"The Athenians ran and rushed towards the invaders, and when the Persians saw the Athenians running towards them, they thought they were crazy." - Herodotus described the battle of the Marathon

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No matter what, we will first lift Iduka's siege, and then learn the exact news about Caesar from the Roman scouts.

Iduca City is a very small settlement located on the high ground. Between the Douro River and the Nimis River, adjacent to the Atlantic Sea. Although the city is very small, it is still the "alliance free city" of the Romans. Therefore, the Roman scouts who escaped should have received assistance from local residents to defend the city. In order to raid the Avasili, Li Bida hid the baggage and camp in a gorge, and then took three mixed infantry and cavalry brigades to rescue Iduca's encirclement. There were three thousand Avasili people surrounding the city.

People. In the wilderness outside the city, in the flying grass, a cavalry squadron of the Thyme Legion suddenly killed from the ambush high slope, blocking a baggage team of the Avasili people. Not long after, almost all the other party was killed, and only one person was let go. Li Bida asked the other party to pass a message: A newly invested army of the Romans appeared in the north of Lusitania. Now the general of this legion is to compete with the brave Avasili people, just like he destroyed the equally brave and warlike Balantiya tribe.

At the same time, Li Bida took off the clothes that were unique from the corpse of the opponent's baggage team - this is the most commonly worn jacket by the native Spanish people, called "Saganm", and asked a squadron of cavalry to wear it and quietly hide in the dense forest next to the battlefield.

Soon, Li Bida led other troops and whispered the trumpet to approach the position of the Avasili people under the city of Iduka. The Avasili people were forced by this situation and could only turn around and fight against Li Bida.

No surprise. The tactics adopted by this barbarian army were Roman-like. They also wore bronze or iron hats and helmets, three to four feathers inserted on them, breastplate on the outer side of the tunic, square shields, and two to three javelins. The main weapon was a sharp Spanish dagger. A loose three horizontal formation of a hundred-man team similar to the Romans, to stop Li Bida's attack in the wilderness.

Li Bida asked the infantrymen of the mixed infantry and cavalry brigade to line up, holding flags and flame-tongued flags, which made them seem to be no different from ordinary Roman legions. All the cavalry were hidden behind the infantry array. They all dismounted and divided into left and right wings, with the heads facing the oblique front of the array, which confused the Avasili people on the opposite side and mistakenly believed that Li Bida lacked cavalry.

According to the old-fashioned rules of engagement, the Avasili light infantry wearing a wolf-skin cloak rushed out first and ran to the Romans to throw the javelin. As expected, the first two rows of infantry in the Thyme Legion stacked the walls with an elliptical shield wrapped in animal skins, and began to advance. The Avasili light infantry advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, harassing the enemy, and slowly moving towards the two wings, so that a cross-fire network could be formed to attack the prominent Roman formation.

The warlock suddenly rang out, and dust rolled in the rear of the Roman formation, and a large group of cavalry emerged from the slanting spikes, and rushed towards them fiercely. It was impossible for the light infantry to form a dense formation and confront the cavalry. Whether it was training or weapons, the cavalry were their nemesis. They were soon chased by Libida's cavalry and ran around the world, and could not pose a threat to Libida's infantry team. At this time, the Avasili, who instinctively felt that they would be attacked by the opponent's infantry and cavalry, quickly gathered their formation and extended their shields and heavy javelins to the outside, like a huge porcupine, and like a copy of the early Roman legion.

At this time, the Avasili people who were closely adjacent to each other heard the sound of wheels rolling on the field. This was the sound of Celtic chariots they were very familiar with. These soldiers had no intention of fear. As long as they were arranged in dense rectangular square arrays, neither the chariot nor the cavalry could do anything to them.

But the chariots looked very strange. Six four-wheeled cars, almost the same number of two-wheeled carriages, with cavalry groups and pack horse guards, came from the bevel angle of the confrontation line between the two-wheeled carriages. They drove away at a half-furlong distance. The convoy stopped. The soldiers who jumped from the two-wheeled carriages began to pull out a partition from the four-wheeled carriages that were also stopped, forming an open slope with the carriages. Two simple chutes were laid on the partitions, lubricated with olive oil, and then untied the fixed chains, which were no different from the Roman crossbows, but there were only two groups of two-armed crossbows with small iron hoops at the lower part and pushed them down smoothly. Then the three gunners began to install stone bullets and javelins, twisted the bowstrings, and the other two locked the gun position with ropes and iron nails to prevent it from shaking randomly under the force of the wheel.

This is Li Bida's carefully improved "cavalry cannon": the shooting angle is no longer high and the maneuverability is faster when getting on and off the car, and the shells will no longer be wiped against a few Roman rulers on the head, and the "cavalry cannon" - you deserve it.

Soon, the first wave of stone bullets and javelins flew obliquely to the dense phalanx of the Avasili people, with terrifying penetration, and killed a group of barbarian warriors outside. The speed of Li Bida's gunners was unquestionable. The rapid fire tactics they practiced were now powerful. After a short period of time, the second wave of attacks pierced into the Avasili people's phalanx with the whistling sound of death, followed by the third and fourth waves...

Even the Titan giants of the Dark Ages of ancient Greece could not bear the scrubbing of iron and stone on flesh. When the Avasili could not bear the harshness of casualties and was about to disperse the formation, Libida's cavalry came from both sides, forcing them to shrink back into dense formations again. At this moment, on the other side, six "Libida" cavalry cannons rushed over "rumbling". Not long after, there was a rain of cross-over projectiles on the Avasili's square formation. A stone bullet of good luck could often be smashed out several ethereal angles, with broken limbs and heads flying everywhere.

Half a moment later, when the Avasili felt that they would rather be chased when they retreated than this howling death came, they completely abandoned their positions, carried their shields behind them, and disbanded the phalanx and ran towards Iduka desperately.

The cavalry squadron with the Saganm short jacket in the jungle quickly followed the defeated soldiers of the Avasili and rushed to the city of Iduka without arousing the suspicion of the barbarians. Their positions to accept the defeated soldiers were in chaos. Then the captain suddenly crossed the barbarian barracks, took off his short jacket, exposed the Roman uniforms, and circled around Iduka, shouting that he was the subordinate of Caesar's deputy general Li Bida. The people in the city hung down the rope and pulled him up one of them.

After nightfall, the people in the city learned about the arrival of Li Bida's reinforcements. They happily raised lanterns and torches on the city wall. The next morning, the Avasili sent fifty messengers wearing olive branches to surrender directly to Li Bida. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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