Chapter 13 The Army Is Excited (Part 2)

In the morning after the night fog dissipated and dawn came, Herod once thought he had won. The Cyrenaic army opposite him had been defeated. In order to save the lives of most of the people, Phaobinas set up a rear guard. The soldiers fought fiercely with the Parthians on the hillside, but Herod believed that these tenacious Macedonians or Boeotians could no longer reverse the situation. He led his entourage on horseback and rushed towards Rome with thousands of light cavalry. He fully expected that his oven cavalry had captured this place, but a furlong away, the Roman camp suddenly fired countless arrows and slings, and the mount of Parthian Assasis was also shot He fell to death. When he changed his horse in panic, the people who escaped from the camp reported to him that the Roman right-wing cavalry had defeated his left wing and invaded and looted his camp. Some people were killed, and many more fled in all directions.

"Nasika, you idiot!" Herod screamed sharply, and then hurriedly led all the cavalry and quickly fled down the Lamiyi hillside, running in the opposite direction. What he saw along the way frightened him. There were Patti everywhere. It was then that he realized that he had lost the melee, but before he could feel upset, a group of Roman lightly-armed troops suddenly appeared from the side and threw themselves at them at a very close distance. Shooting spears and arrows, many young Parthian noble cavalry were killed and wounded at once. This was Sabo's team. They had been following the Parthian army last night, and at this time they launched an attack on the retreating monarch's guard. Raid.

At this time, even the flag bearer beside Herod was hit by arrows and fell from his horse. The Parthian king fled like a defeated lion, full of anger. And I am in constant panic all day long. All the Parthian cavalry followed him. They didn't even dare to go back to the main camp, because they saw the Lepidus cavalry carrying the trophies galloping towards here. They were inexplicably frightened. Not only did they engage in any confrontational behavior, but they fled in one breath to the small Aegila village thirty Roman miles away. In the town, after being shocked, he discovered that he had lost most of his concubines, as well as his treasures and baggage, and was captured by the Romans and took away many of his horses. After Herod counted the casualties, he found that about 2,000 to 3,000 people were killed, including hundreds of nobles and tens of thousands of servants who fled with the army.

Here, Lepidus also counted the list of soldiers. Sixty cavalry and four hundred infantry were killed in the battle, and nearly a hundred people were missing. The number of injured was three times this number, especially the Cyrene legion. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he suffered a tragic blow.

But Mount Ramii was still in his hands, so he immediately left the Cyrenaic legions in camp to replenish their troops. Let the Serapis legion be placed on the defensive line, but after waiting for three days, until they saw Antony's advance team appearing at the foot of the mountain with a target, the Parthians did not launch a retaliatory attack.

So in the rain, the Roman soldiers lined up in small teams, walked down the mountain, and began to collect and bury the bodies of the dead on both sides in the wilderness that stretched for ten or twenty Roman miles in the confrontation zone. In such humid weather, the Parthians People will not go into battle to seek bad luck because they are afraid that the bowstring will not be able to be pulled.

On that day, Herod's envoys stood in Lepidus' camp. They asked the Romans to send back some of the dead bodies, which belonged to dignitaries and royal concubines. Lepidus replied that as long as their identities were still marked, he would do so in accordance with the law. In the spirit of mercy, his or her corpse was cleaned and the soldiers were strictly prohibited from robbing the jewelry. As a result, the Parthian envoys took away a full thirty mule carts of corpses.

"But the captured eagle-head battle flag is a symbol of my victory over you. I forgive me for not being able to return it to Sir Herod. Otherwise, we can fight another day. He is fully qualified to take it back." Lepidah said with pride. In his tone, he categorically rejected the envoy's request for him to return the Parthian royal emblem, "Your chief envoy once told me that if I appeared in the city of Seleucia, hair would grow on his palms." Then. , he stood up and said to the dejected envoys in a steady tone, "Believe me, the hair will grow out soon, and the old man will be able to use this soon." Then he slowly lifted his hair from his robe. One thing came out and was placed in the envoy's hand with great care. It was a comb with a statue of the Tahr bighorn sheep...

In the town of Aegira, Herod was roaring nervously. He asked the two generals Serxis and Vaghisis to first withdraw the elite main force besieging the city of Seleuria and come to join him. War group, the first to defeat the army of the hateful Lepidus; after a while, he continued to write urgent documents and sent them to Armenia, asking the "King of Kings" (now turned into carrion torn from the mouths of vultures on the Holy Mountain) as soon as possible Send out troops and attack the Romans with him.

In short, everything was terrible for him. Even his gorgeous carriage was smashed and robbed by Roman soldiers in the previous war. Many of his expenses had to be transported from afar from Ctesiphon. .

On the other hand, Lepidus, who became famous for the Battle of Mount Lamii, won the defection of most of the barbarians between the two seas (the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea). Several Greek city-states around Chinodosia also expressed their willingness to provide ships, manpower and military supplies. Lepidus was now even more powerful than the princes of Asia Minor. After leaving the defense to Antony, he returned to Chinodosia and, together with Sabo and Peteneus, met with the barbarians who came from afar to visit him every day. These barbarian princes enthusiastically praised Lepidus as "the descendant of Rex Lius" and "the friend of Venus", and expressed their willingness to provide servants to fight for him. However, most of them were politely declined by Lepidus because he did not think these people were fully reliable. Only a tribe of Matthias from the mountainous area on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea caught his attention because Hansk, a subordinate from Germany, saw the mount of the Matthias envoy in the stable in the city and praised its beauty and strength.

"In that case, let the Matians send out a thousand light cavalry to accompany us in the battle! I can help their chieftains gain the status of Roman allies and distribute part of the spoils to them. By the way, Hansk, you will be their military supervisor. Don't let the freedom of these horse archers hinder the pace of our army." Lepidus agreed to Hansk's request easily. After properly arranging the other side's envoys, he walked to the stable under the protection of the Medjet Guards to inspect whether the mounts of these Matians were real.

As a result, Lepidus was trembling a little at the bottom of the steps, so that Alp thought the commander-in-chief saw some ominous disaster. Finally, Lepidus said slowly to the thin back of the horse stroking the horse in front of the stable, "Long time no see, Helenputina." (To be continued...)