Chapter Twenty-Six: News from Pompeii
"BOSS, the last few seriously injured are out of danger! I ......," Dinah said, pale, and as she spoke, her body shook and she fell to the ground.
"Dinah, cheer up!" Xu Mo was startled, reached out to hug Dinah, and gently lowered her to the ground. The recovery items carried by the reincarnators are not effective against the characters, and only Dinah's "Ice Nectar" can slightly increase the strength of those badly injured gladiators, allowing them to survive the dangerous period as much as possible.
Although Xu Mo and the others had a lot of medicines that could replenish their energy, their frequent use of skills still had a huge negative impact on Dinah.
After the bloody battle yesterday evening, Xu Mo and the others did not stay where they were, but continued to advance towards the northwest of Pompeii. After running for most of the night, at dawn the rebels stopped their march in a small valley a few miles from Vesuvius.
This small valley is surrounded by small hills, and with flat grass growing in the valley, there is no gravel, but it is an ideal camp. The gladiators had revolted at Bardax Manor the night before, and had experienced a bloody battle yesterday evening, in which most of them were more or less wounded, and after running for most of the night, they had almost reached the limit of their human bodies.
At the same time that Xu Mo ordered to rest, they all lay down on the ground and immediately fell asleep, only the extremely powerful gladiators such as Kabal, Lagerseus, and Omus, as well as Xu Mo and a few other reincarnators, could barely support it.
In desperation, Xu Mo had no choice but to divide the few people who could still support him into three shifts to take turns to guard, and in the evening of the next day, after most of the day's rest, the gladiators finally woke up from their sleep. The gladiators who woke up were each given a portion of hot food and boiling water, which was burned for them by their companions, who had recovered the fastest in strength, with the food stored in the wagon.
Xu Mo walked up a small hill in the southeast of the valley and looked to the southeast, which was the direction of Pompeii. There was a Spartan warrior on the hill who was on guard, and when he saw Xu Mo coming, he clenched his right hand and knocked his chest with a fist, giving Xu Mo a Spartan military salute.
"Is it enough?" After Xu Mo smiled in return, he pointed to the food on the ground that was filled with a wooden plate and only half of the food he had eaten.
"Enough, Leader Arres!" The Spartan warrior blushed and said a little shyly.
Seeing that Xu Mo had been looking at the southeast, the Spartan warrior tilted his head and asked in a low voice, "Leader of Arres, can we go back to Sparta?" ”
"What's your name and how old are you?" Xu Mo turned his head and looked at the young Spartan warrior with a smile.
"Ogthius, nineteen!" Ogthyus touched his head and replied embarrassedly, "I was captured by the Romans last year, when King Leonidas attacked Macedonia!" ”
"Oh, Ogthyus, you should be the youngest warrior in the Spartan Regiment!" Xu Mo patted him on the shoulder and said nonchalantly, "I'll take everyone back to Sparta, I promise you!" ”
"Of course, Leader Arres!" The young man excitedly said, "I will return to Sparta with the spoils of the Romans!" ”
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"Boss, there's news from Jeanne and Serna......" From Xu Mo's soul imprint, Maz's voice came from it.
After yesterday's bloody battle, Xu Mo left Jeanne and Serna where they were, and let them enter Pompeii to inquire about the captured gladiators, and by the way, replenish some food with the dinars looted in Bardacus Manor.
The reason why Xu Mo let the two female reincarnators be spies was also out of helplessness, many of the gladiators did not have enough social knowledge, and it was easy for the male ** to enter Pompeii at this time. The other female handymen didn't have the courage to be spies, and only Jeanne and Serna were up to it, while Dinah had to heal the wounded gladiators with the "Ice Nectar".
In addition, there is also the most critical reason that there is a guess in Xu Mo's heart, and it is precisely because of this guess that he can only use the reincarnation as a spy, so that the information obtained can be selectively blocked.
The news sent back by Jeanne and Serna made Xu Mo's speculation come true......
All the gladiator slaves that Bardax ordered the mercenaries to capture will be crucified tomorrow evening, along with those gladiators who had remained at Bardax Manor and did not follow the rebels.
Originally, there were more than 300 official gladiators in the Bardax Manor, and about 200 rookie gladiators were being trained. On the night of the uprising, more than 400 gladiators followed the rebels. Only more than 100 rookie gladiators remained in the manor in hesitation because their trust in the rebel army was not enough, and they did not know the news of the uprising in advance.
That is, the total number of gladiators will reach more than one hundred and forty who were crucified by the authorities in Pompeii. The gladiators' hands and feet were to be nailed to wooden crosses, which were then erected on both sides of the roads outside Pompeii to serve as a warning to all Pompeii and the slaves passing through Pompeii.
These gladiators will not die immediately, they will be exposed to the wind and sun in a state of continuous blood loss, like soy sauce duck and bacon, the body fluids and oil will be gradually excreted from the body, and eventually become a dried corpse. Before that, they were subjected to vultures and scavenging insects, a cruel punishment.
"BOSS, why did Bardax do this, didn't he capture the gladiators precisely to reorganize the Bardax gladiator school?" Max said in shock and anger. Although he would not recognize the plot characters as companions like Xu Mo and Dinah, he also felt strong indignation and hatred when he learned that these gladiators who had been with each other for a while were going through this kind of torture.
"For Bardacus, the slave gladiator was nothing more than a possession, a talking money-making tool. If the meat of the gladiator was fed to the vulture, and the vultures could lay golden eggs for Bardacus, then Bardax would not hesitate to tear his slave gladiator to pieces and feed it to the murderous vulture. Xu Mo said coldly.
"BOSS, are you talking about this vulture, is it ......" Max's eyes froze, and a figure appeared in his mind.
"It's Governor Lucius!" Xu Mo closed his eyes gently, "Max, do you know that I once met an English nobleman in the nautical world. The nobleman told me that there was no real unresolvable disagreement between the nobles and the nobles, and that the key was peace and compromise between the two sides. ”
"Even if the more than forty slave gladiators were captured, plus more than a hundred rookie gladiators, Bardax would not be able to regroup the Bardax Gladiator School. He lost his rich teaching experience, lost the Spartan regiment, the first team battle in Pompeii, and failed to catch either of the two champion gladiators, especially in Lagerseus, which was able to attract a large number of noble ladies in Pompeii, and the Bardacus Manor was also burned. ”
Xu Mo shrugged his shoulders and continued, "Actually, the Bardax family is still alive except for Bardax himself, and has been destroyed by us. In this case, if Governor Lucius is willing to give Bardax a large amount of money, do you think Bardax is willing to hand over the remaining hundred or so slave gladiators to Governor Lucius? ”
"If Bardax had cooperated, the 'slave defection' could have been described as a 'slave uprising'. Doge Lucius wanted to use the corpses of these gladiators to cover up the defeat of the Roman army, whitewash it as a victory, and report it to the Senate as a political achievement! Max sank his face, and as soon as Xu Mo explained, he also understood, "BOSS, what are we going to do, if we don't hurry up, as soon as tomorrow evening passes, our rescue mission will fail!" ”
"Our words ......" Xu Mo raised his head and looked in the direction of Pompeii, an inexplicable light appeared in his eyes.
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