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Chapter 33 Running (Part 2)

The next morning, Li Bida, who had a sore waist last night, got up very late. After pushing the goose down on the pillow, he put on his shirt and walked into the central courtyard. He saw Corinna eating breakfast alone under the careful care of several maids, while Leo sat alone in a chair among the flowers and plants on one side, looking at the book, and there was not even half a servant beside him. Once the brother and sister were together, the servant would unconsciously focus on Corinna and ignore him.

Porty was checking the kitchen and warehouse, and Li Bida walked towards his children. At this moment, Leo saw his father first, so he hurriedly stood up and stood to express respect, while Corinna was full of indifferent behavior. Then, the servant of the Siren brought in many Crien's disciples. Li Bida held Leo's hand, and the father and son accepted the greetings from the disciples together, and then gave a few simple words of advice. Suddenly, someone suddenly pushed away and asked to tell his Excellency Li Bida a very reckless manner. Li Bida looked and recognized that this was the deacon of the Claudi family. "My two mistresses, Claudiya and Fulivia, if you have urgent matters, please ask for your help."

What was going on? Li Bida hurriedly ate something and kissed Porti, who had just walked over from the corridor, "Precaution the children, don't let them run around the streets of the city." Then he dressed neatly and walked towards Paladin Mountain under the escort of Matthia and several armed slaves.

As a result, in the summer restaurant in Claudi's backyard, he met a surprisingly uninvited guest, Marco Anthony, who was buried in the flowers and fruits and drinks on the long table, and was flirty with Fulivia like nothing else.

"You crazy!" Li Bida strode over and grabbed Anthony and asked. "You must have escaped secretly from Brindisi. You just want to hook up with this lonely young widow!" As he said that, he pointed to Fulivia, who was scared to death. "Then you can tell me directly that if you are short of money for the wedding, I can help you, but now you are destroying your future, my civil guardian and deputy general."

"Don't blame me, don't you do the same. By marrying a widow, he inherited the Libida family in Sardinia." Anthony pushed him away. "In fact, in everyone's eyes, the Republic is a widow with a generous attitude, rich assets and easy to get started. Everyone wants to press her under her crotch, everyone!" Then, the tall and burly "Hercules" raised the wine jar, drank it, and then said to Libida in a sad tone, "The front-line battle report is coming, my brother Gaius is captured."

Li Bida sat down calmly, all this long as he expected. Fulivia stood timidly and served him with plates and wine glasses. "Oh, what is the exact news? Is Gaius dead?"

"No, Pompey would not have killed him so hasty, because he is my younger brother. Haha, I, Anthony, finally has some influence. Because after the civil war broke out, there were very few senior generals standing on Caesar's side, so I was about Pompey's camp and regarded you and me as bald men." Anthony sat down with some despair, and then shouted angrily, "It was Seitrus who betrayed him, and it was Urabella who betrayed him. The former flew with his flanks first in Dalmatia, and the latter's fleet gave up cover after suffering a little setback at sea. My brother persisted to the end. He was very brave and retreated to Curicota with his soldiers. As a result, Lipo and Maximus' fleet surrounded the island. He had no way out with the three thousand soldiers, so he surrendered."

"In other words, Urabella fled back to Brindisi with 4,000 soldiers from the Eleventh Legion; and Seitrus fled to Sarona or Isa with 2,000 land troops?" Li Bida's judgment and guess was correct, and received an answer that Anthony agreed. It was because Urabella's fleet ran back that he learned about the bad news.

Over there, Anthony was anxious like an ant on the hot pan, while Li Bida slowly brought nuts and plums to his mouth. He was thinking about something calmly. After a while, he touched the core question again: "Didn't Caesar negotiate with Pompey about Gaus's safety?"

"He has no money anymore, and he will reward all the soldiers! The bald man just said that in the war, everyone must obey the arrangement of the Goddess of Destiny. Maybe after he wins in Greece, Gaius will be released. Damn, I want to chase and kill Urabella. That bastard must have a private revenge. As a result, the matter is revealed, and he will report me in front of Caesar." Anthony's eyes were bloodshot and he shouted.

"Is this why you escaped like a criminal and a coward? Marco."

"No matter what, you must save me. I'm coming back to you. How did you help Claudi before, and how should you help me now - I'm just this younger brother. He has been in a country manor for a long time and has not appeared in Rome. I've been sorry for him for a long time. You have to save him, and save me, and save my mother." Anthony rubbed his hair wildly, put his elbows on the table, and stomped his feet. This is his attitude of asking for help. Although he was rude and rude, it was indeed the expression of his true nature.

