Augustus Road

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Afterwards, Adiana combed her messed up hair and walked to a gorgeous tent. Two hair-combing maids reported to her in a low voice, "The wound on His Majesty's thigh has started to fester again." Diana replied: "Who is with my father now?"

"Only a few eunuchs."

Adiana hummed and walked in. With a gentle smile, she knelt in front of Mithridates' couch and kissed the back of her father's hand. The king of Pontus was curled up on it like a lion that had lost its claws, his face expressionless. Black and gray from pain and frustration, "Good girl, I heard that you took in many deserters from Pompeii."

"I need them to help me train the formations and tactics of the New Model Army."

"No wonder my Bronze Shield Army was squeezed out of the core of the army." Mithridates complained intentionally or unintentionally, "These eunuchs and waiters have also changed their faces."

"Because you need to rest, father, familiar people always occupy your precious time and use it to chat with you." Adiana tucked away Mithridates' clothes very affectionately.

"Where's Stratonis? She hasn't come to see me for a long time. You won't poison her quietly, right?"

Adiana laughed as if hearing a funny joke, and then said: "How could it be? She still has the key to the vault in her hand. Six thousand talents of gold and silver are all provided by her armed slaves. Guarding, how could I poison her?"

"But after I die, you will definitely kill her, you will."

"Then Father, you have to kill her and her people as soon as possible, because everyone knows that I will definitely kill her in the future, so this woman who was born as a humble singer will definitely take gold and silver to save her life. Pompey is gone. Father, if you give me these six thousand talents, I can revive the great empire of Pontus and make you king of kings."

"I can't stand again. I have fought all my life, and now I am just fighting for a decent peace, but the Romans are not willing to give me this chance for peace." Mithridates murmured to himself, "I The thoughts I have now are all crazy conjectures, just to have something to do in the war, to deceive these subordinates and slaves who continue to follow me. Even the Romans will not take my plans seriously. Bosphorus, to Thrace and Macedonia? After hearing this, Luculas will definitely draw my marching route on the sand in his villa in the country, and then laugh out loud. "

Seeing that her father had no fighting spirit or improvement, Adiana decided to let him rest and removed the burning oil lamp tubes one by one. The entire tent was gradually covered with a veil-like dimness.

In the bay of Tarington, there are seabirds like broken clouds surrounding the masts of hundreds of ships. The shore is full of checkerboard-style white tent camps. The heavily armed Karabis stands at the main entrance "Pritori" In front of it, the priest and the sergeant holding a cassia branch stood beside it.

"I have announced that I am temporarily separated from the world. From now on, my idol is only Mars. I signed a contract with him in the camp, allowing me to plunder more of the enemy's livestock and men and women, and let the enemy's sword avoid me. . I, Calabis Cornelius Marcus F, hereby swear to be loyal to the Thirteenth Legion of the Lightning Throwers, and fight until my last breath. "After being sworn into the camp, Karabis stepped into the main entrance. He saw the camp of his 10th Brigade. Originally, Karabis had the 4th and 12th Brigade in the Second City Legion, but now there are two cities The legion mixed and upgraded all reserve veterans and recruits who performed well in the counter-insurgency war into the new "Lightning Thrower" Thirteenth Legion. His two brigades were also merged into one, the Thirteenth Legion. Brigade.

During the battle, the 10th Battalion was usually located on the far left of the second column on the left wing of the legion. The same was true for the camp. Calabis found it without any difficulty. The battalion officer Pope planted the brigade camp flag in front of his large square tent. The flag with two rings of "Medal of Honor" represents the glorious achievements of their brigade in the past: the Pass Blockade and the Battle for the Eagle Flag.

"Where are Milu and Tagus?" Karabis and Pope asked after exchanging military salutes.

"You were delayed for too long in Rome and Sardinia. They couldn't wait, so they were promoted - Milu is now the chief heavy javelin shooter of the legion, and Tagus went to the first brigade to be a senior centurion. "Pop said jokingly, "I am the only one who remains with you as your battalion officer."

"Yes, they were so ruthless, and because my status was so embarrassing, the legion committee actually gave me the weird title of 'temporary battalion officer and temporary legion envoy'." Karabis put his helmet on the stand at the door of the tent. Then he moved his hair with his hand and said, "It seems that I must live until the end of this war before I can hold a formal military position - who is the tribune of our brigade?"

"We're not sure yet. We won't know until Philiplon in Macedonia." Pope handed over a pot of water.

Calabis took the drink and drank it. Then he wiped his mouth and looked at the soldiers in the camp sitting in a sloppy posture and talking loudly. He sighed and said, "There are too few veterans."

"Yes, these rookies only have courage and blood, they only know how to fight, but not how to protect themselves, and they can easily die on the battlefield. They must train for about three months before they can really go to the battlefield - this time the opponent is not like Catiline's mob." Pope also came up and put his hand on the bracket where the helmet was hung, "My woman said that your woman is pregnant again."

"Yes."

"Well done, your "reserve" will definitely come in handy." After that, the two of them fist-bumped each other.

On the coast of Greece, ships carrying soldiers from the 13th Legion were heading towards their destination in the turbulent sea. Carabis and Pope sat in the center of the bow deck, trying to keep their balance, shouting: "If you can't stand it, tie yourself up with the extra ropes, which can effectively reduce your panic." But when a soldier tied himself to the deck, he found that his body was swaying up and down with the hull, which was a more terrifying thing. He cried and then vomited, vomiting all over his body.

The soldiers on the deck vomited one after another at their feet, as if they were infected.

Another soldier shouted that he saw the hull cracked, but the centurion's suppression and persuasion were useless. In the end, he could only block his mouth with rags.

More soldiers, like those suffering from malaria, shivered with their legs on the deck bench. When they arrived at Philipulon near the Heliston Strait in the Macedonian Sea, half of the soldiers in the entire legion could not even get off the ship.

The Thirteenth Legion temporarily stationed here to collect war supplies before making the next move.

When Carabis led his soldiers to dig trenches and set up camp in the suburbs of Philipulon, a young military tribune stood in front of him. He raised his pickaxe and looked up. The tall and thin cheeks and eagle-like eyes of the other party were Apis, who released him and Potti in the Battle of Lycdania.