Chapter 30 Battle of Amon River (2)
Because the manpower required to build the three temples was quite large, Li Bida, in addition to leaving three brigades of the Serapis Legion, led the other teams to retreat to the Pin-shaped camp in the center of the Kingdom Basin to rest, and asked several brigades to cooperate with the Essians to continue to attack the remaining troops of Garamanteis in the remote mountains.
After a market day, Li Bida, with fifty slave soldiers and Spanish swordsmen, entered the so-called royal city of the enemy kingdom with light and simple clothes. A slightly simple palace, plus the acropolis guarded by danger, but was rushed to burn down when the Galamantes evacuated. Then the man named King used a lion-legged chair that the king could only use, sat in the main hall of the palace full of ruins and bald pillars, wearing the military uniform of the Roman general, but wearing the blue crown of the Pharaoh royal family, took the gifts and oath of allegiance from the Samones and the Essians, as well as the small statue of Venus presented by the legion soldiers, and ten bulls and thirty sheep were sacrificed, and in front of nearly ten thousand soldiers, he made an order to continue to "hunter" the Galamantes:
"I have always believed that I was never a monarch, which was very contrary to the concept of the Republic, and it was just a temporary stopgap to govern this rebellious land. I launched this expedition for two great countries of Rome and Egypt, so this military operation was completely legal and authorized by the actual commander Barthus. My reason for attacking the Galamantes was very legitimate, because they abused the friendly state of the Essians of Rome like animals, so I punished them on behalf of justice, but he
The force of our kingdom is so powerful. If I give up halfway, it will inevitably pose a serious threat to my logistics supply lines during the Hashidi riot in Cyraniga. I remember a proverb that says this. If God grants you wealth but you are timid, then what comes one after another may be God's wrath and destruction. In the end, what we can do is to completely eradicate this kingdom, destroy their elite nobles, destroy the elite armed forces of this kingdom. Chariots, fortresses and
Many weapons that would hurt the Romans, and let this land cast swords into plows and enjoy permanent peace. My great and elite soldiers, now I ask, and encourage you to join forces with the Essians who are good at fighting in mountains and caves, and to kill all the figures that shave off the left hair of the Galamantes (their nobles would shave off the left hair) - my army soldiers took off the head of a nobleman. Rewards of five hundred Seths, the heads of relatives of the noble, and two hundred Seths
If you are a military slave, you will be granted freedom, become a legion soldier, and you will be rewarded with two hundred Seths; no matter whoever in the army, cut off the head of the enemy king, give you ten thousand dinars, or eight thousand drakma. But it must be reminded that our purpose is not to kill wildly, so if you set fire in a cave, you must keep the lives of farmers and craftsmen with a restrained heart. As long as the other party is willing to report their identity and search for possible hidden weapons, they will forgive these people."
Then, Li Bida led his guards and followed the river beside the abandoned royal city and advanced to 500 Stadia. Wherever he could see the bodies of the Galamantes and the burning villages. Every day at sunset, many soldiers had one or more heads on their belts and came to ask for rewards. Among them, a centurion of Bagules, who, with his men and his men, cut down the heads of seventeen nobles and sixty-three noble relatives in a row, had the nickname "head necklace craftsman".
The Essians, based on the revenge mentality, were even more uncontrollable. These backward barbarians with ostrich feathers probably hadn't expected to counterattack one day. They liberated all the slaves of the same tribe in the farm and mines, formed a revenge army of about 4,000 people, and carried out indiscriminate massacres, and committed terrible war crimes every day. The Galamantes, the bravest and most civilized nomadic people in Libya (of course, they had long since moved into farming and military life), can only be used as gophers in the cave like the Essians they despised the most before, and they could not even escape across the mountains, because to the west, until the Hercules stone pillar, there was an uninhabited sea of sand.
The horrifying act took place for about a month. King Garamantes's hiding cave was found by centurion Polo, who stood at the entrance of the cave and persuaded the king to walk out of the cave and accept the placement of the merciful general in a kind tone.
But the king said to the Esio people that he was neither willing to live in this fertile land with the lowly people of Esio nor to meet Libidaus, because their ancestors had a preacher, and as king, he could only meet the foreign king who was defeated by himself.
"But our general is the monarch of Cyrenega. You are only a subordinate of his little king." Polo was still waiting for persuasion, and screams of women and children came from the cave. He shrugged at the soldiers behind him and said, "Wait quietly here for a while, and then carry the royal corpse to the general to collect the reward."
King Galamantes, seven wives and concubines, and eleven children committed suicide together in a dark cave. The body was buried grandly by Li Bida. Then Li Bida issued a strict decree requiring that the roundup be stopped immediately. All Galamantes were captured and went with the Essians to assist in the construction of the temple.
Two months later, three temples stood in front of the ruins of Asamangales, and Li Bida presented only the captured wars in front of the Temple of Hunting Goddess, which was his promise to his daughter. Then he announced to all the Essians, the remaining Galamantes, and the soldiers of the two legions that the Pharaoh had allowed him to set up a treasurer's head in this kingdom!
All the soldiers cheered frantically, and Libida promised to take some time to let the clerks measure the land, and then granted them the plunderers were the Esios and the Galamantes, and the kingdom would then establish the Curia Conference similar to the Roman Republic. The treasury heads accounted for one third of the seats, the Esio nobles accounted for one third, and the Galamantes accounted for one third, in order to seek long-term stability.
This was completely a trick used by Li Bida. His seat allocation seemed to be very balanced, but in fact, Esio and Garamantes had a completely hatred of each other. No matter whether either side had signs of restlessness, the other side would inevitably turn to him, so he would always have two-thirds of the strength to suppress the local area.
Chapter completed!