"I leave this battlefield for Carthage and Rome." -- Pyrrhus at the time of his evacuation from Italy

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Soon after, Hyksos hurried back from his camp there, and reported to Lybida, "General Hitius says that he has sent a fleet to intercept Scipio, who has escaped from the city of Utica." ”

"Oh, where did you start?"

"It was originally the port of Hippo used by the royal family of Numidia." Hyksos said, handing over the board with which Hitius had moved.

Sabo, who was next to him, immediately took out the drawings from the box and pointed out to the Executive Yuan the location of the port of Hippo, and Li Bida scratched a few times with his hand on the drawings, and said with a smile that Scipio and Cruise clearly wanted to go to the Balearic by boat to meet Pompey's two sons.

"But Cassiyo is a general who is known for commanding fleets of sailors, and he will definitely not give up this opportunity to fight for merit, just like Curio before him - then let him take it away, because the political situation after Pompey's death is lonely enough." Li Bida said leisurely, then turned his horse's head and gave the order to go in the direction of the city of Utica, waiting for Caesar's arrival.

In the sea outside the city of Utica, Scipio's fleet was moving rapidly in the direction of the wind, Scipio was glad that he did not die with the king of Juba, and was about to arrive in the archipelago of the Spanish Sea, where he would soon be the leader of the army according to his seniority and seniority, but because of the restrictions on the ship's transportation, he finally brought only a few monkeys and parrots with him. Bighorn sheep, hippos, wild asses, and so on were forced to remain in port. This is the most heart-stopping thing for me. But when he heard that the Balearic Islands also had a lot of exotic animals, Scipio's mood was a little more relaxed.

"The enemy fleet has been discovered!" At this time, the lookout on the mast shouted.

Frightened, Scipio hurriedly held on to the shield hanging on the side of the ship, and looked in the direction pointed by the lookout, where a few masts slowly rose on the sea level, "It is a fleet of ships from the royal port of Hippo, it must be Hiticius's." They paddle very fast, they are all light Librna boats, and I will change to my own light boats! ”

Scipio and Cruise did what they said, and they soon jumped into a single row of rowing boats, leaving all the rest behind—since most of them were provided by Utica, Scipio didn't care if they lived or died, as long as he reached the Balearic safely.

This was very effective, and the speed of the single row of rowing boats full of sails and rowing vigorously was extremely fast, so that Scipio and Cruise easily pleased, "Go on like this." By the time the stars set over the sea, we'll be on a safe island. Scipio was hopeful.

In the early hours of the next morning. The sea fog obscured the moonlight, and before the sun had risen, Scipio's ships encountered a large fleet with the emblem that happened to belong to the Pompey family.

But as the ships approached each other, the flaming jars were thrown onto Scipio's ship, and the fire soon burned on the deck, and Scipio screamed, and ran towards the stern with a few monkeys in his arms, and behind him arrows and javelins fell from the side of the tall ship, with the slogan, "Catch them, kill them!" ”

It turned out that Pompey's flag was fake, and it was all Caesar's fleet pretending, Scipio shouted in despair, because in the direction of the stern, several ships also came around, threw iron hooks, and hooked their own ship. Sure enough, many people with sharp swords and battle axes jumped over and went on a killing spree on the deck, and Scipio saw Cruise kneeling on the deck begging for mercy and then being chopped into pieces, and he trembled and soothed the chirping monkey, saying, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Hannibal, Aristotle, and my king Ankus, the water will be cold soon, everyone hold on to me, and you will be together at all times!" ”

The monkeys listened to Scipio so much that they clung to his shoulders and waist, and Scipio jumped into the water.

At this time, the morning sun had risen, and the deck of Scipio's ship was in a mess, and among the blood and flames, there were the dead bodies of many old knights, including Cruise, and the two commanders over there looked like they were Cassilo, the governor of Lusitania, and Brutus, the treasurer, who were still a little uneasy when they saw this tragic scene, and Cassillo calmly walked to Cruise's disintegrated body, identified the other party, and said, "This is exactly the person Caesar is looking for." With that, he drew his sword and cut off Cruise's head, and then he asked the people around him, "What about Pompey's father-in-law?"

When the stern soldiers were torturing the slave, Cassiio went over and asked what was the matter, and the slave cried out that he had seen his master jump into the sea, but the men did not believe it and beat him severely. Cassiio then told the soldier to let the slave go and pointed him out where Scipio had jumped, and when the slave had done so, Cassiio told all the ships to throw down their nets and "bring up the great father-in-law, whether alive or dead." ”

The corpse of a fallen corpse would float up after a while, and so would Scipio, whose white-gray body was quickly found, and the oarsmen of several ships pushed his body towards the ship where Cassiio was located, with long oars.

Cassiyo took out an iron hook with a rope tied to it and put it into Brutus' hand, "You hook him yourself." ”

Brutus looked at the big hook in his hand in a daze, and then began to move Scipio's body floating on the water under his feet, which was carrying him, and he couldn't see his face clearly, swaying like a fish, and then he gritted his teeth, and hung down the iron hook, hooking the clak on the opponent's armor, and the body was very heavy and heavy, as if it had absorbed enough water, and Brutus took a lot of effort to pull it up.

What caught my eye was a cold and miserable white thigh, and gradually the rest of the body was also pulled to the deck, "Turn over and identify him." Cassiyo continued.

Brutus held back his disgust and fear, pressed the other party's corpse with his hand, closed his eyes and turned it over vigorously, but when his eyes opened, Brutus suddenly felt that his eyes were about to pop out, and on Scipio's corpse, there were still a few hairy, monster-like things attached, Brutus cried out, and hurriedly fell backwards, Cassius came up and grabbed him, and said, "Don't be afraid, it's just a monkey's corpse, Scipio was not mentally normal before he died, he jumped into the sea with this group of beasts." ”

Sure enough, these monkeys all died with their owners, but when they were attached to the corpses, they were disgusted and weird. (To be continued......)