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Chapter 10 The Sixth Legion and the Sixth Legion (Part 2)

In fact, Angandinus was also prepared in this way. He received the strategy of the chief officer in advance, so he divided the team into two, quickly built a barrier-type camp in the center of the necessary streets, imitated the experience of Marcelia's siege, and laid out many projectile equipment. "Our mission is to monitor the enemy's baggage camp and block all the enemy's defeated soldiers there!"

There, Apis also selected the chief brigade and formed an assault group with four auxiliary 100 men, and mobilized the soldiers to say, "Now, our chief General Scipio may have suffered an unfortunate fate. If we want to rescue him, we must break through the enemy army in front of us, so the most urgent task is to attack bravely."

However, all the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Army of Aspis were in an uproar. They were all greedy for the luggage in the camp, where they had their own savings for half of their lives, paid, looted spoils, and the additional rewards Scipio gave them in Xiaoya. Each of them had at least five thousand Seth's property. They elected military guards to discuss with Aspis, "You can't throw the camp down. If the chief brigade goes to fight, if the enemy's troops are still ambushing around and they can't resist and are defeated, then everything is over."

"What's the reason!" Apis said to all the civil guards with a calm face and angrily. Then he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Everything happened again: when he was a military civil guards, he once went to negotiate with coach Lukulas on behalf of the soldiers, but he didn't expect that it was his turn now.

Just when Apis and the soldiers were in a deadlock, the two legions of Scipio had already run away to more than a dozen Romans. Then Scipio took the Thres cavalry and suddenly saw the solid barriers and defense line of Angandinus. He shouted. The cavalry captain next to him, Opimius, hurriedly asked if he wanted to organize a strong attack.

"I'm crazy, the opponent's pursuers are behind him, and there are barriers in front of him. If we attack rashly, all the people will be captured after exhaustion." Scipio finished speaking. He saw a large highland on the left, near the river, and he climbed up in a mess and then formed a formation. Scipio urgently ordered the idle soldiers to dig soil and set up camp around him.

In the dust, Li Bida followed with his vanguard cavalry. When he saw the situation on the battlefield, he couldn't help but complain that Angandinus was not familiar with military affairs. "It should be blocked on this high slope, and Scipio was the rat in the bag."

When he saw the opponent preparing to defend on this high slope, he calculated it in his heart and decided to rely on existing supplies to fight. Even if he could not wipe out Scipio this time, he would find a way to severely damage him, forcing his three legions to withdraw from the future decisive battlefield of Cocula.

After the Thirteenth Legion also arrived, Li Bida ordered the brigades of the two legions to gather together. "Divid it into four teams, and fired volleys on the hillside in turn!" Then, the flags of the golden fly under the hillside were waving everywhere, and the bowstrings were gushing like thunderstorms. Arrows flew from all directions. Scipio's subordinates kept screaming and falling down, but the general still swelled up and forced his soldiers to build fortifications with arrows. "If we were defeated here and there were no property, you would be beaten to be rebellious by Caesar. Even if you were killed in battle, you would not even have the expenses for pension!"

At last it was dusk, Li Bida surrounded the high slope and contacted Angandinus. Scipio, with his subordinates who were injured, was in panic all day long. He wanted to select brave officers and soldiers, break through the blockade, and contact Apis there, but no matter how high the reward was, there were only few people.

After thinking about it, Scipio had to send Opimius that night to the enemy's camp to discuss the truce with Li Bida.

"Isn't it too late to negotiate a truce now?" Li Bida replied in a mocking tone.

After hearing this, Opimius did not dare to say anything more. He just changed the subject and said that their morale was on the verge of collapse, but "General, your army should be almost exhausted, so we might as well truce for two days, bury the bodies, treat the wounded, and redeem the prisoners."

After pondering for a while, Li Bida said to the other party, "This is not something that cannot be negotiated. In the previous battle, I captured thousands of wounded and captives from your army. Everyone, you spent 500 Seth to redeem it and give you a day of truce. I promise not to attack, but after the third day, the war will start again."

So Opimius thanked Libida for his generosity and went back to report the good news to the supervisor. After the other party left, Libida slowly placed a letter on the table, and then ordered Sabo and Alp: "Tomorrow, half of you will go to exchange prisoners for ransom, and the other half will pack their luggage in the camp. We must quickly cross the street and go to Apollonia, because His Excellency Caesar had just arrived, saying that Libida's fleet had launched a new attack, severely damaging all our ships, and could carry two legions of Lukugu, to raid and recapture Olikum or Dikhaqiang. Now, not only our army, but also the six legions of Caesar, the military rations are almost exhausted, so the port cannot be lost, we need food from Sicily and Gaul."

It seems that our three legions are going to "block the leak". When Sabo thought of this, he took the order and left. Then Alp asked the master, "Sepia's army will besieged for another three days, and we will completely collapse. Do we really want to give up now?"

Li Bida nodded helplessly and said that I am different from Scipio. As the chief deputy general, I must consider the safety of the entire battle situation. Anyway, the two legions of the opponent have also suffered heavy losses. They cannot join the battlefield of Cokula. The mission of the non-operating army division has been completed. Now all the energy must return to the siege of Cokula there. Although Caesar "encircled" this highland coastal city, he is actually in a state of inability to advance and retreat. Rabinus has enough ships in his hands. He is at ease and can open a battlefield at a new location at any time to restrain Caesar's already stretched troops - so we must rush back to resolve the crisis.

The day after redeeming the prisoners, Scipio's patrol cavalry reported the strange phenomenon they had reconnaissance: the enemy did not line up to launch a new offensive on us, and their camp was also quiet.

Scipio, who was still in shock, could not believe the scene in front of him, sent a team of light cavalry teams, not only reconnaissance around Li Bida's camp, but also searched the surrounding river valleys and mountains. Finally, he found that the other party had already moved away in the middle of the night, and there seemed to be no new ambush. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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