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Chapter 65 Hasdrubal

"Yes, sir."

"Massims!" A middle-aged man in a white robe walked towards this side.

"Copanis." After seeing the person clearly, Masims immediately smiled: "A battle just took place yesterday. You are not in the medical camp to treat the injured soldiers. You are here to stroll around. Are you not afraid of being criticized by Lord Hasdrogba?"

"There were not many wounded people in yesterday's battle, and the injuries were not serious. Only one doctor and two nurses could handle it. I didn't need to treat it myself. I was so bored after staying in the medical camp for a long time. Today I came out to take some breath and take care of the soldiers who were training. The commander of the Hasdruba Legion saw it and praised me for being responsible." Copanis said with some serene satisfaction.

According to the requirements of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the head of the Legion Medical Battalion must be a doctor who graduated from the Medical College of Dionysia Academy, has been practicing medicine for more than ten years, and has rich experience in emergency treatment. However, since the Border Legion has been on the northern border of Etruscans for a long time and is always in danger. Unlike the regular Legion, medical staff can go home as long as the war is over, and the usual military training will basically not summon them. Therefore, for these senior doctors of Dionys who have already started their families and have a wealth of life, they are basically unwilling to serve as the head of the Medical Battalion of the Border Legion.

Therefore, the Ministry of Military Affairs had to lower the position of the head of the medical battalion of the Border Corps and was preparing to take a half-year rotation. There were not many doctors who registered like this. After graduating from the academy, Copanis had only been in the medical field for five years and was less than 30 years old. The reason why he was selected by the Ministry of Military Affairs was not only a good medical skill level, but his willingness to serve in the Border Corps for a long time was an important reason.

Because he is young, he occasionally does something extraordinary, but because he has indeed done a lot of things to lead the medical staff over the past year, everyone has remained tolerant of this.

Masims smiled and said nothing.

Copanis smiled calmly and said seriously: "Yesterday I received a message from Pisai that in a few days Rome will transport a batch of herbs, bandages... and other medical supplies. I need a team to pick up the Pisai port."

A legion in Dionia generally has a relatively large load team, which has 300-500 laborers, 150-200 cattle, horses, donkeys and other load animals, and 80-150 carts. It seems that there are a lot of numbers, but every time the legion advances, the baggage battalion, engineering battalion, and medical battalion have a large amount of materials to be transported, but in fact the transportation capacity is relatively tight. Since the baggage battalion accounts for the majority of transportation and has many transportation tasks, the baggage officer has more management skills than the medical supervisor and engineering supervisor. In order to make it easier to manage and command, the Ministry of Military Affairs had already made regulations before the Western Mediterranean War: the legion's pack teams were assigned to the baggage battalion, and the baggage officer was responsible for the management. The engineering battalion and medical battalion had transportation needs, and the baggage officer must arrange for the solution.

So Masims asked directly: "How much medical resources are there?"

"It's about one ton...well, maybe two tons..." Copanis 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 soldiers... Now the herbs and bandages are almost used up-"

"How much supplies are there? I can't remember it, so I can give you a rough number." Masims said angrily. After spending a year with this young man, he knew that this guy was not sensitive to numbers.

Copanis spoke smoothly: "I heard that two cargo ships are coming."

Maxim thought for a moment and said, "I will send you thirty carts, but for safety, I have to apply for a company to serve as an escort from the Hasdrubadas."

"What to apply to me?" At some point, Hasdruba had already arrived at them.

Masims and Copanis immediately explained the situation to Hasdruba.

Hasdruba nodded and asked again, "Masims, have the Etruscans promised to ship the military rations for us every year?"

Masims immediately explained the situation to him again.

Hasdruba immediately frowned: "This is not possible. You must urge them to get all the food in order to get them as soon as possible."

"Yes, Lord Legion!" After responding loudly, Masims asked softly with a little suspicion: "Is there anything wrong?"

Hasdruba hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to express his guesses, making them wary: "Autumn is the season of harvest and the time for indigenous people to loot. According to the Etriruria, the Gauls were the most rampant at this time in the past, but until now, the invasion of the Gauls has decreased, which seems a bit abnormal.

