"Then don't be an emperor!" A woman who had failed to petition was angry with Hadrian, and the Emperor went back to her appeal

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"At any cost, mobilize Pompey and fight him in a decisive battle." Caesar's order was soon given to the whole army.

Afterwards, the camps that stretched the entire length of the ridgeline were put into operation, and Caesar and Libida drew the first brigade from each legion, and gathered all the cavalry at hand together to form two mobile groups, led by two each, and the rest of the brigades were stationed in place to save food.

Subsequently, the armed training began, and the two mobile groups every other day, as if on duty, roamed and attacked the towns of the various Pompey sides, and if they succeeded, they should fight the autumn wind, and if they failed, they would create a siege situation under the city, hoping to draw Pompey's army to a decisive battle.

But the other party didn't seem to be moved, and still held on to Uzta City.

Until the king of Juba could not hold back, because he heard that the eight legions of Sap and Aphranius had not completed the task of expelling Hittius, but had been driven back to the city of Zama, on the border between Carthage and Numidia, and was besieged by the guerrillas of Hitius, and the inhabitants of Zama still had a strong desire to rebel. Bad news came one after another, and every day Getulians and Mauritanians fled from the king's palace, some with weapons to Caesar, and some did not know where to go.

The thunderous King of Juba wanted to give Caesar a certain blow to save his momentum. "Not again. I'm about to become a complete nomadic king! My wife and children have been taken prisoner by the enemy. That's fine, either Pompey will attack with me, or I will fight Caesar with my own men, and if I lose, I will surrender to him, and leave Pompey himself to carry out the great strategic plan. ”

Pompey, who was sitting in another chair, was silent, and the staff around him kept explaining the current situation to King Juba, and it was Caesar who was anxious. Because he had difficulty in getting food and drinking water, and many of the Libyan coastal cities were gradually defecting to us, as long as we persevered a little longer, and continued to frustrate Caesar in defensive battles, we would surely win a turn of fortune, and it would be our side that forced Caesar to fight a decisive battle.

But the king of Juba did not listen, and he roared and made all kinds of accusations against the Romans, and he ridiculed the Romans for being all nonsense, and the senators, especially Sulpitius and Crus, were also angry. But they did not dare to attack the barbarian king of Juba, but also surrounded Pompey. Ask him to take the initiative and fight a few good fights.

"When we attack now, we are under the control of others, and the most basic key in military affairs is to never do what the enemy wants you to do." Pompey saw that even the Romans themselves did not trust him, so he did not have time to pant and replied.

"But didn't you say that Caesar was already short of food, and that we, with our abundant supplies, would we still be afraid of him?" Sulpitius said aggressively.

"Yes, just because Caesar lacked, and we do not lack, why should we go out into the wilderness and stand on the same conditions as them?" Pompeo was still patiently explaining.

"Because in this way, the arrival of victory and fortune can be accelerated, and the god of war will not shelter the indecisive. If you want to really win the support of the autonomous city and speed up the progress of defeating Caesar, you must come up with a point table. Cruise also helped, suppressing Pompey and said.

"Take out the order table!" In the end, both the king of Juba and the elders began to throw out such opinions around Pompey, and said that they must fight, so as not only to stabilize the allies, but also to win the surrender of the surrounding towns, and not to let Caesar be so arrogant, otherwise it will be too late when the wind changes.

Rabinus wanted to speak, but no one wanted to listen to him, and these patriarchs even dared to deny Pompey's denial, so how could they care about a military man who was a tribune? Scipio sat on the circle chair that symbolized his status, closed his eyes and meditated, and several monkeys were jumping around, but to be honest, even Scipio's speech had no weight, in the eyes of Sulpitius and Cruise and other senators, he was just an accessory called "father-in-law", and these people didn't pay attention to it, let alone an accessory!

Eventually, Pompey could not take it any longer, and approved King Juba's plan to go to war, and told Scipio to join Labinus with his army, "and set up a camp as far away from Caesar as possible, and not to engage him too much, just keep an eye on him." This was Pompey secretly reminding Rabinus, because he knew that his father-in-law was not normal now, and just now Scipio seemed to be frightened by his own shadow.

On July 16, Caesar still sent his army, which was supposed to be the day of Rome's defeat at the Gallic king Brenus at the Aria River 340 years ago, also known as the "Day of Aria", according to tradition, Roman generals were not allowed to lead their troops out to fight on this day, but Caesar did the opposite, in order to show Pompey how anxious he was, in fact, he was indeed very anxious.

Caesar's cavalry and infantry crossed the valley where the two armies confronted each other, until they reached the left side of Mount Gemal, and under the gaze of Li Pida, they turned in the direction of Zeta City, and next to this town there were two towns called Sasura and Vaga, forming a triangle with them, and now Caesar's goal was these two towns, and the specific point was to plunder the grain and fight the autumn wind.

Rabinus and King Juba counted 10,000 cavalry, 3,000 with saddles, 7,000 without saddles, and 5,000 lightly armoured, to gallop in the direction of Caesar on the other side of the road on the other side of Jemal Mountain. Rabinus thought,

But he was still cautious, leaving a small part of the way to block the road to contain Li Bida, and the rest all rushed in the direction where Caesar was.

Why didn't Li Bida take action?

Because he was torturing the captured Reginus, who almost died of thirst in the previous battle, but now he was tortured by Tagus and others, "I have already given all the numbers and specific locations of my own legions, this is the limit of my knowledge, even if you kill me, it will be useless." ”

At this moment, Li Bida, who was sitting on a circle chair next to him and reading a book, smiled, because there was still Turinus in the tent, and this self-proclaimed cavalry commander came to observe how the former cavalry commander obtained information through guò torture, "Guardian, I think we should call a lowly slave to torture this knight, so that he can feel more humiliation and despair." Turinus said.

"No, dear Turinus. From his words, I could tell that he was lying. Li Bida continued to laugh, and then looked at Reginus, who was covered in bruises, and the other party couldn't help but be frightened. (To be continued......)