"The competition in all cities has ended, and each city now faces only one unavoidable trouble, that is, how to dress itself more beautifully. {wx}" - Aristide evaluated the "complete peace" brought by the Roman Empire in the 2nd century AD.

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"In what direction?" Pompei stood up and asked.

The token officer said, "Your Excellency, you should go and see it yourself." Pompey had not changed his clothes, so he hurriedly climbed the camp tower with his entourage. In the morning light, Caesar's camp was indeed boiling. "It was divided into four parts, one ran down from the Gemalle Mountain, one came out of the enemy camp, one climbed the ridge, and one seemed to be running towards the city of Ruspina." Rabinus looked at the judgment.

"Caesar and Libidaus are going to retake Tapsus backhand," said Pompey.

At this time, Rabinus cleared his throat and said to Pompeii in a heavy tone, "Your Excellency, no matter how uncautious Surpisius and Cruise are, we have to say that the situation has developed to the point of a decisive battle."

"Yes, make up your mind." Pompei said with a sigh, and then he decisively issued a combat sequence: the Eighth Legion suffered heavy losses in the previous battles, and he added prisoners of war and alien cavalry to enter, and continued to head to Utica City to prepare to unseal the siege of Zama City, led by Aphranius; the Fourth and Fifth Legion, led by Condisius and Surpisius, to block the Caesar's army in Ruspina; the Third Legion of Tulas was responsible for restraining Caesar's left-behind positions.

I, Rabinus, Vibrius, and Peletaus led the most elite first, second and sixth legions, and rushed straight to Tapusus, following Caesar's main force. Forced him to turn around and fight me to the decisive battle. Or pressed him to the city to annihilate him; Scipio, King Juba, led ten thousand cavalry and the Seventh legion, and guerrillas to restrain Li Bida's group; Cruise was responsible for guarding the entire rear camp, not to act rashly, and to ensure the road to Utica here.

Then, in the intense warlock, the soldiers of Pompei's army also began to act, and they silently and quickly completed the order of departure. Just like a grand dance with great understanding. On the ridge position, many Caesar's soldiers stood in front of the camp and shouted, but Tulas pulled his third legion away and cut off the passage between their position and the city of Ruspina - and then Pompei, Rabinus's three legions, took Scipio and King Juba's cavalry, and rushed over from this narrow passage in less than a moment. The two legions of Condisius arrived quickly and surrounded the city of Ruspina on the coast. Otherwise, the people inside would go out.

Inside were two legions to which Anthony belonged, namely the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Legions. It was equipped with a lot of stone casters and archers. Anthony quickly ordered everyone to resist the siege of Condisius with the city.

After suddenly passing through this ridge position, everyone in Pompei's side understood that the following was a desperate bet, there was no logistics supply here, and there was no existing position to be established.

Soon, Li Bida's interception team appeared on the horizon, with about 4,000 cavalrymen in Qingyishui, and some of the light-hailing troops were taken away. And almost called Rabinus, Li Bida actually built a "camel flag command vehicle" to dispatch his own cavalry.

"This is the enemy's restraining troops. Don't be fond of fighting. Just send some cavalry to fight with him." Pompey said as he rode his horse.

"I'll go and trap him." Scipio personally brought the same number of Numidian cavalry and brought nearly seventy battle elephants away, forming a large horizontal formation and rushed towards Li Bida. The roar of the battle elephants was shaking the sky and earth and stunning.

"We don't want to fight, Hanske, Mindaz, you two are responsible for guiding the flag. We retreat along the established road, and we must be fast!" Li Bida made a quick decision and commanded all the cavalry. After turning around and retreated like a tide, the Agrien people also played their strengths and followed the cavalry closely, without leaving any further steps.

"Put the banner and ask King Juba to take the remaining six thousand Numidian cavalry and follow Scipio to push over, with the purpose of expelling the bastard Libida as far as possible, and do not ask him to interfere with our battle against Caesar." Pompey slowed down, and the steps of the soldiers and horses beside him flew, but he still clearly issued preset instructions to the token officer. Now everything seems to be going well, and it is all based on his vision with Rabinus.

King Juba himself sat on a huge war elephant. His tower was decorated with royal badges and flags. It was very grand. After receiving this command, the elephant master asked the mount to stand up. Then, a large number of war elephants stood up one after another in the voice of the command. The cavalry of Numidia and Mauritania flexibly filled the gap between each elephant, cooperated with an unusual tacit understanding, forming a huge torrent with oppression, and rushed towards Li Bida.

Libida's cavalry was also very fast. They walked and stopped and sent out the Mathians and Agrien people from time to time to organize a defender battle. They used long-range firepower to knock down many of the pursuing King Juba cavalry. Finally, when the cavalry at the present post saw a swamp of salt lake that was beyond the limit, Libida breathed a sigh of relief and said that we had arrived at the lower end of the Miknin Salt Lake. This salt lake just formed a huge obstacle, forcing Pompei and Scipio's men to separate. They could only enter the city of Tapusus from two narrow coastal corridors at the north and south ends, and that was our ideal decisive battle location.

"Long live!" All the cavalry under Li Bida's subordinates turned around and rushed forward when they heard the order for the decisive battle. Li Bida took the lead with his blue feather feathers and cloak, fought with the chasing enemy cavalry, killing them to death and injury, and retreating one after another. However, the battle elephant of King Juba rushed over, and the cavalry retreated alternately, instantly increasing their pace, and distanced the team of King Juba and Scipio by about three Romans.

Then, on a shallow stream extending from the Salt Lake, Li Bida all wade through the water, turned a corner, and arrived at the so-called "Southern End Corridor".

The city of Tapusus is located at a protruding promontory, and in front of it there is a huge salt lake called Miknin, so the side of Tapusus facing the land is divided into the southern and northern corridors, just like the two arms of the city that stretch out.

Pompei, who was chasing him, soon realized this, but he could not turn back. It is certain that Caesar had led several legions into the "North End Corridor", and he had to rush in to compete with Caesar.

Along the way, the heavy luggage of the Caesar soldiers was thrown everywhere, and there were still some flags sandwiched inside. Pompei's army chasing along the north shore of the Salt Lake cheered when they saw this. It seemed that the soldiers under Caesar were already so embarrassed.

But all Caesar's soldiers, weapons and construction tools were always held tightly in his hands and not discarded. (To be continued, please search Piaotianyi, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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