Rome Must Fall Chapter 4: Spartacus

“Just enough for everyone to have a meal.” Spartacus looked at Cross and asked, “Have the brothers changed their weapons and armor?”

“All changed.” Cross grinned and pointed behind him: “Twenty brothers have all changed into infantry equipment, plus you and I killed the guards at the iron gate and changed into this outfit. , and an archer fell from the balcony… We now have twenty-two infantry and one archer. If anyone dares to stop us, we will crush them like ants!”

“Roar!” The fully armed gladiators behind him roared, causing others on the training ground to look back in astonishment.

Spartacus glanced at these fully armed gladiators and found that they were all Gauls. He nodded and said calmly: “We are on our way to escape. If we encounter the enemy again, we have to rely on you. ”

“Don’t worry, I’ll lead them to the front.” Cross replied confidently.

“How are the injuries of the brothers?” Spartacus looked at Altonix again.

Altonix spoke in a low voice: “Twenty-one died, 11 were seriously injured, and 32 were slightly injured…”

Several gladiator leaders fell silent at the same time: There were a total of 295 gladiators in this school. This riot mobilized them all, resulting in 64 casualties, accounting for one-fifth of them. One more…

Spartacus quickly cheered up and said in a deep voice: “Let the brothers take turns carrying those who are slightly injured, and those who are seriously injured and difficult to treat… let them leave happily.”

“Okay.” Cross responded and led his men to execute it.

So, Maximus saw these gladiators coming to the side of their seriously injured and unconscious companions, closing their eyes and reciting a few words silently, then drew out their daggers and stabbed them directly in the chest.

No one stopped or raised objections. From the day they became gladiators, they had been dealing with death and had long been accustomed to it.

But this shocked Maximus greatly, and also frightened the injured Pheasalus beside him.

At this moment, Spartacus said loudly: “Brothers, after a **** battle, we broke the cage that Batiatus set for us! The door is now open, but when you escape from this Don’t forget in school that many of the guards you killed were Roman citizens! The bad wolf of Batiatus who was so scared by us that he ran away must have asked the officials of Capua for help. The Romans always They are very cruel to slaves who betray their masters. They will definitely send troops to hunt us down, catch us, and nail us to crosses and torture us to death!

Don’t forget the power of the Romans. The whole of Italy and the entire Mediterranean are controlled by them. It won’t work if you want to escape alone and then hide. We can only unite tightly and gather together. Only by using all our strength to overcome difficulties one after another can we finally gain true freedom! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a gladiator shouted: “Spartacus, don’t worry, I won’t run around, I will always follow you!”

“Yes, Spartacus, you are the most capable. We believe in you and will fight with you!”

“Spartacus, you are our leader, and under your leadership we will tear into pieces all those Romans who dare to stop us!”

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The gladiators’ shouts rang out one after another, and finally gathered into an excited roar: “Spartacus! Spartacus!!…”

Maximus stared curiously at Spartacus standing in front: The real Spartacus was not even remotely similar to the actor who played him in previous movies and TV series. He was tall and muscular. He is tall, but not bloated, with short curly brown hair soaked in sweat that sticks softly to his broad forehead. He has a long round face, a slightly pointed chin, a straight nose, big and bright eyes, and particularly bright brown eyes. With long, thick eyelashes and a subtle smile…

A sentence came to Maximus’ mind: “A face as kind as a sheep.” This image does not match his body shape, but it is this contradiction that gives people a strong sense of intimacy. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the school’s number one gladiator, who is unbeatable in the arena, makes him Everyone trusts and follows so much.

Spartacus put on the Roman-style helmet left by the guard he killed. The afterglow of the sunset shone on it, forming a hazy halo that was particularly dazzling. His eyes were firm and he used force. Waving: “Follow me, let’s get out of here!” After saying that, he ran towards the door first, followed by the gladiators with weapons and equipment, and then other gladiators with bare hands and carrying wounded companions on their backs…

Pecott carried Pheasalus on his back without hesitation. Maximus said from the side: “Pecott, if you are tired of carrying it, you can let me carry it instead.”

Pecot ignored it.

This Angle Priest School is surrounded by stone walls more than four meters high. The door is a thick oak door with a large iron lock, which can be said to be heavily guarded. At this moment, the iron lock of the door was not opened, but a big hole was smashed out of the wooden door, and the hole was cut flat with a dagger. Thinking of the amazing power of the Germans such as Enomuyi in the memory of the original owner, Maxi James wasn’t surprised.

Going through the door, you will see a narrow and winding alley in front of you…

Capua was once the capital of the League of Twelve Cities of Campania and is still the chief city in the region. Gladiator competitions were very popular here. It was one of the first towns in Rome to build gladiator arenas. First, some Capua people even proudly claim that “gladiator competitions originated in Capua”, so there are more than ten privately operated gladiator schools here.

Capua people love to watch gladiatorial competitions, but they don’t want to live with these murderous monsters, and the loud and noisy fighting sounds from the gladiator school all day long are even more annoying, so many years ago, Capua The citizens collectively demanded that all gladiator schools be moved outside the city. However, schools with hundreds or thousands of gladiators could not live without daily supervision. In the end, these schools were required to be built near the city walls, so that the soldiers patrolling the city Can be seen at any time.

With the expansion and conquest of the Romans, Rome became the center of the Mediterranean. Huge amounts of wealth and slaves poured into Rome, and countless foreigners and poor people also came to Rome to seek opportunities for survival and development~IndoMTL.com~It is not far from Rome. Capua, which is far away, has abundant food and clothing, and has a better environment, has also become the target of their migration. The inner city of Capua could not accommodate a large number of immigrants, so they built houses one after another outside the city. Due to the lack of unified planning and the independent behavior of foreign residents, the houses in the outer city of Capua were messy, with narrow alleys and roads. Oops, it’s like a big maze.

Normally, Spartacus and the others would enter the arena directly in the city under the supervision of Batiatus’s guards. After the game, they would be taken back to school immediately. Batiatus never They were given the right to go out alone. Of course, this was also related to the fact that most of them were criminals or prisoners of war.

The sky had become a little dark, and the road was narrow and winding. The gladiators ran wildly for a while and then suddenly stopped because a wall appeared in front of them. This was a dead end!

Spartacus couldn’t help but be a little anxious. He glanced at the houses with closed wooden doors on both sides of the alley, and said harshly: “Break open the door, grab two people, and let them lead the way!”

“Don’t bother, I know the road well, I’ll lead the way!” someone in the crowd shouted.

Spartacus looked up and was a little surprised: “Maximus? Are you still alive?!”

“I just passed out. Later I woke up and saw you fighting fiercely with the guards at the entrance of the training ground, so I joined the fight…” Maximus said as he walked towards Spartak. Si, the reason why he dared to stand up at this time was because he realized that what the original owner had done before was too bad. If the gladiators knew about it, it would be difficult for him to imagine what would happen, so he could not continue to do nothing. , you must take the initiative to perform meritorious deeds in order to gain Spartacus’s protection and at the same time reduce everyone’s dislike of him.