Chapter 10: Declaring War (I)

"One day, while cleaning a stinking gutter, someone drove away a snake and a copper sleeping hazelnut, the patron saint of the city of Paris, and Paris was destroyed by fire." - Gregory

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"I mean, I ask you to take off the head of this brave fighter and bury him properly." Li Bida stood under the monument, and then, when he saw that the soldiers of the Lark Legion were still hesitating, he shouted in the square, "If Julius. His Excellency Caesar is still alive, will he allow such a thing to happen? ”

As a result, many citizens spontaneously walked out of their mansions and gathered around Lybida, saying, "We don't care what General Lybidaeus is, but what he says is right, let anyone listen to it, no one can refuse the truth, and see what the battle between you has made the city of Rome look like." Now, as in the time of Sulla and Marius, the army tramples on humanity and grievances under the military shoes? ”

In the end, Li Bida waved his hand, Alp held a long pole, or picked off the head of Amartius on the stone tablet, and several slaves held purple silk, carefully wrapped the heads of the father and son, and put them in a small coffin, "Buried next to the cremation pile, after all, he claimed to be Marius's grandson, whether true or not, he died for Caesar's unjust death after all." Li Bida sighed, and then many citizens who volunteered also joined the ranks of the burial wishes.

Then, Li Bida took the Medejie Guard. Walked to the foot of Capitol Mountain. Saw Jupiter Temple jutting out under the high rock. Pushing down the bodies that had fallen to their deaths, he said to Arp, "Mobilize the good citizens, and bury these poor people, and the crucified slaves, and take down their corpses, and erect tombstones for them with stones and wood from the ruins of the barricades." Buried in the estate to which Julius belonged on the Tiber. ”

Then, Li Bida raised his head and saw that under the red flag erected on the mountain, several elders and heralds were looking at him and the guards, so he scolded loudly, "Why are you hiding in the holy forest, why are you hiding in the temple, why are you even avoiding the relatives who come to visit and care, this is the expression that only those who have committed crimes or failed the people will have." Do you admit it? It has been said that the Roman city was built on the welfare of the public. Then look at what became of the city when you killed the dictator Julius in the name of it! The institutions and relief ceased at a moment's notice, the citizens became mobs, the iron hooves of the army trampled the streets, the borders were in danger of invasion, the governors and envoys of the provinces were in fear, more and more people were conscripted, and the danger of civil war was imminent. Now you are instigating Anthony to kill the demonstrators at will, to make them violently corpses on the hills and streets, the laws and sentences are changed day by day, the guilty are pardoned, the innocent are killed, the standard of order is completely lost, I am saying that you don't know if you have heard it, look at the grievances and anger of the people, if you still have eyes, the Roman ship is now in ruins, sailing in the stormy waves of thunder and lightning, and everyone is dismantling its deck and parts. Before it sank, the navigator was blind, the helmsman was disabled, the captain was deaf, even the serene-faced Neptune was enraged by your arrogance and stupidity, his trident would cause a bloody hurricane, and perhaps Sybil's prophecy would not have any reassuring foreshadowing of the future, so what are you doing! ”

Just as Li Bida's voice was loud and he was storming under Capitol Mountain, the herald had already rushed into the temple hall and reported the news to the elders present, "Who gave him the courage to bark wildly?" Keith had been killed, and the cavalry commander who had come out of the Gentile had become a dog with a broken spine, and he really thought that the glory given to him by the Republic was not worth mentioning? As I have said a long time ago, a bastard like Liberdaus can only lead the army of the alliance and serve as a cavalry captain, and his existence is itself a footnote to Caesar's evil government, and I have never seen such a brazen person. Casca yelled angrily, but still couldn't get enough of it.

But when many senators heard that Li Bida led the guards to publicly collect the corpses of those executed by the Senate, Si Pinzel was even more furious, and he shouted directly, "That guy Dehemoth, is his sword slave just an ornament made of wax?" Could it be that thousands of sword fighting slaves can't still fight against the black-skinned untouchable guards around that foreigner! After saying that, Si Pinzel called the herald to call Dehemoth to go and suppress him, "If necessary, it is okay to beat Li Bida to death in the street, or directly push him down from the high rock and execute him publicly." ”

Only Brutus was still hesitating in place, and he insisted that he should leave on his own after Li Bida had finished scolding, because the previous suppression of Amartius had already involved the reputation of the Senate, and now we need to be more cautious.

But no one paid any attention to him.

After a while, the herald came running in a panic with a sweat on his head, "Dehemoth is no longer on the holy mountain, and the iron fence he originally laid under the mountain has been removed, and the thousands of sword fighting slaves have disappeared, all of them have disappeared like mercury in the ground!" ”

Scared, Casca almost collapsed the chair under him!

The rest of the patriarchs also screamed and hid everywhere, as if the end of the world was coming, and the whole temple was trampled on people and wiped their feet, only Spinzer was still angry, and he raised the sleeves of his robe and shouted in a pretentious manner to the herald, "Don't spread the news that I don't know whether it's true or not, who can really tell the people here, where is Dehemoth?" ”

"He sent a few sword slaves to report that according to Caesar's arrangement, he should have been the governor of southern Gaul, and now he went to the province with his private army to take over the legions, hoping that the senate would give him recognition, otherwise he would sit in the city of Mutina, and watch the Holy Mountain fall to the mob and Caesars, which might be much more exciting than watching a long and boring Greek opera."

"Bastard" Si Pinzel was furious, and just as he was about to attack, another herald came up, and said with a dejected faceβ€”Li Bida came up the mountain with the group of dark-skinned guards, armed with bows and arrows, and knives and saws.

"Scared!" Now even Si Pinzel hid in the shadow of the colonnade, as nimble as a deer hiding from a hunt, and then he stuck out his head and shouted to the chaotic people, "Fool, quick, quick, send an envoy to stop him, and tell him that all the conditions are good to discuss!" ”

Finally, from the porch of the Temple of Jupiter, out of a few priests with banners, acting as messengers, and when they went out, they found that Li Bida had already stood in front of the altar opposite, and the black warriors behind him all drew their swords and bows, and the priest was so frightened that his soul was not possessed, and he shouted weakly at Li Bida, "Specially chosen father appoints us as plenipotentiary representatives"

"Tell the Jurists, Brutus and Aetius, to come out and talk to me." Li Bida said. (To be continued......)