Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Grief of Kunogorata
The two sides pushed each other as hard as they could, and the soldiers on Antonios' side finally got the rugby ball standing on the ground, passed it back to Oliver from the crotch, and he immediately threw it hard and threw it at the big man on the left, Tegtinos. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
As Tegtinos received the ball, he spun and dodged to pounce on his opponent, holding the ball and lunging forward.
Another opponent pounced from the side.
Xenomas blocked his takedown in time.
Tegtinos is a big man, and once he gets up to speed, he is unstoppable. was caught by the other party twice, but he was thrown away with a strong momentum.
Seeing that he had already crossed the distance of two yards in his own half, Epitenis could not hold his breath and shouted loudly in anxiety from the field.
At this time, a member of the team behind the side quickly caught up, pounced hard, spread his arms in the air, and hugged Tegaltiros's feet accurately and powerfully.
Tegtinos pushed the mountain of gold and fell to the grass like a jade pillar, but fortunately he held the ball in his arms and did not lose it.
The Epitenis team rushed forward and slapped the player's body excitedly. It was a Lucanian, and although he couldn't understand what the Greeks were shouting, he could still feel the joy and kindness in it, so he cracked his mouth and laughed.
The Lucanians in Antonios' team suddenly exclaimed.
"What did they say?" Antonios asked Bagul.
"They're calling the man's name, and his name is Lithom." Bagul pointed to the Lucanian player on the field: "The famous warrior of our tribe is also a very powerful hunter! ”
Antonios nodded thoughtfully.
Drax ran over and asked with concern, "How's it going?" Is there something wrong?! ”
Tegatinos struggled to his feet and took two steps to indicate that he was fine. Because rugby is too confrontational, easy to get injured, and Amendolara can't make protective gear for every soldier with the existing conditions, Davers strictly stipulates that he can only use tackle, grab, pull, and block to destroy the attack, and must not hurt people with dangerous actions such as hitting, hitting, and kicking, otherwise he will be banned from participating in the game. Therefore, the soldiers were afraid of being banned, and they were very cautious in their shots. At the same time, Davers arranged a doctor on the sidelines, ready to be rescued.
"Excellent! Very good! Well done! We've come so far, work harder and get this point! Oliver clapped his hands vigorously and encouraged his teammates while devised new tactics.
The game started again, Oliver got the ball, and he threw it to Tegatinos.
Tegtinos took the ball, ran two steps, saw two opponents rushing towards him, and immediately threw the ball back to Olivers.
Olivers, protected by his teammates, threw the ball to Tegatinos again.
The big guy quickly tossed the ball back to Olivers.
Olivers made a gesture for the third time to throw to Tegatinos, and when his opponent's attention was drawn, he suddenly leaned to his side, flicked his wrist, and threw the ball to the right front, and then was thrown to the ground by his opponent.
In the exclamation of the players on the field, the rugby ball flew a distance of twenty meters in the air, and was about to fly out of the bottom line, a member of the Antonios team rushed over quickly, jumped hard, and reached out to block the rugby, but because the ball was too fast, he did not catch the ball. So after landing on the ground, he quickly jumped up again, but still didn't grasp it, and the other party had already pounced and grabbed it.
Amid the great regret of the soldiers watching the game from the sidelines, the Antonios team lost the opportunity to attack.
The slaves in the field also shouted loudly.
"What are they talking about?" Antonios asked curiously.
"They said, 'If it were them, they would have caught the ball!' Bagul explained: "We Lucalians have been walking in the mountains and forests since we were children, hunting, often climbing high and low, and if we want to jump, other races may not be able to match!" ”
Antonios nodded and said, "Let's defend now, and the five of you go together." ”
Bagul was stunned for a moment, then became excited, and after watching this game from the sidelines for a while, he felt that this game was very interesting and exciting, and he was eager to try it for a long time.
"Also, I suggest that when you go back, you should urge your people to learn Greek, otherwise you won't be able to communicate during the competition!" Antonios reminded with a little meaning.
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As it got late, more than 800 Lucanian slaves waited anxiously on the construction site, and some of them became restless and began to quarrel with the soldiers who were guarding them.
At that moment, forty slaves came back laughing and talking.
"Hey, are you all right?!" The clansmen stepped forward one after another and asked with concern.
"Don't worry, we're fine!" Bagul comforted them, his excitement unconcealed.
