"General, Sextus and Rabienus were defeated. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThree legions, all annihilated. ”

On the Apollo coast of Greece, the white marble luxury villas are blown by the sea breeze in the middle of summer, and it was supposed to be a sunny and beautiful day. But when the telecommunications cavalry passed this Spanish report to Gnaeus? When Pompey looked at it, the famous general of the Roman Republic couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

Pompey stood in the sunlight outside the villa, looking at the boundless sea, and his heart was like cold water. Perhaps as Séctus's father, Pompey already knew that his son would eventually be unable to resist the attack of Caesar's Gallic legions, but what Pompey did not expect was that with the help of Rabienus, Séctus would still give Spain to Antony so quickly.

"How about Sextus and Rabienus?"

Pompey looked at the nervous faces of the cavalry and asked expressionlessly.

"His Excellency Sektus is safe, but Rabienus has been captured by Antony."

The cavalry replied tremblingly.

Pompey, however, just stood there, sighing helplessly.

"Call Sextus back, take the three hundreds, and fetch him along the west coast of Africa."

Hearing such news, Pompey reluctantly gave the order to withdraw his troops from Spain. In fact, this is only the first step in the entire chessboard of the veteran general. The worst Pompey had given the Spanish defenders was that they would hold on for only three months, and in three months, Pompey would be able to use the wealth of the Senate to regroup his legions in Greece. Of course, it would have been more beneficial for the Spanish army to hold back Caesar's legions longer. And now, although Sextus was defeated, he dragged Caesar's six legions for four months, and it was considered to have achieved his goal. It's just that this result is the worst that Pompey expected. In general, it did not disrupt the global deployment of the Roma star.

And now, since his son has not been harmed, it is naturally best to return to him as soon as possible.

But when Pompey gave such an order, he noticed that the Spanish cavalry who had come to report the battle had an embarrassed expression. He didn't take a step to leave.

"Say, Sextus, what does he want?"

Pompey quickly guessed the reason and asked directly about the cavalry.

"General Sextus, he wants to raise more money from you, he wants to recruit a new legion to defeat Antony and Appis."

The cavalry forced himself to compose himself, straightened up with the posture of a soldier, and then read it aloud, conveying the meaning of Sextus in Spain. After all, after saying this, his mission is completed. And then, the cavalry also knew that what they were waiting for would be Pompey's fury.

"You've just done your duty, soldier, and I'm not going to be angry with you. But you have to go back with three hundreds, not my gold. Take my handwritten letter with me and tell Sextus that I want him to withdraw. The untrained recruits were a bunch of rice bags, uncombatable, who told him that our journey in Spain was over. ”

Pompey said, turning back to his study, where the servant brought quills and papyrus.

In the soft light, Pompey, dressed in loose robes, wrote the letter in his own handwriting, and then handed it to the horsemen who were nervous outside the room.

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"No, my father he can't do that, I can't give up Spain, Octavia is still in Antony's hands. I had to go get her back. I need enough gold to organize a new legion. I have to go and save her! ”

A month later, when Sextus received a letter from his father in Spain, he was undoubtedly bitter and anxious, and his heart was tormented. On the one hand, he was forced by his father Gnieus Pompey, and on the other hand, he was his wife who could not give up. Faced with a dilemma, Sextus was almost furious and emotionally broken. The humiliation of defeat and disgrace made him fall into a frenzy, sometimes crying, sometimes angrily smashing the items on the table.

"General...... However, Generalissimo Pompey meant ......"

"I know what he means, he just wants me to give up Spain and go back alive. But the person has been lost, what is the point of me when I go back? ”

Sextus' mood was almost on the verge of madness.

After a while, he went on in a trance and wickedly—

"Kamodo, you have to keep these three centurions. I want these veterans to train me new soldiers, and they're all ten-captains now. I'm going to pick out the centurion among them, the chief centurion. Yes, I need them to raise an army for me. A new legion, I must go back, to reclaim the glory that belongs to me, to reclaim my beloved, Octavia. ”

"But Your Excellency, we don't have that much to recruit a new legion."

The cavalry tried to persuade Sextus to return to his sanity. However, Cextus' answer worries Kamodo.

"I don't have any possessions to collect. I can raise the taxes on these villages and cities that I now occupy. Kill the nobles of the city, confiscate their property, and use the gold to form a new legion of mine. They will reclaim for me the glory that is rightfully mine, and Octavia. Yes, Octavia must be recaptured......"

The cavalry saw that their commander had fallen into a frenzied situation, and did not know how to persuade them for a while. Perhaps a person, once carried away by emotions and the reality of failure, becomes so crazy and irrational. Kamodo watched and silently exited the room. He knew that in this small city, a bloody farce was about to take place.

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"Octavia, what are you thinking?"

In the Spanish inland town of Tikars, less than fifteen leagues from Sextus Pompey's final base, Apis was sitting in his room, cautiously asking Octavia, for the woman he once loved deeply, Apis was reluctant to see her so sad and weeping, it seemed that every tear of Octavia broke his heart. Appis didn't want to see the woman he once loved dearly crying in front of him. Maybe I still love her? Appis didn't know, but his heart still hurt when he saw Octavia weeping sadly.

"I was thinking, what should I do? I seem to have fallen in love with Sextus, but I don't seem to be willing to give up on you. The goddess of fate is too cruel to me, how can I face such a choice? No, no, no......"

Octavia said, tears flickering in her eyes again...... (To be continued.) )