"Pompey's defeat lies in the fact that his army did not lack a single brain, did not have a single goal. On the contrary, Caesar is his army, and his army is Caesar. -- British Colonel Dodge on Pompey and Caesar's war for supremacy

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Habaruka changed his clothes, took the money box and account books of Calabis very attentively, and followed behind everyone's butts and said this and that, the theme is that the Lybida family in Sardinia is now very depressed, after the death of Sulla, Sulla's subordinate Old Lybida tried to seize power and set himself up as the dictator of "Dicticon", but he was attacked by the Senate, and it was Pompey who served as the commander of the crusade army.

At that time, the old Brutus and his ally Brutus the Elder responded like this, the old Brutus held on to the north of Italy to block Pompey's attack, and the old Brutus led the main force to the south of the city of Rome, forcing the Senate to make him the second consul, and even Dicktido. But as soon as the war began, the old Brutus surrendered to Pompey because he was not strong-willed and feared that he would become a sinner of the republic, causing the old Li Bida's Jihua to go bankrupt.

But the old Brutus who had descended did not get a good death, and Pompey's men took him to a remote village and secretly executed him. Afterwards, Pompey was widely criticized and had to come up with some ambiguous statements to justify his lies.

And the old Li Bida, seeing that the situation was not good, also escaped into the base of Sardinia, and since then announced that the family and Pompey do not share the sky, but the bare mouth cannon is useless, and soon after the old Li Bida also hated and regretted it, and passed away. The whole family was in a state of collapse this time. Even the heirs were lost in the war in Asia Minor. This is also an old thing more than 20 years ago, but this Habaruka is like a treasure.

Calabis's heart was moving rapidly, and then he asked Habaruka, "Is it because old Lybida died so quickly because he was frustrated in politics and afraid of Pompey's revenge?" Habaruka didn't treat Calabis as an outsider, he broke the news directly, "In fact, he found out about his wife's adultery with outsiders." He died of indignation. ”

This family is really full of disasters, and Calabis then asked, "Then who is your current master?" ”

"Oh, before the old master died, he abandoned his wife who was unfaithful to him, and by the way, he hated the heir Baucus and deprived him of the right to inherit his property, as a result, Baucus was demoted to knighthood, immigrated to Asia Minor to earn a living, and was killed by the massacre of Mithridaths. Life and death are uncertain. However, the inheritance of the property of the old owner. It was an empty shell, I had calculated, and there were less than fifty Talantes left, and now because of Julia, oh, she was the daughter of Baucus, the granddaughter of the old master, who had invested indiscriminately and lent all her fortune to Catiline, in the hope that he would issue a decree that would allow our family to contract the business of transporting wheat from the island of Sardinia to Rome, and now - chicken and egg! Habaruka pouted, a very helpless expression.

When he heard this, Calabis was stunned, and he let Habaruka live in a tent with him, and waited for Claudius's order to change his guard.

I heard that Metra, Neruda, Claudius and Peternius had secretly discussed for a long time that night, and Neruda first shed a lot of tears at Catiline's corpse, condemning the injustice and cruelty of fate, and then after finding a few people to think about it, he sent an order to the auxiliary brigade that occupied the city of Fesule in the air, so that they must withdraw from Fesule within two days, and the entire Etrunia region was occupied by the troops of Neruda and Metra, and the spoils of war were also properly proportionalized.

The next day, Claudius came to Calabis beamingly and said that everything was done.

As a result, Calabis quietly invited him into the tent, and pleaded, "Your army only needs to divide up the loot, but if you can't do it, you can set up a Vesua army market on the spot to sell, and I can help you contact the buyers." But you must not touch the real estate of Etrunia and Fesulay, mines, villas, farms, workshops, etc. ”

Claudius immediately felt insulted, not because Calabis's proposal made him unacceptable, but because the tone of this new citizen actually had the flavor of arrogance, and he couldn't help but be angry: "Could it be that you, the ruler of the scales, are also qualified to discuss the affairs of Etruna after the war!" ”

"No, I'm not here to consult with you, I'm here to deliver the message for Crassus, this is the original words of the Senate Inspector, and the marching plans you said to Neruda before are the original words of the High Priest Caesar." Calabis flicked the dust off his body and respectfully handed Claudius a glass of wine.

Claudius was stunned for a moment, and then his expression changed quickly, and after showing a handsome smile, he took the wine from Calabis's hand and asked: "The affairs of the army are still easy to handle, but according to the regulations, the property obtained after the war must be auctioned openly, and there will be overseers in the city of Rome, how to deal with it then." ”

"Let's just say that Fesule had a plague because of the war." Calabis reminded.

Three days later, the whole army entered the Etrunian city of Fesule, which before the war was a colonial city with 5,000 men and veterans as the main inhabitants, but now the auxiliary brigade that had captured this place in advance, although it was only a few hundred troops, but it could show its full strength to loot, except for the villas, city walls, houses and temples, which were really impossible to take away, the rest could be taken away, not a single one was left, and all the women and children in the city were killed. When the two sides changed guards, when Calabis led the team, he saw several soldiers of the auxiliary brigade, holding whips, leading a few leopards snatched from the gladiatorial arena, and drove away

Next, the soldiers removed all the planks and windows from the houses in the city, built a cremation pile in the square, and burned all the bodies of the dead on it for a day and a night, and then dug a pit for the ashes to prevent the plague.

The military market was soon erected, and the soldiers sold mainly the prisoners in Pistoria, the clothes and rings taken from the dead bodies, and the captured baggage, in short, they sold everything they could except Catiline's corpse and Marius's eagle banner. Tents of various colors were erected in the military market, and the soldiers, hawkers, military slaves, and prostitutes carried small bags and small bags, and together with chickens, ducks, and goats, shuttled back and forth, which was extremely lively.

On the streets outside Etrunia, a caravan drove ox carts and mule carts, carrying coins and goods, ready to be the first to take the lead and buy Etrunia's property cheaply. But when they reached the border, they saw well-groomed wooden towers and long wooden fences, and at the passage stood heavily armed and murderous soldiers. (To be continued......)