Good goods do not worry about no market.

- Plautus (the most important comedy writer of ancient Rome)

The battle on the northern wall ended less than ten minutes after Rex had left with his army, and the first battalions of the two legions had not encountered fierce resistance from the defenders after ascending the wall; The Greek legions, who had never experienced a war, surrendered after a little resistance, and the army of Gnaeus successfully took the northern wall of Tulbo.

After leaving the two First Brigades to control the northern wall, Ganeus himself led the remaining eleven brigades of the First Legion into the city; As for the soldiers of the Ninth Legion, Gnieus simply ordered Bruce to lead them on guard outside the city. Upon entering the city, Gnaeus's vanguard immediately discovered Rex's army and the barracks he was blocking, and reported the situation to Gnaeus.

Gnaeus did not hesitate, and directly led his First Legion to the location of Rex; Rex didn't know what was going on with the more than 10,000 troops in the barracks, he admitted that he just happened to meet them, and then subconsciously blocked the barracks gate. When Gnaeus heard this, he also ordered his First Army to surround the barracks from all sides of the barracks and wait for the battle to end.

The attack on the southern wall ended when the two thousand men sent by Rex and Nero's elite annihilated the defenders on the wall; Nero also left his army to attack the walls to continue to control the walls, and he himself entered the city with two thousand soldiers sent by Rex and his second legion, and came to the place where Rex was.

It wasn't until Nero's Second Legion arrived at the camp that the Brutus army really had a numerical advantage over the men in the camp; The almost complete strength of the two legions, plus Rex's 4,000 men, Ganeus and Nero commanded the sixteen,000 or so forces to surround the camp.

Unlike the smooth progress of the north and south, the offensive on the west has not been very smooth today; First, Tiberius's massive ballista force was devastated by the Cretan archers on the city walls, and then Tiberius's elite assault troops fought against the wall, but they were met with stubborn resistance from the 1,000-wounded defenders.

Pylos had considerable prestige both in the minds of the Cretan archers and in the minds of the Greek legionaries who were willing to follow him; This prestige was not even inferior to that of his older brother Pyrrhus, and the soldiers were willing to obey Pylos's orders regardless of life or death.

Therefore, under the personal command of Pylos, the defenders on the western wall were still resisting; They formed small battle formations and engaged in fierce battles with the soldiers of the Brutus family who had climbed the city walls. The archers, who could no longer use their bows and arrows, also picked up their swords and spears on the ground and joined the fight against the Brutus army.

The spirit of bravery and fearlessness can always play a vital role in fierce battles, but in the face of absolute strength, such bravery and fearlessness still seem a little weak and powerless in the end; As Tiberius's three brigades of assault troops gained a foothold on the walls, more and more Roman hoplites began to climb the walls and join in the annihilation of the remnants.

With less than three hundred defenders on the walls, Pylos, dressed in fine armor, stood out from the crowd; The hoplites of the Brutus family also subconsciously attacked Pylos's side, trying to catch this guy who was obviously not a small player. However, the soldiers around Pylos were still relatively protective of him; These soldiers resisted the enemy's attack to the death.

At last, Tiberius could no longer contain the impatience in his heart; He directly ordered his 1,000 archers to enter the city from the already opened city, and then ascend the city wall from the city to launch a devastating attack on the defenders on the wall! The archers strictly carried out Tiberius' orders, and they soon reached the city walls and began to prepare for the attack with their bows and arrows.

When the defenders saw the retreating hoplites, they were just about to breathe a sigh of relief but were horrified to find the archers densely packed behind the enemy hoplites; Before they could react, a rain of arrows from a thousand archers had already arrived. The squeezed defenders suffered heavy casualties under the rain of arrows, and there was almost no one left to stand up.

The scene around Pylos is even more tragic, those defenders who want to protect Pyrrhus don't care about their own lives or deaths, they push Pyros down under them, and then use their bodies to stack up to block Pylos's arrows! Brave and fearless warriors always gain the respect of the enemy, and the archers did not continue to attack after this round of attacks, and the hoplites stepped forward again.

The defenders, who were powerless to resist, really couldn't do it this time, and after they barely stood up, they also fell unwillingly under the enemy's short sword; Pylos, on the other hand, was lucky to faint at this time, suffocating by the defenders who pressed on him. By the time the unconscious Pyrrhus was brought to Tiberius, the battle on the walls was over; The defenders were all killed, and none of them were spared.

