Chapter 388 Aging and Rebirth

"How's the situation?" Maximus immediately asked with concern.

"Sir Quintus' fever has completely subsided now. He only needs to rest for two more days and he should be fine." The doctor replied.

"Great!" Maximus breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and opened the tent. He saw Quintus hunched over and pacing slowly in the tent. He quickly walked in and persuaded in a gentle voice: "Quintus Tusi, you are recovering from your illness, it is best to continue lying down and rest until your strength is fully recovered before you get up."

"Chief, I understand my body. It's fine." Quintus waved his hand stubbornly: "I've been lying down for almost two days. If I don't get up and move around, my body will become stiff. By the way, Chief, you're coming back at this time, aren't you? Has Simbeis Baid been captured?”

Although he knew that Quintus was changing the subject, Maximus had to nod and said: "Yes, Simbeis Baid has been captured by us, and all the people in the village have been captured, and we have no losses. It’s a complete victory!”

"It seems that the Wrath of the Giant played an important role in this battle, but it's a pity that I didn't see it show off its power." Quintus said with a look of longing on his face: "So I can't miss the next battle. ”

Maximus understood that Quintus was telling him tactfully: he would continue to accompany the army as counselor and would not return to Ofidilia to recuperate.

Because Quintus caught a cold and fell ill with a high fever when the army entered Lake Gonamim before, Maximus had prepared to send him back to Ofidilia Hospital for treatment, but he stubbornly refused, so Maximus this time I am not prepared to persuade you anymore.

He said: "The plan is going very smoothly. We will stay here for a while. After Simbeis Baid is completely controlled, the army will continue to move south and capture the buildings built by the past few years along the river. Zuoyingzhai..."

"The autumn harvest has just begun. We can get more grain and grass from Broch's village. In addition, it can be transported by ship and consumes less money. This time we don't have to worry about food supply at all." Quintus nodded in agreement. : "We can stabilize each place we conquer without haste, so as to ensure the stability of our back road.

What's more important is to let Broch's big leader understand that the defense plan he made against us is completely unworkable, giving him enough time to go to other Pannoni tribes to request reinforcements.

When our army approaches Broch's main stronghold, we may be able to have a decisive battle with the Pannoni coalition. After winning this victory, whether we attack Maziyi to the east or Andize to the south, It will become easier if you mention it. "

"I hope the battle will develop as you expected, Quintus."

"When this battle is over, it will only be a matter of time before the entire Pannoni is completely annexed by us. The next enemy we have to face is either the Boii or the Dacians..."

Quintus said, returned to the bed and sat down, pressed his sore legs with his hands, and sighed sadly: "I am old and my health is failing. This is the last time I will accompany you on an expedition, leader. I'm afraid I We can’t see the day when we Nix will defeat the Bois and Dacians and become the true masters of this vast river plain!”

Maximus wanted to comfort him with a few words, but he swallowed his words again, because Quintus, who was almost sixty years old, had indeed been getting worse and worse in physical condition in the past few years. Therefore, before Maximus left for this expedition, I didn't want him to join the army, but he had to reluctantly agree because of his insistence. As a result, he caught a bad cold after being exposed to the wind, which showed that his body could no longer withstand the torture.

Minjunus, who had treated Quintus many times, told Maximus privately: According to his judgment, Quintus was angry and sad for a long time during the years when he lost his son and daughter-in-law, which consumed his mind too much and caused the body function to deteriorate. The decline was too rapid. If it hadn't been for the good life and adequate medical protection in the past few years, his health would have died long ago.

Although Frontinus, who is similar in age to him, has also endured many years of hard slave life, his physical condition is much healthier than him, and he is still as strong as a middle-aged man.

Maximus was silent for a moment and then said: "After this war is over, Simbeis Baid will become an important town of our Nix tribe in this area. I am ready to appoint Valles as Simbeis Baid." Chief Executive of Germany.”

Quintus was surprised and delighted, and said hesitantly: "Chief, Valles is still young. He is still only the head of the Department of Religious Management. He has never managed a town. He was promoted to the chief executive of a town. The officials are afraid that this will happen." I have objections..."

Why would Master Kuntu say that doing this is a leapfrog promotion?

