Chapter 26 The truth (2)
Anthony drove his horse to a Romanian area about one and a half away from the siege of the Ninth Legion, announced that he would camp here, move his own way, and move his documents and guards here. The 11th Legion also basically completed the fortifications of the siege, and the complete surround of Mutina was roughly formed. The rumbling sound of crossbows came faintly after a day. Anthony sat down easily, took a few sips of wine, and looked very good.
As a result, Leo spoke again, "Dear Father, Lord Anthony, I think you should slightly separate the camp of the 10th Legion from the siege barriers of the 9th Legion, and then mobilize and dispatch it when the general attack tomorrow."
Anthony turned directly to the camp bed, turned sideways, and ignored him.
"I'd better explain! Because you specially ordered the rewards of three legions today, but the Ninth Legion and the Eleventh Legion did not. So if the camp at the garrison is too close, there will be no unventilated walls. Once the morale of the Ninth Legion resents you, this will harm the entire siege." Before Leo finished speaking, he heard Anthony's snoring, so he could only shake his head and retreat aside.
After nightfall, Curio personally came to the outer line of the Eighth Legion to continue to monitor Octavian's movements, but the incident happened just as Leo said. The soldiers of the Ninth Legion and the Tenth Legion met in front of the border trenches of the camp and chatted a few casually about the letter of the family. As a result, the Tenth Legion boasted that they would receive a reward soon and could buy two slaves or many goats for their family. The Ninth Legion was unhappy when they heard it, and the matter spread in the camp late at night. Many soldiers of the Ninth Legion rushed to the camp of the Tenth Legion and shouted loudly, saying that you should not be too proud. We were both veterans of His Excellency Caesar before, but Anthony was using war against Young Caesar now. Do you know that you still have to be an accomplice, but the Ninth Legion was always besieging Mutina City. Even if the reward was less, he would have a clear conscience.
The soldiers and centurion of the 10th Legion turned their minds a little, and soon the inquiries and rumors spread wildly. They all found the military guardian and commander Secredirus, and asked if they were fighting with us that day, not the senate legion, but the young Caesar?
Secredis hesitated, although he knew it, but he did not dare to admit it. At this time, several trusted centurions who had been inserted into Anthony broke in and asked everyone to rest and wait for the decisive battle of the siege in the future. If anyone dared to make noise and stir, he would be executed with sticks and stones.
Several chief brigade centurions of the legion were always arrogant and arrogant. Since the time of moving camp, they have been dissatisfied with these Anthony's confidants for a long time, so the two factions quickly started fighting in front of the "reckless man". Then they used swords. Anthony's confidants were killed on the spot, and the rest fled in panic. Then, the Tenth Legion closed its camp all over and stood guard.
Then, the Ninth Legion also occupied the camp and turned all the ballasts to the outside, facing both the city of Mutina and the location of Anthony's camp. Anyway, when Anthony came out with an incredible expression in the early morning, he did see the cavalry of the Ninth Legion opposite, holding torches together, lined up two Furlongs in front of his camp, and his attitude was very unfriendly.
Anthony's sweat fell down. He didn't expect that the mutiny would happen at this critical moment. It seemed that he was still too reckless in doing things. He should follow Leo's child's words, and Curio was not around.
After a while, the three hundred Ala cavalry of the Tenth Legion also stepped out of their camp. Everyone surrounded Anthony's camp and asked the other party to give an explanation. He fiercely asked if he had used the dead Caesar and had coerced Libidaus's son to deceive the soldiers to work for him and kill the young Caesar.
In the camp, Anthony raised his waist and waved his hand at Leo, then threw it to him, "You have good riding skills. Now look outside, there are fires everywhere and soldiers who want to kill me. I will cover each other with you and rush out to the camp of the Fifth Legion."
"This is not a solution to the problem. It will arouse the soldiers' greater resentment, Mr. Anthony, father." Leo replied in a low voice.
Anthony looked like he was looking for death, but then Leo stood up and walked out by himself. Several trusted centurions hurriedly followed him. Anthony cursed in his heart that he could only follow him with a bad temper.
On the high ground in front of the camp, Leo stood up, and his sides were filled with cavalry and torches. "Soldiers, don't ignore my words just because I am a young man. If you need answers, it is that my father is indeed an ally with Anthony and Caesar, and their goals. You don't have to doubt at all, that is to avenge your dictator. Otherwise, why would my father's four legions advance north in Italy?"
After hearing Leo's words, everyone calmed down a little, and Anthony was also furious. It seemed that carrying this kid was indeed a little good, but then many centurions were questioning Anthony's attitude.
"My father Anthony and my close friend Young Caesar were all alienated by the Senate. Previously, Anthony was declared by the public enemy of the Senate, saying that he would use the army to attack him, and the Senate actually pardoned Diheimos, the number one murderer who killed Caesar; on the other hand, the Senate used the detention of Young Caesar family as a bargaining chip to force him to come and fight with us - so, the culprit of everything is the Senate, and not to do anything to either Young Caesar or Anthony." Leo said to everyone in a very calm manner, and then he turned to Anthony, meaning that Anthony made his statement.
But Anthony was so bitter that he could only pretend to be confused, "Yes, I just knew about this, otherwise how could I reward you for killing the Young Caesar's troops? Isn't it? Otherwise, my behavior would be really ruined and ruined... I was just going to negotiate with the Young Caesar's team there in the future!"
Just as Anthony was still trying hard to defend himself, Octavian was preparing to attack. This time he learned smartly, named Mesenas, Agripa and others repeatedly reconnaissed, marking all the ambush locations of Anthony's cavalry. Then he slowly drew an attack route on the map table, facing the camp in the middle of Anthony's outer position. Then Octavian looked at the other generals cautiously, expressing his hope to seek their opinions before making a decision. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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