"When we meet with an enemy, we usually give advice rather than advice, knowing that we can bring inevitable destruction and also give peace and freedom." —Belisarius

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The first brigade of the Twelfth Legion had lived and died with the commander-in-chief in Lusitania and Gaul in Lusitania and Gaul according to the road map provided by Sabo, and according to the road map provided by Sabo, the first brigade of the Twelve Legions had lived and died with the commander-in-chief in Lusitania and Gaul, and they were advancing with the cavalry at a speed of fifteen miles per hour and terrifying endurance.

The rear team of Hybrida was able to erect a supply relay point at the intersection of the two marching routes with a simple wooden fence and erect the relevant flags to facilitate Peternius' pack horses and camel caravans to keep up, "It all depends on the efficiency and efforts of this guy who stayed in the camp in Edom!" Hybrida spat at the ground, and watched as the saliva turned into invisible, and the desert sun rose unobstructed, and they were about to set up siege camp five Roman miles from Perusim, and many slaves wore short shirts, carried timber for siege equipment, and wore cloaks to cover the sun, and ran in sweat, not only for Commander Lybida's "Break the city of Alexandria, and liberate all men into free men, and be distributed to the land in Egypt by Pharaoh, In addition, the Legion gave each of them a one-time reward of two hundred and fifty drachmas" (although it was not a year or two to fight with General Lypida, who never broke his word), and was even more afraid of the damned battlefield - behind which was the kingdom of the eccentric Jews. Ahead is a deserted sea of sand. And the brutal Egyptian enemy army. Even if you want to desert, it's a dead end!

About eight miles away from Perusim, the Thirteenth Legion was confronted by the defenders' sortie, a guerrillan army of archers and light cavalry. Then let me prove that I can command more than just a hundred-man team, I can also lead a brigade or even a legion to fight like a noble tribune! ”

"General Peternius is not at the front, and the command is in the possession of my chief centurions, and at my command, all centurions shall immediately return to the front of their respective centurions, with three infantry brigades covering two archery brigades to block the enemy guerrillas, and two infantry brigades to protect the cavalry artillery. Left in reserve - I personally took a brigade of a thousand men and inserted it into the corner of the fortress of Perusim. Capture the enemy's outer eye fort and go on! "Haybrida stood in front of the billowing sand, and after looking at the distant fortress and the guerrillas shouting from the enemy, he gathered all the centurions, and after giving this order very clearly, he put on his helmet and slashed his short sword forward.

"Penteius, Arminius, you are in the Valhalla of the God of War Temple, you are coveting the glory of your brother, and the last one to make a name for the triad is to belong to Gohibrida!"

"The enemy is a slash attack, the enemy is a slash attack!" Perusimus's light cavalry was the first to discover the 1,000-strong brigade of the Thirteenth Legion like a raptor, and the slightly dirty lion banner, which was not at all like the style of the Romans, who would not set up camp first, but rushed directly in the contact battle, and the Egyptian light cavalry, aware of the opponent's intentions, collectively bent and prepared to pursue Hybrida in parallel.

At this time, in the smoke and dust on the opposite side, three brigades of Roman infantry rushed out shouting, some were covered with Celtic coarse cloth cloaks, some were wearing the Egyptian natives of Knu white light armor, and some were wearing the locks and bowl-shaped helmets of the Roman legions, they rushed behind the figures, and countless arrows flew out from the ash and sand smoke, and immediately shot a wave of light cavalry and the infantry that followed, this is the subsidiary archer brigade of the Thirteenth Legion, and soon the light archers of the Egyptian side, each relying on their own infantry, The rain of arrows in mid-air came and went, and the entire battlefield was full of murderous aura and sand storms stirred up by the scuffle of all sides.

While Hybrida's thousand-man squad had made an all-out assault on the outskirts of the fortress of Perusim, some of the laborers were still resting by the "half-finished" trenches, drinking the beers supplied by the defenders, and the Romans howled, and hastened their pace within a distance of five hundred Roman feet, and with their throwing javelins, they had many of them in the trenches, and then they were all scattered, and then drew their swords and climbed up like ants along the ramparts of the Eye Fort—Hybrida ordered no hesitation.

According to the results of yesterday's reconnaissance, although the fortress of Perusim has a very complete defense, but the wall of the fortress is very special, compared with Italy and Greece, the masonry of Egypt is relatively soft, and it cannot be built into a vertical wall body, so that when it encounters rain, it will collapse helplessly, so the Egyptian army uses splints, masonry and mud to mix the fortification surface into a thick slope similar to a pyramid, and the angle is small, so the Romans are desperate to directly "climb the wall and attack", The first elite soldiers to rush up, after stabbing to death the enemy archers on it, threw their corpses like rain, and then threw ropes downward, and one by one the follow-up soldiers directly pulled the ropes and stepped on the inclined wall, quickly captured the three or four eye forts on the periphery, and began to shoot at each other with the defenders on the inner core battlements.

About two hours later, Perusimus's guerrillas were also defeated under the rain of arrows and arrows of the Romans, they did not expect that the Roman legions would be equipped with so many slingers and archers, they were arranged on the two wings of the front, holding the banner of the centipede, and the infantry under the banner of the golden fly was very tacitly coordinated, the powerful projection and damage, and the short assault of the infantry, so that the Egyptian army with little or no armor could not endure it any longer.

In the evening, there was a sound of trumpets, and there were arrows and torches thrown by both sides everywhere, and the eight cavalry cannons also arrived under the newly captured eye forts in Highbrida, and the four gates were unloaded along the line, and the military slaves drove dozens of camels full of loads to run, and the gunners took out stone bullets from the kneeling camels' jackets, and began to fight with a bang, and the defenders were clamoring, and also moved the focus of bow and crossbow shooting to the other side, but since the Gallic War, according to Sabokemus's improvement plan, all the cavalry cannons were installed with bronze shields in front of them, So even though it was filled with Egyptian arrows made of reed rods (lighter and longer-ranged, but with limited lethality), the shot was still vigorous, and it was never pulled down, even if there were only four gates, and the great tower of the gate of Perusim crumbled.

The other four gates were dismantled at the opportunity, and the soldiers temporarily set up improvised pulleys at the Eye Fort, hung them one by one, and then assembled them, and condescendingly bombarded the walls and towers of Perusim. (To be continued......)