Chapter 26 The Truth (Part 2)
In the next two or three days, Octavian did not dare to stay in the camp and did not fight. In order to prevent the nights from being too long, Anthony quickly pulled out the Fifth and Tenth Legions, and asked his confidant centurion to supervise the camping and march to prevent these two Legions and Octavian from "contacting and deteriorating". ≥
Curio suggested that Anthony give the soldiers a corresponding reward for his previous victory. After thinking about it, Anthony summoned all the centurions and said that each of the three legions would be given eighty Seths to each of the three legions on the ration day, and the centurions would be doubled. Such a meager reward made the three legions very dissatisfied and complained in the march. Under the stick of the supervision of the centurion, he could barely reach the periphery of Mutina within half a day.
But at night, the three legions actually elected all military guards. A total of seventeen people came to Anthony's commander's camp to appeal to the soldiers' resentment. Of course, there was also the eighteenth, which was Leo, who was forced to become the military guards of the Fifth Legion before the war. He was also an individual soldier of Anthony's camp. These seventeen people deliberately turned a blind eye to Anthony, but submitted a complaint to Leo, because the soldiers like Leo, and he helped him to handle every letter from his family.
"What do you mean?" Anthony, who was sitting next to Leo, was angry.
"They obviously felt that the reward was too low, and the father, Lord Anthony." Leo answered instead of these people.
"I didn't ask you!" Anthony was angry. He felt that Leo was meddling in other people's business, but later he realized that when he had deceived soldiers before, he had held Leo's banner of "the so-called covenant with Li Bida", so he immediately calmed down and changed the topic. "What do you do with the beautiful dancers I gave to you?"
"Arranging two people to do chores for me, and the rest is sent to your personal centurion." Leo's answer almost made Anthony choke to death. He originally asked these women to corrupt Leo, but he didn't expect Leo to turn around and pry his own corner. "Okay, Leo, the civil guard of the Skylark Legion, you can hand me the complaint from my subordinates now." Anthony kept slashing at Leo, reminding him.
Leo indeed submitted it respectfully, but then he stood respectfully beside his father, Lord Anthony, and kept staring at the other party affectionately and did not let go. "Okay. I will consider this appeal in time." Anthony exclaimed.
"It's okay. I think all the soldiers will be eager to know your father's opinion on this matter before attacking Mutina, so I still recommend that you deal with it properly here as soon as possible." Leo is quick and easy.
Anthony was really angry, but it was not easy to get angry. He felt that his whole scalp was about to burst, so he could only announce to everyone with a wry smile that he would double the original reward. Seeing that all the military guards still showed resentment and disgrace, Anthony had to turn it into three times, and all the people who came to complain were considered to have left.
"Okay. It's OK, the son of the child's dear friend Li Bida! Look at you, are you doing your best for me? You will definitely say that anyway." Then in the camp, Anthony stamped his feet around Leo and complained loudly.
"Yes, that's what I think..." Before Leo finished speaking, Anthony immediately made a gesture of "Give me a quick stop like a beep", and then he panted, "In the battle against Mutina, you are no longer allowed to do anything on behalf of soldiers, you must be by my side at all times - yes, you are as terrifying as a plague, yes, you must be in front of my bed when camping and sleeping. I will call the fat prostitute to call you human beings. Anyway, she has coveted you for a long time. This is my revenge. Don't cry at that time. If you want to cry, wait until your father comes and then throw yourself into his arms and cry!"
But after Anthony got angry, he really saw Leo's eyes turn red, "What's wrong now I know to beg for forgiveness, you little fox who pretends to be gentle."
"I thought of my mother - but I thought of my father - if my father came here, like you did with Turinus three days ago, it would be a heartbreaking scene. Why can't you shake hands with your father? "Leo's speech without pretentiousness made Anthony quiet for a moment, and he felt tired, but he recalled the struggle with Leo's father in Cyprus, Egypt, and Afilica in the past. How good was such a life? If people don't have real private property, they will have no selfishness, right? After all, it was all the assets of the thousands of Tarante left by Caesar, which made him taste the taste of power drugs, and it has been out of control since then.
Anthony patted Leo on the back and said that the matter between me and your father does not need your attention. Your wife, my wife, your mother, my mother is safe in Rome for the time being. Some small disputes between men will soon be revealed, but at the cost, some people have to die. After that, Anthony slowly straightened his wrist guard and said, "For example, up and down the city of Mutina."
In the north of Mutina, there was a noise and the sound of horse hooves - Dihemoth's cavalry came out of the secret door again and sneaked into the civil engineering work of Anthony's army. "The Fifth Legion resting in the rear will draw out four brigades to attack the city barriers and return the enemy's cavalry." Anthony rode his horse and galloped all the way from the west of the city to the battlefield, followed by Leo and Curio, and a large number of Taraco cavalry. When they arrived there, the crossbows on the barriers had already shown great power and defeated the Dihemoth's army that rushed out of the tunnels and secret doors. There were many corpses piled up in front of the trenches and wooden fences below, and many remaining fires were burning.
"The enemy can't last too long!" Anthony came to the barrier and encouraged the soldiers of the Ninth Legion, saying, "Concentrate more crossbow cannons and stone throwers on this section of the city wall and smash them hard tomorrow. I will arrange for other legions to take over the general attack!"
Then, the centurion on duty in the Ninth Army ran over and handed Anthony the board of the post at the post. After a few hurried glances, he nodded and said that he must protect the barriers and prevent the enemy from counterattacking before dying. Then, he looked towards Mutina through the wooden fence and the wall, but saw many people being driven up and climbing the wall, crying and carrying wood, and repairing the damaged place with fear.
Chapter completed!