Because the Religious Management Department is not affiliated with any department, but is directly led by Maximus like the Intelligence Department, Attendant Department, and Archives Department. When Maximus determined the official rank for the Nix tribe officials, considering that there were not many people in the Religious Administration Department and the affairs were not too busy, and out of a desire to avoid suspicion, he finally gave the chief officer of the Religious Administration Department the rank of Level 2. The town administrator is at least level 4 (the chief executive of Ofidilia is level 5), so from the head of the Religious Management Department to the town administrator, he has been promoted two levels in a row.

"Leapfrog promotions are not uncommon in our Nix tribe. Sio Pompos was just the director of a market, and in a blink of an eye he became the administrator of Snodia; and Magus, who is the same as Valles. The children who were approved are all about the same age and have been serving as assistant officers of the Finance Department... They have all worked for many years and have not heard any objections from others. "

Maximus persuaded earnestly: "You are young, don't be afraid, as long as you have the ability! You should know that there are now four Danu temples in the tribe, dozens of altars, hundreds of priests, and other auxiliary personnel, a total of more than a thousand people, and there is also a Danu goddess school... All of this is done under the control of the Religious Management Department.

Our tribesmen come from all over the country and have their own beliefs, but under the guidance of the Religious Management Department, in just a few years, the belief in Danu goddess has taken root in the tribe, allowing 80% of the tribesmen to fully follow it, and at the same time it has expanded outward, affecting the surrounding friendly neighbors, and there has been no conflict of faith in the entire development process, and no priests have violated regulations and disciplines. This is very difficult, and Wallace, the chief of the Religious Management Department, has made an indelible contribution!

Tribal talents with strong abilities like Wallace should be given more power to make him make more contributions to the tribe!"

"Thank you, chief!" Quintus stood up again and saluted Maximus respectfully.

What he said before was just to express his concern for his grandson, but Maximus told him clearly that "he just wants to train Vales vigorously!" With the firm support of the leader, Vales will become the head of the department and an important tribal official in the future, so he is completely relieved.

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The Nix army stayed in Simbey Isbad for five days. During the period of stabilizing the order in the village and appeasing the captured Brochi warriors and people, the village was also built into a logistics base.

At the same time, the craftsmen repaired the damaged catapults one by one.

Maximus led the army to continue to march south, and successively conquered several riverside camps along the way. Because he adopted the strategy of "taking down a place and stabilizing a place", the army did not approach the main Brochi camp until early December.

Brochi's territory is roughly rectangular, with mountains on the east and west sides, Lake Gonamite on the north, and Andizeti on the south. It has the Sava River and fertile plains on both sides of the river.

The main camp of Brochi is located on the east bank of the Sava River, close to the southern border. The terrain is relatively flat from here to the east. Every time the Pannoni Tribal Alliance holds a meeting, the leaders and followers of the three major tribes of Segestica, Brochi and Andizeti must pass through here first, and then go east to the main camp of Mazii.

Shortly after the Nix army captured Simbey Isbad, Brix learned from the spies that "the village fell within a day". In shock, he realized that the defense system he had worked hard to build was nothing but a chicken and a dog under the attack of such terrible siege weapons of the Nix people. The defense facilities of the main camp were not much stronger than those of Simbey Isbad, and defending the main camp was just waiting to die.

Therefore, Brix had to urgently send messengers to ask for help from the other major Pannoni tribes.

Mazii chieftain Metilis was the first to respond. Although his tribe suffered heavy losses in the battle of the Korana River, and later suffered some losses in assisting the Pannoni tribe to the east against the Boyi, he urgently summoned 5,000 warriors and led them to the Brochi main camp, considering that Brochi was adjacent to Mazii and the main camps of the two tribes were very close to each other.

The second large tribe that showed positive performance was Andizeti. In fact, it had never participated in the war with the Nixes before, but Brochi had helped it in the war with the remaining Scodischi tribe to the south. Once Brochi was destroyed, it would face the north-south attack of the Nixes and Scodischi. Its strategic situation was worse than that of Mazii. Therefore, Andizeti, who had never sent reinforcements to other Pannoni tribes, ignored the threat of the Scodischi tribe to the south and made every effort to urgently summon most of the tribe's troops - nearly 8,000 warriors, to the Brochi main camp.

In comparison, the three major tribes in the north performed much worse. They had a hard time dealing with the invasion of the Boyi people, so naturally they could not spare much manpower to assist Broch.