"Okay, okay. Now your priority is to bring my letter back to Brindisi, confess to Dick Thuddou, and serve his army again. I have estimated that he is unlikely to punish you, because the bald man is now using people." Li Bida patted Anthony on the shoulder and comforted him, "I will actively run for Gaius."

At this time, Claudia knew the opportunity and put her hand on Libida's shoulder casually. "Sure, General Libidaus and Brutu on the Republican side, Kasio is very familiar with him."

"Don't be stupid." Li Bida blocked his former mistress back without hesitation, but Claudia still retained an awkward smile. She had no power now, lost her younger brother, and her most trustworthy appearance began to grow old. She really had no capital to be proud of herself, so she could only listen to the other party's scolding, "You are pushing Gaus to be done early, because of the death of Little Gatu, we only have hatred. Now if Brutu is in front of me, you give him a sword, he will stab me to death without hesitation. By the way, I can think of a way for Pompei's youngest son."

"You mean Syketus?" Everyone present did not believe their ears.

But Li Bida did what he said, and he quickly sent Syketus a hundred thousand urgent letters through the line of the Chamber of Commerce, "Since we, as the winners, have not made any trouble with Pompei's surrendered soldiers at all, then for Gaius and the 3,000 soldiers who surrendered in Curicotta, please mediate more."

In the harbor of Dirkhach, when Libida's letter was delivered, the captured Caesar soldiers were terrified on the beach and accepted the sentence of the winner, Gabinus, Lipo, and especially the angry Bibruce. The reason why he was so angry was not only because of the ridicule and exclusion he had suffered when he joined forces with Caesar as a consul (Bruce was a miserable man, he was also when Caesar was a road magistrate, he was also when Caesar was a city magistrate, but he was always like a lonely shadow, suppressed by Caesar's glory), but also because after Caesar and Libida entered the city of Rome, he did not have the name of Bibruce on the list of "primary traitors" announced by Caesar!

Nothing is more annoying than being ignored by the enemy.

"Kill all these soldiers and officers, sacrifice to the god of war, sacrifice to the god of sea, cut off their hands and heads, and hang them on masts and sail ropes to intimidate those who dare to serve Caesar." This is Bibruce's suggestion.

Next to him, after reading Li Bida's letter, Syketus laughed and began to say it was interesting and interesting. He had never seen such shameless requests. Then he raised his hand and said, "For these people to surrender, most of them were bewitched by Caesar. The guys recruited from the Gaul area are no different from mercenaries. As for Anthony's younger brother Gaius, he was also in the team, put him under house arrest and don't be too embarrassed."

"What!" Bibruce protested with disbelief.

"It's nothing, but Caesar, in Kofinium, Brindisi, Spain, captured officers and soldiers, including me and my father-in-law, were all politely sent back and did not persecute them. Since as the guardian of the Republic, there is no need to lag behind the enemy morally and give the people a solid foundation." Syketus said that although Pompei's youngest son's words were not a mandatory order, in the republican military system, everyone knew that Pompei and Sippi were the ones who really kept their word.

Ah and Syketus are all from a family. This is a "family-style" army. Because Pompey only trusts his relatives and his old subordinates, and his disgust towards those elders, including Catholic, is not less disgusted than Caesar. Although Pompey provided these elders with expenses during his exile, it was not inferior to their own period in Rome, Pompey still meaningfully sent all the children and relatives of the elders to Respos Island, which was actually equivalent to taking hostages in disguise.

In this way, Lipo and Gebinus did not kill each other, but asked the surrendered soldiers to swear allegiance. What is surprising is that among the centurions, who came from Italy, surrendered to Pompeii, while many of them from Gallic refused to betray Caesar, but were killed by the head of death.

"The team has grown stronger again!" Seyx said to his father-in-law proudly, "I can compete with the guy named Libidaus again. My next claim is that we must not relax than Bruce, and the fleet must patrol and strangle regularly, because Caesar's main force may come to continue to attack the coastal city at any time; and General Rilias, with two Macedonian legions, divided into groups to capture Olicom, Isa and Sarona, so that we can not only hold on ourselves, but also threaten the northern part of Italy - the war will soon be even more expanded."

At this time, on the thick shoreline of the Peloponnese, a broken boat landed. The squat man jumped off the gangway and fell into the sea. After a while, he was wet, wrapped in a cloak, and staggered up with a pale face, "I, Rabinus, will solve his confusion in this land in this tragic civil war."
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