Two rubber boats from the evacuated Acayans floated in the bay bound for Ponticabion, Pope was dressed in a splendid general's uniform that had usurped his status, and several soldiers beside him, holding the bundles and axes that had just been made, stood in the stern of the ship with the cloaked Calabis, and complained to the legionary envoy: "You can kill yourself and us, if you let Pompey know of our actions, you will be exiled or beheaded." ”

"Shut up, someone will help us with this when we go back to Rome." Calabis said, the flag bearer next to him was not holding the Eagle Banner of the Thirteenth Legion, but the Eagle Banner of the Eighth Legion, which was captured by Adiana's strategy, but later gave the Bronze Shield Army as a trophy, which was also a source of Adiana's great resentment against the Bronze Shield Army, and before the Acayans left, they also thanked Calabis for "executing" the royal daughter of Pontus for their king, but Calabis also learned that Pompey's army had arrived in Colchis and declared the whole territory to be a free kingdom, There was no longer a need to be a vassal state of Pontus, so the Acaya were ready to withdraw their kingdom from the Simmerian Strait.

"Pompey is coming, but hurry up!" Calabis thought to himself, Adiana sat in the bow of the ship, enough for all the people of Pontus to see her, and although the city of Ponticabion was a mess, the water was calm today, and the sailors knew that the war was coming to an end, and they would soon go to the merchant ships to earn their money, so they all lay down on the deck to rest, while the navy of Pontus went directly to the shore to plunder.

The closer she got to the smoky city docks, the more Adiana trembled, and she naturally stretched out her hand. Hold Calabis.

on the pier. Achilles stood there to "greet". Fortunately, he didn't recognize Pope, and Calabis hid behind the "Banded Servant", covering his face with a cloak, and shook off Adiana's hand to prevent him from being recognized by the former commander of the Pontus Navy.

"Princess, the matter of your father is a tragedy, and Stratonis and Menander have run away in shame and killed him." When Adiana jumped onto the Dock Square. Achilles took her hand and reassured.

Adiana, dressed in dark mourning clothes, turned even paler, "Achilles, you should do your best to ensure that your father's body is not insulted by those lowly soldiers. ”

"Naturally, the rebels of the New Model Army have achieved their goal, and many of them have fled to the countryside after plundering the cities and warehouses, and these people will all become pirates or bandits. Rest assured, your father was helped by Biduza on his deathbed, and his death was not so painful, and his body is now under the care of the Galatian swordsman. Achilles then stopped Pope and his party with his hand. Excuse me, isn't this the trophy of the Bronze Shield Army, the Eagle Banner of the Roman Legion of Annihilation? ”

"Now it's been taken back by our Eighth Legion. You should also know that the Bronze Shield Army is all finished! Pop continued a little stiffly according to the haode words arranged by Calabis in advance, but fortunately Adiana acted as an interpreter next to him, and Achilles did not notice the unnaturalness in Pop Latin, "The advance team of the Eighth Army stationed in Colchis has come to receive the city and the remains of Mithridates on behalf of the general Pompey, general-you can leave the city with your men and camp in the suburbs immediately, and you will have peace when the commander comes." After speaking, Pop put his mouth on Nunu, and a "servant" next to him handed over a wooden board engraved with words, "This is a document for defense delivery, stamp it on it - the formalities must be done!" ”

When Adiana translated this paragraph, she added: "The attitude of these Latin barbarians has always been so arrogant. ”

Achilles was not so upset, but asked Adiana very strangely: "I gave you the white sailing ship before, didn't you go to the advance party of the Thirteenth Legion on the Acropolis?" Why is it the Eighth Army that is escorting you to the peace settlement this time? ”

"You have to understand that only Pompey was given the power of Rome IMPERIUMMAIUS (i.e., full commander, with the power to make peace and declare war independently, given by the Council of Citizens, which Pompey had received since the suppression of pirates), and if I wanted to retain a place after the war, I would naturally have to please Pompey's Eastern Legions, not the Thirteenth Legions, which were subordinate to the governor of the Macedonian province."

Hearing the princess's words, Achilles nodded, he understood the Eighth Legion, and said, "General Achilllaus and I don't want to make peace with the advance team of the Thirteenth Legion, that would only insult our military career." So saying, he stamped the board with a mark.

Unexpectedly, the soldier took out a wooden board with dense lettering from the Pontus general, and asked him to stamp the seal, and then another (this was the valuable experience of Calabis's life before he traveled), Achilles gradually felt dizzy, so he no longer looked at the contents, but asked the soldier to arrange the plank in a fan, and then handed the seal directly to the clerk to operate.

As Achilles and Adiana were walking in the direction of the palace, Calabis stepped forward and brought the stamped planks before him, one of which brought a smile to his lips:

The content of this board is Latin and Greek, but what is written Achilles didn't read at all, this is a gamble, because what is written in it is actually a letter to Pompey made up in the tone of the two generals of Pompey, Achilles and Achillus, which clearly says - Mithridates has committed suicide, and his body is willing to be handed over to Pompey by the Pontus army, hoping that Pompey can be buried according to royal etiquette.

There was also a plank, but it was an order to mobilize a Phoenician fast rowing boat in Pontus, and it was also stamped with the seal of Achilles' clerk in a daze, in fact, the clerk was still about to look at the details on it, but he was frightened by the Roman soldier who drew his sword and looked angrily next to him, so he looked away - the war is over, what the hell is that superfluous thought?

Soon a rowing boat with black sails came out of the harbor, and Calabis threw the plank to the sailors on deck, and then several soldiers took a blanket-wrapped corpse and threw it to the sailors, who carried the corpse and stuffed it into the hold, and then Carabis gave the sailors a great deal of money, and gave them a few words of importance, and the sailors sailed away with gratitude.

After seeing the black galleon leave, Calabis led everyone, avoided the street, and moved towards the back door of the Marcha Palace, along the way there were several robbery stragglers, and they were soon blasted open by them holding eagle flags, and the passage around the palace, Calabis was very familiar with before, "I don't know if Claudius's bastard is dead, all covered with cloaks, don't get infected with the corpse plague!" Pushing open a small door in the back garden of the palace, Calabis covered his nose to block out the stench. (To be continued......)