Rome Must Fall

The prisoners just wanted to eat, and they had just suffered a disastrous defeat. They were very worried about the ferocity of the Knick soldiers and did not dare to stare at each other. Therefore, they did not find that there was one of their own in the Knick team who came to deliver food. Compatriot, and in the eyes of Onosis, although the Nix soldier standing in front of him looked very similar to the tribesman in his impression, he looked heroic in armor and had a completely different temperament.

"It's me." Cythonus responded, squatted down and took off his helmet.

"Setonus, it turns out... it's really you!" Onosis excitedly wanted to reach out to touch Cytonus, but as soon as his hand touched the cold armor, he subconsciously retracted it, and his expression changed again. You have to be careful: "Great, you are still alive! But how...how did you become like this now?"

"Uncle, do you still remember? Last year, Chief Andres summoned an army to attack Nyx. I also participated. It was you who sent me the trip..." Saitonus said in a soft tone.

"Of course I remember. I also reminded you at that time that the big leader will definitely win a big victory this time. If you fight bravely, you might be able to make our leader forget his resentment towards your father and take the money he once took from your family. The land you left will be returned to you..."

Cytonus recalled the past and sighed: "... I didn't expect that the great leader suffered a disastrous defeat. Alas, so many tribesmen failed to come back... Later, the leader escaped and came back, and later some tribesmen were also redeemed. , but you are never there... They all said that you might have died in the swamp, so my wife and I built a grave for you in the wasteland at the east end of the village... But I didn't expect that you are not only still alive, He actually... joined the Knicks..."

"I am not the only one who has joined Nyx. From last year to this year, thousands of captured Segestika warriors have joined Nyx! He! Him! Him! They are all our people!" Cytonus turned around and pointed. Several Knick soldiers among the captives instinctively defended themselves.

"I don't know about other people, but you are a good boy! How could you...how could you betray the tribe!" Onosis looked angry and his voice became louder unconsciously.

"Uncle, can you blame me! You should know very well that the youngest son of Timeleus forced my father to go hunting. As a result, he encountered two bears. Everyone else was killed by the bears, and my father was also bitten. , but he desperately escaped back to the village...

But Timeleus and several other nobles who lost their sons claimed that my father took them hunting in dangerous places without authorization and abandoned them to escape alone. Therefore, they took away my family's land and punished my father to do hard work. He was injured. How could he withstand such torture? He died of illness not long after...

"I have been looked down upon by my tribe since I was a child. Only you, uncle, take good care of me..." Onosis's words brought back the resentment that Setonus had buried in his heart for more than ten years. He complained with emotion: "Just Like you said, I originally wanted to follow Chief Andres and perform well. If I could be favored by him, I would be able to change my previous bad life... But we lost. In our eyes, he was heroic and invincible. Chief Andres was defeated easily."

Cythonus twitched the corners of his mouth, revealing a hint of sarcasm unconsciously: "Many of us were captured. First we were sent to the Aldi people for mining, and suffered a lot of torture. Later, Nyx sent someone to tell us 'As long as we join the Knicks tribe, we won't have to suffer these tortures anymore...'.

Some chose to join, many of them because their families had been captured by the Knicks and had to submit. I'm different, I just want to change my life. Since there is no way out in the original tribe, why don't I try another way! "

"You...you..." Onosis looked at the excited expression on Cythonus's face, and remembered what he had suffered in the village in the past. He sighed repeatedly, and finally couldn't help but whisper: "But Nyx After all, they are foreigners, and if you join them, it will not be better than being in the tribe!"

"Who said that!" Cythonus raised his eyebrows and said loudly: "We Pannonians are actually Illyrians, but we separated hundreds of years ago. The Nyx tribe is also mainly made up of Illyrians. Established, Chief Maximus of the Nyx tribe regards us Pannonians as compatriots and welcomes us to join the Nyx tribe——"

"Since the Nyx people regard us Segestika as a family, why do they kill us so fiercely?!" Someone next to him suddenly interrupted loudly, and unknowingly, there were people lying around Cytonus. Circle prisoners.

Cythonus glanced around and said in a louder voice: "Isn't it because Nyx treated us like this because we first invaded the territory of Ardei, killed and drove away their people, and occupied this place? They have to fight back because of their own land!

