Roman Slave Owner

"Bastards! You bastards! Have you lost your mind? Why don't you run away!"

"Why did you go back to Italy? Do you think you can beat Levi? Why do you want to add glory to him?"

Crassus couldn't help but said angrily, how many exquisite pottery and glass products were dropped.

Those slaves were trembling like quails, afraid of offending Crassus who was in a rage.

"Master, today's Roman Daily."

A slave said that after putting it on the table, he fled from here.

Seeing his behavior, Crassus had a bad feeling.

He took a look at the newspaper and found that the headline on the front page was a report about his bet with Levi.

"The slave rebels have re-entered Italy, whether Crassus will fulfill his promise, let us wait and see!"

Seeing this, Crassus was almost stunned, and the newspaper in his hand was immediately torn to pieces.

"Bastards! They're all a bunch of bastards! I don't live with you!"

Crassus felt that he had lost his mind. He was watched by the Senate and the people of Rome like a clown, and then laughed at by people.

Do you want to admit your mistakes?

Crassus's face turned green and then pale. As one of the three giants of Rome, his face is really very important, so how can he hold his head up in front of Li Wei in the future.

At this moment, a slave came in.

"Master, just now Li Wei sent his adjutant, Lucias, to spread the word that the bet was just a joke, and you don't have to take it seriously."

Lucias finally returned from Spain with a message from Pompey, who granted his request.

Seeing that Li Wei's expedition to the East has achieved great glory, how could he be willing to fall behind him.

"Li Wei, you hypocrite! Despicable villain! On the one hand, you want to publicize our bet, and on the other hand, you come to me to be a good person. Do you think that I, Crassus, is a fool?"

"If I don't fulfill the bet, the honor of the Crassus family will be ruined by me, and this will become a stain that I can't wash off for the rest of my life."

Crassus couldn't help cursing again.

Li Wei is really bad, and he has sores on the top of his head and pus on the soles of his feet.

Even if he loses face today, he must fulfill his bet, and he must not be scolded by others for breaking his promise.

Thinking of this, Crassus left the house with some guards.

People on the street quickly recognized Crassus. As a justice, he also needs to show his face frequently to win the support of the public.

"Look, it's Crassus."

"What is he doing here?"

"Look at his direction is to go to the square."

"Is he going to admit his mistakes in public?"

"Possibly soon."

"..."

More and more people followed behind him, laughing and laughing, and some even asked about his purpose in public.

If it was before, Crassus would be very happy to talk to them.

He has a slave by his side who can recognize most Romans, so Crassus will often take the initiative to call out the name of that citizen, which will make that citizen feel flattered.

But now, he felt extremely embarrassed instead.

With a haha, he quickly came to the People's Square.

The news of his arrival spread quickly, and people had already surrounded him three layers in and out.

They were laughing and trying to read his jokes.

"Everyone, I was indeed wrong in my judgment at the beginning."

Crassus finished speaking quickly, then hid his face and fled.

People laughed and whistled to catch up, but they were stopped desperately by his guards.

The incident spread quickly and was treated as an after-dinner joke.

Li Wei's prestige not only recovered rapidly, but also tended to skyrocket again.

Some people who laughed at him at the beginning changed their words and expressed their support for him, as if they were not the ones who laughed at him.

Li Wei also took the opportunity to make some requests to the Senate, such as establishing a small navy,

Surrender some slaves when necessary.

Some of the elders are either puzzled, why do you build a small navy? Some were opposed to recruiting slaves, but now that Li Wei's reputation was in full swing, he could only agree to it in the end.

So Li Wei officially issued a surrender order as a prophet, ordering all true God believers to leave the slave rebel army and surrender to nearby cities within 30 days, which can be exonerated from all crimes.

After 30 days, the Crusaders will join the Roman Legion to jointly encircle and suppress the slave rebel army.

This order to surrender did not have much effect. Only a small number of slaves left the rebel army and surrendered to nearby cities.

