Rome Must Fall Chapter 173: The Pannoni coalition is coming

Chapter 174 The Pannoni Alliance is coming

"Why didn't you tell me earlier!" Pecot cursed angrily, turned around and shouted: "Stop training! Everyone go back to their tents and have a good rest. No one is allowed to yell, otherwise according to military law Punishment!"

"Captain...Captain, this place is far away from the enemy. They...can't find us. Don't worry!" the young man comforted carefully.

The young Yadobag is a Skodisci. He was once the male slave of Volris, the leader of Segestika. He herded sheep for him, so he was very interested in the Segestika east of Varidosi. The terrain around the village is very familiar.

Yadobag once lost a few sheep and was afraid of being punished by his owner. He risked being attacked by wild animals and went deep into the mountains. As a result, he discovered the place where the camp is now. The terrain here is flat and there are not many trees and grass. There was water, it was relatively secluded, and there were not many birds inhabiting this area... He finally found the sheep, but because he returned to the stockade very late, Wallis suspected that he wanted to escape and beat him half to death. , if it weren’t for Emmerich’s careful treatment, he wouldn’t be alive today.

This time the rebels wanted to build a secret camp in the mountains on the east bank of the Kupa River and summoned Skodisci who were familiar with the terrain in this area to provide advice.

As a result, the place mentioned by Yadobag became the first choice, and because he was familiar with the mountains and could run around in the mountains like flying, he was reused and became the most important sentinel of this unit. .

Therefore, Pecot's attitude towards him was pretty good: "You don't understand, the Segostikas are pressing down heavily on the border. If you want to defeat them, you mainly have to rely on us!"

Pecott recalled what Maximus had repeatedly warned him before setting off, and said with emphasis: "We are a surprise force. Before we play an important role, we must not let the enemy know, otherwise once they are on guard, We will lose a lot of effect, so we must not be careless, understand?"

Adobagh thought for a moment, then nodded heavily and said, "I understand."

Back then, the Skodisci tribe here was destroyed, and some of its remnants fled into the mountains and harassed the Segostika tribe for several years. In the end, he was responsible for annihilating them. He was very experienced in this.

After Yadobagh left, Pecot squeezed his hands, his palms a little wet. The arrival of the Segestika army made him feel a little nervous.

After returning to the village, he immediately held a tribal meeting and announced to the elders: The tribal alliance would send reinforcements, led by him, to conquer the foreign mercenaries, eliminate them, and rescue the captured tribesmen!

This news inspired the entire tribe and comforted the people who had lost their loved ones. Many fewer people came to his main house to cry.

In mid-October, the reinforcements from the three large tribes met in the Segostika territory. Andres had already gathered 5,000 warriors from his own tribe and soon led the army to set off together.

He believes that Pecot is an Illyrian and can better communicate with the Skodisci recruits in the team and make them obey; secondly, most of the guards commanded by Pecot They are Celts and Illyrians, who are used to living and fighting in the mountains; the most important thing is that in the last battle, Pecot led the **** and the Skodisci recruits and completed the raid mission very well. , became the key to defeating Segestica's army, and it is worthy to entrust him with the important task again.

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After final discussion, Pecot led more than 300 **** soldiers, plus more than 100 Skodisci recruits, to form a surprise force of 500 people, hiding outside, looking for opportunities to break the enemy's food routes and disrupt their rear.

Another thing is that recently, a group of Skodist bandits suddenly appeared on the edge of the southern territory of Segostika. They attacked the villages of Segostika, killed the people, burned down the villages and towns, and rescued Walk slave. But when the Segostika army arrived at the scene, they escaped early... As a result, it caused considerable panic among the Segostika tribes on the south bank of the Sava River.

"Just understand. You will stay in the camp for the next few days. After the Segostika army thinks its rear is safe and relaxes its vigilance, I will send you out with a few other spies. Please tell me the defense situation of the two villages of the Segostika people, the location of their food reserves, and their rules for transporting food, and then we will give them a hard blow!"

"Yes, captain!" Yadobagh responded with an excited salute.

