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Chapter 30 Tithing (1)

"After three glasses of wine, wise guests should say goodbye and go home." - Ancient Greek playwright Yubius

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Just half a day before the mutiny, Caesar was still leading many generals and officials to pay tribute to Xiao Katu's coffin and asked him to be transported back to the cemetery of the Roman city for burial. Under the scattered clouds, Caesar was wearing a plain robe and said sadly to everyone:

"I will never be able to defeat Katu, because he chose to die unyieldingly and defeated me forever in his spirit and position."

As soon as he finished speaking, the token officers of Li Bida's 15th and 16th legions ran to the barren square, and then the 10th legions also came. Caesar's face changed suddenly, and he quickly assembled his entourage and the chief centurions of each legion. Because they were the direct persons in charge of military discipline, they rode on their horses without any stay, and quickly left the city of Marcellia and headed towards Pinochincha Town, preparing to eliminate the resentment of the soldiers along the way.

The first one to gallop was Li Bida's military camp. At that time, the chief deputy general was in the joint camp of the Sixth Army. When he heard that Caesar was outside the Ten Romes, he immediately lifted the blanket and cloak on the cover from the couch and ran out like a fly. Sabo and the centurion on duty immediately announced the cancellation of the access control of all soldiers and could walk around the military camp at will, because under his command, the Sixth Army showed no signs of mutiny at all, and the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Army also calmed down within half a day. However, Li Bida was very smart. He could not let Caesar lose confidence in himself, but he could not make the other party wary. "If even Caesar's Tenth Army was noisy this time, and my three legions were not flying, how would Caesar think of me?"

So when Caesar came to the camp of the Sixth Army, the soldiers shouted and walked around, and the entourage was about to call the centurion who was scolding in front of the tower to summon the chief deputy general Li Bida to come to see him, but was soon stopped by Caesar. Then Caesar asked the centurion who was full of swearing words and rectifying military discipline, "What are your chief deputy generals doing in the camp?"

When the centurion saw Caesar wearing his iconic cloak, he knew that this was the Lord Consul, and he blew it when he wrote his memoirs. He immediately replied excitedly and unconcealedly: "The Chief Deputy General supervised our army. He said that he was tired of sorting out the accounts, so he found an excuse to turn it off and pay tribute to his mission and sleep in the camp!"

"Is the access control so slackened, so that the soldiers would not care about it?" Caesar looked very angry and looked stern, scaring the centurion so much that he felt his words abrupt, trembling all over, and hurriedly defended himself as saying, "The reason why the soldiers ran around was because the marching army in front of him was in a commotion. The soldiers' hearts were also messy."

"Um" Caesar's expression immediately calmed down, and then he saw that Li Bida was in disheveled clothes on the main entrance of the camp. He took his entourage on a horse, carrying a trumpet and a flag in panic. After seeing Caesar, Li Bida shouted, "It is said that the army in front has mutiny. As expected, what should we do about the current situation!"

"First, please scrub your legion. I believe the source is not here, but at the Ninth legion in the town of Pinochencha." Caesar replied quickly.

So, Li Bida was in front of him, pretending to spend half a day to appease the three legions of six, fifteen and sixteen. Caesar was watching outside the camp gate. Faced with the mutiny that had long been expected, he seemed to be less anxious and panic as he had at the time. "What should have happened?" This was probably Caesar's voice, "Okay, take this opportunity to rectify military discipline and ask the soldiers to swear allegiance again!"

Finally, seeing this scene, Caesar had indescribable peace of mind for the chief vice general. Although it took some time, it was worth it. When the three legions subsided, Caesar immediately asked Li Bida to select their respective chief brigades, and then came to the camp of the 10th legion in the evening. At that time, many soldiers were in arousing enthusiasm. Caesar was dismounting at the main gate. The brigade of soldiers brought behind lined up to fight, and was full of murderous spirits. Then Caesar did not say anything, but in front of the centurion and soldiers of the 10th legion.

On the face of the soldier, he took off his cloak and armor, and wore an underwear. He lay down on a golden sword, lying in front of more than 10,000 soldiers. Then he shouted: "If you want to pull up the eagle flag and abandon the consul and the camp, then there are two choices left. One is to go out from the back door, and that is to admit that you are guilty, because only soldiers who violate military discipline will go out from there; the other is to walk out from the front, yes--step on me, Julius Caesar's body!"

This is OK? Li Bida was stunned. He really didn't know whether to say that Julius was a passionate person or a pure scoundrel.

"Will our 10th Legion lie the consul and go over the team?" After a while, the situation suddenly changed. Many soldiers who were still noisy and wanted to propose various conditions began to feel heartbroken and feel ashamed of their domineeringness, and they all fell down one after another. After all, they were abandoned by Pompey on the Eastern battlefield. Thanks to Caesar's shelter, they achieved their present day, so they were the most loyal to Caesar. Seeing this person lying desolately at the door of his camp, they couldn't stand it.

In this way, within half a moment, the mutiny of the Tenth Legion was resolved. Caesar quickly asked the chief brigade of the Tenth Legion to follow him and continued to come to the camp of the Eighth Legion.

The Eighth Legion was not confident enough. When I saw the consul coming with four brigades, my calves were trembling immediately. At this moment, Caesar did not play the trick of lying down again, but instead led the guards to speak to all the soldiers, saying, "You are not the new army, but are now incited. This is a great shame. Don't let me feel distrust of your army. When I charge in the future, I think the Eighth Legion should still consider it.

Like, how would General Gobale, the commander who led you for so many years, feel?" After saying this, he saw the flags of four brigades outside. The officers and soldiers of the Eighth Legion knew that this mutiny was destined to be suppressed. Everyone rushed to surrender. The centurion shouted to report the names of the soldiers who were the first to cause trouble, and requested that the consul must continue to trust the Eighth Legion in the future. Many people began to scold and fight each other, and the whole scene was almost out of control.

"No one will be truly punished, but today's centurion on duty and the chief centurion of the entire legion must be whipped and set an example in public!" Caesar's serious tone actually excused the sins of the Eighth Legion.
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