"The priest does not like to praise the tithe, but he must be ruthless in collecting it." - 14th-century English poet Chansale

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Soon, Flachus arrived with the chief brigade of Leus's legion, a thousand men, and joined the warband, and for a time Dasius's subordinates could not resist, so he called several slaves to run over, and told the slaves who had stayed in the camp and said to them, "Pile up all the baggage and baggage along the north corner of the camp, and guard them with weapons in hand to prevent the enemy from plundering." ”

After receiving this order, the slaves in Dasius's camp immediately complied, and immediately they extinguished the bonfire, and all of them held their axes and daggers around their baggage, anxiously waiting for the tide of battle on the front line to advance in their favor.

At this time, the south and west of the camp, the sound of killing everywhere shook the sky, Li Bida's subordinates were brave and good at fighting, launching fierce attacks wave after wave, and Dasius's subordinates were outnumbered, and slowly and steadily fell down, and also began to fight back desperately. Often Li Bida a battalion team climbed a corner of the tower, killed all the guards above, threw down the corpses, and was just about to meet his own rush in, but was counterattacked by several times the opponent's troops, and his own side was all killed, and the corpses were also thrown down one after another, and the situation was extremely cruel.

Seeing that there was a lot of war in front of him, Odax, who had been quietly lurking on the hill before, asked the others to line up along the hill and galloped down with twenty of his own soldiers. It happened to go around to the place where there was no campfire in North Point. They groped slowly. He waded through a ditch devoid of fallen stakes and thorns (which was usually the way left to facilitate the withdrawal of his soldiers), and then set up a ladder and climbed into it one by one.

Then they used the Latin dialect and sounded their trumpets, shouting and shouting around the camp, "The general at the front has failed, but we still have a way out." Go to the riverside hill in the northwest corner! The first to panic were the slaves, who, when they heard this, hurriedly opened the back door that had been sealed, and then, carrying their baggage and luggage, fled in the direction that Odax had "instructed," the hill three furlongs away.

Subsequently, some of the soldiers on the towers and sentry posts, where there was no fighting, also mistook it for the real thing, and began to slide towards the side of the hill. Soon the situation had an avalanche effect, and Dacius, who had found that the reserve army was nowhere to be found. In a rage on the front line of the fierce war, he temporarily entrusted the command to his chief centurion. Then he took the guards and headed for the north corner of the camp where the incident had taken place.

In the darkness of the night, Dasius met a group of oncoming cavalry, all dressed in Saganmu's jackets, and holding swords and shields in their hands, along the way between the trenches, and shouted twice, "Give your command."

"Invincible Leus, for the glory of the High Priest!" After shouting these words, the Spanish cavalry immediately made a clear distinction between friend and foe, rushed up and engaged in a melee with Dacius and the Guards, and at once disrupted the command center of the Spanish Sixth Legion - Dacius completely lost his command of the front-line troops, and he could only hold his sword and take his way through the enemy's fierce slashing and stabbing. He had dug a trench to prevent him from killing him, and Dacius's mount had broken on it, and the commander himself had rolled into the trench, and had been stabbed with thistles and covered in blood, and could only shout for help from me, and everyone was forced to abandon their horses, dismount and continue to draw their swords and fight each other, and in the darkness it was impossible to distinguish between you and me, so that the commander's cries for help eventually caused panic among everyone—even his guards began to flee.

At this time, Li Bida's men quickly gained the upper hand, they destroyed the wooden fence, seized the tower, and rushed in through several breaches, slashing and slashing, Dasius's defeated troops were crowded in front and back between the staggered trenches, a few of them resisted to the end, and most could only be killed on their knees.

And over there, when the slaves all over the mountains and horses and baggage ran out of the camp and towards the hill, they saw hundreds of cavalry, densely lined up along the ridge, their eyes shining like hungry wolves in the night, and the Spanish machetes in their hands reflected the sharp edge of the soul, as if waiting for them.

The slaves were powerless against the onslaught of the cavalry, especially the fierce and scattered Spanish light horsemen, who in a few minutes were again scattered in the opposite direction, no, they fled in all directions, and all the baggage and pack beasts were abandoned.

As for the end of the battle in the early morning, the Spanish Sixth Army suffered nearly half of the casualties, the rest of the soldiers and most of the military slaves could only surrender, the dead corpses filled the trenches in the camp, the towers and stakes hung the bodies and armor of the dead and wounded soldiers, and Li Bida's troops also paid a heavy price of 400 killed, the only difference was that he was the victor, for such a victory, such a price was worth it.

The body of the enemy commander Dacius was found in a trench, and it is impossible to say who should be attributed to his killing, or to put it more bluntly, that he committed suicide - his body was torn by the thistles he had laid out, and he bled too much, and no one came to save him in the dark when he cried for help - so in fear and confusion he raised his sword and cut his neck.

From this point of view, Dacius was luckier than Rabinus and Rilias, and the latter two could not even commit suicide, and could only breathe after a painful ordeal.

"One of the most relied on legions of the little Thor has been cleanly wiped out by me, and the city of Uriah, the choke point, has also fallen into my hands. Pompey was completely encircled and annihilated, as for Séctus. Pompey, let him be a self-defending thief in the city of Ursho, or on the Cinchillis River, and finally perish. ”

About two days later, General Callenus, who had attacked the city of Korduba thirty miles away, received a letter from the high priest, and he immediately gathered some ships, quickly erected a pontoon bridge over the Baibatis River, and sent sharp soldiers to build a bridgehead on the opposite bank, and then gave the task of besieging the city to Serha, but Sailha said that we were both lieutenants of the high priest, and that we were each in charge of a legion, and that if we wanted to act, we would act together - Karenus, who had no choice but to transfer this task to the Thirteenth Legion, Because it has no direct commander for the time being, the command is given to its chief centurion Quintus. Baltic's.

Naturally, Polo could not argue with the two lieutenants, so the 12th and 15th legions, facing south, crossed the pontoon bridge, and after a day and a night's journey, arrived at Uriah, where they came under the command of the high priest.

At this moment, the local elders of the city of Korduba had begun to send messengers to the barracks to discuss the surrender with the high priest. (To be continued......)