As the smoke rose from the barantians, the Balantians began to understand Lipida's intentions, and they gathered all the best warriors and cavalry of the tribe and rushed out of the fence to crush the Romans' civil works! "Didn't you say that this tribe only needs two or three thousand men who can fight?" Half-naked and sweaty, Li Bida was able to shout to Saab Kemus below under the watchtower of the small camp next to him, "This is nonsense, in my opinion, there are five or six thousand of them, like ants in the cemetery outside the Maxim sewer." ”

Sabo didn't believe his ears either, he followed Li Bida to climb the watchtower, and then looked around, and shouted in a distraught: "There will be so many people in Weishenme? Because this tribe even goes to war with women! Li Bida touched the railing, and Sabo was right, and the women of Balantia, all with short swords and daggers, bare breasts, and naked upper bodies full of tattoos, followed behind the men, and screamed in their capes, and joined the charge.

When the soldiers saw this scene, vacillation was certain, and they must make a decision immediately, Li Bida shouted: "Put up the white flag and beat the brass drum!" Immediately the sound of trumpets and gongs and drums sounded everywhere, which was the signal for everyone to retract from the camp, and soon there were more than thirty small camps in a staggered arrangement, each of which was guarded by half to a hundred-man soldiers, many of whom hung their armor and shields on the fence to defend themselves against the barbarians' bows and arrows and javelins, and the projectors of the camps everywhere were in full swing, and the trained gunners and auxiliaries tirelessly operated the ballistas, scorpion crossbows, and slings, and smashed the javelins and stone bullets out lifelessly. And there is no standard at all - the barbarian charging force is like the ocean. In the air. The Thyme Legion refused to fight the Balantians in the field. They each stood guard in the camp, using various signals to communicate with each other, to warn and cheer each other, with wielding cloaks, with military trumpets, with lighted javelins, forming a network of fire between the staggered camps, and when one camp was in an emergency, the neighboring camps would move their troops. Desperate to save.

The sound of shouting and killing, like a violent wind, shook the whole camp, sometimes from south to north, sometimes from east to west, and the bloody corpses of Balantian warriors and horses, with javelins as dense as wheat, fell in the gaps between the camps, and in the midst of them were many bare-chested women, who were as fierce as men in the fight to the death. Let out a terrifying scream, and climb the crumbling fence with his bloodied hands. They tried to climb into the Roman camp, but the soldiers on the other side, in their extreme horror and the ensuing burst of murderous intent, forgot the gender of the other party, and they stabbed and stabbed with spears and swords through the cracks in the fence, until the women's lower abdomen and lower bodies were bloody, and then they fell down the stakes of the fence and fell down the stakes of the fence - they did not even groan, and died.

When a handful of bloodied Balantians rushed through the camp and prepared to break through the camp behind Lypida, they found that the camp of the treacherous Roman treasurer had "shifted" a half-stadia backwards at some point, and in the middle was a ring trench full of thorns, and the Numidian javelinmen who were waiting behind another fence

When the battlefield fell silent, Li Bida walked out of the camp and stepped on the corpses everywhere, or even to the point of not even getting his feet, the crazy attack of the Balantians was defeated, and the remains of the men and women of the tribe were like dense gravel and reefs after the ebb tide, and no less than 3,000 people were killed, Li Bida understood that the essence and manpower of this tribe were all destroyed, even if he withdrew his troops and left now, the other party was powerless to intercept it, and he could not restore the vitality of the tribe afterwards.

But he will not go again, since the grudge caused by the bloody killing will not be erased for a hundred years, then now, completely eradicate it - the Balantian tribe, the siege of you will continue until your totem and bloodline are completely disappeared on this shijie.

The next day, the Roman soldiers began to dig trenches in front of the chain of camps, and even though the Balantians were no longer able to launch a large-scale attack, they were still cautious, half of them were working, half of them were on guard, the rustle of shovels and the clanging of shovels were dense like the music of death, and when the standard trenches appeared, the slaves and the rest of the soldiers began to build a wall behind them, and the bodies of the barbarians who had been killed the day before were all loaded and thrown into the trenches of the large camp behind, covered with dirt and trampled on the ground. Li Bida ordered the entire camp to be destroyed, and all the soldiers and slaves were housed in the small camp behind the blockade wall, waiting for the order to attack.

After a fair-market day, the wall, fifteen stadia in length, was completed, and it was strangled at the throat of the city of Balantia like a gallow.

In addition, in order not to let the soldiers rest and panic, the gracious Li Bida urged them to build an earthen embankment between the Douro River and the city of Balantia in the small freshwater river with whips and money, and then dig ditches to divert the water to his camps. In this way, the external water source of this barbarian settlement was also cut off.

At this time, many of the small tribes of the Vitonni region and Lusitania who rebelled against the Romans crossed the mountains and passes, carried water and grain on their pack horses, and then changed boats at the Douro River, and entered the river one after another, stubbornly and courageously trying to climb over the earthen embankment and deliver supplies to the Balantians, but the camps on both sides of the river threw a dense rain of javelins at them—the Iberian Peninsula, now it was the warmest time of spring, but the Romans in the camps, But it can often salvage people's severed limbs and blood in the water, which is very disturbing.

Soon, the men who supervised the plague in the camp strongly advised Li Bida that if this continued, the fresh water in the rivers would be contaminated with rotting corpses and undrinkable, even if it was boiled, and that the groundwater would be bitter and salty, and that if the mules and horses did not want to die of thirst, they should launch a general attack on Balantia as soon as possible.

In this way, Li Bida cautiously ordered to launch a general attack on the city three days later, and he was actually waiting for the other party's envoys to surrender, but until now he has not.

Three days later, the Romans' "general attack" was in vain, for when a vanguard of 100 men entered the settlement, they found that all the people, old and weak, women and children, had committed suicide, some with daggers, some hanging themselves from the beams of the roofs, and the corpses were hanging everywhere, and the whole city became a dead city—no one could hold out for so long without a waterless blockade. (To be continued......)