Rome Must Fall

Now that Maximus encountered a problem, the first thing he thought of was this experienced Roman veteran.

"Chief, I have no problem. I just took a nap and regained a lot of energy." Valerius responded.

"That's good." Maximus stretched out his hand and said, "Come to me right now."

Valerius went up to the watchtower, and Maximus pointed at him and shouted to the crowd downstairs: "Next...anyone who wants to join the Knicks now can report to my subordinate. Then he will lead you to cook, distribute food to your tribe, and arrange accommodation for everyone... Please remember that anyone who joins the Knicks tribe tonight and helps with things will be considered a meritorious service and can be shortened. It’s time for you to become official Knicks citizens!”

After Maximus finished speaking, the crowd downstairs suddenly became commotion.

"Chief, my Illyrian doesn't speak well, and there aren't many people in the crossbow team who speak well." Valerius reminded him in a low voice.

"It doesn't matter, I will immediately ask Carminus to select some Segostica recruits and give them to you to command, as well as a few of my subordinates -" Maximus turned around and pointed to the five attendants: "They will take Use paper and pen to help you register those who want to join our tribe, and then follow your arrangements and lead those people to do things.”

"Chief, there are a lot of people down here. Where can we get so much food for them? And... you let all the people in this village go, where can we find enough places for them to sleep?" Warley Liu Si asked again.

"When I entered this village just now, I saw many large houses here. I think there are many nobles in this village. In fact, the houses of these nobles are our team's temporary military camps tonight. We use the food they store Cook and let the people of Segestica live in their rooms. If they dare to stop them, just arrest them, so that the people of Segestica know that we treat them differently from these leaders and nobles. of."

"I understand, and I will do my best to complete the tasks assigned by you." Valerius responded with a salute at this time.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Maximus returned the greeting solemnly, and then watched from the watchtower for a while, watching Valerius downstairs arranging the registration of the people of Segestica who wanted to join the tribe, and the order was maintained well. , then he went downstairs with confidence and went to his temporary residence.

Segestica's main house is in the east village, but after Andres became the chief, in order to make it easier to attack the Ardei tribe, he built a large house in the west village and also built a Drilling Ground, usually lives in this house, and often leads the soldiers he recruits to drill together.

The escort team first stationed in the house and did some simple cleaning.

Maximus entered the bedroom and was about to sleep with his clothes on when the guard came to report: Commander Carminus asked to see him.

"Let him in." Maximus yawned helplessly.

After entering the house, Carminus made a report directly: "Chief, the two brigades I sent out to sweep the river bank have returned. They have captured a total of 67 boats..."

"Well done!" Maximus said happily: "Including the ships we captured in this stockade, we have 84 ships!"

"The enemy on the other side should have more ships! When I asked the Segostika people to leave the stronghold, I asked them, and they told me that almost every two families of the Segostika tribe on both sides of the Sava River had There is a boat, they don’t have much farmland, and they mainly make a living by fishing.”

Carminus first poured a basin of cold water, and then said with relief: "But they don't have a big boat. The largest boat here can only carry six or seven people at most, which is not as big as the boats they built on the Kupa River. They I have never fought on this river before, so I lack experience in water battles.

Besides, the river is only over 100 meters wide at its widest. As long as we are well prepared and the other side is not paying attention, we can use these more than 80 boats to reach the other side in a short time. We can transport three to four hundred soldiers at a time and then sweep them away. On their river banks, returning ships can more easily transport the next batch of soldiers..."

After Maximus heard this, he looked astonished: "I almost forgot, Carminus, you were once a sailor!"

"Although I have been fighting on land for the past two or three years, I have not forgotten how to row!" Carminus said proudly: "And there are many sailors from Naples and old friends in the third legion. , it is very easy for them to row such a small boat on such a smooth river. "

In fact, Maximus chose to lead the Third Army to attack the Segostica territory because of this issue. At this moment, he asked in a deep voice: "When do you think it is best to transport soldiers across the river by boat?"

"Tomorrow at dawn." Carminus said firmly: "The Segestica people do not have a special river fleet. If they want to prevent us from crossing the river, they must organize all the boat owners on the other side of the river and make them obey. Unified command and deployment cannot be accomplished in a short time, and it was already dusk when we attacked the stronghold, so they did not have enough time to make arrangements..."

