Within a few days, Pompey's fleet appeared on the shores of Silesia, and its sumptuous scale amazed all who came to greet them: a thousand rowing three-tiered ships, 30,000 hoplites, 5,000 cavalrymen, 500 bronze relief bows, all carrying an earthenware urn containing 300 drachmas - for Pompey claimed that he had completely exterminated the pirates of the Mediterranean, annihilated a hundred thousand pirates, destroyed one hundred and twenty pirate lairs, and captured more treasures than can be counted.

This was a naked demonstration against Lucuras, who had fought hard for many years in Asia Minor and had defeated his opponents many times, but he could not put the battle on the line. As a result, he still made wedding clothes for others, and cheapened the person he hated the most in his life, Pompey.

Pompey, dressed in loose robes, and under the stars of his staff and the attaché of the Doge's palace of Bithynia, led the able-bodied soldiers of the guard, carrying scepters and eagle banners, and entered Lucuras's barracks with great commotion, causing a great commotion—the soldiers collectively shouted Pompey's name, treating him as an immortal hero, and completely disgusted with Lucuras, as if he had not done anything useful at all.

Subsequently, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the two commanders decided to avoid the military camp for the time being, and chose to meet in a secluded uninhabited village, with only a few staff and retinues on both sides participating, with Calabis and Demetrius also following behind Luculas. The meeting took place in the spacious barn of the small village, and it was at this time that Carabis saw for the first time the "honorary general" of ancient Rome, Gnaeus. Pompey. Magnus.

At that time, Pompey had just turned forty years old, and he was of slight but strong stature, which was inseparable from his many years of training, and even in the days of Rome, he would go to the school field every morning with the young soldiers to ride, run, swim, and throw javelins. His hair was thick and curly, and Pompey deliberately combed it back, which was said to look more like Alexander the Great, the conqueror of the three hundred years of Shijie, but always had a separate lock that hung down on the side of his forehead and swayed with his raised hand, which made him look a little funny. Pompey not only imitated Alexander in his dress, but in fact he followed in the footsteps of his idol in his dreams, a man who was so favored by the Roman people that at the age of twenty he enjoyed his first great triumph, and the general's name was recited throughout the Mediterranean, whether in the land of the Stone Circle (Gibraltar) in Far Spain or in the swamps of Egypt in the East. Pompey always strives for a word when he speaks, his chin raised, his brow shrunk into an inverted figure, trying to make his eyes deeper, but this also brings a flaw, that is, when he smiles, it gives people a sense of relief and falsehood.

The soldiers and commoners especially loved him, the nobles generally hated him, and Luculas and Crassus publicly accused him on more than one occasion that Pompey, who was not of high birth, was an upstart and a half-liar, and that most of the so-called exploits were pretentious, and that he was very good at deceiving and coercing the senate and citizens in order to achieve the ambition of robbing others of merit and pursuing his own honor.

But now, Pompey has won again, and the object of his competition this time is Lucuras.

It was an open secret that the two were at odds with each other during the Sulla dictatorship, but today Luculas still has to maintain a superficial restraint, and he does not want to lose his military power and grace at the same time. So at first, the two were still very enthusiastic fists and hugging, just like comrades-in-arms who had reunited after a long absence, and when they talked about the settlement of affairs, they were also cautious, hoping to bypass each other's untouchable forbidden areas. When Luculas saw that Pompey had withered the crown of laurel leaves on his head because of the long journey, he ordered his men to give him a fresh green one.

Calabis and others, under the direction of Apis and other tribunes, together with Pompey's attaché, were busy sorting out papers, stamps, letters, and tokens, and busily busied around the barn. But in the end, the two of them quarreled in front of many generals and civil protectors.

Everyone didn't know the source of the quarrel between the two of them, which side said the wrong thing, but they all witnessed the determination and courage of these two commanders to fight to the end without a fight. Pompey rebuked Luculas loudly: "Your Excellency's expeditions over the past few years have yielded nothing but the money, blood, and credibility of the Republic. Now that Mithridates has risen again, Pontus has been unable to destroy it for a long time, and it is precisely because the fathers of the Senate cannot stand you that they have temporarily assigned me to clean up the mess. Today I have made a little tour of your military camp, which is full of scenes of passive slackness, corruption and depravity, do you not know how much trouble I will have to bear in the future battles? ”

Lucuras did not budge: "Yes, I have wasted some of the things of the Republic and settled the situation in Bithynia for it, the kingdom was already crumbling before I came, and it was I who saved it and brought it back into the arms of Rome." With only one or two thousand soldiers, I conquered no less than three hundred cities and fortresses, destroyed hundreds of thousands of enemies, defeated two of the most powerful emperors in Asia Minor, I was the first Roman general to enter the Tigris and Euphrates, I silenced all my enemies - and then you, Pompey with a false smile on his face, came and deceived the people, took away my men, and took away the honor that should have been entirely mine! ”

Pompey raised his head and said with a smile: "Compared with my brilliant achievements, these deeds of yours can only be regarded as a mere fluorescence, and I was twenty years old" who wanted Luculas to split his head interrupted his boasting: "We know those achievements of yours, in Spain your army has been repeatedly defeated by the one-eyed dragon Setouris, and you will only wear silk robes in front of the legionnaires, perform some kind of victory goddess sacrifice, deceive Rome into your victory, and write to threaten the Senate, saying that if you do not meet the provisions of your army, You're going to let Setuuris into Italy. When the one-eyed dragon was assassinated by his rebellious men, you took it all for you - in Spain, you robbed Metra of his exploits; In the suppression of the great uprising of the swordsmen, you robbed Crassus of his exploits; Now in Pontus, you have come to rob me of my exploits - Pompey, you are an insatiable ghoul eagle, and when I Luculas slain the corpses of my enemies with my sword, you are attracted by the smell of corpses and blood, and you eat carrion, and then you croak, all this is my credit, all this is my credit. ”

Even the onlookers felt that this was a little too powerful, and they saw Pompey raise his head, so angry that the lock of curly hair stiffened. Then Luculas pursed his lips and waved his hand, and prepared to leave the barn, leaving Pompey alone, and parting unhappily.

"Please stay, Governor of Silesia." At this time, Tri Ali suddenly spoke.

Luculas turned his head and said in a mocking tone, "What's the matter, Triali. His Excellency Rikdanicus? ”

The suffix "Kus" in the domain name of the kingdom is generally the special name of the great commanders who conquered the land in Rome, such as Numidicus, Africhus, Germanicus, etc., and now Lucuras calls Triari "Rikdanicus", which is obviously a harsh satire of his incompetent fiasco here.