This is a huge amount, far beyond what the tribes directly under Andres can provide. It must be collected from all tribes in Segestica.

After Andres attended the tribal alliance meeting, he slowly returned to the main village of Segostika.

Originally, the Ministry of War had a dispute over which team to send as the hidden surprise troops. It was Maximus who persuaded several officers of the Ministry of War.

During this period, reinforcements from the Pannoni Alliance arrived one after another, including 10,000 Broch warriors, including 800 heavily armed warriors; 5,000 Mazie warriors, including 200 heavily armed warriors; Dai There were 10,000 Xitiantai warriors, including no heavy-armed soldiers, but 500 cavalry.

Although most of the Segostika tribes are located in the Sava River plains and have just harvested a good harvest, they have wars every year and each tribe has no excess grain reserves. Moreover, the tribes had already been levied once during the last war. If more food was to be levied this time, the tribesmen would definitely be resentful... Andres left this troublesome task to Cabudes.

Andres decided to personally conquer the Skordischi bandits.

The first is to collect food. With a 30,000-strong army going out, the amount of food consumed in a day is not a small amount. Moreover, the failure of the last war proved that this mercenary army is a powerful enemy and may not be eliminated in a short time. Therefore, Andres discussed with the elders and decided to prepare at least 30,000 people food for more than 10 days at one time.

However, Andres was not much relieved. He had two major things to do urgently.

After some reconnaissance and deployment, Andres led his army to attack the plundering Skodisqi bandits. After a battle, the Skodisqi suffered heavy casualties and the remnants fled northwest. Entering the mountains, peace temporarily returned to the Segostika territory.

Pecote, don’t betray the trust of Chief Maximus. This is the time to show your ability. There is nothing to panic about! ...Pecote said to himself in his heart, clenching his fists.

The reason why only these three tribes are allowed to send reinforcements is, firstly, because their territories are adjacent to Segestika, so they can send troops quickly and consume less food; secondly, because of the relationship between Daixi Tiatai and Segestika Intimate, Broch and Maziyi considered the threat posed by the presence of mercenaries to them, so they were more active in sending troops.

The army marched through the dense forest, crossed the Kupa River, and marched westward along the south bank.

At the same time, Andres sent out many sentries to carefully search the mountains along the coast... With a large army in hand, he was more cautious than last time.

The scouts did not find anything unusual along the way.

However, after crossing the Korana River, they were intercepted by the rebel army, lost some sentries, and were unable to detect the situation of the rebel camp.

This was expected by Andres, because during the period when he did not send troops, this "mercenary" team even pushed the blockade near Kabudez's original stronghold, allowing Segers to It was difficult for the sentinels sent by Tika to pass through. Even if they took a long detour through the mountain roads, they would never return, leaving Andres completely blind to the situation west of the original Kabdus village.

At least this time after the army set off, he knew that nothing unusual was found north of the Korana River, except that the land around Volris Stockade showed signs of being cultivated, and new seedlings grew.

How dare these outsiders farm here! It seems that they really intend to take this land as their own! ...Andres was very angry for a time and wanted the soldiers to shovel all the new seedlings in the fields. Then he thought about it: After the mercenary army is wiped out, won't all the fields they planted be gone again? Have you returned to your tribe?

Andres turned from anger to joy, and at the same time, the large area of ​​cultivated land also relieved his doubts: Why did the mercenaries block this area? It turns out that it is to protect the companions who are farming here...

Similar to the last time, the Segostika army used Volris's stronghold as its final campsite, and all the food and supplies they brought were stored here.

After a good night's rest, Andres led the army to cross the Colana River again on the morning of the second day. Not only did they not be intercepted by the "mercenaries", they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy.

Obviously the enemy knew that his army was strong this time and chose to avoid fighting... Andres was disappointed with this.

The army continued to march westward, passing the place where they had suffered a tragic defeat. The battlefield that was once littered with corpses and blood was now just a field of withered and yellow grass. No trace of war could be seen, but Andre still let Andrei Si's heart tightened.

