During the truce of this market day, neither side actually let up, and Brutus continued to do his best to fortify the city and heal the wounded; Li Bida, on the other hand, inspected the whole army, rewarded meritorious deeds, and demanded the laying of new siege positions and the construction of new siege equipment.

One day, Li Bida personally put on a cloak, under the escort of Hu Servant, patrolling the siege position, but on the tower on the other side of the trench, he saw Brutus standing on it, the two looked at each other, and then Li Bida pulled the reins and made a gesture of hope to discuss, and seeing this scene, Brutus also asked the soldiers around him who controlled the ballista and falling rocks not to move, nor to shoot.

In this way, Li Bida rode his horse and slowly came to the city wall, but seeing the crowd on the city wall, there was a lot of discussion, "Brutus, your army has suffered heavy casualties, and all the commanders you can rely on have been killed, do you still expect those who can only write poetry, such as Horace and Virgil, to fight for you?" Athens was destroyed many years ago, and now I hope that you will calm down and put aside partisan and ideological prejudices for a while, and there is no need to add more innocent sacrifices. ”

"There is no need to say this, for my uncle was still in danger alone, and when he went to the city of Marcelia, I did not understand him, and was it not dangerous to do so? Shouldn't a philosopher think about protecting himself in all kinds of circumstances and conditions? But now my heart is very pure, and now I am the only one left holding high the banner and cause of little Cato, and I cannot give up, I can only fall, even if I lose my life, I have no regrets. Brutus held on to the forts and said resolutely.

"I will take all the people of this city, whether they are commoners or nobles. It doesn't matter if it's a craftsman or a scholar. All were sold into slavery. All the soldiers were crucified, all the buildings and walls were razed to the ground, and henceforth there will be no Athens in this land and in the sea, and there will be no more, and even then, will you die to the end? Li Bida waved his arms and said in a threatening voice.

Then. One of the centurions beside Brutus roared angrily and was about to shoot a ballista at Libida, but Brutus twisted him, and then Libida turned his horse's head, "You're still the same as your stubborn uncle." With that, he jumped over the trench on his prancing horse and rushed easily into his position.

The siege of Libida was then strengthened day by day, and every day there were men on duty to cut wheat in all directions, and the fleet blocked the port of Piraeus. Now Brutus is in a "dead land" - the city of Athens is not very large, and the grain is fed inside. It was not enough to support several legions, but it was already impossible to break through, and almost all the islands and seas of the Aegean Sea up to Crete were patrolled by Lypida's ships.

Hunger soon began to appear in the streets, and many centurions and military tribunions found Brutus, who had nothing to do, sitting in a chair in the council chamber of the Acropolis, and begged him to make up his mind that the barns in the city were running out of stock, and that he should collect the food of the citizens or break through as much as he could.

"I think the former is more appropriate, and if the fight needs to continue, it has to be done." A young tribune said directly to Brutus, "There is no hope of a breakout, or we will starve here or wait for the enemy to take this place, and sell us all into slavery or crucified." ”

Brutus held his head in distress and asked in a hoarse voice, "Levy civilian food?" That meant that the most brutal of things was about to happen, and the entire arena and streets of Athens would be filled with starvation. ”

The surrounding generals were silent, which was equivalent to agreeing with Brutus's speculation, as if the tragedy of the former city of Massella was about to repeat itself, because then the letter sent by Li Bida made it very clear, "Your uncle was killed by the angry citizens of Massella, not suicide, and the purpose of my concealment is still for the honor of little Cato, but if you insist on going your own way in Athens, I believe that you will suffer the same fate, and at that time, I will not hide anything for you, Wait for your corpse to be dragged through the streets by the surviving citizens and soldiers, and then hung on the acropolis, where wild dogs and crows can eat it. I know the psychology of an honorary person like you, yes Marcus. Brutus, you are not a philosopher at all, nor a politician, but only an honorary person, for the sake of ridiculous honor, you can abandon your wife and relatives, you can endanger anyone's life and interests, just for the sake of your heart. But this time I will not let you succeed, you will die a miserable and despicable death, and your name in Athens will be an eternal disgrace. ”

Brutus felt frightened, the kind of fear that the end was coming but he couldn't deal with it with it, if only he had listened to Cassiio and the Parthian prince in the first place, even if it was on the battlefield, on the sea, and died vigorously, it would be much more decent than now, he would have retired all the officers and the officers, saying that he would soon give a plan for disposing of it, and then he took out the letter board of Li Bida, looked at it twice, and threw it into the brazier, watched it crackle and ignite, and then sighed, Hit his forehead with his fist and buried it deeply, thinking wildly.

So when Lypida's messenger arrived, Brutus was still there looking at the embers, doing nothing, "Yorabela, it's you. Although he had to smell the wind before, Brutus still had indescribable feelings when he saw the bald man opposite.

"Give up, Brutus, there is no need to resist any longer, if you continue to fight to the death now, then the whole person and the city will be in a very miserable situation." Yurabella cried out sharply, her hands outstretched, as if she had malaria.

Brutus looked at him strangely, then he stood up and said to the clerks and generals around him, "How strange it is, once a fanatical republican youth, after experiencing intimidation and tribulation, so changed his course and became a fanatical believer in the monarchy, Eulabella, I don't know what happened to you, but in the past two years, the hearts of Rome and the Republic have completely changed, and everyone has abandoned the ideas of their ancestors and become in the dust, like a ** in red and gorgeous clothes, chasing money and goods, Enduring the pain of enslavement, but still being willing to be satisfied, the echoes of glory are far away from Capitol, and the flattering cries of the Colosseum and the theater are rising day by day. ”

"What's wrong, because times have changed! I'm going to witness it, and you've been hiding, Brutus! At this time, Eurabella shouted. (To be continued......)