"Don't plunder money, don't blame others indiscriminately, be content with your own salary." John the Baptist said to a "good" Roman centurion

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Soon, both sides were crowded in a slow tributary of a river, where there was a simple bridge, across the bank, and the sound was noisy. "Pop, look at the pack horses behind these cavalry, are they carrying wood and oars?" On the high hill, Li Bida pointed to the rear of the opposite queue, squinted his eyes and shouted. When Pop and all the centurions gave a positive reply after looking, Li Bida said, "Does the mercenary cavalry of the Governor Caesar go to the city of Cardes? This must be the hope of plundering the entire Cardes and preparing to cross the Hercules Stone Pillar Strait to the barbarian army of Afiriga!"

A dozen famous players, beside Li Bida, blew a loud and loud voice together. The judgment that "there is the Lusitanian barbarian ahead" instantly spread throughout the army. Some heavy infantry teams seized the high ground on both sides of the side that could control Asase, and some faster light-haired scattered soldiers arranged cordons along the river beach and began to fill the "ammunition" into the scorpion crossbow and the catapult rope.

The barbarians and cavalry on the opposite side also judged the hostility of the people on the other side and began to panic. They shouted their horses and turned back, scattered and chaotic, running deep in the rear. The pack horse mules of their baggage team were at a loss and stayed still.

At this time, a brigade of Roman soldiers clamored, holding the camp flag, stepping on the long and narrow bridge, and pounced towards the opposite shore. "Bastard, which brigade is this?" Li Bida pointed to the brave back of the group of people and shouted, "Blow the military trumpet and contact them back!"

"It's Hottenhus's brigade, this guy probably wants to rob the baggage and thinks crazy." Pope was also nervous.

But let the trumpeter blow the cochlea to break, Hotenghus's brigade still crossed the other troops' positions straight and fearlessly, crossed the bridge, and rushed to the other side in an instant, and then the woodlands and river valleys on all sides were like thunder. The barbarian cavalry who had pretended to withdraw turned back and killed him. At this time, Hotenghus's men did not even have time to line up the battle queue, all crowded around the barbarian's baggage team, and soon disappeared into the smoke and dust raised by the opponent's horse's hooves, and the bloody rain caused by the dagger.

Li Bida's face turned pale. On the opposite bank, a barbarian warrior in blade armor proudly stabbed Hotenhus' head with a javelin, galloping back and forth on horseback. He loudly mocked and provoked the stupidity and cowardice of the Roman soldiers, and all the barbarian cavalry formed in depth formations. He stared at the terrified recruits.

At this moment, Li Bida felt for the first time that Lusitania was a beautiful wasteland with flesh and blood, where you could encounter the danger of being killed at any time.

"I would like to emphasize here again. I don't care about other legions and other brigades, but now on the battlefield of Lusitania, private attacks and plunders are not allowed. All the spoils that defeat the enemy and the city are distributed on the spot, and 70% are included in the legion vault. They are distributed uniformly every three months, and the vaults are used to bear the pension for the dead. Do you really think that there is no need to be killed in this place? Today there is a living blood example." Li Bida stood at all centurions and announced a new doctrine in anger. "The entire army is now setting up camp around the cordon, and there must be someone responsible for the post day and night. Those who are lazy are the least confined to work hard, and those who are the most serious can be executed on the spot."

Pope privately reminded us that Caesar was still waiting for us in Italy, whether we had to escape the entanglement as soon as possible. Li Bida said angrily, "It's all entangled across the river, how could it be so easy to end? I'll consider crossing the river as soon as possible."

After nightfall, Li Bida ordered everyone to light a torch. Hottenhus's son, Little Hottenhus, was punished instead of his dead father. He worked with the remaining brigades crossing the river, and even established a "fake camp" to be with the real camp connected thereafter, and asked Pope to lead his men to build a simple bridgehead with bricks and wood to prevent the enemy from attacking. Then he sent people, with the token and the consul's order, to go to the city of Cardes with horses.

The Lusitanian barbarian cavalry also dug trenches on the slopes of the river valley on the other side to build camps. Although they are of barbarians, these residents of the Iberian Peninsula are not unfamiliar with civil engineering in the civilized world and are also very good at building camps. They not only set up guard posts and secret posts, but also set up spacious exits for the cavalry, which can impact the Romans who could cross the river at any time.

The next day, Li Bida's troops did not show any forced crossing. Li Bida asked the bridgehead as the central core to build a wall about five-roma foot high along the riverbanks on both sides, and lay crossbows and rocket catapults behind the walls. He then asked the veterans to stay in the camp, and the new recruits were divided into several teams, led by experienced centurions, scouts along the riverbank to survey whether there could be forced crossing. This was a killing of two birds with one stone. It not only allowed the veterans to maintain their energy before the decisive battle, but also tried to train the new recruits' determination and interest in carrying out their missions.

The barbarian cavalry also saw all this, and they also showed high alert. Wherever Li Bida's scouts went, they followed him on the other side, in order to block the surprise attacks in any direction of Li Bida's army. The two sides rushed back and forth and spent time until the hired people in the city of Cardes arrived. There were about two thousand people, all of which were shipwrecks, civilians, and slaves. Li Bida carefully divided them into four teams, and entered the camp every two quarters of an hour from the back door or the side door. Then they ordered them to immediately accept basic formation exercises, and put broad-edged swords and shields to them, promising to give them considerable rewards, and requiring them to follow their actions.

On the day, Li Bida's army suddenly launched groups of rockets, javelins and rockets to the other side behind the bridgehead and walls, and launched violently every once in a while. The barbarian army's positions were filled with smoke, but the Lusitanian soldiers remained calm. They stood at their posts in the camp and scattered, and even the people and horses were lying down after the fortifications, preparing to deal with the Romans' crossing the river. A group of Romans did hold shields and push simple rafts made of sheepskin bags, and began to cross the river in the Asase near the bridgehead.

At this time, the barbarian sentries on a wooden tower shouted. They found that behind the walls on the opposite bank, a Roman light-haired parade with flags suddenly appeared between the valley, with five or six brigades, and quickly marched towards the upper reaches of the entire river.
Chapter completed!