Chapter 147: Arrangements after the war
After Oliver's Fourth Legion collapsed the city wall, he did not think carefully, did not conduct investigations, nor did he control his soldiers, allowing them to rush into the gap, but were trapped under the city, resulting in many burns and extremely heavy casualties.
As for Martonis's Second Corps, since Davers was behind him and almost watched the entire battle with his own eyes, he knew very well that although the Second Corps had the best siege equipment, the Romans also gathered heavy troops to defend the area he attacked, so Davers did not have much resentment towards Martonis.
During the wars over the years, Davers rarely said such heavy words, and several legion commanders lowered their heads in shame.
Davers did not look at them anymore, slowed down and said to Stacikdas, "What are the difficulties you have to save the soldiers?"
"There are too many soldiers injured and we are not caring for enough people."
"Tormid, you are responsible for drawing soldiers from the legions, letting them follow the command of Stacikdas, assisting the medical battalion, and rescuing their comrades."
"Yes, your Majesty."
"Your Majesty, we still need a lot of spacious and clean rooms for the wounded to recuperate and recover."
"This is easy to deal with." Davers thought for a while and said, "I heard that many Roman nobles fled to Capitolin Mountain. Trotiras, you are responsible for leading troops to free up their houses and hand them over to the medical camp for use."
"As for your order, your Majesty."
Stacikdas hesitated for a moment and said, "And... Your Majesty, I hope to treat the injured Roman people." The doctor's parents' hearts, although both sides are hostile, in the eyes of the doctor, there are only patients.
Davers smiled slightly and said with relief: "If you don't say this, I will let you do this."
Davers once again bets on the commanders of the legions: "Now let's clarify the positions of the legions in Rome."
When the commanders of the various legions heard this, they immediately leaned forward and looked at the map of the Roman city on the wooden table.
"The First and Second Legion camped in the square." Davers pointed to the map and said, "The Fourth Legion camped in the arena, the Sixth Legion camped in the southeast corner of the city, the Fifth Legion camped in the southwest corner of the city, and the Third Legion—"
Davers paused and looked at Lizaru: "You still live in your original camp, and you must also include the river beach where the original Third Fleet parked warships, and continue to improve the defense of the camp. Compared with other legions, you will have to work harder, but you must understand that it is very important that you guard the entire army's material transportation base! Be sure to guard carefully and not have any problems!"
"Leave it to our Third Legion, your Majesty, don't worry!" Lizaru said loudly.
Davers nodded and looked around the commanders of the legion: "Everyone understands the location of their legion. Please mention any difficulties."
Several legion commanders looked at the map and said they had no objection, only Giogris showed a hint of embarrassment. Davers saw it and immediately said, "Giogris, just say if you have any difficulties."
Giogris said carefully: "Your Majesty, there are messy houses everywhere in the southwest corner of the city. There are not enough open spaces for the Fifth Legion to camp. Moreover, garbage is everywhere and the smell is bad, which is not conducive to the soldiers' rest... There are a lot of open spaces near the arena. Can you see if I can let the Fifth Legion camp here at the arena?"
When Davers heard this, he hurriedly looked at the map. There was no slum in the southwest corner of Rome, but he believed in Giorgris's statement, after all, they were the generals close to the front line.
"Yes!" Davers immediately followed Giogris' suggestion and asked the commander of the Sixth Legion: "Trotlas, is it difficult for your Sixth Legion to camp in the southeast corner?"
"Your Majesty, I observed when I climbed the city. There was enough open space there, and there was no problem with camping."
After saying that, Davers looked at the commander of the cavalry legion: "The camps of the two cavalry legions are on the north side of the Sirio Mountains and on the south side of the square. There is a large market there. Now the Romans are not able to use it. When I entered the city gate just now, I saw that there were some corrals and stables in the market just right for your cavalry."
Neither Rides nor Kuzius had any objections.
"Now the camps of each legion have been determined, let's clarify your defense zone." Davers pointed the map and continued: "The wall sections that each legion attacked were the wall sections that you will patrol each. At the same time, each legion is also responsible for the order and security of the city. The initial plan is: The Fourth and Fifth Legion are responsible for the city south of the arena, the First and Sixth Legion are responsible for the city from the Roman Forum to the north of Mount Esqueri, the Second Legion and Fleet Infantry, and the Mountain Reconnaissance Brigade is responsible for the area in the middle of the city."
