"Let's not be in war, Li Bida obviously wants us to storm the city of Laconia, although I have a clear and huge advantage in military strength, but this is completely unnecessary, don't do what the enemy wants us to do, after the Balearic takes the route for supplies, we will sail directly to Sardinia, but avoid Li Pida's fortress, drive directly to Calaris at the southern end, and call the Sicilian fleet to meet us." This is the plan that Tellureas gave to the lieutenants before the expedition.

After a short rest in the Balearic Islands, and as they set sail, Lipida had reached Nuevo Laconia, and quickly came to the plain of Oristano with his cavalry, and quickly gathered the representatives of all the towns, and made a very clear request to them just before the rolling wheat waves,

"The strategy this time is to clear the wilderness, that is to say, we do not know when or where the enemy will come ashore to fight, so all the towns must protect themselves, and do not leave grain and fodder to the enemy, and the time is very short—now the towns and farms must complete the task of harvesting the fields within three days, and then the inspectors of the districts shall pay into the warehouses of the towns, and after leaving a quarter, three-quarters must be transferred at once to the city of Laconia. In this process, those who dare to obstruct will be dealt with as enemy spies, and they will be executed and their families confiscated as slaves. ”

The order came too suddenly, but it was clearly unquestionable—Lypida's cavalry, all stationed in the heart of the plain, had beheaded three disobedient locals before nightfall, erected crosses in front of the fields, and Yulia had sent out a "stick team" that the locals feared most: all freed slaves of the Aemilius family and slaves of the portal. With a triangular hat. With a rudimentary copper cuirass. Armed with thorny clubs and machetes, he is familiar with any geography of the area, and travels through farmsteads and towns to intimidate.

The task was quickly completed within the allotted time, and Tellureas' fleet appeared four days later on the coast south of the city of Nuevo Laconia, which now happened to be the most supple time of the entire ocean, with few turbulences and hurricanes, so Tellureas' army was able to choose a long, narrow and flat coast with great precision. Then it took all the legions half a day to get to land.

Then the cautious Tellureas asked the two auxiliary legions, led by the lieutenant general Curia, to go forward to search for plunder supplies, and then the four legions went around the sea, busily building fortresses half on the water and half on land, encircling all the ships in between, in case of enemy or storm attacks.

Curia led the fierce Tarraco cavalry in a diamond-shaped formation, followed by several brigades of Iberian auxiliary light infantry. Rushing towards the nearest towns, the result was drums and horns beating everywhere. All the towns were closed, and the young men carried their rods and throwers up the city walls, and the old and weak women and children carried supplies and aided the war below.

Frustrated, Curie led his cavalry around Rome, but could not find any grain or forage, and when they arrived at the village, not only was it empty, all the cattle were nowhere to be found, and even the wells were poisoned, so angry that everyone was so angry that they were tired and thirsty.

As the sun began to sink in the west, just as Curie had given the order to rest and the whole army had retreated to the anchorage of the ships, he suddenly heard shouts of slaughter from all directions - from the streets and the hills, countless Lybida's cavalry rushed at a hurry, their armor and banners shining in the sun, and it was breathtaking, "The cavalry advance, hold them back, all the infantry hold on to their javelins and shields, and follow my banner and do not let go!" Curia then sent a few light horsemen and hurried towards his camp, hoping to be supported by his commander-in-chief, Tellureas, "In short, the condition of our army is dire, and many of the soldiers and horses have no water. ”

In the bitter battle, Curie found that the opponent's cavalry was simply endless, and the advance and retreat were orderly, Li Bida climbed to the commanding heights, could have a bird's eye view of the entire battle situation, and calmly commanded - when Curie's cavalry had just stepped forward and was about to drive back the Averny cavalry, Li Bida said to Paruma, "You hold the banner, take all the Germanic cavalry, cut over!" ”

Without saying a word, Paruma skillfully controlled his mount, holding the banner of King Numa, and led hundreds of Germanic cavalry, in a dense formation, towards the gap between the ranks of Curie's cavalry and infantry, like an unstoppable sword.

For a moment, Curia really couldn't react, and could only continue to charge forward, which was equivalent to throwing the infantry behind, but just when his Spanish infantry was about to raise their shields and weapons and line up against the Germans riding short horses, all the Germanic cavalry were fifty Roman feet away, collectively roaring to the right and turning, and then rushed to the flank of the Curie cavalry, and then skillfully jumped off their horses, raised the long swords in their hands, and stabbed and slashed at the mounts of the Curiar cavalry. The trick of riding on foot was what the Germanic warriors were best at.

Under the fatal blow, Curia's cavalry rolled and fell from his horse, and the rest of them also turned around and ran away, and the cavalry of Li Bida in front of him also thundered over, and the infantry formation behind Curia was also smashed to pieces, and after their cavalry scattered and fled, they were not fast, and they were trampled and slashed by the cavalry that Li Bida then rushed - the short mounts of the Germanic cavalry, after the masters dismounted and went to the foot battle, could stay in place very obediently, or follow the pace of the master, as if they were tied to the waist as easily and well-behaved.

By the time Tellureas himself came to meet him with two legions, Li Bida had already taken it and retreated, leaving only the corpses of hundreds of Spanish infantrymen killed in the rout, scattered in the field.

After going back, all the Spanish provincial commanders were very angry, they lost their composure, and collectively asked Tellureas to take all the main forces and line up for a decisive battle with Li Bida the next day, the other side only had two legions, and one was adapted from horse bandits, and the combat power was not strong, we could completely defeat him in the field, or capture his city, and sell all his subjects into slavery!

But Tellureas still tried to persuade everyone with great pain, saying that if he did so, he would have fallen for Li Bida's tricks, and judging from the situation of the battle today, the whole town of the plain had been controlled by him, and it would be difficult for us to obtain supplies lightly, so I decided to pull anchor tomorrow, cooperate with each other by land and water, and carry the last five days' rations, and advance towards the port of Calaris—if Li Bida did not come to pursue, our army would wait for the Sicilian fleet to meet him; If he comes after him, we will gather all our troops and horses, turn back to fight him, and defeat him!

However, at the joint meeting of his side, Li Bida's words were even more astonishing, "In two market days, I will eat all this enemy army from Spain." (To be continued......)