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- Aristotle (one of the great philosophers, scientists, and educators in the ancient history of the world)

The news of a massive plague in the Kingdom of Macedonia soon became known to everyone throughout the Greek Peninsula, which also caused an extreme panic throughout the Greek Peninsula; The existence of plague is too terrifying for human beings.

No one knew whether the plague in the Macedonian kingdom would spread to the rest of the Greek peninsula, and the unpredictable future made everyone panic, and even the city-states of Athens and Sparta, which were engaged in a military confrontation, immediately ended the military confrontation and began to negotiate peace after receiving the news of the plague.

The Corinthian dispute, which could have sparked a military conflict between the two city-states, became an irrelevant matter for the Athenian and Spartan city-states under the ravages of the plague; The city-state of Athens recognized that the land south of Corinth belonged to the city-state of Sparta, and the city-state of Sparta did not care about the belonging of Corinth, but directly led the army back to Sparta.

After the peace was concluded with lightning speed, the city-states of Athens and Sparta immediately made it their greatest concern how to prevent the spread of the plague; The doctors of the Greek peninsula also became the focus of all forces at this time.

If the city-states of Athens and Sparta, far from the source of the plague, were prepared for a rainy day, then the Brutus family, which was closely connected to the source of the plague, was really a great enemy; Olus obeyed his father's words, temporarily assumed the position of head of the family with the unanimous support of all the family members, and began to prevent the plague in the territory of the Brutus family.

In the four provinces under the rule of the Brutus family, all the doctors and their related professions were found by the Brutus family, and then asked to find a way to solve the plague problem; Even those infected by the plague cannot be treated, but they must find ways to effectively prevent the spread of the plague.

In addition to actively preventing the spread of the plague in the territory of the Brutus family, Aulus also asked Rex, who commanded the four leading legions, to personally lead the soldiers of the two leading legions to completely block the road ten miles away from the camp of Tiberius's army, and no one was allowed to come within ten miles of Tiberius's barracks, otherwise he would be killed!

Aulus knew that such an order would not only stop the spread of the plague, but also ruin the hope of survival of Tiberius' army; However, there is no way to do it, and those infected with the plague must not be allowed to return to the Brutus family.

The reason why Tiberius wrote such a letter to Aulus was to get Aulus to make such an arrangement; On the one hand, Tiberius feared that unknown people would approach the barracks and spread the plague in the barracks, and on the other hand, Tiberius also feared that sooner or later, the soldiers in the barracks would completely collapse under the pressure of the plague.

If that day really comes, Tiberius can't guarantee that he can control the situation in the barracks, nor that these crazy soldiers will not run away to the Brutus family without any scruples; Therefore, Tiberius had no choice but to have his son send the army of the Brutus family to cordon off the barracks ten miles away, forbidding anyone to enter or leave.

While the Brutus family, the city-states of Athens, and the city-states of Sparta on the Greek peninsula were actively preventing the spread of the plague, the capital provinces of the Macedonian Kingdom and the provinces of Paionia had been emptied by the plague; The population of Macedonia, the most prosperous province of the Macedonian kingdom in the past, has rapidly decreased from more than 800,000 to less than 100,000.

And Paionia, the origin of this plague, has killed and wounded more than 300,000 people in its entire province; All the cities and towns were devastated by the plague, and only a few villages living in remote areas were spared.

However, the plague is far from over, and those who have died of the plague have no one to dispose of their corpses, so the corpses are scattered all over the field and exposed to the air and become a new source of infection; With a total population of more than 1.2 million people, the two provinces of the Macedonian kingdom were able to survive 100,000 people after the plague was over.

The Thracian barbarians, who had created the plague with their own hands and were ruthless in spreading it, did not escape the plague in the end; The leader of the Tyris tribe thought that leaving behind the more than a thousand warriors infected with the plague would keep the plague away from them, and he was thinking too simply.

In fact, the spread of the plague began among the warriors of the Thracian barbarians as soon as the army of the Terris tribe entered the plague-ravaged city of Belasola; It's just that the strong physique of the Thracian barbarian warriors successfully delayed the speed of the outbreak of the plague, but it was only a delay, and it would break out sooner or later.

