Chapter 65 Hasdrubal

"Yes, my lord."

"Maxims!" A middle-aged man in a white robe walked towards him.

"Copanis." After seeing who was coming, Maximus immediately showed a smile on his face: "Just after a battle yesterday, you were not in the medical rescue to treat the wounded soldiers, and you came here to hang out, not afraid of being hurt by Haas. Lord Drogba's criticism?"

"There were not many wounded in yesterday's battle, and the injuries were not serious. Only one doctor and two nurses were needed to deal with it, and I didn't need to treat myself at all. I was bored after staying in the medical camp for a long time. I came out today. Let’s get some air and take care of the soldiers in training. Commander Hasdrubal saw it and praised me for being responsible.” Kopanis said with a bit of contentment.

According to the current requirements of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the director of the regiment medical battalion must be a doctor who graduated from the medical school of Dionia Academy, has been a doctor for more than ten years, and has rich experience in emergency treatment. However, because the frontier army is long-term in the northern border of Etruria, and is always in danger, unlike the regular army, as long as the war is over, the medical staff can go home, and the usual military training and training will basically not call them. Therefore, for these senior doctors of Dionia, who have established a family and a good life, they are basically unwilling to serve as the director of the frontier army medical camp.

Therefore, the Ministry of Military Affairs had to lower the qualifications for the head of the medical battalion of the Border Corps, and prepared to take half-year rotations, so there were not many doctors who signed up. Kopanis has only been a doctor for 5 years after graduating from the academy, and he is less than 30 years old. The reason why he was selected by the Ministry of Military Affairs is that, in addition to his medical skills, his willingness to serve in the frontier army for a long time is an important reason. .

Because he is young, he occasionally does some outrageous things, but because he has led the medical staff to do a lot of things over the past year, everyone has been tolerant of this.

Maximus smiled and said nothing.

However, Kopanis restrained his smile and said sternly: "Yesterday I received news from Pisay that a batch of herbs, bandages... and other medical supplies will be delivered from Rome in a few days. I need a pack team to arrive. Pick it up from the port of Pisay."

A Dionysian legion generally has a relatively large pack team, which has 300-500 laborers, 150-200 pack animals such as cattle, horses, and donkeys, and 80-150 pack carts. It looks like a lot, but every time the legion marches, there are a lot of materials that need to be transported in the baggage battalion, engineering battalion, and medical care battalion. In fact, the transportation capacity is relatively tight. Since the transportation battalion accounts for the bulk of the transportation and has many transportation tasks, and the transportation officer has more management skills than the medical director and the engineering director, in order to facilitate management and command, the Ministry of Military Affairs has already made a regulation before the Western Mediterranean War: the legion pack The team is assigned to the baggage battalion and is managed by the baggage officer. The engineering battalion and the medical and nursing camp have transportation needs, and the baggage officer must arrange for it.

So Maximus asked directly: "How many medical supplies are there?"

"About a ton...well, maybe two tons..." Kopanis stammered: "You know, the medical camp has been here for more than a year, and its supplies have been replenished once, but there are often Wounded Soldier... Now we're running out of herbs and bandages—"

"How many supplies are there? I can't remember, but you can give an approximate number." Maximus said angrily. After spending a year with this young man, he knew that this guy was not sensitive to numbers.

This time, Kopanis spoke fluently: "I heard that there are two cargo ships coming."

After thinking for a while, Maxim said, "I'll send you thirty pack trucks, but for safety, I have to apply for a company from the Hasdrubadans as a escort."

"What to apply to me?" Hasdrubal had already come to their side at some point.

Maximus and Kopanis immediately explained the situation to Hasdruba.

Hasdruba nodded in agreement, and then asked, "Masimus, have the rations that the Etruscans promised us delivered every year?"

Maximus immediately explained the situation to him again.

Hasdruba frowned immediately: "This is not good, you must hurry up and let them bring the food as soon as possible."

"Yes, Lord Legionnaire!" After Maximus responded loudly, he asked in a slightly suspicious voice, "Is there something wrong?"

Hasdruba hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to tell his guesses to make them vigilant: "Autumn is the harvest season, and it is also the time when the indigenous people are looting. According to the Etriruria people, In the past, the Gauls were the most rampant at this time, but this year, the invasion of the Gauls has decreased, which is a bit unusual.

