Chapter 8 The River of Blood (2)
"Rimini is just the first stop. Curio and Anthony led seven brigades to sweep the towns immediately. Li Bida led the remaining cavalry through the Apennines and joined the Thirteenth Legion, which was heading south at the same time with Etruscans, and captured the city of Arizo. In addition, urge the two successors of the fifteenth and sixteenth as soon as possible to rush to Rimini and join me who are in charge here! Our goal is to control the three avenues of Apiñen, Emili and Flaminia within three days, and then encircle Rome!"
At this moment, Ijurus, the clerk riding by Caesar, pointed to the other side of the road and whispered: "Look, the envoy of the Senate is here."
Yes, a legal officer dressed up, with a slinger in his arms, slowly walked over from the road half hesitantly. Caesar laughed, then jumped off his horse, lifted up his skirt in front of the big tree, and began to pee at the trunk.
"I am the judiciary Lorgas, yes," the envoy, who looked around with some fear, with generals and centurions with swords and spears around him, said to Caesar, who was still ejaculating at the trunk. "He came to read out the 'ultimatum' of the Senate."
Finally, in the heat, Caesar shook twice, and then he was busy for a while and turned to Lorgas and said, "Dear Envoy, where were you going to submit this ultimatum?"
Lorgas was a little embarrassed and murmured, "I was going to hand over this ultimatum to you in Alimilon City."
"But unexpectedly, I met me in this place in the end! Yes, I, Julius Caesar, have crossed the Rubicon River. Now I am too lazy to give you ultimatums, telling Pompei and Little Cato - come here and fight to the death with me." After Caesar said that, he burst into laughter. The envoys opposite had no momentum to issue the ultimatum at all. It was Caesar's clerk who came forward and took the letter arrogantly, and threw it into the cushion under the saddle without even reading it.
Seeing that Lorgas still had not left, Caesar raised his hand and asked, "What else is there to do?"
So the other party took out a smaller letter and said that this was what Dick thrust Pompei and asked me to hand it over to you in his personal capacity.
"I have no personal relationship with him now. Please ask Ijiurus to read in front of everyone!"
Pompei's letters are ridiculous: He emphasized that he has now become Dirk, so the army of the Roman Republic should accept his jurisdiction and dispatch, and Caesar's army is no exception. But even so, Pompei is still willing to treat Caesar as a friend and a former relative in private. The reason why he took office as a dictator was out of national justice. Because Pompei was always a person with clear distinction between public and private affairs, he hoped that Caesar could be with the light and not put private impulses above national interests.
What follows is all the same, nothing more than listing power, fame, and qualifications in all aspects, and comparing it tirelessly. Li Bida, who was standing by, even sneered that powerful people like Pompei should also hire some decent documents to write for them!
"May I ask, can I lead the cavalry now? I think it's a waste of time here. In this kung fu, perhaps the great Dick pushed Pompey to recruit three to five soldiers!" Li Bida's teasing made the people around him laugh.
But Caesar personally took the hook pen and a font board from Izzurus, took off the saddle, sat down as a small table, and read it aloud. Perhaps in his heart, he wanted to have a chance to completely humiliate Pompey: "I, Julius Caesar, should take the great Pompey as an example, forget my own interests before justice, and rescue the country from the miserable situation, so I decided what should I do next? First, I pushed Dik to push him.
Dopompei sent him to the place he should go, the Spanish province; then I will enter the city of Rome, restore the freedom of the Tebres assembly, and restore the power of the civil servants to protect the civil servants; this is what I want to say to the great Pompei, if he is willing to accept it, he and I will disband all the troops immediately, and the civil war will not break out, at least the battle has not begun, and I will wait for him in Rimini, yes-Pompei should come to me in person to negotiate peace!”
After finishing writing and reading it in one go, Caesar got up, stuffed the font into Lorgas' arms, and then waved his hands behind him and shouted, "Cavals, let's use your momentum to fight in Gaul!"
Amid the deafening sound of horse hooves, Li Bida took the lead and rushed towards the mountainous area on the west side of the avenue. Behind him, the powerful effect of three thousand elite cavalry galloping scared the envoys of the Senate so much that they could not move. These cavalrymen were wearing chain mails and pointed cone helmets, carrying bows and arrows; there were Mathias wrapped in ribbons and holding spears, and the newly entered Alvini cavalry, dressed in beast-haired cloaks and naked bodies.
They ran straight towards the city of Arizo, which connected Etruscania and Rome, and guarded the Avenue of Cassia, which was the best shortcut to the city of Rome.
As a result, about three days later, the cavalry, who were rushing to lightning, occupied the high hills on an unknown tributary of the Rubicon River like a whirlwind, and stopped because the Mathian scout told Li Bida, "There was an enemy situation ahead."
Li Bida, along with Sabo Kemus, Dussenvier, Vichentoli, Mindaz and other subordinates, came out together. Looking at Pompei's army who were still cooking at the foot of the mountain, Li Bida took the lead and sneered, "What kind of enemies are these? Everyone is optimistic. These are the soldiers of Pompei's invincible Pompei. When they were camping and resting, there were not even vanguards or guards. We came to them like a vacation in Naples!"
These were indeed three brigades of the City Legion. Long before Lorgas returned, Pompey vaguely felt that Caesar had already rushed to the south, so he spent the City Legion and two consuls. He also divided the troops into three groups, constantly recruiting people along the way, trying to lay a long arc defense circle on the periphery of Rome to restrain the troops that blocked Caesar.
The news that reached Pompey's ears at that time was terrifying, "All ten legions of Caesar went south."
Perhaps, the envoy Lorgas would tell his opponent's real military strength after he came back, but at that time, perhaps the city of Rome had been surrounded and Pompey would never want to lead the most elite first legion, and at the beginning of the war, he was surrounded and annihilated by Caesar with his absolute superior military strength.
So when he sent out various brigades of the city corps in all directions, Pompey had already made up a plan to escape in time. The second position he envisioned was the front line of Capua and Kofinium, and the final position was Taranto and Brindisi, where he would wait for reinforcements from Greece and the East.
Chapter completed!