"Oh, it's so interesting for the Greeks to invent this rugby game! You didn't see that in the final round of the game, Bagul jumped up, received the ball in the air, dodged the blockade of two people in a row, and scored directly to help his team win the championship! A returning slave said excitedly.
"It's not a breakout, it's a touchdown!" Bagul corrected.
"If it weren't for the bad cooperation of my team, I would definitely be able to beat you and enter the finals!" Littom said unconvinced.
"Brother, you have to understand that you don't cooperate well because you don't understand your words! If you want to defeat me next time, you must learn Greek! Bagul admonished him.
Litom thought for a moment and nodded earnestly.
The waiting slaves were confused: what game...... Race...... Champion?
Then, the returning slaves began to excitedly tell them about their experience at the training camp in Amendolara, and the waiting slaves were curious at the beginning and many of them became interested in the game, and they secretly decided that they would work harder on the construction site and strive to be selected next time, and participate in this kind of game that sounds interesting!
From this day on, the progress of the various works in Amendora has progressed by leaps and bounds......
And for the old citizens of Lucaglia, it was destined for a sleepless night. For example: Arcinis, who could not forget the fact that his parents died at the hands of the Lucanians. But when he moved forward with the ball and the Lucaria man of the same team blocked him several times and sent him a touchdown to score, he threw his hatred out of the air when he hugged his team-mate excitedly. When I returned home and thought about it, I was extremely conflicted. This is the charm of modern team sports in the old life, when the individual is integrated into the collective and wins by unity, any previous hatred conflict is dissipated by the joy of victory, which is why Davers forced each team to include five Lucanian slaves.
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The next morning, after breakfast and about to go out to inspect the carpenters' construction of the elevated waterwheel, he saw Assistes hurrying in.
"What's going on?!" Davers asked immediately.
"Kunogora Tower...... Kunogorata has been expelled from Turii, and now he is leading his family...... And the people of the tribe are coming in the direction of Amendolara! Asistes said breathlessly.
What the?!! Davers was taken aback.
It turned out that after the signing of the alliance agreement, Kunogorata sent someone to investigate the financial situation of the Turiyi treasury on the grounds that "it was necessary to formulate a new business plan to replenish the empty treasury".
While the investigation was ongoing, rumors began to spread in the city of Turiyi: "The hasty battle with the Lucanians was facilitated by Kunogorata, and at that time Feris and the mercenary leader were strongly opposed, and even the hero who saved Turiyi, Davers, submitted another more feasible battle plan, but it was rejected by Kunogorata, and under his urging and persecution, the old general Feris was forced to fight." And in the battle, it was the early escape of Kunogorata that led to the collapse of the central phalanx, and Ferreth died heroically......"
Fueled by well-intentioned people, this rumor quickly spread throughout the city, and since some of the rumors were true, when the skeptical people went to someone to confirm it, they selectively believed the truth part, because they were all family members of the war dead, their grief had been suppressed by Davers's victory, and now they needed an outlet, and Kunogorata was the best object. So, anger erupted among the population, who rallied and shouted: "Kunogorata step down!" …… Punish Kunogorata severely! ......" slogan, surrounded the town hall.
Seeing that something was wrong, Kunogorata quietly slipped back home through the back door of the town hall, but the people who had arrived on hearing the news surrounded his house.
Kunograta urgently ordered his family and slaves to be on guard to prevent the people from storming the house, and he himself stood within the walls of the courtyard and shouted to the menacing people to explain.
While the two sides were at loggerheads, someone suddenly shouted: "People, don't forget, after Kunogorata fled back into the city, he forced us to close the city gates!" So much so that the citizens who fled could not enter the city, and most of them were killed by the Lucalians! He's a murderer!! ”
Many people remember the nervous shouting of Kunogorata at that time: "Close the gates!" In fact, this measure in the state of emergency saved the whole city, but at the moment the angry people did not think about it at all, they only remembered that they watched their relatives being slaughtered like lambs under the city walls, they hated their own powerlessness, and of course they hated the "culprit"!
Thus became more intense clashes: the people tried to force their way into the courtyard of the Kunogorata, but the people in the courtyard tried desperately to stop it, and the angry people even carried the raft and finally broke open the courtyard door. Countless frenzied people poured into the courtyard, and if it weren't for Kunogorata's feigned death and the slave's loyal protector, he would have been killed on the spot.
On that day, the crowd ransacked his home like a mob: one of his sons was killed, another daughter was defiled, many clansmen and slaves were injured, and most of the family's belongings were robbed.