After sitting at the table and praying, Anjit touched the heads of his children who were bent down to eat, and then tore open a wild fruit and chewed it, his wife seemed to realize something, after all, women's minds are sensitive, but they never spoke, and for a long time Anjit spoke to himself, "Soon I will command the war of the entire Yazda Fortress." ”

"Are there many Romans?"

"There are about twenty thousand people, and their commanders are cunning."

The woman was silent, then wiped her hands and went to the stove in the courtyard to serve the baked bread.

After the family finished eating, they sat down on the tables and chairs in the shade of the trees in the courtyard, and finally Ankit told his wife, "Take the children well, and don't neglect your homework to God." After saying that, he stood up, hung up his saber, tucked his cloak, nodded lightly to his wife, and left.

When Anjit returned to Yazda, the wall of water had been built, but he himself lost his word, and he could not bring back the stone that the entire fortress urgently needed, so there was a section of the wall buttress on the north side of the fortress, like a person with a front tooth in his mouth, Anjit, who was standing under the city on a donkey, stared for a while, and then ordered, "For the time being, take out the soil from the mountain behind Yazda, tamp it, fill it, and set up camouflage outside, after all, it is difficult for the enemy to return to this side." ”

In the winter camp, General Lipidaus went through a lot of hard work, and finally cobbled together some prostitutes and peddlers who were willing to risk their hard money, and finally set up a camp to comfort the soldiers who were too bitter and aggrieved to be stationed here. For example, wine. For example, a woman's carcass.

When Gable and the boatwrights push the first flat-bottomed armed river boat into the water. Li Bida finally ushered in a stunning feeling: this ship was indeed much larger than ordinary sea ships, and because of its hydrological characteristics, it was made into a gold-cut rectangle, with a length of about 120 Roman feet, which was very magnificent, and according to the requirements of the operation, its side was very high, and the "crow" was no longer located in the bow. Rather, it is miniaturized, reeled on both sides of the ship, four "crows" on the left and right of a ship, with two light stone ballista cannons, considering the safety of the soldiers on the deck, the raised part is also made into a "wall buttress", the most brilliant place is that Gable hides under the bow of the ship under the statue of Poseidon, with a bellows cannon with a flame-breathing pipe, and Gable has improved it for use on the water - the piston is driven by pedals. As soon as the paddlers on deck pedal up and down, the Poseidon statue will breathe deadly flames!

However, General Li Bida seems to have a small place. Feeling that Gable was not perfect, he hoped that this ship would not only have the combat power of shooting and spitting fire, but also have a strong survivability in front of the Yazda fortress held by the Hashhiti believers, with a total output of eight to ten ships (in order to support this thing, Li Bida exempted all the taxes of Garamane Tip for the coming year, and recruited many people to work in the camp, so there could be no mistakes).

When he made this request, Gable laughed, but he was very careful and immediately feared that the laughter just now was rude, so he immediately said in an apologetic tone, even if it is a ship fighting at sea, when it is damaged or burned, as long as it is calmly repaired, it is generally difficult to sink, because the wood used for shipbuilding is relatively light, fir, oak, beech, etc., as long as it is not a tragic storm, most of them can survive the battle, and they can also capture the enemy's ships to replenish themselves.

"No, you know, Gable, the object of our battle this time is not the ocean, but a fortress, and the river sandwiched between it is relatively narrow, so my request is not to turn this ship into a nimble fighter, but to use it as a strong fortress, it is a blockade camp floating on the water, with a large number of fierce hoplites, with ballista tarbuchets and bellows cannons, these are all good, but I need the word solid, you know? How can the ship not sink? After Li Bida finished speaking, he touched his nose, and then snapped his fingers at Gable, really since he crossed into this world, he has also taken a river boat, and he has also taken a sea boat, why didn't he notice, there is no life-saving compartment at the bottom of the ship here, this thing is the most practical, he gave the idea to the head of the project, Gable, this guy who is good at carpentry (Pop is better at masonry) understands, he is very surprised by the wisdom of the commander-in-chief, as long as the bottom of the boat below the oarsman level is made into a room form, Sealed with cork, even if the ship is fatally wounded in one or two places, the water will only enter one or two compartments, and the ship will still be able to float on the surface to fight, or be withdrawn for repairs.

It can only be said that in this era, people did not pay much attention to the "rejuvenation" of damaged ships during naval battles, and many ships were discarded directly after being damaged, but when it came to our calculating General Lybidaeus, everything was different.

When the not particularly obvious spring of the Tostone Valley came, Lybida held a second joint meeting with all the centurions in the camp, at which Lybidaeus forbade anyone to speak, he only glanced at Saab Kemus, and Saab directly promulgated a new battle plan after the beginning of spring:

Go hand in hand, step by step.

Except for an auxiliary brigade, the armed military slaves, who stayed in the winter camp, all the rest were dispatched.

Two legions, the Thirteenth Legion by land to the west of the riverbank, and the Cyrenean Legion and all the auxiliary brigades by boat, were strictly forbidden to be disconnected, and the chief centurion of any legion was severely punished for his behavior of abandoning the other side's five Roman miles. The two corps were unified under the command of General Peternius.

Commander-in-Chief Li Bida led the Medejie Guard, and Anthony's attached cavalry brigade as the second formation, serving as the center of liaison and sweeping.

Several brigades of the River Guards and the Tomb Guards, armed with spears and bows and arrows, escorted the pack horses behind the mountain.

All the soldiers marched with all their combat equipment, according to the first and slowest speed of the discipline, according to the hundred-man unit, marched intensively, each advance to a cliff fortress, all of them were destroyed, and then set up camp, all the passes were built barracks, and a separate hundred-man team or wing was sent into its guard, to strictly prevent the ambush and sneak attack of the Hashids.

When the fleet encounters the enemy ships from Yazda, they fight and annihilate them without mercy, and when they encounter the strongholds still held by Hashidi, they pull them out in turn with five to ten times the force of their forces, and they do not bypass in a roundabout way, clear one place, and then camp in one place, and then advance to the next step, until they reach the fleet base on Yazda West Mountain, and use the fleet to block the connection between the east and west fortresses, and concentrate their forces to besiege the west.

Afterwards, Li Bida stood up with his gilded baton and said slowly: "This battle is a decisive battle, and anyone who dares to slack off and disobey orders will be stoned to death in public according to the punishment of 1 out of 10." ”

Anthony, who was sitting below, whistled a little and fell silent. (To be continued......)