At dawn the next day, the flags and soldiers of the three subsequent legions, the seventh, twelfth, and thirteenth legions, also arrived at the old camp of Cornelius. Before the men and horses who had stepped off the deck of the ship had fully recovered their fatigue, news was received that the High Priest had already marched towards the city of Vaga, with four leading legions, before daylight.

"Keep up with the whereabouts of the High Priest with all your might, and don't give up your merits to others, especially the rookies who have just been formed in Cyrene!" The Seventh Legion was the first to pour out of the main gate of the old camp, and then the other two legions, after piling their luggage high in the center of the camp, took off their heavy armor, for it was deadly enough in the wilderness and heat of Africa, and scrambled out of the camp in the form of light infantry, carrying only shields and swords.

At this moment, the new infantry regiment led by Li Bida himself, their shields and banners were all embroidered with "Rex. The arrows of Leus, with their bronze pipes and spears, were marching one after another, and at a distance of one furlong from them, the new cavalry regiments under the command of Paruma and Dussonvière, with the portrait of King Numa in the forest, were galloping past a dry riverbed, and the dust raised by the horses' hooves was enough to obscure the sky around the city of Utica.

"Hansk, with a wing of cavalry, run quickly, do not stop for the slightest, survey the water, the roads and the barren land ahead, I will try my best to get in touch with the city of Vaga, I don't know how long Hitius can hold out."

The captain of the Germanic cavalry, who had received the order, with one hundred and twenty lightly armed cavalrymen, left the army at a hurried pace. Towards the city of Vaga.

The city of Varga at this time. It's time for life and death to be at stake. Rabinus abandoned the plan of attacking the city on all sides, because that would give Hitius a chance to deal with it because of the poor coordination, and he left only three brigades in each of the three directions of the southeast and north of the city, and a small number of cavalry to hold the besieged wooden fences and trenches, and left a group of twenty-one brigades, nearly 10,000 elites, mixed with a complete army under his own command. The assault force of 15,000 men was gathered and used in the siege west of the city of Ouga.

"The slope has been built, and after the signal is given, all the people will form a three-column tortoiseshell formation, do not use any equipment, and use people to pile down the city of Vaga, and even if you pay more blood and sacrifice, you will drown the miscellaneous members of the Hitius party in the sea of blood." These are the exact words of Rabinus - the current situation, Varga City is already involved in the whole body, if Varga City cannot be taken down. He had to abandon the city when Lypida's main force reached the Tumr River and join up with the three legions that had built fortifications in the mountains along the river. focus on dealing with Li Bida; But if the city of Wagga is captured, his four legions can fully rely on the city's water and city defenses, and form a two-wing front with the three legions, and if Li Bida dares to cross the Tumr River, he will inevitably be caught in a two-sided attack, and then when the other armies of the three legions of Lelias come back from Zama, the victory will be certain.

In the scorching sun, the fifteen thousand soldiers of Rabinus, all wearing hats and helmets, holding shields of various colors, were densely packed like sparkling waters in the western part of the city of Vaga, with banners and emblems arranged neatly in layers, and then at the sound of the trumpet, the fifteen brigades at the front took the lead in stacking their shields together with a bang, maintaining a precise marching pace, stepping on the slope, and pressing towards the city like a mountain.

At the sound of the command, the Hitius party set fire to the rolling log with thorns and tinder on the top of the city, and then rolled down the slope for a while, and soon mixed with the flames that rose with the wind, and swept into the ranks of Rabinus, some of the soldiers lay down with their shields, and some of them could not dodge, and at the same time they were swallowed by the fire of the red lotus like a poisonous snake whale with their companions, but the centurion and the commander who supervised the battle behind did not care about these at all, still holding short swords, shouting and pulling the soldiers in the back row, and quickly pressed forward, In desperation, many people threw down their shields one after another, covered them with the flames of the rolling wood, and then stepped on the burning corpses and shields one by one, and crossed over.

Soon, on the walls and towers, the besieging soldiers and the armed immigrants guarding the city there engaged in a fierce white-knuckle battle, these immigrants were purely ordered by Hitius to be stationed here as meat shields, and most of their wives and children were held in the temple of Boled, so they had no way to retreat, they could only wield short swords, or hold stones, and stand at the head of the city to resist frantically, Rabinus's soldiers were killed and wounded, but many more jumped up bravely, and flexibly stabbed the armed immigrants who blocked them one by one with their short swords.

"Captured, captured!" After half a day, the heralds rode with joy and came to the camp behind, and shouted to Rabinus, who was sitting silently, and when he heard the news, Rabinus jumped up and climbed to the towering siege tower beside him, where he could see the whole city of Vaga--the entire siege slope and the western wall had been twisted together by the battle, and it was impossible to distinguish between them, and the countless soldiers who followed them were crawling into it like ant colonies, Many centurions were already standing on the crippled towers of the smoke and fire, waving their flags downward, and the ruined walls and walls were littered with mutilated corpses and bloodstains.

Rabinus could not help but burst into tears, and he clutched his rapidly beating heart, "Do not let up the whole army, rush in, and the soldiers at the head of the city will quickly seize the rest of the walls and towers, and besiege the enemy Hitius in the core square of the city, and slaughter them all!" ”

"Oh, oh, oh!" At this time, in the square of the city of Vaga, on each side there was a group of Hitius soldiers, commanding many pack horses and ploughing oxen, using ropes to scratch hooks, and a section of the city wall that had been loosened in advance collapsed, and the rest of the soldiers walked through the streets and alleys, lighting fires everywhere, and the smoke and flames were rolling, blowing along the wind to the western wall, so that the soldiers of the Rabinus army, who had just rushed in, could not open their eyes at all, and could not carry out the pursuit.

At dusk, when the wind had changed and the smoke had cleared, all the soldiers found that the remaining seven or eight hundred Hitius, and hundreds of armed immigrants, had burned half of the city of Vaga, and had retreated to the temple fortress in the northwest corner of the city, where a new wall, which had just been completed, and where it was connected with the old wall, had been collapsed.

In short, Hitius shrank from a large fortress to a smaller, stronger fortress city, and he and his men continued to resist, and the city of Varga did not fall. (To be continued......)