Chapter 769: Attila the Martyr
"To Rome, the divine light is guiding us, to Rome, let the servants of the devil tremble before us, slaves, the time of freedom has come, break the shackles on you, freedom, freedom belongs to you!"
Yang Feng roared excitedly.
"Freedom, to Rome!"
The believers behind him shouted as well.
Then those slaves silently came over to join their team, saying that the number of slaves in Ostia Harbor is very large, and they are all strong, many of them themselves are Yahweh believers captured from the East, of course, it doesn't matter, anyway, what they want is freedom, in this case, they basically respond. Soon Yang Feng's team grew, and even some sailors who tried to run to Rome to make a fortune joined, pirates and merchant sailors were inseparable throughout ancient times, taking advantage of the fire to rob a wave of Rome, and then board the ship and flee to North Africa or the Iberian Peninsula as quickly as possible.
These sailors were also armed.
In this way, Yang Feng's army swelled rapidly.
At this time, a small number of garrisons on the dock and armed Romans also arrived, and the battle between the two sides began immediately, with Yang Feng, a commander who can be called a change-level commander in terms of combat effectiveness and military command ability, the rabble easily defeated these guys who were already ineffective.
By this time, the Romans had already been abolished by the moisture of a few hundred years of lead solution, otherwise Caracalla would not have issued the Edict of Aminus.
He's a really useless soldier.
Anyway, even the commander of his Praetorian Guard is not a Roman!
The stimulus of victory boosted the morale of the rabble, and under the leadership of Yang Feng, they immediately slaughtered Rome.
The port of Ostia was a few dozen miles from Rome, and was connected by arguably the best roads in the country, and by the time the senators reacted, they had already arrived in Rome and began to sack the mansions of the rich on the outskirts of Rome. Then their size skyrocketed again, because the tyrants who had been looting the Yahweh believers to make a fortune joined in, and instead of looting the Yahweh believers who had no money, it was better to follow them to attack those rich manors and make a big profit......
Well, can't be counted on their festivity.
However, attacking the city of Rome is still at the level of fantasy, and at this time Rome is not without the protection of the city wall, the towering Severn wall surrounds Rome, and this wall with a local height of more than 11 meters blocks Yang Feng's army.
Of course, the Senate wouldn't let that happen.
That's just funny, the dignified Roman Empire, the capital of the hegemon of the Western world at present, has been attacked by a group of slaves and untouchables, it is simply an insult to their personality, not to mention that these bastards are also looting their property, the senators who still don't have a villa outside the city or something, these are obviously also necessary to protect, after sobering up from the chaos, the Senate quickly organized a Roman legion in the city to drive out of the city and attack the rebel army that has completely turned into a disorderly carnival.
"Let's fight!"
Yang Feng roared.
"The martyrs will enjoy eternal happiness in heaven, without hunger or cold, without pain, and in that garden of precious stones, where rivers of milk and honey will always flow, sweet fruits will always be within reach, and immortal maids will serve you......"
He continued to roar as he fought.
However, he didn't use superpowers, at most he used them when dodging the sneak attack of the bow and arrow, and the rest was only fighting with Liu Xie's body and his incomparable experience, but even then those Roman legion soldiers were not enough for him to beat.
At this time, the main forces of the Roman legions followed Caracalla to fight in the east, and those who remained here were nothing more than some old and sick, in fact, the main forces including Caracalla's men were not Roman, he inherited the Danube Legion from his father, and the main base was in the Balkans. In the later Roman Empire, the rulers were all provinces, and even in the era of the four emperors, none of the four rulers were in Rome, only the senators were in Rome, which shows how the city was in ruin.
And this legion itself is also the local ones in Rome who have been moistened by lead solution since childhood, and it is very difficult to suppress a slave rebellion in ordinary times, let alone against Yang Feng.
Hundreds of people surrounded him!
is still like he is in a no-man's land.
His followers were stunned by this scene, what is such a fierce general if it is not a miracle? With the protection of the gods, their combat power skyrocketed, and with more and more slaves and believers joining, they actually defeated the Roman legion and drove them back to Rome.
Of course, in the end they failed.
Because the next day, two other legions stationed nearby, together with the free folk soldiers who were quickly armed in the city, the Senate cobbled together an army of more than 30,000 to fight, and this time although Yang Feng was still brave and invincible, but in the face of the surging enemy, he was still unable to turn the tide, and took his loyalty to Yahweh to be a great martyr, and went to heaven to enjoy the gem garden and the river flowing with milk and honey.
