Chapter 23: The Hinkley Man Part II

At last, the Sinclaves relented, and under the command of the chief Mukuas, a group of light horsemen pounced on Li Pida's "proud work", and the artillery soldiers could only climb back onto the two-wheeled carriage in embarrassment, and the rest of the military slaves hurriedly re-fastened the ballista with copper chains, and then connected to the yoke, and under the cover of several ala-cavalry, they turned back, and then left the battlefield with the roar of the wheels!

At this point, the first battlefield practice of the "Li Bida Cavalry Artillery" began in a vigorous manner, jammed in an unexpected way, and then driven away in an embarrassed way.

Well, summing up the lessons and improving them will be a matter for later, at least the appearance of this cavalry cannon made the Hinclaves very unhappy, they felt that the performance of this Roman army was extremely strange compared to the other Romans, and it was very unsettling, and they did not know what would happen soon. In addition, at this time, the sky was overcast, the lead clouds were hanging their wings, and the cold wind was raging again, sweeping large chunks of snowflakes on the ground, making it impossible to discern the direction, so the two sides could only temporarily stop fighting. Li Bida let his subordinates blow the horn easily, and withdrew the team to the small camp in an orderly manner, where there was plenty of grain and charcoal for heating and keeping out the cold.

But what happened to the Sinclai was miserable, they wore the Iberian jackets, stepped in the snow, and kept warm with fallen horses, and they lived in settlements with no food, no water, no walls and ditches against the wind and snow and the enemy, and Mukuas had to have everyone light torches, burn wood removed from the houses to keep warm, and everyone walked around in circles and drank the wine they brought with them. and scrub the mount's body with wine. Prevent them from falling down and dying. One way or another. Even if all the people in these two settlements were thrown and frozen, Mukuas was determined to flee tomorrow or the day after!

In the same night, a young aristocratic hostage from his cell, from Oktrabo further afield (the settlement on which the Sinclaves now depended was Elisana), was sent to the settlement on the condition that his tribe would be provided with adequate rations of clothing and food after the war, and asked him to send a message to the settlement and make them wait for his signal.

Meantime. Li Bida also asked Saab Kimus and Hortenhuus Jr. to lead two selected hundred-man teams along the lake and the dense forest to cut off the passage between the Sinclaves back to the tribe. Then, at dawn, Lypita attacked Elisanna, and the Roman soldiers approached the Hinclare warriors, who had been tormented in the snow and cold that night, and the trumpeters gathered together and blew a sharp and terrible sound as the moon projected. The shadow of the Roman soldier was stretched forward, causing panic and miscalculation to the Hinclave. They could not discern the true distance of the Romans, only in the illusion of snow and shadows, they threw the javelins in their hands indiscriminately, but they all landed at the feet of the soldiers of Libida, and then the stragglers and infantry of Libida rushed forward in a concentrated manner, throwing several waves of sharp javelin rain, and the people and horses of the Sinclair tribe fell down in grief, and at this time, in the direction of Octabo, there was also a large crowd of people with torches, shouting like a tidal wave, and then Mukuas, who was worried that he had fallen into a trap and being flanked, stepped onto his mount, Shamefully began to flee.

These scurrying Sinclare were slaughtered by two hundred-strong teams of Saab Kemus in the passes and dense forests, and these soldiers hid in the woods on both sides, and in pairs they held Celtic spears with spiral spear tips, and stabbed in the direction of the figures and fires outside the forest, once the spiral spear tip pierced the body of a man or horse, it would cause a tear-type wound, a wound enough to make people sick—when Mukuas's own soldiers had fled, he ran to the end of the pass with the shadow of the moon and the rising dawn, Finding an obstacle made of fallen trees, he abandoned his horse, flipped over with his hands and feet, and continued to flee on foot.

In the morning, when the battlefield was counted, Li Bida had killed more than 300 barbarians, captured nearly 500 horses, and more than 100 seriously wounded Hinclaves, sitting or lying on the snow, spilling dark blood, and slowly dying like dark statues.

About half a day later, Mukuas burned down his camp and fled to Lusitania, and the strength and prestige of the Sinclare tribe were devastated, and the other nine small tribes of the settlement, all of which were originally subordinate to him, sent messengers of beggar peace, and crouched at the feet of the Viceroyalty of Far Spain, willing to provide blood taxes for the Viceroyalty of Far Spain, and Lybida also ordered each of their tribes to hand over a hundred sturdy men, plus ten noble hostages, and detain them in the winter camp of Kimira, although these tribes felt a little harsh, But I had to do it respectfully.

When he returned to Kimira, he had almost a thousand more Iberians in his hands, and he would half-jokingly tell Sabo that he had finally completed a quarter of Caesar's task, and that most of these Iberian warriors had brought their own equipment, most of them wore light leather busts, only a round bronze cuirass with a belt on his chest, a leather or bronze helmet, and a Spanish broadsword and a small round shield, which Sabo Kemus called CohortesCetratae, or "Setratae". A type of Spanish short-shield infantry that had served Rome in the Punic Wars, and their formations were more focused on flexibility and toughness than tactical and Roman infantry.

"These Setratai soldiers need to be enriched with our non-commissioned officers, and teach them to abandon the barbarians' aggressive habits and learn to be stoic and obedient, just like my slave-born soldiers." Then, Li Bida asked Sabo Kaimus to divide the 1,000 Setratai soldiers into two detachments, each team of 500 people, which could cooperate with each other to carry out tactics, and asked his subordinates to spend a month in Kimela to train these Setratai soldiers to the effect.

"Your Excellency, in a month we will advance to the west of Vidonny, where we will encounter more bandits and Lusitanian enemies." On the school field of the winter camp, looking at the barbarian soldiers marching in and out, Sabo asked Li Bida.

Li Bida instructed the non-commissioned officer with a gilded baton, and then said: "No, we will go to Betnari at the end of winter, and you will go back to Italy in the next two days to help Habaruka cash in the spoils of war, and then stuff them into the luggage of the soldiers." ”

What the? Betnari, the heart of Spain, northeast of New Carthage and Sagantan, but there were no barbarians at all hostile to Rome, and the settlements there were nominally within the jurisdiction of the Spanish provinces, and the fact was that the chiefs and elders there were all loyal to Pompey's family or subordinates, and now that you were the treasurer of Caesar, what are you doing there? (To be continued......)