Chapter 22 The Agronomist and the Legion (Part 2)
After a while, Floyce's subordinates were disarmed and then pulled to a burned broken wall, which was all reimbursed as targets.
Conbano dug his nostrils with iron fingers. While humming, his intelligence officers rode a horse and handed him a piece of emergency board, which was sent by the inside line of Ga City, Italy. Conbano grunted, rolled his eye mask up and used his intact eyes (he did this just to fit Sethulis' image) stared at the board for a while, and then threw it to Saxosa, meaning he couldn't understand it.
Sarkosa rolled her eyes and took the word board, and then told Conbano a very excited news in an indifferent tone:
General Libidaus was about to arrive in the area of Gades and Italy within the prescribed voyage. The absolute elite main force of Caesar's side he brought, demanding that Conbano provide support to the best of his ability. To be more specific, Conbano will fight to the north from now on and concentrate firepower towards big cities like Orcresi to attract Valo's main force and create conditions for him to successfully land.
"It's simply nonsense. Orcresi City is the residence of the governor of the province!" Conbano cursed, which was simply embarrassing me.
Then Sarkosa continued to read it down. Li Bida clearly knew that the Malaysian bandit would react like this, so he listed many benefits below, "After I landed, you will be the official financial officer of Lusitania immediately. You have the right to occupy one-third of all the spoils in our army on the Iberian Peninsula. In addition, your subordinates will immediately enjoy the legion number given by His Excellency Caesar himself."
It was almost the same! Just as Conbano was pondering, several scouts came on horseback and hurriedly reported to the boss: Varo's army was only ten Romans away from us.
"Wow! Let those guys as heavy as shrimp shells follow my horse's butts slowly practice!" Conbano threw the zip board into the fire. Then he laughed and changed his eye mask again. He covered his right eye, and then mumbled as he saw the vision was much narrower, so he could only return to the left eye, and rode his horse staggeringly, and ordered, "The infantry carried all the spoils and spread them into the surrounding dense forests and valleys; all the cavalry followed me, and took these gangs of balls toward Orcrecy, and we would do bigger things as we walked."
"Oh oh!" The barbarians and bandit cavalry wearing Saganm jackets all raised their dog-legged swords and responded to the call of the Shanda King. This was their common trick to play the old man Varo: use light cavalry to run and rob, drag the heavy army of Rome to run and run around the world, but the real spoils had been taken away by the infantry, so naturally there were sales off the line. From Sagantan, New Carthage to Orcrecy on the other side of the sea, there were inside lines he had, "I'm not my bragging. Many Roman knights still had to rely on me to have a meal!"
Of course, the most important coastal defense center in Lusitania's southern line, Galoneus, the knight who served as the financial officer of Varo, was also the target of Conbano's "focused". Soon when more than a thousand light cavalry of Conbano passed by the defense zone under his jurisdiction, the six brigades under Galoneus pretended not to see it.
Soon, this group of horse bandits, no, was the official "Twenty-Seventh Legion" of Caesar's camp, raged in the central part of the province, and even plundered the farms in the suburbs of the capital.
Marcus Varo almost died. At that time, under the escort of the cavalry, he went outside the city of Orcreci with great interest to watch the growth results of the jujube trees, and asked the accompanying slaves to dictate themselves in detail. He was still thinking about how to divide the fields in a regular manner to more effectively support the manor of a complete circular economy. In short, they are all beneficial to human wisdom for generations, and are not comparable to the fighting and killing in front of him.
Therefore, "fighting and killing" happened soon before Valo's eyes. Several bandits rode over from the ditch and garden at a place less than twenty Roman feet away, probably riding a horse from the ditch and garden. They suddenly appeared and shot a few arrows at him and his entourage. One of them flew over Valo's head. Fortunately, the old man was so scared that he sat on a small chair and did not dare to move around, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
"How did they come all the way from near Ga, Italy?" After nightfall, Varo asked his aides angrily, "Do I have no troops stationed along the way? Why can't we even encircle such a conspicuous gang of bandits? I have achieved impeccable deployment in advance." But the incompetent aides below would only find various excuses, such as intelligence, enemy speed, dense enemy earlines, etc., to scoop the old man.
"You mean that the residents and tribes of Lusitania are all looking at Sethulis and now Caesar, right?" In the end, it was Varo who pointed out the essence of the problem. Seeing that the governor personally broke the veil, the aides collectively decided not to speak. After some conspiracy, Varo had to admit in pain that if this continued, no matter who Caesar or Pompei won, Lusitania would not be able to stay there, so he made such a decision:
First, he collected heavy taxes throughout the province, and then hoarded the materials and money he received in the southern harbor of Cades, and let Galoneus guard it; then he led the two main forces of the army to advance towards the central core city of the Peninsula, Corduba.
In this case, according to Varo's plan, if Pompeii's side had the advantage in Spain, he would take the opportunity to sway the flag and shout for Avranius in Corduba and assist in the war; if Caesar made progress, he could also retreat in time, avoid the edge, and then go to Cades, and take all his money and army from sea to Mauritania or Afilica.
Only Valor could think of this strategy at both ends of the head and rat. The main reason was that he could not tell the truth about the various intelligences. Avranius boasted about his victory in Elaerda, while Caesar said that Marcellia had been captured, as if both sides had won one after another in their own battle report, and were at the end of their journey.
Many aides could clearly see how bad the Governor Valo's plan was, but they all knew that if they were loyal to the advice at this time, it would cause dissatisfaction and even persecution of the Governor, who was very ambitious and talented. So after saying a few words and asking a few questions that were not painful, all the aides unanimously agreed with the Governor's plan of unfavorableness.
As a result, just as Varo led two legions toward Corduba, Libida's fleet and the sixth legion suddenly appeared in front of the bay of Caldes! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!