Antony was sentenced to beheaded.
The method of beheading was very special. It was not a knife or a sword, but an axe.
The swords of the barbarian country are not very sharp. When cutting people, they often keep cutting after several cuts.
This would be very embarrassing and fail to convey the majesty of the king.
Of course, the victim will also suffer a little pain, and the miserable sound of the trumpet can easily frighten women and children.
Therefore, they are accustomed to using axes.
The ax is heavy, weighing several hundred kilograms when swung.
And if you chop it down from above, you can break the neck just by smashing it.
A good executioner, coupled with a good ax, at his peak, can knock someone's head off in just three turns.
Anthony was already in position.
He looked at the indignant people below, looked at the executioner's ax, and was still in a trance: Why is this?
"Is it because I lost the battle? It shouldn't be."
Anthony knew very well that even if he lost the battle, he was a noble after all and should retain his noble dignity.
If you want to kill him, you have to either assassinate him or poison him.
No matter what, you cannot break your neck with an ax in public.
Where is the dignity of the nobility?
Then, Anthony thought again: What did Augustus mean by that sentence? What do you mean I am deliberately losing the battle?
It’s hard for me to win a battle, so how can I deliberately lose it?
Anthony was puzzled.
At this time, the executioner had already raised his axe.
Anthony closed his eyes slightly and thought a little resignedly: It seems that I am not regarded as a hero after all.
The ax was swung, and the wind whined.
Anthony closed his eyes tightly, waiting for the blow.
Unexpectedly, there was a sudden bang and loud noise around him. Anthony trembled with fright, and then heard a scream from behind him.
Anthony turned his head back and saw that the executioner's ax was frightened away and hit his own feet.
The executioner grimaced in pain and rolled back and forth on the ground holding his feet.
Immediately afterwards, he saw some people from the Kingdom of Gods.
These people took out some dark objects from their arms and threw them around.
After the thing hit the ground, it made a loud noise and emitted a puff of black smoke.
It didn't hurt many people, but it scared a lot of people.
After the surrounding people were driven away, those people jumped up and cut off the ropes on Anthony's body with their swords.
Anthony was in a trance, and a trace of ecstasy welled up deep in his heart: "Could it be that...am I still a hero in the eyes of the people?"
However, his ecstasy did not last long.
Because those people from the Kingdom of Gods, while helping Anthony to escape, shouted loudly: "The heavenly soldiers of Qin are here. Those who don't want to live just come up."
These words were so powerful that the surrounding soldiers who were about to rush back retreated, like an ebbing tide, and soon gave way.
And these people from the Kingdom of the Gods helped Anthony get into the carriage and drove away.
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"What? Ran away? Was he rescued in the capital? Was he rescued by the Qin people?" Augustus asked a series of questions like a machine gun.
He kicked the messenger and said in a hateful voice: "Trash, a bunch of trash. Kill them, kill them for me."
The poor messenger was dragged out.
The executioner just now failed to kill Anthony, but in the blink of an eye, a new task came.
He wrapped the wound on his foot with a strip of cloth, limped behind the messenger, and then picked up the axe.
Click...
There was a scream like a slaughtered pig.
The executioner looked at the messenger's half-slumped shoulders and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, my foot was injured just now. I couldn't use the strength, so the blow was a little off."
How can the messenger still have the heart to talk? Just want a quick death.
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"Who are you?" Anthony sat in the carriage and stared directly at the people.
These people smiled and said, "We are people who admire the general."
Anthony grabbed the fence with both hands: "Can you let me out of this car and give me a horse?"
Anthony now has a bit of a psychological shadow on this kind of car. No matter how you look at it, this car looks like a mobile prison.
And...the design of this car is very weird.
Just sit down, it's too bumpy and your butt will hurt terribly after a while.
Stand up, it's too low and you can't straighten your waist at all.
He could only squat, feeling like an exotic animal in a cage being visited.
Those around him ignored Anthony's request. They just said perfunctorily: "Don't worry, General, this carriage is safer."
