"Rome is safe, and the country is safe, because Germanicus is safe." -- A Roman ballad expressing reverence for the general (Nero's father).

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"Occupy the pit and don't." When he returned to Rome in hatred, and walked down the porch, he involuntarily uttered such a sentence, which he did not say in Latin, so that the people who followed him were dumbfounded, and thought that the chief lieutenant was speaking an angry native language.

Then, Sabo, Serha, Faobinas, Angandinus, and other henchmen gathered around the hall and asked what to do next, and whether Curio would really land in Africa.

"Login?" Li Bida sneered, and then analyzed, "Curio seems to have a lot of confidence in me, but he can't do it to Pompey, now Pompey himself sits in the city of Utica, and has an army of four legions, two of which are from the original Tulas, the first legion was brought by Pompey himself, and another one was recruited locally, and when the war was raging in Spain, Pompey was always training the army in an orderly manner, allocating materials, and building a fleet - what does Curio have?" Quintus's fourteenth legion, as well as two Mathi recruits, plus this thirty-year-old who has always been nested in the city of Rome, helping Pompey to cover the theater, without the slightest military experience, he is not a fool, I estimate that it is unlikely that he will take the initiative to attack Africa, Pompey is a mountain in front of him, so he is very afraid that I will take you. Go and snatch the credit from him. He preferred to accumulate strength in Sicily. After making a breakthrough in other battlefields, he will take the opportunity to attack, anyway, his role is always only to contain it. ”

So Saab asked very clearly, what should we do now?

Li Bida looked at everyone for a moment, then beckoned, and the servants in the courtyard and cloister retreated willingly.

Matthias then brought out the huge sand table map, and everyone sat in the chairs. Then Li Bida said in a very calm tone: "Caesar's front-line troops will definitely fail. ”

Sabo pointed to the side of the sand table and said, "Because if you cross the sea, the entire coastline will be a mountain cliff valley, which is not suitable for the landing of the large army at all." Gaius and Eulabella, on the other hand, brought over three legions, including the Eleventh Legion stationed in Illyria. ”

"Didn't this legion have been defeated by Pompey's lieutenant and governor in Macedonia, Rilias?"

"But according to intelligence, there are less than 4,000 people left, all of whom were pulled onto the ship by Yurabella and carried over to prepare for a surprise assault on Dikhachan."

"This bald man is so ruthless that he doesn't even treat soldiers as human beings. Or that he always thinks about things from the perspective of weighing interests, and Caesar cares about it the most. It was the main force that followed him in the Gauls, the four legions of seventy, eighty and ninety, followed by our auxiliary corps, and the most important was the new conquest after he crossed the Rubicon, which was probably expendable in his eyes. Li Bida raised the corners of his mouth and said, and then the commanders and centurions sitting around him all had a certain happy expressions - meaning that fortunately we were following another person, so Li Bida would not give up any behavior of being a black dictator in front of his subordinates, "Knowing that there is no advantage on the sea, and knowing that the terrain on the other side of the coast is difficult to fight, the bald man boldly promoted these young generals, filling in nearly 9,000 people, and attracting the attention of Pompey and Byblos." ”

"And then?" Angandinus asked curiously, since Caesar did everything from the perspective of profit, then he couldn't just call the soldiers to die, right?

"Then, of course, he took advantage of the gap and went to Greece with his elite legions," Li Bida said very strangely, "This is another trick, so I stayed in the city of Rome to keep my own people, and the twelve legions that were also pulled away, fortunately, the combat effectiveness is good, and it was also placed in the sequence of what he considered to be the 'main force of the elite decisive battle'." Also, if I'm not mistaken, it's good that Curio didn't let us go to Africa, and now all of you go to Ravenna to secretly raise ships. ”

The crowd was puzzled again, but Sabo pointed to the sand table and said that Ravenna could cross to Olicum, where there were only ten decked ships of Pompey's generals Vespílo and Mirochius, and a few brigades of garrisons.

After Sabo finished speaking, Li Bida stood up and explained the real plan, "When Antony's brother fails, Caesar will cross the sea himself, and he will definitely tell us to cross it, instead of going to Africa, we might as well prepare early, and also take this opportunity to capture Olicum, and then - Pompey will definitely send troops to seize this seaport city, and then it will be their turn to attack them on land." Then he carved out several places with his hands on the left bank of the Adriatic, "Olicum, Issa, and Salona, this triangle, with its sea and mountains, and its complex terrain, is the best place for us to play, and if we can thwart Pompey's special army, we can give Caesar a frontal attack, and we can win a great victory on the other road, which is what I should do as a chief lieutenant." ”

"What about provisions?" Someone questioned.

The chief lieutenant general sat down with a solemn face, and said, "This is indeed a big problem, because the battle to cross the sea, coupled with the storms in the autumn and winter, makes it very difficult for ships to transport normally, and the land transportation from Shannan Gaul is too long and full of dangers. So the greatest possibility is to risk collecting supplies in the councils of elders in the three cities I just mentioned, even if they are in danger of betraying us, but only so. ”

After hearing this, the atmosphere on the spot was silent for a while, and then Faobinas, who was usually the most taciturn, spoke, "There are Macedonians in the Sixteenth Legion, who are adapted to mountain warfare, and the vanguard task will be entrusted to me. ”

Li Bida nodded, and then arranged, "The Thirteenth Legion is assembling here along the street, the Sixth Legion and the Fifteenth Legion will go to Ravenna first to prepare for battle, and the Sixteenth Legion will be stationed outside the city to follow me and wait for the opportunity to act." ”

He then summoned Matthias and told him to draw up two double-entry papers, one to Sicily and one to Brindisi, "with exactly the same contents, impeaching Curio and demanding that Sicily provide timber for the construction of the ships." ”

As Li Bida initially expected, both letters were lost in the sea, Curio simply ignored this person's protest, and Caesar over there just smiled bitterly and put Li Bida's letter and ignored it, he had no ability or will to punish any of the current right-hand men.

But do you think Li Bida is really just to vent the resentment in his heart? Of course not, he quickly mobilized all the connections of the Chamber of Commerce from Etrunia to Liguria, shipped large quantities of timber and nails to Ravenna, and secretly built sturdy and light ships to prepare for the imminent war.

As a result, two days after the fair, Potti and his children actually appeared in front of his courtyard. (To be continued......)