After the Battle of the City of Massella, Lypida's fleet was completely phoenix-nirvana, strong and strong: thirty-five large three-column warships with through-decks, fifty-four double-column or single-column light assault ships, and hundreds of transport ships, bypassing the entire Spanish Sea, and no one dared to stop Pompey! Except for the full men, plus the Matthia cavalry, all the crew oarsmen were the bravest, strongest, and most experienced warriors recruited from the East, Liguria, Sardinia, etc.

Therefore, when this large and well-established fleet appeared on the tower island outside the city of Cadiz, Li Bida issued an order on the flagship of "Calabia" that the army should not act rashly and give the opportunity to intimidate the enemy to the fleet at sea.

This is also his strategy: not to let the enemy know that we really only have a new army, and let the stronger and more comprehensive fleet carry out the mission of the undefeated army.

Originally, Varro also gave the city of Cádiz a task, that is, to use the city's financial resources to build ten large ships, and the adjacent island of Hisparis also undertook the apportionment of six warships, this burden made the elders of the two cities complain, and now the fleet that Li Bida suddenly appeared from the sea, which made them full of urgency about where to go.

Under the work of the Admirals Gable and Addangis, the fleet's novel tactics stunned the Gallians, or Varro's commander Gallonius: light assault ships, armed with ferocious stick projectiles and bellows, cleanly cleared the Cadiz of several ships that dared to resist on the outskirts of the harbor, and then, like a flock of crows (Lybida ordered all the sails to be painted horribly black), rushed into the dock and inner harbor, hurling stones and rockets into the city—and then. Three-tiered paddle ship. Lined up. Straddling the two ends of the bay of Cadiz like an "iron chain", the skilful crew connected each ship in series with hanging plates, chains and nets, forming a blockade line floating on the water.

Galonius, on the walls and towers, was horrified to see many enemy soldiers with spears and shields galloping freely between the "barricades". Then there were several loud, strange noises, and he noticed that the towers around him began to shake and collapse—three-story rowboats. The Lypida sailors used a large ship-mounted ballista called the "Lady of Massella", which was originally installed densely on the city of Masseria and could catapult huge wooden poles to destroy the fortifications of the Acropolis.

Now that the city of Marcellia has been razed, many of the stones of the walls have been transformed into stone bullets, and the ballistas have been copied into eight gates, mounted on some ships, and now they float in the center of the blockade, facing the city of Cadiz, a wooden pole twelve Roman feet long, and the head covered with undulating rough iron. With an eerie whistling sound, it swept across the water. Wedged deep into the violently shaking tower, shot after shot.

Then the Marcelian noblewoman's cannon, along with the rest of the ballistas, began to tilt the large and small stone bullets violently, and since the tower had been crumbling with wooden poles, it was now easy to break it with a wave of stone bullets. One by one, the towers fell, and the faith of the city's presbyterians followed the buildings, falling into the cold waters.

They quickly took possession of the town hall, and then demanded that Gallonius and six brigades of garrisons get out of the city immediately, so as not to harm the city, and many people had already heard of the fate of Massella, "This is a battle between you and Caesar, and our province has always been pro-Caesar, pro-General Lybidaeus, this kind of war has nothing to do with us!" ”

When Galonius saw the beaten wall, he immediately replied to the Council of Elders, "On behalf of the Supreme Commander of the land, I am willing to surrender to General Lybida and hand over the keys to Varro's hoarding of supplies!" ”

After reaching an agreement, the city of Cadiz quickly sent envoys to negotiate the surrender, and in order to show their sincerity, Galonius and six brigades of soldiers consciously lined up in the square behind the trestle, and did not carry any weapons, to welcome the entry of General Li Bida into the city, with three hundred elders.

The first to go ashore was the chief brigade of the six legions of Angandinus, who ordered Gallonius to take them to the storehouse in the city, and soon found 190,000 cesdes, of course, only coins, and two thousand pounds of fine silver nuggets, plus 120,000 ducats of dates

"Varro believes that dates are a good food for the army, this fruit is not only delicious, but also very sweet, can be made into preserved fruits to carry, and soldiers can also eat it to solve diarrhea and other marching diseases." In front of the warehouse, when the soldiers and treasurers began to count the spoils of war, facing the mount of Lipida, Gallonius explained very expertly.

"No, I want to ask you, since Varro has hoarded so much food and property in this place, then he took the main force to the city of Korduba in different directions, how to solve the problem of provisions?" Li Bida continued to ask loudly.

Garonius shook his head, indicating that he was also puzzled, and Li Bida patted the horsewhip in his hand and said, "This man's military ability is simply unbelievable. ”

Soon the soldiers erupted in cheers, and when they had found priceless spices, works of art, and gold and silver ornaments in the rooms adjacent to the storehouse, Liberda asked again from which temple Galonius had taken them, for the treasurers had found poppy seeds, ointments, and other things.

The other party explained that before the war, Varro should have brought it from the most magnificent temple of Mercury not far from here, and the priests of the temple refused to do so, so Varro accused them of "fornicating with Caesar", tortured them, or robbed all the goods in the temple.

"It's a stupid act of the enemy." Li Bida complained and teased in his heart, and then pointed to the mountain of goods and said to Paulus, because he was the treasurer of his subordinates, "I will take one-third of it for safekeeping, which is the part I promised Combano; then a third was given to the provincial market towns, which had suffered greatly from the abuses of Pompey's henchmen; A third of the other was immediately distributed to the soldiers and crews of the Sixth Legion, and the recruitment began, and it was said that General Li Bida, the former 'conqueror of Orcrecy', had returned to conquer the city once again. In addition, the treasures of the temple are not allowed to be touched by the soldiers, and the violators will be killed immediately without forgiveness, and when our army is settled, all will be returned to the Great Temple of Mercury. ”

This is different from a city like Massella, which has no connection with Lybida, after all, he and Caesar have a pretty good reputation in Lusitania, so that kind of burning, killing and looting is not allowed in this province. Originally, Li Bida thought that the Sixth Army was newly established and should be relatively bold, but there was still a centurion who did not believe in evil and ran to steal the temple thing, a gold-inlaid fresco, and destroyed it, dug up the gold nugget on it, and the next day his bloody head hung on the lighthouse in the port of Cadiz, so that everyone could see the end of the rebellion. (To be continued......)