"Don't rush back to Europa, Asia is much better for you." - Antigonus, the founder of the Seleucid dynasty, received a sign of the gods at the temple of Titima

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In the face of the pressure of the larks, the people organized by Amartius showed great courage, they built a barricade fortification with five exits along Caesar's cremation pile, using stones and timber collected from houses and roads along the streets, and made a large number of homemade stick throwers, and fought to the death against the surging larks. About two brigades of Tarraco cavalry, recruited from the Spaniards, then instructed them to "storm the crowd outside the barricades of the mob and drive them all in like rats and hares, and then the lark legions will use their weapons to kill them all!" ”

The cavalry of Taraco shouted, shook the Spanish short sword in his hand, and formed a horizontal line fifty feet apart, each of which was fifty Roman feet apart, and trampled on the mob in turn, trampling and stabbing the people in front of him, whether it was a man, a woman or a child, and the whole street was full of corpses, and rivers of blood flowed, and many indignant people stood on their arcades and chimneys, in the name of various gods, cursing Anthony's cruelty, but Anthony ignored it, he was in the middle of the cavalry, wearing a bright cloak and a striking helmet, With a variety of gestures, he commanded a queue of infantry, cavalry, and crossbowmen, as if he were fighting the strongest of enemies.

After a qiē is all in place. He entrusted the command of the front to his younger brother Gaius. And said: "I will hear the news of your victory at the Manor of the Emperor of Begalong." And then. Under the escort of five hundred centurions, they blew their horns and returned to the "headquarters of the Emperor of Begalon".

Gaius, who had no choice but to bite the bullet and shouted, "As long as you can capture the mob's lair before nightfall, then reward each centurion with a hundred dinars and each soldier with ten dinars!" "At this time. In the other street, where chickens and dogs were jumping and smoke was raging, Gaius and Wendisis saw that it was a surging city legion, most of them in disheveled armor and inferior weapons, and the ranks were mixed with many sword-fighting slaves, some "Thracian fighters" (referring to lightly armed gladiators with only shoulder armor and short spears) and some "Samona fighters" (heavily armed sword-fighting slaves with pig-nosed boat-shaped helmets and sharp blades), shouting like a frightened herd of pigs.

"Where did these people come from?" Gaius asked aloud.

The servant next to him said. The City Legion may have been sent by the Senate to aid in the war, and the sword slaves were all personal bodyguards of Dehemoth's estate. His family was particularly rich and powerful.

So Gaius and Wendisis lamented almost simultaneously, "It seems that we are all on the ship of the Senate thieves, how can we now explain to Caesar's relatives, soldiers, and staff?" ”

As soon as he sighed, the soldiers over there shouted in unison, their hooks were like spiders' tentacles on the walls and wooden fences of the barricades, many mobs bravely climbed on the barricades, many of them were smashed down by the soldiers with hunting spears and throwing stones, but the brave they still held the rudimentary short sword, looked at the very thick rope, and then under the order of the centurion of the fifth legion, all the people pulled the rope and dragged it backwards, and soon the wall collapsed, and then the command sounded, the "Celtic slinger" auxiliaries unique to the five legions, Rushing out, they differed from the Rhodes and Balearic slingers in that they used a special kind of sling, which could smash heavier and larger stones into high places like rain, which was especially suitable for fortification.

Stone blocks smashed the mobs that were still clinging to the walls and towers, and when they fell under the walls, they were killed or trampled to death by the soldiers of the Fifth Legion who marched in like a wall, using short swords, heavy javelins, and even boots, and then the soldiers used heavy javelins to tear down the half-man-high wooden fence and breastwork, and rushed to the camp of Amartius, and launched a merciless massacre.

Amartius and several leaders bravely resisted the onslaught from all sides, and his comrades fell one by one, but Amartius still fought to the death, and even stabbed to death the centurion of the Fifth Legion, so that the two centurions of the City Legion fled in fright, and then he saw his son killed by the soldiers of the Lark's Legion, and the cloak of Caesar in his son's hand when he was killed, and when they had converted it into a battle banner and took it away, he burst into angry eyes, roared, and rushed up to fight with the soldier, The soldier was so frightened that he threw his cloak and banner against the wall on one side, and then stabbed it diagonally, and pierced the ribs of Amartius who rushed at him with his sword, Amartius screamed, and grabbed the opponent's wrist, and stabbed the sword into his throat with his right hand, and the soldier fell down with blood, and then four or five legionnaires rushed up and stabbed the heavy javelins in their hands into Amartis's back one by one, and he trembled sharply, then turned around, lifted Caesar's cloak banner, and shouted "Long live Julius and the people!" Then his throat was cut and his head was cut off.

Thousands of people were killed in the street barracks, most of whom fled, but hundreds of others fought until they were captured.

In the evening, the soldiers of the Fifth Legion and the City Legion, escorting the shackled captives, stepped on the bones of the streets, and their ears were full of curses from the people, "Anthony is in cahoots with the murderer!" "All these captives were escorted to the Manor of the Begalonian Emperor.

"Fifty men were chosen first, and the slaves were crucified, and the freemen or citizens were sent to Capitol Hill to be handed over to Brutus for their disposal." Anthony was deliberating about his campaign, and without much thought, he gave the order.

The next morning, in front of the ruins of the barricades, a row of crosses was erected, all of which were covered with the corpses of the rebellious slaves, and the remaining dozen or so men were carried up to the holy mountain, and after about a day it was clear that they were all tied up behind their backs, and fell to their deaths by the executioners from the high rocks.

On the same day, a mob of about 10,000 people and veterans gathered in front of Villa Prima, crying and asking another cavalry commander, Lybidaeus, to call the shots for them and denounce the traitor Antony and the murderer.

Two days after Chen Qing was sent in, Li Bida sent Kelly and Sabo to serve as messengers to pacify the people, "The cavalry commander is extremely frightened by the bloody war that took place yesterday, and he condemns you for your indiscriminate use of violent confrontation, and the death of Amartius has led to the death of Amartius, and he has sent money in advance to persuade you to disband temporarily, so he will not stand up for you." ”

When they heard this, the people and the veterans wailed and wept, and many women also ripped off their jewelry, tore their clothes, and exposed their breasts to scream and curse, and they pleaded with Li Bida in unison, "Even if the murderer is not punished, it must be said that the hundreds of captured people must be rescued, otherwise they will all be executed." (To be continued......)