"If our tens of thousands of young and middle-aged citizens were not transferred, it would be impossible for the Dionians to attack the city. We can be completely in the field-" Prinius just said loudly, and was interrupted by Marugine Encis: "The thing has happened, don't mention it anymore. All our energy should be focused on how to defend the city of Rome!"

Portitus nodded at him with approval. Although there are often disputes and differences between him and Marugine Encis due to power and interests, when Rome is in danger, the interests of all major clans are consistent.

"It's already this time, I wonder if our reinforcements have arrived?" After being criticized by Marugine Encis, Prinius changed the topic awkwardly.

"Paulus, Megius, Pantius and others would never sit idly by and ignore Rome. Viei is the same. I am afraid they have fought with the Dionians, but we don't know." Ambustus said loudly in affirmative tone. His words gave many elders a reassurance, because everyone understood that judging from the current offensive of the Dionians, reinforcements were the key to their defending Rome!

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The elders in the square were worried about the safety of the Roman city. The Roman people were busy rescuing the injured soldiers, and the blood of the wounded gathered into thin streams, flowing into the drainage ditch, and then gathered along the drainage ditch into the wide sewer...

If the public servants responsible for managing the sewer lifted the stone slabs, entered the sewer, stepped on the narrow walkways on both sides of the waterway, and walked forward in the direction of sewage flow. When he walked to the residential area behind the embankment north of Rome, he would be surprised to find that there were strong figures crouching in front of him, filling the sewer.

Two hundred soldiers from the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade worked hard for one night and finally all entered the Maxim sewer.

After fighting with the Tiber River, they climbed carefully and squeezed into the iron bar in the sewage. Even the outstanding reconnaissance team members who had been trained for a long time and were exhausted. Some of the first team members sat in the dark and humid sewers with garbage everywhere while waiting for the people behind, endured the unpleasant stench and fell asleep.

But as the commander of this secret operation, Izam, could not let them rest immediately. He asked someone to wake them up one by one, ordered them to take off the already wet lining, let it wring it out, and then check the water marks on their bodies to avoid catching a cold.

For those team members who were scratched and bruised on the way, he and the last few soldiers who came in carried a package of several layers of fur, which contained clean linen and some made herbs, which could wipe the wounds and wrap them to prevent infection.

Then, he also sent someone to redisguise the sawed iron bars to prevent the Roman soldiers on the embankment from accidentally seeing the abnormality tomorrow.

In addition, he also arranged for team members to take turns to serve. The main task of the post was not to discover the enemy, but to drive away the mice in the sewer, and perhaps even snakes to prevent them from biting their sleeping comrades. At the same time, when some teammates were asleep and snoring loudly, they should be woken up in time. Although the sewer was covered with stone slabs, they were not sealed tightly, and there were still many gaps of large and small sizes. We must always be careful to prevent being discovered.

Two hundred people were born on their shoulders, and there were arduous combat tasks. Izam was under great pressure, so in the following time, he kept thinking about things in his mind and never fell asleep. Until dawn, he couldn't resist sleep...

I don't know how long it took, but Izam was pushed to wake up. He opened his eyes in a daze and was immediately dazzled by the sunlight that was focused on his face through the cracks of the stone slabs. He blocked his hand over his head and turned his head to look around. A pair of caring eyes gathered on him. These were all soldiers he trained with his own hands! A hint of warmth rose in Izam's heart.

He was still old and his health was not as good as before! He sighed in his heart, struggled to squat up, and asked the team members to count in a very low voice, saying that the numbers were transmitted from the side of the sewer, and from that side, two hundred were not too many.

"Is anyone feeling uncomfortable?" Yizam asked in a low voice again with concern.

Every team member said he was good.

Of course, Izam knew that these people had some moisture in their answers, but at least it means that the players did not suffer major injuries.

A smile finally appeared on his face, and he continued, "What's going on outside now?"

The answer was Kadullius, the captain of the reconnaissance team, who was from Campania and could speak Latin. He squeezed to Izam with difficulty, pointed at it above and whispered: "Captain, the Third Legion has begun to attack. They first bombarded with crossbows, but the Romans retreated to us. Later, when they heard them talking in panic on it, they realized that our fleet had built a floating bridge on the Tiber River with warships, and the soldiers of the Third Legion were already attacking the embankment. The Roman soldiers rushed to defend again, and now they probably passed..."