Speaking of this, Davers looked at Matonis: "Your Second Legion is responsible for the largest area, but the number of soldiers is the smallest, but you don't have to worry. According to the information I have received at present, most of the residents in the middle city are Roman nobles, but many of them have escaped to Mount Capitolin, and your mission is relatively relaxed."
"Your Majesty, even if they are still there, the brothers of our Second Legion will not be under any pressure. They are all old, young, women and children. What's the terrible thing?" Martonis said confidently.
"The Third Legion is responsible for the north shore of the Roman Bridge, and also protects the port we are about to build there. As for the two cavalry corps, your task is to patrol the entire city, find abnormalities, and promptly notify the corps in the area they are responsible for, so that they can solve the problem. The city is not conducive to cavalry operations, and do not let our precious cavalry lose it here. In addition, each legion should seize the time to improve the city section they defend, arrange deer forts outside the city wall, and dig traps... to ensure that we no longer need to pay a large amount of casualties to easily defend this city that already belongs to us... Oh, by the way, the two wall gaps that the fourth and fifth legions collapsed must be repaired quickly!"
"Your Majesty, our soldiers are stepping up their repairs." Giogris said immediately.
"Very good!" Davers nodded at him with satisfaction. Giogris was not as brave as Matonis, nor as wise as Olivers, and even a little timid by nature, but it was precisely because of his timidity that he became cautious and careful, and at some point he could play an important role.
"Your Majesty, where are we? Where do we live? What is our mission? You won't forget us!" Epitronis asked anxiously.
"How could you forget your troops!" Davers smiled, then pointed to the mountain sign next to the western section of the northeastern city wall and said in a deep voice: "I ask you to lead the troops to build a camp and surround Capitolin Mountain."
"Isn't it better to attack it directly?!" Epitians suggested loudly.
"No, we have to keep it." Davers smiled mysteriously: "This way we can control the Roman army outside the city."
What Davers said made the Legion commanders think.
"You all have clarified your tasks, and who else has different opinions?"
"No more." The generals answered in unison.
"How many prisoners have we captured?" Davers turned his head and asked Thormead.
"The preliminary statistics are more than 21,300 people."
"There are quite a lot of people."
"Many are elderly people, women, children... and slaves." Thormid reminded.
"Let all the prisoners over 55 and under 15 years old be released, and the others are taken to work as laborers by your legions... Wait..." Davers suddenly remembered something and changed his words and said, "First distinguish the nobles and civilians among these prisoners, and the diners of the nobles must also be clear. No one and diners, no one, are allowed to release them," said Davers.
"This... we are not very familiar with the situation in Rome. If we want to distinguish them clearly, we may not be able to do it in a short time." Thormid looked embarrassed.
"You... take Valquez, the Roman slave who had just surrendered to us, and let him make a preliminary distinction, and you can just supervise it." Davers understood that these men under him were fighting, but had no experience in handling other government affairs. He now had great desire for the group of veterans and administrative officials in Ostia.
"I understand." Thormid accepted the order.
"Orops, the engineering team you organized has made a lot of siege equipment in a short period of time, making great contributions to our capture of Rome!..." Davers did not hesitate to praise him and told the military judge that he must record the contributions made by the engineers and carpenters as an important basis for rewarding shares based on merit after the war.
Then he asked: "I need you to lead all the engineers to build a simple dock as soon as possible on the river beach where the Third Fleet parked warships so that our cargo ships can dock and load and unload supplies."
Orops was surprised: "Your Majesty, isn't there a river port here? Why do you need to build another one?"
Davers knew that although Oropus was a mercenary, he had been addicted to research and manufacturing equipment over the years and did not know much about the current situation. So he patiently explained to him: "The Roman army is coming soon, and there are probably nearly 70,000 people. With the current situation of our army, it is not suitable to fight against it. For the time being, we can only stick to this Roman city. The river port is outside the Roman city and does not have strong city wall protection. It takes a lot of casualties to defend it. This is completely unnecessary, so we can only ask you! And tomorrow, a large number of people and cargo ships will arrive in the Roman city. I hope you can speed up the construction of the dock!"
Chapter completed!