Rome Must Fall Chapter 38: Hope

“The Roman senators and nobles are like a big mountain pressing on the Italian and Mediterranean civilians. If you want to no longer be oppressed by them and live freely, the only way is to take up arms and resist. Only by defeating them can we gain freedom!

The Roman senators and nobles are indeed very powerful now, but after all, there are few nobles and many civilians in this world. You have all seen that the whole of Italy is full of slaves and poor people who have lost their land. They live in confusion... …

Now we stand up bravely and declare war on the Roman senators and nobles. It is like lighting a torch in the dark night and letting them see hope. This is why in just one month we quickly grew from more than 200 people to Reasons to expand to 5,000 people! As news of our uprising spreads wider, more people with hatred for the Roman senators and nobles will join us. When slaves and paupers throughout Italy are mobilized by us, this mighty team will be Can the Roman army still resist? ! ”

Maxim raised his fists high and said passionately: "So in the end we will definitely defeat the Romans, escape from Italy smoothly, and go to create a home of our own elsewhere! In this new home, We do not distinguish between races, high or low, as long as you have talent, you can serve as an official and get promoted! In this new home, we all have our own land, and as long as we work hard, we can have a happy life! In this new home, we all have our own land. In our homeland, we ordinary civilians can also participate in political affairs. We can oppose proposals that harm our interests, and we can propose bills that benefit us and find ways to get them passed! Our elderly can be supported and our children can study. Literacy, we can get low-cost treatment when we are sick, and when we encounter disasters, our homes will provide certain help..."

Everyone listened with fascination and longing for it.

"How wonderful! This is simply the Elysee Paradise!"

"If I can really build such a beautiful home, it will be worth it even if I die in battle!"

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"Captain Maximus, can we really build such a beautiful new home of our own?!" someone asked loudly and excitedly.

"As long as we work together and work tirelessly toward this goal, we will eventually succeed!" Maximus said with great confidence, and this confidence infected the people around him.

When they were rejoicing, Maximus, who was already a little drunk and excited by what he said, continued: "I want to tell you a story. Do you want to hear it?"

"Listen!!!..." the old people in the baggage train team responded in unison. Now "Maximus tells stories at night" has become a rare way of entertainment for them before falling asleep.

The newly joined guardsmen also became energetic, because they had long heard that Maximus was good at telling stories, and they could finally hear it with their own ears tonight.

The army slaves were a little confused. They didn't understand why telling a story made other people so excited.

Maximus took a sip of wine, looked up at the night sky, and said slowly: "...This story takes place in the far and far east, where there is a vast fertile land with tens of millions of people living on it. Dozens of kingdoms conquered and merged with each other, and the war lasted for hundreds of years. Finally, one kingdom destroyed the other forces and unified the far east.

Logically, the king should give the war-torn people a peaceful life so that they can rebuild their homes without having enemies. However, he instead promoted labor and made the people build city walls, build tombs, and dig ditches without stopping. , he also enacted strict criminal laws. If people made the slightest mistake, their eyes would be gouged out, their hands would be chopped off, and their feet would be chopped off.

The miserable civilians finally couldn't bear it anymore and launched a riot to resist the king's tyrannical rule and fight against the extremely powerful and numerous kingdom's army. At that time, there were more than a dozen teams in the uprising, and most of them were led by the old nobles who had been destroyed before. There was only one team - the leader was a refugee, and his leaders included farmers, butchers, herdsmen, Robbers and thugs... are all composed of poor people with low status. What I mainly tell are stories about him..."

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At night, the banquet was over, the bonfires were extinguished, the farm returned to tranquility, and people began to fall asleep.

In Maximus's bedroom, the internal meeting of the baggage team had just begun.

In addition to Maximus, the attendees included Aconis in charge of the kitchen, Pygris in charge of the transportation team, Cornelius in charge of the material warehouse, Pheasalus in charge of the **** team, and There were Sexippus, who was recommended by Pygris and responsible for herding cattle and sheep, Cassius Frontinus, who was specially called by Maximus, and the other one was Volenus. , Maximus put him in charge of recording.

As a freelancer and an otaku in his previous life, Maximus was most energetic at night. In this era, this habit has not changed, but without computers, the Internet and other modern entertainment. He spends his energy on teaching, telling stories, and attending meetings to avoid being idle.

He glanced at the people in the room: cooks, shabby businessmen, farmers, domestic slaves, gladiators, retired veterans... He had all kinds of people under his command, and they were all of low status, but fortunately they were pretty good. Each has his own abilities.

Other people’s eyes are focused on Maximus. If Maximus often worked with Arconis and Pygris before, and they had a good relationship with each other, they were happy to see it. Maximus came to take over the baggage train, and now after yesterday's battle and tonight's public speech, they were full of respect for Maximus, including Frontinus, because his wisdom helped them These military slaves have lifted the confusion and illuminated the way forward, something that not just anyone can do.

"Time is very tight, so I won't go into details. ~IndoMTL.com~ Maximus said directly: "Our baggage team will set up a medical team, and all the wounded will be taken care of by us——"

Akonis immediately shouted in surprise: "Ah, those are hundreds of wounded! Our team doesn't have that many people to take care of them, and we don't know how to take care of them!"

"The leaders have already decided, we must implement it!" Maximus pretended to be helpless. He would never say that he actually applied for this on his own initiative: "Don't worry, everyone. Taking care of the wounded is not a complicated matter, nor does it require too many manpower, and the leaders also promised to allocate more people to our baggage team in the future."

Maximus was not prepared to give them any more opportunities to discuss, and then said: "Frontinus, who among you knows how to take care of wounded soldiers better?"

Frontinus was stunned for a moment and replied: "Putrius Horace is a very kind and patient person. After we fought in the past, he always took the initiative to take care of his injured comrades."

"Then let him be in charge of the medical team for the time being. If the performance is not good, then replace him. He can also take a few suitable ones from you to serve as his assistants."

After Maximus finished speaking, he looked at Arconis: "As for helping the wounded soldiers clean their wounds, apply medicine, and bandage them, I hope more women will do it, so you have to provide some women in the kitchen. It is best to have younger ones without husbands and let them go to the newly established medical team to take care of the wounded soldiers."

"Ah! Let us women take care of those men, and we have to be unmarried?! No, no, this is too much! What's more, our kitchen is already short of manpower. If we take away more people, there will be no work. It's done!..." Akonis objected loudly, shaking her head like a wavy drum, her attitude seemed to be very determined.