Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

Chapter 21 Mitra Banner (Part 2)

Li Bida gritted his teeth and agreed to Saihar's request, but if all the soldiers get these fifty silver coins, they must continue to march to the Tark. "In addition, one-third of the spoils of the Copper Shield Army will be shared by the 15th Legion and the 28th Legion. But the conditions are still the same, we go all the way, because I don't know how long the Mindaz's doubtful soldiers can maintain the effect."

As the military song of the Legion under Li Bida, "We ate all the sticks and were forged into iron blocks." The 28th Legion was still a new member. Although it was finally put into the river valley battlefield by the cavalry commander, even such supporting combat made the Germanic and Gaul soldiers in its legion exhausted. On the other hand, the 12th and 15th Legion each became fierce after a brief rest. They soon carried equipment and weapons in the camp, one south and one north, preparing to go in separate places.

Many soldiers from the Twenty-Eighth Legion sat on the ground and groaned loudly, saying that in such ghost weather, they had already forced no less than a hundred Romans. Even the soldiers who had fallen behind had not yet been collected, and now they were going to Taktun again. This was the cavalry commander who was punishing them in disguise.

"You white-skinned and blond-haired guys, on the battlefield, like helmets made of beast skulls, holding huge axes and chopping swords. Unexpectedly, they are all things to scare people." Speaking of this, a team of Nubian black soldiers of the 15th Legion, escorting a carriage full of trophy, walked proudly past the soldiers sitting in the 28th Legion, and teased without mercy.

Several Germanic Weaver men stood up and shouted in broken Latin, "We are men who survive in the wind and snow. Look at you again. The enemy's bows and arrows are in the snow. It is easy to shoot you who have nowhere to live to death, and they shot them in from their huge nostrils!" Then the soldiers of the two legions quarreled and pushed each other.

"Don't make noise, set up your team as soon as possible to set out towards Takton, or I will let the centurions of each hundred-man team whip you with their canes." The march commander Petternius stood majestic among the crowd and scolded him. Then he faced the 28th Legion's queue and pointed to the cars full of wealth and goods and said, "You must know that we followed General Libidaus to expedition to Egypt and Cyrene. The entire army also lacked excellent weapons and armor, and there was not much salary, but as long as we honed our skills in training and war, then in the future, we would have to go through the future

Such a rich spoil, you can often see it. This time we return to Takton to pursue and destroy the two legions under Pompey. I promise that as long as the battle is won, all the soldiers of your legion will be able to share the reward of 100 Tarante evenly." Then, Petterneus raised his waist and said with a bewitching look, "Think about it. As long as the war in Asia Minor is over, what cities are there? Militus, Ephesus, Sadies, are you still worried about the lack of drinks and entertainment? Why envy the twelfth legion that invaded Sinop!"

After saying that, Petternius pulled out the black flag bearer of the 15th Legion and untied the other party's cloak. Then the soldiers of the 28th Legion suddenly saw that the black flag bearer had a look of pride on his face, because his breastplate was full of golden chains and medals. Then Petternius instructed that those were given by Caesar, those were given by Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy, and those were newly awarded by the cavalry commander in the previous battle.

Seeing this powerful evidence, the Germans lowered their heads in shame. These forest barbarians admired the fighting heroes the most. They accepted the orders of rapid marching and secretly made up their minds to obtain their own glory and medals.

After reaching an agreement, the two legions carried long rows of captive horse-drawn carriages, and continued to drive towards Taktun in the snow.

At this time, Scipio had just realized that he had fallen into Mindaz's trap. When he formed an elite detachment and then walked around the hill to attack Mindaz's "ambush position", he realized that there were people there. The ground was full of messy horseshoe prints, some stoves and old weapons! Then, the four brigades commanded by Apis also "struggle" to attack Mindaz's "campaign" on the cliff, but they only found that there was only a piece of wooden fence and a few haystacks on it.

The thousand cavalry of Mindaz had already run away from another twenty Romans, and set a new position in the southern wilderness close to Taktun City. At this time, Scipio, who had already set up a solid camp in place, was completely frightened. "I have a very bad premonition. The enemy cavalry that had attacked my camp before was probably at least five thousand, but now they have adopted tactics that confuse us, so-"

"Then, these five thousand cavalry may have galloped to the Amacia area." Apis said for him.

Then, the two people sitting in the camp were silent. After a while, Scipio asked each other carefully again, thinking how the current situation of the Copper Shield Army was.

As a result, Apis just shook his head and said it was unknown.

But no matter what, the situation before them was really getting worse and worse. According to the scout cavalry sent by Scipio, Caesar also began to lead the team to approach their rear. Now Caesar's successor has two legions, and has crossed the sea one after another. In addition, the newly incorporated Macedonian Ninth and Seventh Legions were awarded the numbers of the Thirty Legions and Thirty-One Legions respectively, so that this person had the power of five legions at hand.

So it is meaningless to capture Takton now. It seems that even if the Copper Shield Army wins, it is meaningless to meet with Minander. Because there are four or five legions of the enemy Libidaus in Byzantium, and they cannot resist the two legions at their hands, unless they cross the Eukxing Sea with Minander and go to the Bosphorus grassland, then Caesar may take into account the long journey and let them go.

"Go to that place full of grasslands and goats, no!" Scipio flatly rejected this idea, and then he discussed that he would quickly bypass Takton and, while the enemy troops in the north and south were still surrounding them, he quickly ran towards Silesia according to Apis' original plan.

But Apis asked the commander-in-chief to discard unnecessary baggage and carry only the corresponding food so that the speed could be accelerated. So the two had another dispute, and Scipio's defense was also very reasonable. "You must know that we are at a disadvantage now. If we join the unpaid salary, the soldiers will flee halfway, let alone the money needed to continue recruiting troops after Silesia."
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next