The next morning, after a sore back last night, Li Bida got up late, pushed away the goose-down pillow, put on his plain shirt and walked into the central courtyard, and saw Corinna eating breakfast alone under the careful service of several maids, while Leo was sitting alone in a chair among the flowers and plants on one side, looking at the scroll, and there was not even half a servant by his side—once the brother and sister were together, the servants would unconsciously focus on Corinna and ignore him.

As Potty inspected the kitchen and the warehouse, Libida walked over to his children, and now Leo saw his father first, and hurriedly stood up and showed respect, while Corinna looked coquettish and unconcerned. Then, the servant of the Si Yan brought in many of the Krion disciples, and Li Bida took Leo's hand, and the father and son accepted the greeting of the door together, and then briefly exhorted a few words, when suddenly a man turned to the left and right, and very recklessly asked to explain urgent matters to His Excellency Li Pida, Li Bida looked at it, and recognized that it was the deacon of the Claudian family, "My two mistresses, Claudia and Fortunevia, have urgent matters and ask for your help. ”

What's going on? Li Bida hurriedly ate something and kissed Potty, who had just walked from the corridor, "Take care of the children, don't let them run around the streets of the city." Then he dressed himself and marched towards the Palatine Hill, escorted by Matthias and several armed slaves.

As a result, in the summer dining room in Claudius's backyard, he met a very surprising uninvited guest, Marco. Anthony, buried in the flowers, fruits, and drinks on the long table, and eye-to-eye with Fulivia as if nothing happened.

"You lunatic!" Li Bida strode over and grabbed Anthony. Reproach said. "You must have secretly escaped from Brindisi. That's how you want to hook up with this lonely young widow! As he spoke, he pointed to the frightened Fulivia, "Then you can tell me directly, I can help you if you are short of money for wedding planning, but now you are destroying your future, my Lord Protector and Adjutant General." ”

"Don't accuse me, you don't do the same, by marrying a widow to inherit the Lybida family in Sardinia." Anthony pushed him away. "In fact, in the eyes of everyone, the Republic is a widow with good manners, rich assets and easy to use, and everyone wants to crush her under the crotch, everyone!" Then, the majestic and burly "Hercules" raised the wine urn, drank it with a grunt, and then said to Li Bida in a sad tone, "The report of the battle from the front has come that my brother Gaius has been captured. ”

Li Bida sat down calmly, which he had expected. Frivia timidly stood up and served him a plate and glass. "Oh, what's the exact news, is Gaius dead?"

"No, Pompey wouldn't have executed him so hastily, because he was my younger brother, haha, I, Antony, still have some influence, because after the outbreak of the civil war, there were very few high-ranking generals on Caesar's side, so about the Pompey camp, you and I were regarded as bald men." Anthony sat down in some despair, and then shouted angrily, "It was Setles who betrayed him, and it was Yurabella who betrayed him, the former fled in Dalmatia with his flanking men and horses, and the latter's fleet gave up cover after a slight setback at sea, and my brother persevered to the end, and he was very valiant, and retreated with his men to the island of Curricota, and as a result, the fleet of Lipo and Maximus surrounded the island, and he and his three thousand soldiers had no way out, so he surrendered." ”

That is to say, Eulabella, with four thousand soldiers of the Eleventh Legion, fled back to Brindisi; And that Setlerus, with two thousand land troops, fled to Salona or Isa? Li Bida's judgment and guess were not wrong, and Anthony agreed with the answer, it was because Yurabela's fleet ran back that he knew the bad news.

Over there, Antony was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, while Libida slowly put nuts and plums into his mouth, pondering something calmly, and after a while he revisited the central question: "Didn't Caesar negotiate with Pompey about Gaius's safety?" ”

"He has no money, and he will reward all the soldiers! The bald man simply said that everyone had to obey the goddess of fate in the war, and perhaps Gaius would be released soon after his victory in Greece. Damn, I'm going to hunt down Eurabela, that bastard must be a personal vendetta, and the matter is revealed, and he'll report me in front of Caesar. Anthony's eyes were bloodshot and he yelled.

"That's why you fled like a criminal and a coward? Mark. ”

"No matter what, you must save me, I didn't come back to you, how you helped Claudius before, how you should help me now—I'm just this brother, he has been in the country manor for a long time, and he hasn't made much of a presence in the city of Rome, I've been sorry for him for a long time, and you have to save him, and save me, and even more so my mother." Anthony rubbed his hair wildly, rested his elbows on the table, and stamped his feet, this was his pleading attitude, which was rude and rude, but it was indeed the expression of his true character.

