"Timur was a very peculiar man, he was blessed by heaven and fate." - Timur's enemies

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As soon as they fought, the five hundred cavalry of Cibalas were crushed, torn, rammed, trampled, and stabbed, and the formation could not be maintained in an instant, and the friendly troops on the walls and the Eye Fort around them frantically threw arrows in an attempt to support them, but these things flew down, and they were even more deadly to their weakly defended cavalry.

Soon, from behind the curtain line of the mast, Lypida's lightly armed infantry, mostly Agrians and Essians, marched like flies, throwing pikes and stones and striking the cavalry of Cebaras from their horses.

The whole city, the smoke and dust rolling, the figures were strewn and crossed, there was a scuffle everywhere, the bodies of the dead and wounded were strewn all over the place, both sides were injured by each other, and the shouts of killing even reached the city of Athens, Brutus also wore the general's cloak, stood silently on the tower, watching the fierce battle under the city opposite, he could do nothing but pray that Cibaras would be safe, save his cavalry, and retreat.

But Li Pida's cavalry was like a school of sharks that had seen a fishy smell, and when the infantry of a wing of Fort Eye, running and holding shields in a horizontal formation, came to reinforce the commander of West Barras and retreated, the heavily armed cavalry in Li Pida's team turned their heads and retreated very cleverly, and the lightly armed Mattia cavalry roared out one after another, and the cavalry and infantry of West Barras were caught off guard, and they were shot in the scream, and West Barras himself was shot in the face. Planted under the horse.

"Leave me alone. Keep the military flag safe. As for my lieutenant, keep going back with the rest of the group, and we're going to pay the price for this reckless sortie. Sibalas was held by the servant, his hands over his bloodied face, and he cried out in pain, but many of his cavalry still refused to abandon their generals, but dismounted one after another, shouting and drawing their swords. Surrounded by Sibalas and the banner, they wanted to continue the confrontation with the enemy.

In the intervening moments, Mattia's cavalry marched forward again, and Cibalas's cavalry formed a formation, howling and vowing to stop and defeat them, but Mattias, when they approached, turned back and fired a wave of arrows, which stirred up a cloud of smoke and dust and poured into the formation of Cibalas. Everyone stumbles and it's hard to hold on here.

A shrill and terrifying trumpet sounded at the earliest. Countless small tongue flags were raised on the opposite side, and Li Bida's hoplites re-lined into a terrifying wall-shaped formation, and in this sound, holding high their spears, rumbling like moving mountains and walls, they rushed into the smoke and dust, and the line of defense of West Barras was trampled to pieces in an instant, and the light infantry of the Medejes, Aesioans, and Agrians followed the pace of their heavy cavalry, leaping into the chaotic enemy formation, wielding short swords and machetes and slashing wildly.

After this fatal onslaught, almost no one survived, including poor Sibaras, his cavalry, and a company of infantry that had come to reinforce him, and his head was cut off and washed, and at noon he was sent to the camp of Lybida for the high priest to see.

"What do I want this head for? Give the soldier who cut him down a reward of thirty thousand dinars, but this is also the business of the ruler - I want the city of Eulipis, do you understand? "When he saw the high priest of the head of Zebharas, he was greatly enraged.

Then all the generals trembled, and they remembered that the high priest had given a death order that the city must be taken by the evening of the day, so Sabo immediately ordered: he was in charge of the siege position on the left, and Faobinas (commander of the Sixteenth Army) was in charge of the siege position on the right—the four lieutenant cavalry generals of Paruma, Hanske, Dussonvier, and Wentitis, who commanded all the cavalry, continued to hold on to the central position, acting as a connecting "chain", accompanied by about six thousand light infantry as cover-and, On the left is the chief centurion of the Twelfth Legion, Tagus, who acts as the commander of the attacking brigade, and on the right is the chief centurion of the Sixteenth Legion, Chretas, all of whom are gearing up and unwilling to give in, both on the left and right, eager to be the first to capture the leaderless castle of Juripis.

When all the flags were gathered under the castle, on the acropolis of the port of Piraeus, Horace, Virgil and other young people, also looked at the besieging army below like gravel, like stars, like the sun, they were dumbfounded, more than twenty legions, hundreds of huge ships, surrounded the city of Athens like iron chains, if they were on the side of Lipida, maybe they could make the most magnificent poems to praise this qiē, but they were the besieged side, and everyone was silent at this time, Don't know what to say.

"Soon, I will lead the main forces of the four legions, except for one legion to defend here, and go out to fight a decisive battle with Li Bida's legions, and fight to the end." When they heard this, they turned back, but saw Brutus saying this, standing on the porch, and saying this to them.

"I'm going to follow you too!" Virgil walked down the steps, and then he nodded to Horace next to him, "You stay here and take care of the defense." ”

"Ridiculous, do you despise me so much because of my youth? I am not afraid of anyone, and with a spear, I will pierce the tyrant's ramparts completely, and make him tremble under my weapons. Horace was reluctant to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and although the death of Cassillo had made him no longer see any hope of victory, the blood in his cavity had not yet frozen.

"Enough, you all stay! Let Calatafemius be my lieutenant, and command one wing, and that fellow of Cassiyo will leave me and die, and if he were still here today, he will not make Lypida's army so rampant and majestic. Brutus said, and then he stepped forward and put his arm on the shoulders of Horace and Virgil, "If I succeed in breaking through, you will go out of the city with a legion to meet me; If I could return, I would continue to lead you to Athens, the last lone fortress in the ocean; If I die in battle, do not die, but spare your life, and surrender with the soldiers and the citizens, for divide my urn into two, and give one to Portia my wife, if she has not gone mad; A mother who gave it to me I knew she hated me, but loved me more, she still regarded me as her son, and I wished to be buried in the cemetery of the Brutus family house, and I did not expect to go to the cemetery of the Temple of the God of War, I did not contribute to this country, no, except to stain my hands with the sin of 'killing my father'. ”

After saying that, Brutus slowly raised his hand and said, "This time I will make up my mind, what is the act of escaping?" If I had to do it, I would do it with my hands, not my feet! My death is only on time, friends. (To be continued......)