This condition was very tempting, and it was very much in line with King Juba's dream, but he still continued to mutter, Demetrius had always handled internal and external affairs on behalf of his master Pompey, and his heart was very clear - according to the current situation, King Juba was juggling between Caesar and Pompey, you must know that although Pompey opened such a generous bargaining chip, but at the moment he was gambling with the whole country, if he still could not defeat Caesar, then Numidia was in danger of extinction.

"Please do not hesitate any longer, this is the plan proposed by Curio, who was still the tribune before we left the city of Rome, and who is now the commander of Caesar's garrison in Africa." With that, Demetrius handed over a copy to the King of Juba for inspection, and it was indeed Curio's proposal, which had nothing to hide - Curio had built a statement to Caesar: after the victory of the Afrika over the Pompei Party, not only would they revive Unonia and place four or five legionary veterans on African soil, but they would also completely annex Numidia and move the father and son of Juba to the city of Rome to be imprisoned, which was completely in the interests of the Roman knightly class, and they were generally dissatisfied with King Juba's policy of heavy taxation, He wants to overthrow the royal family and achieve control of the place by his own group.

King Juba threw the copy board on the dining table, the previous Jugurdah rebelled against the Roman Republic, also because he was dissatisfied with the extortion of the Roman Knights around the city of Kirta, and now if he supports Pompey and defeats Caesar's power in Africa, he still has a chance to live, otherwise he will sit back and watch Pompey fail, and Numidia will then turn into fish on the chopping block. Slaughtered. This Curio has great ambitions. He wanted to occupy Sicily and Africa. It is also equivalent to holding half of Rome's granary, and half of the veterans and horse production areas, to achieve its own greater leap.

"Let my vanguard, General Margo, take 3,000 cavalry to reinforce the city of Utica. Then I personally mobilized 40,000 infantry, 10,000 cavalry, and 100 war elephants, together with Sapu, the governor of the palace. Fight with Lord Pompey to destroy your enemies! "It seems that King Juba has made up his mind.

Pompey clapped on a chair to the side, and then offered to sacrifice many white bulls to the gods to establish a covenant between the two sides.

At this time, Dmetrius's heart was also full of joy and excitement, and it seemed that the battle had taken a great turn for the better after everyone's efforts, and he also clapped his hands, and many of his carefully trained musicians and ministers walked to the center of the feast and began to perform. Handsome young men shuttle through the streets, pouring wine and laughing at the kings and nobles. The atmosphere of the whole banquet also reached a climax, and King Juba and Pompey frequently clinked glasses across the chairs in the middle, for the battle, for their respective wives and children, and for the glorious victory of Rome and Numidia, as if they had known each other for many years.

The next day, General Margo, who was born in Phoenicia, had set up a camp outside the city of Kirta, and quickly gathered dry food, ready to quickly reinforce Utica, and the whole camp was neighing and gearing up, at this moment a group of grain and forage merchants serving the royal family entered the camp with a team of mules, horses and camels, and two of them quietly bribed General Marco with some gold and silver, and obtained the opportunity to meet the general.

"Oh, it turned out to be General Lybidaeus's people, and I regret that we belong to different camps in this battle, but I will still prepare a banquet for the two of you!" In the tent, General Marco greeted Hitius and Ortachilius very warmly, but he was obviously still wary - in those days, Marco had been a servant army, with a thousand Numidian light infantry and a few war elephants, and cooperated with Li Bida in his military campaign against Lusitania, and the relationship between the two was quite good, and Li Bida gave the general a lot of booty to multiply his estate.

Hitius looked around, and then, in a very proficient Phoenician, said to Margo, "This time our cavalry commander wants to bring a greater gift to the general. ”

"I know you, your name is Hitius, you used to be a mercenary in Mauritania, you fought against my majesty, and your words are not to be believed." After Brother Ma saw through the identity of this person, he said angrily.

Otakilius, on the other hand, was unhurried, and with the translation of Hittius, he said to General Margo, "I am the true representative of the cavalry commander." Then he gave him a ring.

The ring was engraved with the portrait of King Numa and the name of Aemilius, which surprised Ma Ge, who believed in Li Pida's sincerity, but out of caution, he still had to ask what he had to do in order to satisfy the cavalry commander.

"It's very simple, betray your majesty and serve your majesty Caesar." Otakilius said proudly.

Marco shouted angrily, he knocked down the table, and pulled his sword out of its sheath, to give the teaser some color, but Otaccilius, who was in front of him, immediately took out a decree board, and Margo, who was in thick Greek, looked at it, and saw that under the dense content, it was indeed stamped with the seal of the Roman dictator.

"Numidia is bound to perish, and now the king of Juba will help Pompey to save the dictator more effort. However, Caesar's decree was signed very clearly, he was going to divide the conquered kingdom of Numidia into four parts according to tradition, Kirta would be rewarded to the contemptible people, the city of Theo would be yours, and the remaining two would be converted into Roman provinces, which means that after our cooperation is completed, you and I will be kings of the four divisions. Hitius explained the contents of the Decree Board to Margo.

The king of the quarters, although smaller, is also the lord of a country with a palace and a large group of slaves, which is something that Ma Ge could not have imagined before, and this is how luck is, it comes to you before you know it, or gives you gifts, or brings endless remorse, can I really only be an obscure officer? Marco was not a hereditary nobility of Numidia, his ancestors had always been Carthaginians, with independent estates, and later during the civil war between Sulla and Marius, Sulla gave his family domain to this kingdom in order to win the support of the Numidian king.

"I am a loyal man who does not like to betray his master." Ma Ge said slowly and proudly, and then he laughed, "But it is also clear who the master is, and it is obvious that it should not be King Juba." ”

"Good!" Otakilius raised his glass with great satisfaction, and also clinked glasses for the agreement they had reached in private, "There is no need to worry about the following matters, as long as General Ma Ge does what the cavalry commander says, it can completely guarantee your glory and safety, General." ”

After the completion of the sacrificial ceremony and the departure ceremony of Kirta City, Ma Ge took his 3,000 cavalry and galloped away in the direction of Utica City. (To be continued......)