Kadullius looked around uncertainly. Some of the other team members made five strokes, while others made six gestures.

"...It took about an hour," he said at last.

Izam didn't expect that the siege battle had already begun while he was sleeping. He thought about it and felt scared. Fortunately, it was not the best time for the attack.

He was about to speak, and the sound of the chaotic footsteps came from the top, and the sounds of the Romans were magnified in the tunnel, resounding repeatedly, making people feel stuffy in their chests. Moreover, dust kept falling from the stone walls, but the team members immediately stopped making any sounds like wooden sculptures, but they just looked at each other.

After a while, the sound above the head completely disappeared, and the silence in the tunnel returned to its vigor. The team members took a long breath, even the dirty air was stronger than the crazy sound.

"What did the Romans say just now?" Izam immediately asked Kadullius.

Cadullius was covered in dust, but laughed silently, looking very funny. He said in a low voice, "Captain, I just heard a Roman man say, 'I grew up with my master, take care of his daily life and diet, and serve as his scribe... I have never killed a sheep or even a chicken, and now I want me to kill someone?'

Another person was laughing at him, 'Stay crying, little cute, don't pee in a scary way when facing the enemy.'

Later, one of the team officials was scolding them, 'Stop talking, seize the time to rush to the ziqiao. If the enemy breaks through the blockade of the embankment, we will all become cattle and sheep that the enemy can kill at will!'..."

The players around him understood what they meant, and sparks of excitement burst out in their eyes: "Captain, it seems that the Third Legion's offensive is fierce, and the enemy is almost unable to defend it. Should we go out too?!"

Before Yizam could speak, a team member in front exclaimed: "Look at this water!"

With the beams of sunlight passing through the cracks of the stone slabs, you can see that the dirty water that was originally black and yellow with all kinds of filth is now gradually dyed red...

"Have our army already attacked from other places?!" a captain exclaimed.

"Quiet!" Yizam made a gesture of silence. Facing the anxious gaze of the team members, he had to make a choice.

He looked down at the bright red blood in the waterway, and then listened to the sound of the street above. After thinking for a while, he finally whispered: "No matter what the situation is in other places, the task given to us by His Majesty is to assist the Third Legion and the Third Fleet in breaking through the defense of the embankment and attacking the city of Rome. Now the enemy's reinforcements have just passed, and the street above is still very quiet. It can be seen that the Third Legion is still fighting fiercely, so we need to wait a little longer!"

Seeing that the team members next to him were unwilling to speak, he immediately said, "However, since the Romans sent slaves who could not fight, they could see that they had no extra troops anymore. We only need to wait for a while. When these Roman reinforcements were put into battle and had no spare energy to stop us, we would go out and attack their rear! But now we must first find a way out!"

"Captain, we have already found our way out in the early morning." Terentus raised the sheathed dagger and pointed to the top of his head: "Just use the dagger to cross the stone slurry between the stone slabs, you can push the stone slab away with force and then climb out."

"Okay." Yizam believed in his subordinates' judgment. He said in a deep voice: "Let's fill our stomach first, and when I give orders, start taking action immediately!" As he said that, he opened the small bag on his waist and took out a strip of dried beef.

The team members also took out dry food one after another. The jerky beef soaked in the river water tasted strange, but the team members chewed it hard and ate it very sweetly.

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The sound of killing sounds in the middle of the southern city wall not far from the old square of Rome was shocking, and the soldiers on both sides were fighting fiercely.

The ladders were pushed down by the defenders at the city. The soldiers of the Dionians on the ladder fell to the city. But after a while, successors came from a distance with new ladders, crossed the trench, rushed to the city, and put it on the spare section of the city.

From time to time, the trench was ignited by rockets, but this did not affect the Dionian light infantry continuing to hide behind the burning flames and continued to fire arrows at the city. Their more accurate shooting skills pose a threat to the defenders at the city. If it were not for the battlements, most of the heavy infantry fighting were heavy, and if they could not shoot parts without armor covering them, they would not cause much damage to them, they would probably be unable to prevent the Deonian soldiers from climbing to the city.
Chapter completed!