12. Siege, sacrifice
"Brothers, today, we are going to face a team gladiatorial match, we can only hope to win if we work together, and when we come out, listen to my orders and fight together. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
The final finale season is still played, with a large gladiatorial battle of 20v20 people. Klein commanded the gladiator team, and Zhang Ce stood in the center of the team, feeling the primitive and passionate shouts of the Colosseum.
It was a storm of 50,000 Roman citizens shouting together. Even the most sissy person, when he arrives on such a battlefield, will still be full of blood and kill the enemy in blood.
Fear?
That was a few months ago, when gladiatorial fighting and killing became a profession, Zhang Ce found that he was actually like all gladiators, without the fear of swords, without the fear of blood and injury, all but to fight bravely until the end of the gladiatorial competition and victory.
The iron doors of the arena opened, and all the gladiators, with a thirst for blood and glory, trotted into the Eternal City's largest killing place. Colosseum!
"Brothers, sisters, friends from Rome from afar, we are here today to hold a splendid and gigantic game, a wonderful game to commemorate the last battle of Rome against Carthage, the Battle of Zama. Now, standing in front of us is a powerful, barbarian legion from Africa - the African Savage Legion led by the demon Hannibal! ”
On the stage, the host of the arena gave an "impassioned" pre-battle commentary, and the next moment, all the Roman spectators on the field, after listening to the meaning of the game and the story it told, stood up and threw debris at the twenty gladiators of the Graeus family in the center of the field. The inversion rang out, and it was clear that Hannibal's demonic image in the minds of the Romans was deeply ingrained.
Standing in the middle of the line, Zhang Ce knew that the reason why these audiences hated Hannibal so much was because this Carthaginian commander had almost destroyed the entire Rome by himself, and an entire generation of Rome died in the Roman Carthaginian War, known as the Punic War. If it weren't for Fabian's delaying tactics later, Rome at that time was likely to have been annexed by Carthage, so the Romans had a deep hatred for Hannibal. It's a pity that a generation of heroes ended up like this, Zhang Ce stood in the venue, thinking of this history, and couldn't help but feel sad for the commander of Carthage.
"Everyone, be quiet."
Seeing the stage, the atmosphere in the audience was already boiling, and the host of the Grand Arena knew that it was now possible to arrange for the slaughtering team to enter the arena.
"Now, welcome to our most powerful, heroic, epic legion of victory, the Roman legion led by Scipio the Conqueror of Africa!"
With the host's loud shout, the atmosphere on the field was mobilized to the extreme. Even, all the audience unconsciously let out a cry in the deepest part of their throats, and the noisy shouts gradually turned into regular bursts of angry shouts in unison, like thunder before a storm came.
And this gladiatorial fight is indeed a storm.
When the five large iron gates of the Colosseum opened at the same time, the twenty gladiators of the Graeus family on the field undoubtedly couldn't believe their own eyes! The finale was not a gladiatorial match at all, but a slaughter.
"Greys told us it was a team fight."
In the gladiator ranks, Prenius couldn't help but mutter. At the edge of the field, it was not gladiators who appeared at this moment, but the regular Roman army! Obviously, this event is nothing more than a show by politicians before they please the audience and start a war. They wanted to support Caesar's conquest of Gaul with a killing show like the Legion stabbing the barbarians. It's all purposeful and arranged in advance. In advance, Klein and all the gladiators who appeared on the scene didn't know, not even Zhang Ce.
"Damn, that faggot cheated on us."
Fabius then roared.
"Not necessarily, maybe the owner doesn't know."
Compared to the resentment of the others on the field, Crane spoke for Graeus, who had been fighting for the Graeus family for ten years as a gladiator, and Crane knew that his master was by no means such a man of his word, and it was possible that this time, Gray was also deceived.
"Fuck, you told me it was a team game, but what's going on now!"
On stage, Graeus had quietly run behind the triumphant host, grabbed the arena host's hair like a mad beast, and questioned angrily. Klein and Preeny, Fabius, these twenty gladiators are the most elite gladiators of the Graeus family, and they are all the belongings of the entire gladiator academy, and now, this damned conspiracy to execute these twenty innocent gladiators to please the civilians of Rome for the politicians is simply a shameless act.
But Gray can't help it, because there are always victims in the conspiracy, and Graeus has now taken refuge in the Triumvirate, and this gladiatorial match itself is a scene arranged by the Triumvirate, if you Gray are dissatisfied, then your cooperation with Pompeii will come to an end. Graeus was furious, and at this moment he regretted the original cooperation with the Triumvirate, there is no pie in the world, Pompeii gave Gray benefits, in fact, it is equivalent to grabbing his handle, and this, before the gladiatorial match begins, Graeus still doesn't even know.
"Brothers, now is not the time for us to argue about who is right and who is wrong, the enemy is already in front of us, unite and fight, we may still have a chance of survival. If we continue to complain like this, we will really fall victim to this conspiracy. ”
Seeing that there was a commotion in the team, Zhang Ce couldn't help but start talking. Speech was not Zhang Ce's specialty, when he was in college, every time he gave a speech on stage, the otaku uncle trembled every time, and even stammered when he spoke, but now, in the bloody world of ancient Rome, if you don't get rid of the habit of cowering in the past, you can't survive in this terrible and bloody era.
Zhang Ce's words unexpectedly had a good effect, and the gladiators began to huddle together, looking for a possible breakthrough in this battle.
The Roman legion is a regular legion, not a new formation, it seems that these soldiers are veterans, Klein once served in the Numidian African Legion, and still has a certain understanding of the tactics of the legion, and Zhang Ce heard about the tactics of the Roman legion in the book, so he also has a certain psychological preparation for everything in front of him, while the others in the gladiator team are unprepared for everything that may happen next.