"Yes, sir."

"Massimus!" A middle-aged man in a white robe walked this way.

"Kopanis." After Massimus saw the comer clearly, a smile immediately appeared on his face: "You just finished a battle yesterday, and you didn't treat the wounded soldiers in the medical camp, but came here to hang out, not afraid of being criticized by Lord Hasderogba." ”

"There weren't many wounded in yesterday's battle, and the injuries weren't serious, and they only needed a doctor and two nurses to deal with them, and I didn't need to treat them myself. After staying in the medical camp for a long time, I was bored and panicked, but today I came out to breathe, and by the way, I took care of the soldiers who were training. Commander Hasdruba saw it and praised me for being responsible. Kopanis said with some smugness.

According to the requirements of the current Ministry of Military Affairs, the director of the regimental medical battalion must be a doctor who has graduated from the Dioonia Academy Medical College, has been practicing medicine for more than 10 years, and has rich experience in emergency treatment. However, due to the fact that the Frontier Corps is stationed on the northern border of Etruscan for a long time and is always in danger, unlike the regular Legion, as long as the war is over and the medical personnel can go home, and they are basically not summoned in the usual military training training, these senior doctors of Dionia, who have already started a family and live a good life, are basically reluctant to serve as the head of the Frontier Corps Medical Battalion.

Therefore, the Ministry of Military Affairs had to lower the qualifications for the post of director of the medical battalion of the Border Corps, and was ready to take a half-year rotation, and there were not many doctors who signed up in this way. Kopanis has only been practicing medicine for 5 years after graduating from the academy, and he is not yet 30 years old, and the reason why he was selected by the Ministry of Military Affairs is that in addition to his medical skills, his willingness to serve in the Frontier Army for a long time is an important reason.

Because he is young, he occasionally does something out of the ordinary, but because he has led the medical staff to do a lot of things in the past year or so, everyone has remained tolerant of this.

Massimus smiled and didn't speak.

Kopanis restrained his smile and said solemnly: "Yesterday I received news from Pisai that a batch of herbs and bandages will be delivered from Rome in a few days...... I need a pack team to get it from the port of Pisai. ”

A regiment of Dionyas generally had a relatively large pack caravan, which had 300-500 laborers, 150-200 pack animals such as oxen, horses, and donkeys, and 80-150 pack carts. It seems that there are a lot of them, but every time the regiment marches, the baggage battalion, the engineering battalion, and the medical battalion have a large amount of materials to be transported, and in fact, the transportation capacity is relatively tight. In order to make it easier to manage and command, the Ministry of Military Affairs had already made a stipulation before the Western Mediterranean War that the regimental pack units were assigned to the baggage battalions and were managed by the baggage officers, and the engineering battalions and medical battalions had transportation needs, and the baggage officers had to arrange for them.

So Massimus asked directly, "How many medical supplies?" ”

"About a ton...... Well, maybe two tons ......" Kopanis stammered, "You know, the medical battalion has been here for more than a year, and its supplies have been replenished once, but there are often wounded soldiers...... Now we're running out of herbs and bandages—"

"How many supplies are there! I can't remember exactly, so it's okay to give me an approximate number. Massimus said angrily, having spent a year with this young man, he knew that this guy was not sensitive to numbers.

Now Kopanis spoke fluently: "I heard that there are two cargo ships. ”

Maxim thought for a moment, then said, "I'll send you thirty pack carts, but for safety, I'll have to apply to the Hasdrubad for a company to be an escort." ”

"What to apply to me?" At some point, Hasdruba had come to them.

Massimus and Kopanis immediately explained the situation to Hasdruba.

Hasdruba nodded in agreement, and then asked, "Massimus, have the Etruscans promised to give us the military rations every year arrived?" ”

Massimus immediately explained the situation to him.

Hasdruba immediately frowned: "This is not going to work, you must step up and urge them to bring all the food as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, Legionnaire!" After Massimus replied loudly, he asked softly, slightly suspicious, "Is there something going on?" ”

Hasdruba hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to tell them what he guessed to warn them of: "Autumn is the harvest season, and it is also the time when the natives are looting. According to the Itrerurians, the Gauls were most rampant at this time in the past, but this year so far, the Gauls have been invading less, which seems a bit unusual.

