"I would rather go to the battlefield with my shield and fight three battles than have a baby at home." - Medea's comparison of the pain of war and childbirth

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After one day, as Apis promised in advance, all the middle and high-level commanders of the two hostile legions, of course, who survived the march and blizzard, supported each other and came to Li Bida, claiming that they had been authorized to surrender to the cavalry commander of the city of Rome.

"Where is your general Scipio?" Li Bida asked.

The answer I got was missing, so Li Bida thought that the long-legged general must have run away miraculously again, which was quite resilient. Then, Sabo Kemus jumped out of the queue and dictated his request for surrender in front of the opposite side:

Starting immediately, all soldiers in the Sixth and Eighth Legions of the Macedonian Province, who participated in the Pompeii camp, put down their weapons without caring about the ranks, gave up resistance, and concentrated in the core area of ​​the Winter Camp, waiting for the surrendered party to deal with it;

After the surrender procedure is completed, the winter camp will be abandoned and destroyed;

Those who can report Scipio and the whereabouts of the elders who escape with him will receive a reward of two thousand dinars;

Our army promises not to harm the prisoners and gives everyone food and accommodation, but they are not allowed to move around everywhere, or take other uncautious actions, otherwise there will be corresponding reserve punishment measures.

After that, a civil guard of the other party came up and handed Sabo a few booklets. Sabo passed it to the cavalry commander. Li Bida glanced casually. It was the list of the other party's legion, so he asked the military civil guard of the military, and said, "To this day, how much authenticity can the personnel and supplies of your legion guarantee in this booklet?"

"I'm sorry, I really can't make any guarantee. I can only say that the losses of baggage and personnel are huge." The civil guardian replied with a grief that he had survived the disaster.

Then, Li Bida and his staff took thousands of chasing cavalry out and entered the Scipiodon camp at the foot of Asimanus Mountain. They did not encounter any resistance, nor did the enemy have the strength or courage to resist them, because Li Bida's cavalry showed Scipio's army about three hundred shields from afar, all of which were seized from the Copper Shield Army. This scene caused all the people under Scipio's subordinates to completely despair and could only accept the fate of prisoners of war.

After comparison and inventory, Li Bida found that the losses of these two legions were simply amazing. The previous full staff should be close to 12,000, but now the Sixth Legion has 2,500 left. The Eighth Legion only survived less than 2,000. "This is really an absolute military disaster." Dussenvier next to him couldn't help but sigh when he saw the miserable scene at his sight.

"Luckily, this is a military disaster for Caesar's enemy. Feel, immediately distribute some cold clothes and hot bean soup to these people, but don't feed them too much, so as to save them from dying or give them extra energy to do other things." After Li Bida's instructions, he began to ask the prisoners coming and going, and the whereabouts of their other deputy commander General Apis.

But no one knew that, because at this time, Apis was standing in front of a remote camp, and the rest of the officers and soldiers ran out to receive the mercy of the victor, but he did not, just as he evaluated himself in advance, "I am not a person who disregarded the lives of ordinary soldiers and made himself successful by stepping on their bones." However, the republican philosophy did not allow him to go out and surrender to the Caesar party. At this time, Apis touched his whole body, hoping to find something that could be used as a relic, but after exploring for a long time, he only found a small silver spoon. This was given to him by the "King of Kings" Tegranis when he followed Lukulas as a military guardian to expedition to Xiaoya when he went on a mission to Armenia.

After so many years of war, he didn't expect that the only valuable relics were sent by the enemy. Apis smiled self-deprecatingly. He remembered the former Misaro who used death to advise the monarch, the handsome and fearless young man. He had been full of discomfort in his heart about the martyr, but now he realized, "Maybe when every great kingdom is heading to destruction, there will always be someone to save this collapse process through his own blood." After thinking about it, Apis calmly

He placed the silver spoon on the snow in front of the camp, then walked into the tent that was enclosed with snow, poured out all the remaining fires in the brazier inside, and then lie down flat while breathing, looking at the dim tent brackets and ceiling, and the gorgeous Mars that quickly scattered, these red and golden fireworks surrounded his body, and he felt that he had instantly become a magnificent "Felix", gradually integrating with the fire that swallowed the camp.

When Li Bida found out here, the entire camp had been burned and flattened. The charred ground was mixed with white snow, and thick smoke came out. Li Bida picked up the silver spoon from his feet speechlessly, and then bowed deeply to the place where the ashes were full...

After Scipio's two legions were completely wiped out, Caesar's new order came, "The situation between Xiaoya and the East has been settled. Your troops can temporarily rest in the winter camp of Mount Asimanus for one to two months to deal with the rewards and punishments of various states. After April, two to three legions can be allocated to accompany His Excellency Caesar to go to Egypt."

"Going to Egypt?" Li Bida was very surprised. It seemed that Gabinus and Marseilles had indeed escaped to Egypt, because when Ptolemy restored his country, he also used Pompei's power. In name, it can be said that Pompei's Crien was also Pompei's Krien. However, according to his previous layout, Egypt now should be looking for venture capital to Caesar. Why is that?

It would be better to make a decision after spring comes. Li Bida still needs to slowly collect Egyptian intelligence, so he immediately wrote a secret letter and entrusted his confidant to send it to Antioch in Syria. The recipients were Hebrida and Polo whom he had previously sent to the Syrian Legion, both of whom served as chief centurions in the army there.

Then, Libida sat in the winter camp at the foot of Asimanus and was ordered to carry out the matters entrusted by Caesar. He gave huge fines to the states that had been cast on Pompeii after the war broke out, such as Thrace, Bosphorus, Judia, Bitinia, etc., which were also what Caesar needed urgently; then, in the name of Caesar, he gave generous land gifts to allies such as Ubertnia, Gerasha, and Armenia, and upgraded them from "Four-quarter monarch" to "Roman vassal state". During this period, Libida made a detailed division: gifts to Sinop, Amisus and Pagama to Adianna, a part of Cappadocia, and a little Armenia to Diotalus, King Gerasha; and Korkis to Little Tegray of Armenia.
Chapter completed!