"I am already the head of this country, and it will never be as easy to demote me from this position to a second-rate figure as it is to reduce a second-rate person to the bottom." - Julius. Caesar

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"Being a slave boy in the kingdom of the Amazons? How can it be so easy, to do the work with the hands is to cut off both feet, to do the work with the feet to cut off the hands, like Calabis to do the work with the mouth and the head, to cut off both hands and feet. Behind the Queen, Al Capa appeared, threatening, and then she delivered the piece of horse meat to the Queen and Neko, and said lightly, "I'm not hungry." ”

But Calabis saw that the tribal marksman's face was white and small with hunger, and even the braid of the blonde hair was split, a standard sign of malnutrition, and this braid had always been of great pride to Elkapa.

At this time, Highbrida, who had a piece of horse meat in her mouth, came up and said to Calabis, "Brother is going to do something soon, but you definitely don't agree." ”

"Then you're still asking me?"

"It's to reduce the guilt you feel after you know about it."

"Say, dear centurion, I always feel guilty about you."

Highbrida cleared her throat and said, "We have to think about what to do when the horses are finished, and just now it suddenly occurred to my brother that before your red-haired woman escaped, when you grabbed the boat for her, you left a few eunuchs in the acropolis and did not escape. ”

"What do you mean!" Calabis stood up, and at once he shook twice in front of the eternally inferior centurion, barely standing on his feet—he was already dizzy from hunger. But he still pushed Highbrida back. "Where are the eunuchs? Say it! ”

Highbrida could only say that they had only temporarily detained the white and fat eunuchs in the warehouse, and waited until the mules and horses were killed before making plans, but Calabis did not believe his nonsense at all, and ran through the corridor in three steps and two steps, ran to the warehouse of the second layer of the city defense platform, opened the locked door with his sword, and ran in with Helenputina to have a look. Sure enough, a few soldiers and butchers were sharpening their knives! Several eunuchs were chained to the wall, craning like hens, craning their necks.

"Stop, you can't eat people." The Legion's hungry bulging eyes are about to burst out of the Mars.

A butcher with a mouth full of snort, without putting down the knife in his hand, replied: "They have all been stabbed before, and it is not a big deal to take another beating, anyway, this kind of gelding is like a mule and a horse, and they are cut before they are hungry and thin, and they are all right." ”

Another soldier agreed. shouted: "This is what happens when you become a eunuch." ”

Before Calabis could reply, one of the eunuchs saw the steward coming. Then he howled, "Do not kill me, do not eat my flesh, I am a native of Acaja, I have been coerced to be a servant of Marcha, and I have many of my fellow countrymen who serve as servants in the camp of Pontus under the city, and I have heard that our king has been slain by Mithridates, and I am willing to go out of the city and go to the Achaians to get food for your army." ”

Hearing this, Calabis's eyes lit up again, and he stepped forward to snatch the butcher's knife and break the ropes and chains from the eunuch's body, and then Helenputina stepped forward, "Let me and Elcapa, take him to try our luck, and may the goddess Diana not abandon us." ”

As soon as Calabis was about to say let me go, Helenputina pressed his chest, "Take care of Niko, don't let Ella's death down, don't forget that you are responsible for the safety of the entire Legion's advance team, I, the Queen of the Amazons, are still employed by you, this is my duty, and when the siege is over, you will have to pay for the construction of the most spectacular and beautiful temple of the goddess of the hunt in this city, for Niko, Ella, and our kingdom." ”

As night wore on, Calabis sat cross-legged in the corner of the topmost tower with a cloak wrapped around little Niko, and at the very moment before Helenputina and Elkapa, with the eunuch of Acajah's birth, sat in a basket and came out of the city wall one by one in a basket: the queen went down first, the fat eunuch second, and of course the little Elkapa also stepped on the eunuch's shoulder, and came down with him with the rope, and then the three of them disappeared into the night, and groped their way towards the camp of the Acajas.

"Calabis, listen to my mother, you are my father." Niko, who was being held, was shaken by Calabis in a daze, and there were more layers of sleepy eyelids, and said.

"Yes, good girl, I am your father."

"Is my father the one who will buy me lambs and fold sailboats?"

"Yes, and the father also has a duty, which is to bring you a lot of younger brothers and sisters." Calabis quipped.

"Where's Ella?" This sentence suddenly made Calabis not know how to answer, he thought about it, and then took out the embroidered Persian belt from the box next to him, tied it around his daughter's waist, and wrapped it twice, "Ella went to a far away place to be the female companion of the goddess Diana, and it will be a long, long time before she can come back, this is a gift she left for you, when you think of Ella, you can look at the stars in the sky." As he spoke, Calabis felt that Niko's head had become heavier, and it turned out that the girl had tilted her little head and was already asleep.

It was about early in the morning that the queen of the Amazons appeared on the top tower with a tired face, "Calabis, I have seen the Ajayas, but we must take a gamble. ”

Over the next two days, Minand, who was inspecting the besieged position, found that the Acayans of Colchis were clearly working hard—they had dug a trench horizontally, then in groups, and then vertically, and at each section they had erected protective wooden sheds, covered with sandbags and leather, so that the Romans could no longer do anything about their rockets, and the wooden sheds of Zuihou climbed like giant snakes up the slope that the Bronze Shield had previously constructed.

"When we arrived at the city wall, we used pickaxes and pickaxes to destroy the foundation masonry. Also, by driving stakes into the walls and lighting them on fire, the Romans' walls could easily collapse. ”

Minander nodded very satisfied, and instructed two sentences, which roughly means that if you dig up the city wall, our Bronze Shield Army will definitely follow up with reinforcements, rush into the acropolis, and pull out this nail, and you will naturally have a share in the credit book. With that, Menander staggered to the governor's tent and lifted the curtain, where Stratonis and Pasius had been waiting for a long time.

"Marcha was actually killed by Philip, I said I wanted him to pay attention, so it was easy to make Yubert suspicious." Stratonis looked at the Governor with horror.

"What are the suspicions? As soon as we have captured the Acropolis, we will take the towers, the port and the palace of the city of Pontica Biong with reliable subordinates, and Ubert will be finished, and Pompey will surely praise us for our exploits, and my brother Philip has made us decide that you have always been too gentle, sister. Patheus said nonchalantly. (To be continued......)