Caesar is a great Romanist, and the premise of "Great Rome" determines that in his mind, the Romans should be the rulers of the world, the formulators of civilization norms, and the legislators of the laws of all peoples.

Therefore, when Caesar presided over and granted citizenship to the Gaul regions he conquered, he immediately appointed Antony and Gaius to recruit regular legions in this region to make up for the number of "one to five" legions in his sequence; When he arrived in Greece and Asia Minor, he began to recruit more auxiliaries, and the scale of the war in the Roman world seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.

So Li Bida reorganized the newly surrendered Macedonian Sixth Army and the Ninth Army into the 31st and 32nd Army Corps; The 5,000 men and horses sent by Adiana to assist Caesar were divided into the 33rd and 34th legions, the "Pontus Legion" and the "Black Sea Regiment"; Theotarus also provided Caesar with two legions, which were originally the elite of the kingdom of Garacia, uniformly imitating the tactics and equipment of the Roman legions, namely the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth legions, commanded by the son and son-in-law of the old king, ready to serve the Roman dictator at any time; In the end, Dehemoth of Syria no longer said anything about "strict neutrality", and immediately returned the 15th Army Corps of the original Gaul Province and swore allegiance to Caesar, which was also reorganized by Libida into the 37th Army.

In fact, each legion is only about 3,000 people, which is also the disadvantage of large-scale expansion. More of a bluff is also a bluff. Some kind of coercive psychological warfare against the enemy.

Then. Li Bida sent the 33rd and 34th legions to Ephesus to standby, while the 31st and 32nd remained in his winter camp for training. Two auxiliary regiments provided by the Kingdom of Gerashia swept away the remnants of Pompey in Silesia and Minor Armenia to maintain law and order. As for the 37th Army, Li Bida did not let it come to Assimanus to assemble and collect all of it, but directly let it go south from Syria to force King Herod of Judean Judea to hand over the hostages and fines.

Soon. The XII Army, with the support of the Achilles fleet, completely collected and subdued all the regions of the Bosporus kingdom and came triumphantly. The 6th and 13th Army Corps, which remained at Fort Lipida, also completed the construction of the barrier on both sides of the strait, and went to Asimanus Mountain to participate in the winter camp together.

In April, when the snow had melted, there were seven legions in the camp of Libida, and the winter camp stretched for several Roman miles, so that the streets built by the soldiers opened in all directions. Every day there was a steady stream of traders from all over Asia Minor, and the loot had not been sold for cash until April. Today in front of the camp gate, the centurion and the soldier on duty blew a malicious whistle, "Look, the most beautiful horse in all Asia is coming!" ”

Dressed in a Persian-embroidered shirt and a Damascus blanket, and seated on a chariot under a huge parasol, with servants with rods and banners behind her, Adiana entered the camp in a procession of hundreds of men, but it was also a common occurrence for the soldiers, and the queen of Eubertenia came about two or three times a month to meet with the cavalry commander. So much so that many soldiers who were not able to see the beauty would go out of their way to ask to be on duty on the date of Adiana's arrival.

In the amphitheater on the edge of the camp, Adiana once again invited Lybida to watch the Greek play, and the queen was in a particularly good mood to-day, and although the humble theatre was no more different from the one she had seen with Lybida in the city of Tegreseta, she nevertheless ordered the eunuchs to go and give all the actors a handsome gift in advance, and to take the cavalry commander by the arm under the parasol, and to ask with great interest to bet on him.

"How about betting on 5,000 dinars? Two troupes perform the same act together, the former wins, I win, and the latter wins, you win. ”

Li Bida agreed, but when the two troupes took the stage one after another, he kept yawning, as if he had no interest in the theatrical performance, which made Adiana, who had won the bet in the end, quite unhappy, but when the next show, the gladiators from Thrace and Gaul, entered the amphitheater, Li Bida immediately stood up and joined the rest of the audience, applauding and shouting slogans. This reaction made Adiana very angry, "Amphora, you have lived in that country of Rome for a long time, and you really have discarded noble tastes, and only care about the bloody performance of harpoons and swords!" ”

As a result, the other party handed over the fruit plate, "Your Excellency the Queen, I invite you to participate in the God of War Tournament in three days' time." ”

Alas? This athletic event, Adiana heard as early as a month ago, Li Bida announced at the foot of Mount Asimanus that this mountain is one of the towering peaks of the whole of Asia Minor, he wants to imitate the behavior of the Roman Republic when it "liberated" Greece, and will hold a grand arena in the countries of all Asia Minor, that is, the "God of War Arena", because the meeting is on April 2 "Mars Festival", so it got this name, Li Bida asked the entire Asia Minor and the surrounding maritime states to send athletic representatives to participate, Of course, his legion will also send athletes, and then everyone will pay homage and sacrifice to the god of war.

Therefore, today when Adiana came, the whole camp was extremely lively, not only the vendors, but also the characters wearing various national costumes, all of whom seemed to be representatives of the competition from afar, "This, this is of course, let me accompany you through the first God of War competition, it sounds a little interesting." ”

On the 3rd of April, the large school field in the center of Asimanus' camp was surrounded by colorful tents and crowds, and many peddlers shuttled between them, "Parasols for rent, parasols for rent!" Nuts are sold with Sumerian malt beer, cool to quench thirst, cool to quench thirst. "The commemorative statuettes of the Asimana Athletic Games, woodcuts, bronze carvings, iron carvings, are at a fair and reasonable price!" "Hey, sir, you came from afar, you must be very lonely alone, the women here are all from Miletus and Caios, their fame is resounding throughout the ocean, the standard of service is uniform, and you will never regret it!"

A melodious military horn sounded, the entire school field, nearly 100,000 people were quiet, in the cheers of soldiers and spectators, the cavalry commander and the kings of various states surrounded by the honor guard, walked to the grandstand at the core of the school field, Li Bida looked around with satisfaction, and then waved his hand, the whole crowd broke out into cheers again, a selected Mattia shooter, standing on the wooden tower on the stand, facing the sky of Mount Asimanus, "whoosh" shot a rocket with a chirping sound, Like a rising star, it attracted everyone's attention and flew to the other side of the mountain. (To be continued......)