Chapter 24 The Priests of Fikiaris (Part 2)
Oh, now Li Bida knew where the "Lightning Thrower" legion had already been wandering. It turned out that it had already penetrated into Santoni City, cutting off the Helveti's way forward.
Poor, 300,000 barbarians were about to be captured by Julius Caesar in the narrow area between the Ala River, the Seigni Gorge and the Santoni Plain, like a group of desperate birds entering the net.
Half a market later, in the noisy and busy camp, the priests of Ficiaris who had declared war with bronze plates from Rome stood blankly in the torrent of soldiers coming and going at a loss. The chief elder grabbed a centurion and said, "I need to see the Governor. I am on behalf of the Senate to read the war orders against Helveti."
"Dear Elder, you are late. We have fought against the barbarians of Helveti in advance." The centurion bowed and hurriedly ran away.
The helpless priests could only hand over the order to the deputy general Rabinus who was left behind the camp. The other party solemnly took the bronze plate and then instructed the priests in the legion to keep it in a sealed cabinet. Then Rabinus felt that some of his previous heart was relieved and slowly sat down until several scale officers came to report on the inventory of military rations:
"There are 20,000 infantry soldiers, 10,000 military slaves in the camp, and pack horse equipment, and now there are 6,000 more barbarian auxiliary cavalry, and the military rations have only lasted for a month."
Rabinus said calmly, "Hasn't it been used to provide supplies to the regular legion?" The scale officer replied, but the two auxiliary legions had been delayed for ten days, so I'm afraid they could never delay it anymore."
"Don't worry too much. Send the remaining grain and meat to the auxiliary army as soon as possible, at least one-half of the quota must be guaranteed. The Aidui tribe is rich in food. They will immediately allocate a considerable amount to support the army. The current combat requires these two auxiliary army." As soon as Rabinus finished speaking, the scale officers took their orders and left.
In the wilderness outside the Ara River, the barbarian cavalry assisted Caesar again fought with the Helveti cavalry who were defending the guards again. The smoke and dust were like a storm, and the flying javelins were flying everywhere. The fictional hatred arises from the provocation of the Roman envoys. The false hatred arises from the provocation of the Roman envoys. They gave up the usual spiral and side strike tactics of light cavalry, but directly formed the cavalry into a dense formation of impact, and then launched a rapid attack - after throwing each other with javelins, they drew out the Celtic sword, and did not use shields at all, and hit each other violently. Then they rode one-on-one in the rolling heat waves and dust, either riding horses, or jumping off horses, fighting bloody battles.
In the temporary camp farther away, Li Bida made various gestures with sweat on his face, and the trumpet soldiers around him kept whispering various contact trumpets. The troop squad was under Pope's command, muttering about the weather and the commander, digging shallow trenches in slope shape for cavalry cannons.
According to Caesar's arrangement, the four regular legions are still resting and accumulating their strength. The six thousand cavalry of the Sequinny, Alobrrogis and the Idui barbarians are responsible for biting the "tail" of the Helveti in the front, and the 12th Legion of Libida's auxiliary soldiers acts as a "chain" in the middle.
"I must say something to you. The soldiers are now very resentful about food rationing!" At this time, Milu ran to take off her helmet, wiped the sweat from the back of her neck, and said to the commander.
"That's true, if we fight in joint efforts with regular legions, they are all queens. We are just maids in the palace. I thought it was as pleasant as I had been with me in Lusitania before?" Li Bida laughed dryly, pounded the mud under his feet with a gilded baton, his eyes turned, and said to Milu, "The situation is also very clear at the moment. When the Helveti people pass halfway, Caesar will launch a decisive attack on the barbarians left behind. The main force is seven, eight, nine, and fourteen legions. The order we received is probably to hold the existing positions without our share."
"That spoil..." Milu asked.
Li Bida narrowed his eyes and pretended to browse the scenery around him, and said to Milu: "Don't you have this treasure of Sabo in your hand now? You immediately select a hundred-man team from the first team of Thousands of People, escort Sabo to draw the terrain of the battlefield as soon as possible. Then we will take steps to choose a flat area closest to the Helvets Crossing point. Just wait for the order of Caesar's general attack to issue, and we will rush in and grab the prisoners of war and spoils."
"But what should I do if I accept the order, as you predict, hold my existing position?"
"What else can I do? Then extend the existing position to the enemy. In that case, defending means attacking, and attacking means defending." Li Bida's words were full of philosophical thinking.
At this time, the sound of a mountain collapse in front of him was covered, and the observation vanguard standing in a hill was shouting, "Our cavalry team is dispersed!" Li Bida and Milu stood up, looking through the wooden fence, it was indeed the case - the cavalry of the Helvetis was indeed strong, and the other three Gaul tribes were not opponents together, or because they were three united, they were defeated in command - the Roman barbarian cavalry who were defeated in the wilderness, and the defeated Roman barbarian cavalry in the wilderness were defeated.
Like flies flying everywhere, he chose to escape, "Good guy, I can't gather it up until tomorrow. Push all the cavalry cannons into the trenches and prepare to shoot." The Eighteen Cavalry cannons creaked and creaked into shallow trenches along the slope. In front of them, they piled up small circular fortifications with leather bags filled with dirt to resist javelins and stone castings. All the cannons now half-kneel around the crossbow, calmly standing on their posts.
Fortunately, Li Bida had the foresight and erected two rows of wooden fences in front of the legion. In this way, the retreating barbarian cavalry did not rush into their camps, but ran away from the direction of the two wings. In this way, the shooting range of the cavalry cannons was completely clear. Therefore, when the Helveti cavalry shouted a terrifying trumpet and carried the enemy's heads and flags toward the Romans' subsequent camps, two waves of crossbows beat them up to the crowd. Many people seemed to have seen the punishment of Thunder God, lost their aura, and could only turn around and flee.
"Okay, let Sabo run to see me." Li Bida ordered calmly when he saw all this.
But after this day's battle, the Helveti people were still full of pride and confidence. The three tribes fought with us in cavalry, but were they still lost and lost? We could completely cross the Ala River and leave the Romans behind.
Chapter completed!