Augustus Road

"I am already the head of this country, and it will never be as easy to reduce me from this position to a second-rate person as it is to reduce a second-rate person to the bottom." - Julius Caesar

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"Being a male slave in the Amazon kingdom? How can it be so easy? Those who work with their hands have to cut off their feet, and those who work with their feet need to cut off their hands. Those who work with their mouths and minds like Calabis need a And cut off both hands and feet." Behind the queen, Elcapa appeared and said threateningly. Then she handed the pieces of horse meat to the queen and Nico and said lightly, "I am. Not hungry.”

But Karabis clearly saw that the tribal marksman's face was so pale and small from hunger, and even his blond braids were split. This is a standard sign of malnutrition. This braid is Elka's. Pa has always been proud of it.

At this time, Hebrida came over with a piece of horse meat in her mouth and said to Calabis: "Brother is about to do something, but you must not agree."

"Then you still come to ask me?"

"This is to reduce the guilt you feel when you find out about this."

"Tell me, dear Centurion, I always feel guilty for you."

Haibrida cleared her throat and said, "We have to think about what to do after the horses are eaten. Just now, I suddenly thought that before your red-haired woman escaped, you threw her away when you grabbed the boat for her. Several eunuchs did not escape in the acropolis."

"What do you mean!" Calabis stood up as expected. He immediately waved twice in front of the always low-ranking centurion and almost couldn't stand still. He was so hungry that he was dizzy, but he still took the sea. Brida pushed, "Where are those eunuchs? Tell me quickly!"

Hebrida could only say that they were just temporarily detaining those fat eunuchs in the warehouse and waiting until the mules and horses were killed before making any plans, but Calabis didn't believe his nonsense at all, and took three steps and two steps. He walked through the corridor and ran to the warehouse on the second floor of the city defense platform. He used his sword to open the locked door. Helen and Putina ran in and took a look. Sure enough, several soldiers and butchers were sharpening knives. ! Several eunuchs were chained to the wall, stretching their necks like hens and crowing miserably.

"Stop, you can't eat people." The legion envoy's bulging eyes were about to burst out with sparks due to hunger.

A butcher with a mouth full of laughter replied without putting down the knife in his hand: "They have been knifed before. It's not a big deal if they are knifed again. Anyway, these people who are ridden are like mules and horses. Take advantage of now." They were trimmed before they were too hungry."

Another soldier agreed and shouted: "This is the fate of being a eunuch."

Before Calabis could answer, one of the eunuchs saw the steward coming and howled: "Don't kill me, don't eat my flesh. I am an Achayan, and I was forced to be Malcha's waiter. I have many fellow soldiers serving as servants in the Pontic military camp below the city, and I heard that our king was killed by Mithridates. I am willing to risk my life to go out of the city and go to the Achaeans to get food for your army. "

Hearing this, Calabis's eyes gleamed again. He stepped forward to seize the butcher's knife, and broke the ropes and chains on the eunuch's body. Then Helenputina stepped forward and said, "Let me and Elka Pa, take him to try your luck, I hope the goddess Diana has not abandoned us."

Just as Karabis was about to say let me go, Helenputina pressed his chest, "Take good care of Nico, don't let Ella die, don't forget that you are responsible for the safety of the entire legion's advance team, I, Amazon Queen Helenputina, am still employed by you. This is my duty. After the siege is successfully rescued, you have to spend money in this city to serve Neeko, Ella and our kingdom. , build the most spectacular and beautiful temple of the Hunting Goddess.”

As the night fell, Calabis wrapped little Nico in his cloak and sat cross-legged in the corner of the top tower. At the moment before, Helenputina and Elcapa, together with the eunuch from Asia, walked to the ground. In an inconspicuous corner, they sat in a basket and were lowered from the city wall one by one: the queen lowered herself first, and the fat eunuch lowered herself second. Of course, the petite Elcapa also stepped on the eunuch's shoulders and held his hand. The rope came down together with him, and then the three of them disappeared into the night and groped towards the Agayan camp.

"Calabis, listen to mom, you are my father." Nicole, who was being held in her arms, was dazed by Calabis's shaking, and said with an extra layer of sleepy eyelids.

"Yes, good girl, I am your father."

"Is my father the one who buys me lambs and builds sailboats?"

"Yes, and father also has another responsibility, which is to bring you many brothers and sisters." Karabis joked.

"Where's Ella?" Karabis didn't know how to answer this sentence. After thinking about it, he took out the embroidered Persian belt from the box next to him, tied it around his daughter's waist, and wrapped it twice. "Ella went to a very far away place to be the female companion of the goddess Diana. It will be a long, long time before she comes back. This is the gift she left for you... When you miss Ella, you can look at the sky Stars." As he spoke, Calabis felt that Nico's head became heavier. It turned out that the girl tilted her head and had fallen asleep.

Around early morning, the Queen of the Amazons appeared on the top tower with a tired face, "Calabis, I have already seen the Agayan people, but we have to make a bet."

In the next two days, Menander, who was patrolling the siege position, found that the Achaeans of Colchis were obviously working very hard - they first dug a trench horizontally, and then divided into groups to dig vertically. After each section was dug, a protective wooden shed was erected on top, and covered with sandbags and leather, so that the Romans' rockets could do nothing. The last section of the wooden shed crawled like a giant snake towards the slope built by the Bronze Shield Army before.

"When we reach the bottom of the city wall, we will use mattocks and pickaxes to destroy the foundation bricks and stones. In addition, drive the wooden stakes into the wall and set them on fire, and the Roman wall will easily collapse."

Menander nodded with satisfaction and gave two instructions, which roughly meant that if you dig down the city wall, our Bronze Shield Army will definitely follow up with reinforcements, rush into the Acropolis, and pull out this nail, and you will naturally have a place in the credit book. After saying that, Menander walked to the governor's tent and opened the curtain. Stratonice and Perseus had been waiting for a long time.

"Marca was killed by Philip. I told him to be careful. This will easily make Eubert suspicious." Stratonice looked at the governor and was scared.

"What suspicion will he have? We will take action after conquering the Acropolis. With reliable followers, we will seize the towers, ports and palaces of Ponticabia. Eubert will be finished. Pompey will definitely praise our merits. My brother Philip's move just prompted us to make up our minds. Sister, you have always been too hesitant before." Perseus said nonchalantly. (To be continued.)