"I understand, we must cross the river as soon as possible and attack as soon as possible, so that we can catch the Segostica people off guard and leave them no time to defend!" Maximus nodded and said: "Carminus, attack Segostica. I’ll leave the task of Tikadong Village to you! Just go ahead and arrange it!”

"Yes, chief!" Carminus responded loudly and excitedly.

After Carminus left, Maximus was about to lie down when a guard came to report again: "Chief, there is a Segestica who wants to see you. He said he is a subordinate of Gelicus."

Maximus thought, Gelicus was the spy he personally recruited from the prisoners of Segestica. After this man returned to the territory of Segestica, he had been trying every means to transmit information to Nix. This allowed Maximus to always have a better understanding of the movements of the Segestica tribe.

For example, they were able to know in advance that the Pannoni tribal coalition was going to attack Nyx, or the reason why they dared to quickly break into the territory of Segestica and directly seize Segestica after annihilating the active forces in Segestica. The reason for the stronghold was because of the information gathered by Gelicus before the war...

Since Gilkus has been working conscientiously and responsibly for the Knicks since returning to Segestica, Maximus appointed Gilkus as an intelligence officer in the territory of Segestika as early as April this year. The supervisor allowed him to quietly recruit people within the Segestica tribe, and also asked Cassius to find ways to meet his requirements and try to give him some funding...

"Let him in." Maximus rubbed his face vigorously and said softly.

A middle-aged man was brought in by the guards. Maximus looked at him and felt that he looked familiar. After thinking about it for a moment, it suddenly dawned on him: This man was the same man he had just spoken to the people of Segestika on the shore. The first person to clamor to join the Knicks tribe!

Suddenly, a smile appeared on Maximus's face.

After the man entered the room, he looked awkward and hurriedly bent down and said: "Honorable... distinguished leader Maximus, Sirises salutes you!"

"Oh, you are Sirises! Gelicus mentioned you in the information he gave us, saying that you performed very well. He once took the risk to sneak into the main stronghold to inquire about Andres' injury. I want to take credit for you. I But I always remember it!" Maximus smiled, pointed to a wooden chair next to the bed, and said softly: "Come on, stop standing, sit down and speak slowly."

Maximus has been a leader for so long and has deliberately honed a skill - remembering people's names. There are tens of thousands of people in the tribe now, and there are many things to do every day, but Maximus also has to take some time to remember the outstanding figures mentioned by his subordinates in their reports. Firstly, in order not to miss talents, and secondly It's for showing favor.

Sure enough, Silicis did not expect that Maximus actually knew about him, and was so excited that he could not speak for a moment.

It should be noted that the leader of the Nyx tribe repeatedly defeated Andres, the hero of Segestica and the former chief leader, resulting in his death. He also defeated the powerful Pannoni tribal alliance and once again defeated Segestica. The new leader was finished and led his army to capture the main stronghold. In the eyes of the people of Muqiang's Segostika, this was a very terrifying enemy! For those who had already surrendered to Knicks, this was a leader who was extremely powerful and respected, which was why Silicis had such a big reaction.

"Relax, don't be nervous, sit down first." Maximus said gently again.

"Yes, yes..." Silicis responded repeatedly and hurriedly followed the instructions.

"I just saw you leading everyone in the crowd to join our Knicks tribe. You performed very well!" Maximus praised: "You came to see me so late. Do you have something important to tell me?"

Being praised again, Silicis finally got rid of his nervousness. He said excitedly: "Dear leader, after you brought the army here today, Gilicus took advantage of this opportunity and led us to follow the other escaped Seg. The Stikas sneaked into the village.

He asked me to stay and find an opportunity to report the situation to you. Then he took the others through the pontoon bridge early and ran to Dongzhai on the other side of the river... He said, when you, the leader, lead the army to attack Dongzhai, he will think I'll find a way to cooperate with you in the village. "

"Oh?!" Maximus really didn't expect that in addition to being able to collect intelligence, Gelicus also knew how to cooperate with him to seize the main stronghold. This is really a talent!

"You've done a great job!" Maximus praised sincerely, and then asked: "How many people do Gilicus have under his command now?"