v8 Chapter 128： Sneak in the night

"Yes, the dictator! We must arrive in Rome tomorrow night!" Quintus and Lisignius immediately stood up and made a promise.

"After arriving outside Rome, you must see the battlefield situation, do not take the offensive, but put pressure on the Dionysian army, so that they do not dare to attack the city of Rome..." Camillaus patiently warned his men, Then he said in a deep voice: "I will do my best to lead the army to arrive the night after tomorrow, meet with you, and fight with the Diaonians!"

The generals in the account heard this, and the uneasiness after hearing the news was excitement...

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In the darkness, when everything is silent, most of the Romans in the city and the Diaonian soldiers outside the city have gone to sleep. But outside the northeastern city walls of Rome, hundreds of soldiers quietly came out of the camp of the First Army of Dionia.

They wore black linings, black cloth toe caps, leather shields and short swords tied tightly to the back with a small bag of beef jerky. On this night of reaching out, they sneaked southwest through the open Mars Square.

The Mars Square was originally a wide wetland caused by the long-term flooding of the front river. The sixth generation of the Roman king, Servius, drained the wetland and finally obtained this vast flat land. The piece was flatly named Mars Square. In the name of the Roman **** of war, it can be seen that this flat land was originally used for the assembly of the army, but later it also served as a voting place for the citizen assembly. After all, there is no such large open space in the city of Rome to accommodate all citizens. But after the arrival of the Dionysian army, the Romans retreated to the city and Mars Square was vacant because it was outside the northern wall.

When the pedestrian came to the edge of Mars Square, he saw the towering walls in front and the black and secluded mountains behind the walls - the hills that occupied an important position in the hearts of the Romans - Capitolin.

After these people have determined their position, they sneaked in the direction of the city wall and turned west.

Not long after they left, they heard the sound of the flowing water, and the Tiber River was in front.

These people immediately dispersed, groping for search on the banks of the river, and soon someone whispered: "The captain, here!"

Known as the captain of the team, the leader of the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade, Izam, walked over.

The soldier stood erected with two thick wooden pillars, which were deeply penetrated into the ground, only half a person high on the ground, wooden planks between the wooden pillars, leading to the river, and then cut off halfway. This is a ruined wooden bridge.

Izam cast his gaze to the front, blurring the outline of the land less than 20 meters from the river bank. He knew that it was the river heart of the Tiberina, which the Romans called Tiberina. Before Rome, the Romans withdrew the inhabitants of the island and destroyed the wooden bridge leading to it.

If you did not withdraw the Romans on the island, maybe we can find our actions at this moment... Izam’s heart is just a flash of thought, then whispered: “Come on the rope and tie it to this wooden pillar!”

A dozen people carried a large bundle of ropes and tied one end of the rope firmly to the wooden post.

“Is Tylentus ready?” Izam whispered.

"The captain, I can't wait!" A strong soldier replied with a blunt voice.

"Okay, it's up to you!" Izam hammered his sturdy chest with his fist and said to the other soldiers: "Give him a tie."

The players wrapped the other end of the rope around his waist. He did not carry a leather shield and a short sword, but a rope hook, a chainsaw and a big iron tong.

When the ropes were tied around his waist, the players groaned and felt very strong.

Izzam looked forward to the warrior from Mesapi, and encouraged: "Hades will bless you, go, and become a hero of the kingdom like Seklelyan!"

Telantus solemnly performed a military ceremony.

Izam and the players also solemnly returned to him.

Telendus put the back of the inflatable lamb belly under his arm, then grabbed the rope with both hands and stepped back into the river step by step.

The coldness of the river made his skin suddenly tighten, and the slippery river bottom made him unable to stand upright completely. During the daytime, the river seemed to be smooth in the Tiber River. When people walked into the river, they felt the momentum. How old, Telendus rushed down the river involuntarily, but the ropes around his waist pulled his body, his teammates were pulling the ropes like a tug-of-war, which made him You can slowly go downstream...

Not long after, he saw that the river bank in front was no longer flat, but turned into a seven or eight-meter-high embankment, which stood straight on the side of Telantus.

Telendus, who had observed the terrain beforehand, knew that it meant that he had passed through the walls of Rome.

Although the person is still at the river, the river is getting deeper and the foot is not stepping on the bottom. Fortunately, the buoyancy of the lamb belly makes him float on the river and slowly drifts downstream. And Tarantus kept his eyes wide open and stared at the front.

