Augustus Road

Several followers in front of Pacrus were shot to death immediately, and their bodies were almost torn apart. The prince lowered his body very calmly and flexibly, turned the horse's head skillfully, held the lance, and stabbed two galloping men in pursuit. The Roman cavalry got off the horse, then shook out the noose, captured and pulled one of the horses, and ran back towards the Tigris River. In the middle, he was guarded by a group of cavalry who had not been broken up. This group of cavalry Seeing that the prince was in danger, he disregarded his own life and launched a suicidal counterattack against the pursuing Reus Legion and Skylark Legion. After a burst of shooting, they all fell off their horses and died like falling leaves.

The soldiers of the Lius Legion in the front group knelt on the spot and continued to reload skillfully, while those in the rear group attacked again. They were only about one stadia away from the Parthian prince who was parked on the shore!

"Where are the cavalry, where are the cavalry!" Even this group of brass and spearmen gave up the honor of capturing or killing the enemy prince with their own hands, and anxiously shouted for the cavalry to come, but Lepidus's cavalry were scattering. The defeated troops chasing the enemy had not been able to gather them for a while.

At this moment, the high priest followed the guards and boarded the Gaofu where Pacrus tried to escape just now. "What a young hero. I didn't expect Herod, a loser, to have such a heroic son." Flag banner Next, Lepidus looked at Pacrus, who remained calm despite being chased and surrounded, like a tiger whose power has not diminished with age, and admired a newborn lion cub.

Then, the high priest suddenly issued an incredible order, "If Pacrus is really lucky, order all the infantry and cavalry to stop pursuing him and let him cross the Tigris River and let him go."

When the flags and bugles sounded, all the soldiers who were chasing along the river bank could hardly believe their eyes and ears. However, the high priest had always prohibited the execution of orders. If he wanted to show his personal heroism again at this time, he would probably be the one in front of him. He also wanted to ruthlessly abandon all his merits, so the soldiers formed a tight formation. Watching Pacrus continue to run along the river bank until he found an Asase, the prince looked back at the high priest in the distance, and then changed to the San Miguel horse he had captured. Without any hesitation, he jumped into the rolling river and moved towards the other side.

Paclus finally escaped to the other side. He then rode alone into the city of Seleucia, which had not yet fallen. He gathered a few companions and found a small boat. Then he braved the danger and crossed to the other side of the Tigris River again at night. After going through many hardships and dangers, he finally caught up with his father.

Half a market day later, six Roman legions from Calle entered undefended Seleucia. In the evening of the same day, Lepidus' legions also entered Ctesiphon, the winter capital of Parthia, without blood.

Almost all the city fortresses on both sides of the Tigris River fell into the hands of Lepidus, and the kingdoms of Nabatea, Petra, Massaget and other kingdoms also sent envoys to request surrender.

At the city gate with lion statues standing on both sides of Ctesiphon, the high priest dismounted amid cheers and said to Galius and others. "We don't need to pursue the poor bandits like Alexander the Great. This is the eastern territory of Rome in the future. Just this beautiful winter capital, just wait for the arrival of Herod's peace envoy. He will definitely come to ask for peace."

Then, the high priest leaned on his sword, and Neeko followed behind him in high spirits, and walked onto the boulevard leading to the palace of Assasis. On both sides were soldiers on or off their horses, swaying weapons and high torches. slogan. In this atmosphere of fanatical victory, the high priest stepped in front of the royal temple on the side of the palace, where a small plaster statue of Herod deified was standing on the pedestal.

The high priest flapped his cloak and turned back to all the soldiers who had gathered around to listen at the foot of the steps. Said one sentence, "I have washed away the shame and anger of His Excellency Crassus, the governor of Syria who died in the past, and avenged all the soldiers who died in the Kalai Desert!"

"Long live!" All the soldiers raised their swords and spears in response.

Then the high priest cried, and he looked up and shouted the second sentence, "And this is the glory that belongs to His Excellency Julius Caesar."

The soldiers were silent for a while. Then Flaccus raised his fist and shouted, "Long live Caesar, long live the high priest!" Then all the soldiers shouted in unison and responded.

"Here, the temple of the evil god built by the Parthian rats will be destroyed and replaced by the temple of Diana." Lepidus took the torch from his daughter's hand, pointed at the pillars of the temple and continued talking proudly. In three sentences, "Ctesiphon will become the front line of the Roman Empire, and will no longer be the winter capital of the Parthians to enjoy themselves. And in this case, this statue should be like this!" After saying that, he stuck the torch in On the pedestal, Zhuge pulled out his sword, waved his hands vigorously, and then, amid the crazy cheers of the soldiers, he chopped off the head of the plaster statue of Herod with one sword. The "head" was in the firelight, along the steps. It rolled down and was soon crushed to pieces by the feet of the soldiers rushing up.

The glorious achievements of the high priest reached their climax after the capture of Ctesiphon. He would be the highest king of Rome. From this ocean to that ocean, no one dared to question it.

However, the performance of "Beheading Herod" in front of the temple was just a performance for the soldiers and the crowd. In private, in the palace on the artificial lake of Ctesiphon's palace where you can go boating, Lepidus captured all the captured Herod's harem. After giving the reward to his subordinates, he met the emissary sent by the other party, just as he had planned before.

"My second-line legions in Asia Minor have not moved yet, and they are eager to enter the city of Nissa to show off." Facing the envoy, the high priest only said this sentence.

In the end, in order to preserve the throne, Herod agreed to humiliating conditions - all the land and cities on both sides of the Tigris River were ceded to Lepidus, and Lepidus also supported Mindaz in the city of Chinodosia and became the king of the "Parthian Kingdom", and he had to obtain Herod's letter of recognition (this was a huge joke Lepidus played on Herod); the Parthian Empire paid 250 talents to the Romans every year for 20 years; Parthia gave up all diplomatic exchanges with Egypt, Judea, and Armenia; Herod handed over his concubine's little daughter to marry Lepidus' servant Matthias to show his submission, and finally about 5,000 Roman prisoners of war who were still alive in the Battle of Carrhae were all released within a month.

"Lions and sheep always negotiate happily and freely." This was Lepidus's final arrogant evaluation of the peace talks, which was also written on the Acuta and handed to the Senate, the Executive Council and the People's Assembly, and read in front of all Romans.

However, I really don't know whether this sentence is his feeling towards the Parthians or his feeling towards the Romans?

No one can tell clearly, and no one dares to tell clearly. (~^~)