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Before the First Samonian War, Rome was undergoing an important metamorphosis from weak to strong, and then from the Salt Peninsula; And for more than forty years, from 390 BC to 343 BC, it has been entangled with the northern barbarian Gauls. The Gauls in the Roman definition were not just the French roosters of later generations, but also the Celts who lived in Belgium, northern Italy, southern Holland, western Switzerland, and western Rhine in Germany.

Decades of war have been burning from the Apennines to Rome itself, as if the gods are angry because of this, the Dinilean Sea has been blowing for half a month, and the port near Chirchey has been almost destroyed, which has caused a major problem in Rome's material reserves, and now the soldiers have not had inferior dairy products to eat for a long time, and if this continues for a long time, their combat effectiveness may be seriously reduced, and it will be difficult to deal with those bloodthirsty barbarians.

Dressed in Roman iron armor as delicate as a work of art, young Gaius Prautius Venox was looking for his legion in the pouring rain, with his waist straight as a javelin.

His legion was stationed in the city of New Wei on the northwest side of the Tiber River, and the coup d'état 40 years ago forced the great dictator Camillus to flee, and the city of Wei, which could have become the strongest barrier in the north of Rome, was thus decadent, and if it were not for Gaius's insistence, the idiots of the Senate would have abandoned the city and fully implemented their 'Great Rome Idea', and now the Romans would have no danger against the barbarians.

But even in his own family, Gaius, who had great ideals, did not receive 100% support, let alone the politicians in the Senate. They preferred to spend their money on their baths and the delicate toenails of their slaves rather than to give Gaius even a single silver coin, and even when they were equipped with troops, they excluded Gaius's legions again and again. After a few months of fierce fighting, Gaius's legion was less than 9,000 men, including even 500 scouts with relatively low combat effectiveness.

Even in the pouring rain, the soldiers of the Gaius Legion were still wiping their short swords and javelins with what little sesame oil was left. Their Roman daggers were scarred, and some of the musketeers had only the last javelin left, but they still cherished these broken weapons as much as they cherished their own lives, and the only fifty catapults left in the city had lost two-thirds of them to the days of fighting, and now only a dozen were still functional. But even so, Gaius still had a relaxed smile on his face, which made his lieutenant admire, this man who aspired to be an archon always had the power to inspire, and would become the strongest support of the Roman soldiers in one brutal battle after another!

"Ahh It's the Legion Commander! ”

"Oh, the great Gaius!"

The Roman soldiers, who were standing or squatting on the city walls, saw Gaius, who was munching on coarse wheat cakes and smiling in the rain, and immediately jumped up excitedly, but Gaius smiled and waved his palms, signaling them to return to their posts immediately, and said loudly to the soldiers: "Cheer up, Roman heroes!" Let me see in the next battle. How many Gauls' butts can you pierce ~ the eye"

The soldiers immediately burst into laughter, and one shouted, "I have pierced the assholes of thirty-seven Gauls." The bodies of those guys are still piled up under the walls! ”

Gaius immediately patted him on the shoulder and said to his lieutenant: "What are you hesitating about, give our hero a glass of wine, this is a reward for his bravery!" The rewarded soldier drank the wine in one gulp, and the other soldiers were blushing, each of them swearing secretly. Be sure to poke more Gauls' ass~eyes.

As he walked down the wall, Gaius lowered his voice and asked his lieutenant, "What information did the scouts get?" ”

"Very bad, Your Excellency, the Senate still did not approve our request, and they said that the Greek city-states in the south were the greatest threat to Rome, and that the Gauls were nothing more than a bunch of unorganized war madmen. So the most elite legions had to stay in the south, and we had the city of New Wei to rely on, and as long as the war dragged into the rainy season, those barbarians would retreat because they were not accustomed to the humid climate of the Tiber, and this story has been played out countless times, and this time will not be an exception. ”

"A bunch of fools, they're going to hurt Rome! It seems that Camillus was not wrong back then, Rome needed not only consuls and senators, but also a strong dictator, even the 'Roman Emperor' in the consul's letter! ”

"Legionnaire, do you want to support the Archon?"

"The consul told me that if he became Roman emperor, Rome would change dramatically, and that in the future he would appoint me to lead more than three legions to open up territory for Rome, do you think I would support him?"

Gaius smiled: "But now even the consuls can't control the guys in the Senate, what we have to do is to hold the new Wei City and wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the east."

"I, like the Legion Commander, am willing to support the Archons, but do you trust those Orientals so much? That's not the way the Romans worked. ”

"Just look at Persia, after being controlled by the Orientals, they get more benefits, not to mention that Rome is too far away from the East, what do we have to be afraid of? You know, I once went to study in Athens, and Mr. Aristotle was my teacher, and now even my teacher is willing to open an academy in Athens with the Orientals, what do I have to doubt? That Huaxia Baizi is not the god king of Xerxes, in fact, if he is not conquering, but partial control, to be precise, joint cooperation, believe me, cooperation with the Orientals, whether it is us, the consuls, or Rome will get benefits"

"Since the corps commander said so, then there must be nothing wrong, I went to prepare for the next battle, the soldiers on the front line need food and weapons, I will equip them with the last weapons in the arsenal, as for food"

"My soldiers must be well fed before reinforcements arrive. In this way, all the male slaves will be kept for the time being, and we will need them to work for the legion, and as for those female slaves, whether they are beautiful or not, whether they have given birth or not, they will all make me broth and cured meat, so that we can solve the problem of food for half a month. All for Rome! Gaius shook his fist.

"All for Rome!"

The lieutenant raised his fist and swung it twice into the rain.

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )

PS: Take my wife and children to my mother-in-law's house tomorrow, do a little activity in the suburbs, stop updating for a day, and I will make it up the day after tomorrow :)