"In the dust and mist caused by the barbarian cavalry, the power and glory of the Roman Empire appeared dull." - "Medieval History of Cambridge" evaluated the Romans' defeat in the Battle of Adrian Castle in AD378.

"You are so calm. When you encounter this, you still know how to bring the doctor with you."

"Don't talk nonsense, go quickly, go to Apiron, hurry!" Karabis shouted.

After nightfall, the lightning in the city of Rome shone brightly from time to time. The most loyal neighborhood administrators or firefighters hid in the houses and dared not come out. The heavy rain gradually spread, and Timothus and Karabis rode a horse together and ran out of the city.

"You have to thank the luck given to you by the Horse God. It is not allowed to ride horses on the streets in Roman City, but I am a Scythian, and I will always have a stable for horses in the backyard." Timothusu rushed forward with his feet holding the horse's belly. Several Indian men were carrying medicine boxes and agile Indian dog following him in the puddle.

"A block ahead, go right, that's a shortcut." Karabis reminded in the thunder.

"Are you sure? I remember there is no way at the end of there."

"You are not allowed to hesitate anymore, otherwise I will kill you!" Karabis became impatient and pressed against Timothu's back with a fighting sword. "I want Porti and Paruma to live well, I hope I can still have time." Then he felt a pain in his waist and touched it. It was the doll that Porti had carved for him before leaving in the sun, "God of the family, I beg for your blessing..."

The horse neighed and rushed through a bush of Guo. In a flash of lightning, Timothus saw what Karabis called a "shortcut" and a disrepaired and collapsed city wall. On both sides were trenches pulled out by Romulus when he determined the city's boundary hundreds of years ago, or a white point, the "sanctuary" of the city of Rome was not allowed to touch the forbidden area in any name. "Damn it, Karabis, I never thought that your shortcut would be here, and we would offend the guardian god of this city." Timothus pulled the bridle and hesitated.

"Shut up, you and me, and the curry behind, their guardians have nothing to do with this city. Go over and now!" Karabis said firmly, and the Indians waved their hands behind them, and shouted loudly, saying, "Timushu, hurry up, your horse is blocking our way."

Timothus was a devout theist. He was still pulling the horse and wandering around in the rain. Karabis, who could not stand it, held a sword and squeaked hard at the horse's buttocks. The problem was solved. The horse screamed sadly and crossed the "holy realm" regardless of everything...

Among the people walking, the Indian man named Maya who was leading him jumped over the trench and received a small box thrown by Karabis from the horse. "Mayah, there are five big Shaqs (gold coins popular in West Asia in ancient times). From here, you can see a gladiator tent, go and hire all the people inside and walk towards the small villa in Apiron. After the matter is done, I will give you five big Shaqs alone." Namoye agreed, and then spread his feet barefoot, held the box, and ran towards the direction indicated by Karabis.

There was indeed a gladiator tent. The little pigeon Parumma skipped school more than once, and would take out three or five Seths given to him by his adoptive father to come here to watch cheap performances. In the tent was filled with outdated retired gladiators, who were overwhelmed by the professional gladiator school in Capa and could only be pitifully cramped in this corner, carrying two old hair-washed beasts, in a simple circle made of wood, to show for the poor or children.

Karabis, who came to catch the little pigeon who trudged school, naturally remembered this place.

But now Karabis can only count on them.

After Maye left, Karabis and Timothus continued to run towards Apiron. Finally, he saw a group of Apiron villas in the thick of fireworks. The party members of Katilin were burning and robbing all the wealth they could see there. According to Katilin's prior arrangement, Apiron robbery was for the "hard" of this group of people, and then they would drive them to the Fortress of Pretes outside Rome to seize weapons and supplies, and then echoed with the retired veterans of Sula from the Etruscan region in the north of Rome to seize the heart of the Republic.

But these mob bandits still encountered a nail in front of an inconspicuous villa.

Because coincidence, Milu, Tagus and Pope, and most of the veterans were here, preparing to do the final finishing project. After Porti came, the weather was getting bad, so the hostess took out the meat and wine in the cellar to entertain everyone and let them have a rest. Until Paruma and Van Lundena played hide-and-seek on the top tower, they found a large group of people holding wooden sticks and iron forks in the distant fields, and rushed here with murderous intent, Milu felt that the situation was serious, "Maybe today is not a good day to rest."

However, the tower of the villa? That's right. This is Pope's design. He will fully respect the requirements of his master Karabis in terms of interior, but externally... it is simply the evil taste of a veteran of the army:

The whole villa is surrounded by dense forests and valleys on three sides. On the other side with a door, there is a steep slope and a sloped road, and is separated by various trees into narrow and curved shapes. The villa's wall is very high, without bumps and windows, and it is extremely smooth with volcanic ash (ancient cement) and it is very difficult to climb, not to mention that there is an iron fence on the top of the wall. A gate made of bronze is made of extremely strong, and a special place is left in front of the door.

A rectangular open space was arranged in a frontier position to isolate external attacks by Milu and his team using pointed wooden stakes in the villa warehouse (yes, they would store these things in the owner's warehouse, called for future use for the farm project). Just as the mob bandits were busy robbing the conspicuous and fragile villa, the group of veterans, a total of twenty people, also used tools to dig a simple trench circle along the gate!

Hundreds of mobs were completely repelled after the attack two hours ago. Under the leadership of Tagus, six veterans held up practice-using wicker shields and sharpened temporary wooden spears, and stabbed two or three mobs who tried to pull out the obstacles through the suggestion trench deer fort, making them afraid to move forward and only dare to throw stones and torches in the distance.

But the stones were not thrown for a long time - Pop, Milu and others, on the top floor of the villa, built a simple small ejector with ready-made (?) wood, and condescendingly, lit the sheephead stones coated with asphalt (? Maybe afterwards, Karabis would find the answer, why are these things in his villa) lit the fire and smashed the mobs on the heads of the mobs, which terrified the besieged mobs. The sheephead stones with fire roared onto the surrounding shrubs. The sticky asphalt quickly burned with grass and trees. Many mobs were with flames on their buttocks and behind them, and howled and ran down. The smoke produced by the flames in the rain was enough to suffocate. The group of people fled away without holding on for too long.
Chapter completed!