Chapter 19: Fraud (Part II)
"Your Excellency, you've gone too far." Alp, who was beside Li Bida, was holding the hilt of the sword of "Ha Bai Lost" and reminded.
"No, I'm still worried about what to do with little Cato. Now there is a solution, and that is to send him directly to Caesar - I do not want to bear any charge against him, whether it be detention or murder, I will equip him with a swift and imposing ship as I do with a distinguished guest, and a hundred soldiers, and send him out of the city of Marcellia with a polite salute, so that Caesar may face him! Li Bida muttered as he walked.
At this moment, the sunlight above was slowly obscured, and the dark clouds and the long-lost cool breeze gathered in the rubble-covered square, and Li Bida felt that his cheeks began to moisten, and it was raining.
But little Cato, dressed in white robes, was still standing stubbornly surrounded by the soldiers of Triari, with his fists slightly raised, as if he were not a prisoner, but as he always did, to ascend to the top to give a speech to the people, and a certain thin centurion, who was always by his side, made an inviting gesture to him, meaning that he should come forward and ask for the mercy of General Lybidaeus the victor.
The pace of the two sides became more and more rapid, and the speed of Li Bida's walking became faster and faster, and he was not willing to let little Cato make any humble gestures against his will, which would only cause harm to himself, so he stretched out his hand and prepared to stop little Cato's bowing, and even kneeling.
To his immediate surprise, the skinny centurion quickly overtook little Cato's figure and ran straight towards him, "Where are you from Sicily?" Li Bida squinted his eyes in the rain as he walked. Asked.
"Brundim City. My name is Fabius. Remember the name, for I will be the one to kill you! The other party said quickly, and then pulled out the fighting sword from the shoulder strap, a blast of thunder rolled down, white light flashed, but his sword was faster than thunder and lightning, and it slashed head-on towards Li Bida's head!
Instinctively, Li Bida staggered to the side. The sword directly split his shoulder armor, with a piece of flesh on his arm, the thunder had not yet disappeared in the ears of the stunned people, and Li Bida, who endured the pain, roared angrily, and before he could draw his sword, he directly used his right fist to break Fabius's neck, and the other party rolled out several Roman feet away, and immediately lost his breath.
"Kill Li Bida!" All the Sicilian soldiers behind Cato Jr. quickly drew their swords. Pounced on it and stabbed in the rain and thunder. Alp shouted, his shield and Habaish rushed forward, and the Medejie guards also swarmed up, some of them even without weapons in their hands, and fought with each other.
Li Bida, who was constantly pushed back, covered his helmet with his hands, and the wolf shouted angrily, "All rush back to the camp outside the city!" The attendants, centurions, generals, and guards around him were in a mess, and the square was surrounded by shouts of "Kill Lypida", and the Albisians, Sicilian soldiers, and some of the private soldiers of the Marcelian nobles who were still loyal to Pompey climbed the roofs, arcades, and walls from all sides, and kept shooting arrows and throwing stones, and the mounts outside the square either fled in terror or were shot dead on the spot. All the people on the side of Li Bida raised their shields to protect the governor of Sardinia, and retreated towards the broken wall.
At the gate of the city, the elders and priests of Marcellia, who had been preparing to enter the city with Li Bida, saw such a change and became a mess, and Bagulus, who was the first to notice that the situation was wrong outside the city, shouted, jumped up, and mobilized the soldiers around him, who did not even wear armor and equipment, and rushed in with his bare neck and sword, these people were at the city wall, blocked by the crowd and confusion, Bagulus raised his sword and slashed indiscriminately, and together with the soldiers, killed all those who stood in his way, no matter how noble he had been.
At this time, the daredevils mobilized by Cato also suddenly killed from other gaps in the broken wall, they killed many unsuspecting soldiers of Li Bida's subordinates, and began to set fire to the siege equipment such as tents and shield carts.
Finally, at the gap in the broken wall, two groups of men and horses rushed together, and the soldiers in the city, although they were all unkempt due to malnutrition, had burning phosphorus fire in their eyes, like ghostly monsters, and only shouted "Kill Li Bida" there, and pounced on them with their lives.
"Take the ladder, take the ladder!" Arp shouted, and then several strong Medetier people were half-crouched and stacked on top of each other, and Li Bida climbed up with his hands and feet, and then jumped out of the line of the city wall, and several Lusitanian warriors led their horses over, and Li Bida flew on his horse, and then pointed to the half-naked Bagulus, "Take your people, and defend this place!" Then he galloped toward the tent.
"Mobilize the second-line army, put on your equipment, and force the enemy back, they are all half-starved spirits!" Li Bida shouted and gave orders.
The entire blockade camp was full of slogans and whistles of "armed for battle", and the infantrymen who were on standby in the rear, holding shields and bows and arrows, poured directly into the tower of "Aemilius", and soon the city's desperate fight went bankrupt, and the iron rain of death shot from the tower of the giant beast made their corpses pile up, and the besieging army quickly re-blocked the gap, stepping on the corpses and blood stains everywhere.
The trapped beast still fought, but it still caused sudden and huge losses to Li Bida's army, his soldiers were killed by a thousand, all the shelters were burned, the captain of the guard Alp was seriously wounded, and the chief centurion of the six legions, Bagulus, who received the order to defend the death, was directly in the gap, was attacked by the most cruel and fierce attack of the opponent, six javelins in his body, died of exhaustion, and the comrades who died with him were as dense as crops with arrows and javelins, and blood flowed all over the ditches under the city.
In the tent, Li Bida angrily tore off his cloak and roared and threw it on the hanger, "Why do some fools have to play some tricks to make themselves perish faster and more completely, don't they cherish their lives!" Then I will grant everyone's wishes."
"I don't think this matter has anything to do with the Presbyterian Council of Marcellia, and may have been privately picked up by little Cato." Saab next to him can still keep calm, so he argued.
"Now in the city of Massella, there are no innocent people, get it, Sabo? Petneus, Angandinus, now the six legions lack a chief centurion, and it is too late to slowly promote, so General Peternius directly commands the six legions, and Angandinus assists by the side, the legion is a first-line siege team, although the shed has not been burned, and our army has no extra wood to rebuild, but it is impossible for the enemy to repair the city wall in a short time, give me a quick siege, remember to hurry, all the people and animals will be killed for me, and no living creatures will be left. (To be continued......)