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Chapter 10 The Siege of Paphos (Part 2)

At this moment, a sudden burst of violent noise came from behind the Romans. All the Cypriots were shocked. What new weapon was this Romans?

But seeing the Rome's 100-man team made their debut one after another, countless pack horses neighed happily from the array, rushing towards the Cyprus camp in the waves. At this time, the pack horses in their camp also began to kick and scream, many even chewed the ropes and flocked to the door to meet their "brothers". Now the Cyprus camp was in chaos. Many soldiers used to hold bows and arrows and javelins. Now facing these countless galloping horses, they dared not run around or move forward to stop them, and could only squat behind the safe wooden fence. Now, the Romans shouted in unison and followed the horses to cover the entire line. They pushed down the wooden fence and stabbed the Cyprus army in the array, and then raised shields layer by layer, ignored the chaotic enemy, and slowly walked around the bent and intertwined Luzhai wooden fence and reached the foot of the camp.

"Young men, do you know how to completely collapse the walls of these Greeks in the shortest time?" Hebrida, the chief centurion under the shield, shouted, and then he began to make a skillful demonstration move, took the shovels from his subordinates next to him, and said, "Going with me, digging a ditch of two and a half deep Roman footers along the wooden raft wall. Under the shield wall, light soldiers waved shovels and picks of crosses, and dust was flying. They were doing what Hebrida said, but these tasks were very familiar to him. There were only new recruits who could not fight, and there were never new recruits who could not build camps and dig trenches.

When the lower section of the wooden raft was exposed to everyone, Hebrida gritted her teeth and piled up linen rolls with mites. Then she lit it with a scythe." Follow me. Every four Roman footers were dotted, and soon, in the bursts of exclamations, the Roman shield array retreated a few feet back, and the storm of the storm quickly rose, and the single burning wood twisted, and soon fixed it with iron nails. The wooden raft next to it was tilted in turn, standing on it Many archers and javelins could only run down the ladder. Soon the front wall was unrecognizable. A row of Roman soldiers concentrated forward and used shields and wooden stakes to slam the sound of huge collapse. The wood, with flames and ashes, smashed on the shield with thunder. The wall immediately fell back to the ground, suppressing many howling enemy soldiers. The Romans then held their shields and rushed into the camp with their bodies...

In this battle, the Cypriot army was killed only more than a hundred people and stopped resisting, because if they were in a safe camp, they could still maintain their fighting spirit, but now they have been destroyed by the Romans, and the Roman legion is also rich in supplies and are not very interested in killing prisoners of war, so they calmly handed over the military flag given by Ptolemy to the Romans to express their surrender.

"We have tried our best to resist, but the fortifications have been destroyed, and the horses are panicked, so in this case we must admit that God is not on our side." The leading general stood before Li Bida and spoke seriously in pure Greek.

"Where are your troops coming from?"

"The light cavalry is mainly Etolians, the infantry include Athenians and Silesians, and the light infantry is native to Cyprus, with a small number of Cretans. The respected general, I forgot to say just now that our army has insufficient food, so our surrender can be forgiven by morality and honor." The general was still talking after reporting the number of people.

Li Bida had no intention of listening to him masturbating, so he ordered Sabo to disperse the cavalry and infantry, and give each of them ten drakmas. As long as they were not bandits in the countryside, we didn't need these weak chickens. Instead, the Cyprus and Cretans all called me. Soon after, a group of people dressed in different clothes and wearing wide-brimmed hats came up. Li Bida took out the Assyrian compound bow. As a result, they shook their heads and said a few words, meaning that we would not use the Asian bow. Li Bida shrugged helplessly and said that he could pay generous amounts of money and allowed them to keep the original flags and team marks, or they could meet their requirements for using the Mediterranean single bow, and serve as an affiliated arch brigade for the Thirteenth Legion.

"You are here again. You must know that we are the Roman legion, but now Commander, you must understand that there is only one Roman among the three members of the 12th Legion. Now the 13th Legion is afraid that there will be no pure Latin among the five." Sabo complained publicly with dissatisfaction, "In this case, the discipline and honor of our army will be difficult to maintain."

"Sabor, you complain again, I naturally have a way, but before we capture Paphos, we must work together regardless of race." Li Bida did not listen at all. He immediately announced that the 13th Legion would change its organization in such a proportion. Petterneus immediately stood upright and listened to the commander-in-chief's guidance. This professional soldier is good, and whoever gives military rations will sincerely support whoever he gives: First, expand the chief thousand-man brigade to full amount, and the remaining infantry brigade only needs six. The prisoners of the Tisa River were all organized into two archers, soldiers, oarsmen and baggage were organized into a single brigade, and all military slaves were independently organized into an organization, and they were equipped with the equipment seized in the Salamis arsenal.

After promulgating the command, Li Bida asked the surrendered general in a blink of an eye, "Does your Ptolemy have no army to be dispatched?"

The general shook his head very simply and said that he felt that Ptolemy had ended his life, but before I went to war, I heard that he had wealth that was as rich as a country, but refused to give it to reward the soldiers, but hid it quietly. The most likely place to hide was the Great Temple of Love on the coast of the old Paphos, because the priest there was his half-brother, and there was divine power. He said that you Romans dare not violate the line, because Aphrodite was said to be the ancestor of your Latins.

"Is that right? I wonder if you heard about my staff complaining just now. From the commander to the ordinary soldiers, not many of our army were Romans, so I announced that we would march towards Paphos immediately! The soldiers, Ptolemy no longer had soldiers. The great God of Love, no, the great God of Love is calling us." Li Bida stepped on the white horse, and his order made all the soldiers cheer. Is there an expedition that was easier to get spoils than this?

Paphos is divided into two places: old and new. The old one is located on the coast. The new one is rebuilt after a major earthquake. On the top of the mountain later, Dussenvier's cavalry brigade traveled day and night, slashing into the plains between the new and old cities like lightning, dividing the connection between them. Then the infantry brigade, archer brigade, troop troop and baggage guard brigade all came in. Indeed, Ptolemy's cousin did not carry out any decent resistance along the way.
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