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Chapter 16: Fort Li Bida (Part 2)

But the stay was only temporary, just because Li Bida needed to stop and collect information from all parties. After a while, Sabo summed up the situation of all parties and submitted it to him. Although Caesar's legion set out three days earlier, the area he went to was the richest in Greece, so he did not encounter anything in the battle. Instead, there were a lot of affairs like Chen Qing, so he had just entered the city of Delphi.

On the contrary, Scipio hesitated at the right bank defense line of the Alyakmond River. He obviously heard the end of the Rabinus army, and began to be upset if he had not been entangled with the Libida's partial army, and directly cooperated with Rabinusri to defeat Caesar's main force, otherwise he would not have reached the dilemma today. So Scipio sighed and began to instruct the taxpayers more and more. In the occupied area, he frantically plundered an additional large amount of taxes, and then began to look at which harbor along the coast to transport the legions and retreat to Asia Minor.

In short, no one thought that Scipio would stick to the Alyakmond River. "The northern part of Greece is full of curved cliffs and excellent harbors. We don't need to bite the poor Scipio and cannot stop him. Let him go. Let us continue to head towards Thessaloniki." After Li Bida quickly understood the situation, he guided all the personnel again, leaving Scipio alone, and instead marched quickly along the coast extending northeast of Pera City toward the sharp corners of Europa.

Suddenly, Sepia's three legions, including the natural dangers of the river, were completely useless. Either he continued to hold on and waited for the arrival of Caesar's attack; or he hurried back to the army and rushed to Libida across the Helispont, before entering and leaving Liebida, and went to Ephesus to meet with other teams. He decided to stay or stay.

Just when Scipio was still panic, Libida's army had continued to advance to one hundred Romali, and then met with King Curtis of Thracian on a small river north of Thessaloniki, which was also the traditional border between the Kingdom of Thracian and the province of Macedonia.

This meeting was begged by Curtis for a long time, because he knew that the life of Prince Sarada, the only heir of the kingdom, was in the palm of the cavalry commander.

Both sides each brought one hundred cavalry, as well as scepters, sticks, flags, and looking across the river. Then Libida and Curtis each took a small boat. To be honest, it is difficult to show that Curtis is a barbarian. He wore a Greek robe, a Mycenaean-style golden crown, a lion-like nose, and a thick beard. He has always been known as the descendant of Alexander the Great. He has legal dominance over the entire Greek world, and of course after the rise of the Roman Republic. This gradually became a secret dream in the hearts of the Thracian kings of all generations. Curtis originally hoped to expand his kingdom by providing a servant army to the "great Pompey", but unexpectedly he almost buried the heir to the throne.

"From now on, the Kingdom of Thrace declared allegiance to Dikthido Caesar of the Republic, and provided 2,000 infantry and cavalry and 15,000 bushels of wheat to follow the cavalry commander Li Bida to fight against Xiaoya. In addition, King Curtis must swear in front of the gods that he must not support any enemy of Caesar, whether from land or sea, and cannot send any army to cross the border of the province of Free Macedonia. As the sincerity of peace, General Li Bida is willing to return Prince Sarada." This was the peace agreement proposed by the Roman side. Curtis looked at the other party's own son standing on the bow of the other party's ship, licked his lips, and raised his scepter very readily to express his approval of this content.

At this point, the Kingdom of Thrace officially announced that it would withdraw from Pompey's camp. At this moment, Libida's front army had been strengthened by many servant troops such as Piosha, Thrace, Macedonia, and the total number had reached about 60,000. Then the army arrived at the destination identified by Libida, which he said before, "it could conquer the key points of Europa and Asia, and it could serve as a springboard for the capture of Libida's small Asia." Byzantium.

Byzantium is a simple place name. As early as five hundred years ago, the ancient Greeks discovered its unique geographical nature. The land facing Europa is very fertile and is particularly suitable for planting various crops. On the north side, it overlooks the Sea of ​​Propentis, which is now called the Sea of ​​Marmara. This pocket-shaped sea area is controlled by two narrow "gates", namely the Helispont and the Bosphorus, with only a small number of ships.

It can reject a large number of enemy troops outside the territory, and the Propentis Sea itself is a natural fishing ground with a huge output, which can provide the city with a large amount of inexhaustible meat. On the opposite side of this sea area, the legendary ancient city of Troy, located on Mount Ada. When the Myceneans were expeditioning this city, the two bravest soldiers, Achilles and Aaz, were moored their ships at this end and the other end of the strait.

But when the ancient Greeks were building a city, they made a ridiculous mistake. They would actually go to the east coast of the Propentis Sea to build a castle called Charciton. They didn't know that the Taurus Horn on the west coast was a harbor that didn't need shelter at all. Even large merchant ships did not need barges to unload the goods here, but could directly approach the dock. This sea area will not be damaged by any storm and rain all year round.

Of course, the ancient Greeks did not know that Li Bida knew that he loved traveling before traveling. He had been to the city of Istanbul and knew that the city was called Constantinople in the Roman Empire. However, it was impossible to have this name at all, but it was only Byzantium. The Roman Republic also lacked the due attention to this location, but was only satisfied with granting freedom to the city, because they had just conquered Xiaoya and the East for not long, and were still used to directly transporting troops from sea to important places to the garrison, so they even classified this area to the jurisdiction of the province of Cyprus. Back then, Li Bida had no choice but to take a boat from Rhodes to Byzantium to resolve disputes between the city-states. Now, the 60,000 troops of the Roman cavalry commander Li Bida have arrived, and they have to build new barriers in this place. Li Bida's reason was very good. He said to Caesar:
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