Chapter 33 Victory and Sorrow

After Grabo saw it in the farm, he quickly sent out the few soldiers around him. The attack from the front and back put the rebel soldiers in trouble. Seeing that the Romans were able to take the defeated soldiers back to the farm, thereby strengthening the farm's strength. Who knew about the defense force? Hamilcar led hundreds of people to arrive in time. Although they lacked weapons, these rebel soldiers, who were born as slaves and were mostly weak, harbored hatred for the Romans and bumped into them with their bodies and punched them with their fists. He even bites it with his teeth, looking ferocious and crazy.

The Roman soldiers collapsed completely amid the screams.

"Fight in! Fight with me into the farm!..." Hamilka shouted, waving his sword.

The Roman soldiers inside the farm had no time to close the door. First, the defeated soldiers fled in. Shonai's soldiers hesitated and did not stab these teammates with their daggers in time. In the blink of an eye, the defeated soldiers broke into the thin defensive array.

The rebel soldiers rushed in and attacked the Roman soldiers who were in chaos in the courtyard.

If these Roman recruits fought in formation, they might be able to resist the opponent with their sophisticated equipment. However, they were surrounded in the chaos, and the roar of the rebel soldiers was like a reminder in their ears. They were already frightened and completely Losing their fighting spirit, they all knelt down and surrendered.

Grabo, who was standing on the balcony of the main building and saw this scene, immediately averted his eyes. However, outside the farm and in the Roman camp, flames were blazing into the sky. Those damn slaves were like wild beasts, frantically chasing after the fleeing Roman soldiers, and the screams resounded. The whole camp…

Grabo closed his eyes in pain, then he sighed, straightened his appearance, picked up the dagger, turned and went downstairs: "I am the Roman legal officer, the commander of this army, Gaius Claudius. .Grabb, I am willing to lead my troops to surrender, hoping to--"

Before he could finish speaking, a man rushed forward, punched him hard, and knocked him to the ground: "You're all a fucking prisoner, and you're talking so much nonsense!"

Maximus recognized this violent guy as Torquevaldo.

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Spartacus quietly led his team to the Roman army's camp. As he expected, there were no defense facilities outside the camp, and even the sentries fell into a deep sleep. He did not launch a surprise attack immediately. Instead, he first roughly found out the situation in the entire camp, and then asked Cross, Enomui, and Altonix to lead their teams to carry out surprise attacks from three directions, setting fire to the tents and killing the sleeping Roman. The soldier himself led a small group of people to sneak into the center of the camp. When the sound of killing broke out and the camp fell into chaos, he rushed directly to the Chinese army's tent, killed the guards, and cut off Widney, who was guarding the camp instead of Grabo. With the head of Wus, there was no leader in the camp, and the resistance was completely lost.

The rebels successfully raided the Roman camp and completely routed the Roman army.

But the matter was not over yet. When Spartacus found out from the prisoners, the Roman army still had two hundred auxiliary soldiers stationed at the olive oil farm three miles away, and some supplies were stored there.

Regardless of fatigue, he immediately led another three hundred people to kill him.

The Campania auxiliary soldiers stationed there had long seen the wine farm with fires and loud killings. They didn't know what happened. However, because it was dark, they were timid and did not send anyone to investigate, and they were afraid of being attacked. Even when punished by the Romans, he did not dare to escape without permission. It wasn't until some broken troops came and told them that "an enemy attacked the camp and the Roman army was defeated" that they hurriedly packed up and prepared to leave. As a result, Spartacus led his army to arrive in time and intercepted them...

When Spartacus led his team to escort the prisoners and drive the carriage loaded with supplies back to the wine farm, a fish belly white color appeared in the eastern sky.

There was laughter and laughter on the hillside, and the rebel soldiers who had been fighting all night were still busy working tirelessly: some of the rebel soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield were boasting about their achievements last night, and some were wearing clothes from Roman soldiers. Some of the armors that had been taken off were being used to organize the tents in the camp, and some were trying to ride captured war horses...

When they saw Spartacus leading his army back, they all waved their arms and cheered: "Spartacus! Spartacus!! Spartacus!!!..."

After hearing the news, other rebel leaders came out of the farm and greeted him.

"Spartacus, it seems you gained a lot from this trip!" Hamilka looked at the team behind Spartacus and said with a smile.

"The harvest is not small!" Spartacus smiled broadly: "We captured more than 100 Campania auxiliary soldiers, seized a lot of food, and also obtained a batch of weapons and equipment, all of which were installed in the carriage. In addition, , we also captured a group of slaves from the Roman army."

"That's great! Now we don't have to worry about lack of weapons for the time being!" Cross said happily.

"How is the situation here? What are our casualties?" Spartacus asked with concern.

Hamilka replied: "We killed eighty-six people and wounded forty-two, but they were all lightly wounded. We killed and wounded more than 1,200 enemies (in fact, more than half of them fled in panic in the dark night. They trampled each other and killed each other), and captured nearly a thousand people, including their legion commander Grabo... We haven't had time to count the weapons and armor captured. Last night, the Romans were attacked by us in their sleep. Most of them. Some of them left their weapons and armor in the military tents. We should have gained a lot, but many brothers have already put on Roman armor——"

"Just put it on. It's all for them to use anyway. If we had enough weapons and armor, there wouldn't be so many brothers killed and injured." Spartacus finished with a sigh, Several others fell silent immediately.

Spartacus quickly changed the subject: "Maximus, is breakfast ready? We are all hungry."

"Our baggage team has just come down from the mountain and is already busy in the kitchen. I'm afraid breakfast will have to wait a while." Maximus answered truthfully.

Spartacus rubbed his stomach with his hand jokingly: "Oh, we are all hungry——"

"Spartacus! Cross! Enomui! Altonix! Hamilka!" A horse galloped over, shouting: "Oops! Something big happened!..."

"Okmar, don't panic, what happened?" Spartacus asked calmly.

"I and a few brothers just rode the captured war horses to catch up with the defeated troops who were escaping to the west. It turned out that it was not far there -" Okmar pointed behind him with a sad and angry expression: "We found many, many corpses! I captured The Romans told me that yesterday evening, on the orders of the legion commander, they killed all the captured...our brothers...more than 900 people in total!"

The expressions of Spartacus and others suddenly changed.

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This is a relatively large oval-shaped pool, surrounded by stone embankments made of Roman cement. It is used by large farms to store water for irrigation. However, now the pool has been piled up into a mound of corpses: they His eyes were empty, his face was distorted, there were multiple sword wounds on his chest, and dark red blood scabs covered his body. It was obvious that he had gone through a painful struggle before his death...

Maximus stood silently by the pit, and a corpse nearby caught his attention: her hair was gray, her body was thin, and her face was wrinkled...

Maximus recognized her because she was a member of the baggage train named Thalia. When she was assigned to the baggage team, Maximus saw that she was weak and out of sympathy suggested that Hamilka arrange a job for her in the kitchen. Salia was always grateful. Every time she saw Maximus, she would always say hello warmly. Sometimes she would offer him a glass of goat's milk to quench his thirst. Generally, goat's milk had a strong fishy smell, but the goat's milk she prepared not only smelled bad, but also had a strong smell. It's very light and a little sweet and sour. Maximus did not expect that this old man had such ability. After becoming the captain of the baggage team, he also thought about letting Salia be responsible for preparing goat milk in two days...