Taking out eight hundred Talents by himself, he naturally had lofty painstaking intentions, but he didn't expect to make these rebels so arrogant!

Enraged, he immediately summoned all his generals to make a military plan for the march into Cyrene, and under the instructions of the Esioans on the map, he was determined to cut down the abundant and high-quality timber around the Apollo Springs and the Astra Mountains, and it was autumn, and the weather was dry, which was a good time to build ships, "The Hashid rebels had a twin base on the banks of the river in the valley, called Yazda, and continued to paralyze the invincible fellows by diplomatic means, and at the same time made a large number of simple and durable wooden boats, with ten to twenty short oarsmen, Don't hang the sails, go down the Tostone River, do it for me now, speed is the key to the competition! ”

"However, to build a ship, you need to cut down trees, dry them in the sun, and apply grease, so that the scouts on the other side should be aware of them." Peternius suggested with some concern.

It doesn't matter, we raided Apollo Springs, and the Hashhitis were still unguarded? Li Bida was full of confidence, he pointed out that the city of Barka had just fallen, although the remnants of the city-state had surrendered, but after the previous fierce attack and defense, the casualties of the believers in the rebellion should not be light, and its main force should be gathered in the city of the northwest headland, there is not enough strength to fortify in the Toston River Valley, as long as we hurry up, we can completely sweep the entire river valley in their reaction, and establish a more stable springboard for advancement.

Therefore, everything that was to be done was done according to the orders of the commander-in-chief, and the regiment selected the soldiers who had previously served as oarsmen, and were responsible for the production and training of this small wooden boat, and the manufacturing process was handed over to the auxiliary brigade and baggage personnel. And two legionnaires were in the cabin. Train day and night in the Apollo Springs. Their centurions demanded to adapt to this new way of fighting as soon as possible.

At the mouth of the valley, the Jewish envoys took the reins, and the young man with the most beautiful beard among them was thoughtful, so that the people around him were very concerned about the attitude of this man. Ankit, did you just speak too harshly to the commander-in-chief of Rome, and would it have provoked his frenzied offensive retaliation? ”

"It doesn't matter. I already had a plan to deal with it, that is, to withdraw the garrisons of the large and small fortresses in the southern part of the Toston River Valley as soon as possible, and gather all of them to the fortress of Yazda and the river, and then we will stabilize the order in Cyrene City, and support Yazda against that Lepidaus, as long as we can keep the northern agricultural areas and urban areas of Cyrenaica, we will be completely invincible. I am Basileus of the Hashid sect of Cyrene, and this is how I defended the Roman army. Deliver the order at full speed when you get back, and get rid of Yazda. Any castle would not need to be garrisoned, as it would only cost the Romans a valuable soldier before the Romans. It turned out that this man who had gone deep into the Roman military camp to pretend to be an emissary, and was aggressive was actually the commander-in-chief of the Hashdi army, only twenty-five years old, and David Brown, a scholastic teacher. Ankit, "The present condition of that Lybidaeus is that there is no one in sight, and I have just said so many disrespectful things against him and his legions, but he only scoffed at them, and did not even ask my name from beginning to end, which shows that he has become arrogant after defeating the kingdom of Garamantheus, and we must make good use of this weakness - you move quickly, let the remnants of the city-state army go in the direction of the Roman military camp, and they can effectively hinder the movement of the Romans for a few days." ”

On the cliffs on both sides of the rapids of the Tostone Valley, on the Yazda Fortress, where the fortress of Yazda was sandwiched face to face, many Hashid soldiers wearing Virginia floppy hats comfortably held on to the battlements, and laughed at the mercenaries of the city-state that had been overthrown by them, and who were now marching hard under the city.

These unfortunate warriors, numbering about six or seven hundred, did exert their due sense of honor and will to fight in the previous defense of the city of Barka, destroyed the siege tunnels dug by the believers of the Hashid riot, repelled their waves of strong attacks, and finally laid down their arms and surrendered when there was no hope of foreign help, and Jacob, the high priest of Hashid, wanted to kill them all to vent his anger, but "Baseleus" Ankit admired them and allowed these people to leave Cyrene City safely.

But the weapons, the armor, the leggings, the boots, and the flags and emblems that symbolized the glory of the ranks were all seized, and they were now left with only a pair of bare feet, with tattered blankets wrapped around them, and some foreign officers, such as Eumenes, who had escaped from the camp of Lybida, had now surrendered undisciplined to the army of the believers of Ankit, for these hashhiti also needed regular Macedonian or Roman discipline to train themselves. However, most of the officers and soldiers, after seeing the ruthless purging and plundering of the bureaucrats and officers of the old city-state of Cyrene, the high priest of the opposing party, still did not dare to trust the new regime, nor did they dare to drift to the other country by sea, so when they heard that Lipida's army had appeared at the end of the valley, they went barefoot on the thick pebbles and gravel, endured the humiliation and ridicule of the victors, and came to defect to the Romans.

As a result, the unknown Lepidaus treated them very attentively, and personally led the Negro and Spanish guards out of the camp twenty Romes, carrying a large number of cheeses, wine, and banners and armor, to meet the defeated soldiers, so that they could eat and drink enough, and then change into new clothes and armor, and enter his camp in the best mental state.

This alien general, after many years of military career, understands the mind of a soldier very well, for them, what they want most after a desperate battle is to reward the spoils of war, but what they want most after the tiger falls to Pingyang is decent comfort, and the desire to make a comeback - for the two things that the latter needs, Li Bidaius gave all of them.

The new establishment was the "Cyrene Legion", with a temporary establishment of 1,000 men, organized into a chief 1,000-man brigade (Li Bida added 400 high-quality PLA slaves to enter), and the commander comforted all the defeated soldiers, saying that they had accumulated valuable experience in the battle of Balka City and demonstrated their courage and perseverance, "We should have confidence that we can recover the military flag lost to the Hashdi thugs!" ”

His words aroused the excitement of the officers and men of the Cyrene Legion, who began to train with Roman broad-bladed swords and shields, with the aim of restoring the dignity of the legion and reclaiming what was rightfully theirs.

Later, a veteran Macedonian mercenary officer named Faobinas, who of course now served in the New Legion, came to see Libida and said straight to the point, "With these small wooden boats, even if the Hashidi Jews did not expect it, the raid on the fortress of Yazda would be an impossible task!" (To be continued......)