v8 Chapter 124： Before the siege

At the same time, the cannons of the various groups of the Dionynia were concentrated in the southwest corner of the city of Rome, two hundred meters away from the city, facing the section of the city wall as the dog's ear protruded from the stone bomb.

Dozens of stone bombs were bombarded on the wall at the same time, and the sound was scary, causing a burst of exclamation from the defenders in the city.

After another round of stone bombardment, the broken wall tiles and stone pieces "smashed down" continued to fall down, and the city's defenders felt uneasy.

Attacking the city of Rome is not only a cannon but also a belly bow. This huge iron arrow, which was magnified by numerous bows, was not aimed at the city wall, but fell to the slums behind the city wall, causing panic among the Roman people.

But soon the people in the slums found that the iron arrows and arrows that were tied to the ground and tied to the house were tied with several paper rolls. The daring people curiously came forward to unlock the paper rolls.

The chief of the city guard, Scipio, had one of the soldiers. He carefully watched it. The paper was written in Latin: Roman compatriots, my name is Walx, I was a Roman citizen. Living on the hills of Laventine. Eight years ago, because a rogue drove the flock, biting the wheat seedlings of the land I rented, and provoking words, I was wounded in anger. As a result, I was sentenced to a large fine by the court. I could not afford it. Under the pressure of the other side, I had to buy a slave to pay off the high debt. Later I realized that this person was a diners of Capres. Claudius Sabinus, so I would lose. Lose this lawsuit that should not have been lost, for the sake of slaves!

All the compatriots who live in Rome, have no land like me, all the compatriots who have small land but are born in civilians, are you, like me, living anxiously every day, very worried about those who have a lot of land and many slaves? The nobles seized their own insignificant land and turned themselves into their slaves, only because they were rich enough to want more! We have repeatedly resisted the greed of the nobility and wanted to gain a little protection of our rights, so we abandoned the city many times and wanted the greedy aristocrats to realize the importance of our civilians! But until today, these greedy Roman aristocrats still control all the powers of this city-state, and we are the captive cows and sheep that they can be slaughtered at any time! Compatriots, are you willing? !

Fortunately, Diana is blessed, now the Dionyns are coming! Although Dionia is a country with a king, its citizens have great powers. They have their own land. The law protects it from being plundered. No matter what birth or race, they have the ability. Being able to serve in public office can even become a veteran. Even ordinary citizens can report bureaucrats who violate the law and discipline, and let them be punished by law...

The King of Dionia has promised me to transform Rome into a beautiful place like Dionia! My fellow citizens, if you don't want to be a slave, then with the Dionysian army, overthrow the rule of these greedy and ugly Roman aristocrats! ”

After reading it, Big Sippia raised a chill in his heart, his hands and feet were cold, and he hurriedly ordered: "Fast! Send people to collect these papyrus, and no one is allowed to hold it!"

When the city guards sent by Great Scipio arrived in the slums, they saw that some civilians were piled up on the side of the street, surrounded by several literate civilians, while listening to them reading aloud from the iron arrows. Paper rolls, talking to each other while talking.

"This Valks I know, I used to live in front of my house. I was a very good person. When he became a slave, he also distributed some things from his family to everyone... oh..."

"The people of this Claudiusian family are really very bad! They are always very strict with our civilians! Last month, this is the captain. Claudios Sabinus has just been in the middle. The captain’s younger son only injured my neighbor because of a small incident, and now he can’t go to the ground!”

"It’s the Claudius family. Which of these big families in Rome is not bad! According to me, the Dionyns are coming, it is best to kill them all!"

"Do you say that what is said in this letter is true, when the citizens of Dionia are so good?"

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Just as the civilians talked about the things that these Shake papers talked about, the city guards who executed the command of the chief rushed in and forced the collection of these sand rolls, which naturally led to conflict.

Fortunately, the veterans headed by Ambustus arrived in time to appease the angered civilians and criticize the city guards who caused the incident.

At the same time, Ambustus took the paper roll and shouted loudly: "Citizens, this is a conspiracy of the Diaonians. They want to use this to separate us, so that we can't work together to defend the city! A few years ago, we had a conflict because of internal discord, and some people abandoned Rome, and walked away from love, which led to the anger of Jupiter, and let the Gauls give us the most painful punishment!

