"There was no great divide between the city and the countryside in Rome, and when I was a child, I used to take off my robe, go to the fields of the suburban estates, and get sweat and mud on my hands and feet, and then strip naked and go to the rivers, the Tiber and the Rubicon. So we Romans have a lot of haode soldiers, because all of us have played the role of peasants, and you know what, the best soldiers are produced among the peasants. ”

"Rather than watching a play, for me, I prefer to be in the Colosseum, holding a sword and a hunting fork, and fighting all kinds of beasts, which is the favorite thing for the young Roman aristocracy to do. Before I was twenty years old, I fought with wolves and leopards, and then I felt mentally mature, and I began to read Greek philosophical and polemic works. ”

"The Romans and you Greeks still have a common love for Haode, that is, to go to the Grand Circuit and watch the golden eggs (the Greeks use golden dolphins) keep falling, which can make our blood boil, for me and all the citizens of Rome involved in noble politics, the road of political career is like a race car, you have to let the opponent car destroy people, in order to keep getting into the inner lap, lap by lap, zuihou won the supreme laurels."

Lucuras gushed and Tylangnan nodded thoughtfully, a scholar who seemed to be writing about the identity of the two peoples lately.

"The masked, weishenme jumping around? It's much more ugly than the antics in our hometown Saturnalia, these masked people should have swords and spears in their hands, and they should fight here, then it's called beautiful! Sekedilius in the back shouted.

At this time, the two token officers of the legion, riding horses, hurried to the exit of the theater, and then dismounted and galloped all the way, and when they found Lucuras, they handed him a wooden board engraved with confidential words, and Lucuras glanced at it a few times, and hurriedly stood up with a happy face, and said a few quick words to the generals behind him, and the generals also stood up as if they had been relieved. Luculas then wrapped his robe tightly and politely waved to the rest of the room in apology, saying that he had important business to attend to, and that you could stay here and continue to enjoy the beautiful play.

"The two Excellencies, Raunessa and Adiana, will also return to the camp with our manager." A token officer found the royal daughter and the royal sister of Pontus and asked for a military salute.

Luculas was in the commander's tent on the outskirts of the city, and stood three men of varying heights, the medium-sized one in the middle seemed to be the leader, and the two in the back, one thin and the other tall, but all three were covered in brown cloaks, unable to see their hands and feet, and were clad in fish-scale armor, with a pointed Persian helmet, and a visor that covered their faces, with only a pair of eye sockets exposed, reflecting coldly the light of steel.

When Lucuras arrived, the leader respectfully bowed, and then handed a scroll and a box to Kelly, who placed them on Lucuras's desk.

"This is the messenger of your brother, Marcha, the governor of the Bosphorus." Lucuras, who sat in a chair reading the dossier, made it straightforward to Adiana about the identities of the three men.

"It turned out to be the concubine born to my brother Wang when he was a young man and the daughter of that lowly herdsman, Marcha!" Nessa feigned surprise at the nobility of his bloodline. It turned out that when Mithridates was pursued by his mother, he had a good relationship with the daughter of a nomadic chieftain, and this woman also gave birth to a son for him, but the status has never been usurped, this son named Marza has always been the identity of a concubine, even if the rest of Mithridathes' sons were poisoned by himself, Marza still did not inherit the power of the kingdom of Pontus, but he was commissioned by his father in the previous war between Rome and Pontus to cross the Black Sea to the Bosphorus and became the governor of the region, Collect all the barbarians for the use of the capital, and now it has become a powerful prince.

This Bosphorus state was not the Bosphorus Strait as we are now familiar with it, but it was actually located on the northern shore of the Black Sea, near the present-day Crimean Peninsula, and was inhabited by the barbaric steppe horse-riding peoples.

It was Adiana who was more elaborate and asked, "My brother, what are you writing in your diplomatic letters?" ”

"He seems to know that you are still alive, so he is willing to surrender to Rome and me, to accept my command, and to provide me with servant cavalry." Luculas put down the file and replied.

"The condition is that me and my aunt go to the Bosphorus, right?" When Adiana said this, her voice trembled a little.

"That's right." Luculas replied briefly, "These three are the messengers who greet you and your aunt. Then he opened the small box, and inside was a small golden statue of Apollo, a gift of peace from Marcha, "Your Excellency, what do you think?" ”

Adiana calmed down, sneered twice, and said, "I am grateful that Your Excellency can still consult me out of courtesy, but I believe that in such a situation, I have no choice. ”

"What, just these three people? Marcha is simply insulting the identity of the royal family of Pontus. Nessa on one side shouted angrily at the three messengers.

Listening to Adiana's words, Luculas was also a little uneasy, and just as he was in a deep voice, the officer in charge of the quartermaster came up and told the commander that the food, grass and baggage were in order, and that he could give the order to advance into the mountains of Armenia.

Speaking of this, the generals in the entire camp showed complicated expressions, people like Murila are all battle-hardened generals, they are very familiar with the psychology and needs of soldiers, so they all persuaded Lucuras to give up the idea of continuing to send troops this winter, "Lucuras, you have already won the pinnacle honor of your life before, you have occupied the entire kingdom of Pontus, defeated the king of kings, and obtained the richest cities such as Amesus, Sinop, and Tegreseta. In this plunder of Tegreseta, each soldier was given at least eight hundred drachmas, and the more they shared, the more reluctant they were to throw away their money in vain to continue the hard battle, and they had to squander and rejoice in the winter camps, so that in the next spring they would again willingly become the mules of the legion. ”

"The Legion is likely to mutiny!" This is Murilla Zuihou's and the most serious warning.

The topic of "mutiny", it seems that Adiana also mentioned that Luculas has always been very kind to his subordinates, but this kindness is a condescending gesture, and he seems to care little about the inner thoughts of the soldiers, "But everyone, you can't give up, wait until the next spring, we will recover, and the enemy will recover, so that the war will become more difficult and protracted." ”

At this moment, Apis, Utyrus, and all the other military tribunes slowly entered the tent, and looked at Lucuras, who had generously spoken, as if they were about to take a break.

"Gentlemen, there must be something important for you to gather here." Zuihou, or Lucuras couldn't help but ask first.

Utiris looked unbearable, but Appis said quickly: "Your Excellency, we have come to discuss with you about the call for a halt, with a joint request from the soldiers. ”