When the warriors of the Thracian barbarians withdrew to the Thracian region, the plague broke out among them irrepressibly; In just one day, at least three thousand Thracian warriors were suffering from fever and diarrhea and other plague symptoms, and even the leader of the Teris tribe himself was one of these three thousand!

The sudden large-scale plague directly destroyed the elite army of the Tyris tribe; After seeing the terrible state of the plague in the Paionian region, they really did not expect such a terrible plague to appear on them, and every brave Thracian barbarian warrior fell into a great panic of the plague.

There were three regions ruled by the Thracian barbarians, namely the Thracian region of the Tyris tribe, the Catalan region of the Catalan tribe, and the Proptonis region of the Byzantine tribe; Of the three regions, with the exception of Catalan, the northernmost region, which still maintains the tribal lifestyle typical of the Thracian barbarians, the other two regions have developed a fairly high level of civilization.

During Alexander the Great's rule over the Thracian barbarians, the prosperity of Greek civilization also deeply affected the Thracian barbarians; In particular, the Thrace and Propontes regions, which were close to the core of Alexander's empire, saw the emergence of a large number of settlements and towns, replacing the scattered tribes.

Such a change was extremely beneficial to the Thracian barbarians; The more civilized regions of Thrace and Propontes supported the entire Thracian barbarians, whose strong nature in turn gave the Thracians an aggressive and warlike warriors.

The Thracian barbarians, who were organically combined by civilized society and barbarian system, were destined to have extraordinary strength and status in the future world; Compared with those pure barbarians, the advanced civilization of the Thracian barbarians can give the Thracian barbarians an unprecedented advantage, and compared to those pure civilization forces, the barbarism in the blood of the Thracian barbarians can make them invincible.

These were originally the root of the Thracian barbarians' strength, but at this time, they became the fatal shortcomings of the entire Thracian barbarians who were almost wiped out; The Thracian barbarian warriors infected with the plague, knowing that they would not escape the judgment of death, began to desperately want to return to their homeland and meet their families for the last time!

The Thracian region of today is not the Thracian region of the past, there are no tribes scattered here, nor is there the isolation of the past, but the urban settlements similar to the civilized world; What is even more terrifying is that these warriors of the Tyris tribe did not come from one place at all, but the warriors recruited by the Tyres tribe throughout Thrace.

In addition, these Thracian barbarian warriors did not know the terrible spread of the plague, so they returned to their homeland with the terrible plague on their bodies; Because of the ignorance of these Thracian barbarian warriors, a terrible plague storm blew in the land of the Thracian barbarians.

All the towns and cities of the whole Thracian region were infected with a large-scale plague within half a month of the return of the army of the Teris tribe to the Thracian region; The region of Propontis, which often traded with the towns of Thrace, was also rapidly infected through caravans that were closely associated with each other.

Thankfully, since the Thracian and Propontes regions became more and more civilized, they were no longer closely connected to the still tribal Catalan region; This was also the key to the survival of the Thracian barbarians in Catalan.

Thrace, with a population of more than 300,000, and Propontis, with a population of more than 400,000, fell into the ravages of the plague, which was further promoted by the large-scale death of people and the helplessness of the Thracian barbarians; A month later, the two Thracian barbarian regions were no longer indistinguishable from the two dead provinces of the Macedonian kingdom.

It's just that the strong physical fitness of the barbarians is still useful; At the very least, nearly 200,000 Thracian barbarians, with a total population of less than 800,000, survived the plague, while less than 100,000 of the two provinces of the Macedonian kingdom, with a population of more than 1.2 million, survived.

This plague havoc was thought to have been created, and two provinces of the Macedonian kingdom and two regions of the Thracian barbarians were devastated; More than 1.7 million people have died, making these four plague-ridden areas inaccessible places of death.

What's even more terrifying is that even those who survive by luck have become extremely difficult to survive in towns that have completely lost their ability to function; In addition, there are countless naked corpses in and around the town, and the plague on those corpses is still affecting the survival of those survivors, and it is unclear whether they can really survive forever.

Compared to the tragic situation of the Macedonian kingdom and the Thracian barbarians, the Brutus family suffered relatively well, at least this terrible plague did not spread in the area ruled by the Brutus family; Even if the army under Tiberius paid a heavy price, as long as the foundation of the Brutus family's rear rule was not lost, no amount of army could be re-formed! (To be continued.) )