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In fact, Angandinus was also prepared in this way. He had accepted the commander's strategy in advance, so he divided the team into two, quickly built a fortress-style camp in the middle of the street that he must pass through, and imitated Marceli Based on the experience of the Asian siege, many projectiles were deployed. "Our mission is to monitor the enemy's baggage camp and intercept all the enemy's broken troops over there!"

There, Apis also selected the chief brigade and formed an assault group with four auxiliary centurions, and mobilized the soldiers and said, "Now maybe our commander, General Scipio, may have suffered an unfortunate fate, and If we want to rescue him, we must break through the enemy army in front of us, so the top priority is to attack bravely. "

However, all the officers and soldiers of Apis's sixth legion were in an uproar. They were all greedy for the luggage in the camp. There were their half-life savings, salaries, looted loot, and the things Scipio had brought in the small camp before. As an additional reward given to them by Asia, each person had at least five thousand sesterces of property. They elected military tribunes to discuss with Apis, "The camp cannot be abandoned. If the chief army goes to war, in case There are still enemy troops lurking around and they attack, but if they fail to resist and are defeated, everything will be over.”

"What's the point!" Apis said to all the tribunes with a sullen face, and then he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, everything happened again: when he was a military tribune, he once represented the soldiers I went to discuss with coach Luculas, but I didn't expect that it would be my turn now.

Just when Apis and the soldiers were at a stalemate, there were two legions of Scipio over there. Already running more than ten Roman miles away, Scipio and his Thracian cavalry suddenly saw the strong defense line of Angandinus. He started shouting, and Opimius, the cavalry captain next to him, hurriedly asked if he was going to organize a force to attack.

"Crazy, the opponent's pursuers are behind them, and there are barriers blocking the front. If we attack rashly, we will all be captured after exhaustion." Scipio finished. In a blink of an eye, he saw a large highland on the left, near the river, and took all the soldiers with him. They climbed up in a chaotic manner, and then formed a formation. Scipio quickly ordered the idle soldiers to dig earth and set up camp around them.

In the flying dust, Lepidah and the vanguard cavalry also caught up. Wait until he sees the battlefield situation. He couldn't help but complain that Angandinus was not familiar with military affairs, "We should set up a camp on this high slope to blockade it. Scipio is the rat in the bag."

When he saw that the opponent was preparing to defend on this high slope, he made some calculations in his mind and decided to rely on the existing supplies to fight. Even if he could not completely annihilate Scipio this time, he would still find a way to severely damage him and let his The three legions had to withdraw from the future decisive battle in Kokula.

Wait until the Thirteenth Army Corps also arrives. Lepidus ordered that the archer brigades of the two legions be gathered together. "Divide into four teams and shoot volleys at the hillside in turn!" Immediately, the flag of the golden fly was waving everywhere under the hillside, the bowstrings were bursting, noisy like a thunderstorm, and arrows were flying from all directions. Scipio's subordinates continued to Some people screamed and fell down, but the general's veins were still bulging, and he forced his soldiers to build fortifications despite arrows. "If we are defeated here and lose all our belongings, you will be labeled as traitors by Caesar. Even if He died in battle, and he didn’t even get any compensation!”

Finally, at dusk, Lepidus surrounded Gaopo and contacted Angandinus. Scipio, with his many wounded subordinates, was in panic all day long. He wanted to select brave officers and soldiers. Break through the blockade and get in touch with Apis over there, but no matter how high the reward is, there are only very few people who take it.

After thinking about it, Scipio could only send Opimius to the enemy's camp that night to discuss a truce with Lepidus.

"Isn't it too late to discuss a truce now?" Lepidah replied with a mocking tone.

After hearing this, Opimius did not dare to say anything more. He just changed the topic and said that their morale was on the verge of collapse, but "General, your army should be running out of food, so we might as well cease the war." Two days to bury the bodies, treat the wounded, and ransom the prisoners.”

After Lepidus pondered for a while, he said to the other party, "This is not a matter that cannot be negotiated. In the previous battle, I captured thousands of wounded and captives from your army. You can spend five hundred sestes on each of them." Come to redeem me and give you a day's truce. I promise not to make a surprise attack, but on the third day, the war will start again. "

So Opimius thanked Lepidus for his generosity and went back to report the good news to his supervisor. After the other party left, Lepidus slowly placed a volume of letters on the table, and then ordered Sabo and Arp: "Tomorrow, half of you will go to exchange prisoners to collect ransom, and the other half will pack their luggage in the camp. We have to cross the streets quickly and head to Apollonia, because Caesar has just sent an urgent message, saying that Libo's fleet has re-attacked, severely damaged all our ships, and may carry two of Lycurgus's troops at any time. Legion, raid to recapture Olicum or the strong port of Dixha. Now not only our army, but also the six legions that Caesar belongs to have almost run out of military rations, so the port cannot be lost. We need people from Sicily and Gaul. of food.”

It seems that our three legions are going to "plug the leak" again. Sabo thought so and took the order. Then Arp asked his master, "If Scipio's army continues to besiege for three days, we can use it." It’s completely broken, do you really want to give up now?”

Lepidus nodded helplessly and said that I was different from Scipio. As the chief lieutenant, I had to consider the safety of the entire battle. Anyway, the two legions of the other side were also severely damaged. They could not join the Corcula battlefield. The mission of the detachment of the detachment had been completed. Now all the energy had to be returned to the siege of Corcula over there. Although Caesar "surrounded" this highland coastal city, he was actually trapped in a situation where he could not advance or retreat. Labinus had enough ships in his hands. He was at ease and could open up a battlefield in a new location at any time to contain Caesar's already stretched troops - so we had to rush back to resolve the crisis.

The day after redeeming the captives, Scipio's patrol cavalry reported the strange phenomenon they had detected: the enemy did not line up to launch a new offensive against us, and their camp was also quiet.

Scipio was still in shock and could not believe what he saw, so he sent out a team of light cavalry to not only scout around Lepidus' camp, but also to explore the surrounding valleys and mountains. Finally, he found that the enemy had already moved away in the middle of the night and there seemed to be no new ambush. (To be continued...)