"When you are hungry, spices are the food of the stomach, and when you are full, spices are the burden of the stomach." -- Seneca

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"The original commander of the Thirteenth Army Corps was temporarily dismissed from his post and stayed by my side as a deputy general, because this legion, like the Fifteenth Army Corps, is a work personally trained by General Lybidaeus, and it doesn't matter when it belongs to my command sequence alone, but once it is under the command of General Liberius, then don't have any outsiders to interfere with it, let him command freely." The above are Caesar's original words, so the Thirteenth Legion is now managed by Tagus, but Li Bida is directly serving as the commander.

Peternius and Tagus led the two groups of Libida, one of which was the Thirteenth Legion, and suddenly went north into the province of Macedonia, and demanded that Menedmus, the leader of the Greek people in the province, "come and welcome the army of Dictidor with olive branches and wheat bread."

And Li Bida himself led the 6th Army Corps and the 15th Army Corps to quietly lurk in the mountains on the border between Macedonia and Thesalia. It is an ideal hub for the north to Macedonia and south to the Egnatia Avenue.

"What, Menedmus threw himself into the rebels?" On the way to the march, Scipio watched this information with some excitement, and asked aloud, and when he received the news of the scout's affirmation, he said to Salada, the prince of Thrace, who was beside him, "Did you know such news when you came here with the allies through Macedonia?" ”

Salada shook his head, saying that Menedmus must have been threatened by the enemy army. Scipio whispered. It seems that Caesar had already sent the Einsatzgruppen. Stirred up the attention of Macedonia, "We should turn the direction of the main attack and go to Macedonia to save it!" ”

"Oh, I don't think it's a good idea." At this time, a sharp-eyed middle-aged general behind Scipio said, "Our task is to lead the legion to flank Caesar, who is besieging the city of Kocula, and not to entangle with the enemy's division. After listening to this sentence. The supreme commander who thought that he had three glorious surnames "Metra", "Cornelius" and "Scipio", with dissatisfied, looked at this lieutenant who had always been outspoken, his name was Appis, he was born as a commoner, and he should be in the same camp as Caesar, but he was a very annoying and principled fellow, Scipio had long wanted to drive him away, but because he had accumulated a wealth of experience and courage in the previous wars in the East and the Gallic wars. So I can't get rid of him now.

So Scipio had to be tired of convincing him, "Macedonia is a great province of soldiers and wealth. We can't afford to lose this area, and besides, if the enemy's Einsatzgruppen forces occupy Macedonia, our rear will be threatened, so I still feel that we have to go north and regain Macedonia. ”

But Apis was unmoved, he just said lightly but firmly, "The key to the victory or defeat of the war now is not the gains and losses of Macedonia, but the defeat of Caesar, killing him or capturing him, then the war will be victorious, please don't look at the inconsequential places." ”

"I am the Supreme Commander!" Finally, Scipio angrily offered this killer weapon.

Appis expressed reservations, and no longer defended, and then he pointed to the Alyakmon River in front of the army and said, "You can go north to Macedonia with two legions, but I will stay with the Sixth Army on this river, digging camps, and guarding the baggage." ”

Upon hearing this decision, Scipio breathed a sigh of relief, and finally relieved himself, promising Apis that he would only need three to five days to defeat the enemy guerrillas in Macedonia, and then he would come back (of course, to extort a sum of money in Macedonia) to join Apis and go to defeat Caesar himself.

On the same day, Scipio set out in high spirits, marching along the left bank of the Alyakmon River, and after quietly surveying his formation, several Matia horsemen hurried to the hidden camp and reported the information to Lypida.

Then, Li Bida, Sabo, Serha and other generals led their guards to a high place to hide, watching the enemy's marching posture, "It seems that this guy who likes to desecrate himself while watching the glamorous dance is not an incompetent person, his formation is along the river, unilateral attacks have no effect on him, and Scipio's team seems to have a large number of Thracian light cavalry, it seems that he has received reinforcements from Curtis." Two legions against two legions, a little difficult. ”

"According to the scout's report, Scipio should have a legion to stay on the banks of the Aliakmon River and guard the baggage camp." The dark-skinned Serkhati yì, "We can put Scipio over first." ”

"And then rush into that baggage camp of his?" Li Bida thought for a while, "No, maybe there is a bigger chain of schemes!" ”

On both sides of the Alyakmon River, after nightfall a heavy fog rose again, and in the fog the Sixth Army of Angondinus remained silent, hurrying towards its destination with torches, and received an urgent order from the Acting Commander-in-Chief, "Set out at night and drive directly to the enemy's baggage camp, which, as far as I know, was guarded by only one legion, the Sixth Army of the Macedonian Province." When you have reached your destination, just confront them in a dignified formation, and my aim is to induce Scipio's two legions to hurry back, while I set up an ambush on Mount Andabukia and wait for an opportunity to annihilate him!" ”

It turns out that my legion is just a pretense! Angandinus smiled bitterly, but it was also good, he always remembered the bloody rout in Kalai in Syria before, although he was one of the few generals who escaped, he felt that the desert was an eternal nightmare, "If it is just a front, then it is fine, the bloody battle is far away from me and the soldiers." ”

Suddenly, there was a shouting sound like a landslide and a sea cracking in front of him, Angandinus was frightened, and the whole team began to be confused, and many soldiers shook in the dark night, and fled in fear in the opposite direction, "Blow the trumpet, I repeat, blow the trumpet!" Angandinus shouted, and the terrible sound of the trumpet pierced the silence of the night sky, and the centurions began to look for their men, and they tossed and turned for a long time. When the day dawned, Angandinus could be considered to have put order in order, but he also found that his six legions were in a panic, and ran backwards for three full Roman miles, trampling and trampling many people to death.

Later, when the chief centurion who led the team in front came running, Angandinus learned that it was the soldiers of the front team who were ambushed by the enemy's secret sentry cavalry, and then killed each other in terror, not only exposing the target, but also leading the now shameful rout.

Angandinus was distraught, but now he could only do so, anyway, he finally let the two "six legions" face each other, so he ordered to set up camp and confront the enemy in front of him. (To be continued......)