"Sepia saw this city, which had been prosperous for more than seven hundred years since it was established... and now it has been completely destroyed and ended..." - The plot of "History of Rome" describing the final fall of Carthage.

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Li Bida could no longer be passive and inaction. On a slightly clear morning, he personally accompanied Sabo, with one wing of ala cavalry, holding a flag high and wearing a bright cloak, walked out of the main gate of the military camp, and began to cross the plains of Complanion to observe the terrain and situation of our enemy. He did this so that all the officers and soldiers who were still sticking to the camp were seen, and the supreme commander was still arrogant and still had no hope of giving up the victory.

However, the reality is that an ancient army, especially an army of 5,000 to 10,000 people, carried a large amount of bulky baggage, could not move forward and retreat as freely as a single person. Once they entered a certain preset position, they could only list the formation and decide the outcome of the enemy. Otherwise, they would move at will, and eventually wait for this team. This may be a disaster. This is also the reason why the two ancient teams hoped to fight stubbornly at a certain location. Although Li Bida's body and brain were modern people, without exception, he commanded all ancient soldiers, and such people were full of fighting with the wind.

The thoughts of immortal wars and plundering, field battles and arrow rain made them instinctively fear, and staying in the camp can make them feel safe and reliable and restored. Once they move, they will be scattered and left behind. The lack of supplies and facing strong enemies will make them shaken and lose their fighting spirit. In order to open a shortcut to Lusitania, the Thyme Legion must face this uncivilized Balantiya tribe, and they still have no way to retreat. Behind are narrow passes and turbulent rivers. Once they retreat randomly, they will be ruthlessly pursued by the Balantiya, and most of them will die.

During this period, in order to prevent morale collapse, Li Bida began to share the spoils equally to buy people's hearts, and insisted on training and civil engineering in the camp. More importantly, the rainy season in spring is fleeting on the Iberian Peninsula, and soon the drought season will enter again. In the rapid changes in the weather, how to prevent the terrible collective disease "dysentery" has become a problem that Li Bida deliberately considered. He emphasized in the book more than once that this disease is the poisonous snake of the demon, the enemy of the military camp and the god of war. Once it breaks out, it spreads.

When the dye is dyed, the entire army will quickly lose its combat effectiveness. So Li Bida asked the soldiers to dig out feces excretion ponds in the camp, buried various garbage, boiled the water before washing or drinking (the cultivation of this habit takes the longest time). Try to eat cooked rice and meat, and control appetite, of course, there are **. He also bombarded the small number of vendors and prostitutes who were still in the camp (General Ma Ge expressed his rare dissatisfaction with this matter), set up individual camps to live, and even soldiers of different species lived in separate camps.

Li Bida on the owl looked far away. It was called a plain here, but it was actually a spindle-shaped area. One corner was the pass that had been ambushed by the other party before, and the other corner was the city of Balantia, sandwiched between the river valley and the cliff. It was like a fan handle that opened the fan. The Balantia also erected fences on the narrow ground outside the city, dug trenches, and firmly protected their city. In the countryside, they arranged a large number of scattered cavalry to attack the already terrified Romans at any time.

Such a terrain is like a large pocket with tight ends, and the Balantiya obviously heard of the war elephants of Libida's troops, so they were covered with animal traps and spikes in their own trenches to prevent the war elephants from assaulting.

They kept walking forward, and Li Bida was still worried about one thing, that is, the groundwater of this plain was full of salt water, and the mules and horses that followed the army would never drink. Now they can only collect rain to solve the thirst of the horses. In the sound of horse hooves, Li Bida suddenly asked, "I don't know how many people are in the Balantians' city, and is their drinking water also salt water underground?" Sabo shook his head and said that although the Balantians are fierce and good at fighting,

It seems that there are not many tribes, about ten thousand people, and two or three thousand men are in war. The last time they attacked us at the pass, they must be the elite of their tribe. If they really set out to send a number of people equal to us, we would be afraid that the entire army would be wiped out. In addition, Sabo pointed to the river from the valley that ran across the plain and flowed diagonally to the barbarian city in the "fan shank". "This is a small tributary of the Douro River, which is said to flow into the city and serve as drinking water."

"Is that true?" Li Bida thought to himself.

On the next day, the Balantiians suddenly discovered that the Romans were divided into several units, each with two hundred-man teams, one hundred-man team was responsible for guarding and one hundred-man team was responsible for guarding and escorting the camps behind it, and all of them were small battalions, and they could only be stationed at the same time. A fence was erected for guarding horses outside, with a total of twelve hundred-man teams. At the same time, the construction of six battalions was carried out. Li Bida personally led the main force, and divided the people and horses into several wings in the middle of the six battalions, and each wing was equipped with a considerable projection scattered soldiers and cavalry strengthening to support each battalion and barrier against sudden attacks by the Balantiians.

At first, the Balantijas responded to the cowardice of the Romans with loud mockery. They inserted the heads of the originally cut-off Roman soldiers on wooden stakes behind their own fences and wore horse manes and oxtails of various colors to express insult. They thought that these Romans were completely ridiculous and futile to do such things. These invaders who came from afar would immediately retreat in a mess and cut off more heads by their swords.

However, the Romans' earthwork was very fast, and they often gave people the feeling of "just neglecting to complete these Hydras". In one day, six small battalions were completed, and then Li Bida quickly dispatched six hundred-man teams. At night, the second batch of twelve hundred-man teams were replaced, and three were built along both sides of the six small battalions. The fences were also erected first, and the military flags with fire were raised between the 100-man teams, and they used military horns to communicate with each other at a distance, and they were constructed day and night. A small group of brave Balantija warriors called out to attack, and were all repelled by the Roman soldiers behind the fence with catapult ropes and javelins. Then the Romans did not even care about the bodies left in front of the other side, and still built a new small battalion.
Chapter completed!