Chapter 16: Snow Mountains (Part I)
"Your name is still on the list declared by the public enemy." After asking the attendant to hand Colora a glass of wine, Li Bida said.
Colora was one of the lucky ones who had escaped death in the city of Seven Hills, he took the wine glass, and looked at the long-lost red agate-like wine inside, he had been hiding in the Spanish countryside for so long, this grade of wine and fragrant aroma was simply an irresistible temptation, "Death is good death!" As he said this, he took a few sips of the wine from his glass.
"Tell me, how did you escape from me and Antony, the centurion of Young Caesar, and the armed slaves?"
After a few more sips, Corora replied that he had been hiding in Mount Evandini, and then disguised himself as a coffin bearer, and was about to sneak out of Rome, and that he had already seen through it, but that a centurion had to check the coffin for a public enemy, and it turned out that the hapless Valentius was inside, and that he had his head cut off by the soldiers, and that he had escaped in the chaos.
Hearing such a legendary encounter, Li Bida laughed, and then he asked the newly acquired maid Willia to pour another glass of wine for our lucky elder, "Is it still the same as before?" There's only one can in the whole camp. "Velia speaks Greek well.
"Don't be like this, Viria, since the honorable Colora patriarch wants to drink, let him drink as much as he wants, he must have come here to be ready to die. For a dying person, no matter what the request is, we have to find ways to meet him. Li Bida said this very generously, and very threateningly, because just as Willia lifted the wine jar, the red crystal wine. When it flows into the silver wine cup in front of Colora. Several centurions had already begun to grasp the hilts of their swords—just waiting for the High Priest to take command. They chopped the current public enemy to pieces.
"Die or die!" Corola said it again, and drank it down.
After drinking, Li Bida faced him, "If you say this sentence a third time, my centurion will do it, are you willing to say it?" ”
"No, I want to live." Colora, who was holding the ring handle of the wine glass, burped. Said briskly.
"It's because after drinking such a wonderful drink, I rekindled my greed for life, right?" Li Bida pushed the entire wine jar out, "Tell me why you are trying to survive." ”
"Because I have changed my flag, I used to be a Republican who did not know the times, and now I am willing to serve you and be your arms and ears." Colora continued to bother with it.
"I don't lack this, although I think it's good that you change your political philosophy, you know. We in the Celestial Empire have a famous saying, 'In the morning we know the philosophy of God.' Then his life will be worth it even if it only lasts until dusk', I think this sentence is very appropriate for you. ”
"Don't be like this—when I was in hiding in Spain, I observed and collected a lot of information about you, the High Priest, and your ambition was not in that way, so I think it's best to cling to you than Antony, Caesar, or the remnants of the Republican Party—I'm different from the other rhetorical patriarchs, I am well versed in the law, and I studied under the family of Kota, the mother of His Excellency Caesar, and if you want to build an empire, I can help you plan it, and understand that this kind of business is not as simple as fabricating a few myths." Colora was anxious and spoke in one breath.
By this time, several centurions in front of him had surrounded him, his sword had been unsheathed, and all eyes were on the high priest who was silent and silent.
The high priest put his fingers together and made a forgiving gesture in the Colosseum, "rub and rub", the centurion's sword was re-sheathed, and Colora let out a long sigh, "Keep serving this elder, my dear friend!" The High Priest then cried out to little Veria in a loud and bold voice, "Let me hear what his high opinion is." ”
Soon, the dancers and maids with cute Greek round hats all walked in, and put the delicacies in front of Colora, and the poor senator devoured them, and did not care about their dignity, and did not forget the request of the high priest while eating, "The key now is to be fast, because for for the situation, you and the young Caesar are in a competitive relationship, and if he and Antony win a great victory in Greece and the East, then your power will be in jeopardy; And compared to your quick victory in Spain, Caesar will never turn around. Now the High Priest should do your best to annihilate the young Pompey brothers, coerce the Senate to grant you dictatorial powers, and then take aim at Young Caesar. ”
"My enemy is Brutus, and Caesar the Young is my ally, my son-in-law-to-be." Li Bida put down the wine cup a little angrily and corrected.
"It's all the same, it's not different. After your triumph in Spain, you stand idly by, and if Caesar asks you for help, you will take the opportunity to take advantage of the victory over Brutus and take the glory of victory over Brutus for yourself. ”
"What if Caesar the Younger doesn't ask for help?"
"That's also very simple, either directly use the supreme power granted to you by the Tribus Mins' Association to directly replace the young Caesar to obtain the right to conquer Greece, or create a crime against the young Caesar, and directly destroy him, his army, and his descendants."
"That's enough, you don't have to go on, say something specific, because you came to tell me about the plan of the Spanish conquest." Li Bida interrupted the other party and diverted the topic.
Corola laughed, and he wisely did not continue, and asked Lybida in turn, "Young Pompey has built a fairly strong fortress between Urschau and Corduba, and I have visited it myself during my flight from Spain, posing as a local knight. The fortress of Ursau, no, to be exact, was not a single camp, but a collection of pillboxes, the main camp was in the middle of three rivers, and there were many strongholds on the cliffs on either side of the road, and when our army entered from the front, it was bound to suffer great casualties, and not even supplies could be delivered to the front - so your Excellency, High Priest, if you tried to go around New Carthage and Sagantan, and join up with the army in the direction of Lilib, and launch an offensive from the east, you would have hit the ground of Szectus. Pompey's arms. ”
The other party's words really hit the knot in Li Pida's heart--he went ashore from the Gulf of Ebro, and his original plan was to first seize the rich cities along the bay, such as the city of Magara, to obtain provisions, and then slowly advance, to the Sagantan region, to join the army brought by Petronius from Lili, and break through to the fortress of Ursau, and the other ways of Callernus and Vicintoli were used to contain Zuò - so that the dangers and disadvantages that Corola said about this plan were all considered in advance, But there was one of the greatest objective difficulties that prevented him from adopting any other plan, and that was now a huge snow-capped mountain range between his ashore camp and the fortress of Ursau. (To be continued......)