Chapter 8: Splitting and Attacking (Part II)
In the city of Olicum, in addition to the thirty hostages, more than 3,700 adult men were sold into slavery, and there were countless old and weak women and children. Later, after meeting with Antony, after a brief greeting, and without any false courtesy, Li Bida quickly handed over the troops - Li Bida marched towards Thesalia with three legions, the sixth, thirteenth, and fifteenth, and the rest of the troops were all commanded by Antony, and rushed to the city of Bugarotum to join Caesar, and to fight with the neighboring Aetoria.
Although Li Bida was in charge of the North Route Army, but in the direction of the march, it was still southeast of the port of Dixhachan, according to the original plan, his terminal was Lirissa on the east coast of Greece, but when he marched with 15,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, he felt that it was extremely difficult to march in this mountainous area - before, Li Bida crossed here, so in a sense, it can be regarded as a revisit, but Greece gives everyone the impression that it is a mountain made of stones, and a road paved with stones, And the plains made of stones, temples and fortresses made of stones, everywhere there are stones, and water is scarce. And after a few years, Li Bida found that all the rivers in his memory were out of shape, because in this climate and environment, rivers are extremely fragile. The soldiers could only rely on the guidance of local guides, and under the still dry and hot sun of early winter, they slowly swallowed ten Roman miles, and then found a thin and soft stream, and talked about masturbation, because the demand for drinking water for man and pack horses and war horses was too great, so they could only reduce the number of individual allotments.
Equally hot, there is the love of the Thessalians, who heard about the end of the city of Olicum. He sent messengers to the camp with great speed. Claims that all the surrounding towns have reached a consensus. He was willing to give Caesar's army whatever it needed, wheat, wine, leather, women, and so on.
In this way, the life of the three legions improved a lot, and Li Bida stationed the camp and stopped marching, because he knew that Pompey's follow-up army was all gathering towards the front line by sea, and he could not intercept it.
And as far as he knows. Pompey's five legions in Macedonia and Greece had been assembled, and three more were coming across the sea:
The names of these three legions have been located in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Macedonian Legions, of which the Sixth Legion is actually adapted from the Eleventh Legion of Lukulas in the former Lukulas to conquer Asia Minor, and was originally stationed in Bithynia; The Seventh Legion was newly recruited by Brutus, Appis, Cassillo and others in Minor and other places; The Eighth Legion, on the other hand, was formed by the remnants of the Eighth Legion of the former Lucuras and the remnants of Siceros Silesia, and was nicknamed the "Twin Legion". And according to the information gathered by Li Pida, these three legions were incorporated into the Greeks and Celts of Asia Minor in large numbers. Therefore, the preparation is very neat, and Scipio has only been in Minor Asia for about a month. But he had already gained the reputation of the "butcher" in the collection of taxes - he had to tax everything, "the door tax", the "window tax", the "stove tax", the "military shoe tax", the "crossbow machine tax", and the "pack beast tax", and the tax on living and working in peace and contentment, and the heartbeat tax on farting, the greedy and tyrannical tax collectors once again wreaked havoc in the province of Asia Minor, and the knights' possessions were expropriated by Pompey, and they even more intensified their exploitation of the land to make up for the shortcomings.
Therefore, Li Bida estimated that the equipment of these three corps must not be very bad, and within a month they will be rushed to the front line of Greece.
Therefore, he must not go too deep, as this will lead the entire army to stretch the battle line too long and too fragile.
In addition, the counteroffensive of Pompey's army, if nothing else, will come soon.
Lipida guessed correctly, but beforehand, it was the fierce battle for military power between Rabinus and Gabinus.
When Gabinus was given the honor of "Imperato" by the soldiers, trouble followed, when the coastline was lost and Olicum was lost, Pompey's angry accusations and investigations also came to the camp, and Rabinus took the opportunity to write a detailed report on the origin of this "Imperato" and replied to the past, and soon after Pompey ordered Gabinus to become the provincial treasurer and go to Delphi to "assist Marcellas in handling the general affairs, because there is a greater need for Imperato".
This teasing and sarcasm made Gabinus ashamed and annoyed, and it was obvious that he had been deposed, but now he could only accept this fact, and he packed his bags and returned to Delphi.
Thus, all the command of the five legions, and the three that were about to arrive, was vested in Rabinus, and he finally began to raise his eyebrows, and faced Caesar without restraint: after more than ten years of getting along day and night, the deeper the relationship, the more the grudge after the rupture could not be resolved, and this point was the same for both.
After Labinus took over the army, he first reorganized the power of the fleet, and now Byblos died of illness and Maximus was captured, so he handed over the remaining one hundred and twenty warships to the commander of Lipo, with him as commander-in-chief, and Pompey's eldest son Laus and his youngest son Cyptus as lieutenants - so that the command of the fleet was unified by kinship and no longer chaotic, and then Rabinus asked them to concentrate on breaking Caesar's lines of communication and re-cutting the Adriatic Sea. Otherwise, Caesar would have received an effective and sufficient supply.
Then, Rabinus suddenly left only one legion at the Apsus River to confront Caesar, and he himself led the other four legions, bypassing Caesar's fortified defenses, and heading directly in the direction of the city of Cocula on the western coast.
To Caesar's surprise, he could not figure out what Rabinus was trying to do, so he quickly recalled Antony, who had made great progress in Aetoria, and studied it with him.
"I originally estimated that there were only two, one was that Rabinus would retreat, gather all his legions, and fight against us in central Greece; Rather, it was Labinus who stormed my ramparts, tried to push me back to Apollonia and Dixachan, and then tried to push me into the sea—what was his purpose now to go around to the south of my camp at the risk of his flanks being exposed? Caesar muttered at the military council.
"This is obviously an attempt to lure us into abandoning our fortified ramparts, to fight in the field with our side, and to overwhelm us with numerical superiority, so I built a fortified inner layer of the road in the last five Romes of Bugarotum, so that we can protect several seaports, and when we have collected enough food, we can wait for an opportunity to fight the enemy." This is the construction of Karenus, very discreet.
But Anthony, who looked carefully at the sand table, seemed to have a different idea, and he said very arrogantly, "Maybe that Rabinus's purpose is this, but the war is never about who is right, but about who is less wrong, we can make Rabinus's action a mistake and surround and annihilate him in Coculla!" (To be continued......)