The valley of the Toston, in the middle of which suddenly converges like a pocket, and Yazda is located at the mouth of the Zabkukou, the east and west sides of the river are mountains, without a name, the west side of the mountain is low, and in the belly of the mountain there are docks and towers, which should be the location of the small fleet of Hashedi, and the east side of the mountain is very tall, as high as a thousand Roman feet, and the fortress built on the mountain is located here, which can accommodate thousands of troops, and there are dense warehouses of weapons and grain. It is not advisable to storm the eastern fortress, and our army's target should be on the fleet base in the west, which is the purpose of my proposal to build large ships, as long as we capture it, we can really cut off the internal and external communication of Yazda, and it is not too late to attack the eastern fortress slowly. In addition, I also have a prophecy, that is, the garrison of Hashdi in the southern part of the Tostone River Valley will definitely shrink in this fortress, as long as it can be annihilated and captured, our army will continue to go downstream, Hashdi will no longer have the ability to resist, any fortress along the way below will not be enough, so it is worth spending more time and sacrifice here!

After listening to Faobinas's account, Li Bida bowed slightly, and he asked Gable, who was still in the same place, how long it would take to build ten large armed riverboats, with a number of more small wooden boats, and Gable replied: "It will take about the spring of the following year, and the ships need to be armed, because the deck will be very comfortable, and it will be a short-range attack, so the infantry and archers of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief do not need any adaptation training." ”

Next spring? Isn't this too much of a delay, will the power of the Hashdi sect swell more and more? Li Bida began to hesitate again, for the commander, any decision is before the order. It has to be scrutinized and scorched repeatedly.

Anthony reacted again. He strongly advocated a raid on the fortress of Yazda. If what Faobinas said is true, he should take advantage of the panicked rhythm of the opponent's retreat, directly use the maneuver of cavalry, and seize the fleet base in the west like lightning, "and then directly board the ships there, and then join the wooden boats on the river to capture the eastern fortress." The request of the military tribune also won the consent of some centurions.

Ultimately. Li Bida finalized a more compromise plan: he arranged for Anthony to take the attached cavalry brigade, cooperate with the infantry of the two wings carried by wooden boats on the river, plus an auxiliary brigade, and quickly advance along the Toston River towards Yazda, but Li Bida also reminded Anthony to strengthen military reconnaissance and not blindly seek speed. In addition, let Hebrida lead the thousand-man brigade of the Thirteenth Legion, also equipped with an auxiliary brigade, to do a second search and advance at a position twenty miles from Antony's rear. Uproot any remaining hashdi garrisons. Petneus followed behind the Thirteenth Army with the main force of the Thirteenth Army, and the commander Li Bida supervised the progress of the works at the shipyard.

Outcome. The next day there was a fight.

But Anthony's cavalry actually passed through, these Hashhitis are really ghostly, they did follow David. Ankit's instructions discarded most of the small fortresses and concentrated on Yazda, but under David's arrangement, there was still a general named Parthen, who was a shepherd, with hundreds of people quietly lurking in a fortress in the middle of a mountain cliff, watching the careless Anthony cavalry appear, and it was not exposed, and Anthony did not conduct a careful reconnaissance of the fortress on the mountainside at all, but roughly judged that there was no one on the periphery, and as he had encountered before, the whole team galloped away.

However, when the thousand-man brigade of Highburidar marched to this point, it was not so good, and the Hashhitis suddenly rained down the hill with a dense rain of torches, stones, and javelins, and one of the centurions in the lead was killed on the spot, and the rest of the reacting troops, with their shields on their heads, hurriedly retreated, and as a result, the Jews lit a raging fireball and pushed down the hillside, cutting off the road between the front and rear of the thousand-man brigade, and the whole group could not be connected end to end, and became a mess. At this time, the Hashedic army on the hillside, shouting and rushing down, the leader was actually like a Thracian, holding a sickle-like back-bladed machete, and the flanks were light infantry, this is the "magnet tactic" they invented, the heavy armor that captured the city-state mercenaries armed their elite, and they held the back-bladed machete in both hands, and chopped the Romans' big shield like a piece of paper, or cut it in from top to bottom, and then pulled it back with their hands, so that the front of Hybrida could not stand up the shield wall at all, and it was like a magnet to bite the Romans' forwards. Then the lightly armed troops on both flanks detoured to the flank, throwing javelins and throwing stones, so that the Romans in the rear could not form the line of engagement at all, and could only block left and right with their shields.

"Don't go back!" Hebrida under the flag shouted viciously, because he saw that all around him were figures who automatically retreated, if this continued, the front men and horses cut off by the fireball wall would be completely annihilated, "Attack it, save the front team, and then retreat and wait for help." Then he grabbed the flag, and went directly through the wall of fire, and the soldiers around him gritted their teeth, and reluctantly lost the reputation and flag of the thousand-man legion, and they also followed the centurion, and passed through, dozens of fire men roared and raised their swords to join the battle group, extinguishing the flames on the one hand, and stabbing the enemy on the other, which scared the Hashdi believers who engaged in the battle stupid.

After the last, the auxiliary brigade behind arrived, this group of people ignored the barrier of the wall of fire, after a simple measurement of the distance, directly over there shot a rain of arrows, and then fell to the slopes and river banks over there, although it was indiscriminate killing, but obviously less armor or even no armor believers, the damage of the arrow cluster was greater, fortunately, it had long been expected that the Romans would have a follow-up team reinforcements, Partion waved the flag on the mountain, and the Hashhiti left the rearguard and retreated in an orderly manner.

After the battle, the thousand-man brigade suffered 300 casualties, of which 80 died, but although Hebrida passed through the flames and rescued his troops, the burns were not very serious, but his hair was burned to the ground, and when he retreated to build a temporary camp four furlongs outside the cliff fortress, he was furious, and vowed to pull out the "nail" within three days.

At this time, Faobinas and the "Cyrene" brigade also followed, and when they reached this camp, they were grabbed by Hybrida and asked him if he didn't say that Hashdi would abandon all the fortresses south of Yazda. Why would you be ambushed here!

After thinking for a while, Faobinas wrenched away the other party's hand with a serious expression, "I'm more worried about Antony's cavalry brigade in front of me than this. Since Anthony's forces have passed through here before you, the Hashish army lurking on the cliffs is not attacking aimlessly, they are trying to cut off our connection with the Tribune, and most likely to annihilate the Tribune's cavalry. (To be continued......)