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

In the course of a month and a half fighting the plague, Tiberius' seven legions paid the price of more than two-thirds of the dead; In fact, at least a quarter of them are misunderstood, and perhaps they really just have a normal cough and fever.

But who would dare to leave these coughing and diarrheal people in the barracks with a fever and diarrhea in the midst of the plague? Even if they were sent to the plague barracks, they would never be able to escape death; But for the safety of more people, Tiberius had no choice.

From the mighty seven legions of more than 60,000 troops to the Macedonian kingdom to the panicked retreat without a battle; This is a war between humans and the plague, not between humans and humans.

During the most difficult five days, at least three thousand people were sent to the plague barracks every day, and the soldiers in the barracks were even so mentally weakened that the slightest cough of anyone would cause the eyes of all the others present to look at each other; Within three minutes, however, a special patrol would appear and send the coughing fighter out of the barracks.

It was not a pleasant feeling to watch the former robes go to death, and those who had no choice but to be sent to the plague barracks were even more frightened but helpless; Some of the fighters even tried desperately to explain that they only coughed because of a dry throat, but who would dare to believe their explanations, their struggles were only exchanged for the patrol's swords.

The soldiers in the barracks soon fell into collapse in the face of such cruelty and the horror of the plague; Countless soldiers were eager for the army to evacuate from this place, to leave this place of death near the Kingdom of Macedonia, and to return to the territory of the Brutus family.

Unfortunately, their demands were always ruthlessly rejected by the leader Tiberius; Day after day of waiting, the increasing number of deaths made it difficult for all the soldiers to suppress the panic and fear in their hearts, and there were always fights between soldiers in the barracks, and there was even a bad incident of a centurion being beaten to death.

Even so, Tiberius continued to sit idly by and ignore the chaos in the barracks, and instead of satisfying the demands of the soldiers, he increased the number of patrols in the barracks and suppressed the riots in the barracks in such a high-handed way.

The repression finally provoked a mutiny among the soldiers in the barracks, and more than 30,000 soldiers drew their daggers from their waists and pointed them at their captains, demanding that their commanders must allow them to leave the barracks and return to the Brutus family.

The Legion Commanders were not in a position to make any promises in this matter, nor could they have agreed to such a threat for the sake of their lives; Because they were not ordinary soldiers, they knew the purpose of Tiberius in doing these things, and they understood that the army could not leave the barracks, let alone return to the Brutus family, so the legion commanders explicitly rejected the requests of these mutinous soldiers.

Seeing that the legionnaires would not compromise, the mutinous soldiers escorted the legionnaires to Tiberius's tent; As soldiers of the Brutus family, they will not use force against their own family leader, but they can personally ask the family leader for their life.

In the face of the soldiers who chose such drastic methods, Tiberius was not angry, let alone afraid, he understood the fear in the hearts of these soldiers, and his own heart was not terrified, not to mention these ordinary soldiers in front of him.

Tiberius refused the soldiers' request on the spot, and then he went alone to the angry soldiers, and explained in front of all the soldiers why he had forbidden everyone to enter or leave the barracks; Tiberius did not know the tragic situation of the Thracian barbarians, but the tragedy of the Macedonian kingdom was obvious to everyone.

Every soldier in the barracks has his own family, and his wife, children, and parents live and work peacefully under the rule of the Brutus family; If the army with the plague were to return to the Brutus family, the plague would soon spread to the entire Brutus family, and no one would be spared, and no one would be spared.

Such a terrifying consequence made all the originally emotional soldiers lose their voices; They are indeed afraid of death, and they are extremely afraid of the environment they are in, but considering their wives and children, they can only reluctantly choose to give up this so-called mutiny.

Between themselves and their families, the only choice that these Brutus soldiers could choose was their own family; If they are allowed to sacrifice themselves so meaninglessly for the sake of the Brutus family, then most people are unwilling, and they will do everything they can to save themselves and work hard for their own survival.

However, if they are sacrificed to better protect their families, then they can only suffer all this in silence; A crisis that threatened to destroy the army was thus dispelled by the words of Tiberius.

