Chapter 17: The Enemy (Part I)

The weakened eunuch will only be inspired by greed to reach out his servile hand into the state's cash drawer, like a thief. - According to a social commentator in the late Roman Empire, eunuchs, a unique product of the Oriental state, had also penetrated into the body of the empire at that time.

Save? Wait, I've followed these three women to the present in a daze, and I'm still having a night with that queen, but haven't I ever thought that I'm saving Adiana? No, no, no, judging from the current situation, it was the people of Pontus who kidnapped her last night, and Adeanna was not the youngest daughter of Mithridates!

I'm kidnapping her now, although it's her cousin Marcha who wants her, but with the relationship between Marcha and Mithridates, Adiana must have gone to the Bosphorus, and she won't be treated like a haode, maybe it's just a card in her cousin's hand - however, what about Adiana returning to her father's side? His father had almost poisoned her before, could there be a second time?

This is Adeana's father, brother, and aunt, is this her family?

Calabis thought quickly, and suddenly felt pity for Adiana.

At this moment of hesitation, Helenputina had already run a long way in front of him, and the soldiers of Pontus had just reacted, and some of the soldiers climbed onto the cart and urgently wanted to protrude the cart first. In addition, the half of the cavalry who had been drawn in advance to pursue Elcapa, sensing the Amazon's strategy, all of them returned to protect the royal woman's chariot.

One of the soldiers who was pulling the reins of the ox cart had his neck cut off by the flying chain axe, and he fell down with blood, Helenputina pulled the chain and flew up, and the double-headed sword in Tifo's shield stretched out, and there was a burst of bloody sword shadows, and the three or four Pontic soldiers on the cart were all in different places. "I'll drive away, Ella, you run with that Calabis, don't worry about Elkapa!"

"Drink!" Under the siege of the rest of the Pontic soldiers, Ella picked up the iron rod and ran quickly, and then she got her order, the three Scythian horses hidden on the back of the hill, shook their heads and ran down, and Ella, who had fought a bloody way, flew on her horse and shouted to Calabis who was shrinking in the smoke and dust: "Hey, get on the horse, slave!" ”

Calabis shook his head in a hurry, indicating that I had not yet mastered this skill, and Ella called out for trouble, and then rode his horse, and with a hand, he lifted Calabis behind him, and galloped away.

After running along the pass for about three or four quarters of an hour, Elkapa also rode on horseback with a bow and arrows on his back, and joined their group, and the three Amazonian warriors looked at each other confidently and smiled, as if their master's task had not yet failed.

Slowly, Elkapa ran to the front of the line, and she could remember exactly the way she had run last night, and guide everyone to the camp of the triad, and Calabis hoped that by this time, Utarius, Appis, and Hebridar were still in place.

As he expected, they soon encountered the vigilance team of the tripartite, led by Arminius, the captain of the ten, according to Arminius, they discovered the abnormal state of Adiana's camp early in the morning, and then the tripartite instinctively chose the high ground adjacent to the water, dug trenches and set up camp, and sent a vigilant detachment led by him to follow the camp as the axis, and also chased the rut marks.

"What the hell have you encountered?" On the way back, Helenputina and the other three were again masked and cloaked, and Arminius looked at them and asked as he went. Calabis answered selectively, such as encountering the abduction of the Pontic soldiers, but after a vicious fight, he snatched the princess back, and as for the true identity of Helenputina, he did not mention anything.

"Damn, my brother said that the tuna was assigned, and it was a task that smells worse than goose droppings." When he entered the simple camp of the Third Wing, Hebrida shouted at the car. Uteires, on the other hand, sternly warned him once again to maintain the necessary respect when referring to the Legion Commander, both in front of and behind the people.

Apis was no longer in the camp, he couldn't wait, because he had learned from last night's hijacking that the army of Pontus had reappeared on the borders of Silesia, and he had to hurry to draw the other troops, "There are still three brigades of the Eighth Legion stationed in Silesia, I will rush to their camp at once, this is called Rikdania, I will bring them, join your three wings, hold this place, and prevent Mithridates from counterattacking—in less than three days, the main force of the Eighth Army in the area of Sinop will also come, As long as we stick to that point, we will be completely successful. ”

This is also the reason why Hebrida is scolding, he is anxious about the slave trade in Bithynia, who wants to carry out additional defense missions here. But even so, after entering the camp of the three companies, Calabis secretly admired that even the temporary camp was well built, with the introduction of canals, the trunks of fig trees in the hands of the soldiers and the newly cut trees, and the square fence of the camps, the tents of the camps, each with their own areas, did not interfere with each other, and the middle of the earth was piled up into a small high ground for defense and lookout.

As Hybrida grumbled at the chariot, Utiris cautiously asked, "How many troops have the Pontic hijacked the princess, where do they have camps, and on what scale?" According to the message given to him by Elkapa, Calabis replied to Uterius: The Pontic people are a hundred stadias, through the pass in the dense forest, there is a cavalry guard camp, judging by the size and shape, it is only a scout base, probably only a few dozen to a hundred people.

After receiving this news, Utterus breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the large army of Mithridates did not appear in this direction, so as long as he waited for Apis to come and finish the defense, the third wing would continue on the road and send this terrible princess to Sinop City, and they would be able to deal with it safely.

At this moment, the terrible sound of the trumpet sounded from all directions, and the heart of Utteris was lifted again, it was the sound of the trumpet like the tide of the sea, and the two centurions looked at each other with a look of discoloration. Highbrida grabbed Calabis by the collar again, and asked, "That camp in Pontus, have you shown my brother clearly!?" At this time, the lookout soldier on the earthen platform in the center of the camp rang the small bell in despair, "Enemy attack!" The direction is in all directions, the number of people is not, unknown. ”

As the sun set in the west, the banners of the Pontic people embroidered with the sun rose on the slopes of the camp on all sides, and groups of horsemen, dressed in shining armor and cloaks, poured from all directions towards the camp of the three companies, numbering no less than two thousand. The number of the three companies at this time was only about seventy, and everyone was as white as the earth, but they still took their shields and javelins, and prepared to fight with the Pontus brigade.

"Take up arms, and obey my commands, brethren, and hold out until to-morrow, for the military tribune Appis will soon arrive with three brigades of Silesia, and we will be saved." Utiris put on the helmet of a centurion and looked at his men running around, encouraging.

Hybrida pointed at Utyrus and said, "Don't be stupid, if these Greeks charge, we'll be reimbursed for everything, and we'll have to use some means." With that, he drew his dagger and strode to Adina's car.