"Alright, alright. It is now imperative for you to take my letter back to Brindisi, to confess to Dick's guilt, and to return to his service to his army, and I have estimated that it is unlikely that he will punish you, for the bald man is now in the midst of his use. Li Bida patted Anthony on the shoulder and said with relief, "I will actively run for Gaius's affairs." ”

At this time, Claudia came out very knowingly, and put her hand on Li Bida's shoulder very casually, "Don't worry, General Li Bidaius and the republican side are very familiar with Brutus and Cassiyo. ”

"Don't be stupid." Li Bida unceremoniously blocked the former mistress, but Claudia still retained an embarrassed smile, she has no power now, she has lost her brother, and her previous most fearful appearance has also begun to age, she really has no proud capital, she can only listen to the other party's counts honestly, "You are urging Gaius to finish early, because of the death of little Cato, we only have hatred, and now if Brutus is in front of me, you give him a sword, he will not hesitate to stab me to death." By the way, on the side of Pompey's youngest son, I can think of a way. ”

"You mean Saxus?" Everyone present did not believe their ears.

But Li Bida did what he said, and he quickly sent a letter of 100,000 to Séctus through the route of the Guò Chamber of Commerce, "Since we, as victors, did not embarrass Pompey's surrender in the slightest in the Spanish battlefield, then I ask you to mediate more with Gaius and the 3,000 soldiers of our side who surrendered at Curricota." ”

In Dixachan's harbor, when Lypida's letter arrived, the captured Caesar soldiers were lining up on the beach in great fear, to accept the sentence of the victors, and Gabinus, Lipo, and especially the angry Byblos, who was so angry, was not only because of the ridicule and ostracism he had suffered when he had been co-consul with Caesar (Byblos was a miserable man, Caesar was a road magistrate, Caesar was a city magistrate, Caesar was a consul, but he was always like a lonely shadow, suppressed by Caesar's glory), but also because Caesar and Lybida announced the list of "chief national thieves" after entering the city of Rome, and his name was not even his name of Byblos!

There is nothing more infuriating than being ignored by the enemy.

"Kill all these soldiers and officers, sacrifice to the god of war, sacrifice to the god of the sea, cut off their hands and heads, and hang them on masts and sail ropes, to intimidate those who dare to serve Caesar." This is what Byblos is built on.

Next to him, after reading Li Bida's letter, Sexetus laughed, and began to say that it was interesting and interesting, he had never seen such a brazen request, and then he raised his hand and said, "Call these people to surrender, most of them are just deceived by Caesar, and the guys recruited from the Gallic region are no different from mercenaries." As for Anthony's younger brother Gaius, who is also in the ranks, put him under house arrest, don't make it too difficult. ”

"What!" Byblos protested in disbelief.

"Nothing, Caesar's previous captives in Cofinium, Brindisi, Spain, including me and my father-in-law, were very politely repatriated, and were not persecuted, since as the defender of the republic, there is no need to morally lag behind the enemy and teach the truth." Séctus said that although Pompey's youngest son's words were not a mandatory order, in the republican army system, everyone knew that only Pompey, Scipio and Séctus really spoke the word, and this was a "family" army, because Pompey only trusted his relatives and old subordinates, and his dislike for those patriarchs, including Cato the Younger, was no less than Caesar's, and although Pompey provided for the expenses of these senators during his exile, It was not inferior to them during their time in Rome, but Pompey still had the deep meaning to send all the children and relatives of the senator to the island of Respas, which was actually tantamount to taking hostages in disguise.

In this way, in the end, Lipo and Gabinus, instead of killing the killers, demanded that these soldiers swear allegiance, and surprisingly, among the centurions, all of them from Italy surrendered to Pompey happily, while many of them of Gallic origin refused to betray Caesar, but were killed by execution.

"The team has grown again!" Séctus said to his father-in-law very proudly, "I will soon be able to fight that fellow named Lybidaeus again, and my next proposition is that Byblos must not let up, and that the fleet should patrol and strangle regularly, for Caesar's main force may come at any time to continue attacking the coastal cities; And General Lelias, with two Macedonian legions, split up to capture Olicum, Issa, and Salona, so that we could not only hold on, but also threaten the northern part of Italy, which was about to widen even more. ”

At this moment, on the rough coastline of the Peloponnese, a tattered ship came ashore, and the stocky man jumped down the gangway and fell into the water, and in a moment he staggered up wet, wrapped in a cloak, and with a miserable face, "I, Rabinus, will settle my confusion in this land in this tragic civil war." ”

(End of Volume 7) (To be continued......)