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Chapter 25 Bugle (Part 2)

"I'm thinking that Scipio, a hundred years ago, also fought in these places! I have the feeling of them now." Looking at the turbid waterfall rushing down the cliff opposite, Li Bida said on his mount, holding a wet sheepskin cloak with one hand and holding a horse with one hand.

"My Excellency the Finance Officer, IMHO, you are not like Scipio, you are more like Hannibal. He was like a barbarian, who had taken an elephant over the high mountains and appeared in front of the city of Rome," Sabokemus took over the conversation next to him.

There was a small vast land ahead, and it was also the location of the fork in the road. Sabokemus and the herders leading the way talked for a while, then pointed to Li Bida and shouted: "See the village ahead? As long as you cross the pass adjacent to it, you can enter the Complanyan Plain."

In the dense rain, the soldiers' cloaks and hair were wet. They stood in the puddle, waiting for the financial officer to give the next order. Li Bida carefully observed the village in the rain, which should have been abandoned by the Balanthians. They had fences and wooden towers that had not yet been withdrawn, dense thatched huts, and mud paths inside. After a while, Li Bida ordered a hundred men to enter the village in a square formation to collect materials or other supplies, and to detect whether there was any danger at the pass. Forty Ala cavalry and another hundred men were alerted at a distance of a Furlong outside the village. Most of the rest formed a rectangular formation around the baggage, chariots and elephants, and all spears and swords remained in the direction of the outside.

In the continuous rain, a team of 100 people quickly ran into the village. They asked the trumpeter and the flag bearer to stand on the high ground outside the village to observe the surroundings, and the rest began to rush back. The cavalry and infantry guarded outside were all nestled in an isolated forest outside the village, avoiding the rain.

There seemed to be no enemies in the village, but there was nothing to rob. The 100-man team entering the village went to the pass to reconnaise whether there was an ambush of enemies.

"Let the guys who were on guard on the periphery run, and they stay there, and they can't find any enemy situation." Li Bida complained to the famous messenger, and the soldier rode his horse and headed towards the village, ready to convey the meaning of the financial officer to the other party.

At this time, several thunders appeared in the valley beside the village, deafening. The shouts of killing in the slopes and woods shook the sky, and a large number of Balantians who were riding horses and ambushed there were like suddenly popping out from all directions. They skillfully waved their swords and javelins, and rode their horses into the road outside the village, and instantly stabbed the unlucky messenger down. Then the horse's hooves kicked his body around the village. The cavalry and infantry responsible for the guards outside the village were caught off guard and beaten to the point of falling. Many people panicked and fell into the water pond around the village. They were killed before they even got up. Some people were also brave enough to resist the siege of the Balantians, who were brave enough to stop until they died.

At this time, the trumpeter and flag bearer who were originally on the high ground outside the village were frightened by the sudden killing of the enemy. They did not blow the trumpet, raise the flag, and promptly send a warning signal to the 100-man team that had already headed to the pass. Instead, they climbed up the sentry tower on the high ground in panic and timidly and hid. However, the Balantiya did not find these people. Then they divided the cavalry into two teams, one team blocking the contact between most of Libida's troops and the village, and one team dismounted and rushed into the village, preparing to encircle and annihilate the 100-man team that was in front of them. At this time, in the rain and storm, in the pass and the cliffs and dense forests around the village, there were creepy shouts everywhere. The screams of the women should be the women of the Balantiya tribe, and they also came to help.

All the tribes under Libida, even the Setratai warriors in Spain, were frightened to the point of being ashamed. After all, they came from a relatively civilized area. The wild tribe like Balantiya was bloodthirsty and violent enough to make the bravest soldiers in the world retreat. Even the elephants behind Libida began to stir up uneasy, and they felt instinctively excited or afraid of the shouts of battle and the sound of horns.

"Your Excellency, do you want to release the battle elephant to defeat the enemy and then rush in?" Sabo next to him reminded loudly.

"No, the terrain here is too narrow - Xiao Hotenghus, follow me to the village opposite - Sabo, stay here to command the large army to keep moving forward!" Li Bida threw the sheepskin cloak to a entourage next to him, and then Xiao Hotenghus raised the flag. The financial officer passed the gangster under the escort of more than ten entourage cavalry, and galloped towards the village together!

"Good Owl, you have to work harder for me today!" Li Bida felt that the manic wind and rain were poured into both ears. He lowered his body, patted the neck of the mount, and asked softly. The owl changed his previous cute image of Bai Shun, and rushed forward with neighing. It was like a storm under the horse's hooves. The entourage behind them also shouted and cheered each other. They were in the flying arrows and throwing stones, and they could also ensure that the formation was not messy and maintained a coordinated posture in the enemy group. This was exactly what they had been training hard in the Kimela camp before.

Many of the tribal cavalry of Balanthia discovered this small-scale Roman cavalry that cut into their team, and stopped them even more crazily. The shadows of people and horses circling everywhere, and the sounds of fierce collision with swords and swords. "Don't stand there, follow your camp team and rush out with all their might!" In a cheer, Li Bida stood up on the horse's back and walked over, and encouraged the tribes who were still fighting to the death in the corners and behind the fences. The feathers on his helmet were shaking in the wind and rain, which was very eye-catching. At this moment, Sabokemus also commanded the front-line combat team, collectively blew the trumpet, constantly throwing out hunting spears, approaching the cavalry group of Balanthia to divert the enemy's firepower against Li Bida.

"Owl, jump over!" Li Bida shouted with his horse's neck, his body tightly against the saddle and his legs were clamped. Because he had not reached the footsteps of Biduita, the owl indeed easily crossed a broken wall and rushed into the mud of the village. Behind Li Bida, Little Hotenhughes and several entourages who had not yet fallen behind also crossed the short wall and followed in.
Chapter completed!
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