Chapter 9: Less Surrounds More (Part II)

As a result, Caesar was not able to "inspect" Antony's position at all, because as soon as he arrived, Antony's army was attacked from inside and outโ€”with the attacking force under the command of Rabinus on the front, and the two Macedonian provincial legions that had been lured away and were now being killed on the back.

When Caesar climbed up to Anthony's command post on the top of the core hill with his body down, he found that he was directing the recruits of the Twentieth Army to dig trenches and brave the rain of arrows.

"You should organize defenses and counterattacks, not focus on the construction of fortifications!" Caesar also came to the back of the plank and shouted to Anthony.

"I'm going to do these things anyway, I can't escape." Antony explained so, and then he realized that it was Dick Tydo next to him, so he hurriedly made a gesture, and then a cry of surprise came, and they looked down, and the elite soldiers of Rabinus had broken through to the foot of the mountain, and the soldiers of the Twentieth Legion were all rookies, and they failed to hold on to the wooden fence, but ran up the hill in a panic without any purpose, so the soldiers of Rabinus shouted, and knocked down the wooden fence with their shields, or cut down with their swords, and filled them in the ravine, and then crossed over and pursued them.

Before Caesar could remind him, Antony jumped away, grabbed the trumpet from the trumpeter beside him, blew it, and then shouted, "The Sixteenth Legion stationed in the south, come here and repel the enemy in front of you!" โ€

Hearing the sound of the horn, the Sixteenth Legion, which was originally monitoring the defense of the two enemy legions in the south, Cretas and Faobinas were immediately a little stunned, if the Sixteenth Legion ran over there to reinforce them. What should I do if the enemy comes up here?

But it doesn't take care of that much. Li Bida was very strict in governing the army. As soon as Qiฤ“ on the battlefield was guided by the commander's order, without any prevarication or hesitation, Kretas didn't say anything, he put the Thracian helmet on his head, "The Legion Flag will be handed over to you!" He shouted to Faobinas as he flew up the reverse slope with the chief brigade of the legion, and a brigade of archers. At this time the soldiers of Rabinus were also climbing up the main slope all over the hills, and Caesar and Antony were sandwiched between the two sides on the middle ridgeline.

"It's too late, just throw it!" Chretas ordered, a brigade of archers erected the Golden Fly Banner, quickly formed a horizontal formation, quickly set up their bows and arrows directly on the reverse slope, and hurried into the sky to shoot a wave of arrows, which flew directly over the heads of Caesar and Antony, and then fell one after another with a roar, falling into the stormtrooping formation of Rabinus. Immediately, the ground was full of casualties, and the opponent's offensive was also disrupted. Then the chief brigade of the Sixteenth Legion of Kretas rushed forward in time, shouted in unison, and threw light hunting spears at the enemy who had not yet reacted, and then held their spears and formed a porcupine formation, and pressed down like thunder. Thus the soldiers of Rabinus could not bear it, and they were in disarray, and on the way back they were again blocked by scattered wooden fences and ditches, and were killed by Cretas.

After defeating Rabinus, Anthony asked the recruits of the Twentieth Legion to stop their panic, "Go back and continue to hold on to your post at Muzha, you have already shown our dictator the ugly state of the fiasco just now, don't have a second time!" โ€

The soldiers of the Twentieth Legion, seeing that their actions had just fallen into Caesar's eyes, felt more uncomfortable than dying in battle, and they regained their courage, took up their arms, and without saying a word, they all poured back to the wooden fence, and then, under the successive onslaughts of Rabinus, these recruits, even though they suffered casualties, were able to calm their breath, and successively repelled a large number of enemies, and the wooden fence and the trench were immediately completed.

On the other side, without making any stops, Creitas flew with his troops, despite his fatigue, and ran towards the original position of the XVI Legion, and as he passed the command post, Caesar shouted to Cretas, "Please stay for a moment, you must let the commander know the names of his warriors." โ€

"I don't have kung fu!" Without looking back, Chretas replied, and ran back on, shuttling and engaged, and helping the Legion Commander to repel the attack of the two enemy legions to the south.

Three days later, Caesar's army miraculously succeeded in constructing a blockade that stretched for twenty-five Roman miles around Kocula, truly realizing the strategy of "encircling more with less".

"In the synagogue of Julia, in front of the main square, Akuta was posted, saying that Pompey's main army in Greece, a total of 100,000 men, had been surrounded by me in the city of Kocula, and that there was no way to escape, and that the day of their destruction was imminent." That's how Caesar said to the clerk and the treasurer around him, yes, he exaggerated, but wasn't that what was the case in terms of strategic public opinion? Then the Roman dictator slowly walked out of the hill on which he was seated, and came to the front, and then he saw that the fortifications of Rabinus had also been completed, with twenty-four towers, and fifteen Roman long walls and trenches, which stood against Caesar's, one outer and one inner.

Caesar suddenly felt a wave of malice in his heart.

He felt uncomfortable, maybe he was really deceiving himself, within the defensive circle of Rabinus, there was a fleet, and there were large areas of forest and meadows for grazing, and he could eat the other side? Or maybe the other person eats himself.

At this time, the confidential slave sent him a letter, "Scipio of Pompey has crossed the sea to Greece with three legions. โ€

"The three legions called Lybidaeus, regardless of a single qiฤ“, blocked Scipio!" Caesar said succinctly.

"It's ridiculous, 20,000 people besiege 40,000 people, and there are 20,000 enemies on the periphery, it's ridiculous!" When the situation of the battle on the outer front line was presented to Li Bida, he slammed the letter on the table, and then shouted to all the lieutenants, "Our dictator is asking for his own hardship, his ambition and appetite are too great, even if I can stop Scipio's men, he will not be able to eat Rabinus." โ€

When Sabo was very careful to tell him that this plan was proposed by Anthony, Li Bida retorted with a glare, "Who is it, what kind of stupid person would teach Anthony such an impenetrable tactical approach?" โ€

So Sabo and the others closed their mouths and stopped saying anything.

And Li Bida sat at the table, thoughtfully, and then he scratched his finger on the table, "Originally, I guessed that Scipio, after coming ashore, would go directly to the Agnate Avenue to attack Caesar; But now, since he had collected so much of his taxes in Asia Minor, he would certainly have made a big deal in Macedonia and Athens after crossing the sea, this guy was such a villain, greedy for money and lustful, and he had always regarded himself as Pompey's father-in-law, and it was impossible for him to petition so quickly to accept the command of Rabinus. โ€

In the end, Li Bida was determined to divide his troops into two ways and prepare to clamp down on Scipio! (To be continued......)