Chapter 23 The Fleet That Does Not Exist (Part 2)
So after abandoning its camp, Tlureas' army advanced about sixteen Romans. Their fleet was half-destroyed, and most of the cavalry had abandoned their mounts. Many of the infantry had not even carried equipment. Many of them only wore helmets, followed by two javelins and daggers, stumbled and complained, approaching the town of Gebra.
Without exception, the city of Gebra also guarded itself, and thousands of Spanish troops rushed to the coast in chaos, and then their fleets rushed over in chaos, "Put up wooden fences, seize the high hills, and organize defense lines. Our fleet has not yet responded, and the enemy's pursuers may come at any time." Tlureas ordered all the centurions in this way, but the entire army had long lost its due dispatch and order, and people were shouting everywhere, coming and going.
At this time, the Li Bida army with plenty of money also appeared in the wilderness in front of Gebra. It was still Parumma who was in line with all the cavalry, advancing slowly like a wall, flags fluttering, and horses neighing, "Let me achieve great victory for my father to celebrate this year's Diana Festival!" The little pigeon shouted to the cavalry captain beside him. Then he saw the only remaining living force of the Spanish army across the river, lined up the fort along the river bank and prepared to resist, and took the lead without hesitation, rushed over like a surge, stepped on the jumping splash, jumped off the horse in front of the fort, and fought with the enemy troops who rushed out to resist.
All the people who fought against the soil were fighting in mud and water. Many of them had their armor and their logos dyed with blood and mud, and they did not distinguish between enemies and us at all. Paruma carried a sword and limped to fight with the enemy surrounding him. Many of the enemy soldiers saw him wearing a cloak for generals. However, they had obvious disabilities and bullied themselves and were cut down by Paruma one by one. Because Tlureas' elite soldiers had never received effective rest and supplies since the marches and battles a few days ago. They were exhausted. While killing a cavalryman of Li Bida, they often had to pay the price of several deaths and injuries.
"Galius, rush up with the reserve team and completely break the river defense line." A clang of swords and the horns, Galius, with the chief brigade of the Seventh Legion, also wades through the river under the cover of archers on both sides, and slashes and slaughtering the enemies in front of him. In the end, the Spanish army retreated from the entire line. All four legions gathered between the city of Gebra and the coast, and the wounded were all over the ground. Sighs soaring to the sky.
Then, Galius and Paruma pulled out all the captured wooden fences and deer forts and rearranged them along the front lines of the army. Then, the cavalry cannons, scorpion crossbows, archers, and stone casters of Li Bida's army all reinforced and shot wildly at the positions of the Tlureas army.
At dusk, the First and Fourth Legions, which were the first and fourth Legions, who were in the forefront, had lost thousands of personnel. When they abandoned the camp, all the heavy equipment was thrown away, and the shameless long-range strike against Li Bida's army had no power to fight back.
"Stand for a while, and the fleet over Lilibi will come to pick it up!" This is the last way for Tlureas to boost morale.
After nightfall, Li Bida ordered the entire army to build blockades calmly, arrange dense posts to monitor the enemy, and also open a corridor to reach Gabra City, echoing it, blocking all the enemies in a narrow area on the coast.
In addition, Libida sent an envoy again to demand that Tlureas surrender as soon as possible, otherwise "I will massacre you and your tribes, throw all the bodies into the sea and sacrifice to the god Nepton. Then I will march into Sicily, cut off Aquila's head and sacrifice to the god Venus." This time Libida's words are no longer as polite as before, but are full of violence and intimidation.
Tlureas hesitated, but most of his centurions and civilian guards could not bear it and demanded that the commander-in-chief surrender, because they could not cross to Sicily with the current fleet. Most of them were abandoned halfway due to lack of supplies and maintenance, or were sunk by the shelling of Libida's army; and the fleet that was counting on Lilibi was indeed the established goal, but the question was why they still existed? Perhaps by the time they arrived, our bodies had already filled the entire Gulf of Gebra.
"I'll defend myself for another day tomorrow, and I'll give everyone an answer at that time." This was the decision of Telureas in the end.
The next day, when the sun rose freely on the sea surface, the fog on the entire sea surface dissipated. On the coast of Gebra, there were corpses and wounded people across the sea. The remaining personnel were crowded with narrow areas, watching the sea surface, hoping for the arrival of friendly fleets.
But Marclus' fleet did start anchoring three days ago, but the target was Gebra, but Port Cararis...
Finally, when the third moment of the day was coming, the sea was shattering waves and a large number of ships came from all directions, but the cheers at the Tlureas camp were short-lived, because when they got closer, they all discovered that these ships were full of purple sails, and they were quickly emitting crossbow arrows and flames, destroying and burning their already very weak fleet one by one. In the rolling fireworks, Tlureas's humans and wolves rushed, and after the blockade of Li Bida's barriers, the infantry and cavalry covered all the cavalry artillery and rumbled up.
After a while of attack, Telureas could no longer bear it. He announced that everyone would give up resistance and surrender.
"I was betrayed by this shameful guy Aquila!"
In addition to the serious injuries of the four legions, there were 15,000 people surrendered. In addition to the surrender of the two auxiliary legions, Li Bida collected 20,000 prisoners without any effort, but he obviously did not have all of them in his pocket: Li Bida, like Caesar, would all those with family in Spain, distribute appropriate Sichuan funds and promise to provide ships to dismiss them; but those who were determined to continue serving were incorporated.
Even so, there were 10,000 elite soldiers who were finally involved in Li Bida's tent. Li Bida organized them into two new legions. "Kasiyo had previously formed the first and third legions in Lusitania. In order to express his hatred for him, I will continue to retain these two numbers, but I will turn these soldiers into Kasiyo's nightmare and turn them into his enemies." Li Bida said to Telureas, who came to surrender.
After hearing this, Telureas finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Li Bida was not ready to sacrifice him to the blood to the gods.
Chapter completed!