The stars reappeared above the sea, and in the sky, the weather in Africa changed unusually rapidly, and the rain turned into an even more sultry heat in the middle of the night, steaming around the tent, and the term "summer" was burned on the skin and heart of every soldier with a very real heat.

About the end of the fourth sentry hour, the legion under the command of Li Bida set out for the city of Zeta, a distance of sixteen romans, but before setting out Pope found him and told him that the bows and arrows of the fifteenth and twelfth legions were not three out of ten, all because the previous warehouses had been flooded, and "each cavalryman carried eight arrows, and each archer carried fifteen arrows." "That's the amount of ammunition they will carry when they finally set out, but fortunately, most of the infantry of the Fifteenth Legion will have five short shuttle darts in the grooves of their skin shields, so that they can also be used to supplement the lack of arrows.

The dawn of the desert, with the end of the rains, rose a thousand splendid haze, as if wandering on the top of a man's head and between the mountainside, but this sight can only be found in this uninhabited area, and after walking about ten Roman miles, the two legions of Li Bida found a small town called Agaba at the edge of the valley, and then Li Bida immediately called Antony, Vicintoli, and Dussonvier, three cavalry generals, and rushed in with the vanguard cavalry, and found that there were no inhabitants in the town at all, and they did not flee. It was the loss of their lives in the rebellion, and in the trenches around this town, there were still several corpses of slaves, probably killed by their masters for fear of burdens before leaving, and they were highly rancid and buzzing with flies.

The town is not large, with about 100 houses. Raised on all sides above the surrounding desert. There are also trench guards. "They didn't even take the window lattices and door panels with them, they must have run in a hurry, probably fearing that they would be plundered and slaughtered by the Numidian cavalry." Junisonville said after riding his horse and going around in circles.

The more cautious Viccintoli first ran to the ditches and wells on the edge of the town, and drew a few jars of water with his own soldiers, and let the pack horses and hounds drink a lot, and after observing for a while, he was relieved. To say that the town's water source is not polluted or poisoned, we can use this as a base.

Anthony was different from the first two, he kicked open the door of the most imposing house in the middle of the family, and began to rummage through the cabinets, looking for good wine and good food, and his entourage kept reminding him that in such a situation, what else could he find such a thing?

"Don't fool me, I'm a well-known figure who has been to Egypt to fight. The environment here is similar to that of Perusim in Egypt, where people like to build huge basements. It's the bottom of the main hall. As he spoke, Anthony slammed the floor open, and there was a mystery underneath, and he snapped his fingers triumphantly, unexpectedly.

At this time, Anthony's discovery was simply astonishing, almost every household in the town of Agaba had a basement, no matter how big or small, there were a lot of barley, dried figs, oil, and some wheat flour stored in it, but Anthony was disappointed, because there was no wine at all, these materials were used by the residents to prepare for war and famine, and naturally there was no luxury such as wine.

Then he arrived with the legionnaires, ordered the army to take half of the supplies, leave half of them, and threw down some silver coins, wrote "urgent requisition" Greek on the wall of the basement, and then built a simple fortress along the town of Agaba, "By the next day, our army will attack the city of Zeta to obtain more supplies, leaving Antony and Vicintoli 2,000 cavalry and light infantry in this makeshift fortress to take charge." ”

At dawn the next day, the infantry and cavalry of Libida swept through the wheat fields and woods under Zeta with a shout, and the only Numidian cavalry of five hundred men who tried to stop them was not vulnerable at all, and the battle lasted only half an hour, half of these cavalry were killed and captured, and half of them fled, and the chief brigade of the Twelve Legions, led by Tagus, rushed into the city first, and the knight Reginus sent by Scipio to guard the city, and Atrius, an elder from the city of Utica, were all bound. Immediately, the Twelfth Legion skilfully plundered the rich men and the storehouses of the city, loaded them on their own luggage and mule carts, and hurried in the direction of the city of Agaba.

Li Bida and the 15th Legion stopped at the position outside the city gate, and sent scouts from afar, and when the 12th Legion escorted the supplies of Zeta City and advanced along the valley, they served as the rear army, trailing the escort.

Soon, the scout cavalry came running in a panic, saying that in the valley to the west of Zeta, there was dust stirred up by horses' hooves everywhere, and thunderous noises were coming, and many horses were approaching here.

"It can't be Caesar's soldiers, it must be Pompey's army attacking us!" Li Bida then asked the token officer to step forward and inform the front army - all the legionary infantry still had their luggage and baggage in the middle, sandwiched between the sides, holding their shields, and ready to fight!

Soon, the mountains were filled with enemy men and horses, most of them Mauritanian cavalry, with Numidian javelinmen, and Rabinus himself pressing the line, approaching as fast as a gale.

"Hula!" The soldiers of the 15th Legion, lined up in a defensive formation, waited patiently and valiantly for the enemy's vanguard to approach, and then shouted, and shot a wave of short shuttle darts with one arm like lightning, and the enemy's cavalry and light infantry immediately fell in large pieces, they thought that the enemy would throw hunting spears, so when the short shuttle darts flew, they thought they were at a safe distance.

But this time the enemy did not break back, many people stepped on the corpses of their companions, and the fifteenth legion threw javelins at each other, and for a time the sound of pike and javelins on both sides was overwhelming, and many of the fifteenth legions were immediately wounded and killed, and the mount of the commander Serha, who was supervising the battle in front, was also hit and killed.

Serha, who had changed horses, was furious, and ordered the infantry in the vanguard to launch a counterattack, and after a fierce battle, drove them back to the other side of the valley.

"Go ahead and don't delay." Li Bida saw the enemy retreat, but when he saw that Rabinus was still stationed on the ridgeline, he knew that the battle was far from simple, so he hurriedly ordered it.

As a result, the front army, the Tagus Division, which was at the forefront, was suddenly attacked by the enemy, and the same numerous lightly armed cavalry and infantry poured out from the mountains on the flanks and threw javelins at them violently, while the archers attached to the legion had a very limited number of arrows, and after a few rounds of firing they ran out of ammunition, so they could only draw their short swords and escort the baggage mule carts like foot infantry, and endured the casualties, and ran towards Agaba.

As a result, when Li Pida's rear army had not yet reached a hundred paces, the second round of Rabinus's attack came, and it was still a hornet-dense group of lightly armed troops, armed with javelins, and quickly pressed over, "Calm down, calm down." "The soldiers of the Fifteenth Legion are lined up again, and each of them has a fire suppressed in their hearts, if they had carried enough arrows today, they would have routed you all along the line! (To be continued......)