Rome Must Fall Chapter 10: On the march

"Go and get the carriage ready." Hamilka said, turned and walked towards the temple, followed by Maximus. The two came to the courtyard of the apse of the temple, where two horses and a donkey were being Tie here, still happily eating the barley brought by the gladiators from school.

The two men led the horse to the carriage, put a halter on it, and connected it to the shaft...

Although the original owner had learned knowledge from the young master since he was a child, as a slave, he had also done these tasks, so Maxim IV quickly got started. Then he hitched the donkey to the donkey cart.

Hamilka threw the bags of flour out of the donkey cart.

"What a good flour, why have you thrown it away?" After eating a meal of barley porridge, Maximus was completely unable to adapt to the gladiators' previous food, so he saw Hamilcar throwing away all this good flour. I threw it away, very puzzled.

"We have to try our best to make space to carry those weapons. Flour can be snatched from the farm at any time, but these weapons cannot be snatched easily." Hamilka answered.

Maximus thought it was reasonable, but also felt it was a pity. He thought for a while and said, "Why don't we give these flour to the priests of the temple, which can be regarded as our compensation."

Hamilcar did not speak, which was considered acquiescence.

But when Maximus faced the red, swollen, hateful eyes of the temple priestess, he hurriedly finished his words in shame, turned around and ran away.

When the two of them arrived in front of the temple in a carriage and donkey cart, the leather armor piled on the ground had already been separated. This shows that Spartacus's arithmetic ability is not very good, and the weapons and armor he obtained are not enough to equip him. Of all the gladiators, Maximus was relieved.

The gladiators also disliked those fancy, heavy, poor visibility gladiator helmets, and all replaced them with leather helmets. At a glance, they looked exactly like a Capua city guard.

But they disliked the heavy weight of the shields and were unwilling to carry them. More than 500 shields were piled on the ground, forming a hill, which made Hamilka frown, because two cars could not hold so many things, so he Mention this to Spartacus immediately.

Spartacus had to ask everyone to carry at least two shields and one spear. In order to calm everyone's complaints, he promised to intercept more carriages as soon as possible to carry the weapons in everyone's hands. , allowing everyone to march south easily.

When everything was arranged and ready to go, a piece of bad news affected everyone's happy mood: one of the wounded people resting in the temple had a wound on his chest that had festered, causing a high fever that would not go away and the whole person fell into a coma. .

Spartacus had to give the order to "send him to die in peace".

This time Maximus witnessed with his own eyes the process of the wounded man being stabbed through the chest and then being dug into a hole and buried. He felt quite calm and was even glad that the deceased was not Phaesalus.

Because the previous battle happened early and ended quickly, it was not yet noon by the time the gladiators passed through the apple orchard and returned to the Avenue of Ania.

The Via d'Agna is the main thoroughfare from Rome to Regim, the southernmost tip of Italy. There are many pedestrians and vehicles coming and going every day. Although the news of the tragic defeat of the Capua army caused nearby pedestrians to avoid it, Before long, new, unsuspecting pedestrians and vehicles brought it back to life. When the gladiators were walking on the main road in the center, they thought they were their own troops, but four carriages were quickly intercepted.

The gladiators threw away the things in the car and put their shields and spears on the car. There was still space left, so the wounded with limited mobility could sit on it.

The gladiators did not worry about not having enough charioteers at all, the Gauls were the best charioteers.

Maximus also replaced the original donkey cart with a carriage, and through the memory of the original owner, he became familiar with the skills of driving a carriage again, and there was an injured Gallic gladiator sitting in his carriage, ready to provide him with Technical support.

After this robbery, the pedestrians and merchants finally realized that these "soldiers" came with bad intentions, and they dispersed one after another. The gladiators had no intention of chasing them, and the empty road was more conducive to their march.

It was a march, not a walk. Although they were wearing the armor of the city guards, they had no concept of marching in a formation. More than 200 people followed Spartacus, Cross, and Enomui. Behind them, people were chatting, joking, and fighting, just like ordinary pedestrians, heading south in a relaxed and comfortable manner.

Such a messy scene made Maximus, who was sitting in the carriage, a little disturbed, although he understood that these gladiators from Gaul, Thrace, Illyria or other places had a hard time before becoming gladiators. There is no lack of battlefield experience. Now, after several years of training in the arena, his personal combat power is even more terrifying. The previous battle explained everything, but if he faced the Roman legion with strict military discipline and tacit cooperation, he was free and easy and good at singles. Can they still show their power when fighting alone?

Even though he had never joined the army in his previous life, Maximus could still give a clear negative answer, so as he became more and more proficient in driving a carriage, in order to avoid being upset, he simply turned his eyes to both sides of the avenue.

Campania is indeed a famous plain area in Italy. Wheat fields stretch as far as the eye can see. It has just been a month after the spring equinox, and the green wheat seedlings are higher than the calf. Under the breeze, they set off layers of wheat waves, like a vast ocean. green ocean. From time to time in this ocean, people can be seen weeding and protecting the fields.

According to the memory of the original owner, the farmers who still wore short shirts under the scorching heat at noon and high-intensity labor were probably the owners of the farmland, while those who were bare-chested and dark-skinned were probably slaves, but there were few masters. He gives orders, often works in the fields himself, and cooperates with the slaves tacitly. The two parties even chat and laugh happily, and the atmosphere is quite harmonious...

This made Maximus doubt what he had learned about Rome in his previous life: Shouldn't slaves and slave owners be hostile to each other in a slave society?

The more serious Maximus decided to continue to observe carefully.

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Beside Ania Avenue south of the city of Capua are Calatea, Suisula, Nola... These towns were once small towns ~IndoMTL.com~ occupied by the Samnite people. They used these cities as strongholds and attacked the Greek colonial towns along the west. As a result, they attracted the Romans. The Samnites were eventually defeated and became a member of the Roman alliance. However, they did not completely surrender and would come out from time to time. Make some noise.

When Hannibal invaded Italy, many Samnite tribes defected to him; during the Roman League War, they were one of the main forces of the rebellion; and more than ten years ago, Sulla led his army to attack Rome, and many Samnite tribes joined him. The Monetites actively responded to the recruitment of the popular faction and fought against Sulla's army under the city of Rome. After their defeat, they were all captured...

Sulla was extremely angry with the Samnites. He believed that as long as the Samnites continued to exist as an independent nation, the Romans would never have peace. Therefore, he not only massacred nearly 10,000 Samnites captives, but also hunted them down. Any important Samnite figure who had the slightest connection with the Roman plebeians, and during his tenure as dictator, he also promulgated a series of measures to strictly control Samnite towns. For example, Samnite cities were not allowed to be built or repaired. For the city wall, the administrator must be a Roman, and no city guards are allowed...

Ten years later, these Samnite cities in the Campania plains have gradually been transformed into villages and towns. Some cities have even disappeared, and the bravery of the Samnite people in these plains has almost been eliminated. After all, they clearly saw that the gladiator team marching struttingly on the road was an army of thieves, but they just gathered together and stood watching from a distance, with no intention of attacking the convoy that was lagging behind.

After the team passed by Nora, according to the memory of the original owner, Maximus ran to tell Spartacus: they could not go further south, they must leave the road and turn west.