Chapter 30: The Battle of the Amun River (Part II)

After the convoy collapsed, accompanied by the infantry being flanked, Alp and the rushing out of the Li Bida Division, like two iron pincers, instantly crushed this fragile egg, hundreds of people were slaughtered on the spot, the rest of the corpses floated all over the river, and more people pushed away the corpses of their comrades and fled for their lives in the direction of the Amun River.

"Drink, drink!" Sabo, whose cloak was burned with blood, bared his teeth, rode to the temporary camp of the attached cavalry brigade in the rear, and shouted to Anthony, who was standing up, holding the hilt of his sword, "The infantry in front of our army has won a brilliant victory in an ambush, and His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief orders your cavalry to immediately enter into pursuit!" ”

"Bastard, we have been fighting for two days and three nights in a row, and the soldiers can no longer ride in the saddle, their eyes are almost blind, do these Limbidaeus guys know what?" Anthony defended angrily, clapping his hands in emotion, and stood in front of Sabo's horse.

Sabokemus did not seem to hear the slightest of this difficulty, and then he turned his face to Dusonvier, and continued in an unquestionable commanding tone, holding the token in his hand, "This is the Commander-in-Chief of the Thirteenth Legion and the Legion of Serapis, the companion of the Pharaoh, the military chief of the defense of the nomads of Egypt, the king of Cyrenaica of Ptolemy, the treasurer of Illyria, the friend of the Great Temple of Venus of Paphos, Calabis. Gao Nerlius. Do I need to repeat the order of His Excellency Marcus F. Emilius Lypidaus? ”

With that, he pulled the reins, hung his front hooves, made a half-circle, stood firmly in the opposite direction, and walked away.

"Will you follow me to the Amun River in dozens of Roman miles, and chase the dead north without interruption, and go there to defeat the remaining men and horses of the Garamantheus?" Surrounded by Li Bida, who is flowing in Songming. shouted at the black soldiers who were running behind them. "For the crown of the king of Cyrenaica. For the glory of the god Serapis! The black soldier replied loudly. The barefoot hurried after him, when the sound of the hooves of thousands of horses quickly turned behind him, and the cavalry of Antony and Dussonville caught up with him, and then advanced and attacked in the direction of the Amun River.

When the Roman cavalry wielding javelins and swords rushed after the defeated troops in the direction of the meandering river, the main force of the Garamantheus army on the banks of the Amun began to loosen and make noise. It was noon, and the chiefs standing on the splendid chariots began to question each other fiercely, wondering what to do. Because on the other side of the river, under the command of General Peternius, the hundred-man detachments of the Thirteenth Army also began to stand, and it looked like they were crossing the river to attack.

"Tear their defenders apart!" Li Bida took the lead, slashing like a blade in the gap in front of the Garamantheus, and several enemy soldiers shouted and threw javelins at him, only to be stopped by the slaves next to him, raising their shields to block him. More and more infantry and cavalry followed their commander-in-chief, tearing the gaps into huge "wounds". The rear of the Garamatanes then fled across the mountains and were driven out of the battlefield by Lybida's cavalry, while the nobles, accompanying tribal soldiers, and chariots were crowded along the Amun River, where they were mercilessly besieged and slaughtered.

When the sun was setting, when the whole battle was over, the Romans had the right to clean up the battlefield, because they were the victors, and drew the main force from the city of Assaman Gars, blocked and annihilated the reinforcements at the Osay, and then blitzed the Amun River, killing about 3,000 Garamanthees, including 28 of them with gold collars.

Similar to the Balantians in Spain, this desert people, although they had relied on brute courage and fought fiercely, and were famous in southern Libya, but now they have also been dealt a devastating blow by Lipida, according to the previous expression of the Esions, this nation has 10,000 men who can fight, and now 3,000 have died in battle, which is basically not far from extermination.

"Their remnants are probably retreating to the cave where amethyst is produced in the distance." The Emissary of the Essios said to Li Bida with a tone of smug relief.

"You Esioans don't even know how to use torches, do you?" Li Bida asked in a mocking tone, and when the envoy gave a negative reply, Li Bida took Songming from Hu Cong, gently handed it into the messenger's hand, and said in a gentle tone, "The team I led the battle today is very tired and needs to rest for a while. So I will prepare the river guards and the tomb guards, who have nothing to do in the camp, and send them out, and your men will act as guides, and search out the rats in the caves, or burn them to death with fire. ”

The torch in the messenger's hand fluttered, but he quickly accepted the cruel order.

This kind of boring rat warfare, Li Bida has always found it "boring", he ordered the soldiers of the Amun River battlefield to wash their horses with river water, clean the blood stains on their weapons, and then bury the corpses of both the enemy and us, and this kind of thing actually lasted for nearly four days, because there were too many bodies left by the Garamanthees, and then after identifying all the noble dead on the other side, the Romans threw them all on the mule cart and accompanied the army to the city of Assamangals.

In the past few days, the city has not launched an active attack, proving that these fools are still pinning their hopes on reinforcements. Therefore, Li Bida crucified all the bodies of the chieftains and nobles who had died in battle on the Amun River, erected a long slip under the city, and then waited for the envoys of the city to surrender.

Three days later, no messenger came.

It seems that the opponent's weapons and food reserves can still be sustained, and they are not completely intimidated and lost.

It wasn't until the Roman soldiers put the severed heads off the rotten corpses on the stone throwers and smashed them into the city like stone bullets that the defenders of the city finally collapsed, and they opened the gates, gave up resistance, and were willing to surrender all, even if it was better to be sold into slavery than to suffer such a miserable end.

However, Li Bida did not sell them to foreign mines, because there were no military traffickers behind the commander-in-chief, and most of these people still wanted money and life, and were unwilling to cross the sea of death to do such a trade. Therefore, Li Bida first asked the captives to move their muscles - to demolish the entire city of Asamamangars, and then ordered them to build a temple of Serapis, an altar to King Numa, and a temple of the goddess of hunting in the wilderness on the outskirts of the city.

"When all this has been done, let these captives come under the control of the Essioans, and continue to work in the salt wells, but my legion will share half of all the gains. Also, Saab please write a letter to Ptolemy as soon as possible, and I will arrange the treasurer of the land at my own discretion. ”

"But?"

"It's nothing, I was the king of Cyrenaica, and I have the final say, even if I give the kingdom to Rome in the blink of an eye, so the letter is just a matter of courtesy." (To be continued......)