Finally, the Pannoni coalition stopped advancing because the "mercenary" camp was more than 300 meters away.

The general who led the reinforcements of Desitiatai this time was their great leader Temagis. He personally led the troops to come to the reinforcements not only because of his friendship with Andres, but also because he was warlike and could deal with the enemy. Andres, who was good at defeating many with less, was curious and wanted to come and see it for himself.

At this moment, he asked Andres with a surprised look on his face: "Is this the mercenary camp? This is simply a city!"

No wonder he was surprised. In his field of vision, the "mercenary" camp had an earth wall about three meters high. There were also wooden walls more than two meters high on top of the earth wall. Every other section of the wooden wall , there is also a wooden building... Even the main village of their tribe does not have such tall walls and so many wooden buildings as this camp.

Andres looked solemn. He did not respond. Instead, he stared at the enemy camp for a while before saying, "Let's go and take a closer look!"

So, Andres led 50 tribal cavalry, and Temagis led his 500 cavalry out of the team, and circled the "mercenary" camp for more than half a circle. There was no luck in their hearts: it was not just the people facing them just now. A high wall was built in the direction of their team. Except for the side facing the river, the entire camp was surrounded by long walls and wooden buildings.

Andres gritted his teeth and said, "Look closer."

As he spoke, he took the lead and ran straight towards the "mercenary" camp. The cavalry quickly accelerated forward to protect him.

Temagis followed closely with his own cavalry.

The momentum created by 550 cavalry galloping together can at least prevent the enemy from leaving camp easily to make a surprise attack.

Getting closer and closer to the enemy camp, Temagis opened his eyes wide, pointed forward and shouted: "Andres, have you seen that row of sharp wooden sticks stuck diagonally on the ground? !"

"I saw it! I also saw a deep ditch between the pointed wooden stick and the earthen wall!" Andres, who was in the front, responded with a gloomy face.

"What?! There is still a deep ditch?!" Temagis was startled and clamped his horse's belly tightly, trying to rush forward to see more clearly.

At this moment, several shrill cries came from the front, and several horses rolled and fell to the ground. The cavalry who was thrown to the ground struggled to get up, and then fell to the ground again, covering their feet and screaming.

"There is an enemy trap on the ground! Be careful!..." the cavalry shouted in panic.

In a hurry, the cavalry in front reined in the horses, and the cavalry behind them had no time to react. They collided with each other, and the horses neighed and people screamed, creating chaos...

Andres reined in his horse in time, and due to the protection of the guards, he was not hit by the cavalry behind him.

Ignoring the guards' obstruction, he jumped off the horse and stepped on the soft grass with his feet. There was nothing strange. He felt relieved and moved his feet forward cautiously. At the same time, he bent down and looked at the grass. Search...

Suddenly he froze and stepped on a sharp object with his right foot. He squatted down, swept away the loose soil with his hand, and then pulled up hard.

The eyes of Temagis who followed him focused on Andres’ hand: it was a short wooden stick that had been buried deep in the soil by the enemy~IndoMTL.com~The end facing the ground was chipped Very sharp!

"Damn mercenaries!" Andres cursed angrily, handed the wooden stick in his hand to Temagis, and then carefully groped forward, trying to pull the two injured cavalrymen who fell to the ground. Pull up...

But he didn't know that Maximus, the leader of the rebel army, was standing on the wooden building near the camp gate dozens of meters away from him.

Maximus looked at everything happening in front of the camp calmly, and said to Quintus beside him: "That man should be Andres, the leader of the Segostica tribe. He is wearing a The armor is very similar to what Emmerich described."

"Furthermore, as soon as the Segostika army arrived, this man led his cavalry to approach the camp for risk observation, and even rushed ahead. He was very similar to the personality of the Segostika leader described by Emmerich. , it should be him.

However, the man behind him also wears a pointed long-feathered helmet. Although it is not gold armor, it looks very sophisticated. According to Emmerich, the only people who can wear such armor are tribesmen. Big leader, who is he? "Quintus asked curiously.

(End of this chapter)