Chapter 32 The Big Ship (Part 2)
The Toston Valley suddenly converges like a pocket in the middle, and Yazda is located at the entrance of the Badou. There are mountains on both sides of the river, and there is no name. The mountains to the west are low, and there are docks and towers built in the belly of the mountain. It should be the location of Hashidi's small fleet. The mountains to the east are very tall, as high as thousands of Roman feet. The fortress built on the mountain is located here, which can accommodate thousands of troops, and has dense weapons and grain warehouses. It is not advisable to attack the East Fortress. Our army's goal should be to be the fleet base in the west.
This is the purpose of my suggestion to build large ships. As long as we seize the place, we can truly isolate the internal and external traffic of Yazda and slowly attack the East Fortress. In addition, I have another prophecy, that is, Hashidi's garrison troops in the south of the Toston Valley will definitely shrink across the fortress here. As long as it can be annihilated and taken down, our army will continue to go downstream. Hashidi will no longer be able to compete with it. Any fortress along the way will not be reliable, so it is worth spending more time and sacrifice here!
After listening to Faobinas's narration, Li Bida nodded slightly, and asked Gaibo, who was still standing there, how long it would take to build ten large armed river boats and carry several more small wooden boats. Gaibo replied: "It will take about the spring of the next year, and the ships need to be prepared, because the deck will be very comfortable, and it is a short-range attack, so the infantry and archers of the Commander-in-Chief do not need any adaptive training."
Next spring? Will this delay too much time? Will the power of the Hashidi Sect be more and more expanding? Li Bida began to hesitate again. For the commander, any decision must be repeated and anxious before making it.
However, Anthony responded again. He strongly advocated a surprise attack on the Yazda Fortress. If what Faobinas said was true, he should take advantage of the opponent's panic and use the movement of the cavalry directly to seize the fleet base in the west like lightning. "Then directly board the ships there, meet the wooden boats on the river surface to capture the East Fortress." The request of the military civilian guard also won the consent of some centurions.
Finally, Li Bida finalized a more compromised plan: to allow Anthony to lead the affiliated cavalry brigade to cooperate with the infantry of the two regiments carried by wooden boats on the river, plus an auxiliary brigade. He rushed towards Yazda along the Toston River, but Li Bida also reminded Anthony to strengthen military reconnaissance and not to be quick. In addition, Hebrida led the Thirteenth Legion's Thousand-man brigade, and also equipped an auxiliary brigade to twenty Romanian positions behind Anthony. Do a second search and advance, and remove possible remaining Hashidi garrison points. Petternius led the main force of the Thirteenth Legion to respond at the end, and Commander Li Bida supervised the progress of the shipyard.
As a result, I encountered a battle the next day.
But Anthony's cavalry team actually passed through. These Hashidi people were really evil. They did abandon most of the small city blocks according to David Angit's instructions and concentrated in Yazda. However, under David's arrangement, there was still a shepherd-born general named Pation. He quietly lurked in the fortress among a cliff with hundreds of people. Seeing the careless Anthony's cavalry team appear, it was not exposed. Anthony did not conduct careful reconnaissance of the fortress on the mountainside at all, but simply determined on the periphery that no one was guarding it. As before, the whole team galloped away.
However, when the Thousand-Person brigade of Highbrida reached this point, it was not so good. The Hashidi suddenly threw rain-filled torches at them on the hillside, throwing stones and javelins at them. A centurion who led the lead was killed on the spot. The rest of the troops who reacted pushed their shields on their heads and retreated in a hurry. As a result, the Jews lit a blazing fireball and pushed them down from the hillside, cutting off the road between the front and rear of the Thousand-Person brigade. Everyone could not connect to each other. It was a mess. At this time, the Hashidi army on the hillside shouted and rushed down, and the leading one was holding a sickle-like thrace.
The wings of the mercenaries were light infantry, which was the "magnet tactic" they invented. The heavy armor of the city-state mercenaries had previously armed their elites, so they held the mercenaries in both hands and chopped the Romans' large shield like paper, or slashed them from top to bottom, and then pulled them away. This made it impossible for the front of Hebrida's front members to set up a shield wall at all, and bit the Romans' vanguard tightly like a magnet. Then the light troops on both wings went to the side, throwing javelins and throwing stones. In this way, the Romans in the back team were unable to set up a good connection line and could only block the shield with their shields in a mess.
"Don't keep going back!" Hebrida shouted viciously, because he saw the figures surrounding him who were automatically retreating. If this continues, the front troops isolated by the fireball wall will be completely wiped out. "Attack, rescue the front team, and then retreat to wait for assistance." Then he grabbed the flag and went straight through the fire wall. The soldiers beside him gritted their teeth. The reputation and flag of the unwilling Legion Thousand-Person Brigade were lost today. They followed the centurion and walked through. Dozens of firemen screamed and joined the battle group with swords. While extinguishing the flames, they stabbed the enemy, which scared the Hashidi believers who were fighting.
Finally, the auxiliary team behind arrived. The group ignored the barrier of the firewall. After a simple measurement of the distance, they shot arrow rains there and then fell to the hillside and river bank there. Although there were indiscriminate killing, the believers who were less armored or even without armored suffered greater damage to the arrow cluster. Fortunately, they had already expected that the Romans would have subsequent teams to reinforce. Pattien waved the flag on the mountain, and the Hashidi left the defender and retreated in an orderly manner.
After the war, a thousand-man brigade was counted, and 80 were killed or killed. Fortunately, although Hebrida passed through the flames and rescued his troops, the burns were not very serious. Instead, his hair was burned. When he retreated to four furlongs to build a temporary camp in the cliff fortress, he was furious and vowed to remove the "nail" within three days.
At this time, Faobinas, who was behind, followed up with the "Cyrani" brigade. When he walked to this camp, he was grabbed by Hebrida and asked him that he would give up all the blockages south of Yazda? Why was he ambushed here!
After thinking for a while, Faubinas pulled away the opponent's hand with a serious expression, "I am more worried about Anthony's cavalry brigade ahead than this. Since Anthony's troops passed by here before you, then this Hashidi army lurking on the cliff is not aimlessly attacking. They are trying to cut off the connection between us and the civil guards, and most likely to annihilate the civil guards' cavalry."
Chapter completed!