Knowing that Li Wei was defending around Rome, the Spartacus army did not attack Rome, but went directly south.

Li Wei also led the army to pursue, but he had no intention of a decisive battle, but hung far behind them.

There is no way, Pompey has not set off to return to the country, if the rebel army is wiped out now, how can we join forces with Pompey.

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The current Spartacus is confident on the surface, but the inner pressure is extremely great.

Through the "Roman Daily", he knew that his combat intentions were completely within Li Wei's expectations. How could this put him under great pressure? This was a completely different opponent from Serabio, Publicola and others.

Moreover, Li Wei had at least 6,000 cavalry, ranging from a few dozen to a few hundred, encircling and suppressing Spartacus' cavalry.

Spartacus' scouts suffered heavy losses. If Spartacus hadn't reacted quickly and pulled them all back, maybe their scouts would have been killed by the enemy.

This also made his army blind and deaf, with extremely low awareness of the situation around the army.

Although those infantry can also scout, once they are discovered by the cavalry, they are often a dead end.

Fortunately for him, Li Wei didn't seem to have any plans to fight him decisively. They would soon enter a mountainous area in eastern Italy, where the combat capabilities of Li Wei's cavalry would be greatly curbed.

"Everyone, everyone must know the current situation. We have no chance of winning in the plains, and the crusaders of the three legions have left Dragon City and plan to join them. We must defeat Li Wei here as soon as possible, otherwise we will soon may face the fate of failure."

Spartacus said.

As for why he was able to learn that the crusaders of the three legions had left Dragon City, he still learned about it through the captured "Roman Daily".

"How can I beat Levi?"

Curius asked.

"Divide the troops! Mountainous areas are not conducive to large-scale operations. There is no terrain that can ambush 8 legions at once. We can only divide our troops again to induce the enemy to divide their troops, and then concentrate our superior forces to defeat the enemy."

Spartacus said.

He has not learned the mobile warfare of later generations, but he is sensitively aware of the great power of this tactic.

"What if the enemy doesn't divide his forces?"

Ixion asked.

"Then find the enemy's village and burn, kill, and loot it, forcing them to divide their troops. The Romans regard him as a hero, and I don't believe he will not save him."

Spartacus said viciously.

There are still a large number of villages in the mountains. Even though Spartacus and the others passed by here last time, many villages were not encountered. Now is the time to make use of them.

"clear."

Curius said with a bright eye.

The movement of the Spartacus army quickly reached Li Wei through various channels. In Li Wei's big tent, Cage, the general of the intelligence team, was pointing to a map and reporting to Li Wei.

"Spartacus divided the enemy army into three and fled in three directions. Each army had two to four legions and a small number of filled troops and old and weak women. The leader of this army was Onomamos and Ganix, they are the First Gallic Legion, the Second Gallic Legion, and the Ninth Legion."

"They caught a single villager and are rushing to the village where this villager is located. The leader of this branch..."

If Spartacus was here, he would definitely be extremely terrified, because Cage could almost analyze the size, movement, and intentions of the rebel army clearly, as if he had participated in a combat meeting of the rebel army.

In fact, Li Wei did not activate Ixion, this was just the intelligence analyzed by the spies scattered in the rebel army.

After the report, Cage looked at Li Wei quietly.

He had great admiration for the man in front of him. He seemed to have predicted that Spartacus and the others would revolt and grow bigger. He deserved the name of a prophet.

Li Wei thought for a while and asked, "Which enemy do you think we can wipe out?"

"Onomamos, we have a centurion who volunteered to take on the reconnaissance mission. We can send people to cooperate with them and eliminate his men. Then they quietly approach the enemy army through their defense zone and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop."

Cage said.

Li Wei nodded slightly, as the saying goes, when a man stumbles, a horse stumbles.

It is better to defeat an enemy army first and weaken the strength of Spartacus, so that we can better control the development of the situation.

