"God is not the maker of chaos, but the maker of peace." -- São Paulo

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At this time, before Siphax could reply, the servants bound him and stuffed him into a light mule cart beside the cavalry, and the rest of the cavalry gathered around Tellureas, so that the capture and killing of the previous moment were oblivion.

Then Tellureas drew his sword and shouted at the five hundred or so cavalry around him, "There are those who want to rebel against the high priest's crusade, and plot to hold the military commander hostage and start a rebellion, and the rebels are under the walls of Lilibal in front of them, and their crimes have been revealed, let us kill them all with iron hooves and swords!" ”

"Kill all the rats." All the servants and horsemen raised their swords and shouted, and then they pulled the reins and shook their horses' heads and charged, while the rearmost reserve brigade, and the two wings that charged at the same time to the left and right, thought that Tellureas was leading them in the lead, and cheered together.

And from the collapsed wall, the three brigades led by Bateas who climbed into it, sure enough, after passing through the aqueduct and two street corners, the ring-shaped city square in front of them appeared in front of them unobstructed, "This is the passage, everyone bravely follow me to charge, do not let the enemy escape into the acropolis." The horse's mane on his helmet fluttered, and he heard the sound of horses' hooves and horns outside the city walls - it seemed that the commander of the legion had come with the rest of his men, and it was time to seize control of this narrow road, and then take the core of the city directly, and then we would win!

In front of the colonnade of the town hall. Everywhere there was smoke from the burning of bunjiàn. There are also slaves running around. Seeing this scene, the running Pitheas couldn't help laughing, "Leo is here, stop him, kill him, and give his head to his foreign father as a gift." ”

And all the soldiers of the Twin Legion who shouted and charged, could clearly see it under the gable of the town hall. There stood a quiet, medium-sized young man, dressed in a rough cloak, with a fine cyrene robe inside, and a scroll in the palm of his hand, which must have been Leo!

Poor boy, he is still so young, but who called your head so valuable?

Suddenly, from behind and on both sides of Leo, a number of soldiers wearing Spanish hats and helmets poured out. Uniformly clad in fine chain mail and armed with a rectangular shield. Unexpectedly, Leo still has about three hundred loyal barbarian guards by his side, but this will not change the situation, and our side still has the advantage.

"Soldiers, I need a reasonable explanation for your armed acts against the cities under the jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan without the permission of any order from above, in my capacity as deputy envoy of the province of Sicily." Leo paced lightly from side to side, escorted by layers of soldiers, but questioned the rebels with full pride and enthusiasm.

"The Executive Yuan where you are and your inauguration documents are false and transgressive! And I'm the one who executes it, and somebody is always going to do that, isn't it? I, centurion Pityas, am about to become an executioner and an executioner, and this is not Capitol Mountain, but forget it, so be it, Uncle Pityas will cut off your head soon, and sooner or later the heads of your whole family will reunite in the Grand Forum, and crows and wild dogs will be your musicians and dancers. Bitheas scoffed, and then began to beat his shield with his sword, drawing the applause of the rebels behind him.

Leo pointed to the rebellious soldiers in the semi-circular square, "Soldiers, although you were previously in a different camp from my father, you have been defeated in Sardinia, it was my father who forgave everyone, and he did not expect to be rewarded by you, he only hoped that you could complete your career as ordinary soldiers, and get settlement money and land, but now you have chosen the most stupid act, that is, rebellion!" ”

"Don't listen to his!" Parteias and several centurions roared as well, and all the rebels shouted in unison to show their determination, trying to suppress Leo's shouts.

"This is the last chance left for you, and now you will fall to the ground, throw down your shields and weapons, and beg to surrender. You know, I now have a full army at hand, they have surrounded you on all sides, and General Maximus's fleet will sail into the harbor of Liliba in an hour to help in the battle, so your future is not bright, surrender, recognize the people who are in shape, you may live, don't you think about your comrades, your countrymen, your wives and children? I don't like to kill anyone, but if someone in the shadows is trying to kill me, killing innocent others, I will not hesitate to give the order to clean it up. Leo rolled up his sleeves, stretched out his arms and fingers, and spoke in a stern tone he had never seen before.

"Guys, this poor yellow-headed boy is just bluffing, and in the current situation, I think he is also frightened and incoherent." Bityas put his helmet back on, then slashed the sword in his hand, "All, forward, forward!" ”

At this time, Leo also gritted his teeth, pulled out the fighting sword in the scabbard under the cloak, and also slashed it relatively closely, "--kill-kill a qiē rebel." ”

This is, on the rain corridor on the second floor of the city hall, and on the gable, there were suddenly rows of lightly armed shooters, all holding Ligurian bows, and then there was a loud sound, "There is an ambush!" In front of this shouting and shouting, spreading throughout the whole formation of the rebels, countless arrows and crossbow arrows have been intertwined, many people immediately froze their bodies, and then they covered their necks and faces and fell, some of them were quick-eyed, protected themselves with shields, squatted down, pulled each other back and forth, and continued to advance strongly against the rain of arrows.

However, at this time, the buildings around the ring of the entire square, the arcades, public villas, memorial towers, and theaters, all appeared in twos and threes with warriors holding belly bows, and crossbow arrows were whizzing from four hundred and eight directions, and most of the subordinates of Pythias were snorting, and they were killed and injured for no reason, and Pytheas felt that something was wrong, and from the street, more and more barbarian guards poured out, rushing towards their own side, "Is this really a trap?" Formed a formation, stabilized, the rear team became the front team, folded into a shield wall, and retreated along the road from which it came. Parteias decided to exit the pocket-shaped square and join up with the friendly forces that had arrived on the other side of the city wall.

The bloody slaughter took place in that narrow passage - the Leo soldiers who had been ambushed on both sides of the road, using sharpened stones and boiling oil, slammed and dumped from top to bottom, and even the shield wall of the soldiers of Bitaias could not stop this most terrible killing move, and many of them rolled on the ground with black burns and fireworks, only to tripped more people, and suddenly turned the whole street into a purgatory of corpses and flames. (To be continued......)