The chief centurion of the Leus Legion, Vlachus, stood in front of the old moat under the city of Korduba, with a scroll of drawings in hand, and beside him a busy man and a small number of soldiers, who were uprooting the ramparts of the fortifications outside the city, and then filling in the trenches with all the earth they had obtained, and of course as a prelude to this work, they had already cleared the thorns, iron hooks, broken pottery shards, and thistles from the moats, and all the fences and stakes were uprooted, and sent to the forges of the city to be used as fuel.

The iron gates, the death traps hanging at the double gates, were also tied with ropes and taken down and sent to the forges, "for the manufacture of peace and for the pleasing of the gods of agriculture and the goddess of the earth, such as hoes, sickles, etc." ”

Among the orders received by Flaccus was the tedious work of demolishing the walls and towers, and widening the surrounding streets, for which he had asked for four thousand laborers from the whole city of Korduba, and he took three hundred soldiers with him as advisers and overseers. For Flaccus, Lybida was absolutely assured, he was an Italian who immigrated to Cyrene, had second-class citizenship, and was not valued in Roman society, and was later excavated by Byetis, the administrator of Neo-Cyrenaica City, who was placed by Philida and was immediately promoted to the chief centurion of the new regiment with an annual salary of 120,000 cesdes—in terms of combat bravery, Flaccus may be on par with Hybrida, who lost his IQ forever in the Battle of the Tumr River, but in obedience and tactics, he may be superior to the latter, But he just needs more experience to prove himself.

The surrounding towns are carrying out this project, and all the stone and wood that have been demolished are being carried out. They were all carried by a team of mules and horses that could not be seen. Sent to the vanguard camp in the Potocchia Mountains. It was used to construct a blockade against the Rouse army.

In the past, Laus, unwilling to heed his brother's request, broke through to the Lusitania region from the northeast and sailed abroad to protect the blood of the Pompey family, but now he could not run away if he wanted to—after a thunderous raid on the city of Uria and the defeat of the six legions of Pompey's party, the thirteenth legion of the instructed, marched from Corduba in the starry night. In the Gap in the Potocchia Mountains, a chain of barricades was erected to seal off the passage of Rouse to the other side.

Now, to the left of the fortress of Betnari, to the north of him were the enemy of the four legions of Dusonville and Itassos, and six thousand Ossetans came to his aid; To the south of him, Li Bida's five corps that had just met were pressed over; To the east, the coastline was blocked by Lybida's fleet, and it was too late for him to flee to Lusitania - the big horse bandits under Lybida. The commander of the 27th Corps, Combano, issued a "Green Ringer Kill Order", demanding that all mountain bandits come out now. Belong to the high priest, or else it will be regarded as the enemy and be destroyed, and the gift offered is the head of Laus.

The fortress of Betnari happened to be based on the winter camp established by Li Bida when he first entered Lusitania and served as the commander of the guerrilla army on the outskirts of Spain on the order of Caesar. "Now, the opportunity for Odax and Bratias to make meritorious contributions has come again." Li Bida decided not to attack the fortifications again, but to build a camp and a blockade ditch to cut off the main roads around Betnari.

Then, these two Spanish nobles showed their powers, coupled with the cooperation of Cambano, and used all kinds of secret tricks to induce the defection of the officers and soldiers of Rouse's subordinate legions, most of whom were Spanish natives, who had come to participate in the war on the orders of the chieftain, and now that the war was hopeless, they lost the determination to continue to follow the defeated - in Rouse's camp, first a single soldier fled, and then the entire hundred-man group ran away.

Within five days, half of the soldiers in Law's camp had escaped, and the other half were preparing to escape.

Not only are the centurions powerless to stop this situation, but many centurions themselves are the masterminds and masterminds in it. Li Bida released all the Spanish prisoners in the previous war, did not kill them, and also gave severance pay and Sichuan money, and many of the people who ran back passed ten to ten to hundred, which was more powerful than any weapon.

On the sixth day, Rouse, with a few cavalrymen, looked at the entire camp that was out of control, and shed tears in pain, even his paperwork, carrying his luggage, stood awkwardly in front of the commander, "I'm sorry Your Excellency, I have to live." ”

When the servant raised his sword, Rouse blocked him, and then he put his father's seal into a box and handed it to the clerk, "I am afraid that if an accident happens soon, the seal of the great Pompey will fall into the hands of the despicable thief and be annihilated without a trace—so you still take this thing and surrender to Liberdaius, and give him your father's relics for safekeeping." ”

At the second sentry of the night, Rouse fled from the dead camp on horseback with only sixteen of his followers, and they fled along the path at the foot of the Portocchian Mountains, followed by the Ossetani cavalry who were desperately pursued.

Sitting under a tree, Laus hoped to get help from the Lusitanian horse bandits or the local nobles, so he called a local servant and went to find someone who could help.

Then he sat wearily under the tree and waited.

At dusk, about a hundred bandits in turbans and armed with pikes and darts came rushing in from all directions, and Rouse stood up, and saw more bandits all down the hill - they had surrounded the place, and the one who took the lead still had the head of the servant in his hand.

"Don't hesitate any longer." With that, Rouse snatched the sword from the other man and stabbed it into his throat.

The six servants protected the body of their master, and the swarming horse bandits started a desperate fight, after a short period of heroism, they were all killed, and then the horse bandits cut off the head of Law, they were overjoyed, this is their most powerful Sasuke to clear the whitewash.

After spending a few more days pacifying the political situation in Lusitania and Betnari, he left some garrisons in the key towns, and then led five main legions to join the northern armies of Vicintoli and Itassos.

"Give me one of your legions, and then you can take the remaining one and march to the city of Zhagovia and to Liguria in triumph - and soon eternal peace is coming." When Li Bida mentioned the word "peace" in front of the two of them, he was full of threatening domineering, because this kind of peace was backed by dozens of legions as a force. (To be continued......)