"The king and the kingdom have lost all in this battle." - Clarendon on the defeat of Charles I and the victory of Cromwell at the Battle of Nesby (1645).

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In front of the bay of the Nicommidian Palace, a ship is raising its sails and preparing to cross the narrow waters of Fort Lybida and head to the warm waters of the Yukchen Sea.

Lebida propped his elbows on the terrace, the sea breeze blowing his hair, and a letter from Rome in his hand—the Senate, the Executive Yuan, and the People's Council unanimously resolved not only to hold a thirty-day sacrifice of thanksgiving for his victory, but also to canonize Caesar to God, and he would also be canonized in advance, and in addition, the Senate, headed by Cicero and Barsatus (the current Senate only has the power to propose, but has no power to decide and delegate), to set up a permanent marble triumphal arch for Libidaeus, and to erect a monument of merit next to the door, and conferred the title of "Protector for Life" on Lypidaus.

Even the inscription was written by Cicero himself, but he still resigned two or three times, but he also wrote back to the city of Rome - and then since he had this "tritane for life", then the positions of the other nine tribunes should also be abolished, and in the future, at the Tribus civil assembly, as a result of letters from all parties or public collective votes, the bills formed were directly submitted to the Grand Court (a new institution expanded by Libida on the basis of the group of jurassants and the Grand Court) was passed, and the national political plan formed was submitted to the Executive Yuan for examination and decisionAs for the original Council of the Hundreds, it was completely identical to the Curia and became a purely religious ritual institution. The corpses were dissolved.

So after this qiē is in place. Li Bida no longer rejected the mention of the meritorious monument and the triumphal arch. But then he made an even more astonishing request to the city of Rome, "I have pardoned Horace and Virgil, and I have given careful treatment to the wounded general Aetolian Synesis, and I will soon return him to my own state, but I will revoke the autonomy of the entire Greek states, and as punishment for their collective rebellion against the republic, I will add four provinces and a number of four kingdoms to the Greek region." And now the city of Athens has been pacified. But I am not going to go back for the time being, and I will participate in the Thanksgiving Ceremony and the Triumph Ceremony with you, but as a symbol I will set aside two legions that are outstanding in this decisive battle, and hand them over to Generals Saab and Petnius to lead them, and return to Rome to participate in the Triumphal Ceremony and rejoice with the people. But I myself must take the rest of the main force, and the absorbed enemy, and the servant armies of Asia Minor and Egypt, and not stop, but go on an expedition against Parthia. Please forgive me for my hard work in the ancient and sacred region of Mesopotamia. For the shame of the Republic still reverberates in the wilderness of Kale, and I will go there and cleanse it with a flame! ”

Therefore, Libida is gathering troops in Nicomedia and Fort Libida, and gathering navy and fleet in Rhodes and Cyprus, he is not ready to return to Rome, he still needs a year or two to completely defeat the incompetent Parthian king Hayrod, and put the little Parthian prince Mindaz who is attached to him on the throne, no, he still has a long plan for the long term.

At this time, the ship on the bay had already raised its sails, and then made its lights to greet the lighthouse of Nicomide, and the cold sunlight of the early morning had already cast down the cliffs on both sides, gilding the waves and the mountain walls with color, and Li Bida was watching the boat at this time, holding two plums in his hand and chewing them in his mouth.

"The way you eat, sometimes it's still so rude." Atienne came from behind, draped in loose silk dressing gowns.

"The expedition is about to begin, and you can also temporarily return to Sinop's palace and dispatch supplies from the entire Yukexing Sea to support my expeditionary force."

"Hmm." Adiana said this, and lay on the terrace, holding her cheek in her hand, and looked at the ship, when they both saw that a thin man on the deck was stepping out of the side of the ship, waving his bandaged arm as if to give thanks to them, as if to thank them in gratitude.

"It's so nice," Adiana sighed, snuggling her head up to Li Bida's arm, "Some people can go to a new place and start a new life after the end of the first qiē, but they are still the old people - but some people will stay in the old world after the end of the qiē, trembling, trying to maintain the unchanging present, but still have to meet the future that will inevitably collapse." ”

"Are you talking about me? That's right, for the rest of the year, I could only wear gold shackles and continue dancing. ”

"Need a dance partner?" Adiana laughed, her beautiful curls swaying in the morning breeze.

Then, Li Bida sent Leo, Paulus and other civilian bureaucrats to return to the city of Rome to cooperate with Cicero and others to implement governance and reform, and together with all the generals, he took the main force of ten legions, and the two servant legions of Adiana, and Thrace sent 2,000 auxiliary troops, and Mindaz gathered the remnants of the Parthian opposition to form a "restoration advance army" of about 1,000 people, and set off half a month later to arrive at the foot of the holy land of Amasinus, where he is the current supreme ruler of the republic, The vassal nations of all Asia Minor were summoned to send troops and food, and the kingdoms of Gerashia, Eubernia, Armenia, and so on, all sent armies from all directions, and the foot of Mount Amasinus was once again a boiling sea.

The armies of these kingdoms were regularized, and the Galatian warriors of Gaeraxia, wearing peaked and white tasseled hats and helmets, chain mail and cloaks, and long swords, marched in the pattern of legions; Armenian heavy cavalry, with spears held aloft and half-armored horses, lined up in the center of the parade ground; The army of the Kingdom of Eubertenia, on the other hand, was more complex for various objective reasons, including legion-style infantry with broad-bladed swords and shields, model armies fighting in a phalanx of spears, and medium-armed or hoplite cavalry with Cappadocians as the main force. But except for these three kingdoms and the legions to which Li Bida belonged, the other barbarian armies from various places were all sorted, which made Li Bida feel a headache, and he decided to reward this group of barbarians after giving a speech, and then dismiss them, because most of these people can only make mistakes in future expeditions.

The whole parade hall at the foot of the mountain was full of flags fluttering, drums thundering, the high priest sat in the center of the high platform that had been erected in the cheers of the crowd, and stood up very majestically, and then he walked to the front desk under the bundle of sticks and flags like a forest, and looked at the crowd like mountains and seas in the corner of his eyes, and only a central passage was given below, and flowers and plants temporarily moved from other places were placed, so that the colors of this wild mountain peak were not so monotonous.

As the High Priest raised his hand, the drums, trumpets, and the cacophony of the soldiers immediately ceased, and the scene resumed solemnity and majesty, and then the High Priest cleared his throat and prepared to make an impromptu speech, when suddenly there was a "papa!" from below. Papa！ The girl shouted. (To be continued......)