"In her world, only four beautiful scenery are known, the soldiers on the battlefield, the monks on the altar, the beautiful women on the bed, and the thieves on the gallows.[][].[23][wx].[]" - Clavier's evaluation of Isabella in Spain

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When the entire army slowly walked down from the high ground, Scipio found out that the two legions had killed nine hundred people in battle, five hundred people were missing and fled, about three thousand injured, and half of the centurions of the Seventh Legion were injured, and Prince Sarada of Thrace refused to return it, but was taken away.

"Get to the other side of the Alyacmon River and rest for two market days." Finally, Scipio gave the order dejectedly. When he and the soldiers walked into the baggage camp, they couldn't help but complain that Apis was unwilling to act to save him, but Apis seemed even more depressed. This guy who had always been extremely stubborn in Scipio's eyes actually wrapped his thin body with a wool blanket and yelled in the cold air. Then he saw Scipio, and then pointed to the soldiers' backpacks and luggage on the ground, saying, "This is your belief and pillar. You have become standard slaves."

Scipio didn't know what he was expressing, nor did he care. He just asked him to train the team in the future, and would soon send a large amount of food, wine and coins from Delphi. "After this, after the rest period is over, I will reward all of these to my subordinates, and then go out again to fight, and the merits of defeating Caesar will still belong to me."

In the Caesar Mountain Camp in the besieged city of Cocula, soldiers surrounded the walls and behind the walls, and the scale officer brought lunch. When the steaming stuff was piled on the soldiers' plates, they realized that it was just barley porridge, mixed with soldiers and chickpeas.

But the soldiers didn't say anything. Caesar's men liked to cause trouble in their spare time. But in this situation, they had shared the joys and sorrows with the commander in the previous war between Gaul and Spain. They had long been accustomed to it and understood that complaining was an extremely shameful act, because everyone believed that their dictator Julius Caesar must have been eating the same food.

But these beans were really too hard, and the barley porridge was very thin. Many soldiers started to line up in the trench under the wall before they could finish their meal. Thunder poured out into it, "I have to find a way to get some wheat bread." Calenus kept saying to the scale officer while patrolling, and then he saw Caesar's close-fitting machine asking for slaves, and he also grabbed the other party's arm and emphasized this topic again.

"There are everything here, there is no wheat flour, and of course there is no bread. Just like there is no chicken, there is no egg. However, the dictator just said. He bought a large amount of fresh meat from the city of Illyria, and soon the soldiers could waving the barbecue fork. This thing can make up for the lack of bread. Anyway, it can warm the stomach and the effect of the meat is obviously better." Caesar's confidential slave said.

Karenus shrugged and said that only low-ranking people kept eating meat. If this continues, it will hurt the soldiers' sense of honor. Then he saw a group of soldiers carrying wooden stakes and walking towards the other side of the valley. So the deputy general called the centurion who led the team, and the other party replied with great momentum, "Since Pompei's army told us that we were short of food, we will let him cut off the water."

It turns out that almost all the rivers flowing through the city of Cocula are the mountain streams occupied by Caesar's army as the upper reaches. "Stealing Water Attack" becomes the greatest pleasure of Caesar's men when there is no battle. When they encounter shallow streams, they will use picks and shovels to spread the water to the ground. If they encounter larger rivers, they will first stakes into the ground, and use stones in the middle to build small dams similar to gates, forcing them to change their flow direction.

The four legions of Rabinus began to become severely short of water. A large number of carcasses died, and the bodies were thrown everywhere, giving off a high smell. Rabinus sent people to dig wells in front of the blockade line. However, in the severe cold of winter, this was an extremely difficult and ineffective thing, and he had to risk being attacked by the Caesar's cavalry. A funny and cruel scene appeared. On the two blockade lines, Pompei's soldiers ate toast and various breads in front of the Caesar's soldiers; on the other hand, even if Caesar's soldiers were hungry, they would hold a kettle and drink water in front of the other side.

But in the black market for trading secretly established by soldiers on both sides, those uncorrupted pieces of meat, whether they are mules or cows, and a small amount of water that has been exchanged for money, have been fired to a very high price. After every curfew, there will be brave soldiers who sneak out of their own camps and exchange these things in the ditches in the center.

Until one day, a novel food was placed before Caesar, "What is this?"

As a result, the dictator's slaves waved their hands, saying that they had never seen this thing, but soldiers would buy it from locals when they were short of food, because the plant could harvest fruits in August and keep them for a long time without breaking. Caesar picked up these small, curved flakes, then sent them to his mouth to chew them, then nodded, and said to the officers and servants, "There are no shortcomings except that they are not bread."

"Yes, I once asked the soldiers who ate this food. They all called it 'Kala'. Now when eating barbecue and barley beans, soldiers would eat it together, which is said to be very beneficial to the stomach. In addition, the prostitutes also said that after they ate kara, they even got much better." Karenus was tracing the function of this food, but when talking about "dysmenorrhea", he obviously felt absurd because it was taboo to mention these things in the military camp, thinking that it was unlucky.

However, Caesar seemed to have not heard this. He put down the "Kara" in a daze, and then said: "I remember that I had heard the naturalist Varo say that this thing is actually the caraway in the forest. Now my subordinates want to eat these things to live... But I still hope that everyone can persevere and strengthen the protection of water sources. Rabinus will not be able to wait for death."

Caesar was right. At this moment, in the camp of Cocula, Rabinus summoned all the commanders of the three legions, "I need to select a brigade from each legion, and then attack the hill in the east, and destroy the fortifications that cut off the river in Caesar, because the problem of water shortage is getting worse and worse, and I don't think there will be rain this winter."
Chapter completed!