I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 74
After dealing with the matter, Antico walked out of the study a little tiredly. When he saw him coming out, an attendant hurried up to meet him and said respectfully.

"Your Majesty, Lord Nicolides just sent someone to invite you to attend the banquet held at Nicolides Manor tonight."

"Nicolides?" Antigonus stopped, looked at the attendant, and said, "What time is it tonight?"

"Six o'clock, Your Majesty," replied the attendant.

"Okay, I understand. You go back and tell that person that I will be there on time." Antico rubbed his temples helplessly and said. ,

After the attendants left, Antigonus went straight back to his bedroom. Since it was the banquet held by the philosopher Nicolides who taught him, he couldn't justify not going, and he had also helped him contradict Euphemia before. .It's just that he is really not in the mood to attend the banquet now, and the threat from the Gillis Federation keeps him still worried.

Glancing out of the window, it was still early in the morning. Antico thought about it and decided to go to sleep first, and get enough energy to deal with the evening banquet—he had a hunch that his status as king would make him a The centerpiece of the party.

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After waking up, it was almost dusk. Antigonus lay on the bed for a while to clear his mind, and then he got up slowly, and asked his attendants to change into a lighter one for him. The robe went out—ah, no, it can’t be said to go out, because he walked directly to the school yard that comes with the Virgina Palace. When he was lying on the bed, he suddenly remembered that he had done it on a whim not long ago. The Roman-style legion of 400 people, only then realized that since it was formed, he didn't even come to see it a few times, it was completely left to fend for itself, and he didn't know how well these people were trained.

Walking to the school grounds, there were only a few people who were still training. Antigonus found that they had changed into chain mail and Gaul G-shaped helmets, and they were holding short swords and large shields against scarecrows or wooden stakes. After chopping, seeing that they were still being trained, Antigon nodded with satisfaction, but he didn't completely let go of his heart. He knew that the behavior of a few people could not represent the whole group.

Therefore, Antigon asked everyone to gather together as a surprise inspection to test the effectiveness of the training.

The sudden visit of Antigonus really caught the soldiers by surprise, but they did not show much panic. Instead, they calmly got dressed amidst the shouts of the centurions, and left the barracks at a trot all the way. They lined up neatly on the school field in front of them.When they assembled, the sound from the entire school field was not only the shouts of the centurions, but also the sound of the armor colliding with each other when they were running.

About 10 minutes later, the [-] imitation Roman-style legionary infantry had assembled, and five centurions with horizontal horse temples on their helmets came out to salute Antigonus.

"Your Majesty! The Legion infantry salutes you!"

"The legionary infantry salutes you!!!"

The soldiers behind them shouted in unison.

Antigonus nodded, which was a response. He looked at these heavily armed soldiers. They looked pretty good, and Antigonus seemed to vaguely see the shadow of the real Roman legionary infantry.

"I'm here this time to see your training results during this period of time." Antigonus stood with his hands behind his back and said, "Although I didn't supervise you, I believe that you must have not been lazy during this period of time, so I hope to see you perform at your best, don't let me down."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The soldiers responded in unison.

"The momentum is good." Antico nodded again, then he looked at the five centurions and said, "Come and command, let me take a look."

"Yes."

After the five centurions responded, they turned around and looked at the soldiers under them, and began to give orders—their commands were very simple, forward and backward, turning left and turning again, listing loose formations and returning to dense formations.

After one round, none of the soldiers made any mistakes, but Antigonus was not satisfied with it. He suddenly said, "Form a siege formation."

The so-called siege formation is just another term for the tortoise formation. As a Roman-style legion, the tortoise formation that all Roman legions will naturally have to train and use proficiently.After Antigonus suddenly interjected and gave the order, the soldiers were obviously stunned for a moment, but they quickly realized that they first formed a dense formation under the order of the centurion, and then the soldiers in the first row put their shields on their bodies The soldiers in the front row and the back row raised their shields above their heads in turn, and the soldiers on the left and right flanks held their shields beside them, so that the entire phalanx was not exposed to the outside.

In just a few tens of seconds, five centurions formed five tight and seamless tortoise shell formations, which finally made Antico smile with satisfaction.

But this is not over yet, under the signal of Antigonus, the attendants who came with him found a lot of not-so-small stones from nowhere, and threw them heavily at the tortoise shell formation, and the stones rolled and smashed towards The shields in the hands of the soldiers made them retreat backwards when they were caught off guard, but they were supported by the comrades behind them in time.Stones hitting the shield made a loud bang, bang bang, but they still failed to break through the defense of the tortoise formation.

Seeing this, Antigonus told his attendants to stop throwing stones. He clapped his hands and asked the legion infantry to release the siege formation, and then said: "I am quite satisfied with your performance today. The training is really not in vain, I hope you will continue to work hard in the next training and play for the country."

"As you wish, Your Majesty." The soldiers said in unison, with obvious joy in their tone.

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After leaving the palace school, Antigonus boarded the carriage again and rushed to the Nicolides Manor in the city.

When he arrived at the destination, the manor of Nicolides was already brightly lit and bustling. A row of carriages were parked outside the manor. Chatting and chatting, Antigonus could recognize the families these carriages belonged to through the patterns printed on the carriage walls. It seemed that Nicoclides had invited most of the nobles in Pella City this time.

Seeing Antigonus's carriage approaching, the steward guarding the gate hurried up to greet him, and waited beside the carriage carriage. As soon as the curtain of the carriage was pulled open, a servant immediately jumped forward and threw himself on the foothold to act as a foot mat. Antigonus was not pretentious, he stepped directly on the servant's back, stepped on the ground a few steps, looked at the respectful steward, and asked casually.

"Has the party started?"

"Not yet, Your Majesty, the master insists on waiting until you arrive."

"Okay, please lead the way." Antico nodded, raised his hand to signal the steward to lead the way, and the latter hurriedly made a gesture of please, and then led Antico into the manor.

　You didn't respond at all, which made me full of anxiety about the listing, I'm afraid that the effort of coding all night finally came to naught =_=
　　
　
(End of this chapter)