Chapter 22: The Royal Funeral (Part II)

"Stop, stop!" Arp's bone whistle blew more and more urgently, and the Madtier people below shot more and more arrows, at this time, the other commander of the guard, Serha, grew his mouth, and led the follow-up army horse to this dense forest, looking at the scene in front of him, speechless for a long time.

The Egyptian "pseudo-pharaoh" Archelaus was firmly nailed to the trunk of a tree by more than a hundred arrows, and the blood continued to drip down the reed shafts and white arrow feathers to the ground under his feet, and it was difficult to distinguish his face and body. At his feet and around him, the arrows were even denser and could not be counted, "Oh my God, we shot Pharaoh. Serha finally came up with this sentence.

"This is just a traitor, and the real pharaoh and commander-in-chief will give us a big reward." When the shooting finally stopped, Arp instructed his men to go up and take the body, and then spoke to Serha.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves behind was agitated, Anthony rode a horse and shouted angrily, and when he went up, he hit Alp's head with a horsewhip, and the blood was left along the bridge of the other party's nose. ”

"He is nothing but an enemy of the legion, a Pontus thief who rebelled against the true Pharaoh, and we are acting on orders." Alp touched the blood and coldly defended Anthony on his horse.

"Even if he is an enemy, he is the son of King Mithridates of Pontus and the husband of Queen Ptolemy Benenici, get out of my way, I will not take the body of the king to ask for any reward, never!" Antony was still in high spirits, and he received a magnificent garment from the hand of the attendant next to him, which was the crown of pharaoh's clothes that he had snatched from the camp of Archilaus. Then he jumped off his horse. Alp also stiffened his neck and became excited. But he was hastily stopped by his companion Serha, who then pulled his bone whistle and blew a few times, and the Medejie guards put away their bows and arrows in Nahan's mood, and turned back towards the camp and the riverbank.

When he entered the looted camp, he shouted angrily to punish Anthony for disobeying military orders and attacking without permission, while Alp, the general of the guard, was half-kneeling in front of his horse. "I would like to appeal to the military tribune Marco. Anthony. ”

"It's a pity that Alp, you don't belong to the sequence recognized by the Republic, and you can't appeal to the military tribune."

"But he, the tribune, was not officially appointed by the Romans. In addition, he violated military orders, robbed camps, attacked friendly troops, and robbed the body of Archelaus, is not enough to convict? Alp listed them one by one, and it seems that this young Nubian nobleman is not a submissive fool.

"So I'll understand!" Li Bida was then on horseback. Said to Saab, "Lock up Anthony." In addition, all the spoils he plundered were distributed to the attached cavalry brigade, and he liked to buy fame and fulfilled his wish. Also, the merit of killing Archelaus is naturally still counted on the head of the Madjie Guard, let's go to Sabo, let's go see what Anthony's bastard treats this corpse. "Because Arcilaus is also half of Li Bida's acquaintance, he still cares about his fate.

In the drizzle, when Libida drove his horse to the scene, Arcilaus's body had been placed on the cremation pile by Antony, and the arrows had been pulled out, and Anthony changed him into the clothes of a king, and then lit the cremation pile.

"Hey, Military Tribune, I'm here to inform you that you've been locked up." After the fire, Li Bida pointed at Anthony and said, "It will be executed immediately, but you are still happy to be able to bury a king with your own hands, right?" ”

Anthony didn't say anything, but turned and stretched out his hands, and was then tied with ropes by several centurions, and a short stick was inserted between them, and then escorted towards the camp.

The rest of the journey was more like an armed procession, and when the fortress of Idaui opened its gates and surrendered, Li Bida temporarily halted his march, he was a very clever man, and waited in place for the arrival of Ptolemy the Piper, and then entered the city of Alexandra under the command of Pharaoh.

Of course, he had some steps to guide Pharaoh to do.

After two days of resting for the two bazaars, the piper finally entered Idaui, "Bennenice is dead, and so is Archilaus?" The piper, sitting on the leg of the lion's chair, asked with some silence.

"Yes, if Your Majesty wishes to inquire about the corpse, then I can only reply that Benenici's head was buried in an unknown place by Arcilaus, who was shot with a bow and arrow by my guards, and whose body was buried by a military tribune."

"Either way." The piper's face was gloomy, and he turned the ring on his hand, and he understood the truth that the sword had no eyes, but in fact, Benenici had always been his favorite daughter when he rebelled, and even at the age of sixteen, he didn't marry her off according to common sense, but his daughter was regarded as a totem of the traitorous party, and was held hostage to oppose him, and then it seemed that Beneniciki was deliberately mocking him, and found an inexplicable former general of Pontus to marry him, and then even the most reluctant side did not want to appear, and there were no bones, is the daughter really taking revenge on herself?

Then, the little queen beside Pharaoh obviously saw her father's rising revenge anger, she secretly sneered at Li Bida, and said bluntly, "My sister was killed by someone." ”

Just this sentence made the pharaoh completely erupt, "That's right, that's right, this kingdom cursed by greed, rebellion after cycle. ”

"It's very important to purge the elites, reuse the natives, and root out the financiers behind the rebel party." Li Bida under the stairs also struck while the iron was hot.

"Warden, I instruct your army not to be soft when entering the filthy city of Alexandria, to kill all those who have turned their backs on me, to demolish the Holmahi barracks, to hunt down and kill the officers, to find the soldiers and sell them into slavery, and to go to the Second Falls to pan for gold sand." The pharaoh's voice was sharp and terrifying, and the fake beard and eyeshadow were twisted together, and Mortanmenes hurriedly knelt down and advised the terrible pharaoh that if he wanted to have a long reign, he had to rely on the city of Rome externally and appease the Macedonian nobility internally.

"What a ridiculous compromise!" Li Bida suddenly rebuked the chief eunuch in a fierce voice, "I am the commander of the legion, and the biggest financier of this war, I am burdened with thousands of Talents, and I have gone through a lot of hardships to meet His Majesty Pharaoh before I came back here, I don't want Pharaoh to shake hands with those filthy rebels with forgiveness. ”

"Tell me your thoughts and suggestions, Lord Warden." Before Pharaoh could react (he was stunned by Lypida's sudden anger), Cleopatra immediately asked a leisurely question. (To be continued......)