"I am a human being, and I can understand what all human nature belongs." - Humanism in the plays of ancient Roman Terence

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The two sides then touched each other like thunder and fire, and used a town called Ruspina as the middle line of the battle, and began to fight fiercely. The first time was a cavalry battle, Caesar's experienced Germanic and Gauls won the victory and captured hundreds of Numidians.

Caesar ordered them to be killed, without leaving a single living mouth, and then he strung his head with a spear in front of his camp gate, claiming that this was the price that King Juba had to pay for massacre of Italian citizens.

The anger was triggered more and more. King Juba personally ordered that he would fight Caesar again in the future and take on all the cavalry and elephants. The legions led by Scipio gathered with the Rabinus Legion from Zeta, and also allocated all the cavalry to sweep the surroundings of Caesar's camp. Their numbers had an absolute advantage, surrounded Caesar's camp and cut off internal and external traffic. As long as someone saw that he dared to come out to collect herding, they would all use bows and arrows and darts to kill them.

In this way, Caesar's legions were suppressed in a territory less than six in Rome, with only a narrow corridor on the dock, which was also connected to the city of Leptis. Anthony, who was guarding the city, personally led the cavalry every day to escort the few food supply front camps, but the consumption was still amazing, because the second wave of troops crossing the sea, including the 10th legions, was still in Brindisi. He was intercepted and attacked by the Pompei fleet on the island of Kerki.

"Soldiers are fishing for seaweed and supplying horse feed." Seeing this scene with their own eyes, Caesar asked the entire army to carry forward the hard-working spirit in Cocula City. Persevere for ten days to half a month, waiting for the Chief Executive of the Executive Yuan to bring the subsequent supplies and fleets over, and then fight to the death with the enemy.

"Don't give Caesar some time to breathe. We have the advantage now, and Li is fighting quickly." Scipio and Rabinus quickly reached an agreement and prepared to join forces with the main force of King Juba as soon as possible to launch a general attack on Caesar's troops. If Caesar refuses to come out to fight in a formation, then break through his camp.

But just as the two generals were about to pass the order, King Juba sent an envoy and asked Scipio to meet him.

Rabinus was immediately very angry and said that Scipiogui was the chief executive of the Roman Republic, and that King Juba was just a vassal monarch. Why should we ask the chief executive to go to his tent to meet him?

But Scipio was very calm. He said that it would be meaningless to care about these things now. He was willing to ask King Juba to assist our army in the decisive battle with a humble and cooperative attitude.

Then, Scipio brought a few monkeys to the huge tent decorated by King Juba. Several servants stopped him and asked Scipio to replace the Toga robe with purple edges, "Because King Juba does not like to be in his tent. Seeing the same purple color as his robe and boots is disrespectful to him."

As a result, Scipio had to change into a pure white robe. He tried hard to suppress the anger in his heart and went to meet King Juba. The other party received him arrogantly, but he said, "Please tell your Pompey, I will immediately bring all my infantry, horses and horses and return to my own kingdom."

"But Caesar has not been eliminated yet." Scipio said with a grudge.

"It's not true. The despicable Caesar bribed Pocus, the prince of Gatulia. He now raises an army against me. I am now equal to providing you with assistance on three fronts. I am exhausted. Do you want me to win one or two victory against Caesar at the cost of losing my country?" King Juba said angrily.

At this moment, General Ma Ge volunteered to stand up and said he was willing to lead 5,000 cavalry as vanguards and quickly return to Numidia to repel and block the invasion of Getulia, because their tribal territory was too close to Kilta City. If the light cavalry went to fight, it might be possible to threaten His Majesty's capital in less than three days.

King Juba nodded, but Scipio was anxious at this time. He insisted on asking King Juba to stay for the time being, at least he had to meet Pompei before making a decision.

"How can I be too late? I am not your vassal now!" King Juba slapped the table.

"That's better." Scipio's tone almost begged, "General Magg will first stop the Getulias, and your Majesty, you will take some of your men to meet with Diktudo with Utica, and then leave some of your men to fight Caesar."

King Juba thought for a while and reluctantly said ok, I will leave behind 10,000 cavalry and bring thirty battle elephants to you. I will take the rest of the troops to Utika City for the time being to observe the changes in the situation in the middle.

As soon as he heard the war elephant, Scipio's eyes shone brightly. He quickly thanked King Juba and expressed his willingness to live up to his trust, treat these huge and noble animals well, and train them carefully.

"After all, you are the Chief Executive. How can you just be taught a lesson to the elephant like a humble animal trainer? You don't need to worry about it." King Juba replied curiously and angrily.

Then Scipio returned to his camp and told Rabinus about this. The other party was very shocked. What should the general attack be like this? But Scipio was confident. He said that as long as there were thirty elephants, he would definitely defeat Caesar.

As soon as he saw the great father-in-law talking about animals, Rabinus would see his eyes shining brightly, which was even more excited than seeing mountains of gold and silver treasures. So he instinctively felt that putting the hope of this decisive battle on Scipio became unreliable. He walked to the map table, used a graphite hook pen to draw a circle on his own camp, drew a circle on Caesar's camp, and then drew a line in the middle. Finally, Rabinus suddenly pulled a line directly to the city of Leptis behind, and then shouted, "Ignagius, Ignagius!"

On the next sunny and windless day, Scipio sat upright on a ring chair and watched the training elephants on the school ground directly in front of the camp. "It is said that Caesar also learned that King Juba reinforced many of our brave elephants, and he taught the soldiers how to fight. Just kidding, this is simply a delusion. How could he compete with beasts and animals? This also shows that the battles of Afiriga from beginning to end are based on animals as the key to determining the outcome, so all the generals and officers must observe carefully! Remember my words, only those who love animals can win all the victories."

More than a dozen military civilian officials and the chief centurion, posing a bitter face, stood tremblingly on the side of the school field or on the tower, and were forced to watch the exercises of the war elephants because it was the request of the great father-in-law. Rabinus looked away and shook his head. How could Scipio go crazy, he went down to arrange a tactical plan. (To be continued) r655
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