Li Bida gritted his teeth and agreed to Saihar's request, but if all the soldiers received the fifty silver coins, they must continue to march rapidly to the foot of Taktun, "In addition, one-third of the spoils of annihilation of the Bronze Shield Army will still be shared between the Fifteenth Legion and the Twenty-eighth Legion." But the condition is still the same sentence, starry night, because I don't know how long Mindaz's suspicious soldiers can maintain the effect. ”

As the military song of Li Bida's legions sang, "We have eaten all the clubs and been forged into iron", the 28th Legion was still a newcomer, although it was finally thrown into the valley battlefield by the cavalry commander, but even such a supportive battle also exhausted the Germanic and Gaulic soldiers in its legions, while the 12th and 15th Legions, on the other hand, after a short rest, became fierce again, and they quickly carried their equipment and weapons in the camp, one south and one north, ready to march separately.

Many of the soldiers of the 28th Legion sat on the ground and groaned loudly, saying that in this ghostly weather, they had been forced for no less than a hundred Roman miles, and that even the soldiers who had fallen behind before had not been gathered, and now they were going to Taktun again, and this was the cavalry commander punishing them in disguise.

"You white-skinned, blonde guys, on the battlefield like to wear helmets made of beast skulls on your heads, armed with huge axes and swords, but I didn't expect them to be all scaring people." At this point, a group of Nubian black soldiers of the Fifteenth Legion, carrying wagons full of booty, walked triumphantly past the soldiers of the Twenty-eighth Legion, and teased mercilessly.

Several Germanic Weavers stood up and shouted in broken Latin, "We are the men who survive in the snow." Look at you guys again. The enemy's bow and arrow are in the snow. It's easy to shoot you with nowhere to hide, and it's through those huge nostrils! Then the soldiers of the two legions quarreled and pushed each other.

"Don't make any noise, and set out for Taktun with all the ranks, or I'll have the centurions of the hundred-man team whip you with their canes." The marching commander Peternius stood majestically in the middle of the crowd and reprimanded, then he turned to the ranks of the XXVIII Corps, pointed to the carts full of goods, and said, "You must know that we followed General Lybidaeus on the expedition to Egypt and Cyrene. The whole army also lacks sophisticated weapons and armor, and the salary is not much, but as long as the skills are honed in training and war, then such a rich trophy will be seen often in the future, and this time we return to Taktun to pursue and destroy the two legions under Pompey, and I promise that as long as the battle is won, all the soldiers of your legion will be equally divided into the reward of one hundred towers. Then Peternius crossed his back. With a demagogic look, he said, "Think about it. As long as the war in Asia Minor is over, what cities are there? Miletus, Ephesus, and Sardis, are you still troubled by the lack of wine and pleasure? And why envy the Twelve Legions that have invaded Sinop! ”

After saying this, Peternius pulled out the black standard-bearer of the fifteenth legion and untied the other's cloak, and then the soldiers of the twenty-eighth legion saw that the black standard-bearer had a proud look on his face, because his breastplate was full of golden chains and medals, and then Peternius instructed that those were awarded by Caesar, those by the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy, and those were newly awarded by the cavalry commander in the previous battle.

Seeing this powerful evidence, the Germanic people bowed their heads in shame, these forest barbarians were the most admired battle heroes, they accepted the order to march haste very frankly, and secretly determined to obtain their own glory and medals.

After reaching an agreement, the two legions carried a long column of captured wagons, stepped through the snow, and continued to drive towards Taktun.

At this time, Scipio had just realized that he had fallen into Mindaz's trap, and when he formed an elite detachment and prepared to storm Mindaz's "ambush position" around the mountain, he realized that there were people there, and the ground was full of messy horseshoe prints, and some pots and old weapons! Then, the four brigades commanded by Apis also "struggled" to attack Mindaz's "camp" on the cliff, only to find that there was only a section of wooden fence and a few haystacks on it.

Mindaz's 1,000 cavalry had already run another twenty Roman miles, and had once again established a position in the southern wilderness near the city of Tuckerton, and Scipio, who had already set up a strong camp in the same place, was completely panicked, "I have a very bad premonition, the enemy cavalry that attacked my camp before, estimated to be at least 5,000, is now using the tactic of confusing us, so—"

"Then, the five thousand cavalry may have galloped to the area around Amasya." Appis spoke for him.

Then the two men sitting in the tent fell silent, and after a while Scipio cautiously asked the other again what he thought of the current state of the Bronze Shield.

As a result, Apis just shook his head, indicating that he did not know.

But in any case, the shape in front of them is really getting more and more serious - according to the scout cavalry sent by Scipio, Caesar has also begun to lead the team to approach their rear, and now Caesar's successor two legions have also crossed the sea one after another, plus the newly incorporated Macedonian Ninth Legion and Seventh Legion, which were awarded the titles of Thirty Legion and Thirty-first Legion respectively, so that this man has the strength of five legions in an instant.

So there is no point in capturing Taktun now, it seems that even if the Bronze Shield Army wins, there is no point in joining forces with Menander. For there were still four or five legions of the enemy Lybidaeus in Byzantium, and with these two legions at his disposal, he could not resist them in any way, unless he crossed the sea of Yukxing with Menander and went to the Bosphorus, in which case Caesar might let them go, considering the long journey.

"Go to that place full of grasslands and goats, no!" Scipio categorically rejected such an idea, and then he discussed it, and now he hurried around Taktun, and before the enemy forces in the north and south could surround them, he hurried towards Silesia according to Appis's original plan.

However, Appis asked the commander-in-chief to discard unnecessary baggage and only carry the corresponding food, so that the speed could be accelerated. Then the two quarreled again, and Scipio's defense was also very reasonable, "You must know that we are now at a disadvantage, and if we are encouraged by no salary, the soldiers will flee halfway, not to mention the money needed to continue recruiting troops after Silesia." ”

In the end, Scipio decided to take his baggage on the road, but he discarded all the bulky items that the soldiers had plundered before, and began to abandon the rendezvous with the bronze shield army, and fled in the direction of Rikdania, "I'm sorry Menander, I'm a Roman general, and I can't run to the wilderness on the other side of the black ocean." (To be continued......)