Rome must fall.

Chapter 284 Disappointment
When Pricas heard this, he realized that the other party wanted to be the "second Cabdes" and he immediately became furious: he had been so humiliated, but he was still being teased by this guy who was called a wimp!

So he angrily interrupted the negotiations and continued to detain him.

Fortunately, it was already late and the people who besieged the house had dispersed. The soldiers did not dare to force their way in because they were afraid of the consequences.

Pricas lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep: sometimes he felt that he had acted too rashly, which led to the current situation being difficult to deal with; sometimes he hated Kashiks for being cunning and greedy, and the people for being ignorant and stupid, who did not work together to resist the enemy, but instead made things difficult for him who had saved their lives; sometimes he thought that if the Nix army was still so scattered when they reached the north bank, it would be difficult to resist the enemy's attack...

When Prikas woke up in the morning, he found the sheets were soaked with sweat.

After a night of torment, he finally made a painful decision and found Kashiks again. He agreed to his request last night, but hoped that he would quickly settle the people who had fled into the village, gather people to prepare for defense, and ask for help from nearby tribes...

Kashiks readily agreed, but when he was released and taken back to his mansion by his own warriors, he was thinking about how to send someone to capture Pricas and humiliate him to vent his anger.

At this moment, the soldier guarding the village came to report in panic: many Knicks soldiers appeared outside the south gate!

Kashiks was shocked and hurried to the south wooden wall to check, and found that Prikas was also there.

At this moment, the two men no longer had any thoughts of intrigue. They were looking at the countless fully armed Knyx soldiers who were lining up not far outside the village and felt their scalps tingling. They did not expect that the Knyx people would cross the river to attack so soon. They also regretted that they were busy with internal fighting and wasted an entire night.

Faced with a disaster, Kashiks was panicked, but Pricas was still calm. After all, as Andres's right-hand man, he had experienced many battles.

So he asked Kashiks: he would lead all the soldiers in the village to resist the enemy's attack, and asked Kashiks to return to the village to gather more people to help defend the village. At the same time, he would organize the people who owned boats to patrol the river bank and intercept the subsequent support fleet of the Nixes.

All the warriors in the village, including some nobles, climbed onto the wall. There were only more than 300 people in total. Although Prikas encouraged morale, many people felt their legs go weak and trembled all over when they heard the loud trumpet sounds and saw the fully armed enemy approaching the village aggressively.

The East Village either has the houses of the chiefs and nobles, who usually manage the tribesmen in their own tribes and only live in the East Village during tribal meetings or tribal sacrifices and celebrations; or it has ordinary houses where some tribesmen of the chief's clan live. Originally, the population in the village was not large, and in the past few battles, these tribesmen were either captured or killed. There were not many tribesmen left who could fight with spears, so Kashiks had to go and mobilize the people who had fled into the village to join the war.

But as soon as he arrived at the place where people gathered, before he could even say anything, he was surrounded by some people who asked him for food.

It turned out that last night, because he was imprisoned and Prikas was trapped in his own house, the two people in charge were not there, and there was no one to preside over the resettlement of the large number of refugees. The residents and nobles in the village were afraid of being harassed and kept their doors closed. Except for some brave refugees who climbed into uninhabited houses to find some food, the others slept starving by the floating bridge and the road for a night. When they woke up the next day, they were naturally even hungrier.

Kashiks had never expected such a situation in the village, so he had to persuade them to help guard the village first, and he would let the servants cook for them later.

The people refused and insisted that they had to eat their fill before doing anything.

When the two sides were arguing, suddenly many fires broke out in the village, and then someone shouted loudly among the people: "The enemy is coming! Run! Escape from the village! Otherwise you will be captured by the enemy! ..."

The refugees, who were already frightened by the sounds of fighting outside the southern wall, were now in a frenzy. Instigated by some people with ulterior motives, they desperately rushed towards the north gate and the east gate where no fighting had been heard yet. Kashiks and his men who tried to dissuade them were pushed down, and fell into silence under the unintentional trampling of the crowd...

The commotion of the fleeing people immediately affected the original residents of the village. Not knowing the situation, they also ran away in panic.

The entire Dongzhai was in complete chaos...

The Segstika warriors, whose morale was already low, had no intention of fighting after seeing the chaos in the village. Pricas shouted loudly, but was unable to stop the warriors from escaping.

He knew that defeat was inevitable, so he sighed and hurriedly ran down the wooden wall with the defeated soldiers. However, he did not escape back to his own house, but ran to where Ancasus, the son of Andres, lived.

