Augustus Road

At this time, suddenly a violent noise came from behind the Roman formation. All the Cypriots were stunned. What new weapon is this for the Romans?

But seeing the Roman centurions giving way, countless pack horses neighed happily from the array and rushed towards the Cyprus camp through the waves. At this time, the pack horses in their camp also began to kick and scream. Many of them started to kick and scream. They even chewed off the ropes and swarmed towards the door to greet their "brothers". Now the Cyprus camp turned into a mess. Many soldiers who used to hold bows, arrows and javelins were now faced with countless galloping horses. He didn't dare to run around, and he didn't dare to step forward to stop him. He could only squat behind the safe wooden fence. .At this time, the Romans shouted in unison and followed the horses to cover them up. They pushed down the wooden fence and stabbed the Cypriot troops to death. Then they put up their shields layer by layer, ignoring the chaotic enemies, and slowly walked around the curved and intertwined formations. The Luzhai Mucha reached the foot of the camp fortress.

"Boys, do you know how to make the wall of these Greek guys completely collapse in the shortest time?" shouted the chief centurion Hebrida under the shield, and then he began to skillfully demonstrate the movements and took over the subordinates next to him. He said with a shovel, come with me and dig a trench two and a half Roman feet deep along the wall of the wooden raft. After saying that, under the shield wall, the lightly-armed soldiers waved shovels, shovels and pickaxes, and the dust was flying. They were doing what Hebrida said, but these tasks were very familiar to them. Rome only had recruits who couldn't fight, but there were never recruits who couldn't build camps and dig ditches. .

When the lower section of the raft was exposed to everyone, Hebrida gritted her teeth, piled up linen rolls soaked with mitti oil, and then lit them with a fire sickle, "Follow me, dot every four Roman feet. One, and soon amid the bursts of exclamations, the Roman shields moved back a few feet. The flames quickly started to jump, and the single burning wood twisted, and was quickly fixed with iron nails. The wooden rows next to them were leaning one after another, and the many archers and harpooneers standing on them could only run down the wall ladder. Soon the front wall was beyond recognition and crumbling, and a row of Roman soldiers gathered forward again, He slammed the shield and the wooden pile down. In the huge collapse sound, the wood, carrying flames and flying ash, thumped on the shield. The wall immediately fell backwards to the ground, suppressing many howling people. The enemy soldiers and horses, the Romans then held up their shields, stepped on their bodies, and rushed into the camp...

In this battle, the Cypriot army only killed more than a hundred people and stopped resisting, because originally if they stayed in a safe camp, they could still maintain strong fighting spirit, but now that they were destroyed by the Romans, it happened that The Roman legions were well-supplied and had little interest in killing prisoners of war, so they calmly handed over the flag awarded by Ptolemy's cousin to the Romans as a sign of surrender.

"We have tried our best to resist, but all the fortifications were destroyed, and the horses were in panic. So in this last resort, we must admit that God is not on our army's side." The leading general stood beside Lepidus In front of him, he spoke nonsense in a serious manner in pure Greek.

"Where do your troops come from?"

"The light cavalry are mainly Aetolians, the infantry is composed of Athenians and Cilicias, and the light infantry is native to Cyprus, with a small amount of Cretans. Dear general, I forgot to mention just now that our army does not have enough food. , so our surrender can be forgiven by morality and honor." After the general reported the number of people, he was still verbose.

Lepidus had no intention of listening to him masturbating anymore, so he ordered Sabo to send off the cavalry and infantry, and give each of them ten drachmas, as long as they don't become bandits in the countryside. We don't need these weak chickens, but Cyprus and Croton. All the Rites were summoned to me, and soon a group of people with different clothes and wide-brimmed hats came up. Lepidus took out the Assyrian compound bow. As a result, they shook their heads and said a few words, meaning we Not knowing how to use the Asiatic bow, Lepidus shrugged helplessly and said that he could pay a generous sum of money and allow them to keep the original flag and team logo. He could also meet their request to use a Mediterranean single bow and serve as a substitute for the Thirteenth Legion. Attached archer brigade.

"You are here again. You must know that we are a Roman legion. But now, Commander, you must understand that there is only one Roman among the three members of the Twelve Legions. Now I am afraid that there is not a pure Roman among the five members of the Thirteenth Legion. "The Latins." Sabo complained openly, "In this case, it will be difficult to maintain the discipline and honor of our army."

"Sabo, you are complaining again. Of course I have a solution, but before we capture Paphos, we must work together regardless of race." Lepida did not listen at all. He immediately announced that the Thirteenth Army would be reorganized according to such a proportion. Teneus immediately stood up straight and listened to the commander-in-chief's instructions. This professional soldier is a good one and will sincerely support anyone who provides military rations: First, expand the chief thousand-man brigade to full capacity, and the remaining infantry brigade only needs six. The prisoners of the Battle of the Theisa were all organized into two archer brigades, and the artillery, oarsmen and baggage were organized into a separate brigade. All military slaves were liberated and organized into them, and they were equipped with weapons previously captured at Salamis.

After issuing the command, Lepidus turned around and asked the surrendered general, "Does your Ptolemy have any troops at his disposal?"

The general shook his head and said that he felt Ptolemy had run out of money. But I heard before the expedition that he had wealth that could rival a country, but he refused to distribute it to reward his soldiers. Instead, he hid it secretly. The most likely hiding place was the Great Temple of Love on the seashore of Old Paphos, because the priest there was his half-brother, and there was divine power there. He said that you Romans dare not invade or cross the border because it is said that Aphrodite is the ancestor of you Latins.

"Really? I don't know if you have heard the complaints of my staff just now. From the commander to the ordinary soldiers in our legion, few are Romans, so I declare that we will march to Paphos immediately! Soldiers, Ptolemy has no soldiers. The great god of love, no, the great statue of love is calling us." Lepidus mounted a white horse, and his order made all the soldiers cheer. Is there any expedition that is easier to get spoils than this?

Paphos is divided into the old and new parts. The old part is located on the seashore, and the new part was rebuilt after a major earthquake. On the top of the mountain later, Dusunville's cavalry team traveled day and night, and struck into the plain between the old and new city like lightning, cutting off the connection between them. Then the infantry team, archer team, artillery unit and baggage guard team all came in. Indeed, Ptolemy's cousin did not put up any decent resistance along the way.

"Cut wood and prepare for the siege." Lepidus looked at the beautiful and elegant Corinthian town on the top of the mountain and gave the order. (To be continued.)