"I am a citizen of Rome, and the young people of Rome will continue to challenge you, and after I die, there will be people who will continue to follow my mission!" -- After the failure of the ancient Roman young Mtius to assassinate the Etrunia king Bosena, he made an impassioned statement

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There is no need to say more about the suffering of more than 1,000 people in the two township settlements, many of whom were old and weak, women and children, and a lot of baggage, when suddenly encountered a change in the peaceful winter and were forced to trek through the vast snowy fields towards the mountain pass leading to Vitonny. But Li Bida's ALA cavalry was very skillfully divided into three wings, the two wings skillfully carried the reins of the horse, led the mount to trot in the snow to follow the target, followed by the pack horse loaded with javelins, one wing increased the speed, galloped to the left and right of the target or the front of the horse circled, and threw one or two javelins when he saw Lengzi, so frightened that the women and children screamed and fell on the snow and did not dare to move forward, and the men scolded and beat them indifferently, the ALA cavalry was strictly ordered in advance, and they were never allowed to dismount and pick up the baggage abandoned by the other party on the snow, When the men of the tribe also rode to drive them out, they threw away the remaining javelins, or turned away from their horses, or drew their swords and turned to engage them, and the other two wings quickened their pace to meet them, and the cycle began to hinder them, and soon the other side of the army was constantly left behind, and those who did not fall behind were exhausted.

Leaving behind some of the stragglers, under the leadership of Saab Kemus, he guarded the proceeds of the plunder in the city of Asa, and pursued with his elite slaves, about thirty or fifty horsemen, carrying banners, while the rest of the infantry put on sheepskin cloaks again. Line up and follow the treasurer. The shouts of the foot riders shook the earth. Many people also began to light torches and hurriedly followed after Lee's Bidama.

Finally, at dusk, the snow reflected a cold yellow glow, and everywhere sat prostrated tribesmen, and household belongings and belongings were always available. Many families hugged each other and wept and begged for mercy, and the Roman infantry, who passed through them, simply threw ropes into their hands. They are required to bind themselves up and stay where they are to await judgment - people, especially women, cannot abandon their wailing children, and can only bind their relatives to themselves with cruelty.

The Ala cavalry began to circle and attack, and in order to overtake them in parallel, their horses were unstoppable, running tirelessly, and the white air exhaled by the men and horses became entwined and formed a cloud of mist. In the distance, it looks like a glow, and the three wings merge into one at the high slope of the pass that Saab has long designated. Then he dismounted and took out his javelins, lined up in a row, and completely blocked the escape path of Octabo and Elisanne.

Seeing that the pass had been sealed, the crowd of the two tribes could only stay in despair and stay where they were, and soon several messengers in wolf's clothing with olive branches came to the opposite Li Bida's horses, this time they were prostrate on the snow, and the servants used spears and swords to resist the safe distance of Li Bida's men and horses, and begged for Li Bida's forgiveness amid the angry cries and ridicule of the soldiers, indicating that the two tribes were willing to hand over the towns and villages of the settlement and move to other places.

"Don't think that the barbarians of Iberia can tell wonderful jokes, aren't your towns now under my control? Tell your elders to come and talk to me! "When the elders of the tribe wore their hair loose and shook their bodies, they came into the half circle formed by Li Bida and Hu Cong's war horses, and the black eyes under the helmet of the Roman treasurer were colder than the cold wind of winter.

"Now let me grant you peace, surrender all your weapons and twenty hostages of noble origin, and then, within a day, to-morrow, tear down the walls and towers of Octabo and Elisana, and use them in the ruins of Asa to build a fortified fortress for our army. And give up all your clothing, your goods, your food, and your charcoal, and then you don't have to go anywhere else, but all of you have to go back to your original settlement, and you are not allowed to leave, anyone. ”

"In that case, the winter storm god will kill us automatically!" An elder who could speak Latin, with a mixture of terror and anger, shouted at Li Bida.

Li Bida shook the snow on his cloak with his horsewhip, "It's okay, I will leave some supplies for your tribe, enough for you to survive the cold winter - or rather, most people will survive the cold winter, this batch of materials will not be less but not too much, and it will never be enough for you to have the energy to do superfluous things." Zuihou, in three days I will send an emissary to Vidonny to tell the Hinclare tribe what is happening here, and to say to them, "Your tribe is because of me, the Roman treasurer, Amillius. Gao Nerlius. Li Bida's coercion has forever denied you the right of protection of the Sinclair tribe. ”

The humiliating peace was accepted, and the next day the men and women of the two tribes, under the supervision of the whip and the sword, returned to their settlements, and began to tear down the walls and towers of the walled city at the request of Libida, and transported them to the city of Asa, where Libida's men began to build a small fortress with great skill, "Little Hortensius! Li Bida, who was monitoring all this from a distance, shouted.

Little Hortensius immediately rode forward and saluted, "I'll give you a hundred-man team at once, with half of the hostages, and stationed in this small camp." "Remember, every day you have to send scouts out, and I'll go back to Kimira to wait for your message, the arrival of the Hinclave." ”

"Officer, what if I can't hold it back, what if I go out to fight before you come?"

"So I'm just giving you a team of 100 people, so you can't go out of the city and line up." Li Bida then took his servants and rode a horse to gallop down Gaofu, escorting a large number of goods plundered from the three towns on the border to the direction of the winter camp of Kimira.

Sure enough, the arrogant tone of the disguised messenger sent by Li Bida completely angered the largest tribe in the eastern part of Vitonny, Sinclair. At the beginning of Caesar's expedition, this tribe had always been rebellious, oscillating between Lusitania and Rome, for no other reason than because it had two thousand tribal warriors and twelve small vassal settlements like Asa.

When the messenger announced that the Romans had officially begun attacking the towns of Asa, Octabo, and Elisanne (the messenger did not say that they had been trampled by Lypida) and threatening them to surrender to the Roman city of Osir and to give no more loyalty and goods to the Sincla, the chief of the Sincla, Mucuas, was completely enraged and cried out: "Don't I know that two legions of the Romans, led by Caesar, went to fight in the south of Lusitania?" How many men can you have on the border of Osire, since you are going to fight, then fight us to the end like a warrior! ”

About a day after the fair, Kimira received word that the Sinclare on the other side of the pass, numbering about 1,500 soldiers, led by the chief himself, had braved the bitter winter cold to approach the outpost. (To be continued......)