Augustus Road

"Travellers who have traveled a long distance, please stop for a moment and take a look at the past of a Roman who once lived in this world." - An epitaph from ancient Rome

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This is the reconnaissance team of the Third Regiment. They accepted Apis's order, walked out of the camp, and waded across the frozen river, because since the battle that day, the Pontic army still left slowly, but the cautious Ah Pius was still afraid that Mithridates would use the same strategy against him, so it was not until four or five days later that he sent out a reconnaissance force led by Hybrida to find out.

The whole scene was exactly as Hebrida said. The large soldiers of Pontus went to camp, and the entire wilderness and hills were covered with snow. They saw many corpses and abandoned bodies on the battlefield. Most of the corpses belonged to the officers and soldiers of the Roman Eighth Army who died in battle. This made everyone present feel pain and uneasiness, because most of the armor, clothing and jewelry on these corpses were stripped off by the Pontic soldiers as trophies. Now - what the Romans would do to the defeated, everyone would do.

As a result, thousands of naked corpses were blown black and terrifying in the wind and snow of the past few days, and were frozen to an extremely stiff state. They maintained various postures before death, either lying, sitting, or With his limbs curled up, Calabis frowned and slowly walked to a certain place. The corpses here were the densest, densely packed together, as if they were guarding the corpse in the middle.

"Poor Sonagius, even if he is as noble and good at fighting as he is, he cannot avoid the call of Hades." Arminius sighed upon seeing this, "It's useless. The eagle flag of the Eighth Legion has been taken away. The honor of this legion It’s over.”

Everyone stood quietly in front of Sonajius's body and observed a moment of silence. Then Karabis turned around and took a step. He was shocked. His foot clearly stepped on something movable. , was so frightened that he subconsciously took two steps back and pulled out his dagger. Even though he didn't know how to use this thing, it could still be used to strengthen his courage.

The "thing" turned over slightly and shook off the snow covering it. It turned out to be a man holding a leather blanket, staring like a hedgehog. He was hiding under the snow just now. It was extremely weird.

The rest of the people also drew their daggers. The man carried the blanket and babbled a few words, and then Calabis shouted in surprise: "It turns out it's you, Timothy!"

This was none other than Timotheus, the Stygian doctor hired by Mithridates, who almost performed the castration operation on Calabis. Timotheus angrily explained to Calabis the reason why he was here. It turned out that this man was unimpeded in the wind and snow. When the army of Pontus was fighting and marching, he had been sacrificing the deer god and the deer god of their Scythians. The Fish God was actually able to walk through an area full of dead bodies in a snowstorm and come to the river to worship the Fish God. As a result, the Pontic army left quickly, leaving the empty camp behind and forgetting that he was there. He went around and around, but could not find any trace of the team. Fortunately, he was a Scythian and was born with a natural talent. In the company of the wind and snow on the grassland, he dug a temporary hole and put a blanket on it. He actually persisted and did not freeze to death. When Calabis stepped on him, he saw the snow was clear. , just ready to leave and continue running.

"In that case, send him to see his fish god." Hebrida quickly picked up the sword and held down Timothee's neck.

Calabis stopped him, "You are crazy. Do you know that he is Mithridates' royal doctor? How about counting it as your trophy? You know, he is worth at least 20,000 sesterces in Rome. "The price is high." Hebrida looked at Calabis for a while and felt that what he said was true, so she put away her sword and said, "Maybe in the future, he can add a fish temple to the city of Rome."

At this time, Timothy asked Calabis loudly what would happen to him.

"All I can say is that you have temporarily become a prisoner of the Roman army." Calabis said, and then Timothy didn't react at all. He ran to the pit where he was hiding, and actually took out a body with ruddy remaining body from it. Here comes the skeleton! Everyone looked at it with incredible eyes. There was still some dead hair on the top of the skull. "Let's go." After Timothy said this, he carried the skeleton affectionately on his shoulders and strode away. In front of everyone, it was as if the Romans had not captured him, but he had captured the Romans.

A group of people lined up in single file, walking crookedly on the almost knee-deep snow. As a result, a few furlongs away from the camp, the sound of horse hooves and shouts were heard - four cavalrymen holding grape scepters, As she galloped towards Apis' camp with high spirits, Hebrida hurriedly asked everyone to step aside and extended her hand to salute.

"This is the herald of Tuna Luculas. They are finally here." After putting down her hand, Hebrida exhaled a mouthful of white mist and said.

Sure enough, after a while, Luculas did lead the Seventh Legion and the Eleventh Legion, meandering on the snow. All the soldiers and centurions were in a very bad mental state. Their faces were dark blue and they were carrying heavy loads. Equipment, stumbling steps, there were very few mules and horses in the queue. Afterwards, Karabis heard that many people had frozen to death in the Armenian mountains, including Karabis’ old friend "Owl", especially when the officers and soldiers saw it in the distance When the fields were densely covered with dead bodies, their morale dropped to freezing point. They knew in advance that the Eighth Army had suffered heavy losses, but they did not see that the scene they saw could be so miserable.

Luculas had been fighting in Xiaoya for several years, relying on these three main legions to come and go. This time, one-third was lost, which is really sad.

"It's him, this shameless villain." Seeing Claudius appearing in the cavalry at the front again, Hebrida and the remaining subordinates of the Third Regiment shouted angrily, "Bablius. Marcuse Claudius! Traitor!"

Claudius was very panicked when he heard this sound. He didn't expect that anyone in the Third Army could survive, so he covered his handsome face with his cloak regardless of where the sound came from.

After lunch, Luculas ordered all the soldiers to assemble in the open area in front of the camp. A total of 12,000 soldiers braved the extreme cold and formed a huge hollow phalanx. Karabis also Squeezed into the position of the Third Legion, because he was now a free man and could theoretically raise his sword and fight on the front lines for the Legion.

Just now, Apis had handed the document to Lucullas according to the procedure. The other party did not blame Apis for being self-centered, but said in a grateful tone: "Thank you, Apis, for your emergency response. You saved the entire Lycotha." Nia and Silesia.”

But Apis replied solemnly: "Mithridates turned back and went north. He annihilated the main force of the Eighth Army, from officers to soldiers, 4,000 outstanding Roman soldiers, together with fifty centurions, and two Fourteen generals, tribunes, and your lieutenant Sonagius all died on the snowy field in front - this also means that now Mithridates has crossed Cappadocia and the entire coast of Pontus There will no longer be any Roman army that can stop him."

Hearing these words, Luculas also had a look of relief. He put one hand on the table, slowly lowered his eyebrows, and then suddenly opened his eyes like fire: "Where is Terry Ali!"

"He has been well hidden out of fear of retaliation from the survivors of the Eighth Army."

"Then you give the order to gather all the soldiers, now!" This was Luculas' order.

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