Chapter 6 The Wings (Part 2)
"You uneducated and honest guy, is this your way of protecting your benefactor in your hometown? You are the ones who destroy the peace!" Li Bida, who retreated to the back with his fingers at everyone opposite him, pointed his finger at everyone opposite him and scolded him.
At this time, the soldiers of both camps booed a lot, and Rabinus also shouted, "Only when you go back and take Caesar's head, will the Republic have real peace!"
When he returned to the other side, Li Bida's horse was shot to death, and many people in his guard were injured. All the soldiers and centurions of Caesar were furious and expressed their desire to fight for life and death with such an irrational enemy, but only Caesar's face was solemn: because he knew that the negotiations had broken down unilaterally, then Rabinus was actually equivalent to holding everyone hostage and would immediately force the Apsus River to attack him.
"We must hold on until Anthony comes!" This is Caesar's words.
When Jiang Zuo asked whether he would draw more people from Olicombe's besieged troops, he was rejected by Caesar. "You guys, I focus on the situation of the whole world, not the personal one-time safety and gains and losses. Even if we fail this war, we will still have to hit the enemy hard and make it difficult for them to get close to our bottom line defense."
At this time, Li Bida in the tent made a suggestion, and he took the opportunity to say to Caesar: "If only Curio, the Governor of Sicily, could provide us with enough wood."
This sentence was not loud, but it was loud, and suddenly made dissatisfaction and resentment towards Curio emerge in Caesar's heart. In fact, Caesar was a magnanimous person. Claudi seduced his wife. Li Bida went to war against goals that he had not set in advance many times, including the expulsion of his colleagues in Port Brindisi, and other incidents such as Anthony's expulsion of his colleagues in the army alone. He laughed it off. Even if Cicero or Valo openly made remarks and letters to criticize him in Rome, he turned a big deal. But Caesar had a rule that he could not forgive any mistakes, which was because of his selfish desires or stupidity, which destroyed his entire strategic plan.
Li Bida's words were also clever. The word "we" obviously refers to Curio's selfishness not only in the fight for power. He refused to go to Sicily to command the military, but also harmed the current plan to cross the sea, because everyone knew that what Caesar was most scarce was ships.
The effect was immediate. Caesar's mouth twitched twice, and then he looked at Li Bida again. The other party seemed to be completely unintentional, and soon turned the topic to how to immediately block the enemy's offensive on the Apsus River and Bugalotum. However, the listener was absolutely intentional. The thoughts buried in his heart grew wildly. Caesar suddenly interrupted everyone's discussion. He said, "You say. Now in the Greek region, since I am here in person and the enemy has a huge advantage, will Pompeii come here in person and then cross the sea to get the glory of killing or capturing me?"
After this sentence, everyone was stunned, and then they had to admit in their hearts that according to the character of Gneus Pompey, there was a great possibility of doing so.
But Deputy General Karenus persuaded the dictator to persuade him, "Maybe Pompei would think so, but His Excellency Curio is training the legion and fleet in Sicily and guarding him strictly. Pompei did not dare to come here rashly from Afiliga across the sea."
"Prevent and defend? How I hope that all the forests in Sicily have been cut down by him to form a huge fleet, but Pompei's youngest son's ships were swaggering from Utica to Apollonia to join the war and captured a large number of our ships. In this way, can I still count on Curio? You must know that he entered our camp before I crossed the Rubicon River." Caesar's last words seemed to determine something, and then he called his close slave and dictated a message, "Curio also has four legions in Sicily, but it has no effect on the entire battle situation. Yes, I will write this meaning in it and express it clearly. Of course, I understand Curio's loyalty, but I also ask Curio to understand my anxiety."
The meaning of this message is very clear, that is, Curio sends troops to Africa as soon as possible to relieve the pressure here, or to restrain Pompei.
But whether Curio does as he does or not is another matter. Now that the message has been explained, Caesar needs to gamble by force, which is to fight the Pompeii army who is forcing him to rescue Olicombe in front of Bugalotum City!
The next morning, Caesar divided all his troops, about eight thousand men, mainly ten, eleventh legion brought by Li Bida into three wings. This time he did not leave a reserve force because he did not have any extra troops on hand, and the Apsus River, which stretched across the battlefield and the streets, was too long, and the water flow was very gentle. The soldiers on both sides could greet each other across the river bank every day when patrolling. Caesar really had no way to focus on defending, and it happened to be an ideal area where the other party could exert the number of military strength.
At the same time, Rilias led the "Pan Shen Legion" and rushed up from the streets. In this way, Gabinus and Rabinus had the power of four legions. Even though Pan Shen Legion suffered considerable losses in the previous Sarona war, even so, Rabinus had nearly 25,000 people who could command, and he was supported by Pompei's youngest son, and he did not have to be constrained by Gabinus in front-line dispatch.
Caesar's three wings, together with the veterans of the 10th Legion, occupied the central position of the street and the castle. Li Bida was responsible for the left wing, which was close to the stretching mountains and provided cover with high places. The Eleventh Legion led by Deputy General Serester leaned against the plains behind the rivers and was connected with Caesar.
Over there, Pompei's army also quickly mobilized, "It is worthy of being Rabinus, my former chief vice general. He is completely impeccable in command skills, even if he accepts this strange army." Caesar couldn't help but sigh when he watched the enemy's formations alternately. Of course, according to his own deployment, what he most hoped was that Rabinus would put the main team on his left wing, because Li Bida, who was fighting there, could give full play to the advantage of the terrain and better block the enemy.
"It's like this, it's like this!" Caesar then rode excitedly on the horse and shouted, because Rabinus put his troops into his right wing, because the other side seemed to be the deepest, and it seemed that they were going to suffer in front of Li Bida's formation!
Chapter completed!