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Chapter 23 The Sinclairs (Part 2)

Finally, the Sincredians recovered. Under the command of Chief Mukuas, a team of light cavalry rushed towards Li Bida's "superior work". The artillery could only climb onto the two-wheeled carriage in a mess. The other military slaves rushed to fix the crossbow with copper chains again, and then connected to the yoke. Under the cover of several ala cavalrymen, hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey

At this point, the first battlefield practice of "Li Bida Cavalry Cannon" began in a vigorous manner, stuck in an unexpected way, and then was expelled in a miserable way.

Well, summarizing the experience and improving it is a matter of the future. At least the appearance of this cavalry cannon made the Sinclair people feel very unhappy. They felt that the performance of this Roman army was extremely strange and uneasy compared to other Romans. I don’t know what else would happen soon. In addition, the sky was gloomy, lead clouds drooped wings, and the cold wind was raging again, sweeping over large pieces of snowflakes on the ground, making it impossible to tell the direction, so both sides could only stop the battle temporarily. Li Bida asked his subordinates to blow the horn easily and withdrew the team back to the small camp in an orderly manner, where there was sufficient food and charcoal for heating and keeping the cold.

But the Sincred people had a miserable experience. They wore Iberia's exclusive jackets, stepped on the snow, and were surrounded by fallen horses, and nested together to keep warm. The settlements they were in had no food, lack of water, and did not resist the wind and snow and the enemy's walls and trenches. Mukuas could only let everyone light a torch, burn the wood removed from the house to keep warm. Everyone circled around and drank the wine they brought with them. They used wine to scrub the body of the mount to prevent them from falling and dying. No matter what, even if they threw all the people in these two settlements and froze to death, Mukuas decided to escape tomorrow or the day after tomorrow!

Just at night, Li Bida found a famous young noble hostage from the cell of Xiaoyings. He came from Oktrabo, a farther away (the settlement the Sincredian relies on is Elisanna). Li Bida took the condition of ensuring that his tribe could obtain sufficient clothing and food rations after the war, and asked him to send messages to the settlement and let them wait for their signals to act.

At the same time, Libida asked Sabokemus and Hottenhus to lead two selected 100 men along the lake and dense forests to cut off the passage between the Sincrees back to the tribe. Then, at dawn, Libida suddenly launched an attack on Elisanna, and the Roman soldiers approached the Sincrees warriors who were tortured in the snow and cold that night. The trumpeters gathered together and blew a sharp and terrifying sound because of the moon projection. The shadow of the Roman soldiers was pulled forward for a long time, which caused panic and misjudgment to the Sincrees. The real distance between the Romans could not be distinguished. Only in the hallucinations of snow and shadows, the javelins in their hands were thrown out randomly, but they all fell at the feet of Li Bida soldiers. Then Li Bida's straits and infantry rushed forward, throwing several waves of javelin rain that were unstoppable. The people of the Sinclair tribe fell down a large area with a whimpering sound. At this time, a large crowd of people lit torches suddenly appeared in the direction of Oktrabo, and the shouts were like a tide. Then Mukuas, who was worried that he had fallen into a trap and attack, stepped onto his mount and began to flee shamefully.

These Sincre people who were running around were killed by two hundred-man teams of Sabokemus in the pass and the dense forest. These soldiers were invisible in the woods on both sides. They held Celtic spears with spiral spears with the tip of spiral spears and stabbed towards the figures and firelight outside the forest. Once the tip of this spiral spear penetrated into the body of a man or a horse, it would cause tear-like wounds, which was enough to make people sick. When all the personal soldiers around Mukuas ran away, he ran to the end of the pass along the shadow of the moon and the rising dawn, he found obstacles made by falling trees. He could only discard the horse, flipped over with his hands and feet, and continued to escape on foot.

In the morning, when Li Bida was counting the battlefield, when he received the report, he killed more than 300 barbarians, captured nearly 500 horses, and more than 100 seriously injured Sinclairs, sitting or lying on the snow, sprinkling dark blood, and slowly dying like dark statues.

About half a market later, Mukuas burned down his camp and fled to Lusitania. The strength and prestige of the Sinclair tribe were devastating. The nine other small tribes under him all sent envoys to beg for peace and lie at the feet of Libida, willing to provide blood taxes for the Governor's Office of Far Spain. Libida also ordered each of them to hand over one hundred strong men, take ten noble hostages, and be detained in the Kimeladong camp. Although these tribes felt a little harsh, they had to do it respectfully.

When he returned to Kimela, Libida had nearly a thousand Iberians in his hands, and he would tell Sabo half-jokingly that he had finally completed one quarter of Caesar's mission. Most of these Iberian soldiers were equipped with their own equipment. Most of them wore half-body armor made of light leather, with only a round bronze breastplate with a tie on their chest, wearing leather or bronze helmets, holding Spanish broad-edged swords and small round shields. Sabo Kemus called them cohortescetratae, or "Setratai", a Spanish short-shield infantry who played for Rome in the Punic War. Their battle formation was more focused on flexibility and toughness than that of Roman infantry.

"These Setratai soldiers need to enrich our non-commissioned officers and teach them to abandon the barbarians' courageous and fierce habits, learn to persevere and obey, just like my soldiers from slaves." Then, Li Bida asked Sabokemus to divide the thousand Setratai soldiers into two detachments, each with 500 people, who can cooperate with each other to implement tactics, and ask their subordinates to train these Setratai soldiers in Kimela for one month.

"Hisser of the Finance Officer, will we advance into the west of Vitoni in a month? Where we will encounter more bandits and Lusitanian enemies." On the school ground of the winter camp, looking at the barbarian soldiers who were moving forward and retreating, Sabo asked Li Bidi.

Li Bida taught a few words to the training officer with a gilded baton, and then said, "No, at the end of winter we will go to Betnari. You will go back to Italy in the past two days to help Habaruka discount the spoils and then stuff them into the soldiers' luggage and baggage."

What? Betnery is the central hinterland of Spain, northeast of Neo-Carthy and Sacantan. Yes, but there are no barbarians who are enemies of Rome, and the settlements and towns there are nominally within the jurisdiction of the Spanish provinces. This is true. The chiefs and elders there are all loyal to Pompei's family or subordinates. Now, as the financial officer of Caesar, why are you going there? (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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