"In all barbarian countries, they are the smartest and most thoughtful in military operations." - Emperor Byzantine Leo commented on Muslims

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"Rats, bed bugs!" The animals in the pack horse team were spinning and jumping in place. The captains of the front of the River Guard and the God Tomb Guard really couldn't understand. They were already the last sequence of the entire team. Why would there be Hashidi people suddenly rushed out of the dense forest of the foothills and attack them? But these Nubians flew out like lightning, and then the dozens of "bed bugs" who rushed down one by one, and the rest of their legs and backs were carrying arrows, and they were supporting them and wailing. These believers should not have been intentionally standing here for bad luck. They were probably defeated by Li Bida's front troops and scattered here, and they rushed out helplessly because this kind of net-style attack really left them without a place.

When a company captain saw that there were still more than a dozen injured people left and fled back to the foothills, he blew it with a bone whistle. The subordinate Essian auxiliary brigade stood up from the baggage team expressionlessly and walked towards the destination indicated by the company captain. They were wearing short leather armor, mostly hammers and daggers in their hands, short and concise. Compared with when Li Bida met them before, the equipment had been greatly improved. Li Bida incorporated 4,000 Essian Liberation Slaves into private ownership, organized into eight auxiliary brigades, and each formation was configured, and there was also tactical meaning in it: the battle between rats in the foothills and caves was given to these cave people, and they were used to eating bats and lizard meat. Their eyes were like torches in the dark environment. The Hashidi believers completely collapsed with the idea of ​​saving their lives by caves.

As soon as the Essio people entered the cave at the foot of the mountain, they walked in groups of three or five in a niche. Their daggers and maches were hung in simple condoms, making strange bats screams, which were terrifying and frightened. They frightened the Hashidi believers hiding in the cave and ran around. Then they suddenly killed the killer, and several used daggers and maches to deal with an enemy. They each defeated them. Many Hashidi could only yell in vain because they could not tell the direction in the darkness, leaned on the wall of the cave, and finally were stabbed to death by the Essio people who were approaching like wild animals.

On this side, in a cliff fortress, dozens of Hashidi believers who remained here as scouts could not escape and were surrounded by Roman legions. In order to remove this place, Libida used four infantry corps to siege, and then asked Alp to lead the Medegi Guard to climb up from the back of the cliff and drove all the believers out of the main gate. However, on the hillside below the main gate, more than a dozen scorpion crossbows and three hundred auxiliary archers had already been arranged. After a burst of execution of rapid arrows breaking through the air, the believers here all fell in a pool of blood. Their bodies were piled together, mixed with the fortress camps, and were all set on fire by the Roman army.

Under the fire of the cliff, the riverside was surrounded by dense reflections of brass round helmets. Teams of soldiers walked slowly like dense ivory combs used by noble ladies. The Hashidi believers hidden everywhere were either killed or driven away. On the river, rows of shields hung on the side of large armed ships flashed with golden light in the sunset. In the distance, they looked like ten big fish full of golden scales. The front of the ship was erected on the bow deck of the ship, and a golden Scythian centaur (the Cythian legion is mostly from Greece and Macedonia. The soldiers admired the centaur mythology, but in fact, the Scythian warriors with exquisite riding skills in ancient times were deformed), and the ribbons tied to it fluttered in the wind.

At night, all the 100-man teams were camping, or, every thirty Roman distances, they would carefully build a solid large camp, like a small city, as a base for continuous progress and guaranteeing supply.

Under such circumstances, it will be more difficult for the Hashidi people to succeed in a surprise attack.

In the fortress, David Angit, who learned about the battle situation on the front line, pondered for a while and said to Pation, "Select an elite force, we will first cross to the other side by boat, and then fight with General Libidaus again to experience the tactical characteristics of the opponent's army."

Two days later, David Angit, with two thousand fully armored believers, climbed a hill in a hundred Stadea in front of the West Mountain, and he saw the enemy's combat steps in full. After a distance of armed parade, these well-equipped people began to set up flags and set up camps. Then the cavalry and half of the infantry brigades were alerted on all sides, and the rest began to build camps, but that was not the end. After the camp was rigorously established, they sent out various 100 teams to continue building small camps at key roads and passes, just like a bunch of small spiders running out of the belly of the female spider.

After reading this, David Angit was silent for a while and said to everyone, "Discard the fleet fortress on the other side as soon as possible, and move all the ships to the other side as soon as possible. The Yazda Fortress has a dock for mooring, and remove all the rod casters and crossbows on the ships. Put them on the battlements of Yazda. The enemy is very difficult and it is difficult to grasp their gaps. They can only rely on the fortress to defeat the other side."

Akilo, the garrison officer of the Fleet Fortress, was extremely dissatisfied with the arrangement of the Messiah Sword. Why is my mountain and river bay so well? Besides, I would rather demolish the Azda wall and build a new water wall before. Why did I temporarily ask us to remove Azda on the other side of the shore? This change of orders is really unbearable.

But David Angit's prestige of the "Sword of Messiah" is also the central core of the combat spirit of the entire believer army. He once successfully defeated the city-state army in the field and captured the city of Barca. He was the military leader of the entire team. No matter what, Akilo had to abide by it.

That night, Li Bida quickly summoned Faubinas, Seerha and Hebrida, and then said to them with a deep face, "At the third mail, I took my own 1,000-man brigade to the fleet fortress of Xishan and launched a decisive attack in the early morning. The enemy should see the formation of our army today. The actions of the past many days gave them the impression of step by step, but I can slowly and quickly catch them off guard at this moment, and prepare to set off."

Soon, at the main gate of the camp, two thousand-man teams of the Thirteenth Legion and the Serapis Legion suddenly jumped out, and under the guidance of the stars and torches, they rushed towards the fortress of the Xishan Fleet.

Under the night, David Angit, who was on a boat to the Yazda Fortress, instinctively smelled the blood and iron brought by the south wind, and anxiously asked the oarsmen to speed up their pace and secretly thought in their hearts that fortunately, the two thousand elites he brought in during the day had all returned to Yazda Fortress before him. "Pation, is my life important?"

"Of course it is important, the Messiah Sword, our commander-in-chief." Pattien, who was sitting next to him, replied without thinking.
Chapter completed!