Chapter 17: The Visitor to the Port of Ar (Part II)
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Galius, the envoy of the province of Napo and the commander of the Seventh Legion, was in tears, he did not know why he had arrived in his jurisdiction, and it stands to reason that although he had vaguely felt that it was possible beforehand, compared to the places of Numidia, Greece, Asia Minor, or Cyrene, Lybida's motive for coming here was the weakest, and only the twenty-seventh legion stationed in Aquidani was considered his descendant, but this legion was also formed by the green forest horse bandits of Lusitania, The combat effectiveness is far inferior to the rest of Li Bida's legions, after all, the powerful Twelfth Legion is in Brindisi, and the most personal Sixth Legion is in Lucania, why did he come here alone?
Obviously, with Li Bida's IQ, his purpose Galius can't guess for the time being, but this guy did come to Nebo City with a dozen or so horsemen.
Along the way, however, news of the appearance of the former cavalry commander on land in the port of Nebo soon spread, and the "local akuta" in the town square, imitating Rome, posted the matter, and the elders, merchants, and army commanders all rushed to discuss and shout for no reason, as if no one would believe that such a fateful event of Rome could take place on the frontier of Naibo.
Soon, the spread of the message degenerated into the most primitive form of Gaul, "standing on the high slopes and shouting", from village to village, and the content was constantly added to the content, and finally at nightfall. When it reached Chinabum, the city of Orleans. The content has been changed to "Former cavalry commander Libidaeus." Landing at the port of Arr with ten elite legions and preparing for a counterattack on the Roman Senate. ”
"Ten legions, what's the joke?" Paruma, who was walking his horse by the river at sunset, shouted loudly, and then he said to his soldiers, "Now go to the city to tell my wife, my father has come to me, this is the honor of my little pigeon, so I will go to Naibo at once." Tell her not to wait for me, I'm on my way! With that, Paruma's mount, having received the order, neighed and ran towards the little pigeon, and Paruma limped but ran fast, jumped parallel to his horse, took hold of the reins, and galloped away in the direction of Nabo City.
He traveled all night until the wee hours of the morning, when Paruma arrived at the Every River. found that it had become a huge "camp" - Itassos of Liguria, with an army; Alobrogis people. and the Everites each sent a thousand cavalry; Merissus, the magistrate of the city of New Massella, also directly took a Confederate legion with him; And the twenty-eighth legion in the Aquitaine area, under the leadership of Cambano, at the same time asked the dependent tribes to bring two thousand cavalry. These groups of men and horses, all from different directions, all kinds of banners, poured towards the Urville River, and their purpose here was also obvious: to assemble under Li Bida's tent and wait for orders.
Then all the generals of the Seventh Legion came to Galius and urged him to make up his mind whether to purge Lybida from the province, expel him, or throw him under his banner.
"The first two will definitely not work, if you clear them, you can go and see their soldiers and horses under the Urver River, and expel them? Now that Li Bida is here, how can we expel him? In the last one, Galius suddenly shut up and said nothing, in fact, since the change in the city of Rome, the province he is in charge of has always been a region where secret letters are intertwined with all sides, letters from the Senate, letters from Pompey, and letters from Caesars, all of which are fighting for him, because the province of Napo controls the sea and land points between Rome and the western territories.
Galius naturally understood that the group of generals under him also held various positions in private, so he couldn't express anything in person at all, so he kicked the ball to his subordinates.
As a result, the generals of the Seventh Legion looked at each other, and the last third-class centurion in the chief brigade (commanding the third wing of the chief brigade) was the first to speak, "If we want to talk about the political concept in the city of Rome, where will we understand, but the cavalry commander will be expelled from the city of Rome because Caesar was killed and wants to avenge him." Next, all the generals stopped talking, because if anyone came out at this time and said that they wanted to attack or expel Li Bida, it would be equivalent to admitting that they "don't avenge Caesar", and this is the most taboo for the soldiers, even if they can get through guò, they will be attacked by the soldiers of the Seventh Legion who are angry and mutinied, and it is very likely that they will be killed.
The Seventh Legion was Caesar's descendant, one of the four legions he brought to Gaul, and then stayed away from the maelstrom of mutiny, always honestly guarding the colonies of Gaul, and there was nothing wrong with placing land and bounty Caesar. Galius, who was originally a general of the Pompey Party, was also recommended by Li Bida to be appointed as an envoy and commander of the legion, and in a sense he was also Li Bida's protégé.
After a moment of silence, the effect was immediately apparent, and the soldiers of the Seventh Legion, supposedly armed with weapons, all walked out of the camp and headed for the Governor's Mansion!
"You have to make a decision." Gallius urged.
"Let's be fair, let's roll the dice." Several centurions said.
"Come on faster!" Galius continued to urge.
"Then the single and double, the single one will be with Li Bida, and the double one will expel and attack, at least protect Naiba City." After one of the military tribunes finished speaking, he took out six walnuts, and then, in the nervous breathing of the crowd, threw all six into the air, and then quickly covered them all with wide-mouthed clay pots on the left and right, and after a flicker, pushed one of the clay pots in front of Galius's eyes.
"Single." Galius said.
When the clay pot was lifted, there were two walnuts.
Everyone was silent, and then the military protector said, "The decision of the three bureaus, how?" ”
So everyone said okay, and in the next two games, Galius was all wrong.
"Do you have to guess someone else?" Someone else said.
While there was a lot of disagreement, the soldiers of the Seventh Legion, who had blocked the outer gates, began to shout everywhere, and jumped up their short square shawls with flagpoles, claiming that it was best to satisfy them with the counsel of the generals, or else they would do the same to them as the murderer had done to Lord Julius.
"It's time for a decision! The results must be announced to the soldiers. With that, Galius stood up bravely, threw all the walnuts under the table, and rushed out of the gate, shouting in front of the rushing soldiers, "We of the Seven Legions act on only one principle, and that is whoever can avenge His Excellency Caesar, we will follow him!" ”
"Hooray! God bless Rome! All the soldiers cheered, and then they shook their banners and emblems, and gathered around Galius and the rest of the "defeated" generals, and watched as they mounted their horses and led them all towards the Everyer. (The novel "The Way of Augustus" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)