"The Republic is based on ancient traditions and the power of man." - Elius's "On the Republic"

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"Then let's fight, then let's fight! We will use our long sword to smash your camp and snatch all these wonderful purple transparent liquids." The warrior went drunk and shouted until he was "please go out" by Caesar's entourage.

"From this night, all the garrisons must be strengthened behind the wooden fences." When the messenger was forcibly sent away, Caesar issued this order.

Behind the fence in the evening, little Hottenhus was full of dissatisfaction and said that the orders of the Governor were really difficult, because even if the full army was divided among the positions on the four sides of the Jura Mountains, it would be even more difficult to defend the Helveti.

Li Bida had another way in his mind. He spread the eighteen cavalry cannons in a triangle core position, fixed the launch position, and asked Pope to adjust the shooting elements in advance, and bounced the strings on, and was on standby at any time. Then he asked Sabo Kemus to bring some special things to the garrison behind the wooden fence.

The arrangement of the 12th Illyria legion is like this. Every few Stadia, there are some vanguards who act as secret whistles. Then, at the important points behind the wooden fence, a hundred-man team is stationed. The guards on the front line are four to three points. The rest are rested in the temporary camp and maintained the reserve team. Li Bida's command mode is to "focus on early warning and guard the death."

Because he also thought carefully with his subordinates, he believed that in the Takahe River, the possibility of a decisive battle between the Helvets and the Legion was not high. The barbarians' boat bridge technology was very backward. They only found some canoes that they would only use in the wilderness. The carrying capacity was extremely limited. Once Caesar sent heavy troops to guard all the Asase tribes that could walk through, they would not be able to effectively exert their number advantage, and they would not have the strong will to attack the Roman barracks' fortifications head-on. This was also the fundamental starting point for Caesar's previous use of delaying tactics.

But even so, the Hurveti may launch a medium-scale infiltration attack, and according to Li Bida's estimate, the attack time is likely to occur at night - barbarians often believe that the moon and black fog are their world, and the timid Romans only rely on shield walls or camps when fighting.

This is the case. When the soldiers of the 12th Legion confronted the barbarians, many of them were still scared of the night. They had not forgotten how the vicious Iberian warriors ambushed and killed their patrols or transport teams at night when fighting in Balantia, Spain, and how they tied their blood-dripping heads to the javelin and threw them into the camp.

The moon on the battlefield, especially the night sky in April, is rippling. The crescent moon with a faint cold light looks particularly creepy in the eyes and hearts of soldiers.

So, after Sabo Kemus handed over the special items that could pierce the darkness of the night to the wooden fence of the front-line guards, they felt much more at ease no matter what.

But what makes people feel more uneasy than the night is that a few days passed in an instant, and the north bank of Long River was quiet, and the air was suffocating. Li Bida asked several centurions to observe carefully on a prominent cliff in the Jura Mountain every day. But opposite the river, the Helveti tent was nothing unusual at all, probably wisps of smoke from cooking cooking, and men and women led horses and mules to drink water. It was a pastoral and beautiful style.

"Don't think too much. Their attack will take about one or two days. If the other party does not act hostile in three days, they will definitely send an envoy to negotiate again." This is Li Bida's judgment, with some divine meaning in it. For this reason, he also invited a fortune teller to eat goose food and "verify" his prophecy, which made Milu and others laugh. Li Bidaus had been very good at playing this trick before.

April 18th was a moonless night. The dark cumulonimbus clouds covered the entire banks of the Long River. Li Bida sat in the camp, chewing figs and peas in a little restless manner. At this time, he used white geese to predict that the barbarians would launch an attack. There was only the last day left. After eating all the plates, he wiped his palms carefully with a napkin, and called Tagus, asking him to bring flags and torches with himself, and he wanted to inspect the entire wooden fence and trenches himself.

Although the rainy season is coming soon, the night wind is very cool, and the temperature that can easily urge people to fall asleep. The dense frog sounds and insects are rising one after another on the river bank. Tagus shook the torch a few times and burned some flying insects approaching the commander. The thin wings of the insects became brighter in an instant after being stained with the fire, and then turned into a wisp of smoke, leaving only the puffing sound and a slight burning stinking.

Just as the few people were walking forward along the wooden fence, soldiers kept getting up under the blanket under the shadows and reaching out to salute them. Li Bida took the opportunity to ask about the situation on the other side of the shore these two days, and the answers they received were all normal.

At this moment, a fire light ignited in everyone's eyes. It was on a big tree in a furlong in front of the wooden fence. There were two vanguards of the legion, hiding on it on it, responsible for reconnaissance. As a result, when the two were about to go down the tree and wait for others to change the guard, the new soldiers were afraid of heights, so they recklessly took the pine light from the veteran's hands and lit it in a hurry, preparing for the lighting needs, but the branches beside them burned, and the fire fell on the grass on the ground. Suddenly the grass flew with the fire, and someone screamed and blew the fireworks on their bodies.

Then, the sound of trumpets sounded sharply under the ink-black night sky. From far and near, I felt that there were traces of trumpeters in all directions. Li Bida hurriedly shook his hand and shouted to Tagus that the enemy was coming. You stay here to command, and I ran to the cliff to dispatch people! At this moment, the big tree was burning everywhere, like a big torch, with rapidly moving figures holding javelins and long axes. When did the Helveti people lurk in groups in the grass on the river bank? No one knew that Li Bida, who was running towards the top of the mountain, even had the heart to punish all the so-called vanguards.

"Don't panic, don't panic, let those things go out!" Tagus drew his sword and shouted at the soldiers who were slaughtering the enemy in the dark night like a tide. When the soldiers saw the chief centurion calm, they stayed there and lit a flame under the thing. They were framed with thin wooden strips, covered with thin skins, and a little fire device and oil below. The soldiers nicknamed them, called "
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