Chapter 207 The Development of Each Workshop

It turned out that these rebel soldiers who wanted to surrender were mainly poor people from Magna Greece. When the rebels won successive victories, they were fanatical supporters who refused to flee into the Alps and continued to fight the Romans in Italy. During this time, they were besieged in the Regim area and were in a difficult situation. The inherent impression of the Roman army's power was once again Once they occupied their timid hearts, they quietly broke away from the team while the army was breaking through and was in chaos. As a result, they happened to encounter the Roman army who came to rescue them and surrendered.

Crassus immediately interrogated these soldiers and learned that there were still some rebels lurking in the Regim area.

He made a prompt decision: instead of pursuing the rebel army that broke through, he immediately sent two legions to capture the rebel camp in the Rejim area.

The troops of Attumus remained in the Regium area. Since there were many sailors in his team, it was natural for him to shoulder the important task of crossing the sea to Sicily. Although they had hidden food and other supplies in the camp, seeing the Romans destroying the camp and burning military tents wantonly, some rebel soldiers could not help but violate military orders and came out of hiding.

Now that he had been exposed, Attumus did not stop and led his troops to attack the invading enemy with all his strength. His troops numbered more than 20,000, while the enemy only had a little more than 10,000. He was fully confident that he would defeat the few with more. Swallow this enemy as quickly as possible.

Unexpectedly, not long after he led his army into the battle with all his strength, Crassus led the main force of Rome to arrive and surrounded him...

Seeing the familiar men beside him fall down one after another, Attumus was heartbroken.

"Chief, let's cover you and fight out of here!" The guard captain, who was covered in blood, grabbed Attumus's right hand holding the dagger, pointed at his back, and shouted anxiously.

Although Attumus was a little tired, his mind was still clear, and he understood that what the guard captain said about "killing out" was actually to let him escape.

At that moment he remembered what Maximus said: "If one day your team encounters difficulties, go to the coast and take a look. Maybe the ship I sent to rescue you will be anchored there..."

Attumus glanced towards the coast, turned his head resolutely, shook off the guard captain's hand, waved the dagger in his hand, and shouted sternly: "I will never abandon my brothers and leave alone, even if I want to die. Let’s all die together! Brothers, kill with me!”

"Kill!!! Kill these damn Romans!!!..." The inspired soldiers roared in unison, ringing throughout the battlefield.

Finally, the roar fell silent...

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After Spartacus led his army to break through the long wall, they marched north with great fanfare. However, the team was about to reach Locle, but there was no Roman army chasing behind.

Spartacus felt uneasy and immediately led his army back.

At this time, they found that there was no enemy visible on the dozens of miles long wall. Only the two camps in the east and west were defended by Roman legions. No matter how they yelled and cursed, they could not get out.

In fact, there were not many troops in the camp. As long as the rebels launched a strong attack, it would be difficult for the Romans to hold on. However, the main force of the rebels had been running back and forth for a day. They were very tired and could no longer fight.

At this time, the leaders already understood that the troops of Attumus who stayed in the Regim area were in danger. Although Spartacus felt deeply guilty, he did not ask the soldiers to return to the Regim area to save those who might have survived. The troops of Attumus instead suggested: Go north as soon as possible, get rid of this Roman army, and rush to the vicinity of Brindisi.

Because he believed that since Maximus was able to get pirates to deliver messages for him, it showed that the pirates in the Adriatic Sea were relatively reliable. They might be able to hire these Adriatic pirates with a lot of money to take them to Rome in Greece. Province, it is believed that Rome's military power would be weaker there, which would be more conducive to their development.

The other leaders were frightened by the possible destruction of Attumus's men and were unwilling to flee into the wild lands north of the Alps, so they quickly accepted Spartacus's suggestion.

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With the arrival of the new year, the formal tribesmen of the Knicks tribe are still very busy. With the help of the reserve tribesmen, they finally plowed their fields, and then began to learn how to compost and fertilize under the guidance of the Ministry of Agriculture. , so every household no longer defecates in the open, but digs cesspools in their own yards to produce and sell their own food.

Maximus' reward to the carpenter Tetillips at the subdivision meeting inspired the craftsmen to work even more enthusiastically.

Years ago, the first batch of iron ore purchased by Pigris from the Ardei tribe had been shipped to Snodia.

