A few days later, Pompei's fleet appeared on the coast of Silesia. Its luxurious scale made everyone who came to greet them: a whole thousand three-layer warships, 30,000 heavy soldiers, 5,000 cavalry, and 500 bronze relief bows. Everyone came ashore with a pottery urn containing 300 Drachma silver coins. Because Pompei claimed that he completely wiped out the pirates in the Mediterranean, annihilated 100,000 pirates, destroyed 120 pirate nests, and the treasures seized could not be counted.

This was a naked demonstration to Lukulas, because Lukulas fought hard in Xiaoya for many years. Although he defeated his opponents many times, he could not make the final conclusion of the war. As a result, he still made wedding clothes for others, and gave him a free gift to the person he hated most in his life, Pompei.

Pompei, wearing a loose robe, was buzzing with stars from his staff and the entourage of the Governor's House of Bitinia, and with his strong and capable guard soldiers, holding scepters and eagle flags, leisurely entering Lukulas's barracks, causing a huge commotion - the soldiers collectively shouted Pompei's name, treating him as a hero who was a rare hero, and completely disliked Lukulas, as if the other party had never done anything beneficial.

Subsequently, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the two commanders decided to temporarily avoid the barracks and choose to hold talks in a secluded unmanned village. Only a few staff members and entourages participated, and Karabis and Demitrius also followed Lukulas. The meeting location was in the spacious barn of this small village. At this time, Karabis saw the "honor general" of ancient Rome, Gneus Pompeii, and Magnus.

At that time, Pompei had just turned forty, with a slightly stature but strong figure, which was inseparable from his years of exercise. Even in the days of Rome, he would go to the schoolyard with young soldiers every morning to ride horses, run, swim and throw javelins. His hair was very thick and curled up layer by layer. Pompei intended to comb the hair back. It is said that this made him look more like Alexander the Great, the conqueror of the world for three hundred years, but he always had a single strand, hanging on the side of his forehead, shaking with his raised hand, which made him look a little funny. Pompei did not

He imitated Alexander in dressing up, in fact, he followed his idol in his dreams. He was deeply loved by the Roman people and enjoyed the first triumphal style of his life at the age of 20. The reputation of this general is circulated throughout the Mediterranean region, whether it is the stone circle in faraway Spain (Gibraltar) or the Egyptian swamp in the east. Pompey always strives to pause word by word when speaking. His chin raised and his brows contracted into inverted characters, wanting to make his eyes deeper, but this also brings a flaw, that is, when he smiles, he will give people a sense of relief falsehood.

Soldiers and civilians love him especially, while nobles generally hate him. Lukulas and Crassus publicly accused him more than once that Pompei, who was not of high origin, was a nouveau riche and half a liar. Most of the so-called merits were pretentious and false. He was very good at deceiving and coercing the Senate and citizens, achieving the ambition to seize other people's merits and pursue his own honor.

But now, Pompei won again, and the target he competed for this time was Lukulas.

The two were extremely disagreeing, and it was an open secret during the period when Sula's dictatorship, but today Lukulas still had to maintain superficial restraint. He did not want to lose military power while losing his dignity. So at first, the two still fisted enthusiastically and hugged each other very enthusiastically, just like comrades who had met again after a long time. When Lukulas talked about the transaction, he was careful, hoping to bypass the unreachable restricted area of ​​the other party. When Lukulas saw that Pompey had withered the osmanthus crown on his head due to a long journey, he ordered his subordinates to give him a fresh and tender green one.

Karabis and others, under the instructions of the guardians such as Apis, were busy organizing documents, stamps, letters, tokens with Pompei's entourage, and busy in the barn. But in the end, the two started arguing in front of many guardians and guardians.

Everyone didn't know the source of the quarrel between them. Which party said the wrong thing, but they all witnessed the determination and courage of these two commanders to the end of the battle. Pompey loudly accused Lukulas: "Your expedition in recent years has achieved nothing except for the money, blood and reputation of the Republic. Now Mitradati has risen again and cannot be eliminated for a long time. It is precisely because the fathers of the Senate cannot bear you that I temporarily assigned me to clean up the mess. Today I have a little tour of your military camp, full of passive and lazy warfare, and corruption. Don't you know how much trouble I will bear in the future war?"

Lukulas was unwilling to let go: "Yes, I wasted some things in the Republic and stabilized the situation in Bitinia for it. Before I came, the kingdom was already shaky. It was me who saved it and brought it back to the arms of Rome. I only brought one or two thousand soldiers to conquer no less than three hundred cities and fortresses, eliminated hundreds of thousands of enemies, and defeated the two most powerful emperors of Xiaoya. I was the first Roman general to enter the Tigris and Euphrates. I made all the enemies silent-then you, Pompei with a false smile on his face, and used despicable tricks to deceive the people, take away my subordinates, and take away the honor that should have belonged to me!"

Pompei raised his head and smiled, "Compared with my brilliant record, your actions can only be considered as residual fluorescent light. When I was twenty years old..." Who would have thought Lukulas interrupted his self-proclaimed self-proclaim: "We know your record. In Spain, your army was repeatedly defeated by the one-eyed dragon Sedoulis, and you will only wear silk robe in front of the army soldiers, performing the goddess of victory rituals, deceive Rome, and write a letter to threaten the Senate, saying that if you do not satisfy your army's supplies, you will let it go.

Toulis enters Italy. When the one-eyed dragon was assassinated by his rebellious subordinates, you regard everything as your credit—in Spain, you robbed Metra’s merit; in the Great Rebellion of Swordsmen, you robbed Crassus; now in Bendu, you robbed my merits again—Pompey, you are a greedy corpse-eating eagle. When I Lukuras used my sword to kill the enemy all over the field, you were attracted by the smell of the corpse and the smell of blood, eating rotten meat, and then clamoring, all of this is my credit, all of this is my credit.”

This made even Karabis, who was watching, feel a little too powerful. Pompei raised his head and was so angry that his curly hair stiffened. Then Lukulas curled his lips and waved his hand, and prepared to leave the barn, leaving Pompei alone there, and parted in a bad mood.

"Please stay, Governor of Silesia." At this time, Triali suddenly spoke.

Lukulas turned around and said in a sarcastic tone: "What's the matter, Lord Triali Rikdanikus?"
Chapter completed!