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Chapter 26 Hard-fought siege (2)

As the huge smoke rose, the Balantiya began to understand Libida's intention. They gathered all the elite warriors and cavalry of the tribe and rushed out of the fence to defeat the Roman civil engineering! "Didn't you say that this tribe only has two or three thousand men who can fight?" Libida, half-naked and sweating profusely, shouted to Sabo Kemus below under the mail tower of the small camp beside him, "This is a trick. In my opinion, they have five or six thousand people, like ants in the cemetery outside the Maxim sewage channel."

Sabo didn't believe his ears. He followed Li Bida to climb the wardrobe, then looked around and shouted in disgust: "Why are there so many people? Because this tribe even has women going to fight!" Li Bida touched the railing. Sabo said right. The women of Balantiya were holding short swords and daggers, revealing their chests, naked upper body full of tattoos, followed behind the man, screaming with disheveled hair, joining the charge team.

When the soldiers saw this scene, it was certain that they had to make a quick decision. Li Bida shouted: "Raising the white flag and ringing the bronze drum!" Then the sound of military horns and gongs and drums sounded everywhere, which was a signal to retract everyone from the camp. Soon, in more than 30 small camps arranged in staggered arrangements, half a hundred-man team was guarding each place. Many of them hung armor and shields on the fence to resist the barbarians' bows and arrows and javelins. The projectors of the camps and subsidiaries all entered the stage of full firepower. The trained cannons and auxiliary soldiers

, tirelessly operated crossbows, scorpion crossbows and stone ropes, and smashed javelins and rock bullets out desperately, and there was no standard at all - the barbarians' charge troops were like the ocean. They were everywhere. The Thyme Legion refused to fight with the Barantians. They each guarded the camps and used various signals to communicate with each other, inciting and cheering each other, with waving cloaks, military horns, and igniting javelins. A fire-power crossing net was formed between the interlaced camps and blocks. When a camp was in crisis, the neighboring camps would mobilize their troops and fight to save them to death.

The sound of shouting and killing was like a strong wind, shaking the entire camp group, from south to north, sometimes from east to west, the bloody corpses of the Balantiian warriors and horses, with dense wheat-like javelins, fell across the gaps of the camp, and there were many women with bare chests and breasts exposed in the battle. They were as fierce as men during the death fight. They screamed terrifyingly and climbed the crumbling fence with their blood-drilled hands. They tried to flip into the Roman camp, but the soldiers on the opposite side, Li Bida, had forgotten their gender in extreme horror and subsequent murderous intent. They stabbed and poked hard through the gaps of the fence with spears and swords until the blood of the women's lower abdomen and lower bodies were gone, and they slid down the wooden stakes of the fence - they didn't even moan and died.

When a few bloody Balantiians rushed through the camp and were about to break into the camp behind Libida, they found that the camp of the treacherous Roman treasurer had "displaced" one and a half Stadia. In the middle, there was a circular trench full of thorns, and the Numidian javelins waiting behind a fence...

After the battlefield was silent, Li Bida walked out of the camp and stepped among the corpses everywhere, or even without even making any effort. The Balantiya attacked and retreated wildly. The bodies of the tribe men and women were like dense sand and reefs after the ebb. There were no less than three thousand people killed. Li Bida understood that the essence and human resources of this tribe were destroyed. Even if he withdrew his troops now, the other party would be unable to intercept them, and he could no longer restore the tribe's vitality afterwards.

But he will not leave again. Since the hatred caused by bloody killing will not be eliminated for a hundred years, then now, completely eradicate it - the Balantiya tribe, and the siege of you will continue until your totem and blood completely disappear in this world.

The next day, the Roman soldiers began to dig trenches in front of the camp chain. Even though the Balantis could no longer launch a large-scale attack, they were still cautious. Half of them worked and half were alert. The rustling of shovels and the jingle of shovels were densely like the music of the god of death. When the standard trenches appeared, the military slaves and the rest of the soldiers began to build walls behind them. The bodies of the barbarians who were killed the day before yesterday were all loaded and thrown into the trenches of the camp behind. After covering them with soil and trampling them, Li Bida ordered the destruction of the entire camp. All the soldiers and military slaves moved into the small camp behind the blockade, waiting for the order of the general attack.

A market later, the blockade wall, a fifteen-stade wall, was completed, like a hanging lasso, at the throat of the city of Balantia.

In addition, in order not to let the soldiers get idle and panic, the kind Li Bida used whips and money to urge them to rush to build a dike in the small river of freshwater between the Douro River and the city of Balantiya, then dig a ditches and divert the water into his camp. In this way, the foreign water source of this barbarian settlement was also cut off.

At this time, many small tribes in the Vitoni region and Lusitania who resisted Rome crossed mountains and narrow roads, carried water and food on pack horses, then transferred to the Douro River to enter the river one after another, and stubbornly and bravely attempted to cross the earthen embankment and give the supplies to the Balantians, but the camps that stood in the sides of the river castle threw dense javelins like rain at them, the Iberian Peninsula. Now is the warmest period of spring. However, the Romans in the camps often salvaged people's broken limbs and blood from the water, which was very disgusting.

Soon, the persons supervising the camp's epidemic strongly suggested that if this continues, the fresh water in the river will be contaminated by the corpses and cannot be drunk, even if it is boiled, and the groundwater is mostly bitter and salty water. If you don't want the mules and horses to die of thirst, you must launch a general attack on Balantia as soon as possible.

In this way, Li Bida ordered cautiously and launched a general attack on the city three days later. He was actually waiting for the other envoy to surrender, but it has not been until now.

Three days later, the Romans' "general attack" was just a reputation, because when a vanguard 100-man team ran and entered this settlement, they found that everyone, regardless of age, weak, women and children, committed suicide. Some used daggers, some hanged themselves on the beams of the roof, and the bodies were hanging everywhere. The whole city became a dead city - no one could last for such a long time under the waterless blockade. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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