Chapter 3: Divine Will (II)
But it was too late, and one of Aliovistus' daughters cried out in despair, pulled out a dagger and stabbed it deep in her chest, and then fell, causing a chorus of boos from the cavalry.
The other younger daughter crawled up to her sister's body, drew her dagger, and was about to lie down on it, when she finally heard the commander's order to keep people, the famous strong cavalry, scooped up the little daughter, and strangled her on horseback, at this time Li Bida ran to the shore, looked at the boat that had gone away, looked at it for a while, and announced that there was no need to pursue the king of the Severite, "He has lost all his people and relatives, can he still be called a king?" There is no longer any value in pursuing him, go back to the camp. ”
In this battle of the Renus River, the whole tribe of Severus was wiped out, much worse than the Helvetis, who still had a third left, while the Severites only escaped less than 20,000 men and returned to the east bank, where they could only be attached to the name of the Suebi, and quickly died out in history.
Of the 100,000 Germanic people who were annihilated, only about 30,000 were killed in direct battle, and half of the remaining 70,000 people were ruthlessly slaughtered by Caesar, half were sold into slavery, wearing the most cruel term of the Romans "wreath" (when the Roman slave trader wore wreaths and signs on the heads of slaves, especially the slaves obtained in the war), in addition, in the Germanic villages along the Renus River, a large number of property was plundered, and no less than 50,000 slaves, this was Caesar's second great war wealth, more than the Helvetians, About 200 million Cestricks.
In front of Li Bida, there was a gift of five million Cesses, and he was full of ambition. There is no money to continue the construction of Laconia. And Egyptian affairs too! This has to be relieved. So he called for a clipboard in the tent, grabbed a pen, and prepared to write letters to Yulia of Sardinia and to Potti.
At this moment, the little daughter of the captured Aliovistus was led in with a rope, and when she saw Li Bida, she was very emotional and said something, and Li Bida asked Sabo to pull her out of the court, "Don't say anything to her." But ordinary soldiers were not allowed to abuse her, and she was placed in a clean and tidy camp, and everything was done according to the royal treatment. ”
In the manager's tent, Caesar heard Koda say something in his ear, so he said "oh", and he turned his finger around and asked, "Does Aliovistus have a daughter who is still alive?" It's called Plotch, isn't it? ”
"Yes, it has also been confirmed that she was captured by the Twelfth Legion, but Lybidaeus has not yet received the credit."
"That guy, the hell. I have ordered you in advance that all the people of the royal family should be captured and sold to the people of Severfher. Li Bida must have had his mind in hiding Plotch, probably trying to avoid my wrath, and then send Plochy back in exchange for the forgiveness of the Severians. ”
"Maybe he's trying to form a branch of the Weaver guards to keep you safe." Koda jokingly said, and Caesar laughed too, and secretly said that this matter should not be pursued, and that I would soon leave Rabinus in charge of the winter camp of the army in Besançon, while Lybida, Pedis, and Dicias would follow me to the village of Lussel in Milan once, and I would spend some days there, and ask Igiulus to write my two great victories in the Chronicles of War, and have them brought back to the city of Rome to post them, and say to the Senate that I am recuperating in Lussel—well, this time with rewards and gifts, I still have 100,000,000,000 Cesses to spare, and maybe I'll need to use them up in Roussel.
Koda understood what he meant, and hurried away.
The next arrangement, just as Caesar had prepared in advance, began the winter camp in late August, and in the name of recruiting new soldiers, he asked Li Pida to leave the Twelfth Legion and follow him to Lussel in the Milan region.
"Good news for you, my friend, that soon the Senate will accept my proposal with Pompey on Egypt, at the private cost that my party will not participate in next year's consulship race. Needless to say, tell me how you will handle the trip to Egypt. "In the beautiful autumn gorge of the Alps, Caesar was leisurely on horseback, asking Li Pida.
"Will next year's consul be the joint winner of Crassus and Cato the Younger?" Lita diverted the subject, because Crassus secretly wrote to him informing him of his wish to be re-elected consul, because after leaving office he could follow his original proposal, "open up Parthia, control the trade routes to Cyris, which produced beautiful silk and bamboo, and buy some black and white beasts called Panda to please the common people of Rome."
"There's nothing wrong with that. And Cicero has been in exile for a long time, and he has written me many begging letters during this time, and I have to give him the nickname Cicero the Crybaby, but it is not good for our reputation to throw him in a foreign country for too long. Caesar analyzed, "But Cicero's return to Rome for whatever reason will boost the morale of the aristocracy, so I can let you go to Egypt and watch over Cato the Younger for me, and I don't want to be killed in front of a brothel in Subra five years later." ”
"With the strength and funds of Crassus, plus my own, I will raise three thousand men, a third of Pompey's veterans, a third of the mercenaries along the way, and a third of the men mobilized by my family in Sardinia, to form a temporary legion to escort the pipers to Alexandria, and then I will spend a year or two running Egypt and Ubertenia."
"The request now is to try to bring me three legions back in two years." Caesar's words were not like a joke, "If I give the sky for sparrows and not eagles to fly, it is worthless." ”
"Don't worry! Now my biggest problem is that I need a lot of money," Li Bida said and said no more.
"Then I can help you a little, and when you get to Lussel Village soon, you will know the way." Caesar smiled and said incomprehensibly.
About a few days later, the group arrived at the village of Lussel on the outskirts of Milan, which is a very isolated place, even if the scenery is not as beautiful as other areas, but fortunately, the transportation is convenient, there are not many residents, but it is a good place to recuperate. But this situation changed three days after they dismounted, when they learned that Caesar was stationed here to "recuperate", the bureaucrats of Rome and the dignitaries of the Italian cities, like bloodhounds smelling meat, gathered here in groups from all directions with a large herd of slaves, lists and gifts, all to "help" Caesar to spend money. (To be continued......)