"As long as a donkey carrying gold can be allowed to enter the back door, there will be no castle that cannot be captured." Philip, the father of Alexander, the one-eyed Macedonian king, was to be seen.

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On a rare hilly hillside covered with green shade, the old royal city is located here. It has been renovated and serves as the temporary palace of Libida. The Cyrenega king is happily draping the family's blue robe on his shoulders, wearing a basil-leaf crown on his head, sitting on a ring chair, looking at the distance with a concentric look.

On his front and side, several Cretan sculptors from Kiel Island were carefully observing the models, making the king's busts, and these would be magnified ten times or even larger in the future, placed in front of the temple's door. Li Bida's regulations were to demolish all the military forts in the kingdom, and all the nobles and people would live in the three newly built temples, in a city without defense and without walls. However, he drew two large groups of troops from the Serapis Legion to stay, one stationed in the small and solid acropolis of the old royal city (this is the only remaining barrier), and the other stationed in the barracks next to the Temple of Hunting Goddess.

At this time, Sabo held a stack of plaques and said with some concern: "His Excellency Commander-in-Chief, you have been wandering here for too long! Even Barcelona is sent to question in Sicily, because Cyrene's city-state army has reached the verge of collapse. If we do not take action, there are only two roads before them, all of them will be killed in battle, or hand over the fortress to surrender."

Who knew that Li Bida was full of indifferent expressions. "If the Cyrene City State is not completely destroyed, how will I, the newly enfeoffed king, take care of myself?" It seems that this person is determined to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight. So now he is careful and meticulous in any pre-war preparations, and he needs to go to the Cyrenega career to be foolproof.

Before, he gave all the three thousand Tarents private property he received in Cyprus and Egypt, except for the five hundred he gave to Yulia, the rest were rewarded to the army generals, centurions and soldiers, and a large amount of gifts to the Aesio nobles. Originally, the nobles of this tribe were only privileged when distributing lizard meat, but now it is different. Libida let the orchestras, jewelry makers, and wheel makers in Egypt and Greece come in. The Aesio nobles soon understood the beauty of the round coins made of gold and silver. Like other nobles in the world, they began to drink fine wine, play with pigeons and other pets, wear precious jewelry symbolizing identity and wealth, carefully carve the chariots left by the Galamantes, and sit on it to patrol their own acre of three-point land.

When all the ambitions of these people are placed on how to eat, drink and have fun, they will become more and more afraid of losing such a life, and their fighting spirit will become weaker and weaker.

A while later, the command entered and said that under the transformation of the Egyptian technician named Gaibo, the range problem of the small bellows was effectively improved. On the Wangcheng School field, Li Bida stood under the parasol and saw the modified bellows. He looked carefully and found that it was actually a double-headed bronze pressure pump. The Gaibo, who had a slightly dark skin and a lower body surrounded by a linen skirt, walked over respectfully and bowed to Li Bida, saying that his invention was entirely dedicated to the war of the commander-in-chief, hoping to be used in slight use.

Li Bida waved and smiled at him, and asked the technician to show the usage process of this improved bell cannon.

"The fillings in this pressure pump are improved fuels, mainly sulfur, salt, rice oil, fig juice with a small amount of asphalt, carefully ground and mix. There is a heat-resistant iron ring with fuel applied in front of the nozzle. When using it, a famous gunner needs to ignite it with a red soldering iron." While Gable said, the "bellows" next to the gunner began to follow his description, "A pullable piston on each side can be automatically Reset, this can boost the pressure a lot and strengthen the range of this bellows!" When he said, the gunner in front of him had a look of fear and extended the red soldering iron to the iron ring in front of the nozzle, and the iron ring immediately burned. The gunner immediately retreated to a safe distance. The two gunners kept twitching the pistons on both sides with sweat on their faces. The flames made a loud noise, spraying to a place thirty or forty Roman feet away, attached to a target made of wood, and burning it into a ball of ashes.

"Papapapapapapapapapa" Li Bida applauded happily. What this Gaibo did was exactly what he wanted. Then the commander-in-chief asked about Gaibo's origin and origin. The man replied in fear and fear that he was originally a carpenter in Memphis. Later, he came to Alexander City to work as a shipbuilding technician. Later, the fleet was destroyed, and the remaining ships were all divided by Kasio and Li Bida. He entered Li Bida's military system. At this time, he heard that the commander-in-chief wanted to improve the bellows, so he dared to sign up with the Soldiers Committee.

"Very good, you have been appointed as the chief of the engineering of the 'Serapis Legion', responsible for the operation of the newly built bellows. In addition, you will be rewarded with a Tarent silver."

Ten days later, the prepared Li Bida army left the Kingdom of Galamantes and began to march towards the capelands in northwestern Libya. Under the guidance of the Esio guide, they found a small business road, where they could encounter some oasis and water sources in the middle, which was a great help. Because the season of sending troops was late autumn, they did not encounter the south wind from the desert. At this time, the soldiers of King Cyrenega, no matter where they came from, were all black in their faces and wearing fat short shirts. The skirt, with its strong and thin legs, moved forward rhythmically on the sandy ground. Thirteen days later, they finally saw the green. They climbed over the southern slope of the Atlas Mountains, and suddenly there were a large number of trees and springs in the north. At the source of the Tostone River, they also found the Apollo Spring that the Essians mentioned before. Legend has it that after Greek immigrants arrived there, the sky cracked, and it took forty days to rain, and it accumulated into this fountain water (actually a one-sided and active inland lake), and the Tostone River started there.

The Romans hurriedly cut down wooden fences by the lake and measured the circumference and size of the camp. At this time, the Hashidi riots on the other side of the Tost Valley also discovered Li Bida's sudden appearance. They became alert. After sending scouts to reconnaissance, they found that the flags of the Egyptians and the Romans appeared in the army at the same time, and then they determined the identity of the other party.

In the evening, several cavalrymen rushed over on the grass and were stopped by soldiers at the main entrance of the camp. Then they introduced themselves that they were believers of the Hashidi sect and hoped to meet General Libidaus. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!