"Chop and slash, slash at this stake with all your might. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

In the recruit battalion of the 10th Army of Sicily, Appis, who had handled the daily military affairs, personally taught the recruits in martial arts. The Tenth Legion experienced the Gallic War, the Spanish War, the Battle of Greece and the decisive battle of the Farnasis Rebellion, the attrition was serious, although the remaining were the elite of the elite, but after all, the number was too small, only 2,000 people, in order to expand the size of the legion to 6,000 people, Caesar ordered Appis to recruit soldiers on the spot in Sicily in the spring.

However, the training process of recruits is very slow, and every qualified Roman legionnaire has to go through hundreds of battles before he can be considered a real veteran, and these recruits have only learned the most basic legion formations, and even physical fitness is not up to standard. The fighting ability is even more worrisome.

The medium-sized legion recruit in front of him slashed down with his sword, not even the bark of the stake, and such a weak and clumsy move caused Crane to laugh loudly. After repeated attempts, the recruit's chopping action was still very immature, and he even stumbled back a few steps after the chop. Appis frowned helplessly, and the impatient Crane directly picked up a battle axe in the corner of the wall, habitually threw it, the battle axe whizzed through the air, and then, with precision, inserted into the stake......

"Boy, that's what a chop. Treat him as your wife's enemy, and use your milk strength to cut him. ”

Crane walked over and addressed the recruit in a gruff tone. Although in the eyes of the soldiers, Appis saw dissatisfaction. But I have to admit that Klein's method has worked. After the ruffian veteran finished speaking, the legion recruits in front of him re-grasped their short swords and slashed madly at the stake stuck in the sand, and the next second, the sturdy stake made a dull sound, and the short sword split it with flying sawdust.

"Okay, good, now, treat me like that *** your woman's rough stick, come, attack me."

Crane turned and continued to speak to the recruit.

"Alright, stop teasing him. Let the centurion teach him. ”

Seeing that Crane had nothing to do to tease the recruits, Apis quipped to stop his boring teasing of the recruits.

"Appis."

Then, while the two sides were chatting and laughing, Caesar walked over with Anthony escorting.

"Caesar."

"Cato would not accept my persuasion, and neither would Rabienus. This battle has to be fought. ”

Appis noticed the gloom and helplessness in Caesar's eyes as he spoke. This is more due to the fact that Rabienus, a Roman veteran who served under Caesar for nearly a dozen years, and that Caesar released him in Greece, but Rabienus still stood firmly on Pompey's side. On the side of the so-called republicans, in his eyes, Caesar was always the initiator of this civil war, bringing blood and hatred to the Roman people. People's perspectives are so hard to change if you are not standing at the same level......

Four days later, Caesar's fleet quietly landed on the western coast of Tunisia, and the sandy beach of sixteen leagues provided a good landing base for the Legion fleet. Without the towering cliffs, ships can easily run aground on the vast coastline of North Africa, and it is as simple as waiting for the water to rise again. Ancient Roman warships were not as large as those of the industrial era, and were mostly small sailboats, so the water level and buoyancy at high tide were enough to push these pulp boats out of the shoreline.

Moreover, with such a long coastline, and the fact that there are also numerous sandy beaches on the east coast of Tunisia that it is almost impossible for Cato the Younger and Labienus and others to prevent Caesar's fleet from landing on land.

However, when Caesar landed on North African soil, he did not immediately wander inland, but ordered his soldiers to build guardrails and barracks along the coastline. In order to defend themselves against the Numidian cavalry who could find them at any time and kill them, according to the information obtained before the expedition, the Numidian kingdom had formed an alliance with Rabienus and others, and while Caesar was in Rome to deal with domestic affairs, Rabienus and the Numidian king had formed a large alliance to destroy Caesar when he landed in Africa.

Therefore, in order to ensure that the subsequent legions could also land safely, Caesar did not let the Tenth Legion and the Eleventh Legion go deep into the inland areas, but worked overnight, built camps, and repaired parapets.

The only dramatic scene was that before Labianus' cavalry noticed Caesar's army landing, a defective Roman soldier arrived at Caesar's camp that night to surrender. They surrendered their weapons and armor and depicted the geography of the area where Caesar had landed. The soldiers also knew a lot about the terrain around Utica. It's just that Caesar's caution made him not believe in the sincerity of the other party from the beginning, after all, Rabienus has followed him for many years, and Caesar still has a lot of strategy and tactics, which may be just a counter-plot of the enemy? Caesar was always on the lookout, although he showed great sincerity to the soldiers who had come to surrender, and announced that he would absolve them of their previous wrongs, and that he would reward them with two hundred dinars of money on the spot, and that they would be restored to Rome. A few of the soldiers who had defected fell to their knees, and more actively and diligently confided everything they knew to Caesar.

"The armies of Rabienus came from various kingdoms, tribes, and most of them were not Romans, and most of them were not experienced veterans, many of whom were drafted for the first time. Since the legions came from various tribes, the hearts of the people were not united, and there were often scenes of soldiers fighting each other between different tribes. Such an army had no combat effectiveness, but the Numidian cavalry was very powerful, and they numbered quite a few people, about five thousand people. In addition, the Rabienus coalition has dozens of war elephants, which are probably the most terrifying killing weapons in the legion. ”

The Roman cavalry who surrendered to Caesar kept telling of what was going on in their old barracks, and according to the two soldiers, they were Labiaenus' men, part of the Sixth African Corps, and their role in the legion was Scout Cavalry.

Such a position seems to explain why, while Caesar's great force had not yet been discovered by Rabienus, the two small cavalry were able to spot the Roman fleet that had landed in the dark. But even as Rabienus's cavalry explained in a frustrated manner, Caesar was skeptical of what he saw. (To be continued.) )