Chapter 3: The Eternally Low-level Hybrid (Part 1)
"The great Macedonia will remember this shame, and King Philip's escape is like a doe in the woods." - After the Battle of Sktousa, Alcius mocked the poem of Philip, the defeated Macedonian king.
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During the next few days of rest, Li Bida heard the most common words that centurion Highbreda said in the mouth of the winter camp.
The so-called winter camp means that the legion cancels all combat plans and withdraws the relatively warm Bitinya Tunza in the upcoming cold winter. The soldiers can freely move in the local garrison to relieve the sentiment: gambling, drinking, **, selling spoils to the military dealers, including slaves, and even finding a local wife to form a "dew family".
This was not surprising at that time. When the Roman army arrived somewhere, Italian dealers, prostitutes, taxpayers and speculators would flock from all over the place like flies. They quickly formed a temporary town called "Vesua" near the barracks, bars, casinos, rental buildings, and brothels. Many famous cities in Europe and Asia in later generations started from this "Vesua".
Li Bida was directly named "Carabis" by Hebrida because he was discovered in Kabrida. As for Adiana, Hebrida did not kill her for the time being, of course she did not know her true identity, but called her "Carabia". She was still hesitating whether to sell this little beauty from a foreign country to a rich man in Rome at a high price, would she seem more rational?
As for Batiatas, who was seriously injured by "Karabia", he was still lying on the couch and was unconscious. The "sissy" was sent by Hebrida to take care of this master. In fact, Libida already knew the true identity of "sissy". A Jewish slave from Galilee named Demitrius, with a look that looked very much like the male protagonist of "The Pianist on the Sea". When talking to people, he always had to make a name for himself, "I am educated and serve as a tutor for their children in the villa of Little Ya's Greek rich man." Libida learned that he was captured by Hebrida's 100 team in the war a year ago. Hebrida also thought he was a cultured person and was preparing to sell him for a thousand Seths during the winter camp.
Because Hebrida saved twenty slaves from human traffickers in the port of Bitinia, all of which were his "war money". He often said that once the winter camp was in the past, he would sell all the new captured Libida, Demitrius, Adiana, and other new ones, so that he could earn 20,000 Sess, and after retirement, he could own a considerable property with his wife in the suburbs of Rome, or go to a new town in Spain, Afilica, to buy a three-story apartment building, rent it to tenants on the second and third floors, and rent it to merchants as a store on the first floor.
Li Bida didn't know how many hundred he could be worth in Highbrida's eyes? Anyway, his current "profession" is just a "camp slave", who does physical work, cutting grass, feeding mules, collecting ingredients, and taking charge of the tent and miscellaneous items, is much more "down-to-earth" than when he was in college.
Adianna never had to look at Li Bida in front of her eyes, and she didn't even greet her. She refused to do her job, just wrapped herself in a cloak (which Li Bida gave her), sat on the stone in front of the tent, and looked at the distant sky with her noble and melancholy eyes.
After the fall of the Karabi Palace, most of them were killed or committed suicide. Few people survived as slaves. I don’t know what they were, but this also has the advantage, that is, no one has explained Adianna’s identity.
Even so, Li Bida secretly understood the joints of the Seventh Legion. He hoped to meet a commander-level big man and then send Adianna out. In this way, the chastity and reputation of this princess would be better guaranteed. If someone like Hebrida knew about it, the consequences would be absolutely unbearable. However, because time was too hasty, Li Bida only learned from soldiers and slaves: The Seventh Legion is one of the three legions of the Roman Republic in Xiaoya, and the commander is Secretly sequelled; the other numbers are Eight and Eleven, the former is on standby in Silesia, while the latter is led by the Eastern Commander Lukuras and is rushing towards Karabi.
As for Li Bida's location, the third wing of the Sixth Battalion, he also learned a little about the fact that the wing of the Legion was actually formed by two hundred-man teams, and then three wings formed one wing, and ten wings formed one wing. The two hundred-man teams were logically commanded by two centurions, but for the sake of centralization, they were also divided into one senior and one low-ranking. However, the status of the two was not as literally as the meaning, and was established by the service age. For example, Utarius was born a nobleman, and although he was much younger than Hebrida, he was still a senior centurion and served as a military guardian.
However, he just regarded this as a primary springboard for a high career in official career. He was born in a famous family and had a wealth of property. He believed that he would be the chief clerk of a certain province in a short time and be promoted step by step. But Hebrida had a nickname in the wing, called "Eternal Low Level". Although he fought bravely, he was robbed and repeatedly disobeyed military orders, so he had been standing still in the position of low-level centurion in the Sixth Battalion for seven years (the centurion of the Roman Legion first took up his new position in the Tenth Battalion, and his final highest destination was the chief senior centurion of the First Battalion).
But because Utarius was a military civilian guard, he served as a staff officer in Secretreus for a long time. When it comes to the actual commander of the Third Regiment, Hebrida was still the one who was the one who was in charge of the Third Regiment.
Therefore, Li Bida chose to remain calm.
A few days later, he wore a rotten fur coat and grazed mules and goats for the corps on a hillside covered with autumn grass on the outskirts of Karabi. He was surprised that these work that he would not touch before traveling through time. After a short period of adaptation, he actually did a lot of work, just like the poem of Jose and Odd in ancient Greece: "When the farming season comes, you will go down to the fields with your servants, regardless of sunshine or rain, no matter morning and evening." This is the eternal hard labor imposed by Zeus or God on human heads, hidden deep in the genes of generations, and is now awakened in Li Bida's body.
You ask Li Bida why he didn't run away? It's useless, because the next day, he was stabbed with a tattoo unique to the slaves of the Seventh Legion, a row of curved vine tattoos. As long as you carry this thing, you will be cages everywhere you go. This kind of thing that young men and women think is cool two thousand years later made Li Bida lose his freedom and rights.
At sunset, a group of soldiers on patrol horses galloped by with nervous expressions, entering the military gate and shouting, "Please inform all our brothers, commander Lukulas, and the 11th Legion, that they have arrived at Karabi!"
The entire Seventh Legion camp was noisy.
About forty minutes later, Li Bida was about to pull the mule back when the music of a military horn was raised on the hillside. A bird that was about to stay overnight was shocked and circled. The mountain road and the woods blocked Li Bida's view. He only saw (his previous glasses were actually flat glasses) a golden eagle, passing through the canopy everywhere, and finally appeared in his sight.
It was the eagle flag of the Roman legion, held by a flag bearer in a cape and walked to the front of the team. The golden eagle with wings at the top of the flag was proudly looking down. Behind the flag bearer was a team of blowing trumpeters, and then a general riding a white horse and a red cloak surrounded by entourage holding "fascists" with a stick and axe.
This general is probably Lukulas.
Chapter completed!