Tiberius did not have the heart to take care of Pylos, who had already been captured, after sending him into the tent and putting him in his care; Tiberius ordered his Third and Fourth Legions to escort him into the city. As a military town, Turbo did not have many inhabitants in the city, and the location of the military camp was relatively conspicuous; Naturally, Tiberius also noticed something unusual.

Tiberius himself led the Third and Fourth Legions to the barracks; Of course, Gnaeus and Nero hastened to report to Tiberius about the situation of the enemy forces in the barracks. At the same time as the report, Gnaeus did not forget to praise Rex; And bluntly attributed Rex to the credit for blocking the enemy forces in this barracks.

When Tiberius learned that Rex had been the captain of the Third Eagle Banner, he clearly looked up to him; After all, the former Third Eagle Banner Legion was the most powerful legion of the Brutus family, and it was also the most glorious legion. However, this is not the time to talk about that; Everyone's attention was still on the barracks in front of them.

This military camp is not huge, but it can accommodate twenty or thirty thousand people; Looking at the army that is not dense inside, everyone can almost estimate that the army inside is about 12,000 or 3,000. The crux of the matter is that this army of more than 10,000 people is clearly the army under the command of Pylos, why didn't they fight before? If they had joined the war, the Brutus family would not have succeeded so easily.

Moreover, they could not be the ambush army of Pylos; Because after losing three walls, it no longer makes sense for Pylos to set up such an ambush in the city. In short, several speculations by Tiberius and others could not deduce a worthy result; The only way to do this was to launch a tentative assault on the defenders in the barracks.

Since it was a tentative attack, it was naturally impossible for the hoplites to force an attack on the barracks, and the best way was to use archers to attack; Therefore, Tiberius ordered all 10,000 archers of the three-sided army to gather near this military camp, and formed a huge phalanx of archers in front of the military camp, ready to attack the defenders in the military camp!

While the archers were preparing for the first salvo, the gates of the barracks were slammed open; Just when Tiberius and the others looked at each other and didn't know what was going on, the defenders in the barracks sent an envoy to Tiberius to surrender. Before the fight is about to surrender, what is the situation of the more than 10,000 defenders?

Of course, the members of the Brutus family could not easily believe the surrender of this army of more than 10,000 people, and the envoy seemed to expect Tiberius and the others to be incredulous; Therefore, the envoy told Tiberius and others all the reasons why his thirteen-thousand-strong army sat in the barracks and did not participate in the war, and even the previous border turmoil was not omitted.

After listening to the messenger's account, Tiberius and the others were completely confused; It turns out that there is still this kind of turmoil in the Kingdom of Epirus recently, no wonder the army of the Brutus family has not encountered decent resistance, Pyrus led the army to the Semon border, and Pylos can't command the Greek legions, where are there other armies in the Kingdom of Epirus!

Tiberius and others certainly welcomed the fact that the 13,000 soldiers of the Greek legion wanted to surrender to the Brutus family; However, there was a great difference between the two sides in terms of the terms of surrender. There were also not many conditions for the surrender of the defenders, only one; That is, the Brutus family had to release the Greek legions after the war, and the thirteen thousand returned home.

How could Tiberius allow this well-trained army of thirteen thousand to escape from his own hands, a condition that Tiberius refused without thinking; However, in order for the thirteen,000 defenders to surrender, Tiberius also made his own conditions, that is, after the defenders surrendered, they must serve for the Brutus family for five years, and after five years, the Brutus family will release these people to return home.

Tiberius haggled fiercely with the messenger on this condition, and in the end both sides retreated; The defenders agreed to serve the Brutus family for five years, but would never participate in any conflict between the Brutus family and the city-states of Themon and Athens. Tiberius agreed to this condition, but also offered the defenders the same treatment as the Brutus legion.

Thus ended the negotiations between the two sides in good faith, after the envoy returned to his barracks; Only five minutes had passed, and the barracks doors had once again opened with a bang. This time, it was no longer a messenger who appeared before Tiberius and the others; It's an army of thirteen thousand, neatly lined up and having laid down their arms! (To be continued.) )