People who treat others as fools will eventually find that they are actually the stupidest ones.

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Pelius agreed with a dark face, and although Cao Xin's request was humiliating enough, the Romans were steadfast in their confidence in victory.

After some disputes, Daqin and Rome each sent five warriors to compete in the gladiatorial battle, according to Pelius's idea, the most effective result was to draw a fixed area in front of the two armies of the Golden Horn, and then the soldiers on both sides tore in it, and they were bystanders as witnesses, which side of the Zuihou stood on behalf of this side to win the victory of Zuihou.

Cao Xin unceremoniously rejected this plan, and he proposed another idea: in the center of the Bosburse Strait, there is an uninhabited island called Krar Island, and the two teams of Daqin and Rome will compete with each other to land on this island in small boats, and then both sides will rely on their own abilities to see who can live longer, can kill their opponents first, and win the victory of Zuihou.

Although the radius of Clair Island is only more than ten miles, the terrain on the island is not flat, not only the mangrove forests growing along the beach, but also the uneven reef groups, and the Qin army can play a more team role in such complex terrain conditions.

These days, a lot of information about Rome, a Western power, has been continuously gathered to the Qin generals on the front line with the efforts of those capable and secretly under Menghu, compared with the Qin State that has entered the feudal system, the slave imprint of the Romans is still quite deep, like most of the nobles in the Senate, and their favorite entertainment is to go to the Colosseum to watch a brutal killing of slave gladiators.

Arena.

It's the kind of circular viewing platform with stands on all sides and a field in the middle, and the gladiators will tear each other apart when they enter the field. Until everyone but themselves falls, and the victors of Zuihou will receive their most precious thing - freedom.

For the slaves of Rome, freedom was the most precious, so they would give it their all and would not hesitate to live or die.

Competing with experienced Roman gladiators in a fixed venue, it was obviously the Qin army that suffered a loss, and although Cao Xin was fierce and flying, he was also thick and fine.

Regarding Cao Xin's request to try a game on Kraal Island, Pelius thought about it, and nodded and agreed without finding any problems. Looking from the Golden Horn towards Klar Island, in the weather is still haode, you can vaguely see every move on the island, in front of everyone, Pelius does not think that the Qin people will have any ambush, and he is also very confident in the five tall Gallic warriors selected under his command.

Two small boats left the coast.

One on the left and one on the right, carrying soldiers belonging to different camps.

Jinyang Hongtong Renzhi is one of the five Qin army warriors who have been selected, Hongtong this place. In the future, it will be famous because of a big locust tree, but in the era of Zhidu's existence, Hongtong was just an inconspicuous small village near the Fen River.

Join the Qin Army's Western Expedition. For Zhidu, it was an opportunity to change his fate, and he didn't want to be like the descendants of the Jin Kingdom for generations, facing the loess with his back to the sky. lived in that small place in Hongtong all his life. In order to be able to get ahead, Zhi Du studied under the ranger Xu Cheng and learned the art of fencing. He studied under the great Confucian Zheng Xuan, studied the works of the hundred schools of thought, and when he was twenty years old, Zhidu saw the edict of Daqin to recruit warriors for the western expedition on the notice at the gate of Xingyang City.

"The fame of the big husband should be taken immediately!" In the announcement, the passionate words of agitation hit Zhidu's heart at once.

In Daqin, the country is peaceful and peaceful.

The positions of officials also have their own division of labor, and young children, especially those with no background, must bow their heads if they want to get ahead, and this is almost impossible for a proud person like Ruzhidu.

Among the five.

Compared to a tall and imposing Roman, the Qin army team is not tall and physically strong, except for the flash of light in their eyes from time to time, they can hardly find a reason why they can defeat their opponents.

Pelius triumphant.

What about Cao Xin's proposal to change the location of the competition, in terms of strength, the Romans were much stronger than the Qin, and the physique of the yellow race in the East could not be compared with the white race in the West at all.

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As soon as Zhidu and the others landed on the island, they went straight to the mangrove forest that grew along the island, which was the only place on Clark Island where food could be provided.

Shrimp, crabs and many unknown small fish living in the mangrove forest, they hide from natural predators here, absorb the nutrients of the branches and leaves dropped by mangrove plants, and for the soldiers of the Qin army, there is not only food, but also many hidden places that people cannot find.

