In this way, at the foot of the mountains and roads that stretched several Romes, at the muddy feet, tens of thousands of Pompey and Caesar's infantry and cavalry, end to end, caught and killed, stopped and walked, and the shouts were deafening, which was "desperate" for both sides, as Caesar said.

But when Aphranius led a large group of soldiers to face the rolling Caesar cavalry, Vicintoli, after cutting down the first few surrenderers, still accepted their submission, and told them to march towards the rear on their own, and then the flying mud splashed by the hooves of the four thousand horsemen ruined the face of the former consul Aphranius, and soon he saw Caesar in a scarlet cloak, and when he was marching with many soldiers on his head, he shouted to Julius: "Do you know what I desire most now? I wish I could ask you face to face, even if I lost the war tactically, but as a citizen and official of the Republic, I still have the right to question you in law and justice, and I want to ask you for the purpose and the credentials of doing so! ”

Caesar took the reins, briefly saluted his former "forefather," and replied cheerfully, "It is natural, but before that, I wish to carry on to the end what you call a tactical victory." ”

Aphranius sighed, and when he saw that his soldiers had given up their former honor and pride and had come out to follow him in surrender, he said frankly to his followers who were walking with him, "Pompey is finished, Caesar not only has his own luck and strength as a basis, but also other hidden help, just as when Lykugu of Sparta entered the temple, the gods said to him, 'The rest of the mortals cannot win against you.'" After the collapse of the five legions of Spain. What is left of Pompey? Afrika and the kings of the East. There is not enough success at all, and there is more than failure. There are also those guys in the Senate who are always thinking about hindering the struggle for power. Maybe I'm reluctant to say things from Caesar's political standpoint, but from a purely military point of view, Pompey is indeed finished, and I need a thorough debate to clarify the confusion in my mind, and that's it. ”

But when he looked back, tens of thousands of soldiers, and half of them were still diehards. Clustered around Séctus and Peletaeus, desperately resisting the charge of Caesar's cavalry, they kept moving eastward, even though they were hungry, even if they discarded their excellent weapons, but they did not hesitate to sacrifice to buy time for the leader's escape. This especially saddened Aphranius, a cannibalism of the essence of the Republic.

At this time, the 6,000 people to whom Li Bida belonged on the banks of the Eporo River were still silent like wolves. Twelve thousand eyes were staring at the water, waiting for the Acting Commander-in-Chief to wave his baton. They were worried in their hearts, how on earth would they cross this river without pontoons and boats?

The climate at the end of summer is like this, the Eporo River, which was still turbid and swollen just now, quickly weakened the flow after the clouds disappeared and the rain disappeared, the sand and grass on the bank slowly revealed, the river became narrower and narrower, and finally the Asase at the bend revealed its true face, the cavalry captain Hansk led several horsemen and horses, and plunged into the river, even if the water weakened, all the soldiers could still see that the central water could still reach the chest of an adult man.

"Horsemen, the time has come to test you, and immediately divide into two groups, separated by a distance of three hundred Roman feet, one in the upper reaches of Asase and one in the lower reaches, and all the horses are staggered and separated from each other, and stand in the river, and hold on with a spirit of patience, and afterwards all the cavalry will be rewarded with an additional fifty drachmas." Li Bida didn't want to talk nonsense, because the time was very tight, and he only asked everyone to carry out the order.

So, the 2,000 cavalry was divided into two columns, from this side of the river to the other side, in the rolling waves, they gritted their teeth, especially in the upstream, the impact of the men and horses was the greatest, so the formation of the platoon was also the most dense, but it was indeed dispersed to weaken the impact of the river, and the cavalry downstream should be dispersed, and also played the role of a valve for discharge, so that in the area between the two columns, the water was really shallow, and the infantry pulled the pack horses, shouting and rushing over.

"General Gallius, General Combano, today I must rely on the strength and fighting spirit of the two of you, and the twenty-seventh army is now under the personal supervision of me, Liberdaus, with the aim of sealing the way out of Pompey's army at the cross-slope valley on the opposite side. Now we don't have time to discuss, but hopefully all the qiē is worth it. After speaking, Li Bida and all the generals also followed behind the ordinary soldiers and rode across the water.

"It's too late to build camps and fortifications." After climbing the hill, a centurion pointed to the ground and shivered, and shouted to the soldiers who were jumping around.

"The war situation is urgent, and it is not allowed to say words that are too late and impossible to do! Half of them lined up in battle formation, half dug trenches behind. In addition, Galius, you take three brigades and go to the high place of the confrontation over there to standby. Li Bida immediately said to Gallius.

Gallius's head is also hot, he is a more experienced military officer, but he has always been subservient to his subordinates, and he has met unreliable superiors, so that he has no place to learn, from the perspective of the battle situation, his task is to take these three brigades, control the entire flank position, and act as a reserve, that is to say, for him, a man who has not surrendered for a few days, Li Bida will rest assured that this fatal position will be handed over to him, not his confidant Combano.

"Damn, isn't the greater virtue of man, besides his position, not duty and trust?" When Galius thought of this, he didn't want to be superfluous, so he took the three brigades of soldiers and moved to the designated position.

Sure enough, two hours later, when the six cavalry cannons had just set up the firing point, the soldiers of the 27th Legion were stunned and saw the scene that they would never forget: on the open ground on the west side of the hillside, like a frightened ant colony, countless Pompey soldiers came, many of them had high cheekbones, pale faces, and their clothes and armor were not neatly tattered, and many of them even had torn military shoes on their feet, or even not, they had no slaves, no pack horses, and everyone had only some necessary weapons left, like sparse sculptures, Slowly move towards your existing position.

"Catch up, catch up, get ready to fight!" As the commander of the legion, Combano stood at the forefront of the front, and suddenly he was excited, "Look at each other, like a group of beggars, what can they do, we block the road, just wave the sword in our hands and harvest the head." (To be continued......)