There was a brief silence on the battlefield, followed by a tidal cry of "Hurrah" - the cavalry of Duçonville, who followed, stood up, raised their swords and shields, and rushed to the front along the gap opened by the Machius boulder, and the slaves gritted their teeth, and dragged the parts of the siege equipment with ropes and chains behind, and marched forward at the risk of death - the high priest promised them, and after the battle, each of them was rewarded with a bushel of wine, plus twenty silver drachmas.

The cavalry cannons and gunners at the bottom of the valley also showed extreme bravery, and the arrows and stones sparked on the iron shields in front of them, and they remained calm and calm, and kept shooting at the enemy's camp, and a light round stone projectile swept over all the soldiers below, and rubbed off the cliff diagonally, and shot crookedly onto a towering tower in the southeast corner of the camp, on which a centurion of Machius, two gunners, and a military slave immediately fell down with the shattered tower, and all fell to their deaths.

This "refreshing" artillery shell once again made all the soldiers of Li Bida cheer, and the high priest himself directly took off his helmet and rode to the front line of arrows and stones, "The Medejie Guard, the Lusitanian Swordsmen, all press on me, today we have the blessing of the god of war, whether it is Mars or Leus, their blessings are with us, and the enemy will soon pay the price for their stupidity!" ”

"They're assembling bellows cannons, quick, get the charcoal cart down!" A dejected Machius shouted, and with a bang, his soldiers opened the main entrance to the camp, and the slaves set fire to two charcoal carts loaded with many spikes and javelins. Then let out a shout. I pushed down the slope under the main entrance.

Several soldiers of the Leus Legion were half-crouched. Folding the shield into a ring of guards, several military slaves behind him shouted, stretching out a few long strange iron forks, but the two charcoal carts were forked, and the spikes and flaming charcoal poured out smashed on the soldiers' shields, and one of them jumped on the face of the famous military slave, and he immediately howled. Covering his face, he rolled on the ground, and the rest of the people immediately pounced on it to help extinguish the flames.

"Go, go!" Several slaves dressed in strange asbestos clothes rushed up, holding small bellows cannons in their hands, but soon there was a splash of water, and the charcoal carts that would continue to burn were extinguished, and the rest of the slaves used hooks and ropes. The charcoal cart was pulled away.

Assembled, bellows cannon with an iron shield. The stupid big black group went up the slope, and the people in the camp knew how powerful this thing was, so they made a mess, and many people had already escaped from the main gate and tower, and Machius was also so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and hurriedly rushed up with his personal barbarian guard.

A dazzling burst of flames swept directly through the main gate of the camp, and the guards in front of them were swallowed up in an instant, and many people screamed, rolling around with the fire all over their bodies, "Withdraw to me inside." "Machius is worthy of being an expert in civil engineering, he built a chain of barriers, the main gate burned by Li Bida's army, but a peripheral "urn city", he built a slightly higher platform, and built a bronze city gate with an iron gate, and surrounded by wooden fences, towers as the second line of defense, so Machius quickly led the rest of the troops, gathered the defense, Li Bida's dismounted cavalry attacked several times, but still failed to succeed.

At this point, the battle situation has reached a stalemate, but for Li Bida, he cannot continue the stalemate, in case Machius's reinforcements arrive, he will be finished.

It seems that all expectations are really pinned on Odax for the time being.

At this time, Odax was a little drunk, and took all the people, along the dense woods, under the guidance of the guide, around the long road, everyone was very tired, especially when they heard the shouts of killing at the bottom of the valley in the distance, and the fireworks that came out, knowing that the battle had been going on, they were even more anxious, and there were elk jumping up and down in front of them, and everyone pushed aside the thorns, and walked with difficulty one foot deep and one foot shallow.

"Arp, I have given you a mission, and that is to ask Machius to surrender." In the midst of the fireworks, the high priest suddenly gave this mission to the captain of the guard.

So the noble warrior from Nubia, tied his spear with a ribbon and an olive branch, walked slowly and alone to the door of the fortified line, and asked to speak with the commander in a loud voice in simple Greek.

But Machius was very angry, and he shouted that if there was to be peace, it should be a matter between the supreme commanders of the two sides, and it would be disrespectful for Li Bida to send a guard captain to discuss such a serious matter.

"But our supreme commander is the high priest of the republic, and your official rank, as far as we know, is the highest to the provincial treasurer, and has not yet entered the senate." Alp's name and servant said with a certain embarrassment.

Later, the two sides began to quarrel, and Machius insisted, "The current situation is on the battlefield, so the rank of officer in peacetime does not work, and your high priest is not allowed to go on the expedition to command the army to fight, but does this not also come to Spain with a dozen legions?" So here, we are equal in status. ”

Machius was foaming at the mouth, and his staff and centurion reminded him to prevent the enemy from cheating, "It doesn't matter, Lybidaeus is using a delaying tactic, and I am the same, just waiting for reinforcements to arrive as quickly as possible." Machius replied in a low voice, looking confident.

Sure enough, the high priest then rode his horse himself, and the two sides agreed not to use throwing weapons to each other, and came to the foot of Statia a and a half away from the camp, and the Medejie guards nervously used their shields to protect Li Bida, and the two began to pull and pull each other around, and gradually in the evening, the high priest saw that the negotiations were fruitless, so he temporarily withdrew the soldiers from the front, and Machius was also full of confidence - tomorrow at the latest in the afternoon, reinforcements will arrive, and Li Bida will be unable to fly.

After sunset, Machius also deliberately counted his troops, and found that most of them were still intact, and they could be combined into the complete force of the three brigades, and the grain and equipment in the core warehouse of the camp were also well kept, and the morale was still strong, which made Machius more reassured, he carefully inspected the various posts, and then sat in his camp command post, sleepless, excited and nervously waiting for the arrival of dawn the next day.

After a while, he felt a little sleepy, so he lay on the marching bed, but he couldn't sleep, after all, the day had just gone through a fierce battle, and now the enemy couldn't eat him, and he couldn't swallow the enemy, but Li Bida should have no successor, but he did, as long as he waited with peace of mind—thinking of this, Machius turned over and sat up again, and then the servant he hated the most walked in. (To be continued......)