In fact, after Curio took the cavalry commander's supplies, he was a little afraid of his boldness, because he didn't expect Li Bida to climb so fast in the past two years. You must know that when Caesar crossed the Rubicon River in the past, he made a crucial counterattack and made himself a hot figure in Caesar's camp, so he became an extremely important governor of Sicily, leaving Li Bida behind, which also gave him a great sense of satisfaction for a while.

But a short time has passed, but he has been overtaken by this alien general, Li Bida actually became the deputy of the dictator, and now he also came to Africa with several legions, Curio was frightened, maybe Caesar has been disappointed that he has made no progress over the years, let alone run for consul in the future, I am afraid that in another year, he will not even be able to keep the position of governor and become Li Bida's lieutenant general? No, don't even think about it!

Now the opportunity has come, the elite of Pompey's ten legions is now eight out of ten, and he Curio has four legions in his hands after all, isn't he? The basic of these was the Fourteenth Legion, and the commander was Cicero's younger brother Quintus, who was also a good friend of Curio's - the Cicero brothers were fond of tying up nobles. Later, Curio recruited another legion in Sicily, the Twenty-second Legion, and still had little experience in combat. However, the strongest of the four legions were the seventeenth and eighteenth legions, which were reorganized in Kofinium and surrendered by the Masi, and although they were trained by Curio, they were not always in harmony with the governor.

The Marsi, who have always been known as the most courageous state in Italy, have a saying that "only the victories of the Massis are triumphant, but not the victories of the Marsies". However, for hundreds of years, the Masi have always been dissatisfied with Rome. It was also the main rebel in the rebellious alliance war. Therefore, the war of the alliance is also called the "war of the Mathi people", and the lord of Lybidapius Lukulas also wrote a special history of the war to describe this matter. As a result, Curio is reluctant to dismiss them, but he has never been able to win their allegiance.

However, when the dust settled on the Battle of Cocula in Greece, Curio had no time to continue the coordination work, and Pompeo's collapse was simply beyond his imagination, and it was too late to do anything else, so he hurriedly took the four legions ashore in Anquilaria.

Anquilaria, located in the eastern part of the Gulf of Carthage. Gulf of Carthage. The Gulf of Tunis, which we now call it, is also a huge sunken bay, with a huge headland called Cape Apollo in the west, Cape Mercury in the east, the city of Carthage in the middle of the recess, and Utica separated from the city by a great river called Bagrada, which is only ten or twenty Roman miles away.

After coming ashore, Curio defeated the enemy cavalry in small numbers several times in succession, killing and capturing hundreds of prisoners, and the initial victory greatly boosted everyone's morale. This greatly strengthened Curio's prestige - so the governor of Sicily quickly sent a proclamation to the Chamber of Three Hundred in the city of Utica, ordering them to receive the document. He sent all the merchant ships to his aid, or else he was punished as a collaborator.

The Utica Chamber of Commerce panicked and sent two hundred ships, but at this time, Turas, the governor of Pompey's Afrikaner and Africa, also arrived with two legions, while Pompey refused with the remaining two legions.

As soon as these four legions crossed the Bagrada River, Curio, who was a master of chess, suddenly sent his lieutenant Rufus, with the 14th legion, from the sea, to occupy the "old camp of Cornerius", which was sandwiched between Utica and the old city of Carthage. The camp was located on a high ridge that jutted out into the ocean, with a steep cliff on one side overlooking the wide Bagrada River, and a gentle slope on the other, facing the city of Utica, only three romans in between, but doubled the detour by a swamp infused by the sea.

Well, now that the old camp was occupied by Curio's men, Pompey and Turas, who had crossed the Baglada River, were in danger of being attacked from front to back, and when he learned that the remaining three legions of Curio were rushing along the coast, Pompey avoided the danger, and he went around to the upper shore of the river and quickly retreated to the city of Utica, and then Pompey left only two of Tulas's legions here, and he was nowhere to be found—the intelligence indicated that he might have gone to Masacia to meet King Juba with military planes.

Therefore, Curio tried his hand and seized the geographically advantageous "Old Camp of Gaunerius", staring at Utica, and had the momentum to seize it at any time.

On the other side, Turas erected a barricade between the Acropolis and the market town, so that his army was only separated from Curio by a valley and held the only hole between the two armies.

The stalemate followed, accompanied by a skirmish of cavalry, but late one night, two Mathi centurions of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Legions joined the Uttica camp and told Turas about the internal affairs of the four legions of Curio, their subordinates, and the system of duty in the camp.

At this time, Curio's troops began to explode, in fact, the most dangerous thing was not that the military intelligence was betrayed, but that this sudden incident deepened the rift between the troops of the governor of Sicily, and the representatives of the Fourteenth and Twenty-second Legions ran to Curio, saying that they were unwilling to call the centurions or soldiers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Legions to keep vigil, because they were afraid that they would be betrayed and betrayed while they were asleep. It is only a temporary submission to the generosity and generosity of the dictator, His Excellency Caesar.

At the same time, representatives of the two legions formed by the Masi also came to meet Curio, and they were very excited, saying that they were now under suspicion, and that it was more uncomfortable than being defeated and dying, and that the seventeenth and eighteenth legions were willing to rush to the front, and immediately asked Curio to let them take the initiative to prove themselves with sacrifice and victory.

The whole camp was boiling and restless, and the army was divided into two opposing factions, Caesar's old army and the new army were to retreat to the old camp of Cornelius to wait for reinforcements, while the two armies of the Masi insisted on fighting, and Curio was caught in the middle and could not hold back the dispute, so he appealed to the dictator who was still in Egypt.

But now Caesar threw the ball to Lypida, which is also what Curio doesn't want to see, "What can that guy Liberda do?" Isn't it just robbing me of my merits? Therefore, Curio made the first move and intercepted the supplies from Sardinia and Shannan Gaul.

However, Li Bida was not a good stubble at all, although he did not appeal to Caesar for impeachment, but soon he asked Marco, who was staying in Rome at the moment, in the name of the cavalry commander. Antony, mobilizing the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh legions, which were on leave in Campeña and Etrunia, and the fifth legion, which had been newly recruited in the Gallic colonies, "immediately set out to go to Utica to reinforce Curio." (To be continued......)