Chapter 33 Respect (2)
After sitting at the table and praying, Angit touched his children's heads, then tear open the flesh of a wild fruit and chewed it. His wife seemed to realize something. After all, the woman's mind was sensitive, but she never said anything. After a long time, Angit spoke by himself, "I'm going to command the entire Yazda Fortress war soon."
"Are there many Romans?"
"There are about twenty thousand people, and their commanders are also very cunning."
The woman was silent, then wiped her hands and went to the stove in the courtyard to serve the baked bread.
After the family finished eating, they sat on the table and chairs under the shade of trees in the courtyard. Finally, Angit told his wife, "Take good children, don't neglect your homework to God." After that, he stood up, hung his sword, tucked his cloak, nodded slightly to his wife, and left.
By the time Angit returned to Yazda, the water wall had been built, but he himself was speechless and could not bring back the stones that the entire fortress urgently needed. Therefore, there was a section of the wall on the north side of the fortress. It was like a man with a front teeth in his mouth. Angit, who was standing under the city on a donkey, stared at it for a while, and then ordered, "Temporarily take out the soil from the mountains behind Yazda to tamp it, fill it up, and set up camouflage outside. After all, it is difficult for the enemy to detour this side."
In the winter camp, General Libidaus went through hard work and finally put together some prostitutes and vendors who were willing to take risks and hard money. Finally, he set up a camp to comfort the soldiers who were too suffering and distressed. He wanted to catch the soldiers' training and pay more attention to their emotions. Especially in the previous defeat, everyone was so angry that they needed some venting, such as wine, women**.
When Gabor and the boatmen pushed the first flat-bottomed armed riverboat into the water, Li Bida finally had a stunning feeling: this ship is indeed much larger than ordinary sea boats, and because of its hydrological characteristics, it was made into a gold-cut rectangle, with a length of about 120 Roman feet, which was very grand. According to combat requirements, its side of the ship was very high, and the "crow" was no longer set on the bow. Instead, it was miniaturized and rolled on both sides of the ship's side.
There are four "crows" on each side of a ship, and two light stone-shooting crossbow cannons are included. Considering the safety of the soldiers on the deck, the raised part is also made into "wall stacks". The most outstanding thing is that Gable is hidden under the bow of the sea god statue, with a fire-breathing tube, and Gable has improved it for water use - the piston is driven by a pedal. As long as the oarsmen on the deck step on the pedal up and down, the sea god statue can spray out deadly flames!
However, General Libida seems to have a small place. He feels that Gable has not been able to do the best. He hopes that this ship not only has the combat power of shooting and fire, but also has strong survivability in front of the Yazda Fortress that Hashidi believers have held. There are only eight to ten ships in total to produce the output (to support this thing, Libida exempts Garamantes from all taxes for the next year, recruits many people to work in the camp, and spends a lot of money). No mistakes can be made.
When he made such a request, Gaibo smiled, but he was very careful and immediately afraid that the smile just now was rude, so he immediately said in an apology that even ships fighting at sea would be hard to sink when they were damaged or burned, as long as they were damaged or burned, it would be difficult to sink, because the woods used for shipbuilding were relatively light, such as fir, oak, beech, etc. As long as it was not a tragic storm, most of them could survive the war and capture the enemy's ships to replenish themselves.
"No, you have to know that Gaibo, the target of our battle this time is not the ocean, but a fortress. The river sandwiched in the middle is relatively narrow, so my request is not to turn this ship into a flexible fighter, but to use it as a solid city blockade. It is a blockade camp floating on the water, with a large number of fierce heavy infantry, a crossbow, a stone thrower, a bellows, and these are all very good, but I need to be firmer. Do you understand? How can the ship not sink?" After Li Bida said that, he touched his nose himself, and then snapped his fingers at Gaibo. He really traveled through time. Since I arrived in this world, I have also taken river boats and sea boats. I didn't notice that there was no cabin at the bottom of the ship here to save my life. This thing is the most practical. He gestured to the project leader Gable. This guy, who is good at carpenters (Pope is better at masonry construction) understood. He was surprised at the wisdom of the commander-in-chief. As long as the bottom of the ship below the oarser layer is made into a room form and sealed with cork, even if the ship receives fatal trauma one or two places, the water will only enter one or two cabins. The ship can still float on the water to fight, or withdraw it for repair.
It can only be said that in this era, people did not pay special attention to the "rejuvenation" of damaged ships during naval warfare. Many ships were directly discarded after being damaged, but when we met General Libidaus, everything was different when we met General Libidaus who was very careful.
When the Toston Valley was not particularly obvious, spring came, Li Bida held the second joint meeting in the camp with all centurions. At the meeting, Li Bidaus strictly prohibited anyone from speaking. He just gave a wink at Sabo Kemus, and Sabo directly issued a new combat plan after the beginning of spring:
Go hand in hand and step by step.
Except for a supporting brigade, that is, an armed military slave, who stayed in the winter camp, all the rest were dispatched.
The two legions, the Thirteenth legion, took the land west of the river bank, and the Cyrene legion and all auxiliary brigades were on board, were strictly prohibited from being disconnected from each other. The chief centurion of any legion was to be severely punished. The two legions were unified under General Petternius.
Commander-in-Chief Li Bida led the Medeje Guard and Anthony's affiliated cavalry brigade as the second term, serving as the center of the contact sweep.
Several brigades of the Heyun Guard and the God Tomb Guard carry spears and bows and arrows, and escort the baggage and pack horses to walk at the end.
All soldiers marched with all combat equipment, and advanced at the first and slowest speed of the Caodian. They marched intensively according to the unit of a hundred-man team. Each time they advanced to a cliff fortress, they destroyed them. Then they camped. All the passes built camps and sent separate hundred-man teams or gangs to guard them to strictly prevent ambush and sneak attacks by the Hashidi believers.
When encountering Hashidi's harassment in the middle, all heavy infantry were lined up to defend, and then assisted the archers to concentrate on shooting. When the fleet encountered enemy ships from Yazda, they fought and annihilated without mercy. When encountering strongholds that were still defended by Hashidi, they were eliminated in turn with five to ten times the military force. They would never bypass, clear one place, and then station one place, and then move on to the next step until they arrived at the fleet base of Yazdashi Mountain, they would use the fleet to block the connection between the east and west fortresses and concentrate their military forces to siege the west.
Then, Li Bida stood up with a gilded baton and said slowly: "This battle is a battle that will determine the outcome. Anyone who dares to slackew and disobeys will be punished with one ten times, and no matter the officers and soldiers, they will be killed in public with stones."
Anthony, who was sitting below, whistled a little and stopped making a sound. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!