"I wonder if Scipio fought in these places a hundred years ago! I feel about them now. Looking at the turbid waterfall rushing down the opposite cliff, Li Bida said on his mount, holding a wet sheepskin cloak with one hand and a horse chewing with one hand.

"With all due respect, you are not like Scipio, you are more like Hannibal, like a barbarian, who appeared before the city of Rome with an elephant over the high mountains." Saab Kemus picked up the conversation next to him.

Ahead was a small expanse of land, where the fork in the road was, and after talking to the herdsman who led the way, Saboquemus pointed ahead and shouted to Libida: "If you see the village ahead, you can enter the plain of Camplainnan if you cross the pass adjacent to it." ”

In the dense rain, the soldiers' cloaks and hair were wet, and they stood in the puddles, waiting for His Excellency the Treasurer to give orders for the next step. Li Bida carefully observed the rainy village, which must have been abandoned by the Balantians, with fences and wooden towers that had not yet had time to be removed, densely packed thatched huts on the outside, and mud paths on the inside. After a while, Li Bida ordered a phalanx of 100 men to enter the village in search of fodder or other supplies, and to detect any danger at the pass, and 40 Alay cavalry and another 100-man team were on guard at a distance of one furlong outside the village. The rest of the men and horses formed a rectangular formation around the baggage, the artillery carts, and the elephants, with all the spears and swords remaining in an outward orientation.

In the continuous rain, a team of 100 people quickly ran into the village, and they called the trumpeters and standard-bearers to stand on a high place outside the village to observe the surroundings, and the rest of the people began to tumble upside down. The cavalry and infantry on the perimeter were all nested in an isolated small forest outside the village. Sheltered from the rain.

There don't seem to be any enemies in the village. But there is nothing to loot either. The hundred-man team that entered the village soon went to the pass to reconnoiter for any enemy ambushes.

"Tell the guys who are on guard on the perimeter to run, they are nested there, and they can't find any enemy." Li Bida complained to the famous herald, and the soldier rode his horse and galloped in the direction of the village, ready to convey the meaning of the treasurer to the other party.

At this moment, several thunderbolts seemed to rise in the valley next to the village, which was deafening. The shouts of slaughter on the slopes and in the woods shook the sky, and a large number of Balandians, who had been lying in ambush on horseback, poured out from all directions as if they had suddenly appeared out of the ground, and with skillful wielding short swords and javelins, they cut their horses into the road outside the village, and in an instant they stabbed the hapless herald off his horse, and then the horses' hooves kicked his body around, and the cavalry and infantry who were on guard outside the village were caught off guard and beaten to pieces. Many people panicked and fell into the ponds of water and grass around the village. He was killed before he could get up. There were also a group of men who, at the instigation of the Ten-Commander, who were brave enough to die, leaned against the corner of the fence and still resisted the siege of the Balandians.

At this time, the trumpeters and standard-bearers who were originally on the high ground outside the village were actually frightened by the sudden killing of the enemy, and they did not blow the trumpet, put up the flag, and sent a timely signal of danger to the hundred-man team that had already driven to the pass, but panicked and cowardly climbed the guard tower on the high ground and hid, but the Balantians did not find these people, and then they divided the cavalry into two teams, one team blocked the communication between most of Li Bida and the village, and the other team dismounted one after another, rushed into the village, ready to encircle and annihilate the hundred-man team that had sent forward. At this time, in the rain and the angry wind, there were creepy shouts everywhere in the cliffs and dense forests around the pass and the village, and the screams of the women were probably the women of the Balantian tribe, and they also came to help.

All of Li Bida's subordinates, even the Spanish warriors of the Setratai Warriors, were terrified, after all, they came from a more civilized region, and the bloodthirstiness and rage of a wild tribe like Balantia were enough to make the bravest soldiers on Shijie retreat, and even the war elephants behind Li Bida began to stir uneasily, and they also felt instinctive excitement or fear at the shouts of battle and the sound of trumpets.

"Your Excellency, do you want to release war elephants to crush the enemy, and then rush in?" Saab next to him reminded loudly.

"No, it's too narrow here—little Hortensius, follow me into the village on the other side—Sabo, you stay here and command the large army to keep it close!" Li Bida threw the sheepskin cloak to a servant next to him, and then little Hortensius raised the flag, and the financial officer was escorted by more than ten servant cavalry, crossed the brigade of soldiers and horses, and galloped towards the village together!

"Good owl, you have to do something for me today!" Li Bida felt that both ears were filled with manic wind and rain, bowed down, patted the neck of the mount, and pleaded softly, the owl this time changed the previous Bai Shun obedient and cute image, neighed and rushed forward, under the horse's hooves as if there was a storm, and the servants behind also shouted and cheered each other, they were in the staggered flying arrows and stones, but also to ensure that the formation was not chaotic, and to maintain a coordinated posture in the enemy group, which was exactly what had been trained hard in the camp of Kimira before.

Many of the tribal cavalry of Balantia, when they spotted the small Roman cavalry that had cut into their ranks, stopped them even more frantically, and everywhere there were shadows of men and horses circling and swords clashing violently. "Don't be stunned, follow your tent team and rush out with all your might!" In the midst of the cheers, Li Bida stood up on horseback, walked through, and was encouraged by the people who were still fighting to the death in the corners and fences, and the feathers on his helmet swayed in the wind and rain, which was very eye-catching. At this time, Saab Kemus also commanded the battle team in the front, sounded the trumpet collectively, and constantly threw hunting spears, approaching the cavalry group of Balantia to divert the enemy's fire on Lipida.

"Owl, leap over for me!" Li Bida cried out as he hugged the horse's neck, his body clinging to the saddle, his legs clamped, for he had not yet reached the riding skill of Biduita, and the owl easily crossed a broken wall and rushed into the mud of the village, and behind him, little Hortensius and several of his servants who had not yet fallen behind also crossed the short wall and followed.

Suddenly, the owl raised its front body, stood in place, stopped suddenly, and its hooves were churning in place, almost tearing Li Bida upside down! Just as Li Bida was about to scold the little lady, a servant who followed him and did not stop the footsteps of his mount was directly rushed out of the hut on the side by a Balantian warrior who pierced the men and horses with a spear, and fell straight into the mud under the broken wall with splattered blood. (To be continued......)