"Hurry, hurry!" Little Hortensius was aggressively on the camp school grounds, ordering the sweaty gunners in front of the ballista, the two gunners were rapidly pulling the torsion handles, pulling the strings of the levers of their arms back, and several other gunners who were half-kneeling on either side hurriedly filled the heavy javelins into the gun chutes, the clockwork made a clicking sound, and then with a "bang" sound, the javelins flew out rapidly, and they slid for a long time before stopping.

Li Bida and Saab Kemus next to him calculated with a water timepiece, and were satisfied with the entire operation time, Saab suggested: "In order to shorten the time for the ballista to be fired, you can add skilled manpower to each gate, and divide the labor and cooperation, but Your Excellency, I am curious that you are so obsessed with this." "The shortened firing time will continue to weaken the enemy's formation, and the successors will be able to break through the enemy's defenses more easily, and our team's fencing skills are not ideal, so we can only rely more on firepower - speaking of which, I am going to recruit men in Osir and add more ballistas, and the first step is to add twelve ballistas to the entire team." This request also surprised Saab, which was almost double to three times the amount of equipment for a standard ballista.

In the end, when the four Celtic chariots ordered in advance, under the control of Li Bida's subordinates, with a roar, and freely advancing and retreating in the flat and open ground, Li Bida decided to lead his troops, leaving the camp of Kimira and heading towards the Vitonny area!

It was already winter, and the soldiers of the first brigade (and only one) of the "thyme" (tentative) regiment were covered in thick sheepskins and tread on the snow. Under the guidance of Saab Kemus. Cross a pass. Suddenly appeared in front of several towns on the border between Vitonny and Osyr.

"Here are the three township tribes of Elisana, Assa, and Octabo, and the attitude of these barbarians in this war is similar to that of most of the Vidonni. Please also pay attention. Seeing Li Bida exhaling, wearing armor all over his body, and sitting on the small table, Sabo, who was very serious next to him, reminded him.

The mountains and fields in the distance are all white. The towns and villages stood under a winter sky as clean as blue velvet, and the seven hundred soldiers under Li Bida were in a strict battle formation: the skirmishers with slings and stick throwers were the first horizontal group, the Ala cavalry on the right side of the dense forest, and the rest of the infantry, which were Celtic from head to toe, armed with long swords and narrow oval shields, formed three loose phalanxes on the left flank, the center and the reserve, all standing on the snow, while Li Bida stood on the high slope where the queue was guarded with the flag and the trumpeter. He had all his servants take off their sheepskin cloaks, revealing their elite and glittering cuirasses and helmets in the sunlight.

zuihou。 The three towns sent messengers with olive branches in their hands and dressed in wolf's skins, and these messengers marched through the military formation, looking around with frightened eyes, and then walked up the high slope, knelt down in front of Li Bida, and opened their mouths to claim that they had not violated the Roman "Old Gragu Law", but Li Bida's tone was very harsh, saying that their towns and villages did not pay any tribute at all after receiving the documents of the governor to collect the blood tax, nor did they send a servant army to follow, and Li Bida pointed to their township settlements and said, They built a high wooden wall as a fortification, which was a threat to colonial cities such as Osir by force, and must be demolished immediately.

The messenger defended himself by saying that the Old Gla Law did not prohibit the tribes from building walls to defend them, and that the mountains of Vitonni were mostly green forest bandits, and that they were protecting themselves.

"Then go back and tell your elders that we can sign a new treaty, and you three towns and tribes will immediately hand over six hundred strong men and thirty nobles' children as hostages to Osir City, and I will not be guilty of the past!" Li Bida threatened.

Even the envoy with an olive branch could not hold back this condition, and he loudly argued that this was a ploy of your Romans to force us into war, and Li Bida immediately ordered his subordinates to kill the envoy who defended him, and expelled the others back, saying that I would declare the beginning of war now.

The first was the town of Asa, which leaned against a small lake, and Libida's men moved quickly through the plains and fields, thanks to the results of their training in the camp of Kimira in the previous two months, which blocked the passage to the outside of Asa, while the cavalry swam farther away, reconnoitering the movements of the other two towns.

In front of the walled city of Asa, twelve ballistae were lined up, each of which was operated by six gunners, and they poured stone bullets onto a certain point of the wall without stopping, and soon the wooden wall was crumbling and crumbling, and Li Pida's men imitated the Celts, shaking their long swords and making terrifying cries.

The warning beacon lit in the town of Asa did not make the other two towns feel the same hatred, and the sudden attack of Li Bida caught them off guard, and in a panic they gave up hope of confrontation (Octabo and Elisanne thought that Li Pida's men were just an advance team), so they opened the gates of the city, and fled towards the mountains of Vidonni with women, children, and baggage, ready to fight the Romans with the help of the fierce and powerful Sincla.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the walls of the city of Asa were crushed by fire, and the strong men in the fortress were armed with weapons and shouted to fight out of the gap to guard against the influx of the Romans, but the stragglers of Lybida stepped forward, and at a distance of a furlong, waved their slings and rods, and smashed sharp stones into the gap like a rain, and the strong men in the city could not get out at all, so they huddled together at the gap, and were beaten by stones and javelins to the corpses and wounded piled up into a hill. The sharp trumpets sounded, and the infantry reserves of the Lybidas took over, shouting with their long swords (it took a long time for little Hortensius to teach them to use their blades to face forward, instead of swinging them left and right, which would only hurt their allies), and rushed into the walled city with their shields and the bodies of the Asesirs.

Perhaps after a long time on the battlefield, Li Bida's heart became cold and hardened, and he suddenly launched this skirmish, which was to slaughter several walled grass tribe fortresses in order to intimidate the Vidonny region, and he seemed unwilling to remember what an ugly crime he had committed in the Roman hundred-man army when he captured the Calabi Palace. But now in the eyes of Li Bida, it seems that war is slaughter, and since the soldier is willing to kill your enemies with the sword instead of you, and achieve your goal, you must compensate them, which is an eternal law in any age.

The city of Asa was quickly captured by the victors, burned, and killed. All the nobles and men inside were killed, and the grain and money in the storehouse were divided among the spoils, and thirty percent went to the treasury of the Committee of Ten, thirty percent were transported back to Kimira, and one percent went into Li Bida's personal pocket. Hundreds of surviving men and women were sent to the city of Osir to be sold into slavery.

But for the other two fleeing townships, the nightmare is not over. (To be continued......)