Chapter 270: The Surrender of Satnikum

One of the Roman soldiers had a low-grade fever before he set out, but he kept it under his cover, because every soldier who had a fever on these two days would be transferred out of his original team and then nowhere to be seen. As a result, after he entered the Dionian military camp, his spirit was highly nervous, coupled with the fact that he had been standing still, and his body was rapidly depleted, he suddenly began to vomit, and then fainted to the ground, and the other Roman soldiers saw this situation, as if they had seen a ghost, and scattered in panic to hide, although Aulus, Mejus and others took some measures in the city to slow down the spread of the plague, prohibit the soldiers from spreading nonsense, and prevent chaos from happening, but in the past two days, there are many soldiers who have fallen, and the soldiers have heard of it more or less.

The unusual behavior of the Roman soldiers immediately attracted the attention of the Dionian officers, who were also obliged to treat the Roman soldiers who had fainted, so a doctor was called.

The doctor who was called was none other than Critos, who had been praised by Davos at the Great Greek Medical Forum, and was good at studying, and in the past two years he was studying with Hippocrates, who stayed in Turiyi and specialized in medicine, to know that Hippocrates had a very deep study of the plague, and Critos naturally had a deep accumulation of medical knowledge in this area, but because there had been no plague in the Dionian Kingdom so far, he had not had the opportunity to put theory into practice.

After carefully examining the physical condition of the fallen soldier and the vomit, Critos became suspicious, and in his excitement, he immediately asked Stacy Kodas to confirm it, and the two exchanged opinions on the spot, and finally decided to report it to Davers immediately.

Cryisus, who was present at the scene, was shocked when he learned of the situation, and he wanted to immediately lead the Roman soldiers to be arrested and interrogated, but considering that doing so would cause serious diplomatic incidents, he was cautious and had the Roman soldiers immediately isolated while rushing to the Great Tent with Stasikodas.

As a result, Davers suddenly opened his mouth and deceitful, causing Oluth to leak the filling.

Although he later denied it, Davos threatened him that if Aulus did not tell the truth, Dionya would not accept the surrender of the defenders of Satnikum and leave them to be destroyed by the plague in the city.

Under pressure, Aulus had to admit that Satnikum might have been attacked by the plague.

But he then argued that this was just the beginning, and the situation was not serious, so they didn't pay much attention to it.

Davos told him in a stern tone: The Dionian Kingdom has advanced medical skills and has a lot of experience in treating plagues, but everyone in the city of Satnikum must follow the instructions of Dr. Dionycum in full order to be saved.

Eventually, the conspiracy was revealed, and Aulus gave in (as there were many members of the Cominenius clan in the defenders) and obediently resumed negotiations with Hennipolis, Tormid, and the medical director Stasikodas about the treatment of the defenders after the surrender.

After that, Dejected, Aulus returned to the city with this agreement and consulted with Mejus and others.

Immediately after Olus left, Davers announced: the entire Dionian camp was put on alert. Let Stasikodas lead the doctors of the entire camp to examine the physical condition of all the soldiers in the camp in detail, focusing on the Roman soldiers who had previously escaped from the city, and to isolate them. At the same time, the engineering battalion led the soldiers to boil a large amount of quicklime and re-sprinkle it all around the camp; The baggage battalion had to make countless thick strips of linen that the soldiers had to wear all day with covering their mouths and noses; All competitions and training ceased immediately, and the soldiers were not allowed to gather together, and wore as much as possible in tents during the day; In addition, it is necessary to vigorously eradicate rats and mosquitoes in the camp......

In fact, there are some measures that the Dionian army has been strictly following, and this time it is just a re-emphasis.

Davers also ordered the legionnaires in the camp to take turns to build three simple, smaller camps farther away from the camp.

Davers also told the officers of the legions to be honest with the soldiers that there was a plague in the city of Satnikum and that the defenders would surrender. They had no need to be afraid, the doctors had made careful preparations, and His Majesty had prayed to Hades for protection.

Since the founding of Dionia, because Davers has always attached importance to the medical development of the kingdom, and he himself knows that the plague is actually an acute infectious disease through the health knowledge of his previous life, as long as the environmental hygiene is always kept clean, as far as possible to reduce the source of disease, such as rats, mosquitoes, flies, corpses, for some suspicious places to be disinfected in time, lime is a cheap and effective disinfection material...... Therefore, in this era of frequent plagues, it is completely possible to reduce the occurrence of plagues in the kingdom.

