Chapter 21: The Death of a King (I)
PS: In order to celebrate the Admiral of the Imperial Mauritania Navy, Sula, last night, with the blessing of the shaman high priest, killed the E4 dean in a wave, got the pride of the Italian Imperial Navy VV, and in the future, he will also get the same "Rome" and "Empire" battleships, and tonight will be double-shifted. Happy Otti, Yati, Fiti and Antarctica!
"Tiberius get out of here on the Titer!" - The citizens of Rome celebrate the death of Tiberius
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"Your Excellency, the time has come to use your Sword of Benevolence!" The duty that had always been with Machius shouted in the crowd of all the soldiers, and Machius's face was blue and purple, and when he saw that everyone's eyes were staring at him, he was so embarrassed that he was so embarrassed that he relented, drew his sword, and put the slave and the centurion in front of him, and then put a sword in front of him.
Exclaimed, but seeing that Machius himself was so frightened that he sat down, and his hands were still trembling, but he did not die, because he was wearing a very precious and strong copper cuirass, and the curvature on it was perfect, and Machius himself was a bitter hand with a sword, so the sword just slid down, and then staggered from his heart, and stabbed himself in the armpit, and immediately the director of the works turned pale and shouted that I was bleeding, I was wounded, and several loyal military slaves immediately ran over and helped him bandage his wounds—and the soldiers were in a mess, what to say and shout anything.
The haunting duty reappeared, and he picked up the general's saber that had fallen to the ground again. And ask the centurions. "Remove the general's skirt and cuirass. In this way, his suicide can be successful. ”
There was a sound of military trumpets, and the officers and soldiers retreated, and the guards of the High Priest of the Victors, all of whom were dark-skinned Medejiens, came over, and the bald-headed Captain of the Guard, Alp, who took the lead, stood in front of Machius, his eyes swept around like a leopard, and said in a deep voice. "His Excellency Liberdaus, High Priest of the Republic, will carry out the natural power of the victor."
"The victor is born with power", this sentence is familiar to everyone in the centuries-old history of the Roman Republic - the winner is killed, and the loser is doomed; The winner is right, and the loser is to blame.
Obviously, what he meant when he told Arp was to slaughter all the officers, and then sack the entire camp and sell the ordinary soldiers into slavery.
Machius immediately became even more paralyzed, and as a result, he immediately shouted to Arp. "Don't slaughter my officers and men indiscriminately, I am willing to ask the high priest for guilt. Request for any sanctions. ”
These words immediately aroused great emotion among the soldiers, who saluted the engineering director and commander, who usually looked very modest and cowardly, and shouted that they were willing to sacrifice their lives to save the supreme commander's life.
"Then go and meet His Excellency the High Priest, and there may be a turnaround." Alpuyan raised his head, and immediately resolved the extremely embarrassing scene in which Machius could not die, so the general stood up, held his sword in his hand, removed all the ornaments and cloak from his body, put on his ordinary sweatshirt, and under the cheers and gaze of the soldiers, slowly came to the pergola that the high priest had set up on the side of the camp.
It was a makeshift shed, decorated with flowers and turf, and piled up with a great silver platter a few treasures for a feast of victory, and Lybida, dressed in the robes of a red and white consul, embraced Machius, who had come to plead for sin, and asked his entourage to give him a robe of toga, woven of fine Cyrene cloth, very light and comfortable—but when Machius put on his clothes, he felt extremely heavy, and he hurriedly surrendered his sword, He also expressed his willingness to apologize for his reckless words, "You may execute me with this sword, or you can return it to me out of mercy, and I may judge myself before all the soldiers." ”
"Oh? What if I want you and your soldiers to get through the yoke and then forgive everyone? Li Bida asked jokingly.
"Forgive me again, most of my men are native to Spain, and they themselves have come out to fight with me out of gratitude to Pompey and his son, and it would be better to die if they were to accept the great shame of the yoke—then I would rather you use this sword to plunge me in the chest now." Machius said without hesitation.
Li Bida laughed, and Colora behind him was also moved, "I have captured you for the fourth time, Lord Machius, and this shows that there must be an unusual friendship between us - this battle, the troops and commanders of both sides are extremely brave and glorious, so no one should die, how about I guarantee the safety of all your people's private property and lives?" ”
In the end, the two walked out of the pergola hand in hand, and expressed "reconciliation" to all the officers and soldiers present who were still friends and enemies: "I, Liberdaus, this expedition is just a relay point, and the ultimate goal is to give the entire two Spain and Lusitania, the whole continent, eternal peace and tranquility!" ”
"Long live the High Priest! Long live the Republic, God bless Rome! The whole camp was boiling.
Now, of course, Li Bida knew that the gateway and road to the city of Ursau had been opened, and his hope now was that the seven legions of Peternius would be able to crush the Sagantan region and enter the area of the Sinchillis River, a natural protective trench on the east side of the city of Ursau, so as to contain the two legions of the little thunder god and allow him to move freely.
For this reason, he called the newly surrendered Machius, and begged him to list the configuration of the little Thor's army in detail on the sand table map table, "If nothing else, Sexetus will deploy a legion in the Sinchillis River, plus the assistance of the Spanish barbarian cavalry, he is confident that he can temporarily resist your special army, and then he should deploy another legion in another fortress called Uriah, plus the reinforcements of a legion sent by Rous, I estimate his plan, It should be to thwart your men all the way before you gather the main forces of all aspects to gather and besiege, that is, to launch a two-way offensive to defeat your lieutenant's group from the direction of Sagantan. ”
"Petneeus has seven legions, and he himself is an expert in tactics, and the little Thor deserves to be the little Thor, and he really dares to think and do." Li Bida exclaimed, "But since I personally led the team over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Monda Plains, and also to the back and soft belly of the little thunder god, I can't let him do whatever he wants." After speaking, Li Bida put the gilded baton horizontally, "After the whole army camps tonight, all rush out of the mountain road the next day, and I will press forward step by step to eat away at the towns and soldiers and horses of Sexetus!" ”
The next day, Li Bida took Machius as the commander of the first echelon, commanded 1,500 Spanish soldiers who had just surrendered, and asked Duçonvier to take 800 elite cavalry to "supervise" him, and went out of the mountain road of the camp and entered the southeast border of the Munda Plain, the city of Wendibo.
The city of Wendibo, which happened to be on the left bank of the Sinchillis River, south of the camp of the little Thor, and also east of the fortress of Ursho, was an extremely critical and sensitive area, where Lybida was to fire the first shot to pacify the Spanish province. (To be continued......)