The cavalry commander divided the ranks into three groups to connect them in order to guard against the enemy's attack, and soon the outpost gave an alarm signal, and he saw that in the valley half a distance away from Stadia, there were swords reflecting the light, and he could hear the neighing of horses.

"Are you sure?" The cavalry captain nervously asked the outpost who had come to report the situation.

The other party just nodded, and the cavalry captain hurriedly took everyone back without saying a word, and reported to Scipio, "I knew that it was indeed in my prediction!" The commander shouted with a somewhat smug look, and then he ordered all the troops to dig trenches and set up camp in their places, claiming that they would fight steadily until the sky cleared tomorrow, and then send a powerful detachment to defeat the cunning Li Bida's ambush.

In fact, where there were any ambushes, the reflection of the swords seen by Scipio's scouts was nothing more than Mindaz arranged for about fifty cavalrymen, hiding there, holding hundreds of shields and swords, forked with branches, deliberately reflecting a dazzling light, making the scouts mistakenly think that there were a large number of ambushes there. In addition, Mindaz's so-called "fortification", only one section of the wall and wooden fence was across the cliff, and the rest was hidden between the peaks, because his 1,000 cavalry men had built this section, and it was also used to confuse Scipio.

Mindaz seized on the fear of being ambushed in Andabukiya and carried out very clever deceptive tactics to stall for time.

At this time, the garrison soldiers on the tower of Taktun were surprised to see the wilderness below the city. Two huge groups were marching in opposite directions at the fort they were holding as a rendezvous point. Thousands of murderous elite cavalrymen galloped from the south, all kinds of hats and feathers, many of them had snow foam on their eyebrows and beards, the white gas exhaled by the men and horses was like a mist, and the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, without any stop. Just in sight from the west side of the street long columns of infantry. It was only when they came to Taktun that they all cheered, and they knew that it was the 15th and 28th Legions, which had rushed from Fort Libida day and night. It's also a weird team. Blonde. The black skin turned his nose, and the Greek Macedonian appearance, and the shield had the square tower style of the Roman one. The Greek round and African-skinned shields, the Celtic oval shields, and the long, narrow teardrop-shaped shields never seen before, but most of the soldiers wore leather cloaks that protected their backs and faces, and the leather was already covered with thick snow, and it seemed that they had endured an extremely difficult march last night. Between all the queues, there were wagons bumping among them, carrying instruments covered with cloaks and leather, and all the gunners sat on either side of the carriages, their faces black and blue from the wind.

"Calabia!" When the cavalry team roared past the city wall of Taktun, the leading cavalry commander Libidaeus stretched out his hand and shouted loudly at the towering tower.

"Long live the Goddess of Victory!" The soldiers of Eubertnia on the city wall did not know why, so they unconsciously shouted such a slogan in unison.

"Keep up with the cavalry commander, and the two legions continue to maintain the long column march mode." The old lieutenant general Peternius immediately ordered, "Tell my comrades, we have no time to rest, and the wine and women will stay until the triumph, and then enjoy them in the city of Taktun!" ”

"No, it's directly at Sinop, the pearl of the Yukexing Sea." The commander of the Fifteenth Army, Ser Hashing, corrected himself with great joy that his Legion was again able to take part in such a decisive war, considering that even during his previous service in Egypt, he had known that Asia Minor, across the ocean, was full of rich cities and seaports. If the bronze shield army is defeated, the cavalry commander's men and horses will be able to drive straight into the giant city called Sinop.

So the rapid march continued in the wind and snow, and at this moment in front of the valley of the Amasya, in the flat wilderness of the trumpet, the camp of the bronze shield army of Menand, and the camp of the Twelfth Legion of Karenus, were separated by a distance of about three furlongs, which was determined by the position of the two streams, and while the five thousand cavalry and two legions of Libida were rushing towards here, Karenus had been fighting with Menander for a day, on the battlefield of the three furlongs to the north and south.

Karenus skillfully used the hilly area where his camp was located, and used wooden fences and trenches to intersect the positions intricately, which was to limit the "spear forest impact" of the opponent's bronze shield army's array, but Menander still did not give up the intensive study of Alexander the Great's sacred tactics over the years, and finally transformed Alexander's tactical queue into the essence, no, to put it more directly, it was the queue skills of the spearmen in the deep phalanx who reached the pinnacle, and his bronze shield army whether it was "left ear" or "right ear", It can flexibly divide a division of 6,000 men into five or six regiments in an instant, and then split it into an independent detachment of 300 men, similar to the size of a Roman legion. And for the detachment, it was also possible to switch freely between the dense phalanx against the cavalry and the wide horizontal squad that launched the charge, relying on a complete set of extremely complex herald systems, coupled with the cooperation of the light infantry and the Sarmatian cavalry, so in the battle of the day, the 12th Army still failed to thwart its sharp and flexible offensive, losing two small camps, but giving the other side a big blow. At dusk, after a strange sound of trumpets, the various detachments of the Bronze Shield Corps hula-la-pulled their spears together, and then gathered together from all kinds of terrain, and then turned en masse, leaving a whole column of rearguards, shouting victory slogans, and retreating to their own camps.

After nightfall, the first 3,000 reinforcements from the city of Taktun sent by Adiana arrived, under the leadership of Biduzta, which brought great excitement and courage to the Twelfth Legion, and the commander Karenus made timely adjustments, sent them all to his left flank camp, and told the chief centurion Tagus, that the next morning, together with these reinforcements, he would launch an assault and recapture the small camp on the two flat lands that had been lost today, "Otherwise, when the cavalry commander arrives, Our army would lack a gathering place for cavalry assault, and I would be very dishonored. ”

However, the next day, before the 12th Army could take action, Li Bida's 5,000 cavalry galloped in, and when many of the cavalry arrived at their destination, they dismounted in twos and threes, and lay on the ground exhausted, while the rest of their comrades came over, and everyone stepped on each other's ankles to relieve the fatigue of their muscles and bones.

"The Fifteenth Legion and the Twenty-Eighth Legion, all following behind, will come one after another in about a day or two, how about it? Can you give the Bronze Shield Army some color now? Li Bida also jumped off his horse, and with a mixture of tiredness and excitement, asked Callernus, who had come to greet him. (To be continued......)