However, his body was not found.
Although many people saw how he was overwhelmed by Roman soldiers, his body was not found during the post-war cleaning of the battlefield, and he came like a mystery and then disappeared like a mystery, but he still opened a vigorous era, and after his death, the remnants of his followers hid in the mountains like Spartacus in the past, and continued to hold on to their faith there, and people continued to raise troops under his name......
Well, of course he won't be called Yang Feng.
His name was Attila.
The great martyr Attila has guided the believers of Yahweh for generations to fight for their faith and freedom!
Of course, they did not stand in the way of the Roman Empire's cause of pure faith.
The cleansing of heresy continues to spread.
It soon spread to the armies that were fighting against Parthia in Asia Minor, and because they were dissatisfied with the Führer's unresolute attitude towards suppressing heresy, the Janissaries assassinated him and elected Macrinus, the commander of the Janissaries who were descendants of slaves in North Africa, as their head, and then signed a peace treaty with the Parthians to withdraw from the occupied territories in Mesopotamia to end the war, so as to return to suppress the heretical rebellion.
However, the Syrian legions, citing the loss of the dignity of the Roman Empire, mutinied by Caracalla's aunt and elected her grandson, Eragabalus, a god of the sun, as their head.
The Civil War of the Roman Empire begins.
This time, however, Elagabarus was defeated.
Because the Senate and Rome itself were all Ares and Athena's followers at this time, they were worried that a Führer who believed in Apollo would anger Ares, not to mention that the Senate had little affection for the Severus family, who had already produced several heads, they were suppressed both in the era of Caracalla and in the time of his father Severus, but the humble Macorinus was undoubtedly easier to control, and Macrinus's slave origin was easier to alleviate the slaves' resistance. The Senate chose to unite with the Praetorian Guard and mobilize all the troops loyal to Rome to support Macrinus, but Eragabarus was defeated and retreated to Damascus, where he was supported by the heretics, mainly the Jews, and defeated the Roman legions that attacked him.
He continued to proclaim himself head of the Roman Empire in Damascus and refused to purge heresy.
The Romans didn't care about him either.
Because of the demonstration effect created by Yang Feng, heretics continued to rebel in various places, especially according to the orders of Ares, Rome must carry out a complete cleansing of all heretics, so that many of the imperial lands that were actually colonies, those heretics who had to cooperate with them were at their own risk.
You must know that Rome was a colonial empire, and the Romans ruled the colonies, and appeased the converts of the colonies, after all, the latter also had great power, so they had to acquiesce in their religious existence, such as those in Egypt who believed in the ancient Egyptian god system. Although the Greek mythological system had washed away the old Egyptian god system during the reign of the Roman Empire, because the Roman Empire did not enforce the ban, a large number of Egyptian temples still existed, until Yahweh became the state religion of the Roman Empire, and it was completely destroyed in the ban on polytheistic worship, but that was a hundred and fifty years later, and the Egyptian temples were still open at this time.
Another example is Judaism.
They have not been able to eradicate even the rise of the Great Cannibals, and they can be said to be deeply entrenched in Syria.
There are also believers in the Celtic mythological system.
Including at this time, Britain and Gaul had a large number of people who believed in the Celtic mythological system, and these were all in the forbidden range, and it would be hellish if such a wide range of blows did not cause chaos, not to mention those frontier areas where the empire had weak control, such as Britain, and the revolts on the Apennine Peninsula rose one after another.
It is said that the Romans have seen Ares and Athena, but they have not seen it elsewhere, on the contrary, many people have heard of the martyr's invincibility in attacking Rome.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with Yang Feng.
After becoming a martyr outside Rome, he turned into an ordinary man, and purchased a large number of vegetable and fruit seeds from Europe, including cabbage, beets, and carrots, and flew back to the North African desert to find his plane and other seeds, and then packed them and continued his journey east. Halfway through the process, he procured some Egyptian cotton seeds, including pasture seeds such as clover, and by the way, he played the role of a god among some Egyptians who were angry because of the pure faith of the Romans, and then he continued to fly eastward with satisfaction, and once again performed miracles in the Hejaz, and finally flew all the way to the Kushan Empire.
As for Parthia, there is no need to do it again, because then the Sassanids will rise, and then they will go to war with the Sabbatia.