These days, soldiers from the mountain reconnaissance team came back and reported that the Gaul tribes adjacent to us in the north suddenly moved north. They wanted to go deeper to the north to investigate, but the Gauls strengthened their vigilance there and increased their manpower, resulting in several reconnaissance soldiers killed and injured, and did not receive any more information. However, the situation is so abnormal, it is probably not a good thing. We must be vigilant and prepare for defense!..."

After chatting with his two subordinates for a few words, Hasdruba went to the heavy infantry and led the soldiers to train.

"Lord Hasdruba is thinking too much. Maybe it's because our existence makes the Gauls feel that the price of looting here is too high, so they changed the place." Copanis said disapprovingly.

Masims glanced at him and said seriously: "If this is the case, the Gauls would not be the most terrible enemy in the eyes of all races in northern Italy. Hurry up and transport your supplies back, maybe we will be busy next..."

As a Roman who had personally experienced the capture of the mother state by the Gauls, Masims knew the horror of the Gauls. Although he expected Hasdruba's intuition to be wrong, reason could not be too much of a warning to the Gauls.

It was almost dusk that Hasdruba gathered his troops and returned to the barracks in the afterglow of the sunset.

The first thing the soldiers did when they returned to the barracks was not to have dinner, but to take a bath in the bathroom. When the engineers selected the site for the Border Army camp, they specially chose a river next to a river. During the construction, they specially buried pottery water pipes between the barracks and the rivers, which could directly drain the river water into the barracks, and some were used for bathing.

The legion commander's mansion is next to the command center of the military camp. It is large in area and has its own exclusive kitchen, dining room, master bedroom, secondary bedroom, slave dormitory, stable, and a small private bathroom... It can be said that it is quite luxurious. The Ministry of Military Affairs allows the legion commander's family to follow the army, so that he will inevitably follow some slaves.

But in fact, Hasdruba has been here for more than a year and has never let his wife and children live in the military camp for a while. Therefore, there are only two slaves who usually take care of his daily life, and even eat in a collective restaurant. In order not to waste this mansion, he also allowed the adjutant and several senior officers to live in. He would go to the mountains to hunt from time to time. If he caught a lot of prey, he would hold a small banquet in the mansion and invite subordinates of the army and middle and senior team officials to attend.

But today, there are only two people in the residence's restaurant - Hasdruba and his adjutant Kisgo.

Even though Kisgo was a member of the Margonid family, he once led an army of tens of thousands of people alone to fight, but it was not easy to become an adjutant of the Dionys Legion, because according to military law, the adjutant of the Legion is an intermediate officer. He must have more than 5 years of service experience, participated in at least one war, served as a squad leader, a squad leader, and even a company leader, and then studied for one year in the Staff Office of the Military Affairs Department before he could become an adjutant of the Legion. It was only because of Hasdruba's insistence and Davers' special approval that Kisgo became an adjutant of the Etrus Frontier Legion after several months of special training.

At this time, Hasdruba was reading the letter, and he raised his head in shock: "Carthage and Dionia form an alliance?"

"It is not an equal alliance, but Carthage is dominated by Dionyha!" Kisgo reminded.

"Ah?!" Hasdruba was stunned, and then there was a little more anger on his face: "Last year, when he heard Haka talk about this in Turiyi, after Ocredon returned, the Carthage Senate had not responded. He thought they had become tough this time, but he didn't expect... he didn't expect to be weaker than before! He was simply a shame to our Carthage people!"

"I heard from Dido that Carthage agreed this time because the 17th Army sent by the Ministry of Military Affairs (the military camp was in Lilibi, and the source of the troops came from the western part of Sicily) easily destroyed the rebellious Masili tribe, demoted all the captives of its tribe to slaves, and distributed all its land to other tribes in Sinumibia... The Senate of Carthage must have been frightened, afraid that it would become the second Masili, so he took the initiative to demand an alliance with Dionia-"

"Greedy and afraid of death!" Hasdruba snorted coldly, suddenly remembered something again, and asked, "How did Carthage deal with Hannor, Tapanrako?"

"As we ask, expelled from Carthage!"

"Just expulsion, it's too cheap for these damn guys!" Hasdruba was not satisfied with this, and he immediately asked again: "How did Dido react when he knew the news?"
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