"Brother, Caesar released all the nobles and let them stay freely, it seems that you are a little dissatisfied with Caesar's decision? You're sullen all the way. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

On the way from Skopje to Athens, little Crassus was in a good mood along the way, but Apis was depressed.

"There is no dissatisfaction, I dare not be dissatisfied, he is Caesar, the supreme commander of the Roman legions, and I am just an ordinary legionary commander. What he is going to do, of course I have to execute. ”

After more than a year of getting along day and night, Apis no longer has many polite words in front of little Crassus, and at the same time, Apis also tries to make friends with little Crassus in a frank way of speaking, although Apis does not fully trust anyone in his heart, always defensive, but always seems to be honest. And little Crassus, in his sincere treatment of each other day by day, had fewer worries about Appis.

"I hear your grievances. Ha, Appius will fall into your hands again one day, don't think too much about it. You should think more about your mother, who may be living a life worse than death under the holding of Appius right now. If a Roman woman didn't have a powerful father, she probably could only end up like this. I don't mean to belittle your mother, Apis, but you do have this problem. If you still care about your mother. ”

Little Crassus turned his head and said calmly. His expression became serious on this issue.

"Indeed, I should think about it."

Appis sighed, he thought that he had come to this world as a time traveler, and there should be no family ties, but when he saw Anelka hugging him and crying, Apis still instinctively felt compassion, after all, a mother who lost her son, how could Apis bear to let her lose it again.

……

The Tenth Legion and the Eleventh Legion led by Crassus the Younger marched along the coastline, and five days later met another legion of Pompey, led by General Obius sent by the Senate, with an army of 20,000 men and the strength of three legions, deployed on the route through which the march of Appis and Crassus the Younger was necessary. After a skirmish, the scout cavalry on both sides retreated and returned to their respective barracks to report on the situation ahead.

For Appis, both the Senate and Pompey have heard of it, except for Antony, it can be said that the best general in Caesar's camp is Apis. And it is rumored that Apis has the protection of the gods wherever he goes. It may have been said that Appis was spared from death and returned to the army in the great forests of Gaul by the mercy of the gods. Later, the legend became more and more magical, until the Battle of Spain, after the Battle of Cassale, Apis was even in Pompey's army, and was rumored to be a Roman with divine powers. Pompey's soldiers even privately said that Apis could unleash lightning with a wave of his hand...... His mount can even shoot out blazing flames.

The spread of such legends to Pompey was, of course, absolutely forbidden, and Gnaeus Pompey forbade the soldiers to spread the story of Apis among the army. He told the soldiers that Apis was just an ordinary man, that he had no rumored divine powers, and that he had no protection from the gods, and that everything was just his luck. The battle of New Carthage was just that the sea water in that area had a special pattern of high and low tides. Because Pompey used to command operations in that place.

However, although there were fewer rumors and discussions about Apis after Pompey ordered the ban on transmission, the soldiers were still a little afraid of this Caesar's legion commander in their hearts.

This sentiment also affected the Senate General Obius, who came to intercept Appis this time......

"Nikulas, we are about to have a strong opponent, I heard that Appis has never lost a fight, is this rumor true? I heard that you are his eldest brother, and your father Appius told me, I think you should have some understanding of your brother, although you have been separated for many years. ”

Across the coast from Apis' legions, Obius set up his camp on a small piece of high ground, surrounded by trees that had been cut down to avoid obstructing the view. The Senate general Obius was more or less very careful, marching carefully, encamping, and keeping enough vigilance against his enemies. And on this trip, the accompanying deputy officer Nicholas happened to be the eldest brother of Appis, which also made Obius attach importance to the advice and words and deeds of this adjutant.

Pompey said that the rumors about Apis were nothing more than false illusions. Although he was my younger brother, he had actually left home six years earlier to join the army in Gaul. I have nothing to do with him in the past six years, so for my younger brother, it can be said that I don't know what he has experienced in the past six years, and maybe what I know about him no longer applies to him now. He had even changed his name, and his original name was not Appis. My father told me that he had been a barbarian six years earlier, but six years later, when he reappeared in the public eye, he was already a god of war, but I had heard that he had been defeated in the same way, in Gaul, in Spain. He's not as magical as everyone says. ”

Nikulas answered his chief's question earnestly.

"So he's just a mortal? Is it just that legends exaggerate his existence? ”

"So to speak."

"Nikulas, one thing I've always been curious about, Apis is your own brother, even if he is now on Caesar's side, but he is your brother after all, he has your family's blood in his veins, and now, Pompey wants you to fight him with a sword, do you really bear to do it?"

Obius threw out this harsh question at the right time, but Nikulas was clearly prepared, and he had been thinking about this contradiction for a long, long time. Roughly as Brutus, the interests and affection of the Republic sometimes had to be chosen, and Niculas, like Brutus, chose the former.

"This is the will of the gods. I have no right to choose, since Caesar betrayed the Republic. ”

Niculas said. His expression was so resolute that Obius saw the image of a young man who was about to fight for honor on the battlefield, but also witnessed another Roman family shattered by the war.

"Hopefully, you won't meet him on the battlefield."

Obius said...... (To be continued.) )