Because the manpower required to build the three temples was still relatively large, Li Bida left behind the three brigades of the Serapis Legion to supervise the work, and led the other teams to retreat to the zigzag fortress in the center of the kingdom basin one after another to rest, and let several brigades cooperate with the Esioans to continue to attack the remnants of Garamantheus in the remote mountains.

One bazaar day later, Li Bida and fifty slave soldiers and Spanish swordsmen entered the so-called royal city of the enemy kingdom with light clothing, a modest palace and a perilous acropolis, but they were all hastily burned down when the Garamane thees withdrew. Then the man who was crowned king used the lion's leg chair that could only be used by kings, sat in the main hall of the palace full of ruins, dressed in the uniform of a Roman general, but put on the blue crown of the pharaoh's royal family, received the gifts and oaths of allegiance from the people of Nasmones and Essio, and the small statue of Venus offered by the legionnaires, and after ten bulls and thirty sheep were sacrificed, he made public the order to continue the "hunt" of the Garamanthees before nearly 10,000 soldiers:

"I have always believed that I have never been a monarch, which is very contrary to the idea of a republic, and that it was only an expedient measure to temporarily govern this rebellious land. I launched this expedition on behalf of the two great nations of Rome and Egypt, so this military operation was completely legal and authorized by the actual commander, Bassatus. I have punished them on behalf of justice for the reason for attacking the Garmanthes, for they have mistreated the Essioans, the friendly nations of Rome, like animals, but their kingdom is so powerful that if I were to give up halfway, it would be a serious threat to the logistical supply lines of the Hashdi revolt in Cyrenaica. I remember a proverb that said something like this. If God has given you wealth. But if you are afraid, then it may be followed by God's wrath and destruction. In the end, what we can do is to completely eradicate this kingdom, eliminate their elite aristocracy, destroy the kingdom's elite armament, chariots, fortresses, and many weapons that will harm the Romans. Let this land be forged into a ploughshare and enjoy eternal peace. My great and elite warriors, I now ask and encourage you to join forces with the Aesions, who are skilled in mountain and cave warfare, to hunt down all the figures of the Garamantheus who have their left hair shaved (their nobles shave their left hair) - my legionnaires take down the head of a nobleman, and give him five hundred cesdes, and the head of a nobleman's relative, and two hundred cesdes; If it is a military slave, grant freedom. He was converted to a legionary soldier, and was rewarded with two hundred cesdes; Anyone in the military. Cut off the head of the enemy king and give him ten thousand dinars, or eight thousand drachmas. However, it must be reminded that our purpose is not to kill on a killing spree, so if you set fire to the cave, you must have a temperate heart, save the lives of the farmer and the craftsman, and spare them as long as the other party is willing to reveal his identity and search for any weapons that may be hidden. ”

Then, with his own guards, he marched forward along the river by the abandoned royal city, and five hundred stadias, and everywhere he could see were the corpses of the Garamanthees, and the villages that were being burned, and every day at sunset, many soldiers with one or more heads pinned to their belts came to ask for merit, among them there was a centurion of Bagulus, because in one day and his men, he cut off the heads of seventeen nobles and sixty-three nobles' relatives, and had the nickname of "head necklace craftsman".

The Essioans, who were motivated by a sense of revenge, killed even more uncontrollably, and these backward barbarians, with ostrich feathers, probably did not expect to counterattack one day, freed all the slaves of their own race in the farms and mines, and formed a revenge army of about 4,000 men, which carried out indiscriminate slaughter all the time, and committed terrible war crimes every day. And the Garamanthees, the bravest and most civilized nomadic people in Libya (of course, who had long since turned to the agrarian and military life), were now left to be like the Essions, whom they had despised the most, as they had been, in their caves, and they could not even escape beyond the mountains, for further west, up to the pillars of Hercules, was a sea of uninhabited sand.

The horrific act went on for about a month, and the cave where King Garamantheus was hiding was found by Centurion Polo. Polo stood at the mouth of the cave and persuaded the king to come out of the cave and accept the placement of the benevolent general in the most amicable tone possible.

But the king's interpreter to the Aesios said that he did not wish to live in this fertile land with the lowly people of Aesio, nor did he wish to go to Lybidaeus, for their ancestors had taught him that as kings, he could only go to foreign kings whom he had defeated.

"But our general is the monarch of Cyrenaica, and you are de jure only a minor king of his." Before Polo could be persuaded to hear the screams of women and children in the cave, he shrugged his shoulders at the soldiers behind him and said, "Wait here for a while, and then carry the corpses of the royal family to the general to receive the reward." ”

King Garamantheus, seven wives and concubines, and eleven children committed suicide in a dark cave together, and the body was ceremoniously buried by Lybida, who then issued a stern decree demanding that the round-up be stopped immediately, and all the captured citizens of Garamantheus went with the Esians to help build the temple.

Two months later, three temples were erected in front of the ruins of the city of Assaman Gars, and Lybida offered only the spoils of war to the temple of the goddess of the hunt, a promise he had made to his daughter, and then he announced to all the Esioans, the remnants of the Garamanthees, and the soldiers of the two legions that the Pharaoh had allowed him to set up a treasurer in the kingdom of his own!

All the soldiers cheered feverishly, and Lipida promised to take some time to let the scribes measure the land, and then grant them the cultivators the Aesioans and the Garamanthes, and the kingdom would henceforth establish a Curia assembly similar to the Roman Republic, with one-third of the seats of the treasurer, one-third of the Aesian nobles, and one-third of the Garamanthees, in order to ensure long-term peace.

This is all a trick played by Li Pida, and his distribution of seats seems to be very balanced, but in fact, Esio and Garamantheus are completely hostile to each other, and if either side shows signs of restlessness, the other side will inevitably turn to his side, so he will always have two-thirds of the strength to suppress the locality.

As for the avenging army composed of the liberated slaves of Esio, they were all "eaten" by Li Pida, and he organized them into eight independent auxiliary brigades, fought with shuttle darts and stone throws, and served as the vanguard of the northern expedition to Cyrene City, "Because I am the one who rescued you, I am your refuge, and I hope that you poor people can understand this justice." (To be continued......)