"Now, you're all free. Write %Fun%Pavilion www.biquge.info Escape while Octavian's soldiers are still in the city, leave here, and go to live in Rome. ”

When the crisis in Marseille broke out, everyone was in danger, and in the lavish villa that Apis had built for Tertila, the young mistress Tertila freed all the slaves and set them free. and demanded that they flee now and leave the city as freemen. lest Octavian's legions enter the city and let the soldiers insult.

However, many were reluctant to leave, not only because of the kindness that Ritertila had shown to them, but also because the freedmen of Rome sometimes lived more hard than slaves in this era. Slaves, high-ranking slaves, at least the masters ate and drank, and sometimes a salary, while the freedmen left the villa estates and had to feed themselves with their own hands. In the era of war and chaos, even citizens could not find jobs, let alone free people, if they did not have a good patron, they were released, which was equivalent to sending them to death. Coupled with Tertila's noble status, many slaves still secretly pretended to be their own little ninety-nine, hoping that Octavian would not dare to do anything to Tertila at that time.

"No, mistress, I beg you not to drive us away, let us stay ......"

Many servants and slave girls fell to their knees at the feet of Tertilla and pleaded......

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At the head of Marseille, a group of improvised guards stared at the horizon in the distance, where a large army from Italy could appear at any moment. Not only do they have to deprive them of their wealth, their status, and even their dignity and their lives. Naturally, these Celts would not agree. There were also a small number of Roman civilians who joined the defense of the city, and it should be said that the Roman paupers. Most of the Roman citizens who joined the defenders were destitute debtors, and Lagulis offered a large bounty, and these people grabbed the vine of wealth and climbed up desperately as if they had seen a life-saving straw. You know, the indebted civilians will eventually be captured and reduced to slaves, and they will be reduced to slaves without freedom for the rest of their lives, so it is better to take a risk, if the city is defended, they can still pay their debts, and have a sum of money to squander. After weighing the pros and cons, he joined the team defending the city.

At the same time, Octavian's fleet blocked the port of Marseille out of the city two days in advance. The Raven Battleship was equipped with long-range catapults, and if a ship tried to leave the port, the consequences would be severe......

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Seeing that the officials defending the city, Laguris, had no intention of retreating, the commander-in-chief of Octavian's Italian legions, Quelas, immediately decided to attack the city. There was nothing to negotiate about the city, and before leaving, Octavian gave him an order that if Lagulis did not surrender, he would fight quickly, and Marseille was the city that must be taken. The city connected Italy with Gaul, and even took the port of Marseille, so that the fleet could run rampant in the western Mediterranean, and all ships from Italy could be replenished in the port of Marseille, which was also extremely important for Spanish support.

In the morning mist, the soldiers defending the city saw that the tall catapults were being erected, and this heavy heavy weapon was a nightmare for the defenders. Falling rocks from a great height can shatter any barrier or tower. Let the soldiers defending the city be shattered in an instant, and they will be unrecognizable.

In the early hours of the next morning, Octavian's three Roman legions lined up in a neat siege phalanx outside the walls of Marseille. The three legions were divided into nine large phalanxes and spread out in one line. The catapult moved its massive bodies behind the Roman soldiers, and the manipulators operated the massive weapons with a squeaky wringing sound.

Then, under the horrified gaze of the defenders, the catapults outside the city threw flaming flints into the walls of Marseille, like an apocalyptic scene, and dozens of flaming flints fell from the sky.

With the terrifying force of the impact, several towers on the tower were cut off, and the rubble fell on the aisles of the city wall, and the unlucky defenders were smashed to the point that their heads were broken and bleeding, and they were covered in blood, or they were directly smashed to death by the falling stones above the tower. At the same time, the large catapults in the city also began to counterattack, and in the open space where the two armies were opposed, a huge stone hit the earth, hit the towers and city walls, and burned the entire battlefield, like purgatory on earth.

Half a Roman hour later, Octavian's three Roman legions began to advance in batches. All kinds of traditional siege tools came in handy, sheepshead hammers, siege towers, ladders, were pushed to the front line. Small scorpion cannons and parapets were even installed on the two large siege towers for Roman engineers and archers to go up and suppress the defenders on the walls.

"Stabilize the battle line, if you don't want to be a slave, shoot the enemy in front of me fiercely!"

The veteran centurion standing on the tower shouted, but his men were all improvised recruits, and the Celts did not even listen to the order to start shooting at the soldiers on the siege tower.

"Damn it! A bunch of brutes! ”

In desperation, the fat centurion scolded. only to see the shivering city recruits hiding under the battlements of the city wall. Recruits with no combat experience seem to have lost their fighting spirit in such a terrifying siege scene, and they dare not fight like cowards. Clutching the weapon tightly in his hand, he didn't know how to swing it.

"Cowardly recruit, if you don't fight, just wait to be trampled to death on this wall like a fat worm!"

The centurion roared, then picked up a javelin from the ground, lit it with a spearhead, and threw it at the slowly approaching siege tower. Thin spears flew towards the massive siege towers, their flaming spearheads nailed to them, but they couldn't ignite their wooden boxes.

More defending archers fired flaming arrows at the tall Roman siege towers, trying to set the behemoth on fire. However, the two large siege towers ignored all rocket spear strikes and continued to slowly drive towards the city walls. At the same time, Roman sappers on siege towers began to skillfully operate small scorpion ballistas. The arrows were loaded into the grooves, and after the winch had filled up the elastic power, the thick Roman crossbow arrows burst through the air and roared towards the Marseille defenders on the towers.

A Gallic hunter who was drawing a bow was suddenly shot through the body by a huge spear, and the whole person fell off the city wall without saying a word, leaving a thick pool of blood on the city wall.

At the same time, the vanguard of Octavian's Parthian legion began to ram the gates of Marseille with a hammer. The city magistrate Laguris himself went into battle, and dozens of Roman soldiers threw stones and hunting spears at the bottom of the tower with all their might. However, under the protection of the impermeable tortoiseshell array, the casualties of the siege force were almost negligible, except for the stones that would have knocked down a few hapless legionnaires, and many more Octavian Roman soldiers were still standing under the walls, shouting and waiting for victory to come......