After getting off the ship, Turinus began to follow his guardian towards the commander's tent with the golden eagle on the top, but Rida shrugged his shoulders and pointed to the trench that surrounded the camp, where countless soldiers were repairing the place that had been destroyed by Scipio's attack, "Your uncle should be there." ”

Sure enough, an old man in a legionary shirt with a bare head and feet was struggling to dig in the trench, and it was particularly difficult to dig a trench in the gravel of Africa, so tired that the old man's head was full of beads of sweat, and it was even more shiny.

"Uncle!" Turinus shouted.

Caesar raised his head, wiped his sweat, then smiled, climbed up and hugged Turinus, Leo and Li Bida one after another, and then patted the child on the shoulder, but did not say anything considerate, it should be no effort, just gasped and said to Li Bida, "You are finally here, the joint meeting has been held, and now the camp problem is a big problem." ”

With the addition of the third wave of sea crossings, Caesar's camp already contained the 5th "Lark", the 6th "Massella", the 10th "Bacchus", the 12th "Balantian Falcon", the 13th and 14th (regrouped from the three remnants of Curio), the 15th "Serapis", the 16th "Cyrene", the 28th "Cyclops", the 31st and 32nd Pompeii's defeated legions, and the 33rd "Pontus" legion. There were also the Thirty-Seventh Legions, which Caesar had recruited in Gaul, the Forty Legions of Vicintoli, and the Forty-First Legions of Itassos—a total of fifteen legions. and a large number of slingers and archers from Rhodes and Crete. and six thousand cavalry. Composed of Severver, Vibichinas, Adoui and Mattia.

The Fourteenth Legion was assigned to defend the harbor city of Tapsus further back because it was a newly defeated division and a frightened bird, and the Thirty-third Legion was arranged to defend the outside of the city of Leptis, so now there are as many as eleven legions directly gathered in the camp.

With so many people huddled together, the old camp was unusable, and the hoarding of grain and the accommodation of the soldiers became a big problem, so Caesar was not in a hurry to talk about the war at the joint meeting. Instead, the topic is keenly raised.

"This must be solved through guò combat." Immediately a group of people came to the map table in the camp, and Li Bida put forward this point of view very clearly, "Pompey has just come to the opposite position, and our army is still some distance away from the enemy, and His Excellency the dictator has always been patient not to fight, which happens to make Scipio take it lightly, so I advocate that tomorrow I take the two main armies of the Tenth Army and the Twelfth Army directly forward, occupy the plains and beaches between the open fields, and I will personally bring the most elite men and horses." From our left flank, there was a hill occupied by Rabinus's division. He believed that he had this vantage point, and he could defend it, and he could also use it as a passage to threaten our camp from the side. Therefore, in the battle on horseback, I will take this hill with all my might, and all the divisions must coordinate with the wings and infantry archers under the leadership of His Excellency the Dictator and myself, and we will force Pompey to come out and fight us and crush them! ”

Caesar nodded, he directly took off his dirty short shirt, bare his buttocks, changed into a clean robe sent by his personal slave, and then put on the laurel leaf crown, and said to all the important generals, "Indeed, the following battle is mainly based on the table of the two elite legions, that is, my cooperation with General Lipidaus is the key." Then the less people know about this plan, the better, and that's why I didn't hold a joint meeting today, I took the 10th Army Corps, and Lybidaeus with the 12th Army, and I was in charge of the center and the right wing, and Lybida was in charge of the left wing. In this kind of battle, which tests the ability of command very much, even Li Bida and I command the most reliable corps, and too many troops will be chaotic, and only in this way can the combat effectiveness be brought into full play. And so, at the fifth sentry, at dawn, we struck decisively! ”

After hearing the words of the two people, Turinus felt that his pupils were constricting and his breathing became short, obviously the child was extremely excited, but Leo next to him was unmoved.

The 10th Legion, with a total of 5,000 men, set out in the camp on time after Caesar, and then formed a long horizontal column to prepare for battle, stepping on the sandy land of the sea, and marching forward, Caesar put Labinus's tactics to good use, and he mixed all the projection light infantry and about 2,000 Swefer cavalry in the ranks of the infantry, and marched together under the night sky and moon.

The slight and rapid whistle came and went, and the width of the whole twelve Roman miles here was flat gravel, but around the city of Uzta, where Scipio's camp was located, was surrounded by a ring of hills, and Caesar quietly ordered that every hill he came to the top of the hill should draw a regiment of troops up the mountain, because in many places there there were towers and pillboxes left by the Libyans in the past, and Caesar told them to go up, and began to expand and build fortifications with these existing buildings as the core.

"Caesar has come to attack us!" The camp in front of the Uzta was mainly in charge of Rabinus, who had just arranged for the whole army to go to war, and was just about to go to bed and rest, when he received the news that the enemy was coming, he stepped on horseback again, and directly led his troops to meet the battle.

At present, the troops and horses of Rabinus and Lelias were mainly based on the original Macedonian First Legion, which was now reorganized into the Sixth Legion of Africa, plus the men they had recruited around Zeta, namely the Fourth Legion and the Fifth Legion, a total of three legions, located on the right flank of the entire army camp, and garrisoned on the edge of a narrow plain.

On the front of the Uzta are the soldiers and horses of Scipio, Turas and the kings of Juba, with two legions, the third and seventh legions of the province, and about 30,000 horsemen of the king of Juba, that is, nearly 100 war elephants.

On the seaside of the town, the city of Hadrumum, which had just been captured by Pompey's army, did not have a left flank, because its left flank was a fortified city that did not need to be defended by troops, while Pompey's two most elite legions, the 1st and 2nd legions, were stationed in the city of Mestul, five in Rome behind Uzta, as a reserve and headquarters.

In addition, Pompey ordered Aphranius and Sulpitius to form a new legion, which was called the Eighth Legion, which was to cooperate with General Sap, the royal governor of the king of Juba, to fight back to Numidia and expel the rebel army of Hitius and Pocus.

Now Pompey is fighting on two fronts, but he clearly puts the main force on Caesar's side.

Rabinus immediately led the Fourth and Sixth Legions out of the camp as well," Julius . . . Caesar, you have subverted the dream of the Republic, let me crush it in this wasteland with my own hands! (To be continued......)