Perhaps it was the heavens that favored the Brutus family, and after this mutiny, the number of soldiers in the barracks who were sent to the plague barracks every day began to decline dramatically; From the previous nearly 3,000 soldiers sent away every day, it dropped to less than 500 soldiers sent away every day within three days, which is a very good development trend for the soldiers of the Brutus family.

After such a long period of isolation, nearly 40,000 soldiers were sent to the plague barracks, such ruthless measures completely cut off the spread of the plague, so that the soldiers of the Brutus family finally did not break out of the irreparable plague.

After seven days without showing any signs of the plague, Tiberius was finally certain that none of his remaining army of less than 30,000 men could be infected by the plague; At this time, of the nearly 40,000 soldiers who were sent to the plague barracks, less than 4,000 were left alive.

Even if there was no sign of the plague for a long time, Tiberius did not dare to take it lightly, nor did he dare to lead the army back to the Brutus family now; Especially when there were still 4,000 soldiers alive in the plague barracks, Tiberius had to wait until all the soldiers in the plague barracks were dead before he could lead his army out of here.

This is not to say that Tiberius did not give up every soldier of the Brutus family, but the 4,000 soldiers who were still alive with the plague were the biggest plague danger of the Brutus family, and Tiberius had to solve this problem before he could leave with confidence.

After all, the four thousand soldiers were all warriors of the Brutus family, and for any reason, Tiberius could not have killed them before they died; Otherwise, once the news spreads, the Brutus family will never again want to gain the loyalty of those legionnaires.

Allowing the plague camp to be here would be a fatal danger to the safety of the Brutus family, an option that Tiberius could not accept; Therefore, Tiberius had no choice but to let the army remain in the barracks, waiting for the soldiers in the four thousand plague barracks to come to the end of their lives.

After another three days had passed, there was hardly any life left in the plague barracks, and even the occasional survivor was just lying on the ground in pain and dying, and there was no point in staying here any longer.

After setting fire to the plague barracks, which was littered with corpses, Tiberius slowly retreated to the rear with the emaciated soldiers in the barracks; While retreating, Tiberius also had the broken cavalry set fire to the camp where the army had been stationed.

After everything was burned, the Brutus family's hard-fought soldiers finally set out on their way home; It was a war in which everyone was defeated, and everyone lost to this man-made plague.

The once-prosperous kingdom of Macedonia was brought to an end by this plague; More than a million people, including all members of the royal family of the Kingdom of Macedonia, were martyred for this great country, and the Greek era belonging to the Kingdom of Macedonia was vigorously ended.

Nor were the Thracian barbarians, invaders and pestilent-makers, able to survive this plague; They paid the price of this plague with the lives of six or seven hundred thousand people of their own people, and none of the Thracian barbarians who participated in the creation of this plague, including the leader of the Tyres tribe, could escape death.

The three major tribes of the Thracian barbarians, with the exception of the northernmost Catalan tribe, have been completely destroyed; The powerful Thracian barbarians have also become a historical term, and only one Catalan tribe is still carrying the banner of the Thracian barbarians.

The Brutus family, also affected by this plague, is the luckiest of the three forces; It was only at the cost of nearly 40,000 soldiers that the Brutus family finally escaped the ravages of the plague.

Compared with the death price of hundreds of thousands of people and the Macedonian kingdom and Thracian barbarians, who almost became a place of death, the price paid by the Brutus family is already very light; However, such a loss is enough for the Brutus family to not recover its strength in the short term, after all, the 40,000 soldiers lost are relatively elite legion soldiers of the Brutus family.

In any case, the haze brought by this plague has finally passed, and all those who have been shrouded in the haze of the plague can breathe a sigh of relief; As for the Macedonian and Paionian provinces of the Macedonian kingdom, as well as the Thracian and Propontic regions of the Thracian barbarians, all four places will be forbidden areas for humanity for a few years, and will become a truly inaccessible place of death! (To be continued.) )