Anthony: "..."
Such familiar words.
An hour later, Anthony was taken to a military camp.
He looked at the flags fluttering above the military camp and felt a thump in his heart.
It is the flag of the Qin people.
He had seen this kind of flag many times. The two armies were facing each other, and it was so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar.
Could it be that... I was captured by the Qin people?
Yes, yes. When these people arrested me just now, they were calling the Heavenly Soldiers of the Qin Dynasty, and the loud noise they threw out in their hands also looked very much like the Heavenly Thunder of the Qin people.
It seems that these people are the work of the Qin people?
For a moment, Anthony felt a little sad and angry.
He said to the people around him: "You actually surrendered to the Qin people?"
Those people from the Kingdom of Gods did not seem to be ashamed. They said with a smile: "Why is the general like this? Aren't we the same kind of people? Now all the people know that the general also surrendered to the Qin people. Otherwise, there would be no need to Killed."
Anthony looked up to the sky and shouted: "I have been wronged."
Everyone around laughed and said, "Who knows?"
Anthony closed his eyes and sighed.
He just wants to die now.
After a while, Anthony had arrived at a tent.
The people around him dismounted, took out their keys, and opened the door for Anthony.
Anthony got out and was helped to a tent.
There were two people sitting in the tent.
One is Li Shui and the other is Li Xin. The two are drinking tea and playing chess.
Next to them, two beauties were fanning themselves, and the incense was flowing, which was very elegant.
Suddenly, Li Xin said: "Brother Huai, why can your bombs move but my mines can't?"
Li Shui said: "Landmines are buried underground. Since they are already buried underground, how can they be moved?"
Li Xin said: "How can the bomb move?"
Li Shui said: "The bombs were fired into the filling, of course they were hit wherever they were."
Li Xin added: "Then why can your army commander eat my division commander?"
Li Shui said: "The army commander has many soldiers and horses, so of course he can eat your division commander."
Li Xin shook his head: "Otherwise, defeating more with less is the basic skill of a famous general. And for a god of war like me, three thousand people often destroy a country."
"If you really want to eat your army commander, why do you need a division commander? Just give me a brigade commander."
Li Shui: "...Do you really know how to play? Do you really know how to have fun? Do you really want to play?"
Li Xin laughed dryly and said: "Of course I want to play, I just think that Brother Huai, there are quite a few loopholes in your game."
"I suggest that we pile up the nearby terrain, make mountains and rivers, and then arrange the troops and simulate it. Only in this way will it be more realistic."
Li Shui was stunned for a moment: Sand table simulation?
Li Xin, this guy, has a lot of trouble. He is truly worthy of being a famous general.
And Anthony was even more troubled: Are they discussing war? It feels so high-end. No wonder I have been chased and beaten by them. It turns out that I no longer understand their battle plan.
Li Xin said to Li Shui: "How about my suggestion just now?"
Li Shui coughed dryly: "Not so good. When you won last time, you didn't have so many demands. Now that you're about to lose this time, you start to be picky. Brother Li, are you going too far?"
Li Xin coughed dryly: "Okay, okay, I lose this time."
Li Shui said with a smile: "Win two out of three games. I have won twice. You have to fulfill our bet."
Li Xin groaned depressedly.
Anthony curiously asked the people around him: "What is their bet? What will happen if they lose?"
The people around him are also from the barbarian country.
Although they surrendered to the Qin people, they still had the most basic respect for Anthony.
These people said to Anthony: "The bet is... whoever loses will go home and say to his wife: Madam, I definitely did not fool around with barbarian women."
Anthony asked in surprise: "What's the point? Isn't this a good thing?"
The man next to him smiled and said: "It is said that there is a story in Da Qin that there is no three hundred taels of silver here."
Anthony asked curiously: "What story is this?"
The person next to him coughed dryly and said to Anthony: "The general will naturally know about it in the future."
At this time, Li Shui and Li Xin had recovered from the chessboard.