Since Li Yuan established the army in Xingyang and began training under special terrain, the infantry of the Qin State has never stopped training in this special terrain environment. On the contrary, when the Romans went to the mangrove forest, their advantage in height and arm length would become a disadvantage, while the small and flexible Qin people were able to give full play to their strengths.

In the midday sun.

The Romans approached the other end of the island, and their five tall bodies pressed towards the other end like five hills.

"The yellow-skinned monkey dares to come to the place of the Great Rome, I really don't want to live?"

"Brothers, wait a while, one by one, we will tear the Qin people apart and feed the fish, do you hear?" At the head, one of the strongest and tallest Roman warriors shouted.

The confident Romans stepped into the mangroves, waist-deep water submerging their waists, and waves swayed in their faces.

The Gaul region is different from the Apennine Peninsula, hills and mountains constitute the main body of the Gaul area, although the group of soldiers under Pelius will not be afraid of the sea, but really into the sea, or let their hearts tremble, this is not in the arena, feet on the flat ground, how to exert force, and what makes the Romans more bitter is that the Qin people hide in the mangroves, although they can see their shadows from time to time, but it is not easy to chase and kill.

Among the five people, two crossbowmen are responsible for long-range early warning, two soldiers with excellent melee ability are responsible for resisting emergencies, and Zhidu himself is in the center to respond to the dispatch, the Qin army is not as good as the Romans due to congenital factors when fighting one-on-one, but relying on the collective liliang, it may not be impossible to compete with the enemy.

"Yellow monkey, if you have the ability, don't run?" In the continuous run of hide and seek, the patience of the Roman soldiers was running out little by little.

From noon to now almost sunset, the Roman search team and the Qin soldiers ran back and forth in the mangrove forest several times, but each time the results were unsatisfactory, the Qin people often got entangled in one soldier, and immediately pounced on several from different directions, which made the Romans miserable.

In order to expand the search area, the Roman five-person team had to distance themselves from each other, which made them repeatedly beaten by the Qin people and fell into a disadvantageous situation.

When there was only a little afterglow left at the end of the day, the battle did not yet show any signs of being over, and both the Romans and the Qin still had the strength to wage a night battle, even though there were already wounded soldiers among them, and although they had barely eaten anything for the whole day except for a little salty sea water on their lips.

Across the Golden Horn.

Pelius and Cao Xin, who were waiting, set up their tents, and the soldiers on both sides lit torches and continued to confront each other in the flickering firelight.

In the rear of their respective ranks, the soldiers in charge of baggage support were already preparing meals, and the Qin army was a kind of membrane cake baked by wheat and rice mills, similar to the Shandong flatbread of later generations, which was durable and hungry, and it was very convenient when marching and fighting, and the Romans were not too much, as soon as the big guy like pizza came up, it was gobbled up by the soldiers and snatched up.

However, the competition team on Kraal Island was not so lucky, they had to rely on their own ability to survive this time, and when the night was all dark, Kraal Island was also plunged into darkness, and from the Golden Horn, there was no other way to see except the whirring of the wind.

This night.

It was a long night for Zhidu and the others, they ate shellfish, crabs, and edible marine plants in the sea, relying on these things to maintain the body's muscle energy, and the cruel training in Anatolia in the past month and a half allowed the Qin soldiers to exercise their skills to survive in harsh conditions.

Compared with the prepared Qin people, the Romans were much more embarrassed, as soon as they came to the island, they hoped to have a quick battle with the Qin people, under this dominant idea, they spared no effort to cross the entire island, and a large range of search for the Qin people hiding in the mangroves and reefs, and by the twilight, their physical strength had been exhausted.

When the stomach rumbled, the Romans came to their senses, they had nothing to eat? If they ask for help from Pelius and the others on the other side, this contest will be lost.

In desperation, the Romans had to find food on their own, but before that, they had barely received this unusual special operations training, and the Romans really did not dare to swallow raw shellfish and crabs with tentacles.

When it finally dawned, the Romans retreated listlessly to the beach where they belonged, and the cold of the night forced them to lean on each other, while the two soldiers who were more seriously wounded were already dying from excessive bleeding and lack of food.

Facing the rising sun, Zhidu led three soldiers who could move out of the mangrove forest, they raised their heads with their chests up, their expressions solemn, they were fearless, and approached step by step towards the place where the Romans were. (To be continued......)