Chapter 16 Maximus’ New Position

"As for the captain of the cavalry..." Spartacus thought for a moment and looked at Altonix: "I went to investigate with you before, and the one who first noticed the Capua army was dispatched and rushed back in time to inform us Gladiators are called..."

"Oh...Omakor." Altonix said: "He is quite clever and has good riding skills."

"I propose that he should command the cavalry," said Spartacus.

Cross hesitated for a moment. Although Omakel was a Gaulish, he was one of the very few people who didn't quite listen to his words. But he didn't want to appear jealous, so he reluctantly said: "I... have no objection."

Spartacus continued: "We already have a lot of things now, and there will be more trophies in the future. In order to prevent everyone from robbing each other and causing chaos, we must manage the trophies well. And what we have now There are more and more people. It is not easy to ensure that everyone has enough to eat. We need to set up a baggage team to be responsible for managing supplies and providing everyone with sufficient food. I suggest that the baggage captain should be Han. Milka is in charge, Maximus is in charge, and he is temporarily in charge of twenty people. What do you think?"

In this regard, everyone unanimously agreed. Gladiators were keen on fighting and killing, and they knew almost nothing about logistics. They wished that someone would take care of this complicated task, so Cross just glanced at Maximus and did not target him again. Instead of humiliating him, he said seriously: "Spartacus, our biggest problem now is that we don't have enough weapons and armor. Just now Hamilcar also said that after occupying this manor, in addition to the body of the killed guards, Ten sets of city guard equipment were obtained, and no other weapons were found. At least half of the slaves who joined were not given weapons. Are they allowed to fight the Romans with bare hands? "

Spartacus was about to speak when Maximus coughed: "Can I say a few words?"

"Just tell me if you have any idea." Spartacus looked at Maximus with interest. This young man's understanding of Italy was something other gladiators did not have. This is why he tolerated and valued him. Of course, the half Thracian blood in his body also played a role.

"I have no choice, I just want to tell everyone -" Maximus said seriously, combining some of the knowledge about ancient Rome he had learned in his previous life and the personal experience of the original owner: "A few decades ago, all the city-states in Italy Citizens with some wealth would have one or two sets of weapons and equipment at home, ready to be recruited by their own city-state to fight alongside the Roman army. However, since Rome began to use money to recruit unemployed people and directly provide weapons to form an army, these Italian people have already. There is no need to prepare your own weapons, so people in the Campania region will probably not have any weapons in their homes or farms. Only the towns have to form city guards in accordance with the requirements of Rome, so they have armories to serve as city guards. They provide weapons.”

"You mean... let us attack the towns and seize their armories..." Altonix frowned.

"No, I'm just introducing you to the distribution of weapons in the Campania region so that you can have some idea." Maximus quickly explained.

"Although the Campanians are not good at fighting, we are not good at attacking cities either. In order to avoid too many casualties, we will not consider attacking the city for the time being." Spartacus said thoughtfully: "We can only After attacking these farms, try to collect as many weapons as possible. For slaves who are temporarily without weapons, we can let them fight with sharpened wooden sticks and wooden swords, which can also kill people. "

Everyone nodded, feeling quite touched by this.

"However, Maximus, what you just said reminds me that the citizens of the entire Italian city-state have not been equipped with weapons for decades, so they must rarely train how to fight, and they must not have the ability to fight at the same time. Let's fight, as long as we can defeat the Roman army, we don't have to worry about anything anymore!" Spartacus said with passion.

Everyone was affected by it and very excited.

Cross said loudly: "No wonder those Capuas fight like pussies. It turns out that's the case. Although the Romans are hateful, they did a pretty good job at this."

Everyone laughed.

Maximus also laughed, but in his mind he thought of the ending in history of Spartacus and others.

Spartacus smiled and said: "Today we have found a place to stay, and so many new brothers have joined us. We should celebrate well! Hamilka, Maximus, the first in your baggage team The task is to cook us a sumptuous dinner and carry dozens of bottles of good wine from the wine cellar so that the brothers can drink enough!"

"I agree with my hands!" everyone shouted excitedly.

Maximus was also very happy because he had been recognized by Spartacus and others through his own efforts and was given a little power. Although he only served as an assistant to Hamilka in the baggage team, that was also A big improvement.

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Gaius Claudius Grabo was born in the Claudius family, a prominent family in Rome, and was the youngest among the eight legal officers of the Roman Senate. Although he was a legal officer for a short period of time, he did not lack war experience. When he was young, he followed the Roman legion to Asia Minor to fight against the king of Pontus. Later, he followed Sulla into Rome. Although he was not like Lucullus and Pon Pei was also relied on by Sulla as a Gancheng, but he still received more attention, so his development in Roman politics in recent years was relatively smooth.

After becoming a legal officer, he wanted to go one step further - to become a consul, but there were many competitors. He had neither dazzling military exploits nor strong support. Even the chance of being nominated would be difficult, and he was helpless. . But these days he found an opportunity.

A group of low-status gladiators launched a riot at the Capua Gladiator School, and then fled to the Mount Vesuvius area. They occupied the mountains, robbed farms, killed people, and kidnapped slaves... The noise became louder and louder, disturbing the entire Vesuvius area. The area was disturbed and even threatened the safety of nearby towns and Roman roads. But more importantly, it harmed the interests of the Roman senators and nobles in the area. Therefore, in the past two days, the senators have proposed to send troops to exterminate this group of rebels. And the resolution was quickly passed.

Although according to the news, these thieves have grown to several thousand people, the elders only allowed half of the legion to be dispatched. It can be seen that the elders do not take these thieves seriously, but if they can be defeated as soon as possible, let Wei Restoring peace in the Suwei area will definitely win some favor from most of the elders and recognition of his abilities.

It is precisely because of seeing this that Grabo moved around and actively applied to lead troops to go out.

According to regulations, legal officers have the right to lead troops, but other legal officers simply don't bother to get the small credit of annihilating a small group of rebels, so Grabo accepted this task relatively easily. However, the city of Rome did not have a ready-made army, so he had to issue a recruitment notice in the square first. The news quickly spread throughout the city, and a large number of unemployed poor people flocked to the Champ de Mars.

Grabo, who was the head coach for the first time, was cautious. According to the information he collected, although most of the rebels were slaves, the leading group was gladiators. Gladiators were not good at military strategy. Their individual combat prowess is astonishing. When the Germanic Cimbri invaded, the Roman army suffered a series of disastrous defeats. The Senate urgently recruited Marius. Marius felt that the soldiers he recruited were too immature and unable to resist the fierce barbarians, so he asked his colleague Rutitius Rufus Si studied and found some gladiators to train his soldiers using the method of training gladiators. The process was extremely harsh, and soldiers were constantly injured. However, after a few months, the personal combat capabilities of the recruits were greatly improved, and they laid the foundation for the final defeat. The Cimbri laid a solid foundation.