"The great Macedonia will remember this disgrace, and King Philip will flee like a doe in the woods." - After the Battle of Scartusa, Alcius mocked the poetry of the defeated Macedonian king Philip.

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In the next few days of rest, Li Bida heard the most words from the mouth of Centurion Highbrida, which was winter camp.

The so-called winter camp means that the legion cancels all combat jihua, and in the coming cold winter, retreats to the relatively warm Bithynia tunza, where the soldiers can move freely in the local cantonment to relieve the mood of the war: gambling, drinking, **, selling booty including slaves to military traffickers, and even finding a local mother-in-law to form a "dew family".

This was not uncommon at the time, when the Roman army arrived somewhere, Italian traffickers, prostitutes, tax collectors and speculators would flock to them like flies, and they quickly formed a temporary town called "Vesua" near the barracks, with bars, casinos, rental buildings, and brothels, and many famous cities in Europe and Asia in later generations started from this "Vesua".

Li Bida was directly named "Calabis" by Highbrida because he was discovered in Calabis; As for Adiana, Hebrida didn't kill her for the time being, and of course she didn't know her true identity, but called her "Calabia", and was still hesitating whether to sell this exotic little beauty at a high price to a certain big guy in Rome, whether she would seem more rational.

As for Batitas, who was seriously injured by "Calabia", he was still lying on the couch and delirious, and the "sissy" was sent by Hebrida to take care of this master. In fact, Li Bida already knew the true identity of the "sissy" at this time, a Jewish slave, from Galilee, named Demetrius, his eyes are very similar to the male protagonist of "The Pianist of the Sea", and when talking to people, he must first boast of himself "I am educated, and I serve as the tutor of their children in the villa of the Greek rich in Minor Asia", Li Bida learned that he was captured by Hebrida's hundred-man team in the war a year ago, and Hebrida also thought that he was a literate and prepared to be in the winter camp. Sell him for a thousand Cesces.

Because Hebrida kept twenty slaves from the traffickers in the port of Bithynia, all of which he had "war money", he often said that once the winter camp was over, he would sell the new captives such as Lipida, Demetrius, and Adiana, all the old and the new, so that he could earn 20,000 cesdes, and after retiring from the army, he and his wife could own a small property in the suburbs of Rome, or go to a new town in Spain and Africa, and buy a three-story apartment building, the second and third floors were rented to tenants, and the first floor was rented to merchants as a store.

Li Bida didn't know that in the eyes of Highbrida, he could be worth hundreds of Cesses? Anyway, his current "occupation" is just a "camping slave", doing manual work, cutting hay, feeding mules, collecting ingredients, and taking charge of camp tent sundries, which is much more "down-to-earth" than the summer practice in college.

Adiana never had to look at Li Bida directly, she didn't even say hello, she refused to work, she just wrapped her cloak (Li Bida gave it to her), sat on the stone in front of the tent, and looked at the distant sky with her noble and melancholy eyes.

After the fall of Calaby's Palace, the vast majority of people were killed or committed suicide, and very few survived to be slaves, I don't know why, but this also has the advantage, that is, the identity of Adiana is unrevealed.

Even so, Li Bida was secretly figuring out the joints of the Seventh Legion, he hoped to meet a commander-level bigwig, and then send Adiana out, so that the princess's chastity and reputation would be more secured, and if someone like Hebrida knew, the consequences would be absolutely unbearable. However, because the time was too short, Li Bida only learned about it from the soldiers and slaves: the Seventh Legion was one of the three legions of the Roman Republic in Asia Minor, and its commander was Secledilius; The others, known as Eight and Eleven, were on standby in Silesia, while the latter was on their way to Calabi under the personal leadership of the Eastern Commander Luculas.

As for Li Bida's third wing of the sixth brigade, he also understood a little that the regiment's wing was actually composed of two hundred-man teams, and then the three wings formed a brigade, and the ten brigades formed a regiment. The two centurions, supposedly commanded by two centurions, were also divided into a senior and a junior rank for the sake of centralizing power, but the status of the two was not as literal as it sounded, and was established by the age of service. For example, Utiris was born in a nobleman, although he was much younger than Hybrid, but he was still a senior centurion, and he also served as a military protector, of course, he just regarded this as a junior springboard for his career to rise. But Hebrid, who has a nickname in the wing, is called "Forever Low", because although he is brave in battle, he has a habit of raiding, and he has repeatedly disobeyed military orders, so he has been standing still in the position of low-ranking centurion of the Sixth Brigade for seven years (the centurions of the Roman legions were the first to serve in the Tenth Brigade, and the highest destination of Zuihou was the chief senior centurion of the First Brigade).

However, because Uterius was a military tribune, he had served as a staff officer at Sekdilius for a longer time, and when it came to the actual commander of the Third Wing, it was still Highbrida.

Therefore, Li Bida chose to remain quiet.

A few days later, in a rotten leather jacket, he grazed mules and goats for his company on a hillside overgrown with autumn grass on the outskirts of Calaby, and he was amazed at how well these tasks, which he would not have touched before his crossing, after a short period of adaptation, as the ancient Greek poem Josiod wrote: "When the season of cultivation comes, you will go down with your servants, rain or shine, morning or evening." "This is the eternal hard labor imposed on the heads of mankind by Zeus or God, something that has been hidden deep in the genes of generations, and now awakened in the body of Li Pida.

You ask Li Bida weishenme not to run away? It didn't work, because the next day, he was tattooed with the unique tattoo of the slaves of the Seven Legions, a row of crooked vines tattooed, as long as he carried this thing, he was a cage everywhere he went, this kind of thing that young men and women thought were cool after 2,000 years, but Li Bida lost his freedom and rights.

At sunset, a group of soldiers on patrol galloped through the gates on horseback, nervously, and shouted, "Please inform all our brethren that Commander Luculas and the Eleventh Legion have arrived in Calabi!" ”

The entire camp of the Seventh Army was noisy.

About forty minutes later, just as Li Bida was about to pull the mule back, the music of the military horn was raised on the hillside, and a burst of birds that were preparing to spend the night were startled and circled, and the mountain road and the woods blocked Li Bida's view, and he only saw (his previous glasses were actually flat glasses) a golden shining eagle, skimming over the canopy of trees, and zuihou appeared in his vision.

It was the eagle banner of the Roman legion, carried by a bearskin cape-bear, and walked to the front of the line, the golden eagle at the top of the banner flapping its wings, a proud posture. The standard-bearer was followed by a team of trumpeters, followed by a general on a white horse and a red cloak, surrounded by retinues with "fascist" axes in their hands.

That general is probably Lucuras.

After Luculas slowly passed, the officers and soldiers of the 11th Legion behind him, in a hundred-man unit, formed a column marching formation, and walked in step according to the rhythm of the military horn and flute, and the centurion's grape cane was engraved with the number "XI." of the legion, like a giant python lying on the hill and marching.