Augustus Road

In fact, Calabis didn't even bother to fight at night. In front of the pillars of fireworks, groups of Roman soldiers, pulling mules and horses, carrying artillery equipment, were speeding towards the Acropolis.

When the soldiers of the Acropolis recognized them, they pulled up the gate. Calabis, who entered, found that there was chaos everywhere. The injured soldiers of Bosporus were sitting on the steps of the small temple and groaning. There was no one to provide treatment, and those who were not injured were running around looking for their superiors and officers who had disappeared.

Malcha and Claudius, who looked nervous, actually appeared in the Acropolis, as if they were waiting for Calabis to explain something. This made Calabis shocked and angry. He led his subordinates directly to the governor. and the deputy general, after giving a military salute, he asked: "Your Excellencies, I think your duty should be to stay in Ponti Cabbion and do a good job in city defense and blocking the bay. I hope you are doing a good job. ”

"Everything is fine. I heard that you, the special envoy of the legion, suffered a defeat due to poor command on the front line." Malcha deliberately placed Karabis in the position of "defeated general" before telling his true thoughts. "How about it, if the acropolis cannot be defended, we must bring the main force into Ponti Kabiang to defend my palace."

Calabis became furious: "With more than a thousand people, plus your frightened defeated troops, Your Majesty the Governor, still want to defend Ponticabion, which has a circumference of nearly twenty stadias? I I told you a long time ago that the main force will defend the city, and then you will do a good job of blocking the bay. By the way, where are your ships? Are there any sunken ships or piles? "Seeing that Malcha didn't say anything. Calabis turned to Claudius and spread his hands. Claudius looked innocent.

"Hurry up, take the long bridge, why are you dawdling!" Calabis roared, "Hurry up, Pontus's ships are coming soon. We are facing the wind now, and they will not be fast. I will stay in the Acropolis. You guys should go back to Ponticabian before it's too late!" Then he spat on the ground and almost called him "idiot".

In the early morning, at the bridgehead of the Long Bridge, Bosporus soldiers, guards, and officers were huddled together. From time to time, some people were squeezed into the sea. On the small pier that stretched out in a half-moon shape outside the Acropolis, several small boats were rushing rapidly. The ground was rowed in the direction of Ponticabion, among them were Malsa and Claudius. They were blue-faced, with their heads wrapped in cloaks, looking extremely nervous and depressed. The rest of the Roman legionnaires were on the Acropolis. Various positions were inspecting combat readiness. Calabis and several centurions stood in front of the dock. Then Calabis saw the trio of Helen Putina who were wearing armors, and behind them was Nicole, who was holding a lamb cart. , "Why did you bring Nicole too?"

The queen wearing a visor hesitated in her words, "I just thought she might be safer in the Acropolis."

"Stop talking so much!" Calabis jumped off the stone platform in three steps and two steps, pulled and kicked several royal eunuchs who wanted to board the only two small boats on the beach, and then faced Helen Pu. Tina just waved. The Amazon Queen and Elcapa quickly came down first, jumped on one boat, untied the cable, and rowed towards the center first. Ella picked up little Nicole and jumped on the other boat. Karabis hugged He bleated the lamb and put it on the deck of the ship. "Good girl, hold on to it."

Nicole, who was holding the lamb, opened her mother's big antelope-like eyes and looked at the man in panic, unable to say a word.

"Calabis, don't worry, I will take good care of Neeko!" Ella shouted.

Over there, Helenputina, who was standing at the bow of the ship, raised her visor and stared blankly at Calabis, who was standing at the dock. He was being hugged by a few pleading eunuchs, staring at Nicole motionless. My own white horse also stood on the beach kicking back and forth very smartly. It fully understood the mistress's difficulties.

In the mist, the distance between Karabis and the Queen and Neeko is getting farther and farther.

The wind direction had already changed horribly, and Calabis suddenly heard the fierce drumming at the mouth of the bay. He climbed up the stone tower on the side of the pier and saw the densely packed Pontic ships, sails hoisted, moving unimpeded towards Killing came from the bay - in front of them, there was only a simple iron rope across the bay, not to mention wooden piles and sunken ships. Even though it was located on a small island at the mouth of the bay, which could serve as a lighthouse for the naval command post, no alarm was issued at all. signal.

"Bastard Malza, bastard Claudius!" Calabis finally couldn't stand it anymore and started yelling. He thought of the Queen and Nicole, so he grabbed the soft rope and descended directly from the tower. He fell into the muddy water on the beach, and his face was covered with mud and blood. But he still struggled to get up. At this time The Queen and Ella's boat was already far away from the shore, as far as six or seven hundred Roman feet.

Bursts of fire broke out at the mouth of the bay. The soldiers on the Pontic ships first wrapped torches around the iron ropes to burn, and then used long axes and hooks and sickles to easily chop and hook them. The iron ropes split into several pieces and fell to the ground. In the water, amidst the long sound of horns, the Pontic ships rushed into the bay with great force. Several small Bosphorus sampans that came to intercept were immediately smashed into sieves by the opponent's stones and rockets, like several pieces. Like rotten leaves, it swirled around in the current for a few times before sinking to the bottom of the water. The surface of the water was full of people holding wooden boards and struggling to call for help.

The next thing to suffer was the long bridge. The original intention of the design of this bridge was to allow only small ships to pass underneath, but the monster-like ships of Pontus did not care about this at all. The terrible bronze rams extending from their bows instantly hit the wooden bridge in several directions, causing fragments to fly across. Then the long bridge shook violently, making several huge and painful groans, and the countless people and horses on the bridge were twisted and disintegrated in the air and on the water. No matter what it was, it fell into the sea. The large and small water columns were as dense as a forest.

It seemed that Claudius and Marca's ships had passed, but the queen's ship had not. The waves raised when the long bridge was destroyed shook the two small boats up and down. Carabis saw clearly that his little Nicole was wet by the sea water, holding the lamb, crying with her mouth open, and Ella hugged her tightly to comfort her.

On the other side, Heleptina and Elcapa also held the side of the boat, shaking up and down, trying to keep their balance.

On the turbulent sea, the two grasshopper-like boats looked so helpless. Carapis was filled with regret. If he had known that Martha and Claudius were so corrupt, he should have held the hands of the queen and Nicola, disregarded his own modesty, and left the mother and son in the Acropolis. (To be continued.)