Not long after, he saw the Roman vertebral bridge that was lying on the river in front and was emphasized by the captain. The heart suddenly rejoiced.

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The ropes that the mountain scouts were holding were stretched very tight and suddenly relaxed.

The players are equally happy: it should be!

Izzam always looked dignified, and then he asked: "How long is the rope?"

The team member responsible for the count answered: "It is nearly 250 meters."

"That should have arrived." Izam was so sure because he had previously learned in detail from several former Roman citizens such as Walx.

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At this moment, Telantus is holding the bridge pillar closest to the embankment and turning his head to look at the embankment. By the thin moonlight of the sky, he can faintly see the embankment near the vertebral bridge, about four meters away from the river. There is a **** hole.

In the heart of Telantus, it was another joy. He knew that he had found the famous drainage system in Rome, the Maxim sewer.

So he untied the pickaxe hanging from his waist, untied the tangled cloth, and the other hand kept the ropes in a constant frequency.

Soon, the teammates who got the signal pulled him back.

He slammed his hands and feet and pressed it close to the embankment.

After a while, the rope was lowered a little bit, so that he was washed down by the water to the bottom of the sewer. It was well distinguished because it had an unpleasant smell, and there were wet water marks on the embankment, covered with moss.

Telendus immediately lifted his pickaxe and slammed it up.

The tip of the pickaxe plunged into the crack.

He grabbed the pickaxe with one hand and pulled the rope with one hand. This was to tell his teammates to stop the rope, tighten the rope and keep him in this position.

Then, he patiently untied the rope hook on his body, grabbed the head in his hand, estimated the distance, and forced his head to throw it.

I heard a crisp sound from the top of my head. He screamed badly, hurriedly evaded, and the iron hook stuck to his body and fell into the river.

so close! Telantus did not immediately pull up the rope hook that fell into the bottom of the river, but attached it to the embankment, carefully watching the movement on the vertebral bridge, fearing to be heard by Roman patrol soldiers.

But he apparently ignored the Tiber River. Although it seemed to be calm, it was far from the roaring roar when Seklely crossed the Krati River, but the river hit the bridge and the embankment over the years, emitting a heavy, heavy sound. It is enough to absorb any thin sound produced near him.

After a while, seeing that there was no movement on the bridge and the shore, Telendus once again threw the rope hook in his hand, first heard a small crisp sound, followed by a low muffled sound.

The rope hook did not fall! In the heart of Telantus, he reached out and tried his hand. The rope was very tight, and it seemed that the rope hook was very strong.

He pulled the pickaxe down hard and hung it back to his waist. Then he grabbed the rope hook with both hands and slowly climbed up. This section of the embankment is where the sewage is discharged from the sewers. It is relatively slippery. Tarantus slipped a few times and slammed his body against the stone wall, but he resisted without sound.

Finally, he climbed to the sewer exit and grabbed the iron grille that blocked the exit.

The Maxim sewer was first used by the Romans to drain the lowland floodwater between the hills. This project was built by the last Roman king Tarwen. Its initial starting position was The Roman Forum next to the Senate.

With the improvement of the Roman city the population has increased, the drainage and siltation have not been necessary, and the discharge of domestic sewage has become a concern of the public, so every household has begun to dig the drainage ditch in front of their own house, and with the initial The large drainage ditch connects the various sewage generated every day in the house through the drainage ditch and discharges it into the Tiber River. Over time, the drainage ditch has become more and more long and has spread all over the city of Rome, and its lines are extremely complicated.

The Romans constantly drained dirty water, sewage, urine, and even various kinds of garbage, which often caused the drainage ditch to be blocked, stinky, and occasionally caused the outbreak of the disease. Later, a Senate named Maxim The veteran proposed a bill: the establishment of a new department, the dispatch of a special city-state public official to manage the drainage ditch in the city of Rome.

The proposal was approved almost in full. As a result, the gutter was dug and dug, and the slab was laid on the ground, and it was regularly drained... Since then the gutter became a sewer, the Romans also created a shrine for this complex sewer system - Clo Cynna goddess (cloacina).

The outlet of this sewer is one person high, almost round, and the iron gate is firmly welded into the stone wall. Each iron has the thickness of an adult finger, but the iron gate is obviously old and rusty, especially It is below the iron grid, and the sewage that has been discharged every day is corroded by potholes and uneven thickness.