Eventually, they discovered the traces of Antony's troops in a village of Gaofu near the sea, he had destroyed many villages and warehouses along the way, but he was also pursued by two phalanx companies from the fortress of Perusim, Antony was very skilled in commanding cavalry, or he was a natural cavalry general, because the number was small, so he did not divide a hundred men, but gathered them together, and after robbing a village to obtain the necessary provisions, he mercilessly drove away people and animals, and burned all the houses, And constantly get rid of the pursuit of the fortress army, constantly wear down them, and from time to time launch counterattacks against the tired enemy.

In this village, he was still bitten to death by the commander of the defenders, but Anthony still did not have the slightest fear, he left seventy men to guard the mountainside, and he took the remaining thirty horsemen to ambush in the dense forest on the side road, constantly storming the defenders' rearguards, killing lightly armed archers, or seizing their luggage, and the two phalanx companies that came to attack, a total of five hundred defenders, were not attacking the mountain, and they were afraid of Antony's surprise attack, so they could only fall in place, As a result, he encountered Li Bida's brigade who came to reinforce him.

"Our cavalry brigade can defeat this group of enemies with a single charge!" Dusonvier ran to the head of the attached cavalry brigade and replied with great confidence to His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief.

Li Bida, who was under the banner of the Iron Hand, was silent for a while, and when he saw the enemy caught between Anthony and his own army, he ran in great panic, and some of them were boldly encouraged by the officers to dig fortifications, and some on fast horses were scattering in all directions. It seems that he is going to ask Perusim for help.

"We also build fortifications. Cut off the road here. Let those enemy herald cavalry pass, attract the main force of the fortress of Perusim out of the field, and annihilate them in one go! ”

This is Li Bida's practice of besieging the city and sending reinforcements, "If the enemy does not dare to send reinforcements, tomorrow we will completely eat the enemy in front of us, and then go to attack the fortress, Perusim is still ours, and Anthony found the path of Taifeng evil god nostrils." It simply enlivened the whole battle situation. ”

Then, the Romans began to dig and build a larger encirclement network on the periphery of Gaofu and the streets, and soon the situation became delicate: Antony was surrounded by the Egyptian army of two phalanx companies in the core village of Gaofu, and Li Bida surrounded these two companies, and according to Li Bida's vision, he also hoped that Otto Aarens, the "head of the gateway to Asia" in the fortress, would "surround" him.

Therefore, the situation in front of General Ottoarens became complicated, and he was the first to hear that there was a surprise attack on the Romans with more than 100 men in the rear. It is also believed that this was purely an accident, probably a disoriented scout party of the Romans. Then send two companies to annihilate them. But who would have thought? The first is that the frontal enemy of the Thirteenth Army is so fierce and tenacious, and the second is that more enemies have detoured back to the rear of the fortress.

The soldiers were terrified, and what they feared most was that there was a temporary fort on the island of Sepi, where there would be roads to connect with the land at low tide and small boats at high tide, and what was the point of holding on if the enemy found and destroyed it.

Looking ahead, Ottoarens, who was still determined to stabilize the morale of the city, left the soldiers of the three missing companies to continue to defend the city, and he led the five main companies out of the back gate of Perusim, ready to meet the sneak attack of Li Bida.

However, Ottoarens's actions were still very cautious, he found that many villages along the way were poisoned by the Romans, and Li Bida's cavalry swept all over the place like a whirlwind, so Ottoarens knew that the other party had plundered quite sufficient supplies, and had the confidence and willingness to fight with him, but he must not be sloppy, he asked the company commander to hold the eye-catching lacquer card in his hand, and carefully guided their respective teams to advance towards the set goal. In fact, Ottoarens has prepared for the worst, that is, once the enemy is strong, he will completely abandon the two besieged companies and retreat to Perusim again, so that he can also attack and give an explanation to all the soldiers, as for the safety of the families of the soldiers on Sepi Island, I am sorry What does it have to do with him, a Macedonian nobleman, his family has gone to visit the temple of Thebes with the pharaoh and his wife, and it is very safe.

As long as he holds on until Achilllaus leads the main force, the military merit medal is still his!

Probably in the area of sixteen romans behind Perusim, Ortuarenses discovered the position of Libida's army, and the hillside was full of soldiers who were waiting for him, and they were actually divided into two sides, one side of the two companies he had sent before him to be surrounded and killed, and the other side was lined up and waiting for him!

"How many enemies are there!" Ortuarens, who angrily questioned the dark-skinned soldiers who had broken through to ask for help, and the other of them were gossiping, and the interpreter replied with an irritating answer: it was really not clear how many enemies there were.

So they could only scout on the spot, and five companies with a total of 2,500 Egyptian soldiers lined up in line, and the whole battlefield was as silent as death, and the Roman camp on the opposite side was also quiet.

Several Egyptian scout cavalrymen, swaggering out of the camp on horseback, ran back and forth along the opposing line of the two armies a few times, and then unified the strength of Ortuarens: probably a thousand-man infantry brigade, because they had a special iron hand flag, which was different from the palm flag of a normal Roman infantry brigade.

"Our side has the upper hand, cooperate with the two companies that are surrounded, and annihilate this group of enemies!" With a wave of his hand, five companies of Egyptian troops shouted in unison, forming a dense phalanx of spears and pouring up the hillside in no particular order - the main part of Ptolemaic's army was the indigenous soldiers under the command of Macedonian officers, and the tactics were no different from those of Alexander the Great three hundred years earlier, except with a mix of Nile natives, such as slingers recruited from Libya and archers and light infantry mostly black Nubians.

"Tagus, leave you two hundreds, and the besieged enemy on the mountain will be handed over to you." On the hillside, Li Bida, who was wearing a red cloak, shook the white feather feather on his hat and helmet twice, and then raised his gilded baton and slashed it down - the flag bearer next to him waved small flags of different colors, and the Vibichinas cavalry on the back of the hillside shouted one after another, throwing away the wood and branches used for concealment, and killing with bows and arrows in their hands.

This was something that Otualens did not expect, he only knew that the general of the other side had a large number of cavalry, but he did not expect that it was a cavalry that could shoot arrows, and a cluster of arrows fell, and the Egyptian soldiers in the dense phalanx fell layer by layer, in this case, the Vibichinas did not need to aim.

Ottoarens, who was pressing in the back, was pale, but in this situation, he could only continue to attack. (To be continued......)