So in the town of Mykning, northwest of the Salt Lake of the same name, Caesar's army and Pompey's army fought the first rearguard and forward encounter. Caesar's legions, the Thirteenth Legion, formed a horizontal line along the town of Mykning, blocking the road between the town and the salt lake, and carried a large number of archers with golden fly banners, and rained arrows at the pursuing Pompey's army.

"Rush over, just in time to find out the details of Caesar." Pompey indifferently ordered, and then Vibrius and Peletaeus, respectively, led the chief brigades of the First and Second Legions, formed a formation like a cone, and rushed forward bravely—and the three brigades of the First Legion made a detour back to the north of the town of Mykning, to form a situation of plundering and flanking the Thirteenth Legion.

The Thirteenth Legion's arrow feather suppression did not last long, and it fought with Pompey's forwards, killing and wounding many people, and then was defeated.

Pompey then led his guards and retinues into the deserted town of Mykning, and climbed to the tower next to the small hall on top of it, to get a bird's-eye view of Caesar's army in front of him, but as soon as he went up, Caesar sent another group of men and horses to replace the Thirteenth Legion, which was led by the chief centurion of the Sixteenth Legion of Faobinus, Cleitus, and they continued to block again in a place outside Rome. So Pompey's army did the same, adopted the most elite chief brigade, and fought with Creitas for half a day, and the other side slowly retreated.

Below, Caesar sent the elite soldiers of the Tenth Legion and the remaining veterans to come out and fight with Pompey's army, this time the Tenth Legion is worthy of being the elite of Caesar's most personal elite, and the battle is extremely cunning and ferocious, and the two thousand-strong brigades of Pompey's first and second legions have entered a situation of advancing and retreating. And because the passage corridor is getting narrower and narrower. Pompey was also unable to use the tactics of cavalry detours. I can only continue to shake it.

This time, it took about two days and a quarter for the Tenth Legion to retreat under alternate cover, and Pompey's guards were exhausted to death, with many dead and wounded, and the rest of the soldiers were also seated on the ground to rest; Pompey on the tower could only tell Labinus's six legions to go up and not let go of the pursuit of Caesar.

This time, the "La Colonia" regiment was never effectively intercepted by Caesar. Along the lì into the four Roman li, along the salt lake, to the west of the Tapsus on the seaside land.

But Pompey was very dismayed to find that he had followed Caesar's words again: Caesar had once again played a trick, and he had selected six hundred soldiers from each of the three legions, armed and unarmed, to advance them all, and to block the Tapsus, and the battle took place even before Pompey reached the city of Mykning, and then Caesar followed the perimeter of the city of Tapsus. A half-moon blockade was quickly erected - he sent out rearguard troops without interruption to buy time for this fortification.

Then. Caesar left the Thirteenth Legion to besiege the city, and then took the Sixteenth and Tenth Legions, flipped over, and formed three lines along the fortifications. In this way, Pompey knew at least one thing, Caesar's existing military strength, that is, these three legions, were equal in number to himself, and his own side still had an advantage in quality and number of cavalry, because the narrow corridor had been crossed, and under the city of Tapsus was an open and flat terrain extremely suitable for infantry and cavalry to gallop in a decisive battle.

"We also build improvised camps and ramparts in preparation for a decisive battle with Caesar in the coming days!" Pompey gave the order, and then he placed many war elephants and cavalry in his wings, and in the center he and Labinus personally urged everyone to set up their camps, "Do not be afraid of the enemy's attack, they have fought for a day, and have built their camps, and their strength is exhausted." This was Pompey's judgment.

In front of the southern corridor, Li Bida joined his six legions, and then also under Tapsus, he allocated half of the dismounted cavalry to form a defensive line, and then he himself took the rest of the men and horses to build a three-supporting camp.

"You can't give Li Bida a chance to stand on the base." Scipio and King Juba quickly judged the answer, and then they commanded the elephants to rush forward, "Rush, rush, show me the results of my training, and you should not be afraid of any slings or arrows by now!" Scipio sat on the elephant tower, excitedly shouting to the elephant master on the left and right, and rushed towards the front of Li Pida, according to Scipio's understanding, in such a congested environment, it happened to be the best place for war elephants to exert their might, and it would soon be a scene of flesh and blood flying and pleasantly trampling.

However, Hebrida stood at the front of the line, and told the soldiers to throw out thistles, and a lot of them—large traps, yes, traps. Over the years, when he served in the Seventh Legion, he had used it against the scythe-bladed chariots that were on the rampage of Pontus.

"Fool, do you really think that war elephants are invincible?" Li Bida secretly laughed in his heart, "Animals can never overcome their natural shortcomings, but humans can, this is the most basic principle for them to climb to the top of the food chain after millions of years of evolution." ”

Standing behind the thistles and traps were the low-slung Agreans and Rhodesians, who smashed the rain of stone projectiles that flew out of the air, which was much more ruthless than when the elephants were trained, and many soldiers saw the tears on the face of the commander Scipio, so they secretly relaxed the power of smashing the elephants, but Li Bida's men did not have these concerns, because they did not want to be trampled to death by these thick-skinned beasts.

Many elephants screamed in sorrow, could not bear the pain, began to disobey the command of the elephant master, turned around and ran around, but in the narrow area of their own followers of the cavalry rushed into a mess, the rest of the rushed up, also panicked in front of the thistle terrestris and the trap, did not dare to trample forward, all the attack formation was blocked in front of the line of fire of Li Bida, so that the attack of bows and arrows and stones became more violent, causing heavy casualties to the subordinates of Scipio and King Juba, after about half a day, they retreated, He could only set up a camp in despair.

The battle ended again, but at dusk, Pompey noticed a crucial change in the situation: on the coast outside the city of Tapsus, a very large number of ships suddenly appeared, that is, Libida gathered Caesar and all his ships to use, Aquila commanded the left flank fleet, and Aydangis commanded the right flank flotilla, directly blocking the sea of Tapsus City, all of them came from the island of Kirki, replenished with sufficient supplies.

Then, Caesar's killer weapon appeared, from the flat-bottomed ships docked by the fleet, three new legions came down one after another, the Twelfth, the Fifth and the Fifteenth Legions, all of whom were secretly transferred to the ships by Caesar a few days ago, waiting to appear today and become the key to their defeat of Pompey. (To be continued......)