Chapter 33: The Tyrant's Gift (Part II)

"We have already mustered up a lot of courage to come, now Caesar is already a tyrant, and in the early hours of tomorrow morning, Brutus will convene a general meeting with the participation of all the senators and the people, on which the killing of Caesar will be announced, as for Ebro, he has already run away, because he is afraid, who called him the chief executive of the Executive Yuan this year, and fears that he will become the target of public criticism, and everyone knows that this institution was set up by Caesar, and it is also the most hated." Kota said slowly.

Since Ebro was in hiding, still in the capacity of the chief executive of the Executive Yuan, it also indicated that most people, including those in Caesar's camp, believed that this war would not have any advantages, so Li Bida sighed, "It seems that it is another battle in which the enemy is outnumbered?" We have also lost our leader. ”

In the apartment on Jucora Street, Li Bida sat on a seat on the first floor, and watched the rain swirl into the drainage ditch of the patio, and the pool of water was also dripping and overflowing, and a token officer in a leather cloak stepped on the water, ran in, and shouted, "The city legions have betrayed us, and their commander has accepted the edict of the Senate, and is moving the camp in the direction of Mars University." ”

"It seems that if you don't raise it yourself, you just can't." Li Bida, who was sitting in the circle chair, said, and then asked, "What is the attitude of Angandinus, the commander of the Sixth Army?" ”

After saying that, he asked the slave beside him to give him a bowl made of pure gold to his officer, and the token officer accepted the gift excitedly and inexplicably, and then replied loudly. General Angandinus hesitated. Now I heard that Brutus had sent a tribune as an emissary. They are rushing towards the Hezhou garrison, presumably to accept the Sixth Army Corps. ”

"Then call Brutus to see how long the sons of Sardinia can last." Li Bida said with a smile.

At this time, under the rain, many people, veterans and nobles gathered at the foot of Capitol Mountain, and they gathered under the flags with tents and leather rain gear. Be prepared to hear the murderer's justification.

Braving the rain, Brutus stood with Cassiillo on a pre-set pulpit, with Caesar's blood still on his wrists, and cried out, "Today we have slain a tyrant, and now I, Brutus, can live up to our ancestors and return the republic and freedom of Rome to everyone present!" ”

Cassillo's hair was drenched, but his feelings were unusually high, and he raised his fist in response to Brutus's speech, shouting, "I will mention the fifteenth of March." Not only as the day of the fall of the tyrant, but also as the day of the establishment of a new republic. It is commemorated with a grand festival every year! ”

Those who had been bribed, or hired by the Senate, began to cheer up, but they only cheered "Great Brutus" and "Great Republic", and did not dare to call Caesar a "tyrant", because many were still afraid of revenge.

Just as he was shouting slogans, the crowd of speakers suddenly rushed out of the crowd of eulabella, this young man has always been very famous among the poor and the scoundrels, his appearance caused a climactic cry, and then eurabella like a spirited athlete, ascended to the podium, in fact, he came out this time, completely rejecting the advice of his father-in-law, Cicero said to him yesterday in the house, "Do not think that Caesar is dead, his camp will do nothing, even if you take it as a sure victory, be cautious, Therefore, these days, before the situation is settled, and Caesar's will is not read, it is better not to show your face, lest it arouse the disgust of the people, for Caesar had forgiven your sins during his lifetime, and had identified you as acting consul with Brutus during his expedition to Parthia, and you were not yet thirty years old, and was this not the grace of Caesar in the eyes of others? ”

But the young fellow, always throwing the old man's advice behind him in an instant, came to the stage briskly, lost himself in the cheers of the crowd, and raised Brutus's right hand and cried out, "What are you still afraid of, what are you hesitating about? An army fearing tyrants? Aren't they also made up of Roman citizens? Caesar's grace may not have been received more than I have received by anyone, but I will publicly declare my break with him today, because I am on the side of liberty and the people! After saying that, Eurabella directly took off the red-rimmed robe representing the consul, leaving only one underwear in the rain, and then broke the robe in the muddy water, trampling it with her foot, "Treat the tyrant's gift as it should be!" ”

"Tyrant, tyrant!" Yurabela's performance brought his party sentiment to a feverish state, and soon the entire Capitol Mountain was trapped in slogans.

"I declare that the two sons of Pompey, Rabinus and other republican generals, who had been persecuted by Caesar, who were still living in misery in exile in the Balearic Islands, are now recalled and restored to citizenship and their respective positions." Brutus went on to speak, and then the previous Pompey guests in the crowd applauded the great righteousness of Brutus and others.

And Spinzer and Casca also stepped forward, and they and Luga and the others unbuttoned their sleeves and showed the scars on their bodies, boasting that they were left on their bodies by the tyrant when he was trapping the beasts, and Luga also showed his buttocks, "but we don't feel any pain, because this is a medal for rebellion and killing tyranny." ”

They then immediately announced that the Sixth Legion, which was stationed on the Timber River, had resisted the order to move the battalion and change the commander, and so publicly declared Flavius and Malulas, the two previously dismissed tribunes, innocent and reinstated, and now went to take over the Sixth Legion with a rod and an edict.

At this moment, in the command post in the barracks, Angandinus was sleeping and eating, and the soldiers and centurions were arguing outside, wanting to see their cavalry commanders, and asking about the merits in person, and some people were worried about whether Li Bida was killed with Caesar and suffered an accident, so many people stood outside the camp tent, in a fully armed state, especially after the city corps in the camp next to it was opened, the military spirit of the whole team was even more fluctuating. Why wouldn't Angandinus want that? But he was cautious, he wanted to see Li Bida, but he was afraid to see him, not to mention that now the entire city and state were in the eye of the storm.

But the chief centurion, Haybrida, squinted and squatted without saying a word in front of the main gate of the camp, looking at the bridge between the river and the block, still holding a short sword in his hand, and letting the pawns around him be noisy.

"It's coming, it's coming!" After the soldiers on the watchtower shouted, Hebrida saw two officials with edicts, trumpets, and sticks at the head of the bridge, shouting something, coming from the main gate of the camp. (To be continued......)