The javelin pierced the elephant's eye socket, it bled out, but it was also furious, and the two soldiers saw with their own eyes that far away, the elephant rushed and curled up Rybruce and their commander with its long trunk, although the commander tried to break free, and was about to bravely pull out the dagger and cut the elephant's trunk, but the huge animal did not give a chance, it threw Lybrus into the air, and then slammed it to the ground, and when Rybruce was about to get up, the shadow hung over him, and fell rapidly, With an indescribable thud, the Roman lieutenant was trampled to pulp with the elephant's legs, and his entrails and flesh were splattered everywhere.

When King Juba had joined the herd, Lybrus's front team, about 2,000 soldiers, was driven to the foot of a cliff, and the cavalry surrounded the herd like animals, and then the elephants rushed over and trampled them cruelly, for King Juba thought it was a very meaningful thing, and he liked to see the prisoners of war screaming in a helpless state and being killed alive by his army.

As night approached, the hill from which Curio had fled was also captured by the overwhelming cavalry of King Juba, whose soldiers were dead, and the corpses were piled up like freshly harvested wheat, while the body of the Roman commander-in-chief was unknown, and many cavalrymen were looking for his whereabouts, alive or dead, with torches.

As soon as Quintus and Rufus had arrived at the old camp of Cornelius, they told Malclus and Maximus to mobilize all the warships and merchant ships, and fled with them, and ran back to Sicily, where they could not stay anyway.

"No, you can't!" Malclouse flatly refused, and he then asked the two fleeing men. The enemy is now outside the Three Romans. How many pursuers. As a result, Cicero's younger brother was full of shame. I couldn't understand it for a long time.

Maximus then took the initiative to ask the two men to be in his hands, together with some of the armed oarsmen, to continue along the camp towards Utica, "Do not abandon Your Excellency the Doge at will!" "It's hard to believe that these words came out of the mouth of a fleet commander.

Fortunately, they were not attacked, and there was no sign of Pompey's army within the three Roman miles - they were all ordered. Assemble in Utica and attack another Masi legion.

The battle under the city of Utica ended faster, the 40,000 men of King Juba, plus the two legions of Pompey were joined by the inside and outside, and the rear of the 17th legion of the Masi was abandoned by friendly troops, and they could not retreat from the battle, so they could only surrender, but most of them were unlucky and went to the army of King Juba, and then Marco and Sap were ordered by the king. They took all the troops under the wall they had built the other day and slaughtered them all.

Pompey learned about this. Very angry, but also helpless, the current king of Juba is able to defy the authority of Rome in Africa, he does whatever he wants, he can't tell the difference between the Masi and the Romans, in his eyes they are all villains from Italy, and they must be killed.

After finding Tianming, they could not find the rest of Curio's generals, so they could only board the ships and retreat, some of the ships were overloaded and capsized, and finally retreated to Sicily, but the rookie of the 22nd Legion had the most survivors.

About a month later, the news that the four legions of Afrigian and Curio were "almost annihilated" officially reached the city of Rome, and rumors of Pompey's counterattack on Sicily followed, and the city was in chaos, some people were frightened, and some people were excited.

"The young general Curio, because of his extreme loyalty to the dictator, could not contain the bravery in his heart, or was too impulsive, and fell into the ambush of the enemy, and suffered a tragic defeat." In the courtyard of Seville's house, Caesar, who was inviting many powerful people to a banquet, thoughtfully pressed the word board, but he did not hide it, but sighed, "But General Curio, and the equally brave Massis League Legion, still inflicted terrible heavy losses on the enemy. However, I will have to do everything myself, and I will soon go to fight Pompey with all the legions of Italy in the season of good sailing! ”

Upon hearing Caesar's words, the guests seemed relieved, and it seemed that the dictator still had enough strength at hand to compensate for the consequences of the defeat in Africa.

And so the singing continued, and on the other side of the couch he was having a good conversation with Attia and her new husband, Phillips, who had been consul and was a well-known orator, and who was now telling a pun to the cavalry commander.

"I feel that I should be called to participate in the immediate battle in Africa, so that Pompey will not take any measures of resistance and will surrender directly." Phillips said soothingly, and then looked around at the guests, their faces smug with surprised expressions.

"Then I must tell you to bring it, and live in the same tent, otherwise the credit will be taken away by others." Li Bida's mood also looks quite good.

"You know, Pompey thinks of himself as Alexander, and I am Phillips, will Alexander the Great refuse his father Philip's request?" Phillips playfully announced the answer in a tone that mimicked his father's, and then many of the guests, including Lipida, understood the meaning of the pun and laughed merrily.

Later, Attia changed the subject, she asked Li Bida about the date of Turinus' marriage to Corinna, but Li Bida objected to his daughter's early marriage, he obviously thought that it was harmful to Corinna's body, but Attia seemed to be extremely enthusiastic about this matter, and there were generally some things that made the noblewomen of Rome get the same satisfaction as the men who fought in Vanity Fair, and the marriage of children was also among them.

"Dear Phillips, I do not think that you have just spoken to Pompey, or that he is still in the hearts of the Romans, the words of the great Pompey, the words of gentleness that a decent man could utter." It was Brutus who uttered such words with a glass of wine and a stern face on his face.

Phillips was visibly embarrassed, and Attia was interrupted from questioning about her children's marriage, and the orator explained to Brutus that he was just a pun intended, and that he had no bad intentions in it, because many of the people present were going to the battlefield of life and death, and he wanted to calm the mood.

But Brutus didn't seem to pay any attention to him at all, just staring at Li Bida, who was still sitting on the couch.

Li Bida also glanced back at him a few times, there was no provocative content in his eyes, but then he didn't say anything, but stood up and said goodbye to everyone very politely,

"Vicintoli of Gaul and General Itassos of Liguria have sent an army to aid the dictator's expedition, and I still need to settle the settlement." (To be continued......)