"Her body is beautiful everywhere, so why list them all? I took her into my arms and kissed her physically, and who knows the rest? —Ovid, the ancient Roman poet

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"I'll take the veteran hundred-man team behind!" The two reserve hundred-man detachments stood up, ready to perform their duties, replace the troops in front of them and fight to the end, stop the offensive of Pontus, and buy time for their main force to retreat, Hybrida raised his sword.

Someone pressed Hybrida on the shoulder, it was the old fellow Arminius, "Let me go, don't forget to send my military pay home." After saying that, the immortal veteran sighed, put on his helmet, put down his cheek armor, turned his head and waved his hand at Calabis, "Veterans will die on the battlefield, you and Hybrida are not yet of that age - take all the flags with you, and don't fall into the hands of that Pontus girl." ”

Zuihou, two reserve hundred-man teams passed through the gap between the front-line soldiers' bodies, whistles and bugles, and completed the relay, and then the rest of the Roman soldiers turned en masse, discarded their heavy equipment, and hurried towards Pop's trench cart formation.

The retreating Roman cavalry was the first to rush through the narrow embankment between the trenches, and the whole chariot was full of smoke and dust, and the Bosphorus's servants and soldiers could not stop their footsteps at all, and let Pop scold and inspire, but did not look back, first fled to the acropolis, and then ran along the long bridge to Ponticabian, many people were trampled to death, and Pop had to let the slaves throw the corpses of these people into the trench to open the way for the army that followed.

Calabis followed Ella's horse all the way to the embankment, and then jumped straight down. Take the eagle flag from the flag bearer next to him. Stand up straight. Holding the eagle banner high, showing the way to the soldiers later and calming the morale, seeing that the legion envoy was like this, the various hundred-man teams running in chaos also calmed down, lined up, and followed their respective flags into the car formation in an orderly manner, and continued to hold the second line of combat posts.

It wasn't until one of Zuihou's soldiers ran in that Calabis himself carried the Eagle Banner. Walking through the embankment, Helenputina and three other Amazonian warriors followed, while the cries of the two hundred-man teams led by Arminius, who were attacked from three sides, were slowly blown away by the wind.

The fierce wind was howling, the sun was hanging overhead, and it was already noon, and many of the Roman soldiers in the chariot array, licking their cracked lips, did not discard their weapons and guns, and prepared to wait for the second wave of attack from Pontus.

"Father. The most important thing we need to do at this time is not to storm the second line of defense of the Romans. The defensive line, with its trenches and vehicular sanitation, would not be able to be taken for a while. Honorable and wise, please listen to our strategy. In the tent, several Pontic officers who had come to report on the battle situation on the front line and wait for the next order stood on the spot, while Adiana fiercely insisted on her opinion, "If you can adopt my strategy, then the results will be far more than the destruction of the two Roman centurians, and the glory of the total annihilation of the Eighth Army and the capture of the Eagle Banner three years ago will be repeated." ”

"Good girl, we have won the first battle, is not the next step to break the grassy fortifications that the Romans have improvised erected? The Romans were all there, so why should they go far? Mithridates was in a good mood, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and said with a thumbs-to-thumb.

Stratonis next to her possessed and quipped: "Probably in today's battle, Bixia's Bronze Shield Legion shined, which made Her Royal Highness feel a little lonely, right?" This made Mithridates and the Brass Shield soldiers standing in the tent laugh.

Adiana was a little annoyed, "If it weren't for the fact that I had asked Archillus to ambush the new model army in the highland forest, I am afraid that today's battle would have been encircled and annihilated, it is your father's bronze shield army - this army with the elite reputation of the capital is too unworthy of its name, the training is backward, the tactics are backward, the soldiers have no adaptability on the battlefield, the governor and the non-commissioned officers are all group of broken guys, after repeated defeats, they don't think of how to improve, but even more stupidly continue to commit suicide with rigid thinking, so ......" Before Adiana could finish speaking, the soldiers and officers of the Bronze Shield Army rolled up their sleeves and shouted to express their dissatisfaction with the princess, while Stratonis stood up and smiled at the princess suspiciously.

"Enough, enough you've said, my good girl." Mithridates stopped the commotion in the tent and then pointed his finger at her daughter as a warning.

But Adiana was very uncalm, as if she had opened a conversation, and thundered to the end: "Father, didn't you rely on my strategy three years ago to deceive the Romans and capture the Eagle Banner of their Eighth Legion?" In Colchis, when there were only a few thousand servant slaves left with you, it was my new model army, trained with Pompey's deserters, that defeated the Acaya and allowed you to enter Colchis safely and cross the Simmerian Strait to get here. Believe me, the arrogance, stupidity and greed of the Bronze Shield Army have long made the whole army resentful, and Minander and the two younger brothers of your concubine in it will only boast of themselves, you should not have wasted the money of the rich country into this useless army a long time ago, you should"

"How should I not be taught a lesson by you!" Mithridates cried out angrily, interrupting her daughter's words of resentment, "Speaking of Agaia, didn't you execute their king Agasis? This incident embarrassed me and it was hard to clean up. Good girl, Adeana, you must always remember that you are only my daughter, the princess of Pontus, and your value and meaning is to marry into a kingdom that can help my career, not to care about spears and horses, and I don't want you to be contaminated with conspiracy and poison, which will only harm you in the end, good girl. ”

"But! There is no husband in the nations of this ocean worthy of my wisdom. ”

"Then you have to find someone who is inferior to you, God has given you an exclusive gender, and you are not told to do stupid things that are transgressive—in the future, even if you and handsome male slaves live in a dark palace, relying on drunkenness and desolation, it will be a blessing—do you think it is a very happy thing for your father to go all the way by killing and poisoning? Stop having stupid thoughts, good girl! After Mithridates finished speaking, he struggled to prop up his fat body on the seat, Stratonis hurriedly helped, and the emperor of Pontus then pointed twice to several officers on standby, signaling that their bronze shield army governor Menander had the right to dispose of the front line, and then looked at his daughter with some reluctance, and whispered, "Good girl, I will consider your strategy." So he limped to the back camp to rest.

"Your reaction today is a bit of a mismatch, Adiana." When the princess reached a tent, Stratonis stepped out of a corner and stood on Adina's back, mocking her. (To be continued......)