As soon as he pushed open the gate, he saw Ancasus and his men standing in the courtyard in a panic. As soon as he saw him, he asked anxiously: "Uncle Pricas, a lot of people outside were shouting that the enemy is attacking. Is this true?!"

Pricas said solemnly, "That's right, we've lost. We have to escape!"

Ankasu panicked: "Escape... Where to escape?" While on the wooden wall, Prikas carefully checked the situation in the village. He said: "There are too many people in the village and it's too chaotic. The roads leading to several gates are blocked. We can't escape. We can only take a boat and go to the south!"

"Ah, going to the south? Not going back to the tribe?!" Ancasus was a little reluctant. After all, he had never been to the south and was not familiar with it.

Why go south? This is not something that can be explained in a few words, so Pricas just said hurriedly: "The enemy has already attacked, we have to leave quickly, otherwise we can't leave! ..."

Pricas's constant urging made his subordinates nervous, not to mention the young Ancasus, so he followed Pricas in a daze, hurriedly left the house, and ran desperately towards the river port pier.

At the river port, there was also a chaotic scene, with people fighting each other for boats, screaming and falling into the water...

After some effort, Pricas led them to a small pier at the innermost part of the river port, where three ships were moored. No one dared to cause trouble because there were four heavily armored warriors holding long swords guarding the pier.

When Prikas learned that the Nixes had crossed the Sava River and were preparing to attack the village, he was not very confident that he could hold the eastern village, so he asked his men to secretly prepare for retreat in advance.

A group of people got on the boat, and the boat left the dock and drifted downstream.

Plicas looked back at the village reluctantly, his eyes full of regret: more than a decade ago, he followed Andres to break through the village guarded by the Skodischi people through a bloody battle. More than a decade later, he repeated the same mistake and let the Nix people seize this place. It was like a dream...

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Seeing the Nyx soldiers pouring into the stockade on the other side of the river, Maximus breathed a sigh of relief and his whole body finally relaxed. Only then did he realize that his legs were a little numb from standing for too long.

"Congratulations to the leader for capturing the main stronghold of Segestica and becoming the new master of this land!" Congratulations came from the side.

Maximus turned his head to look at Casinos who was speaking, and while stretching his legs, he just said "hmm" lightly.

Maximus's calmness made Casinos a little nervous. He mustered up his courage and said softly, "Chief, most of the leaders and chieftains of the Segestica tribe around the East Village are my direct relatives. I am willing to persuade them to join Nix and become your people!"

Maximus got serious now: "You mean to say that these Segestica tribes on the east coast are all blood relatives of your great leader?"

"Not entirely." There was a hint of boasting in Casinos' words. He stretched out his hand, pointed to a place on the other side of the river, and gestured: "The tribes further south from there don't count. Their bloodline is too far away from us!"

Maximus narrowed his eyes, looked in the direction of his finger, and then said calmly: "I will consider what you said."

When Cassinos saw that Maximus did not agree immediately, he was disappointed but did not dare to say anything.

Maximus ignored him and turned to look around. Besides his attendants, guards, crossbowmen, and some soldiers of the Third Legion, there were also some people from Segestica who stayed there last night.

These people witnessed the fall of the East Village and were all a little distraught at the moment. After all, since the independence of Segestica, this village has been the center of power of Segestica. In the hearts of the people, it is the symbol of the Segestica tribe. Now it has completely fallen. For some Segestica people, it is as if the sky has fallen and they suddenly feel uneasy.

Maximus had been paying attention to the battle on the other side of the river just now, and had no time to worry about other things. Now that the battle in the East Village had settled, he called Valerius and asked, "How many Segestica people have joined us Nix since last night?"

"103 people."

"Only 103 people?!" Maximus was a little surprised. There were at least 5000 people from Segestica who were surrounded by the pontoon last night. When asking "Is anyone willing to join the Knicks", he clearly remembered that at least a small half of them shouted that they were willing to join. He didn't expect that there were only so few. Did the old man make a mistake?
Valerius understood what he was thinking and explained: "Last night, the Segestica people were surrounded by us. They were afraid, so they shouted "willing to join" together. But when they were asked to register, they hesitated. These 100 people joined because they were familiar with Setonus' Segestica recruits, and they joined under their strong persuasion... But now the whole village has been occupied by us. If we persuade them again, more people should join."

(End of this chapter)