"It's settled like this. You send someone to contact the centurion. As long as the battle is won, I will personally celebrate him."

Li Wei thought for a while and said.

Cage hesitated for a while, then pointed to a place on the map and asked, "Aren't we going to attack their food delivery team?"

Food and grass are the most important when fighting with a large army.

As long as this food transport team is destroyed, Spartacus and the others will undoubtedly lose.

Li Wei gave him a weird look. Sometimes it's not a good thing for people to be too smart.

"No, I have my own opinion on this matter, just do your own thing."

"Obey, Patriarch."

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A mountain village at the foot of the mountain was on fire, and some slaves burned, killed and looted with grinning grimaces.

They have been rampant in Italy for a long time, and they were chased and beaten by Li Wei recently, and now they can finally vent.

Onomamos and Ganix had dignified faces, and Li Wei's pressure brought them tremendous pressure, which made them lose interest in everything in front of them.

At this time, a large number of Roman troops had climbed to the nearby hills and spread around, trying to surround them.

It didn't take long for the slave rebel army to stir up trouble.

A cavalryman covered in blood rushed into the rebel army, shouting as he charged.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! A large number of Roman troops were found on the mountain on the west side!"

After hearing the news, Onomamus was taken aback: "What's going on? Why did the Roman army suddenly come over?"

"This is not clear. They are very numerous, and there are at least two legions."

said the cavalryman.

"It turned out that there were only two legions."

Ganix breathed a sigh of relief. If there were only two legions, there would be no need to be too nervous.

"Notify the whole army to prepare for war."

said Onomamus loudly.

At this moment, there was a faint sound of a trumpet outside.

I saw military flags everywhere, and a large number of Roman troops appeared in the north, west and south, and then rushed down the mountain.

Onomamos couldn't help but turn pale with shock, "These are the two legions you mentioned."

Ganix was in a cold sweat. If there were two Roman legions on the west side, then there were probably six Roman legions participating in the attack this time.

Thinking of this, Gannix had a look of fear.

"Retreat! The whole army retreats to the east!"

said Onomamus loudly.

After speaking, he led his men to flee eastward, Ganix did not object, but followed closely.

What they didn't know was that a tall centurion with freckles also followed with his men.

After receiving the orders from the leaders, the slaves immediately began to retreat eastward.

But the retreat soon turned into a rout, a real defeat.

Li Wei shook his head and chuckled, how to retreat is an extremely profound question, otherwise retreat will easily turn into a rout.

In the final analysis, Onomamos and Ganix are just gladiators. How high is the military quality? It is not bad to command so many troops to maintain stability.

"Pass down the order, and the whole army will pursue it."

Li Wei said lightly.

The entire Roman legion immediately launched a pursuit of the enemy, chasing and killing them non-stop.

Onomamos and Ganix ran away day and night. What made them puzzled was that no matter how they escaped, they were always firmly locked by the enemy. A large number of men were sent out by them to stop the enemy, but to no avail. .

Doubts soon disappeared, because they really heard the barking of dogs, and the enemy even found hounds to hunt them down.

Under a big tree, Onomamos, Ganix and others sat together covered in blood.

After days of chasing and killing, they had only a few dozen people in their hands.

The most frightening thing is that they are lost, they don't know the direction at all, and the only thing they can do is follow the direction of the sun.

But this wasted a lot of time, and sometimes came to a dead end.

"A bunch of sons of bitches! We can't go on like this, we have to go south, and then east, farther and farther away from Spartacus and the others."

Onomamus said.

"You are right, but the enemy has deployed heavy troops in the south. If we go south, we can easily get into the enemy's pocket."

Gannix said.

Onomamos was silent for a while, there was no way to go south, and there were pursuers, what should they do?

At this moment, they heard a barking of dogs again.

"It's really a bunch of beasts, always biting us."

Onomamos cursed again, and then got up and took everyone to continue fleeing.