In fact, Angandinus was also prepared in this way, he had received the strategy of the commander in advance, so he divided the team into two, quickly built a rampart camp in the middle of the street that must be passed, and imitated the experience of the siege of Masseria, and laid out many projectile equipment, "Our mission is to monitor the enemy's baggage camp and intercept all the enemy's routs there!" ”

On the other side, Apis also selected the chief brigade and four auxiliary hundred-man detachments to form an assault group, and mobilized the soldiers, saying, "Now perhaps our commander, General Scipio, may have suffered an unfortunate fate, and if we want to rescue him, we must break through this enemy army in front of us, so it is imperative to strike valiantly." ”

However, all the officers and men of Appis's six legions were in an uproar, and they were all greedy for the luggage in the camp, where they had their own savings for half their lives, their salaries, their looted booty, and the extra bounty that Scipio had given them in Asia Minor, and each of them had at least five thousand Cestrith's possessions, and they elected a military tribune to consult with Appis, "The camp must not be left behind, and if the chief brigade goes into battle, if there is still an enemy in ambush around it, and it cannot resist and is defeated, That qiē is over. ”

"What is the reason?" Appis said angrily to all the tribunes with a calm face, and then he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, everything had happened again: when he was a military tribune, he had gone to negotiate with the commander Luculas on behalf of the soldiers, but he didn't expect that now it would be his turn.

Just as Apis and the soldiers were in a stalemate, Scipio had two legions over there. He had already run more than a dozen miles away, and then Scipio, with the Thracian cavalry, suddenly saw the well-built ramparts of Angandinus. He shouted loudly, and Opimiaus, the captain of the cavalry next to him, hurriedly asked if he wanted to organize a strong attack.

"Crazy, the opponent's pursuers are behind us, and there is a barrier blockade in front, if we rush to attack, we will be captured after exhaustion." Scipio finished. In a blink of an eye, he saw a large plateau on the left, near the river, and took all the soldiers with him. Climbing up in a hurry, and then forming a formation, Scipio ordered his idle soldiers to dig up and set up camp around him.

In the dust, Li Bida and the vanguard cavalry also chased up. Wait until he sees the battlefield. I couldn't help but complain that Angandinus was not familiar with military affairs, "You should set up camp on this high slope to blockade, Scipio is a rat in a bag." ”

When he saw that the other party was preparing to defend on this high slope, he calculated a little in his heart, and decided to rely on the existing supplies to fight, even if he could not completely destroy Scipio this time, he would find a way to inflict heavy damage on him, so that his three legions had to withdraw from the future decisive battle of Kocula.

Wait until the Thirteenth Legion also arrives. Li Bida ordered the archers of the two legions to be concentrated. "Divide into four teams and take turns shooting volleys up the hill!" Immediately, the banners of the golden flies waved everywhere on the hillside, the bowstrings were bursting, and the thunderstorm was noisy, and the arrows flew from all directions, and Scipio's subordinates continued to fall screaming, but the general was still bruised and intimidated, and forced his soldiers to build fortifications at the risk of arrows, "If we are defeated here, and all the possessions are gone, you will be beaten as a rebel by Caesar, and even if you die in battle, you will not even have the cost of the bereavement!" ”

Finally, at dusk, Li Bida surrounded the high slope and contacted Angandinus, while Scipio, with his many wounded subordinates, was in a state of panic, and he wanted to select brave officers and soldiers, break through the blockade, and get in touch with Appis over there, but no matter how high the reward was, there were few applicants.

After thinking about it, Scipio could only send Opimius to the enemy's camp that night to negotiate an armistice with Lypida.

"Isn't it too late to negotiate an armistice?" Li Bida replied in a mocking tone.

When Opimius heard this, he did not dare to say anything, but only digressed the topic, saying that their morale was on the verge of collapse, but "General, your army should be running out of food, so we might as well truce for two days, bury the corpses, treat the wounded, and ransom the prisoners." ”

After pondering for a while, Li Bida said to the other party, "This is not a matter that cannot be negotiated, I have captured thousands of wounded and prisoners of your army in the previous battle, and each of them you will spend five hundred cesthes to redeem it, and give you a day of armistice, I promise not to attack it, but until the third day, you will have to start the war again." ”

Opimius thanked Lybida for his generosity and went back to report the good news to his supervisor. After the other party had left, Li Bida slowly put a scroll of letters on the table, and then ordered Sabo and Arp: "Tomorrow half of you go to exchange prisoners for ransom, and the other half pack up in the camp, and we must hurry through the streets to Apollonia, for Lord Caesar has just sent an urgent message saying that Lipo's fleet has re-attacked, and has severely damaged all our ships, and that it is possible to carry two legions on the side of Lykugu at any time to raid and retake Olikum, or the port of Dikhachan, Now, not only our army, but even the six legions to which Caesar belonged, are running out of rations, so the port cannot be lost, and we need food from Sicily and Gaul. ”

It seems that our three legions are going to "plug the leak" again, Sabo thought so, and took the order, and then Arp asked his master, "Scipio's army will besiege for three more days, and we will be able to completely collapse it, and now we really have to give up?" ”

Li Bida nodded helplessly, and said that I am different from Scipio, as the chief lieutenant general, I must consider the safety of the entire battle situation, anyway, the two legions of the other side have also suffered heavy losses, they are unable to join the Kocula battlefield, the mission of the special army division has been completed, and now all the energy has to be returned to the siege of Kokoula over there, although Caesar "surrounded" this highland coastal city, but in fact it was at a point where he could not advance or retreat, Rabinus had sufficient ships in his hands, he was at ease, Battlefields can be opened in new locations at any time to contain Caesar's already stretched forces - so we must rush back to defuse the crisis.

The day after the captives were ransomed, Scipio's patrol cavalry reported a strange phenomenon they had detected: the enemy had not launched a new offensive against us, and their camp was quiet.

Scipio, who was terrified, could not believe what he saw, so he sent a group of light cavalry, not only around Li Pida's camp to reconnoitre, but also to explore the surrounding river valleys and mountains, only to find that the other party had already moved away in the middle of the night, and there seemed to be no new ambush. (To be continued......)