At the same time, the first batch of stone bricks was fired. The craftsmen quickly mixed some of the stone bricks with mud and built two simple lime kilns: one lime kiln was used to bake hydrated lime, and the other lime kiln was built according to Maxi's specifications. According to James's suggestion, limestone and iron ore were crushed into powder, mixed with clay, and burned in a kiln. The fuel was charcoal made previously.

The mixture that has been calcined for most of the day is taken out of the kiln. After cooling, it is mixed with river sand and water to make mud. It is spread between the stone bricks to build a small wall, and a layer of mud is also attached to the entire surface, which is about It took five or six days for the mud to completely harden and turn into a gray-red wall, which required a strong man to crack and collapse.

The craftsmen involved in the production cheered because they believed that the mixture fired from the kiln was not much worse than Roman cement.

Maximus also observed the whole process, although he felt that the calcined product was far inferior to the cement in the previous life. For example, the temperature was not high enough, the powder was not fine enough, and the substances were relatively mixed... which resulted in the hardening speed being too slow and the strength being too high. Low, but after all, this is an effect that can be achieved without adding volcanic ash. It is far better than ordinary mud. It will be stronger when used to make ordinary stone houses, and it can better ensure safety and improve efficiency when used to build kilns. , and the craftsmen can continue to explore, increase the furnace temperature, and improve the formula... so that better cement can be calcined.

After seeing the effect of calcined cement, although the potters have already made egg-shaped kilns with clay, they feel that this calcined so-called "cement" should be stronger and less likely to appear when used to make kilns. The cracks were more conducive to controlling the furnace temperature, so we decided to destroy the original kiln and build it again with cement.

The craftsmen in the ironworks workshop were also pleasantly surprised by the emergence of this cement, because they found that using cement to make shaft furnaces for iron smelting would be more effective.

In fact, they have already begun to build this type of iron-smelting shaft furnace commonly used in Roman military industry. A circular shape more than one meter deep and two meters in diameter was dug out of the central ground of the iron workshop in the River Bend Industrial Zone. For the underground cave, they plan to lay stone bricks on the walls of the cave, and then apply cement. After hardening, a hard stone wall will be formed, and then the stone walls will continue to be piled upward, eventually forming a circular furnace two meters above the ground (the total length reaches three meters).

In the past, they had to repair the furnace wall after every iron smelting in Sarapia, because the furnace wall coated with clay would always peel off at high temperatures. Based on their current observations and past experience, this This situation should not occur when the cement produced by high-temperature calcination is used as the lining of the furnace cavity, thus saving them a lot of trouble. Moreover, applying stone bricks with cement can make the entire shaft furnace stronger and less likely to collapse.

Not only ironworks and pottery workshops, but also charcoal burners and brick kiln workers also proposed to use this cement to build their new kilns.

The newly made cement was so popular that the cement workers were so proud that they themselves wanted to rebuild their lime kilns with cement, but the surge in demand also caused them to run into a problem.

The raw materials of cement are easy to obtain, and kiln burning is not a problem. The problem lies in crushing. Whether it is limestone or iron ore, it takes a lot of manpower to crush it into powder. When the demand increases, a large amount of cement must be crushed. Crushing limestone and iron ore into powder is even more of a big problem.

This problem was quickly turned to the iron workshop to solve, because grinding iron ore into iron powder is a necessary process in the iron smelting process. The iron workshop has a mature method for this, using a water-powered forging hammer to Iron ore is crushed and the crushed ore is ground into powder using a water mill or mill.

In fact, water-powered forging hammers and water mills are already being made, led by engineer Spukala and carpenter Tetilips, who were recently commended by the tribe and promoted.

Since the construction of the two wooden bridges was completed, the large team of carpenters began to be diverted to other tasks.

A portion of the men were responsible for the construction of the docks at Snodia Stockade.

Since the Nyx tribe now only has four small ships, and the demand for shipping is not large, the demand for dock construction is not too high, so the dock to be built is small and the facilities are simple. With the team in Italy fighting the Roman army With the few piling machines seized, the carpenters were building quickly. The pier was generally completed. In a few days, four small boats would be able to sail back and forth between Snodia and Westney.

Compared with the rapid construction of the dock, the performance of the shipbuilding workshop appears to be extremely slow.

Although the people assigned to the workshop are experienced shipwrights from Sarapia rather than laymen, they have been building bridges before and have no time to organize the workshop. They are only now starting to build various facilities in the workshop and select Suitable ship wood and drying it in the shade... Although everyone has worked hard, all they have done so far is preparations for shipbuilding, and not even a new ship has been seen.