After saying these words, Li Bida turned around and looked silently at the statue of the goddess Patina standing in the municipal hall, she was by no means like the statue of Athena in Delos, nor like the statue of Venus in Cyprus in accordance with the Greco-Roman aesthetics, but a stout, ugly, one-eyed woman statue, according to legend, this is the daughter of the cyclops, and now she is also revered by cities such as Salona, quietly looking at her huge eyes, Li Bida silently said in his heart: "I hope Caesar can gain a foothold on the southern seashore, It's good to reduce some of the pressure on this side. ”

At this moment, in the interior and suburbs of the whole city, the violent wind blew again, and it seemed that the sea, after a short rest, was about to stir up a storm with the infinite energy of the Trident of the Sea God—that is to say, Antony's follow-up troops at Brindisi, and his own main army at Ravenna, would not come to reinforcements for a short time, and everything depended on the forces at hand.

Fortunately, Caesar won the gamble again, and he made everyone march against the strong wind, ignoring any attack by Pompey's army, and approached the city of Apollonia, when Byblos, two lieutenants, Lipo and Maximus, happened to sail with the fleet to search for his convoy, so Caesar did not use force, but sent a letter to the garrison officer Stubly and the city council of elders at the same time, in the name of "all the tribunes and the people, the legitimately elected consul and Dictador", Ask them to "help" themselves as much as they can and make the city his stopover.

The reaction in the city was very different, and Stubly, a member of Pompey's party, immediately brought water, grain, and masonry to the Acropolis. and began to send guards to hunt down the nobles in the city as hostages, but the Apollonian Presbyterians collectively decided to welcome Caesar. "What else can we do when there is a civil strife in the city of Rome? Of course, it depends on who occupies the power to issue the decree, last year this power was undoubtedly in the hands of Pompey, but now that the city of Rome is in the hands of Caesar, then we will listen to Caesar. In this way, the citizens spontaneously formed an army and surrounded the acropolis. Refusing to fight under Stubley any longer, the officer, seeing that the tide was turning, fled with his guards. Then the presbytery went out of the city and handed the key into Caesar's hands as a sign of obedience.

After the surrender of Apollonia, the towns around Bilisi and Amandia also pledged allegiance. Finally, the port of Dikhachan in the north. He also expelled Pompey's garrison officers, saying that he had defected to Caesar's side.

The three legions led by Gabinus, who were preparing along the avenue to rescue the surrounding cities, could only retreat to Delphi and prepare for the winter camp to compete with Caesar in the coming year. As for Byblos's fleet, it was retreated to Kocula and regrouped. Look for the right moment to go to sea and volley, according to Byblos's words. "The sea is still ours!" After restocking himself with dry wood, fresh water, and food, Byblos set sail from the city of Cocula, which had the most complete docks and warehouses, and was joined by nearly a hundred ships on Corfu. They then succeeded in intercepting Caesar's convoy at a distance of forty miles from the sea, about thirty ships, most of them requisitioned flat-bottomed boats, with no combat ships, so that Byblos's fleet sank five of them without much effort, and captured all the others, like a giant shark breaking into a school of sardines.

"Check the decks and cabins for armed soldiers and horses!" Byblos, on the bridge, asked in a hoarse voice, panting, for his body had not yet healed.

In a few moments, the thirty ships were empty, and they were quietly returning to the port of Brindisi after seeing Caesar's army land.

"This means that Caesar has only brought in half of his men and horses, and a considerable number of men, waiting for the return of this fleet in Brindisi - or rather, if I slaughter these crews, Caesar will have no more tricks, and he will only sit on the shore and wait for death!" Byblos thought of this, laughed and screamed like a demon, and then coughed so loudly that he almost coughed up blood, and his lungs were already like a sieve, as his health care physician had said, "Kill, kill them all, and sacrifice to the god of the sea." ”

Then the massacre began, and the shipowners and Caesar's officials were specially chosen to be bloodily beheaded, decapitated, or killed on deck with iron hooks to the anus and intestines pulled out, and the bodies were thrown into the sea. Probably tired of it, Byblos ordered the rest of the crew to be locked in the bilges of several ships, and rockets were fired at the ships, torches were thrown, and everyone and all the ships were burned to ashes.

"I'm planning a new cruising route to prevent similar mistakes from happening." Byblos lay on the bridge and dictated to Officer Token, "A third of the ships are deployed between Satsong and Kulicum in case the enemy lands further south; A third of them, led by Maximus, Vespílo and Mirocius, are moving in an arc between Corfu and Olicum, and even if Caesar captures several harbor cities, we still have the strength to seal them off. The last third, led by me and Lipo, cruised the seas and prepared for an opportune assault on Brindisi. ”

Thus, under the attack of Byblos, Caesar lost all his mobile fleet, but now he could not take care of so much, and taking advantage of the fact that Pompey's main army had returned to Delphi, he was also determined to make contact with Lypida's detachment and open the way, and sent a sternly worded letter to Antony, Eulabella, and Tellureas, who were still in Brindisi, asking them to cross the sea with their soldiers at any cost, if the weather permitted, "whatever means of crossing the sea are used, even if it is swimming." ”

Then, in bad weather, Caesar personally selected 4,000 soldiers, including 500 cavalry, and groped his way towards the city of Olicum.

At this time, Lelias's attack on Salona had already begun, and he did build five siege towers according to Macchius's suggestion, but he made minor adjustments in their positions - three were used to besiege the Latin Hills, two were facing the walls of Salona, and the chief brigade was placed in the middle with three infantry brigades to cut off the connection between the two, and continued to use the "Samontoga" and the stone thrower to destroy the half of the wall and not give Lybita a chance to repair it.

In addition, about 2,000 Librna barbarians, after dragging their light boats into caves by the sea and hiding, also went ashore and threatened the Latin Mountains behind them, so that the elite troops of Libida on the mountain were besieged. (To be continued......)