"They don't know fatigue and distress, and can't see anyone loosening their belts or shoelaces." - The Bible's description of the Assyrian army

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The commander-in-chief's military discipline was so vigorous and decisive that it was completely different from the city of Marcelia. The Sixth Corps and the fleet were suddenly cleaned up inexplicably. The soldiers and crew set up camps outside the city, never getting involved in the markets and brothels. Everything seemed to be in the city of Rome, while the citizens and elders of the city of Cades were inexplicably happy. Many people had similar thoughts in their hearts, "Sure enough, our province belongs to His Excellency Caesar."

The next day, the Presbyterian Church in Italy and the island of Hesparis took many towns around, and sent envoys to express their sincere support. Among them, Italy promised to send 10,000 bushels of wheat soon, while Hesparis ordered all the six ships built by Varo to be handed over to Libida's army for use. Even the priests of the Great Temple of Mercury arrived in the city, saying that they would not only give Libida's conquests on behalf of the gods, but also take out one-fifth of the temple's production to support the army's logistics.

In just under two days, all southern Lusitania changed its flags, but in the face of more and more barbarian chiefs and city representatives who were requesting meetings, Li Bida left Matthia and Paulus to preside over the heavy work of the meeting, and entrusted them to treat everyone fairly and happily, in order to contrast with the previous high-pressure policy of Governor Valo in the province.

Then, Li Bida threatened in the camp that he would prepare large equipment and go north to seize the provincial capital Orcresi. But he secretly appointed Angandinus as the vanguard. The cavalry captain Hanske was assisted. Sabo was the army supervisor and guide, gathered two thousand cavalrymen, including the Mathians, and took three days of rations to bypass the fortress in the northern part of the province, and rushed to the two legions of Corduba from the central part of the hinterland. "Remember. Just raid their baggage guards, bite them tightly, and show our existence in Spain - I will then be the main force, and then there will be no more than thirty Romanians. As for the twenty-seventh legion of Conbano, let him be arrogant in the northern part of the province!"

After learning that Li Bida had captured Gardes, Conbano was indeed powerful. In the past, he had guerrilla harassment tactics, but now he openly pulled out all the infantry and wanted to attack the small towns that were still loyal to Pompei. The timids kept themselves to pay tribute, and the brave Yancheng defended themselves. Conbano gathered people to siege. After the city was broken, it was a feud without leaving any chickens and dogs. Tribes loyal to Caesar continued to come and the team quickly expanded to nearly 5,000, including two thousand cavalrymen. The left-behind troops in Olcresi were all shrunk and did not dare to attack.

At the same time, the Governor of Lusitania was still struggling towards the city of Corduba, which was located in far Spain. He sent an envoy to "welcome" the Governor earlier, but in fact he was secretly monitoring and observing the changes in the current situation: because in Elaerda, Caesar, who had gained two elite legions, regained the initiative on the battlefield. It is said that Avranius also felt unable to support it and was ready to surrender or withdraw his camp and leave. All cities in the Spanish province, whether they were barbarians or Roman colonies, began to plan for their own future.

The current focus is on the role of the two legions of Varo. One is the "Foi" Legion recruited by Varo from the Roman colonial city of the province, and the other is the "Taurus" Legion recruited from the Spanish vassal city. In addition, before going to the expedition, Varo also forced the Spanish Celtics to join the army, as an auxiliary Allied army, so he had nearly 30,000 people on hand, which seemed very intimidating at first glance.

But the larger the army, the greater the logistics pressure. Orcre's supply road in the West had been riddled with holes by Conbano. The materials hoarded in advance were all thrown into Cardes because of Varo's "God's Judgment", and all fell into Libida's bag. So when the army marched halfway, a large number of "Alliances" began to flee. They carried weapons, either going up the mountain to fall into grass or go to Caesar's side. The other two legions also began to become violently unstable, "the soldiers seemed to be brewing rebellion." This was the warning from the former civilian guardian and military commander Gallius to Governor Varo.

At that time, Varo was sitting next to his mount, covered in weak sweat, and several young slaves were wiping his back and armpits with olive oil. The old man was exhausted and his mind was dizzy because of the long journey. He said to Galius: "It should be not far from Corduba, right?"

"There is about four to five days left." Galius tried to make the language and speculation accurate.

"When you get there, there will naturally be a lot of supplies, and encourage those lowly and dirty soldiers. They are profit-oriented. Gallius, and it is always good to give them some fantasy sweetness."

"I am sorry, yours..." Before Galius could tell the truth, the envoy of Corduba next to him volunteered, saying that as long as the Governor sent out cavalry to protect him, he would hurry to his city first, and he was willing to tell the Presbyterian Church to take out the savings in the city to treat the entire team well.

"This is not good. We need a hostage to threaten Cordoba. If this guy runs away, our army will be passive." Galius whispered to Varo again, but the Governor ignored his opinion and immediately assigned a hundred cavalry, took two Allied infantry teams, and accompanied the messenger into Cordoba lightly, with the reason "Cordoba is a city in far away Spain. Pompei has been in operation for many years. Who dares to rebel?"

Just as the messenger had just left for half a day, the scouts of several defenders brought bad news: "The guards of our army were attacked by the enemy cavalry from unknown sources, many alliance auxiliary troops fled, and the remaining supplies were burned and looted!"

Damn, these barbarians don’t understand the importance of obligations and responsibilities at all! Varo cursed in panic, and soon comforted himself, “It’s okay, don’t panic, this is just that horse bandit team under Conbano. Gallius, take all the Ala cavalry and rush to the guard to stabilize the position.”

Gallius, who was ordered, ran for a while with six hundred cavalrymen, rushed to the battlefield. Within his sight, the entire guard team had completely collapsed, and the formation of military slaves and auxiliary soldiers could no longer be gathered. The enemy's cavalry was chasing and slashing everywhere, not as Varo said, but were light green forest bandits, but powerful regular cavalry wearing fine chain mail, carrying bows, arrows and long swords.

Immediately, the cavalry under Galius began to fear. They asked the chief whether he would ask the main force behind him to come for reinforcements.
Chapter completed!