"I'd rather go to battle with a shield and fight three battles than have a baby at home once." -- Medea compared war with the pain of childbirth

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A day later, as Appis had promised beforehand, all the middle and high commanders of the two rival legions, who had of course survived the march and the blizzard, supported each other and came to Lybida, claiming that they had been authorized by the Upper Command to surrender to the cavalry commander of the city of Rome.

"What about your general Scipio?" Li Bida asked.

The answer was that he was nowhere to be found, so Li Bida figured out that the long-legged general must have miraculously run away again, but he also had some resilience. Saab Kemus then rode out of the procession and dictated the request for surrender in front of the other side:

From now on, the 6th and 8th legions of the Macedonian province participating in Pompey's camp, regardless of rank, all the soldiers laid down their arms, gave up resistance, and concentrated in the core area of the winter camp until the surrendered side disposed of;

After the surrender procedure ended, the winter camp was abandoned and destroyed;

Whoever is able to report Scipio, and the senator who fled with him, is rewarded with two thousand dinars;

Our army pledged not to harm the prisoners and to provide food and lodging to all, but did not allow the prisoners to move around or act carelessly, otherwise there would be corresponding reserve punishments.

When it was over, one of the tribunes on the other side walked up and handed Sabo a few sheets. Saab handed it over to the cavalry commander. Li Bida glanced casually. It was the list of the opposing legion, so he asked the military tribune and said, "To this day, how much authenticity can be guaranteed in this list of the personnel and baggage of your legion?" ”

"I'm sorry officer, I really can't make any guarantees, I can only say that the baggage and personnel losses are huge." The tribune replied with the sorrow of the rest of his life.

Then. Li Bida and his staff, with thousands of pursuing cavalry, entered the camp of Scipio Winter, at the foot of Mount Asimanaus. They met no resistance, nor did the enemy have the strength or courage to resist them, for Lipida's cavalry showed Scipio's army about three hundred shields, all captured from the bronze-shields, from afar, and all of Scipio's men were utterly devastated in despair and resigned to the fate of the prisoners.

After comparing and counting, Li Bida found that the losses of the two corps were simply astonishing, and the previous full strength. It should be close to twelve thousand people, but now there are two and a half thousand people left in the Sixth Legion. And the Eighth Army Corps only survived less than 2,000 people, "This is really a military disaster." Juniconville, who was next to him, couldn't help but sigh when he saw the miserable scene as far as his eyes could see.

"Fortunately, this was a military disaster for Caesar's enemies. Hey, give them some warm clothes and hot bean soup right away, but don't overfeed them to the point of dying or giving them extra energy to do something else. After Li Bida finished instructing, he began to inquire about the prisoners who came and went, and the whereabouts of their other lieutenant commander, General Appis.

But no one knew, because at this time Apis, was standing in front of a remote camp, and the rest of the officers and soldiers ran out to accept the mercy of the victor, but he did not, as he had evaluated himself in advance, "I am not a person who disregards the lives of ordinary soldiers and steps on their bones to achieve himself", but the republican philosophy does not allow him to go out and surrender to Caesar's party, at this time Apis touched his whole body, hoping to find something enough to serve as a relic, but after groping for a long time, he only found a small silver spoon, This was given to him by Tegrenys, the "King of Kings", when he followed Luculas as a military tribune on his expedition to Asia Minor.

After so many years of fighting, he didn't expect that the only valuable relic was sent by the enemy, Apis laughed self-deprecatingly, and he thought of the former Messiaro who used his death to admonish the monarch, that handsome and fearless young man, who was once full of incomprehension of this martyr, but now he woke up, "Maybe every great kingdom will always have to pass his own blood to save this process of collapse." After thinking about it, Appistan calmly placed the silver spoon on the snow in front of the tent, then walked into the tent closed by the snow, poured out all the remaining fire in the brazier inside, and then lay down on his back with a pang, looking at the dim tent stand and ceiling, and the brilliant sparks that quickly flew out, these red, golden fireworks surrounded his body, and he felt that he had instantly become a magnificent "Felix", gradually merging with the fire that devoured the camp.

When Li Bida found out about this place, the entire camp had been burned and razed, and the scorched ground, mixed with white snow, emitted thick smoke, and Li Bida wordlessly picked up the silver spoon from under his feet, and then bowed deeply three times to the place where the ashes were in full bloom

After Scipio's two legions had been annihilated, Caesar's new order came, "Now that the situation between Asia Minor and the East has been decided, your troops may temporarily camp in the winter camp on Mount Asimanus for one or two months, where they may deal with the question of rewards and punishments for the nations, and after April they may allocate two or three legions to accompany Caesar on their expedition to Egypt." ”

"To Egypt?" Li Bida was very stunned, it seems that Gabinus and Marcellus did flee to Egypt, because when Ptolemy returned to the country, he also relied on the power of Pompey, and nominally it can be said that he was also Pompey's Creon, but according to his previous layout, the current Egypt should be looking to Caesar, why is this?

As soon as spring came, it was better to wait until spring came to make a decision, and Li Bida still needed to slowly collect information on the Egyptian side, so he immediately wrote a secret letter and entrusted his henchmen to send it to the Syrian city of Antioch, and the recipients were Hybrida and Polo, who had previously been sent to the Syrian army, both of whom served as chief centurions in the army there.

Subsequently, he sat in the winter camp at the foot of Mount Asimanus, and was ordered to carry out the matters that Caesar had instructed, and he imposed heavy fines on the states that had thrown themselves to Pompey after the outbreak of war, such as Thrace, Bosphorus, Judea, and Bithynia, which Caesar desperately needed; Later, in the name of Caesar, he made rich land gifts to his allies such as Eubertnia, Garacia, and Armenia, elevating them from "tetra-monarchs" to "Roman vassals", during which Libida made a detailed division: Sinop, Amesus, and Pergamon were given to Adina, a part of Cappadocia, and small Armenia, to Theotarous, king of Gaheraxia; Presented Colchis to Little Tegre of Armenia.

However, the price of the allies was to provide a servant army, and this time Caesar surprised by requiring all allied armies to be reorganized into auxiliary legions of the republic. (To be continued......)