Chapter 14: Collapse (Part II)
After saying this, Pompey trembled and unsheathed his sword and laid it on the stone, and after Li Bida pulled the reins, he turned his mount and said to Caesar: "Your Excellency continues here, and I go to command the legions of the front line to continue the pursuit, not only to capture all the towns and fortresses of Pompey's side, but also to continue to expel and kill them, so that no one will have a chance to regroup." β
Caesar turned his face sideways and nodded, and just as Li Bida was about to move forward, Pompey, who was left alone on the hill, continued to shout, "Julius, I don't have any words to talk to you about, fate doesn't like the Pompey family, so let it be!" Thank you for finally giving me the opportunity to fight so that the Romans don't forget Magnus. Pompey's cunning, from this point of view, I am much luckier than my father who was killed by lightning. β
Then, Pompey slowly brushed his hair with his hands, smiled at Caesar, and the cold-eyed Li Bida behind the other party, and Turinus, who was riding a mule with an excited face, and sighed, "Today I am carrion, and you will be the same tomorrow." Let the vultures, which fly down endlessly, sing at the feast! β
As soon as he finished speaking, Caesar stretched out his arms in the saddle and called out to "Gnaeus."
Pompey held on to his wounds and rolled down the other side of the hill, and the leading soldiers of the Fifteenth Legion shouted in unison and stepped on the hill, and Caesar also galloped up, but seeing Pompey on the edge of the salt lake, he struggled to get up, and with both hands tightly pulled Alexander's cloak, which was already dirty and torn, and stubbornly walked towards the depths of the lake, and the water gradually reached his waist, and soon disappeared above his head, until the figure disappeared completely.
"Ganeus" looked at Caesar at this scene. In addition to reciting the name in your heart. There's really nothing else to think about. Well said.
Tens of thousands of corpses lay across the sand of the corridor at the northern end of Lake Mykning, and Caesar's legion captured three eagle banners, that is, the full amount of the eagle banner of the enemy army, plus dozens of team flags, "Do not stop, hand over all the spoils of war to the slaves to dispose of, and all the soldiers overcome the difficulties in front of them and advance towards the city of Ruspina!" Li Bida rode his horse. Urging all the centurions to command their subordinate teams and continue the frenzied pursuit, thousands of soldiers shouted the slogan "Feri" in unison, forming a torrent that swept across the wilderness.
In the corridor of Hunan, the camp of the Sixth Legion, including 4,000 subordinate cavalry, was also arrayed and approached the camp of Scipio and King Juba, who came out with cavalry to prepare for battle. In fact, their hearts were already worried, because the battle in the Hubei corridor last night was earth-shattering. Scipio did not know what the final outcome would be, but Angandinus quickly told him that about twenty captured war elephants, dressed in splendid costumes, obediently stood with the array of the six legions.
"It's over, it's all over." Scipio's lips were blue, and he said slowly, and then he trembled violently, and said viciously, "It's not over, let's go first!" β
Then the collapse began, and the cavalry and elephants in the camp scrambled away, and the screams of the slaves as they were trampled to death were terrifying, and Scipio knew that their troops would only survive if they ran frantically towards the city of Utica, beyond the positions previously held by Caesar's army in Ruspina and on the Gemal Mountains.
The 4,000 cavalry of Dussonvier, Vicintoli, Mindaz, and Hansk rushed ahead of the Sixth Army and made a surprise attack on Scipio's camp, and the scene immediately turned into massacre and plunder.
Around mid-day, the fighting spread to the cities of Ruspina and Lyptis, "and the time for a counteroffensive has come, and we have won a decisive victory at Tapsus." Antony shouted excitedly, and then took the Fourteenth and Thirty-seventh Legions with him (the former Fifteenth Legion of the Gallic Province, which is directly written as the Fifteenth Legion in the previous text, and' Serapis' legions were confused, hereby corrected) opened the gates of the city, and bravely stood out, they threw torches and burned all the siege fortifications of Condisius, and just as Condisius was about to organize the resistance of his men, he found that the senator Sulpisius was carrying the banner of the legion, escorting himself and his own assets to flee towards the city of Utica, so angry that Condisius shouted that all the senators and knights were outright cowards. Then he relied on his camp, and after resisting for a while, Antony's men and horses cut down the fence, filled the trenches, and swarmed inβand Condisius set himself on fire.
Over there, several legions in Caesar's old camp also took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack on Tulas, Tulas's three legions could not resist at all, and were also defeated, Tulas was hit by several javelins, fell off his horse, and was trampled into flesh, most of his three legions saw that there was no hope of escape, and all surrendered, and as a result, Caesar's legions were all pulled to the fortification wall under the city of Ruspina, and all of them were slaughtered, and used for blood sacrifice to the comrades killed by King Juba and Pompey.
By this time, the legions under the command of Li Pida had arrived like a whirlwind, and Sulpitius, who had not had time to escape, and the remnants of the soldiers all climbed up a hill on the edge of the city of Ruspina, and the detachments stood straight, crying, stretching their arms with all their might, trembling, and shouting the salute of the Roman army repeatedly until their voices were hoarse, and they threw down all their weapons, which was their act of begging for mercy.
"Leave no prisoners, no soldiers or veterans, kill them all." He repeated this command coldly to Peternius, and then he smiled leisurely, put one hand on the saddle, turned to all the men and horses surrounding the mountain, and called out at a long time, "Hey, I plead for these people, they only instigated the outbreak of this war, and there is nothing wrong with the death penalty." β
Peternius waved his hand, and the veterans of the Tenth Legion, taking the lead with their bright blades, rushed forward through gritted teeth, "Kill these bastards who are leading the way with bad ideas!" Then the rest of the legions also shouted and rushed forward angrily, and the screams showed that the people on the hill were cut down and trampled to death one by one, and their arms and heads fell everywhere, and looking at the tragedy before them, the desperate others on the hill even cried and knelt down to ask for mercy, but the only answer to them was the voice of a sharp throat slit open, "I curse you, you can't do this to me, I am a noble father." Sulpisius was deliberately pulled out by the soldiers, and he was still shouting, and then he was pulled in front of Libida.
"I have advised you to save your life a long time ago, since you love Pompey and Cato the Younger so much, then let them be buried, Caesar needs you to die to clear his way." Li Bida said to Sulpithius, who was kneeling in front of his horse with his head pinned, and then took out his axe directly from the rod and chopped off Sulpitius's head.
Outside the city of Ruspina, forty-seven senators, along with their relatives, more than two hundred knights, were all put to death, and none of them survived. (To be continued......)