"The Athenians ran and rushed towards the invaders, and when the Persians saw the Athenians running towards them, they thought they were crazy." Herodotus on the Battle of Marathon

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Either way, let's go and lift the siege of Iduka first, and then get the exact news of Caesar from the mouth of the Roman scout.

The city of Iduka was a small settlement on the high ground, between the Douro and Nemis, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, and although it was small, it was still a "free city" of the Romans, so the Roman scouts who fled into it should have been assisted by the local population to defend the city. In order to fiercely attack the Avasili, Li Bida hid his baggage and camp in a gorge, and then went with a mixed brigade of three infantry and cavalry to save the siege of Iduka, and the Avasili who surrounded the city numbered 3,000 people. In the wilderness outside the city, in the flying grass, a cavalry squadron of the Thyme Legion suddenly killed from the high slope of the ambush, blocked a baggage team of Avasilians, and it didn't take long to kill almost all of them, and only let one person go back.

At the same time, Li Bida stripped off the unique clothing of the corpses of the opposing baggage team, which was the most commonly worn jacket worn by the Spanish natives, called "Sagenmu", and let the cavalry of a squadron wear it and quietly hide in the dense forest next to the battlefield.

Soon Li Bida led the rest of his soldiers and horses, blowing the trumpet, and approached the position of the Abasili under the city of Iduka. The Awasili were persecuted by this situation. can only turn around and fight Li Bida.

No surprises. The barbarian army adopted a Roman-like tactic, and they also wore bronze or iron helmets with three or four feathers, a cuirass around the perimeter of the tunics, a square shield, two or three javelins, and a sharp Spanish dagger as the main weapon. A group of hundreds, similar to the Romans, were formed in a loose three-way formation, to hold back Lybida's attack in the wilderness.

The infantry of the mixed infantry brigade was ordered to march forward, holding flags and tongues of fire, so that they were no different from ordinary Roman legions, and all the cavalry were hidden behind the infantry array, and they all dismounted and divided into left and right wings, with their heads facing diagonally in front of the array, thus confusing the Avasili people on the opposite side and mistakenly believing that Li Bida lacked cavalry.

Follow the old-fashioned rules of engagement. Avasili light infantry, cloaked in wolfskin, was the first to rush out and run to the Romans to throw javelins. Not surprisingly, the first two columns of infantry of the Thyme Legion, stacked with oval shields wrapped in Celtic skins, began to press forward. The Avasili light infantry, on the other hand, advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, harassing the enemy, slowly advancing in the direction of the two flanks, thus forming a network of crossfire and striking at the prominent Roman ranks.

The military horn sounded suddenly, the dust was billowing from the rear of the Roman ranks, and a large group of cavalry stood out in the oblique thorns, and rushed fiercely towards them, and it was impossible for the light infantry to form a dense formation to confront the cavalry, whether it was training or weapons, the cavalry was their nemesis, and they were soon chased by Li Bida's cavalry and ran around, and they could not pose a threat to Li Bida's infantry team - at this time, the Avasili who instinctively felt that they would be attacked by the opponent's infantry on three sides, quickly gathered the formation, Shields and heavy javelins are stretched out like a giant porcupine, like a replica of an early Roman legion.

At this time, the Abasili people, who were close to each other, heard the sound of wheels rolling in the field, which was the sound of the Celtic chariots they were very familiar with, and these warriors did not have the slightest fear, as long as they formed a dense rectangular phalanx, the chariots and cavalry would not do anything with them.

But the chariots were strangely looking, and six four-wheeled chariots, almost equal in number, with the escort of cavalry and pack horses, came from the diagonal angle of the line of opposition between the two formations, and at a distance of half a furlong, the convoy stopped, and the soldier who jumped from the two-wheeled carriage began to draw a partition from the four-wheeled carriage, which had also stopped, and formed a slope with an opening facing outward, and two simple chutes were laid on the partition, lubricated with olive oil, and then the chains were unfastened. The two-armed ballista, which had the same overall shape as the Roman ballista, but had two more sets of small hoop wheels in the lower part, was smoothly pushed down, and then three gunmen began to install stone bullets and javelins, twist the bowstring, and the other two locked the cannon position with ropes and nails so that it would not shake under the force of the wheels.

This is Li Bida's carefully improved "cavalry artillery. Change": the angle of fire is no longer high, it is faster to get on and off the car, and the artillery shells will no longer fly around a few Roman rulers above people's heads. change" - you deserve it.

Soon, the first wave of stone bullets and javelins flew diagonally towards the dense phalanx of the Avasiri, with terrifying penetration, penetrating through and killing the outermost group of barbarian warriors, the speed of Li Bida's artillery was undoubted, and the rapid-fire tactics they practiced were at this time very powerful, and after a short time, the second wave of blows with the whistling of death pierced into the phalanx of the Avahiri, followed by the third and fourth waves

Even the Titans of the Dark Ages of Ancient Greece could not endure this kind of washing of flesh and blood with iron and stone, and when the Abasili could not bear the fierceness of the casualties and were about to disperse the formation, Libida's cavalry came from both sides, forcing them to shrink into a dense formation again—at this moment, on the other side of the oblique line, there were six more "Libida. Change the "cavalry cannon" to "rumble" and gallop. It wasn't long before there was a rain of cross-sectional projectiles that sprinkled the Abahili phalanx in waves, often with a stone bullet of good luck that could twist and turn into a few ethereal angles, carrying severed limbs and heads scattered everywhere.

Half a moment later, when the Abasili felt that it was better to be pursued and killed in a rout than to be killed by this roar, they abandoned their positions altogether, took their shields behind them, and disbanded the phalanx and fled lifelessly in the direction of Iduka.

The squadron of cavalry, which had been in the jungle with Saganm's jacket, also quickly followed the defeated army of the Avasili and rushed to the city of Iduka, which did not arouse the suspicion of the barbarians at all, and the position in which they received the defeated army was in disarray, and then the captain suddenly crossed the barbarian barracks, took off his jacket, revealed the Roman uniform, and went around the city of Iduka, shouting that he was a subordinate of Caesar's lieutenant Li Bida, and the citymen hung down the rope and pulled him up only one of them.

After nightfall, the city's people learned of the arrival of Libida's reinforcements, and they rejoiced in raising lanterns and torches on the city walls, and the next morning, the Abasili sent fifty messengers wearing olive branches to surrender directly to Libida. (To be continued......)