Chapter 3: Planning (Part II)

"Who is this rude female samurai who doesn't know how to be polite?" Although she knows the identity of the other party, Adiana still has to show her superior quality.

"That's my mother, and Calabis is my father." Little Niko looked up and said.

"Calabis, you were lucky three years ago, but I hope that Father and Obisius succeed in castrating you then." Adiana's tone was quite dissatisfied, obviously she didn't want the amphora to be entangled in too complicated heterosexual relationships, "If I can figure it out, it is probably that when Biduita rescued me, you had a quarrel with this brutal female warrior. Oh my God, this little kingdom on the verge of extinction, I don't even have an interest in pity. ”

"Yes, so I wholeheartedly declare that you are now the guest of honor of the Legion's advance team, and you are entitled to double the salary." Calabis didn't want this arrogant and unreasonable princess to cause trouble, so he did what he liked as soon as possible and gagged her, "Also, you don't have to pay attention to this female warrior, she is just a mercenary of the legion." ”

"Well, yes, don't let me worry about everything, Calabis." Adiana regained her senses and prepared to go to bed in the temple room.

"Are you willing to be your father's enemy?" Calabis stood there and asked at the back of the princess.

"He abandoned my mother and me in the palace back then, and now I think I am a dead man, no longer bound by ethics and morality, and now my life is burning in place of my mother who died of resentment—Calabis, I just want to have a big fight with you now, and I will not think about other trivial matters." With that, Adiana left a long and oblique figure and turned into the crooked aisle. Disappear.

Calabis watched the princess leave. I was ready to get to work. But he saw Elkapa's small body lying in front of him, "Your Excellency, you must apologize to Queen Bixia for what happened just now. ”

"I'm not going to waste my energy on such a boring trifle, Al Kapa, and I'll make up for the queen and my daughter with something more important." Calabis gently pressed Elkapa's shoulders, "I know that your desire to revive the Amazon Kingdom is stronger than anyone else, and you don't want the current queen to be distracted by some bumps around the stove." Then we must seize the moment now and gain our own advantage between the enemy and the allies - and this is for Ella's sake. With that, Calabis patted the speechless Al Capa and left.

The next day, Calabis placed the veteran centurion Hebrida as the leader, and led three brigades of Roman soldiers to the east to sweep the remnants of the Brass Shield, accompanied by the Acayans as a servant army, and they cleaned, demolished, and burned all the villages and market towns along the way in units of hundreds, with captured pack horses. This is not only to destroy the hiding place of the remnants of the Bronze Shield Army, but also to scorch the entire area. Let the imminent army of Pompey have no place to stand.

Hundreds of Bronze Shields were surrounded by a seaside plateau full of gravel and rocky cliffs, without food and water, and did not dare to flee back to the Cimmerian Strait, because it was full of hostile Achaya territory, and they feared that they would be deliberately drowned by the locals during the boat. Without much difficulty, the entire Bronze Shield Army surrendered, and Hybrida announced that all captives would be stripped of their weapons, armor, and banners, and would automatically become slaves of the Romans.

What's even more interesting is that in the box they carried, Highbrida found something extremely valuable: the Eagle Banner of the Eighth Legion.

Around the Acropolis, the rest of the personnel on the beachhead and land on the seashore, with dense wooden stakes and deer bars, for a very good reason: to prevent the fleet of Pontus from sneaking up or counterattacking, of course, Pompey's ship did not want to land easily, once it could not land, stranded on the sea, it was likely to be sunk by a storm that would appear at any time, which was something that any ship commander would worry about.

In the camp of the Bronze Shield Army in Pontus, the mountains of baggage provisions, bags of poppies, honey, and wheat flour, except for those that were burned, were all sent to the Acropolis warehouse for long-term planning. Calabis and Adiana have already figured it out, Pompey's fleet can't get around it at all, because the bay of Ponticabion is still controlled by Achilles of Pontus, and more importantly, the lighthouse and dock of the city and the bay island are in the hands of the Pontus, which is extremely important for naval warfare in ancient times: the lighthouse is the best command post for the naval commander, and the dockyard can provide repair services for ships damaged by artillery fire and storm at any time - neither of which Pompey's fleet does not have, not even a place to stay, Once you enter a naval battle, you will definitely lose.

Pompey, who was proficient in naval warfare and had exterminated the entire Mediterranean pirate in a short period of time, could not fail to understand this.

"Hey, Calabis, do you see the island beyond the bay, there is a permanent lighthouse there, now occupied by a force of Pontus, and if you wish to win our war in the future, it will be the key to determining the balance of the battlefield." In the sea breeze, on the top tower of the Acropolis, Adiana pointed to a small island full of sharp rocks in the mighty waters.

"That's where your fleet broke into the bay before, right?" Behind the tower, Helenputina, who was standing beside her, asked suddenly.

A smug expression appeared on Adiana's face: "That's right, your former employer Marcha was stupid, he should have installed a commander on it to control the entire sea area, and then let his fleet rely on the bay and cooperate with the amphora of the Acropolis to defend us, but he didn't do anything, our fleet easily came in, destroyed the long bridge, and severed the connection between the Acropolis and Ponticabion." ”

"Didn't defend it, did it? Ella died as a result. Helenputina said this intentionally to Calabis.

Just as Calabis was about to comfort Nyco's mother, Adiana said with an inexplicable expression, "When the army starts fighting against each other, there are no immortals." "Well, in this remark, Calabis himself is still willing to admit that the princess is right, but Adiana has always been a little lady who does not care about occasions. The blade under Helenputina's Tifoer's shield stretched out, "I regret that Weishenme had to cooperate with Calabis to pull you up with a chain when you fell from the city?" Now it seems that this is entirely out of the selfishness of Calabis, and you should be reduced to a pile of carrion at the foot of the city walls! ”

Seeing this, Calabis touched a shield against the wall, but he was not confident that he would be able to block the queen's blade in time.

But Adiana was not afraid of the blade at all, she just smiled lightly, pointed at the queen, and then pointed at Calabis and said: "Don't be stupid, now you and I are all mercenaries of Calabis, you use brute force, and I use a sharp mind, that's the difference." Weishenme: Can't we cooperate well and run this deal well? (To be continued......)