At the same time, the crossbows of the various legions of Dionia were pushed to the southwest corner of Rome, and lined up two hundred meters away from the city, firing stone bullets at the wall that protruded outward like a dog's ear.

Dozens of stone bombs bombarded the city wall at the same time, making the sound scary, causing a burst of exclamation from the defenders on the city.

Round after round of stone bombings caused the broken wall tiles and stone tiles to fall downwards, which also made the defenders on the city feel uneasy.

Not only the crossbows, but also the belly bows attacked the city of Rome. The huge iron arrows shot by the bows that had magnified countless times were not aimed at the city wall, but fell into the slums behind the city wall, causing panic among the Roman people.

But soon the people in the slums found that these iron arrows stuck to the ground and inserted into the houses were tied with several sheets of shaved paper rolls. The brave people walked forward curiously and unbuttoned the shaved paper rolls.

The chief of the city guard, Da Sipio, had a piece sent by a soldier. He spread it carefully and watched it. The paper was full of words in Latin: Roman compatriots, my name is Valquez, who was once a Roman citizen, and lived on the mountain of Lavender since childhood. Eight years ago, a scoundrel drove away the flock of sheep, bit the wheat seedlings in the field I rented, and provoked with words, which made me angry and injured it. As a result, the court ruled a large fine. I was unable to pay it. In the end, under the pressure of the other party, I had to buy it as a slave to pay off the high debt. Later I realized that this person was a diner of Cabrus Claudius and Sabinus, so I lost this lawsuit that I should not have lost and became a slave!

All the compatriots who live in Rome and have no land like me, and all the compatriots who own small parts of land but come from civilians, are you living uneasy every day like me, and are very worried that those nobles who own a lot of land and many slaves will seek to seize their insignificant parts and turn themselves into their slaves, just because they are rich enough, they want to get more! We have fought against the greed of the nobles many times and wanted to gain a little protection of themselves, so we abandoned the city many times, wanting to make the greedy nobles realize the importance of our civilians! But to this day, these greedy Roman nobles still control all the power of this city-state, and we are the cattle and sheep they raise, and they may be slaughtered by them at any time! Fellow countrymen, are you willing?!

Fortunately, Diana is here now! Although Dionys is a country with kings, its citizens have great power. They own their own land and the law protects it from being plundered. No matter what birth or race they are, they can hold public office as long as they have the ability, and they can even become veterans. Even ordinary citizens can report officials who violate the law and discipline and let them be punished by the law...

The King of Dionys promised me that Rome would become a beautiful place like Dionys! Fellows, if you do not want to become slaves, then join the army of Dionys to overthrow the rule of these greedy and ugly Roman nobles!”

After reading it, a chill rose in Sepia's heart and his hands and feet became cold. He ordered urgently: "Hurry! Send someone to confiscate all the papyrus, and no one is allowed to hold it!"

When the city guards sent by Great Scipio arrived at the slums, they saw some civilians gathering in piles along the streets, surrounding a few literate civilians, listening to them read the scroll of paper taken from the iron arrows and whispering to each other.

"I know this Valks. He used to live in front of my house. He was a very good person. When he became a slave, he also distributed some of his family's things to everyone...ah..."

"The people of this Claudius family are really bad! They have always been very strict with us civilians! Last month, it was this Cabrus Claudius Sabinus who just became the squadron leader, but he injured my neighbor because of a small matter. He is still unable to go to the ground!"

"It's not just the Claudius family, but any of these big families in Rome is not bad! As I said, the Dionians are coming, it's better to kill them all!"

"Do you say what is said in this letter is true? It's really that good to be a citizen of Dionia?"

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Just as the civilians were talking about what was said about these scrolls, the city guards ordered by the executive officer rushed in and forced the collection of these scrolls, which naturally triggered a conflict.

Fortunately, the veterans led by Ambustus, who received the news, arrived in time to appease the angered civilians on the spot, and criticized the city guards who almost caused the incident.

