By the time the hay was returned to the camp, the rest of the letters sent by Li Bida had already flown across the Libyan coast.

Long before Saab opened his luggage and confirmed that Pompey had raided the province, the cavalry commander had secretly estimated that there were Pompey's garrisons everywhere along the coast, and Zeta had a regular army under the command of Rabinus, and it was said that there were two auxiliary legions, plus nearly 10,000 Mauritanian cavalry sent by King Juba, so the barren terrain around Zeta alone would be difficult to support the vast pastures and wheat fields for so many soldiers and war horses to eat, not to mention the heavy salaries for his own soldiers and allies. Now in Pompey's hands, only the territory of Africa and western Libya remains, and the army can only be raised by scraping three feet of ground.

Therefore, Li Bida, who grasped this point, began to use the psychological tactics of bloodlessness, and the letters sent to Lyptis before were just a cover-up, and his killer weapon was the letters sent to the entire Libyan coast, a whole nine towns almost at the same time.

It is said to be "at the same time", but for the sake of tactical perfection, the cavalry commander still carefully refers to the map, and asks the token officer to send them out one by one according to the time difference according to the distance of each town: if it is far away, set off early; On the contrary, those who are close will delay their departure.

There is only one purpose, or is it for all the letters to appear in front of the presbytery of all the municipalities "at the same time".

In the letter, Li Bida enumerated and condemned the numerous crimes committed by the Pompeyians and the tax knights against each other's towns, and said that the Pompeyians were now at the end of their rope, and that he had come with a whole ten legions this time. 10,000 elite cavalry came. It was for the liberation of all of Africa and Libya. Although these towns are technically suspected of "aiding the rebellion", I, as the commander of the cavalry, have asked His Excellency Caesar, the dictator of Rome, to forgive all the past wrongs of all, and to free you from the shackles and burdens that have been placed on you, so long as you can stand at once on the side of the true republic.

Next, Li Bida made a detailed list of requirements that all municipalities must follow:

Thirty noble hostages were immediately surrendered from each town to the cavalry chief's camp;

The requirement for the municipalities to pay the salaries of the army was waived by handing over the grain that Pompey had previously asked them to store;

Immediately all the troops of the cavalry commander landed on the shore. All municipalities have a duty to provide shelter and to rescue shipwrecked vessels, and violators will cause the fate of their towns to be peaceful;

From this day onwards, all municipalities shall no longer provide any material and human assistance to Pompeyians, and shall organize self-defence units to protect their duties, and if Pompeoites remain in the city, they must be executed or expelled;

The municipality had the duty to provide the cavalry commander's army with any information on the war and the enemy's movements, and the cavalry commander had the duty to protect the municipality from Pompey's army.

The Presbyterian Church of Ruspina, which received the letter, immediately began a tense secret meeting. In the end, he could not decide, so he sent an envoy to gallop to the next town. But the information available to all the towns was no different from that of Ruspina - it was impossible to know how many men the cavalry commander Lybidaeus had brought with him, or what the current situation of the battlefield was.

In the midst of the panic, news of Hadrumum City quickly came: 2,000 Mauritanian cavalry had been completely defeated and expelled by Lipida's army, and the ointment of the people they had looted had been returned to the hands of the citizens, and Hadrumum had sworn allegiance to the Caesar side. This effect eventually had a decisive effect, and all nine towns, including Tapsus, the largest free city on the coast, all decided at the same time to leave Pompey and switch to Caesar.

Subsequently, Li Bida's lost fleet docked in various places, and was warmly welcomed and entertained, and the soldiers began to assemble at the camp of the cavalry commander without any attack, and also received financial support from the various towns in terms of food, pack horses, and weapons, and gradually the three legions in Li Pida's hands began to be fully reorganized, and they were ready to form an offensive and defensive front in the towns and towns along the coast that were open to garrison rights.

On the other hand, after learning that the enemy had landed, Rabinus was holding a mobilization meeting in Zeta City! He declared to all the legionnaires and foreign cavalry: "We are going to have all the determination and perseverance this time, and I have been asked why we have spent so much money and hired so many lightly armed cavalry. I can answer the question that these Mauritanians and Numidians had long been the most relied upon cavalry of the Republic, and that they were particularly well suited to the galloping terrain of Africa and Libya, and that they could harass and fatigue the enemy even if they were not well prepared. All in all, I just want to summon thousands of allies to rank at the forefront of the elite army, so that Li Bida will be exhausted just by slashing and killing these people, and then my elite main force will pounce on it again, so that the other party will turn victory into defeat! ”

As a result, just as the morale of the whole army was soaring, several herald cavalry arrived and told Sù that all the coastal cities of Rabinus, except for Lyptis, which was guarded by Condisius, had defected!

Rabinus's eyes went dark and he almost fell from the podium, and then, in a hoarse voice, he asked where the scout Libida's camp was, and how many troops there were now.

After the scout replied about the position, he said that Li Bida's current army was still on the way to disperse, and that he now had only about 5,000 infantry on his hands, plus less than 1,000 cavalry, and that the emblem of the legion was a silver eagle banner.

"That's his newly recruited Sixth Legion, about Libida has always been by this legion's side, then we must attack, I personally lead the team, General Lelias follows me as a deputy, Ignadyus commands the cavalry, General Urkus is the remaining guard of Zeta, we will take advantage of the fact that the rest of Lipida's legions have not yet arrived, expel him into the sea and cut off his head!" Rabinus made a quick decision.

Rabinus did what he said, and he divided all his army into two groups, and he and Lelias himself led the front team, about three thousand foreign cavalry, with a chief brigade of one legion, and two thousand javelinmen and archers as the vanguard of the attack; Ignagius, on the other hand, commanded 1,800 selected cavalry of the King of Juba, with four war elephants, the rest of the First Legion, as a reserve guard, and Rabinus asked him to wait for the signal before going into battle.

At this time, Li Bida personally led the guards to the high ground on the edge of the camp, and together with all the cavalry, monitored the surrounding situation, because although most of the towns surrendered to him, the number of enemies in this area still occupied a great advantage, and it was full of dangers, and it must not be taken lightly. (To be continued......)