"Caesar, you are right, when the city magistrate preached Pompey's refusal to negotiate peace in the Roman city square, the people of Rome were already outraged, and they immediately said in the square that they would stand on our side without conditions or demands. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Pompey's ends, perhaps, are not far off. ”

The news from Rome eased Caesar's gloom a little. And then there is the preparation for the final battle against Pompey.

It was only before the decisive battle that Caesar seemed to be vaguely worried about Octavian and Antony's legions. They had been gone for too long, and Caesar's order was to have them fight guerrilla warfare in the northern mountains to attract the attention of Pompey's coalition forces, but now it seems that they had been gone a little too long. Combined with Pompey and the Senate's refusal to negotiate peace, Caesar seems to have sensed the impending danger for Octavian and Antony.

A few days later, the bloodied legionnaires appeared in Caesar's camp. Intelligence from the cavalry confirmed Caesar's suspicion that Octavian and Fabius' corps had been surrounded by Pompey's army. Antony took his men to raid Skopje, but left Octavian alone in the camp. At present, Octavian and Fabius had only 4,000 men in their hands, less than a single legion, many of whom were soldiers of auxiliary legions.

Caesar was furious, but no one knew why he, who had always been calm, was so furious. Only Appis knew that perhaps Caesar at this time had Octavian in his heart as his adopted son and heir. For this boy, perhaps Caesar had poured out all his fatherly love.

"Lepida, Marcus, Appis, take your legions now, three legions, nay, add one more, take the thirteenth legion, go to the place where Octavian and Fabius are besieged, Casare, go there, and rescue them. Remember, don't show mercy, we must show no mercy to those warmongers who openly reject peace and want war. ”

Caesar said angrily and nervously to Lepida. In Anthony's absence, Lepida became Caesar's most trusted and capable assistant.

……

"Octavian, behind you!"

On the battlefield filled with blood and mist, Agrippa shouted, knocking down the Roman soldier standing behind Octavian, and the next second, Agrippa held his short sword and stabbed the Roman legionnaire in the chest with speed and cruelty. Scarlet warm blood suddenly stained Agrippa's face.

For seven days, Cventus' legions laid siege to the barracks of Octavian and Fabius, and the makeshift Roman fortress was in danger of being captured several times. Again and again, Octavian and Agrippa, Fabius commanded only 3,000 legionary infantry and 1,000 auxiliary legionnaires to counter the attacks of the Kventus legion, and the war dragged on to this day. It's just that no one knows when Caesar's reinforcements will arrive.

"Brother, today, you saved my life again."

Octavian, under the protection of the soldiers, dodged the siege from all sides, and said to Agrippa seriously and calmly.

However, Agrippa did not use these things as a tool to curry favor, but only did what he could to kill his enemies and protect his companions. In his eyes, Octavian was not only a wealthy Roman nobleman, but also his best friend and best brother.

"It's my honor. Turinus. ”

Agrippa didn't take Octavian's gratitude to heart, but smiled jokingly, then turned and continued to send the dagger down the throat of one of Octavian's Pompey infantry. Despite being only seventeen years old, his strong body and athletic skills have made him a clear banner on the battlefield.

Like a sword-wielding guard at the side of his best friend Octavian, however, everyone knows that Octavian did not see him as a bodyguard, but as a friendship between people of the same sex who was closer than his own brothers.

……

"Siege formation! Siege formation! ”

Ahead, not far away, a detachment of centurians of Kventus rushed towards where Octavian was, however, seeing that the front-line soldiers were all dead under the dense javelin fire, the centurion sounded the order to assemble the phalanx. A tortoiseshell formation was formed. Eighty of Kventus' elite soldiers formed an impenetrable shield wall and continued to advance.

"Sapper!"

Fabius shouted and ordered the legionnaires on the tower to aim the scorpion cannon in the direction of the hundred-man group.

The hundreds' view was blocked by their own shields, which were held up above their heads until the soldiers themselves could not see what was happening above their heads and directly in front of them. As a result, the Roman engineers on the towers of the city walls did not know about Pompey's legionnaires until they aimed their ballistas.

And when all this was ready, on the tower of the camp, Fabius's engineers, loosened their taut bowstrings, and the rapidly flying stone cannonballs whistled towards the advancing hundred-man group.

At the moment before Agrippa was ready for a bitter battle, the high-speed flying Roman scorpion projectile pierced the originally airtight legionary tortoiseshell formation. The Roman square shield that had been pierced instantly turned into a pile of sawdust, splattering out, and behind the thin legionary shield was a bloody corpse with severed limbs.

Roman siege weapons were perhaps the most powerful long-range weapons in the Mediterranean in this era, although they could not be used as large-scale military weapons due to their complex construction, but these small ballistas, once they hit the enemy on the battlefield, caused more damage than swords.

With just one scorpion cannon and stone projectiles, a whole line of Roman legionnaires pierced through a whole row of Roman legionnaires, and with a terrible shout, the stumps flew in the air, and the blood mist was filled.

In the next second, the Roman legionary infantry around Octavian launched a charge against the hundred-man team of Cventus, who were also equipped. Fabius's engineers on the tower laboriously pulled the ropes and aimed at the other corps of Cventus who were besieging the city.

In the fiercest battle, Fabius, the supreme commander of Caesar's legion, was already entangled with the enemy soldiers, hand-to-hand combat. The commander himself went into battle, which greatly boosted the morale of the legion, however, the risk was also great, because if the commander was killed, the morale of the army would be greatly reduced.

However, Fabius seems to have been physically strong, and perhaps as one of the few generals who followed Caesar in Gaul, Fabius developed a strong physique, like other generals. The warlike nature of the Romans made him like to kill the enemy on the battlefield with the same bloodthirsty killing as ordinary infantry. (To be continued.) )