On the second day, Agripa handed over the defense of the camp behind to his brother, and he led two legions to set up a formation in the open area between the river and the camp barriers, and fought against the Brutu army.

"This time, there is no need to use the Etorian cavalry. Because the enemy is leaning against fortifications, our army uses heavy infantry to fight in a decisive battle!" This was Brutu's judgment, so the engineers in front quickly built several broad boat bridges on the surface of the Apusus River and set up military garrisons. Then Brutu arranged the four legions into six rows that could echo forward and backward, and rely on the Apusus River to press towards Agripa's camp.

Soon on the battlefield, shields overlapped, swords and spears stabbed each other, hats and helmets gathered, and casualties were everywhere. All soldiers, regardless of enemy and us, lined up in dense battle formations, leaving only the circling space for slashing swords. Snow fell again in the sky. The breath of shouting and breathing in the warriors became hot fog one after another, mixed with the wind and snow, making it impossible to distinguish the people in front of them.

Finally, after two days, Agripa took advantage of the battle to quickly retreat the team. The four legions of Brutu cheered the victory slogan and advanced a long distance, but they were blocked by Agripadon camp, which was located on the road and the plains. This was previously specially raised and reinforced by Agripadon, and established many new glasses castles to strengthen support inside and outside. At this time, with the command, Lucius took the two legions waiting for the opportunity to climb up the platform and tower, using rod pitchers and bows, "Feel the plague of Apollo and feel this overwhelming shooting!" Then the arrow was like rain, and a large number of light auxiliary soldiers at the front of Brutu's queue were knocked down. The remaining heavy infantry quickly raised their shields and dragged the wounded away, retreating a lot like a tide.

Then, Agripafang guarded the camp and kept it firmly in the defense of the fortifications. There was no flaw in Brutu's defense for several days.

At this time, Brutu became a little anxious. He gathered all the generals to discuss matters. Sibalas and others almost advised him to withdraw his troops in time, return to Athens, and then make a plan with Kassie to adopt the military plan promised by Prince Parthia before, but Brutu refused. "The supplies sent from Athens and Uripis will be here soon, and we will compete with Agripa again!"

So the entire army confronted the two sides of the Apsus River and built a permanent camp. After a market, neither side fought on a large scale during this period. Both sides were recovering their vitality. As expected, as Brutu promised, the city taxes and grains in eastern Greece were delivered in time, so the morale of the entire army rose again.

As a result, at this time, Agripa's second letter was sent, "Today's winter is extremely cold, and both soldiers on both sides can't bear this kind of hardship. The cloak, leather and wood are also very tired. I didn't want to fight you, but the high priest sent many military inspectors. It seems that he wanted me and these seven legions who lack experience on the battlefield to act as cannon fodder to consume your strength. Therefore, he once again suggested that the two armies withdraw their respective starting places. As long as I can maintain Epirus until the spring of the following year, the high priest would have no reason to punish me, but my personal idea should also resonate with you."

When Brutu received the letter, he smiled slightly and refused to comment. At this time, many generals suggested: Judging from the content of the letter, after this supply, our advantage over Agripa has been established. They cannot get the trust and support of Li Bida and his son, while our side has no food, so you should seize the opportunity and reply to the letter to confuse Agripa, and then select the soldiers and raid their winter camp.

"Do you all think so? But I once said that force requires support from faith and reputation, otherwise it will only turn into worthless abuse of violence." Brutu pondered for a moment, "Maybe you will laugh at my pedantic nature, but using the right way, whether in politics or conquest, will eventually defeat the enemy's opponents, because they will only play conspiracies and tricks. Convey my orders, the entire army must not move around, and will not be allowed to attack without authorization!"

Now, most centurions and civilian guards were dissatisfied with Brutu’s handling for the first time. They had previously admired his integrity and selflessness, but this time, "Brutu was really wrong". Such a pedantic tactical strategy cannot lead us to victory.

It was not until two or three days later that Agripa's four thousand light-equipped soldiers were ambushed by the foothills of the valley. When they were discovered by the scout of Brutu and walked out of the hidden place, all of them understood Brutu's painstaking efforts. If we were really frightened and launched a rash attack, we would have been ambushed and suffered heavy casualties.

Because Agripa's letter was a trick in itself - Leo did what he said and soon gave his troops sufficient and abundant financial supplies from sea to sea, Agripa hoped to use this letter to provoke Brutu to attack the winter camp and use ambush tactics to severely damage the enemy. But who would have thought that Brutu was able to stick to his integrity and left him helpless.

In the following days, Agripa changed his tactics. He asked the soldiers to build small fortifications step by step in the range of the winter camp, with scorpion crossbows and military slaves installed in each fortification, and gradually eroded the area previously occupied by the Brutu army. In addition, Agripa concentrated all the Ala cavalry of the seven legions and divided them into small groups. He either took the opportunity to attack from the foothills, plundered the military slaves and scattered pastors who killed Brutu, or attacked the back line of the opponent's army when Brutu was advancing and attacking.

Brutu found the Etolia cavalry to discuss, hoping that they could also divide into small groups to resist the invasion of Agripafang, but was rejected by the common alliance cavalry from Signes to ordinary alliances. They were all proud of the glory of alliances that dominated Achaia and Delphi more than 300 years ago, indicating that the cavalry formed an iron-blooded wall and promoted the use of trampling on the enemy, and would never do the activities of these nomads.

In this case, Brutu could only select a patrol team from all the legions, and engage in sporadic battles with Agripa, which were small but exhausting but sporadic battles with rats.

As the days flew away, Agripa still looked very patient, and his winter camp was still unmoved. But Brutu seemed to have nothing to worry about. He had already been determined to be mortal before going to war, so he was only waiting - after the craftsman and soldiers completed the heavy siege equipment, he began to ravage the enemy winter camp again and adopted new marshalling and tactics. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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