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When he arrived at the royal court, the great chief of Helton was very sincere this time, and not only sent a large number of dairy sheep, but also a considerable amount of animal skins and date wine, and told Lybidaeus the following itinerary - further inland, he would meet the caveman Essioans, a backward and cowardly people; After crossing the area of about 5,000 stadias, he hurried to the north, for he had to avoid the warlike third people, the Garamantheus, who were extremely skilled in handling light chariots, and who had a large number of date palms, and salt mountains, who usually took pleasure in killing the Aesioans, a warrior people that even you Romans had to be careful to avoid, and to the north you could enter the valley of the Tostone, which was the dividing line of all Libya, and was surrounded by vast forests and cultivated fields. There is also quite fertile land for vineyards and olive groves, and in this valley, Libya is all gravel, and this best part of the land is occupied by the Maxims, the fourth ethnic group of Libya, who claim to be descendants of the Trojans, who believe in Athena, who worships Greece, and Poseidon, the god of the sea, who insists that Athena is actually the daughter of Poseidon and the goddess of Lake Toritonis, and then ran to Zeus as an adopted daughter after falling out with her father.

In fact, the Maximians are the main body of the settled inhabitants of Libya who own fields and houses, whether it is the former Carthage or the later Greeks, they all rely on these artificial rule and tax base, they are the "Cyrene people" in the true sense.

"It is necessary to keep a detailed record of the reminders of the great chieftain, which is the main basis for planning the route of the march." After resting for three days at the royal court, many soldiers of Li Bida's army would take advantage of the night to carry some knick-knacks. For example, coarse glass with colored colors. Rhino horn. Egyptian papyrus paintings, etc., sneak into houses with sticks on them, and sneak around.

Then they continued along the desert and the oasis, and not far from the western frontier of the kingdom of Nasmonez, the whole expeditionary force suddenly saw a place in the manic wind and sand, densely covered with the bones of men and animals. There were about tens of thousands, and it was really frightening to look at from a distance, Sabo licked his chapped lips on the horse, then took a few scrolls from the saddle of the saddle, searched for them, and then explained to the commander-in-chief and the generals, "It seems that the Great Chief of Hurton also mentioned here, and called it 'Proy's Graveyard', because this kingdom was originally Projan, but many years ago. Suddenly, endless winds blew from the great desert in the south, drying all the rivers in the country. The Proys decided to go south to fight the south wind, but they were struck by a storm and the whole tribe was wiped out here, and then the Samones took over the kingdom. ”

Fighting the south wind, of course, this kind of fantasy in the myth is not true, in fact, because of the deterioration of climate change, the water source of the Proy people was inadvertently lost, and they migrated to the south in order to find a way to survive, but they did not expect that the south was a boundless desert, so there was this living tragedy of genocide in front of them. Looking at the vast white and gray bones, Li Bida called the priests who accompanied the army, brought out the statues and objects, and asked the soldiers of all races to bow down in front of their respective gods, the Romans bowed to Mars, the Greeks to worship Apollo, Zeus or Athena, the Egyptians worshipped Amun and Serapis, and the Nubians mainly worshipped Amunsuccessfully crossed this sea of death and safely entered the valley of the Toston River.

As a result, in the desert, after walking for ten days, the scout cavalry in front of them wailed, they thought that they would never see the end of the yellow gravel again, but finally they still saw the mountains, and the dwarf bulbous plants scattered on them, and actually searched for traces of cultivated land, "The Serapis Legion is on both wings, taking the mountain road to serve as a guard, the Thirteenth Legion and the auxiliary brigade escorting the baggage are walking in the middle valley, and I personally led the attached cavalry brigade to search and advance in front!" "The cloak of Lipida, with his crown of blue feathers, swung up, and rode his horse and the Vibichinas, and rushed into the land of the broken mountains, where bats and crows flew everywhere, and the sharp-eyed soldiers could see that there were many shadows on the mountainside, as if there were many people hidden in the caves.

"It should be the Esioans, pass through this valley as soon as possible, and go outside to camp in the wilderness where there is a water source!" On the way, the black soldiers of the Serapis legion on the two wings of the mountain road fought with the Essions, and these Essioans suddenly came out of the cave, and these people were indeed an extremely backward people, as Helton said, they had no armor, but they had ostrich gray feathers on their heads, half-naked, barefoot, holding shields covered with ostrich skins, and smashing stones at the Serapius legion with improvised stick throwers, and several soldiers in the front row broke their heads and were dragged behind. Then the unceremonious Medetier put up the skin light shield in his hand, painted with various monster totems, colliding with each other, there was a loud sound of terrifying formation, and then the black soldiers quickly divided into small teams and moved forward, throwing the shuttle dart stuck in the shield slot at the "ostrich warriors", or shooting the arrow feathers in their hands, as a result, many Essioans screamed and rolled down the mountain stream, and the rest were worthy of cavemen, and mysteriously burrowed into the caves and disappeared, and some bold Meadje people rushed into the caves, and found that they were full of rats. The skinless, blood-dripping carcasses of snakes and lizards, it appears that these cavemen eat these animals alive on a daily basis, believing that this will enhance their ability to run and hide.

"Try to avoid pursuit, keep the marching formation, and resolutely fight back when you see the enemy outcropping." Li Bida called several scouts to disperse and warned his soldiers to exercise restraint and calm, after all, he was an uninvited guest, and it was reasonable for the timid Esions to attack him. At dusk, the three auxiliary brigades behind the apse of the Romans were basically safely out of the valley, and at this time the legionaries in front of them had already marked the camp, and had reached half of the camp, to be honest, in fact, the blacks rejected the Roman army's strict to dull style, not only the blacks everywhere, the atmosphere was scattered, they could fight the enemy under the scorching sun, but they were extremely disgusted with the meticulous construction of the camp without a great threat.

Therefore, in order to reverse this situation, Tagus and others have made extremely arduous efforts behind the scenes.

After the completion of the camp of the Roman army, the quadrangular towers, wooden fences (most of the materials were brought by pack horses) and trenches were neat and beautiful, the tents were like a chessboard, and the soldiers began to bathe, eat, and perform duties in shifts, and that standardized momentum shocked the Essioans who came to spy from afar, and they began to make bat-like cries (this is their language, which was summed up by Sabo's description), about the signal of communication between the chiefs, and they began to discuss what to do with the Romans. (To be continued......)