." Colora said, and looked at the gorge and deep valleys. It was all dark and could not recognize anything clearly. The antelope and other elks were jumping around the cliffs.

The weather in the mountains is so cloudy and sunny, sometimes surging, sometimes heavy rain, and more and more people are falling behind and reducing staff. However, because Leo's logistics supply was strong and the materials were abundant, most of the soldiers were still preserved. As for some unfortunate dead, Li Bida ordered that the corpses should not be abandoned at will, and ordered the military slaves to dig shallow pits on the snow line, restrain them, and paint their names on the table. Whether it is the army soldiers or the Spanish volunteer soldiers who were temporarily recruited, they will have a pension afterwards, and then covered the pit with stones, stacked up layers, inserted the javelin or long sword of the deceased on it, and tied a cloth belt as a mark. "Let those who come up later transport these soldiers and bury them well."

But this sentence may really be just a comfort - most of the dead will probably stay in this snowy and foothills forever, and their bones will completely rot and there will be no trace of them next year.

Finally, on a undulating hillside, the Colora mountaineer guide and the vanguard walking in front saw a few horned goats hiding under the sunny tree and eating tender buds. "This is not wild, it is raised by the shepherd's house." The guide said with certainty.

When the chief centurion passed this message to Li Bida in the rear, the judgment was obvious, "The most difficult part of this mountain has been crossed, and what we have to deal with is not nature but the enemy." The implication is that they have approached the city blocks and settlements on the northern foot of the Nevada Mountains. Even in this mountain, the so-called "settlements" may be just a few mountain families.

Li Bida ordered the entire army to remain silent, dig a simple camp on the back of the mountain to rest, and continue to implement a fireworks ban. Then he asked Odakus to lead the team, led by four mountain citizens, two centurions, and eight Spanish indigenous soldiers to form a special vanguard team. He soon sneaked into the mountain village and captured several "tongues".

"Where is the fortress that the enemy has controlled the mountain passes and roads recently!" The high priest asked majestically through the translator, and the bundles around him were like forests, and the axes and daggers were shining coldly.

But those mountain people who were arrested knew it, but couldn't explain it clearly, "Odaks, this is your dereliction of duty. These guys who have never seen the world cannot accurately describe the distance and shape." Li Bida blamed him, and then he asked one of them who looked more courageous. "According to your words, the general from Urshau did not demolish your house when building the fortress?"

The guy nodded quickly. Seeing that there was a show inside, Li Bida gave him a purse, a solid cloak for soldiers and a pair of military shoes (the mountain people like these things the most), and continued to ask kindly, "How? Can you think of the appearance or name of the fortress commander, if you can understand the words in a rough way."

The mountain man took a firewood stick and drew the name of Machius on the ground. Although the spelling was incorrect, he accidentally saw the signature of the village notice and wrote it down, but this was of great significance to Li Bida's judgment.

"It turns out that the guard is the engineering director Machius. It seems that he will fall into my hands for the fourth time. The other party is a soldier-ignorant guy. In the battle of Kofinium, Italy, he would be captured by our army during the day because he was lost. This time he guarded the road down the mountain, and he did not even clear the surrounding settlements - Odaks, you go again immediately. This time you need to go deeper. I will give you two days to lurk carefully and survey the terrain of the opposite fortress clearly. As a reward, I will give this guide fifty silver coins, go quickly!"

After Audacs set out again, Li Bida ordered the entire army to disassemble the equipment from the pack beasts, quickly assemble several exquisite and lightweight siege tools to spare, and then "the entire army is waiting for orders to set out and attack."

In the dusk, Audac and several soldiers "guarded" the mountain citizen, and carefully approached the front along the grass and curved paths. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

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