These days, the soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance team came back and reported that the Gallic tribes in the mountains to the north and our neighbors had suddenly moved north, and they wanted to go further north to investigate, but the Gauls had strengthened their vigilance and increased their manpower there, resulting in the death and wounding of several reconnaissance soldiers, and no more information was obtained, but the situation is so abnormal, I am afraid it is not a good thing, we must be vigilant and prepare for defense! ……”

After chatting with the two subordinates, Hasdruba went to the heavy infantry and led the soldiers in training.

"Lord Hasdruba has thought too much, maybe it's because our presence has made the Gauls feel that the cost of looting here is too great, so they have changed places." Kopanis said disapprovingly.

Massimus looked at him and said earnestly: "If this were the case, the Gauls would not be the most terrible enemies in the eyes of the various ethnic groups of northern Italy. Hurry up and get those supplies back, maybe we'll be busy next......"

As a Roman who had personally experienced the capture of his home country by the Gauls, Massimus knew the horror of the Gauls, and although he expected Hasdruba's intuition to be wrong, reason told him that he could not be too wary of the Gauls.

It was almost dusk when Hasdruba gathered his army and returned to the barracks in the afterglow of the setting sun.

The first thing the soldiers did when they returned to the barracks was not to eat dinner, but to go to the bathroom to take a shower. When the engineers selected the site for the barracks of the Frontier Corps, they specially chose the side of a river, and during the construction, they also specially buried a ceramic water pipe between the barracks and the river, which could directly drain the river water into the barracks, and some of them were used for drinking and some for bathing.

The regimental commander's residence, located next to the barracks center headquarters, was large and had its own kitchen, dining room, master bedroom, second bedroom, servant's quarters, stables, and a small private bathroom...... It can be said that it is more luxurious, mainly because the Ministry of Military Affairs allows the family of the regiment commander to accompany the army, so it will inevitably follow some slaves.

But in fact, Hasdruba has been here for more than a year, and has never allowed his wife and children to live in the barracks for a while, so only two servants usually take care of his daily life, and even eat in the collective dining room. In order to keep the mansion from going to waste, he also allowed the adjutant and several high-ranking officers to move in. From time to time, he would go hunting in the mountains, and if he caught a lot of prey, he would hold a small banquet in the mansion, inviting the subordinates of the regiment and the middle and senior officers to attend.

But today, there are only two people in the dining room of the mansion - Hasdruba and his lieutenant Kisgow.

Even though Kisgow is also a member of the Magonid family, he has led an army of tens of thousands of people to fight alone, but it is not easy to become an adjutant of the Dionian Legion, because according to military law: the adjutant of the Legion is a mid-level officer, must have more than 5 years of service experience, participated in at least one war, served as a squad leader, sub-leader, or even company leader, and then studied for one year in the staff office of the Ministry of Military Affairs before he can become an adjutant of the legion. It was only because of Hasdruba's insistence and Davers's special approval that Kisgow became an adjutant of the Etrunian Frontier Regiment after several months of special training.

At this time, Hasdruba was reading the letter, and he raised his head in amazement: "Carthage and Dionya have formed an alliance?!" ”

"It's not an equal alliance, it's Carthage that serves Dionya as its lord!" Kisgow reminded.

"Huh?!" Hasdruba was stunned for a moment, and then there was a little more anger on his face: "I heard Haka talk about this in Turiyi last year, and after Ocliton went back, the Carthaginian Senate has not responded, and I thought that this time they had become tough, but I didn't expect it...... I didn't expect it to be weaker than before! It's a shame on us Carthaginians! ”

"I heard Dido say that Carthage agreed this time because the Seventeenth Army (the camp was in Lilibi, and the troops were from the western part of Sicily) sent by the Ministry of War easily exterminated the rebellious Masilian tribes, reduced all their captives to slavery, and divided their land among the other tribes of Sinumbia...... The Carthaginian Senate must have been frightened, fearing that it would become a second Massilie, so it offered to form an alliance with Dionia-"

"Greedy for life and afraid of death!" Hasdruba snorted coldly, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "How did Carthage deal with Hanno and Tepanrako?" ”

"Expelled from the city of Carthage at our request!"

"It's just an eviction, it's too cheap these damn guys!" Hasdruba was not satisfied with this, and he immediately asked again: "How did Dido react when he knew this news?" ”

In the past, in southern Iberia, Hasdruba was busy with wars for a day, and Dido did not see each other for many years, although the two were cousins, but the relationship was not close, until he led the army to be stationed on the northern border of Etruria, and Dido who lived in Rome was very close, because they were both in a foreign land, family affection became precious, and the two increased their contacts (mainly Dido provided help and support), and the relationship between the two was rapidly improved.