When he saw Anthony, he screamed, jumped up quickly, and said to the people around him: "Nonsense, I only asked you to invite the general here, who asked you to tie up the general?"
Afterwards, Li Shui shouted back and wanted to untie Anthony's rope himself.
However... the rope was tied very firmly, and Li Shui couldn't untie it after a long time of effort.
"What the hell, didn't I tell them to untie the rope myself and comfort Anthony? These people are just going to tie a buckle for me." Li Shui was about to explode with anger.
Fortunately, Li Xin next to him suppressed a smile and silently handed over a dagger.
So Li Shui cut the rope with a dagger.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the rope was cut, the dagger was snatched away by Anthony.
Then, Anthony held a dagger and stabbed Li Shui in the heart.
There was a sound.
The dagger was blocked.
Li Shui wore armor under his elegant civilian clothes.
Anthony was stunned. It was the first time he saw someone wearing armor like this.
Li Xin, who was next to him, had quick eyes and quick hands and kicked Anthony.
Li Xin was tall and strong, and he was out fighting all the time. He kicked Anthony, and Anthony screamed and fell in the corner.
He struggled to get up, but found that he couldn't.
Li Xin's kick just now actually broke one of his bones.
Anthony was shocked.
Li Xin said in a dark tone: "Brother Huai, do you want to kill this person?"
Li Shui looked at Anthony and slowly shook his head: "That's all, we don't know each other at all."
Li Xin said: "We rescued this person, but this person repaid kindness with hatred. He is an ignorant white-eyed wolf."
Li Shui smiled bitterly: "Maybe if we explain the misunderstanding clearly, he will understand us."
One of these two people was playing a white face, and the other was playing a bad face, which frightened Anthony into a daze.
After a while, Anthony's mood stabilized.
According to Li Shui and Li Xin, Augustus was envious of talents. Seeing Anthony leading troops in battle, he felt uneasy and worried that Anthony would rebel and take his position.
Therefore, he found an excuse to kill Anthony.
Not only to kill Anthony, but also to disgrace Anthony.
Anthony was skeptical about this statement.
The main part of his doubts was...does Augustus need to do this?
He was defeated in battles one after another, and his prestige in the army was not very good. In the past, wasn't it true that only generals who had won battles would rebel?
Li Shui and Li Xin said with smiles: "We, the Qin Dynasty, are invincible. Who can win in our hands? Your defeat is excusable."
Then, Li Shui began to speak.
Starting from Qin's destruction of the six kingdoms, to the destruction of the Xiongnu, the destruction of South Vietnam, the destruction of the Peacock...
Anthony's eyes widened when he heard this.
It turns out...it turns out that Da Qin is so powerful, it turns out that he has been fighting against such monsters.
He was a little scared.
According to the Qin people's fighting habits, a country can be destroyed in three months.
This time, after persisting for so long, he can actually be regarded as a god in using troops?
Li Shui patted Anthony on the shoulder and comforted him, saying, "So, defeat is nothing. The key is who defeats him."
Li Xin also said: "So, Augustus will still be worried. After all, you have led many soldiers to survive. If it were any pig-headed general, he would have been killed long ago."
Anthony felt a bit brainwashed.
He asked doubtfully: "Really?"
Today he kept asking these two words: Really?
Li Xin suddenly said quietly: "Do you want to be Augustus here?"
Anthony was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Li Xin said: "If you want to be Augustus here, maybe we can help?"
Anthony hesitated for a second, then shook his head.
Li Shui smiled beside him: "I've told you before, General Anthony is not that kind of person. You see, he really passed our test."
Anthony was confused and looked at Li Shui in confusion.
What just happened was indeed a test for Anthony.
If he intends to use the power of the Qin people to become Augustus here, it means that this person is very ambitious and must not stay. Even if he surrenders, he will rebel in the future.
Now that Anthony refuses, it shows that this person has no ambition to become king.
In this case, you can stay and let him use his spare energy.
Of course, it's just residual heat.