At the same time, Ambustus held the scroll of paper and shouted loudly: "Citizens, this is the conspiracy of the Dionians. They want to use this to disagree with us so that we cannot work together to defend the city! More than ten years ago, we had a conflict because of internal quarrels and discord. Some people abandoned Rome and left to love, which aroused Jubit's anger and made the Gauls give us the most painful punishment!

After rebuilding Rome, we have made a vow on Mount Capitolin and never make mistakes again! Therefore, don’t be confused by the enemy’s sweet words, and you must not let the tragedy of Rome’s destruction happen again!…”

Ambustus's words quickly extinguished the anger of the Roman people who were gathering.

But at this time, someone shouted: "Yes, the civilians who fled to defend themselves finally moved back to Rome, but did the promise made by the Senate that year fulfilled?! We still owe high debts, we cannot rent public land, and we cannot hold important positions in the city-state. We hope that one of the two consuls elected every year must have the request of one civilian, and the Senate ignored it at all!"

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"This is the Rome of the nobles and the rich, not ours! What does such a Rome have to do with us if it is destroyed!"

"When we promise to enjoy the same rights as the nobles, we will take up our weapons to fight the Dionians!"

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The protests of the people rushed towards the senators like a tide, which made them panic. If they were to deal with such protests in normal times, they had many ways to deal with such protests, but now the army is siege. If one move is not careful, I am afraid that the enemy's attack will start to start. So Ambustus and the others hurriedly said: "The Senate will discuss their request immediately, and ask them to calm down and wait for the reply."

With the consent of the people, the senators were able to return to the Senate and held an emergency meeting.

However, whether it is to cancel debts or share public land with the civilians, it seriously involves the interests of the elders and nobles, not to mention allowing the civilians to hold important positions in the city-state, or even consuls, which violates the taboo of the nobles. Therefore, although the Senate is fiercely debated, it has never reached a conclusion.

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At this time, Great Scipio, who had been busy with the defense of the city of Rome, was once again reported that the warships of Dionia appeared on the Tiber River.

Although he had already considered the possibility of an enemy ship invading the Tiber River after learning that Ostia had fallen, he was still very nervous when he caused this news.

He immediately rushed to the southwest corner of the city wall, stood at the top of the city, and looked south, and saw three-layer oar warships lined up into long rows. Under the pull of slaves and laborers, under the sailors' full strength, they went upstream along the Tiber River. The forefront warships had already leaned towards the river port...

These very small warships on the vast sea looked extremely huge on the Tiber River, which was only about 100 meters wide. The hull of more than 50 meters crossed the river and reached half the width of the river, which made many Roman soldiers who had never seen three-layer oars on the city wall feel very nervous.

What made Scipio even more nervous was that he saw many soldiers of Dionian boarding warships from the river port, and then the warships sailed to the other side, and Dionian soldiers boarded the river beach on the other side...

The Dionians wanted to attack Rome from the north through the bridge! Great Scipio was shocked and immediately ordered: "Go and notify Cassius quickly, strengthen the defense against the bridge, and be careful of the Dionians' attack!"

After the commander left, Scipio, a great man was still a little worried and sent 700 more Roman soldiers to the bridge, of course, most of them were citizens over 50 years old.

Scipio was worried that there were soldiers coming to report to the north of the city of Rome: outside the walls of Roman Western City, a group of Roman slaves and Latin workers appeared. Under the protection of the soldiers of the Dionians, they shouted to the soldiers on the top of the city.

The content of the calls from these slaves and laborers is actually similar to what they wrote on the sash scroll before. However, these people spoke out from their own experiences, which increased their persuasion. Moreover, they targeted not only Roman civilians, but also slaves. Because of the lack of military strength in the city, the Roman Senate had to allow city-state slaves to serve as soldiers and promised to give them freedom after the war. Now these civilians and slave soldiers on the western walls were a little worried and their status even infected the people in the city. The Senate was unable to make a decision and angered them. They gathered together and ran to the Senate to protest, even claiming that if the Senate did not give them a clear answer, they would open the city gate and welcome the Dionians.
Chapter completed!