It was precisely because of his insistence on teaching this knowledge to doctors in the kingdom and his strong promotion in the kingdom as king, coupled with the addition of Hippocrates, who had rich experience in plague treatment in previous years, that there was never a plague in the kingdom of Dionia. Even during the drought last year, the people avoided the practice that "after the great plague there must be a great plague" because of the attention of the whole kingdom.

Therefore, at this time, the vast majority of the soldiers in the camp had only heard of the horror of the plague, but they had not experienced it personally, and with the personal assurance of King Davers, a descendant of Hades, they did not panic, and the order of the entire camp was quite stable.

A day later, the defenders of Satnikum formally surrendered to Dionia, and the Roman dictator Camillus died of illness after the surrender was announced.

The news of his death soon spread throughout the city, and all the Roman soldiers and the inhabitants of Satnikum fell into mourning.

At the time of the opening of the city, Camillus's body was placed in a carriage and was carried out first, followed by a procession of Roman soldiers, who looked sad and nervous, and who wore no armor or weapons, but were dressed in plain clothes.

The Dionian soldiers, all in full uniform, armed with shields and guns, covered their mouths and noses with linens, formed two dense columns with their heads held high, stretching from the gates to the newly built camp, with a wide avenue in between.

The Roman soldiers were stopped at the end of the road.

Davers led the generals to the carriage.

Davers looked at the withered body of Camillus lying in the carriage, and he solemnly bowed three times to the father of Rome in his previous life, and the generals and ministers behind him naturally did the same.

The Roman soldiers, who were originally a little uneasy, saw this scene, and although they did not understand the meaning of this action, they could also deeply feel the respect of the king and ministers of Dionya for Camillus, so they fell silent one after another.

At this time, Davers, who was also covered in linen, turned to face the Dionian generals and officials, pulled down his mask, and said in a loud voice: "Camillus, a Roman citizen, has been involved in Rome's wars with the surrounding city-states since he became an adult, and has repeatedly performed in battle. More than 20 years ago, the Romans grew in strength and began to attack their most important enemy, the Roman Senate, when the Roman generals were unable to take the city, the Roman Senate appointed Camillus as commander, and after careful planning, he finally captured the city of Victoria, which was no smaller than the size of Rome.

However, his exploits were jealous of some Roman citizens, so he was accused of corruption and blasphemy at the citizens' assembly, and the untruthful people actually passed the proposal, according to Roman law, if convicted, he would be expelled, and Camillus was angry at this result, but he accepted the punishment and left Rome to settle in the nearby Latin city-state.

A dozen years ago, the Celts invaded south and occupied Rome. Worried about his mother state, Camillus called on the people of the Latin region to rise up against the Celtic invasion, and in the battle with the Celts, he gradually organized a large army and finally repelled the Celts.

While the Romans were grateful to Camillus for the great glory of recovering Rome, he wondered how the Romans would defeat the powerful Celts in the later battles, so instead of taking the credit, he chose the hard path of reforming centuries-old military traditions and creating a new military system that would make the Roman army stronger and more combative.

In the end, he succeeded, and the Roman army trained by the reformed Roman military system won many victories in wars with surrounding forces, and every time Rome encountered difficulties and dangers, the first thing the people thought of was Camillus, and Camillus, despite his old body, repeatedly responded to the call of the Senate and led the Roman citizens to fight in the east and west, and was invincible, making Rome become the overlord of central Italy and the nightmare of other races in only 10 years after the recovery. If the

Davers looked at the bright red Roman military flag on the carriage and said with emotion: "If there is no Kingdom of Dionya on the land of Italy, perhaps Rome, a Latin city-state fed by the Tiber River, will continue to be strong under the arms of the new military system laid down by Camillus, and even become the overlord of Italy and the overlord of the Western Mediterranean......"

The generals behind Davers, such as Amyntas, Matonis, and Lizaru, were slightly unconvinced when they heard this, but on such an occasion, where did they dare to interrupt.

When Aulus, who was behind the carriage, heard this, he was stunned, he did not expect that the king of Dionya was so optimistic about Rome, and he suddenly seemed to understand a little in his heart: why the king of Dionya dared to ignore the attack of Carthage and personally lead a large army to attack Rome, which had no direct conflict of interest with the kingdom of Dionia.

But will Rome really have the prospect of being as good as he says? Aulus was leisurely, but he couldn't help but sigh heavily when he thought back to his current situation.