Now that the flames of war have been burned to the enemy's domination area, Li Bida saw that the area spanning dozens of Roman miles and nearly a hundred Roman miles long had become a no-man's land, and he couldn't help humming a little song, the plundered wheat is enough for our army to fight for four or five market days in a row, and now is the time to use force.

He summoned the Aesio volunteers and asked, "It is said that the people of Garamatani relied most on white gold and purple gold, so where are their mines?" ”

"The purple gold is still in the cave on the border over there, very far from here, but in the direction of the Colewind (on the left) there is a fortress of white gold and red flames, called Asamangall."

The Esceons were as backward in their cognition as their people, and probably there were many salt wells, and the Garamantheus drilled the brine out and boiled it on a naturally rising and burning pillar of natural gas, attracting Carthaginian and Greek merchants from all around, forming a prosperous mineral and commercial fortress.

So, Li Bida set his sights on the city where the platinum and the red were meeting, and he called Serha and Arp to him, saying that this operation would use the new group of Serapis Legions, and I would take the Medejie Guard to personally press the formation, carrying most of the siege weapons, and the target was Assamangall; and the lieutenant general Petronius, with the Thirteenth Legion, went out frontal to attract the enemy's attention; Antony and Dusonville led a cavalry brigade between our two armies, responsible for vigilance and liaison; The river transport guards and the tomb guards, together with some baggage teams, stayed behind to guard the barracks.

After this was done, the Romans decided to act after the divination of the gods, and the result was unfavorable. Li Bida immediately asked the priest to change the way of divination. In front of more than 10,000 soldiers, he declared that because the cow intestines used were not fresh. Therefore, the divine will is false, and it is necessary to curry favor with Mars in a different way. So the priest sent a flock of chickens out of the cage and sprinkled the ground with grain, hoping that the chickens would eat happily, so that they could claim divine blessing for the military campaign, but when the damned chickens came out, several hens, apparently not interested in the shriveled grain, began to stir up worms in the ground. And somehow, a fierce rooster was mixed in the flock, and as soon as it came out of the cage, it saw the graceful posture of the hens pouting their buttocks foraging, and then made a low gurgling sound, spread their wings in the oblique thorns, jumped quickly, stepped on the back of the hen, and then kicked a few pecks, pecked the hen, and cocked the buttocks. Let the rooster penetrate smoothly, and after a few seconds or so, both chickens shake like a sieve a few times. The rooster jumped down and stood triumphantly on one foot in the middle of the grain, completely ignoring his surroundings, as if he were a sage after the fact.

Seeing this scene, the entire barracks was as silent as death.

Li Bida, who couldn't hold his face, stepped forward with a sweaty head, grabbed the with an iron tong-like hand in an instant, strangled its throat, stuffed a handful of millet into the sage's sharp mouth, and then slammed it to the ground, cheering, "The god chicken has eaten, and the god of war is on our side!" ”

The army of Serapis marched quickly, and arrived at the city of Assamangal in a day and night, which was a bag-shaped city, surrounded by salt and fire wells, and further inside were dense houses, warehouses and trading stations, and the fortress was in the very center, built on the mountain, and there were walls made of stone, it seems that the people of Garamatane were well aware of the economic significance of this city, and did not hesitate to buy high-quality stones that could be cut from distant merchants, and hired foreign technicians, and even the water source was drawn from the spring of the cliff behind the city, It's hard to cut off.

Under the command of Li Pida, the black legions built up the momentum of the fortification, and they vigorously demolished most of the houses under the city, built many improvised projectiles of wood, grinded the stones into round projectiles, and stuffed clay pots with sulfur and petroleum water (which is everywhere in the area), and together with the stones, they were projectiled and smashed on the walls of Asamamangals, and then the rockets of the Madjie Guard followed, and the fire raged from the head to the end of the city, and the frightened Garamansians also found that the blacks were also very attentive to the opening of the field. He did carpentry, made harp ladder trucks, and hammered sheep's heads.

This is nothing short of a miracle, and Li Pida's intention to supervise the siege of the Serapis is revealed, that is, in this way, the patience and proficiency of these soldiers are sharpened.

Over there, thirty miles away, sandwiched between the border of the Amun River, and the main team of Garamantheus, who was fighting against Petneus, felt more and more that the situation was strange, and when the news of the siege of the city of Shioi came two days later, these brave warriors began to panic, they were all people who liked strength and beauty, force naturally depended on the honor on the battlefield, and beauty was reflected by all kinds of gold and silver ornaments hanging on the body and car, which was no different from the Celts of Gaul. And this kingdom itself does not produce gold and silver, only amethyst and well salt are exchanged, if the Romans are allowed to mobilize troops to ravage this city of wealth, it will not be good for the future of the kingdom!

Immediately, the chiefs of the Garamantheus, who were in a dilemma, decided to send a hundred chariots and three thousand accompanying infantry to the aid of the city of Assamamangars, believing that if this army could reach the fortress, it would be able to hold on, and the main force, reinforced by fresh troops in the rear, would soon cross the Amun River, crush the Roman enemy in front of them, destroy their strongholds, and then shoot a shot at the army of Serapis, which was exhausted in the siege.

The reinforcements behind the bend of the Amun River were suddenly attacked by the Roman cavalry, and the rejuvenated and healthy Vibichinas, under the command of Antony and Dussonvier, took turns to harass the convoy of Garamantheus, and then the advantage of cavalry over chariots became apparent: the cavalry could remain in a state of running for a long time, while the chariots could not, the riders on them were easily tired, and the rotation of formations was awkward, for such a branch of the army, which relied on explosive assault power.

Li Bida and Sabo personally led a dozen slave soldiers and Spanish swordsmen, rushed from the siege position, and met with Anthony, more than ten furlongs away, the enemy's chariots were still rumbling wolf rushing, "What is the terrain here?" "Antony's draftsmen all knew that the Commander-in-Chief of the Governor-in-Chief of the Cyrenaica was the custom of the king of Cyrenaica, so they said that between the Amun River and the city of Asaman Gars, there was a river formed by a mountain spring, which the locals called the Osay, which means "the river of the mountains".

Then the commander-in-chief took Antony and Saab to the Osay, and quickly circled the Osai River, and said to Antony, "Tell Dussonville to dismount all the Vibichinas at once, and block the enemy's chariots fiercely, and I will gain time to set up and annihilate them!" (To be continued......)