Gallius didn't know how to deal with this, and then Lybida took out a letter from Paulus, the governor of Transgaul, his "relative", and openly said to Gallius, "To be honest, because Paulus had always been in close contact with both Malclus and Maximus, I could do the work of both before the war." ”

"But shouldn't these two be supporters of the Pompeo?"

"There is no absolute friendship and faith in this world, everyone must learn to judge the situation, Pompey is dead, and the two are not very close to Pompey's son, in addition, when they served as envoys in Sicily Province to lead the fleet, they were oppressed by the envoy Aquila many times, and now since the assassination of Caesar also has Aquila's share, then I contact them and let them choose the opportunity to turn against the water, it is a normal thing, if there is a loophole, you have to drill." Li Bida said with a smile that it seemed that he was very confident in defeating the enemy from Spain and Sicily using the troops attached to the two legions.

for he had the new city of Laconia as a means of trust.

This is the fortification of the general designer of Philo borrowed by Pop and Adiana entrusted by Libida to supervise Yulia, and the construction was carried out before the assassination of Caesar, so to speak, in terms of investment, the whole city is surrounded by two stone walls, and the surrounding hills have built supporting camps, and between the walls, outside the passage connecting the city gates, the rest of the area is strictly forbidden to build shops and houses, some are only moats, traps and stakes, the first wall is eight Roman feet high, It was mainly used to block the surprise attacks of enemy infantry and cavalry, and was equipped with twenty-four towers and a corresponding number of rod throwers and light ballistas. The walls are not the same as the end. Rather, it is concave and convex and jagged. This allows for greater effectiveness in cross-firing towers; The second wall, built along the hillside, was twelve roman feet high, which looked much taller than the first, and was supported by thirty-three towers, and had heavy donkey casters and ballista cannons that could destroy the enemy's siege engines from a high position, and there were bellows guns dug inside. With the secret gate used by the garrison, at the moment when the enemy is attacking the fortification, the two city walls and towers can be used to suppress the enemy at the same time due to the staggered relationship. In addition, they are connected by land and four flybridges, which can be used flexibly to mobilize a small number of troops to deal with key attacks.

On the sea, the city of Nova Laconia also had a complete dockyard, which was not as large as that of Liguria and Cyrenaica, but it was very cheap to build a small number of battleships with decks and repair a large number of war-damaged ships. In the deep-water bay recessed at the front end of the city, Li Bida's guard ship was moored. and a lighthouse, a naval command room, and a small plaza for cranes to load and unload supplies and equipment, which gradually narrowed as the bay reached the outside, and finally entered the sea at two headlands, at each of which a separate fortress was built, and inside were stationed sentry men, ballistas, speedboats, and grain warehouses, and there were mechanisms for telescopic chains.

On the outskirts of the city, there is a relatively protruding and towering mountain, which the locals call "Bird Mountain", because it is very large and very high, so when Pop and Philo designed the city wall, they did not pass through its surroundings, which not only consumed materials and man-hours, but also did not have an effect on the defense, but because Bird Mountain can overlook the entire rich Oristano Plain, which is the largest grain producing area in Sardinia, full of wheat fields and vineyards, so Philo still built a camp on the mountain for the purpose of control.

Crossing the Oristano plain, you will reach the city of Calaris, the capital of Sardinia. So he divided all the ships that had been gathered into three, and stationed a detachment of the fleet, commanded by Gable, to control the sea passage between him and the city of Sicily, and to confront Maximus's fleet, and then he appointed Edangis, with a second fleet, to be stationed on the island of Baudeles, about twenty romans from La Connia, to hold the sea passage between Corsica and Sardinia. Then, the last detachment, Li Bida made it stop in the harbor of the city of Nova Laconia, and used it to cooperate with the road guards.

"The city is completely impregnable, and the brothers Tellureas and the young Pompey brothers had to be forced to fight me under the city, because the two sea routes of Massella and Numidia were in my hands, and they could only take the middle line along the Balearic Islands, and when they reached Sardinia, they met the middle gate, so they were left with only three options, one was from Corsica, and the other was from Sicily, these two routes were very long and risky, so they had to choose to go to Sardinia and seize provisions, Fight me. "Li Bida is very confident.

It seems that this is indeed the case, when the senate's pardon arrived in the Balearic Islands, the brothers Rabinus, Lelias, Lipo and Pompey immediately convened an emergency meeting, at which Rabinus was obviously not in high spirits, Caesar died, he did not know whether to be happy or lamented, but fortunately Li Bida was not dead, and he still had a chance to prove it.

In the end, everyone came to a surprisingly unanimous conclusion, "Since the intelligence shows that Li Bida has taken the legions of Naipo Province and stationed in Sardinia, then we will not wade into this troubled water." "To that, brother Rolls. Pompey explained, "Although Spain had been conquered by Caesar before, my father's disciples were still everywhere here, and as long as I raised my arms, I would have no problem gathering ten legions in a short time. Therefore, the plan for now is not to return to Rome for the time being in the name of recruitment, but to stay in Spain to strengthen our army, let Tellureas entangle with Lipida, and wait until our wings are full, and then cooperate with the Senate to annihilate the Caesars one by one and avenge their father. ”

The new governor of Spain was at first indignant at the decision of the younger Pompey brothers, but then a secret letter from the Senate gave him the numbers of the four regular Spanish legions and all the fleets, promising to supply his fleet in the Balearic Islands, promising him the right to be a candidate for consulship in the coming year, and the Senate having "full confidence" in his successful appointment.

In this way, Tellureas soon had no trouble, not to mention that he had already looted the province in order to form a legion and cavalry with Kassi, and if he continued to stay in order to ensure that he would be accused after the expiration of his term, so after being satisfied with the conditions, Tellureas also began to sail from the city of Talaco with four legions and two auxiliary legions half a month before Libida set sail from the port of Yar.

At the same time, the young Pompey brothers led their team ashore in the Sagantan region, and the two sides that were originally crusading and being crusaded happened to be tacitly adjusted, and the whole situation began to change dramatically. (To be continued......)