"Of all the barbarian nations, they are the most intelligent and thoughtful in military operations." - Emperor Leo of Byzantium on the Muslims

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"Rats, bedbugs!" Some of the uneasy pack horse team of cattle were spinning and jumping in place, and the captains of the first few companies of the River Transport Guard and the Tomb Guard really couldn't understand how they were already the last of the whole team, how could there be Hashhiti suddenly rushing out of the dense forest at the foot of the mountain to attack them, but these Nubian arrows were like lightning, and they flew out of the river in rows, and then the dozens of "bed bugs" who pounced fell one by one with arrows in the front, and the rest of them carried arrows on their legs and backs, supporting and wailing. These believers should not have deliberately stood here to find bad luck, probably because they were defeated by Li Bida's front troops and scattered here, and they really had no choice but to rush out, because this kind of dragnet attack really made them have no place to stay.

When the captain of a company saw that there were still a dozen wounded ones who fled back to the foothills, he blew it with a bone whistle, and the auxiliary brigade of the Essioans attached to it stood up from the side of the baggage team with a blank face, and walked towards the destination indicated by the captain of the company, they were dressed in short leather armor, and most of the weapons in their hands were hammers and daggers, short and concise, compared to when Li Bida met them before, the equipment had been greatly improved, and Li Bida took the four thousand Essian liberated slaves into private and organized them into eight auxiliary brigades, each of which was configured. There is also a tactical meaning in it: rat battles in the foothills and caves are perfect for these cavemen, who are used to eating bats and lizards. In the dark environment, the eyes are like torches. Let the idea of the Hashhiti believers trying to save their lives by relying on the cave completely collapse.

As soon as the Esioans entered the caves at the foot of the mountain. They walked swiftly in groups of three or five, and walked separately, their daggers and maces hung in improvised covers, and they kept making strange bat-like cries, which frightened the Hashids hiding in their holes into running wild, and then they slammed into the killers, and several of them used daggers and maces to kill an enemy. Broken by each one, many of the hashhits, unable to discern their way in the darkness, could only shout in vain, leaning against the walls of the caves, and at the end of the day they were silently stabbed to death by the beastly Essioans.

Here, in a cliff fortress, dozens of Hashid believers who remained here as scouts could not escape, and were also surrounded by Roman legions in order to uproot the place. Libida used four infantry wings to besiege and then had Arp take the Medejie Guard. Climb up from behind the cliff and drive all these believers out of the main gate, but on the slope below the main gate, more than a dozen scorpion crossbows and three hundred auxiliary archers have already been lined up, and after a rapid execution sound of arrows breaking through the air, all the believers here fell in a pool of blood, and their bodies were stacked together, mixed with the fortress barracks, and all were set on fire by the Roman army.

Under the fire of the cliffs, by the river, there was a dense reflection of brass round helmets, and a group of soldiers, like the dense ivory combs used by a noblewoman, slowly moved forward, and the hidden hashhiti believers everywhere were either killed or driven away, and on the river, the rows of shields hanging on the sides of the large armed ships shone golden in the setting sun, and in the distance they looked like ten large fish full of golden scales, and the foremost one, with the flag of the "Cyrene" legion erected on the bow deck, A golden Scythian centaur (most of the Cyrene legions are from Greece and Macedonia, and the soldiers worship the myth of centaurs, which is actually a transformation of the Scythian warriors with superb riding skills in ancient times), and the ribbon tied to it waives in the wind.

At night, all the hundred-man regiments were encamped, or rather, every thirty Roman miles, they carefully constructed a large well-groomed stronghold, like a small city, as a base for constant advance and supplies.

In such a situation, it will be more difficult for the Hashhitis to succeed in a surprise attack.

In the fortress, David learned about the battle at the front. Ankit, who had been silent for a long time, said to Parthen, "We will first ferry an elite army to the other side by boat, and then engage this general Lybidaeus one more time, so as to experience the tactical characteristics of the opposing army." ”

When two days later, David. When Ankit took two thousand fully armored believers to climb a hill in front of the West Hill on a hill of one hundred stadia, he saw the enemy's combat steps in its entirety, and these well-equipped men, after marching for some distance, began to set up their flags, and then the cavalry and half of the infantry brigades were on guard on all sides, and the rest began to build camps, but this was not the end, after the barracks were rigorously erected, they scattered and sent out various hundred-man teams, and continued to build small camps at the main roads and passes, It's like a bunch of baby spiders running out of the belly of a mother spider.

David. After reading this, Anjit was silent for a long time, and said to everyone, "Abandon the fleet fortress on the opposite shore as soon as possible, move all the ships to the opposite shore as soon as possible, the Yazda fortress also has a dock for mooring, remove the rod casters and ballista cannons on the ships, and install them on the battlements of Yazda, the enemy is very tricky, it is difficult to catch their gaps, and you can only rely on the fortress to thwart the other party." ”

Aguilo, the garrison officer of the fleet fortress, was extremely dissatisfied with the arrangement of the Messianic sword, why did he want to remove Yazda from the other side of the river with such a fine fortress, and he would rather demolish the wall of Yazda and build a new wall of water, why did he temporarily ask us to withdraw Yazda on the other side? This kind of change of order is really unbearable.

But the "sword of the Messiah" David. Ankit's prestige is still the core of the fighting spirit of the entire Believer Army, he once successfully and decisively defeated the city-state army in the field battle, and captured the city of Barka, and is the military leader of the entire team, no matter what, Aguiro still has to obey it.

That night, Li Bida quickly summoned Faobinas, Serha, and Hybrida, and then said to them with a deep face, "At the third sentry, with their respective brigades of 1,000 men, they will quickly march to the fleet fortress in the West Mountain, and launch a decisive attack in the early hours of the morning. ”

Soon, at the main gate of the camp, the two thousand-strong teams of the Thirteenth Legion and the Serapis Legion suddenly jumped out, and under the guidance of the stars and torches, they rushed towards the fortress of the Xishan Fleet.

At night, David was taking a small boat and docking at the Yazda Fortress. Anjit, instinctively smelling the smell of blood and iron brought by the south wind, hurriedly told the oarsman to speed up his pace, and secretly thought in his heart, fortunately, the two thousand elites he brought by the day before him returned to the Yazda Fortress one step ahead of him, "Patiang, my life is not important. ”

"Of course it matters, Sword of Messiah, our commander-in-chief." Patiang, who was sitting next to him, replied without thinking about it.

So David. Ankit looked back at the brightly lit West Hill Fortress, sighed, and said, "God may decide the tragedy of Akilo's life!" (To be continued......)