Chapter 24 One person's banquet (2)
However, Petternius's actions were still a little slower - Li Bida's vanguard, the 12th Legion and Numawang Legion had quickly rushed to the north of the Ursau City Serb Group, and began to seize key points and build blockades and walls. About half a day later, Li Wus' infantry Legion also arrived at the front line.
A cavalry team sent by the little Thor passed over a reverse hillside in the melee in the wild, and then quickly and skillfully formed a raid line and rushed towards the Li Bida infantry group at the foot of the mountain.
The new infantry of the Liwus Legion was extremely skillful in their movements. They knelt down half-kneel with spears in their hands. The people behind directly regarded the one in front as a human forkraft and set up a copper tube. With the deafening sound and flames, the Pompey Party cavalry rushed to the front, shattering like a collapsed wall - the people rolled and fell to the ground, and the rest of the people quickly turned around and ran away, no longer had the courage to fight.
Three days later, Li Bida, who arrived at the front line of the besieged city, began to mobilize the fourteen legions and siege the city of Urshao. Seketus was really trapped in a complete desperate situation - no soldiers were available and no foreign aid existed. Most of his two legions were composed of barbarian soldiers, and their morale and fighting spirit quickly disappeared. No one was willing to fight for a battle that could not see the future. So Rous's mistakes were repeated. Every night, a large number of soldiers surrendered and gave up resistance.
Outside, the chiefs and bandit leaders of Spain and Lusitania began to go to Libida's tent to sworn allegiance. After comforting them, Libida made a common request, "After the capture of Ursau City, the entire Iberia will be held there to establish a new post-war order."
In the following days, the deer forts, camps and blockades rose one after another, while Syketus's face became increasingly clear and haggard: there was no hope of going out of the city to attack, and it was a dead end to be trapped. Li Bida did not easily attack. Because the high priest publicly claimed that in such a situation of victory, he would no longer have to sacrifice the lives of ordinary soldiers. The army outside the city only strictly inspected the posts, laid tight nets, and carried out cavalry inspections every day, patrolling the city and shouting and demonstrating.
Siktus, who was lying on the camp bed, thoughtful. He was thinking about his father's defeat and the explanation Machius had given himself before. Finally, he gradually became disgusted with everything that has come. "I don't need to resist the coming of a new generation, but I will not follow and submit to it. Let the Pompey family disappear in this world."
After thinking about it, the little Thor sat alone in the town hall and asked the servants to fill the banquet. Although he was actually the only one left, he still asked the servants to mark the seats and beds of "others": Lipole, Little Gatto, Father's, Rabinus's Aphranius, Peletaus's, and brother Ralias's, and he had enough of the "Muse" to gather the number of "nine".
Then, he drank himself, raised his glasses to pay tribute to the air, and finally got drunk, and walked to the backyard. Under the dry sun and weather, there was a pile of firewood, and a corpse stand was placed on the top. "The great descendant of Hercules, the great descendant of Mercury, and the great Pompey family, is only me. So I, Syketus, must serve myself in my own funeral." After saying that, Syketus swayed, holding the wax figure of his ancestors, slowly walked on the crematorium pile, and then lay on the corpse stand while drinking. The servant brought a mask for him, covered his face, and then stuffed a coin into his mouth.
Soon, the servants who were crying below lit the pile of fire at the bottom, and the flames slowly burned, and Seyx lay down like this, slowly disappearing into the sky-sky fire.
Urshao Fortress opened the city and surrendered. Although it consumed huge manpower and financial resources, it did not play any defensive role in the unfavorable situation of the war and was destroyed with Syketus.
Later, Lipo on Saxony Island also committed suicide, and his remaining fleet also surrendered, and all the resistance forces of the Pompeii party completely dissipated in the waters of Afiliga and Spain.
"Forget it, all the bodies of the two Pompeii family, including Rabinus, Rilias and Lipo, were buried in the city of Ursau." Li Bida, who learned of the final outcome, sighed and issued an order, "There is no need to transport them back to Rome. I think if His Excellency Caesar was still alive, he would have done this."
Then, Li Bida, with his huge guard, began to patrol the cities of the Spanish Peninsula before the meeting of Corduba, starting from Lusitania, then to Cardes and Magara in the south, and then to Sagantan, and then preparing to get ashore in the Osetani area and return to Rome.
He wanted to inspect a hundred cities that were surrendered before him, but before departure, several staff members found him and consulted him about something:
The Tlureas' twin legion has just arrived in Meggara City in Sicily. Now that the brothers of Pompei are dead, do you still need this legion to go here?
"Well, you are now abiding by the principle of confidentiality. I will issue two orders three days apart, asking the Twin Legion to arrive in Lilibi, and then asking them to return to Meghara City to rest." Li Bida said this strange request calmly, and the clerks did not dare to ask more questions, and everything would be done.
After promulgating this order, Li Bida continued to move forward. About half a month later, when he arrived in the city of Ga, Italy, he found Sabo's old mother, personally received her to her headquarters, and gave her a full set of gorgeous furniture and tableware, as well as thirty servants and musicians, four beautifully decorated carriages, and a quiet villa. He said that these silver coins worth 100,000 dinars were worth all the honorable women, "Because of your son's merits, he has always been loyal to me for so many years."
"If you really care about Sabo's merits, you should return him to me and ask your son to accompany your mother. I don't have many years to live." The old woman returned and said, and then she looked at the high priest. "These gifts mean nothing to me. What I like the most is the Celtic bench you gave him money to me when Sabo was a teenager. I am still using this chair now. Sometimes people's affection is often not condensed on the things that add icing on the cake."
Faced with the old woman's dissatisfaction, the high priest was also timid and promised that he would definitely ask his son to come back within a year, because sending you to Libida Castle, which is separated from the ocean, is really hard work. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!