Things do not appear because they have meaning, but because they have meaning." - Ancient Roman philosopher Seneca

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Soon, the sentry cavalry fought against the enemy cavalry.

The location was in the valley of the high ground. Several paddlers who were on the shore ran fast and ran to draw water with pots. As a result, two thousand Mauritanian cavalry were ambushing in the valley. They were originally going to go to Leptis to get military pay, but they happened to encounter Li Bida's landing army.

The cavalrymen were almost dark in skin as Nubians, without any armor on their bodies, and rode barefoot on the back of a short, long African foal, carrying a javelin to fight.

The result was obvious. Two hundred Vibichinas cavalry beat 2,000 Mauritanian cavalry to the point of being beaten. It was difficult for their javelins to kill the Gauls' chain mail and shields, but the Sbata sword in the hands of the Gauls could easily cut these unprotected cavalry and flew across their body.

After expelling the group of cavalry, dozens of brave ones among Li Bida chased them all the way, but found that the group of people had all entered a small town called Hadrumom to defend themselves. Then the Gaul cavalry ran back in the evening and told Li Bida about the situation.

After learning the news, Sabo next to him immediately asked the cavalry and arrived at Hadrumom from here. After getting a relatively accurate answer, Sabo was on the stand table, gritting his teeth and gestured carefully with a ruler and hand. Soon he told Libida that the fleet had indeed passed the entire forty Romans of Leptis. We are now closer to this small town called Hadrumom, about ten to fifteen Romans like this.

After savoring the terrain around the camp, Li Bida ordered all the soldiers and paddlers not to rest tonight, and directly dismantle the wooden boards from the flat-bottomed ship and sharpen them, and erected wooden fences to block the cavalry around the camp, "You can't risk going deep into the mainland to cut down and grazing."

"Then, the horses in the camp still need for forage. I think there is no such thing as this radius within a long distance," Sabo reminded.

"Then you have to think carefully about Sabo. There are so many cavalrymen in the enemy, where did their forage come from?" the cavalry commander asked.

Dussenvier, on the other hand, replied, "In this area, hundreds of Romania are full of stones and sand. If hay is needed, they can only be transported from the distant towns and stored in the small town called Hadrumom, otherwise so many cavalry would not be able to supply them well."

"That means, we are going to attack Hadrumom first?" Sabo said. Then he stared at Li Bida, who was still thinking, as if urging him to issue orders. All the plans were already in mind.

"Well, of course you can attack. Let's leave it to Sabo and Dussenvier, and Angandinus and I stay in this camp to guard against the enemy situation that may occur in Leptis. Time goes fast, otherwise we will be attacked from beginning to end." Li Bida woke up immediately when he saw Sabo's gaze, but he was obviously considering other deeper issues just now.

The next day, Sabo and Dussenvier set out with all the cavalry with a thousand infantrymen. And Angandinus, who had never spoken at this moment, also told the cavalry commander that he had had a friendship with Condisius, the commander of the garrison of Leptis, so he was willing to write a letter to send it, hoping that he could surrender to the dictator and protect the lives of all the people.

"Of course this is possible." Li Bida, who was still sitting in front of the stand table, agreed readily. Then he found several token officers and gave them a very interesting order. Then Mattia distributed many letters to the other party one by one.

When one of the token officers came to the city of Leptis with Angandinus's letter, Condisius received him, and Libida's token officer saluted the commander of the garrison, and then prepared to submit the letter to the person who had sent it.

"Who sent the letter?" Condisius asked, his body not leaving his seat.

"It was drafted by the cavalry commander, Lord Libidaus." The token officer said clearly.

"There is only one dictator in Rome, great Pompey!" After saying that, Condiceus ordered the entourage to tie up the token officer, cruelly cut off his tongue, dug off his eyes, and then cut off his head and placed it in a silver plate with his tongue's eyeballs. The letter Condiceus was not taken apart at all, and was placed together intact and returned to the camp of Libida forty kilometers away.

"I am ashamed of serving with him. This is a cowardly bastard who has no etiquette and compassion." Seeing the cruel scene in the silver plate, even the good-good man Angandinus, who is usually good, couldn't help but curse. The cavalry commander asked all the officers and soldiers in the camp to watch the bloody silver plate, and condemn Condisus' crime of killing the messenger for no reason. At this moment, three more brigades of the Sixth Legion came ashore one after another. Everyone was full of blood and vowed to avenge their dead comrades in future battles.

At the same time, Sabo and Dussenvier jointly fought a textbook battle in front of Hadrumom. When the Mauritanian cavalry rushed out of the city again, they were defeated by the Gaul cavalry again. It was late autumn and the climate was so suitable for the taste of the Gauls. Then Sabo set up two cavalry cannons and a noble lady cannon, and urged the infantry to chase the dispersed enemy cavalry, destroyed several towers, and seized the city gate and suspension bridge. Most of the cavalry from the desert surrendered, and a small number escaped.

Sure enough, there was indeed a large warehouse of forage in Hadrumom. After Sabo and Dussenvier made a slight judgment on the situation, they dismissed all the captured Mauritanian cavalrymen and horses, but snatched all their luggage, and then distributed half of the money to the soldiers and half to the city residents, and hired them to use mule carts to transport all the forage to the cavalry commander's camp.

After inquiring, I found out that the citizens of Hadrumom City said with resentment that since Pompei's army arrived here, the entire coastal and inland cities have been plundered. Not only did they force their cities to purchase expensive forage that is not produced locally, but they also collected taxes from various names. They hired and supported the huge alien cavalry team as military pay, and forced men to serve in the army and guard their fortress camps. Now the people in the entire area hate the Pompei party members to the core.

What these citizens said was true. When Sabo opened the luggage of the Mauritanian cavalry and looked at it, they quickly found out that this group of cavalry who were neither good nor useful had served here for only half a year, and each person had one or two hundred dinar silver coins in their luggage, which was still the tail of the surplus.
Chapter completed!