Augustus Road

In the next two or three days, Octavian only dared to stick to the camp and did not go out to fight. In order to prevent long nights and nightmares, Antony quickly detached the fifth and tenth legions and asked his trusted centurion to supervise the camp and march to prevent These two legions "contacted and deteriorated" with the people on the Octavian side. ,

Curio suggested that Antony give the soldiers corresponding rewards for their previous victories. After thinking about it, Antony summoned all the centurions and said that he would immediately give eighty sesterces to each of the three legions participating in the battle on the ration day. Centurions doubled. Such a meager reward made the three legions very dissatisfied, and they complained during the march. Only under the supervision of the centurion's stick did they manage to reach the outskirts of Mutina within half a day.

But at night, these three legions actually elected all the military tribunes. A total of seventeen people came to Anthony's commander's camp to express the grievances of the soldiers. Of course, there was an eighteenth one before the battle. Leo was forced to become the military tribune of the fifth legion. He was also Antony's legionnaire. These seventeen people deliberately turned a blind eye to Antony, but submitted a complaint to Leo because the soldiers all liked Leo. He helps with every letter from home.

"What do you mean?" Anthony, who was sitting next to Leo, was very angry.

"They obviously feel that the reward this time is too low, Lord Anthony." Leo answered on behalf of these people.

"I didn't ask you!" Anthony was angry. He felt that Leo was simply nosy, but later he saw the wrong looks in the eyes of all his subordinates, and then he realized that when he deceived the soldiers before, he had held Leo accountable. He immediately softened his tone. Changed the topic. "Those beautiful dancers I gave you. What did you do with them?"

"Arrange two people to do the chores for me, and send all the rest to your personal centurion." Leo's answer almost made Anthony choke to death - he originally let these women corrupt Leo. , but unexpectedly, Leo pried him off in turn. "Okay, Leo, the tribune of the Skylark Legion, you can hand me the complaint letter from my subordinates now." Anthony reminded Leo by waving his fingers.

Leo indeed handed it over respectfully, but then he stood respectfully beside his father Anthony and did not leave, staring at the other person affectionately without letting go. "Okay. I will consider this appeal in time." Anthony said in an official tone.

"It doesn't matter. I think that before attacking Mutina City, all the soldiers will be eager to know your opinion on this matter, so I suggest that you handle it here as soon as possible." Leo was unhurried.

Anthony was really filled with anger, but he couldn't get angry easily. He felt that his whole scalp was about to boil and explode, so he could only announce to everyone with a wry smile that he would triple the reward originally planned. Look at all the military protectors. The officer still looked angry and embarrassed. The helpless Anthony had to triple the amount, and then all the people who came to complain were considered to have left.

"Okay. It's okay, son. My dear friend, son of Lepidus! Look at you, are you doing this for my own good? You will definitely say so anyway." Then in the camp, Anthony stomped around Leo and complained loudly.

"Yes, I think so..." Before Leo could finish speaking, Anthony immediately made a gesture of "Stop it as fast as a beep", and then he put his hands on his hips and breathed heavily. , "In the battle to attack Mutina City, you are no longer allowed to do anything on behalf of the soldiers. You must be by my side at all times - yes, you are as terrifying as the plague, yes, you must also sleep in the camp In front of my bed, I will ask that fat whore to make you a man. Anyway, she has coveted you for a long time. This is my way of revenge. Don't cry then. If you want to cry, wait until your father comes. Just throw yourself into his arms and cry again!”

But after Anthony got angry, he actually saw Leo's eyes turning red, "What's wrong? Now you know how to forgive me, you little fox pretending to be meek."

“I thought of my mother—but even more of my father—what a heartbreaking sight it would be if my father came here and fought as horrifically and mercilessly as you did with Turinus three days ago. , why can't you shake hands and make peace with your father?" Leo spoke without pretense, which made Anthony calm down instantly. He also felt tired, but he recalled the time he had spent with Leo's father in Cyprus, Egypt and Africa. Waiting for the land to fight hard, how wonderful such a life is. If people do not have real private property, they will not be selfish, right? After all, it was the thousands of talents left by Caesar that gave him a taste of the drug of power, and he has been out of control ever since.

Anthony patted Leo on the back and said that you don't need to care about the matter between your father and me. Your wife, my wife, your mother and my mother are safe in Rome for the time being. Some small conflicts between men will soon be revealed. In the past, but as a price, some people had to die. After speaking, Anthony slowly straightened the wrist guard and said, "For example, the whole city of Mutina."

In the northern part of the city of Mutina, there was a noise and the sound of horse hooves - Decimus's cavalry came out of the secret door again and attacked the Antonine army's civil engineering work. "The five legions who were resting in the rear were sent to four brigades to attack the city. The fortress pushed back the enemy's cavalry. "Antony rode his horse and galloped all the way from the west of the city to the battlefield, followed by Leo and Curio, as well as a large number of Talaco cavalry, until they arrived there. , the ballistas on the ramparts had already unleashed their might, defeating the Dechimos 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 there were still many residual fires burning. .

"The enemy can't hold out for too long!" Anthony came to the fortress and encouraged the soldiers of the Ninth Legion. "Concentrate more ballistas and trebuchets on this section of the city wall to smash them. Tomorrow I will arrange for other The army takes over and attacks!"

Then, the centurion on duty of the Ninth Army Corps came over and handed the board with the sentry position to Anthony for review. After a quick glance, he nodded and said that the barrier must be protected to prevent the enemy from counterattacking before his death. Then, he looked towards the city of Mutina through the wooden fence and rampart, but saw many people being driven onto the city wall, crying and carrying wood, and fearfully repairing the damage.

"They are using the olive trees in the temple..." Anthony murmured, and then he glanced at the chief centurion of the Ninth Legion, "The enemy is exhausted, you can ask the crossbow gunner to pause for a moment. They are attacking all the time, and killing so many civilians is really not a good thing." After saying that, he took Leo away again. (To be continued...)