Chapter 11 Chinodosha Chinodosha (1)
"In the past, there was a great king named Antico!" - After the victory of Syria, the Roman legion mocked Seleuc's army for being fair and illusory.
Jukema, the key to crossing the Euphrates River in northern Syria, Crasso's forward, had occupied the strength of four legions, and quickly built a solid pontoon bridge on the river surface. As for the Syrian Governor who was still handling his "problems" in Gerasha, all the actions were entrusted to Chief Deputy General Otaguvis and the financial officer Kasio, and Li Bida also led the Medegi Guards to go through the Tgrasetta Plain in Armenia and meet them in Jukema.
After the Holy Mountain Festival, some great nobles in Armenia were summoned into the palace and disappeared inexplicably. Most of them were related to the concubines of the Queen Tegranis's harem, which caused panic for a while. In a quiet manner, the border guards were slowly replaced by the Imperial Guards. Soon Queen Autpeli spoke - the King of Kings suddenly suffered a stroke after the ceremony, perhaps because he was summoned by God. Now he is recuperating in the deep palace. Except for the priests who pray for blessings, no idle people are allowed to enter the palace. As for Wang Zheng, she will take the photo for the time being.
At the same time, Armenia, Gerasha and Ubertnia, regardless of size, strength and weakness, all countries began to mobilize their troops, and letters traveling through the canyons and dense forests were flying like rain. Various dramas of scattered and scattered in various periods of time, and the battle clouds were heavy.
When Li Bida rode forward, Kasio was lying on the hillside of the sun by the river, with smoke rising from his tent behind him. It was dinner time, "We are sweeping the city-states on both sides of the river in a brigade, hoping to obtain a solid rear before the final battle with Parthia."
"What is the attitude of Macedonian and Greek tyrants here?" Li Bida jumped off the horse and sat next to Kasillo and asked.
"Half-supported with a strong attitude, and half-supported with a strong attitude." Kasio returned with a joke, "Friends may change with the enemy at any time. A considerable number of Arab chiefs and Greek tyrants came to serve, saying that they would provide auxiliary troops, but they obviously had ulterior motives and could not be the same as Xiaoya's vassal state." Then he stood up, stirred the bean soup in the hanging pot with the stick in his hand, and said to himself, "I have been persuading the chief deputy generals to not pull their soldiers, as that would be unreliable or even harmful. They only need to provide grains and ships, and then our team will move along the Euphrates River, which will greatly reduce the danger."
"What if the Governor asked to continue, heading towards the wastelands between the Mesopotamian River."
Facing Li Bida's doubts, Kasio seemed very excited. He said that Crassu did continue to issue orders, because when Bibruce was the governor, in order to resist Parthia's harassment, he did split a garrison army and stationed in the strongholds in Mesopotamia as an outpost, and Crassu asked the four legions to move closer to these people, so as not to be defeated by Parthian troops after the war began.
Li Bida smiled and said that maybe he was right. The best plan now is that your seven main legions will advance to Babylon, and my side troops will drive south to Seleulia. In this way, Parthia will inevitably be at a loss and fall into a passive position.
"I don't believe your nonsense. Let's blind those simple-minded guys!" It was obvious that Kassio disagreed with Li Bida's crazy plan, and then the commander of the partial division made a reluctance: to enclose the remaining troops of the Fourth Legion to me.
In fact, Crassus's seven legions were all raised by him with private money. The Senate had not yet had time to give a suitable formal number. Because he hurried to the East before his term of office, he hurried to the east, so he was called "Syria" to the outside world. However, the combat effectiveness of these legions was also uneven. The strongest were the First and Second Legions, both of which were Pompei veterans re-service as the backbone of the formation; and then all the state-owned legions in Syria fought against Jewish rebellions and Parthian harassing troops many times, which was quite brave, namely the Sixth and Seventh Legions; the most untrustworthy are the Third, Fourth and Fifth Legions, mostly scattered soldiers and wandering soldiers from all sides with money, among which the Fourth Legions were still in the process of sea transportation, half of which fell to the sea and fed fish.
"The situation of the Fourth Legion is really bad. Their commander Ba Paulus is still recuperating on a stretcher. Most of the soldiers lost half of their souls, and the equipment and supplies were also greatly damaged." Kasio obviously did not want this problem to become a burden on the battlefield in the future. He was quite determined to entrust Li Bida, but he said that he still needed to go through a procedure from the chief deputy general, "After all, he has the final say."
As a result, Otaguvis was very pleased, "Since you think the two auxiliary legions are not enough to restrain the enemy, I'll give you another half, and Paulus is also assigned to your system."
That night, Li Bida came to the camp of the Fourth Legion with enough money from several mule carts, and then stood on the temporary podium and shouted to everyone: "The conditions here are very difficult. I also know that the commander Paulus lost more than half of his miserable mood before he saw the enemy, but this is not the reason why the Fourth Legion kept silent and sighed. Our backing is the Syrian province and the entire Republic, and the supplies will be delivered soon."
As a result, many soldiers and recruits shouted and complained that Li Bida was fooling them because the Fourth Legion had not even matched their shoes for such a long time. Many people marched on gravel, not to mention medicine and equipment. The provincial governor was temporarily recruited and treated us very coldly.
"These are all temporary, my comrades. I solemnly promise that in less than two market days, dozens of large ships would transport wood, military shoes, stone bullets and arrows from Cyprus, and many mule carts, which would transport grain, flour and wine from Talsus. In addition, the Gerasha people also promised to replenish our army's eight hundred pack horses and transport the baggage tent. Good days are coming soon, because now the Fourth Legion is under my responsibility, and there is also-Sabor!" Li Bida thumped his finger, and Sabo Kemus immediately
Open a few large boxes, and they were all high-quality silver coins minted by Athens and Millido. "What do the army do if it has supplies? It is not just for nothing, but it is used to fight, so that more and more spoils can be dominated by the spoils. We will have a big goal right away, but it has to be kept secret now. We will first distribute fifty drachers each person, and wait until the time of the army is out until victory, each soldier will give an additional subsidy of drachers every day. After victory, all spoils will be enjoyed by my Fourth Legion!"
With the approval of the Legion Commander Paulus, several centurions first came up to receive ready-made allowances. The soldiers were motivated and came to power one after another. "Thank you, General Libidaus, but what I lack most now is the centurion, especially the chief centurion."
Chapter completed!