Augustus Road

The military slaves in front ran the fastest. They lifted many corpses around them, and then dumped the sand into the still burning trench to extinguish the fire, paving the way for their own army's attack. , behind the legion queue, are the new light infantry of the "Lius Legion" armed with round shields and long swords. They are all equipped with fine armors that Adiana captured from the country of Colchis or forged by craftsmen. , equipped with sharp swords that are easy to stab, and are responsible for carrying out harassment and assault duties at the intervals and on both wings of the array. Now their task is to harvest - pull out their swords and stab the seriously injured enemies who are still groaning one by one.

Lepidus' retinue led the high priest and his horse to the center of the hill, where they found the enemy's fallen flag, the corpses of dead men and horses forming a hill, and the horribly injured people. Rabinus spread his legs and sat down covered in blood. He leaned on it, his eyes hanging on his cheeks, but he still raised his head and panted slightly. He didn't know if he could still see the horse riding on it. The winner is looking down at himself.

"Rabinus, can you still hear me?" Lepidus asked loudly.

Then, Rabinus nodded, as if he had been waiting for Lepidus for a long time, slowly grabbed the broken sword, and showed it to Lepidus.

"You are longing for death, are you? You are not willing to fight anymore, are you Rabienus?" Lepidus' voice actually trembled.

As if he was relieved, Labienus uttered two words of unknown meaning in a hoarse voice, and then nodded heavily.

Lepidus then glanced at Arp behind him, who then pulled out the Habaishu sword he was wearing and stepped forward. "Stop Alp. You are not qualified to take this enemy's head - let me do it." Then. Lepidus slowly stretched out his hand. Arp felt that the high priest was not good at using the curved Egyptian sword, so he took off the long sword from the belt of a passing soldier and handed it to Lepidah's hand.

"Listen Rabinus, it is I, Aemilius Lepidus, who kills you today, not any ordinary soldier or centurion."

After hearing Lepidus' words, Labienus raised his head with satisfaction. As if he was laughing, his throat was completely exposed, and then Lepidus leaned forward suddenly on the saddle and thrust the sword in his hand into his neck.

"Send the body back to the doctor in the camp behind, take off the head of Rabinus, and then burn the body with the other dead in the war, take out the heart, and send it back to his hometown of Kingulum in the future. "Bury." Lepidus ordered Arp, and then he stared at Labienus's body, then dismounted and took off his blue cloak. Carefully and solemnly, he covered his body and casually recited a poem. "Mother, I came to the enemy's midst wisely or unwisely, but everyone loves his motherland. Those who say they don't love their country are just saying it with their mouths, but what they think in their hearts is something else - La Binnus, is that so?"

At this time, after learning that their commander had died in the battle, Rabinus's men could no longer hold on. Some of them knelt down on the front line and begged for mercy, while some fled into the camp and remained there without knowing their future. More people Then he fled into the mountains next to the Tumur River. After hearing the words of the high priest, "If the enemy camp cannot be captured by sunset, I will go up myself without bothering all the generals." Six, twelve and fifteen The legion was full of shame. Despite fatigue, casualties and thirst, many soldiers and military slaves retreated their trebuchets and ballistae to the enemy's camp. They struggled to form a turtle-shell formation to protect the equipment, and then moved the enemy's equipment. After smashing the stick thrower, he used a scratching hook to pull down the wooden fence of the earthen fort. Finally, before the specified time, he invaded three of the camps and captured all the baggage and military slaves inside. Then, Rabin The rest of Nus's camps also collapsed in an instant.

The battle finally ended before sunset. Rabinus' army abandoned six thousand corpses on the battlefield, ten thousand fled, and the rest surrendered; while Lepidus lost fifteen centurions, nine cavalry captains, and nine hundred soldiers.

When everyone lined up in the enemy's fallen camp, piled up the captured military flags and trophies in the square, and cheered Lepidus' guards to enter the review, the high priest noticed that the little dove at the front was crying, "Why are you crying? ? Is it because of the joy of defeating a powerful enemy? "

"No, Fan Lundina's father is seriously injured, and the doctor is performing a craniotomy and bloodletting operation on him."

After hearing this, Lepidus was silent for a while. He was powerless against the medical skills of this era. Doctors were bold and had complete tools. It was as if Catiline's ancestors had their limbs amputated and installed fake iron hands. , they used something similar to the red wine bottle opener of later generations to perform this operation on people, but nine people died from the disease. I am afraid that the future is extremely bleak. "Do your best, little dove, and you will immediately offer a rooster and a rooster in front of the altar of the God of Medicine." A rabbit."

Then, it was time to pick up the wounded and bury the bodies. On a night with bright bonfires, all the legions rested in Labienus' camp. The next day, doctors and assistants with candles tied to their heads walked into the camp cautiously and reported to the high priest lying on the bed: "About last night's operation, we can report to your distinguished Excellency. ”

"Of course, because it's my request." Li Bida stood up tiredly and asked.

"The operation was successful. We successfully uncovered the skull and removed the blood mass." The doctor rubbed his hands and said, "However, the patient will probably never be able to speak, and his consciousness will always be controlled by the gods of sleep and Hades. take away."

Lepidus sighed, and then ordered Matthias beside him, "This is beyond the ability to force. Give the doctor three hundred dinars as a reward. Also, send 400,000 sestes to the Hybrida family. Retire him from service and let him go back to enjoy his old age."

Then, Lepidus stood up, walked out of the tent, and issued an order to all the heralds waiting there, "Send Paluma as the vanguard to lead the new cavalry army along the Tumul River to capture the enemy's movements. After getting the exact information, our army will attack across the board to annihilate them!"

About a market day later, corpses were strewn across Zama City. Paluma's cavalry regiment slowly searched the entire battlefield - the communication conditions in ancient times were so backward that Lelias's Rangers were destined to be incapable of fighting with them. The annihilated legions of Rabinus worked closely together - four days after the destruction of Rabinus, Laelias led three legions and appeared in a half-dead state thirty Roman miles outside the city of Zama. In the streets, they had no food or drinking water. Their pack animals and horses died in large numbers, and their numbers were severely reduced before the battle. Therefore, Paluma's recharged cavalry regiment easily defeated all the enemies before the main force of her adoptive father arrived. A textbook defeat was fought. (To be continued...)