These days, the soldiers of the mountain reconnaissance team came back and reported that the Gauls tribes in the northern mountains and adjacent to us had all suddenly moved northward. They wanted to go further north to scout, but the Gauls increased their vigilance there and increased The manpower was lost, resulting in the death and injury of several reconnaissance soldiers, and no more information was obtained, but the situation is so abnormal, I am afraid it is not a good thing, we must be vigilant and prepare for defense! …”

After chatting with the two subordinates, Hasdruba ran to the heavy infantry and led the soldiers in training.

"Lord Hasdruba thinks too much, maybe it's because our existence makes the Gauls feel that the price of looting here is too high, so they change places." Kopanis said disapprovingly.

Maximus glanced at him and said seriously: "If this is the case, the Gauls will not be the most terrifying enemies in the eyes of the various ethnic groups in northern Italy. Hurry up and bring your supplies back, maybe next We'll be busy..."

As a Roman who has personally experienced the capture of his home country by the Gauls, Maximus is well aware of the horror of the Gauls. Although he expected Hasdrubal's intuition to be wrong, his reason tells him that the Gauls are terrifying. No amount of vigilance can be overstated.

As dusk approached, Hasdrubal gathered his army and returned to the barracks in the afterglow of the setting sun.

The first thing the soldiers did when they returned to the barracks was not to eat dinner, but to take a shower in the bathroom. When the engineers selected the site for the frontier army camp, they chose it beside a river. During the construction, they also buried a pottery water pipe between the camp and the river, so that the river water can be directly drained into the camp, and some of it can be used for drinking. Part of it is used for bathing.

The legion commander's mansion is next to the central headquarters of the barracks. It has a large area and has its own kitchen, dining room, master bedroom, secondary bedroom, servants' dormitory, stables, and a small private bathroom... It can be said to be relatively Extravagant, mainly because the Ministry of Military Affairs allows the family of the legionnaire to accompany the army, which will inevitably follow some servants.

But in fact, Hasdruba stayed here for more than a year and never let his wife and children live in the military camp for a period of time, so there are only two servants to take care of his daily life, and even meals are mostly in group Dining room. In order to keep the mansion from being wasted, he also allowed the adjutant and several senior officers to live in. From time to time, he would go hunting in the mountains. If he caught a lot of prey, he would hold a small banquet in the mansion and invite the subordinates of the legion and the middle and senior officers to participate.

But today, there are only two people in the dining room of the mansion - Hasdrubal and his lieutenant, Kisgow.

Even though Kithgo was a member of the Margonid family, he once led an army of tens of thousands of people to fight alone, but it was not an easy task to become an adjutant of the Dionian Legion, because according to military law: the legion An adjutant is a mid-level officer who must have more than 5 years of service experience, participated in at least one war, served as a squad leader, a division leader, or even a company leader, and then studied for a year in the staff of the Ministry of Military Affairs before becoming a corps adjutant. It was only because of Hasdruba's insistence and Davos' special approval that Kisgo became the adjutant of the Etruscan Frontier Corps after several months of special training.

At this time, Hasdrubal was reading the letter, and he raised his head in amazement: "Carthage and Dionia formed an alliance?!"

"It's not an equal alliance, it's Carthage that is dominated by Dionysius!" Kisgow reminded.

"Ah?!" Hasdruba was stunned for a moment, and then his face became a little more angry: "Last year I heard Haka talk about this in Turui, and after Okriton returned, the Carthaginian Senate has not been closed. In response, I thought they became tougher this time, but I didn't expect... I didn't expect to be weaker than before! It's a shame for us Carthaginians!"

"I heard Dido say that the reason why Carthage agreed this time was because the Seventeenth Legion sent by the Ministry of War (the camp was in Liliba, and the troops came from the western region of Sicily) easily wiped out the rebellious Masili tribe. , demoted all the captives of his tribe into slaves, and distributed his land to other tribes in Western Numibia... The Carthaginian Senate must be terrified, afraid that it will become the second Marsili, so Voluntarily request an alliance with Dionia—"

"Fear of death!" Hasdrubal snorted coldly, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "How did Carthage deal with people like Hanno and Taipanlako?"

"According to our request, he was expelled from the city of Carthage!"

"Just expelling these damned guys is too cheap!" Hasdrubal was not satisfied with this, he immediately asked again: "How did Dido react to this news?"

In the past, in southern Iberia, Hasdruba was busy fighting all day, and did not see each other for many years. Although the two were cousins, they were not close until he led the legion and stationed in Etruria. After the northern border of Asia, they were very close to Dido, who lived in Rome. Because they were both in a foreign country, their family relationship became precious, and the two of them increased their contacts (mainly Dido provided help and support). The relationship quickly improved.