After the reconstruction of Rome, we have already vowed on the Capitoline Hill and will never repeat the mistake! Therefore, you should not be confused by the rhetoric of the enemy, and you must not repeat the tragedy of the destruction of Rome that year! ......"

The words of Ambustus let the anger of the Romans who are gathering constantly come to be quenched.

But at this time, someone shouted: "Yes, the civilians who fled the love and love finally moved back to Rome, but did the commitments made by the Senate in the past fulfilled?! We still owe high debts, we cannot rent public ownership. The land, we can not hold the important position of the city state, we hope that one of the two consuls elected each year must have a civilian request, the Senate will simply ignore it!"

Ambustus looked intently. The person who spoke was really the public official, Gaius Yulius Brutus. He had not explained this yet. The public’s snoring sounded again: "The police officer said Yes, the Senate is always perfunctory, just wanting us to sell our lives, we don’t want to give us any rights!"

"This is Rome of the nobles and the rich, not our Rome! This Roman is destroyed and has something to do with us!"

"When did we promise that we have the same rights as the nobility, when do we take up arms and fight the Dionyans!"

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The protests of the people surged toward the veterans like the tide, which made them feel scared. If they are in peacetime, they have a lot of ways to deal with such protests, but now it is a big army siege, a careless move, I am afraid that the enemy's offense has not yet begun, and the internals are chaotic. So Ambustus said hurriedly: "The Senate will immediately discuss the requests they made, and ask them to settle down and wait for a reply."

With the consent of the people, the veterans were able to return to the Senate and convened an emergency meeting.

However, whether it is canceling debts or sharing public land with civilians is a serious concern for the interests of the veterans and nobles, not to mention the civilians’ important positions in the city-state, even the consuls, but also the taboos of the nobles, so the veteran Although the debate was fierce in the hospital, it has not reached a conclusion.

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At this time, the Great Scipio, who had been busy with the defense of the Roman city, was once again rushed: the Venetian ship appeared on the Tiber River.

Although he learned that Ostia had fallen, he had already considered the possibility of an enemy ship invading the Tiber River, but the news was still very tense.

He immediately rushed to the southwest corner of the city wall, stood at the head of the city, looked south, saw a three-layer paddle warship arranged in a dragon, under the pull of slaves and laborers, under the full stroke of the sailors, Going upstream along the Tiber River, the forefront of the warships has already turned to the river port...

These very small warships on the vast sea are unusually huge on the Tiber River, which is only about a hundred meters wide. The hull of more than 50 meters crosses the river and reaches half the width of the river. The Roman soldiers who had not seen the three-layer paddles were very nervous.

What makes Great Scipio feel even more nervous is that he saw many Diony soldiers boarding the warship from the river port, then the warship sailed to the other side, and the soldiers of Dionia boarded the riverbank on the other side...

The Dionys want to attack Rome from the north through the vertebral bridge! In the heart of the Great Seychelles, a heart attack ~ www.novelhall.com ~ immediately ordered: "Go to inform Cassius, strengthen the defense of the vertebral bridge, be careful of the Diaonian offense!"

After the passing of the commander, the big Scipio Azusa thought that he was still not at ease, and sent 700 more Roman soldiers to the vertebral bridge. Of course, most of them were citizens over 50 years old.

Big Sibiya is worried about the north side of the city of Rome, and there are soldiers to report: outside the Roman west wall, there are a number of Roman slaves and Latin laborers who shouted at the soldiers of the city under the protection of the soldiers of the Dayonia. .

The contents of these slaves and laborers are actually similar to those written on the Shahe paper roll, but these people have said it in their own experience, and they have increased their persuasiveness, and they are not only targeting Roman civilians but also slaves. Because of the shortage of troops in the city, the Roman Senate had to let the city slaves fill the soldiers and promised to give them freedom after the war. Now the civilians and slaves on these West Wall walls have no snacks, their status even infected the people in the city, and the Senate’s delay in making decisions has angered them. They gathered and ran to the Senate’s door. The former protests even claimed that if the Senate would not give them a clear answer, they would open the gate and welcome the Dionyrians.

The squad of the city guard’s chief Scipio and the people’s palace outside the door made the veterans feel as horrified as the ants on the hot pot.