"Remember, you are beasts, legions of beasts that terrify your enemies. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Hold on to every weapon in your hands, for it could be the key to your survival. ”

In the middle of winter, while the other legionnaires were roasting in the warm tavern, eating barbecue, and drinking ale, the twenty soldiers of the Hidden Commando Regiment selected by Appis were training inhumanly outside in the cold outside. They were naked, with only a piece of linen wrapped in their lower bodies, holding round shields and daggers, and were training in brutal melee combat on the playground of the garrison camp.

Appis stood with them, with a wooden staff in hand, and when he saw the soldiers who were exhausted, he rushed up and beat them wildly, which was a real devilish training. But the soldiers did not hate their commander, and were even grateful to their commander for choosing them to be part of the Hidden Commando. Because this is a great honor for ordinary legionary infantry. This proves that they are the best warriors in a hundred, not only in terms of salary, but also in terms of status, and when they successfully graduate from the Devil's Military Training Camp, the other legions of infantry look at them and even look up.

Crane became the instructor of the Beast Legion. As a former honorary gladiator who has experienced countless life and death tests in the arena, at this moment, Klein has become the coach of these twenty members of the Hidden Assault Team. For a soldier to graduate, he must engage in one-on-one gladiatorial combat with Crane. The winner will graduate at least the one who draws. Appis was to train them to be masters of gladiatorial fighting, masters of weapons.

After the gladiatorial training, the Roman warriors, who were almost physically exhausted, had to train in weapons. Every weapon, yes, from daggers to spears, axes, bows and arrows, must be fully mastered. Appis demanded that they be improvised, no matter what weapon they pick up on the battlefield, whatever situation they encounter. Axes can be used not only for chopping but also for throwing, spears can be used not only for thrusting but also for throwing, and bows and arrows require a perfect combination of range and precision.

In addition, physical training is also one of the compulsory courses in the training of the assault regiment. In addition to the usual physical training of the Roman legionnaires' infantry, Apis required them to march five miles at a trot of five miles in teams of two, carrying entire stakes. To and from the barracks, no matter how cold or wet it is. The number of the first to join the Divine Commando was three hundred, and then, after only a week, half of them were eliminated, and after another week, only fifty were left to hold out, until three weeks later, only these twenty-five remained. Until the final elimination to twenty people.

By the time the army took shape, it was already close to spring, and now Apis had artisans forge armor and equipment for the beastly team.

A tough leather armor that stretched all the way to the thighs, and the calves were almost naked, with no shin guards. This allows the beasts to move more flexibly, quickly and terrifyingly. Abandoned defense in favor of extreme offense.

In addition, each of them is equipped with up to four weapons. Daggers, daggers, battle axes, and bows and arrows. to adapt to a variety of different battlefield environments.

In the end, Apis designed a helmet of a trait for each of them. An iron masked helmet. The net-like iron helmet is like a devil's mask, and before the hand-to-hand engagement, people feel a strong sense of murder and oppression. At the same time, the enemy could not see the faces hidden under the iron mask, as if they were really demons from the dark hell.

Finally, after arranging all this training, Appis admired his masterpiece, and the ace in his hand was like a real special forces. Of course, the last procedure is to carry out a "brutal" brainwashing ritual on them. Religious baptism.

Yes, Apis demanded that each of them must have a pious faith. Accept Mars, the god of war, and Jupiter, the king of the gods, as their sole presiding gods. Apis asked them to make an oath before the holy temple to defend the glory of Rome no matter what circumstances, even if the blood was shed.

In this way, a special battlefield squad with terrorist lethality and deterrence was established under the personal control of Appis. Its name is what Appis had told Klein before - the Hidden Commando. But as for why it was called that, Klein is unknown......

"Apis, it seems that our trip to Rome is coming to an end, Caesar is in trouble in Greece, and he has asked us to set out at once, with the Tenth and Twelfth legions. The security of the city of Rome was temporarily left to the management of the city regiment. ”

As winter drew to a close, Lepida received a letter from across the ocean, and Caesar seemed to have met the strongest opponent of his life, and had to transfer the last two legions placed in Rome to Greece. Appis couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he heard the news. The days of peace are finally over, and after less than half a year in Rome, they are now about to leave for Greece. On the battlefield of ancient Rome, the bloody days will wait for you again. Moreover, according to the history that Appis knew before he traveled, the battlefield of the civil war in Greece was the place where Caesar fought Pompey. There, hundreds of thousands of troops from the entire republic will be gathered, and the entire Greek peninsula will tremble because of this battlefield.

"It seems that the matter of Tertira must be put to an end for the time being."

Appis sighed. Deliberately arranged things always come to fruition, and those things that meet unintentionally often blossom. This is life. Appis lamented that he and Tertila had not been together long in Rome before they were about to separate. It's like the story of myself and Octavia. Only this time, the beginning and process of the story seem to be much better, although it is plain, but there is not much tragic separation and pain.

A few days later, the army, led by Apis and Lepida, arrived at the port of Brentas, the closest port to the Balkan Peninsula in Greece.

Junilah Terrilla came to see her off. It's just that Apis is a lowly hope, and Octavia and Emma will also come to see him off. It wasn't fair, though, and Apis knew he had hurt both of them deeply. He asked Octavia to give up the child. I want Emma to be her servant for the rest of her life. Alas, by the way, and Emma, I don't know where this poor Germanic maiden has gone at the moment. She was a war-torn child, and she was in Rome and had suffered the most from herself. It's just that Appis knows that he really can't protect her at the moment, the door of the Colosseum sand pit is already open, and those who enter can no longer step out, including himself...... (To be continued.) )