Let’s just talk about the several big defeats we suffered from last year to this year. In which case did we not attack the Knicks first, and then they counterattacked and won in the end? Don't say that Nix was cruel to us, think about the fact that we used to capture the Ardi people and either kill them and throw them into the Kupa River, or chop off their hands and feet and throw them in front of the Ardi village to intimidate their tribesmen. .

And after the Nyx people finish fighting with us, they will treat our injured people just like they treat their own people. Look here-"

Cythonus raised his left leg. There was a relatively long scar on his leg. He patted the scar and said loudly: "This is when Chief Andres led us to fight with the Nyx people in the Varidosi Swamp. I was stabbed by the opponent and I fell to the ground, unable to move at all. It was the Knicks who carried me to their camp. With the careful treatment of doctors and nurses, my leg injury healed quickly.

Not only me, but some tribesmen who were injured in the battle at that time recovered because they received good care from the Knicks——"

"Oh, I remembered. I saw some Knick soldiers carrying some of our injured tribesmen into the camp. Do we also want to treat their injuries?" Another prisoner interjected.

"Of course! We are enemies during the battle, and after the battle we are all Illyrians. Nyx will try his best to save his compatriots!"

"So you joined the Knicks because you were grateful to them." Another prisoner interjected.

"Of course it's not just because of this." Cythonus looked at Onosiss again and said proudly: "Uncle, can you think of it. I used to have no land in the tribe, and I earned a living by grazing cattle for Timeleus. Get some food. If you hadn’t given me some delicious food from time to time, I wouldn’t have grown so tall or strong...

But when I joined the Knicks and won the war, I could get at least 60 acres of land. Because of my good performance in the battle, my captain planned to make me a captain of ten! I have a much better life with the Knicks than with my original tribe! "

"Only 60 acres of land have made you betray the tribe and the gods we believe in. You still have the nerve to brag in front of us. You are so shameless!"

A sarcastic voice came, causing Cythonus to change his expression. He looked up and saw a middle-aged man sitting outside the circle of people surrounding him. He was fair and fat, with a straight face. Looking at himself with contempt.

Cythonus suppressed his anger and asked: "How many fields does your family have?"

"I haven't counted this. Anyway, it's much more than 60 acres." The man curled his lips disapprovingly.

Cythonus suddenly laughed: "Then you must be a noble?"

Before the man could speak, someone said, "He is the elder of our tribe!"

Then someone else said: "It's my clan leader Alpas!"

"Noble" is actually a foreign word to the Segestika people, and "elder" and "patriarch" are the formal terms. A Segostika tribe is a group with a large population formed by a family of blood relatives after decades or hundreds of years of reproduction. This group is in turn formed by a collection of small groups formed by family divisions.

Generally speaking, the leader of the small group with the largest population and the strongest strength is the leader, and the leaders of other small groups are the elders of the tribe. To the people of the group, he is the leader, because the relationship between him and the ordinary people is Have more or less kinship.

After the two spoke, Alpas tried his best to straighten his chest and try to show off his pride.

Cytonus did not show any respect, but asked directly: "Elder Alpas, do you know how many acres of land we ordinary Segostika people own?"

Alpas liked to have fun and left almost all territorial affairs to his subordinates. Naturally, he couldn't answer Setonus's question. After being stunned for a moment, he scolded a little rudely: "What qualifications do you, an ordinary citizen, have?" Come and ask me questions!”

Setonus did not fight with him. He said seriously: "In my original Segostika tribe, ordinary people have about 30 acres of land, right, uncle?"

Onosis hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Absolutely."

Other prisoners began to chime in: "Each family in our tribe has a little more land, but it's close to the mountains and forests, so it's not that fertile."

"We don't have that much land. It would be nice to have 25 acres."

"You are bragging when you say you can get 60 acres of land in Nix. Several clan leaders in our tribe only have more than 60 acres."

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"Everyone, please be quiet!" Cythonus said loudly: "Whether it is 20 acres, 30 acres, or 40 acres, we ordinary people work hard to cultivate the land every year, and when the harvest comes, we have to turn over a lot of grain to our tribes. Elders, it will be good if the remaining ones can barely feed your family——"