44. Military orders are like a mountain

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"What are they shouting?"

"I don't know, but I think with my ass, and I know he's scolding us. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”

"Then we'll go up and give him two more sticks."

In the middle of the night, the newly mistreated Germanic warriors screamed and roared, and two bored Roman soldiers passed by, and when they heard the annoying roar, they decided to take up the instruments of torture and torture the barbarians again, and Apis ordered that as long as the Germanic people were not killed, the soldiers would do whatever they wanted. As you can imagine, those female warriors were dragged into tents day and night, and suffered inhumane abuses.

The two Roman soldiers picked up the wooden sticks on the execution ground and looked at the Germanic barbarian soldiers who were hanging from the stand with a wicked smile on their faces. The barbarian shook his body in anger, but he could not break free from the chains and ropes. The tools used by the Romans to hold slaves were very advanced, you must know that the first key in the world was invented by the ancient Romans, and the development of slave countries to the peak, how to make slaves do things obediently has become a problem that the upper class racked their brains to.

“*****”

The Germanic man who was hanging on the shelf continued to yell loudly when he saw the two Roman soldiers approaching with bad intentions, but the two soldiers wantonly beat the captured Germanic people after drinking. The Germanic warriors then let out a cry of pain, and like the Romans, they were flesh and blood and sensual men, and they felt unbearable pain in their bodies under the whipping and the whipping.

After beating the Germanic prisoners like dolls, one of the Roman soldiers still didn't feel the excitement enough, so he took out the short dagger he carried with him, cut off a piece of the Germanic prisoner's flesh, and listened to the heart-rending cries of the barbarian prisoners, and the two veterans felt the thrill of revenge.

At dawn, the barbarian soldiers, who had been tortured all night, were on the verge of death due to excessive bleeding. Appis also called the veterans of the Legion who had disobeyed the order to torture the prisoners of war the previous night.

"What is my command?"

In the open space of the barracks, Appis angrily confronted two ruffian-turned-legionnaires.

"No prisoners are allowed to be killed."

One of the GIs stood up straight, responding loudly and nervously. The other Roman GI walked up lazily, with a look of disdain and laziness, and it was clear that this lazy legionnaire had served longer. Appis, on the other hand, walked straight over and shouted angrily at the disdainful Roman GI --

"Repeat my orders, soldier!"

"You can't kill a single captive."

The Roman veteran replied contemptuously.

"Did you kill him?"

"I killed a livestock."

In the face of Appis's fury, the Roman legionary veteran responded so lightly.

"Which brigade are you from?"

Appis asked angrily. Disobeying military orders was the last thing the Legion could not tolerate, and it was the least tolerable thing for Appis. To that end, today, Apis must take some necessary action to warn the Legion of such lawlessness.

"Thor's Legion, formerly Anthony's Third Legion."

The veteran replied arrogantly.

"Guards, drag it down and punish it with a cane."

Then, in the face of the arrogant attitude of the legion's veterans, Apis called out to the guards.

In full view of everyone, two legion guards, one on the left and one on the right, carrying ropes, directly tied up the arrogant troublemaker.

"You don't have the authority to dispose of me! Appis! I am Anthony's subordinate, and only Anthony has the power to decide my life and death and punishment! ”

It wasn't until he was tied up by two guards that the legion veteran screamed. He was surprised by Appis's audacity, indeed, before leaving for Germain, Anthony only lent the legion to Appis, and did not directly give the entire legion to Appis, but now, Apis is punishing Antony's soldiers in front of everyone, does Apis want to tear his face with Antony? This is something that the veteran could not understand and did not expect.

"In my barracks, there is no distinction between Antony and Octavian, you are all soldiers of the Roman Republic, and if you fight for Rome, you must obey the military rules of the Roman legions. Now, the execution! ”

Faced with the anger and doubts of the kidnapped veteran, Apis coldly dropped a sentence and returned to sit down in the circle chair on the stage. Afterwards, the soldiers watched solemnly as the Roman veteran, who had endured countless bloody battles, was stripped of his clothes by the guards, hung on the execution rack, and began to be brutally whipped.

"The soldiers, this man, disobeyed my many orders in the barracks, drank and drunken, and killed the captives, which were strictly forbidden. You are soldiers of the republic, glory of the republic, but what will become of an undisciplined, unorganized corps? We are not barbarians, and we are able to defeat the barbarian armies again and again with a small army, relying on discipline and organization. Discipline was the soul of the Roman legions, without which the legions were nothing. ”

When the troublemakers were executed, Appis got up from the circle chair and took advantage of the situation to popularize and emphasize the military regulations of the legion to all the officers and soldiers. The sound of whipping continued, and everyone watched in silence at the dramatic scene in front of them. There are even people below who are silently talking about how Apis is going to offend Anthony. But the discussion was quickly stopped, and Appis only glanced at the corner where the voices of the crowd were heard, and the discussion between the two veterans came to an abrupt end.

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"You mean, the people of the Friesian tribe are still in the camp of the Romans? And to be mistreated, beaten by the Romans every day? ”

The Germanic spies who had "escaped" from Appis's camp finally returned to the tribe's stronghold, and told the elders of the Germanic tribes about what they had seen in the Roman camp. And the beating of the Germans, the punishment of the Roman soldiers, the turn of Apis and Antony, all these entered the ears of the Germanic patriarchs.

"It's a trap! We should not allow the Romans to succeed in their schemes again. If you rush in to the rescue, I guarantee you will fall into the trap of Appis! ”

Faced with the rich information and rhetoric of the detectives, the leader of the Cherusian people, Heinrich, first expressed his dissatisfaction and reminded the Germanic tribes not to fall for the Romans. Leonie then reacted, asking the tribesmen to exercise restraint and calmness, and not to act rashly until sufficient evidence was obtained. However, a tribe is a tribe after all, and without a unified state and government, no one can determine the behavior and behavior of another tribe. The Germanic tribes, who were not harmed by the hunt, naturally maintained good restraint and rationality, while those tribes who were captured by the Romans were not calm.

"But we can't stand by and watch our fellows, our people, bleed. If they hadn't come back today to report to us what had happened in the Roman barracks, we wouldn't even know that our people were suffering and bleeding inside. I will take the warriors of the tribe to rescue my people, and if you are still here to be undecided, then I will no longer be an ally with you! ”

The heirs of the tribe who were ambushed by the Roman grain conscription roared loudly.