Feng Yu was stunned when Dian Qing asked this. Only then did he remember that although the word "freedom" appeared in Chinese in this era, it did not mean that, but an uncommon word. In order to express his meaning, he used the words in modern Chinese in his previous life. It is no wonder that Dian Qing had this question.

Feng Yu had no choice but to explain to Dian Qing: "Freedom means...it means not being bound by others."

Dian Qing then suddenly realized, "Oh, what they meant was that they would rather die than be enslaved. I thought their rebellion was also a general, prime minister, prince, and prince, so why would they have a slogan."

Douglas said from the side: "General, they don't want to speak. It seems that we can only pry open their mouths with torture."

Feng Yu shook his mind calmly: "It doesn't work just torture, and you must cooperate with the attack on your heart. Take them down and then interrogate them one by one. You will definitely get the information we want."

When these prisoners were taken down, Feng Yu told the soldiers responsible for the execution: "If you want to use the torture later, you should pay attention to the weight, don't harm their lives or traumatize them."

The effect of separate interrogation was indeed very good. Under the coercion, intimidation and temptation of Feng Yu's soldiers, most of these early teenage prisoners answered Feng Yu's questions in a simplified manner and explained the situation.

Only then did Feng Yu realize that their chief was Hannibal and the second chief was Spartacus. But Hannibal must be no different from Hannibal, a famous Carthage general five hundred years ago. Spartacus must be not the leader of the slave rebel army three hundred years ago.

This is not even a coincidence. These two names were newly named by the two slave rebel leaders from Carthage and Thrace. This was done naturally to make their reputations by the ancients. But it was not one of the two who started the uprising, but another. Moreover, at first it was not only this rebel army, but four or five rebel army members who started the uprising. However, later, these rebel soldiers were destroyed and merged, and in the end it was only this rebel leader who first started the uprising died on the battlefield.

However, the rebels, which were integrated by Hannibal and Spartacus, swept almost the entire Sicily. The officers and soldiers of the island fled, while the slaves rushed to the scene. Their troops quickly expanded to more than 50,000 troops, and then seized the last official fortress in Sicily, Palermo.

Hearing this, Douglas couldn't help but breathe a breath. More than 50,000 troops! Feng Yu added two auxiliary legions not used for regular warfare and only more than 10,000 troops. He hurriedly advised Feng Yu: "General, the military strength between the enemy and us is too disparity. I think we should wait until other counter-rebellion troops come and we will enter Sicily. We just need to guard this strait so that the rebel slaves cannot escape outside the island."

According to common sense, Douglas's suggestion was very appropriate. But Feng Yu had his own ideas. He did not directly respond to Douglas, but asked the prisoners in front of him: "You have gathered more than 50,000 soldiers and horses. How are these more than 50,000 soldiers and horses distributed, and where does their food source come from?"

The terrified thin prisoner of war responded quickly, "I don't know this...I just remember following the leader above and going wherever it says. Our team has more and more people. Sometimes after fighting with the official army, the number of people may become smaller, but it will soon be supplemented by the new gang. In this way, when we started to attack Palermo, I found that the surrounding troops were already dark and boundless. As a result, when we found out during the camp and rest, we actually had more than 50,000 troops.

They are all new slaves. As for food and grass..., the young man did not see anyone who transported grain from somewhere, but only saw a large truck that transported grain with the army, that is, the food was carried by the army. Wherever we usually fight, the first thing was to search for food in the grain warehouse, the second thing was to liberate the slaves and encourage them to join our rebels. The third thing was that except for the free people, the rest of the Romans would be killed, whether they were ordinary people with only Roman citizenship or bureaucrats."

When Feng Yu heard this, he smiled at Douglas and said, "These people are indeed a mob. Although they swept the peninsula, they still fight in the form of bandits. Not to mention that they only have more than 50,000 people, even if there are 500,000 people, I have the confidence to completely wipe them out."

Feng Yu stopped and said in a different tone: "We cannot bring them back to their senses and establish a solid base or even a country in Sicily. So we must enter Sicily as soon as possible and force them to maintain that kind of bandit state."

After saying that, Feng Yu said to the generals standing around him: "All the generals obey the orders. John, you still lead two brigades and a cavalry detachment to guard the Messina Strait. You must not let an enemy soldier cross the sea. The five gallopy warships in Ganning will patrol the strait and cooperate with you. In addition, our guards on the other side will also cooperate with you."

John raised his hand and said, "Receive the order."

"Douglas, after crossing the sea, you will also lead two brigades and a cavalry detachment, plus two brigades of the auxiliary corps, totaling about 2,500 people. Guard the pontoon bridge head on the other side. In addition to guarding the bridge head and protecting our army's return path, we will cooperate with John to prevent the enemy from crossing the sea."

"Receive order"

"After I followed me across the sea, I advanced along the northern shore of Sicily to the Port of Palermo. The first phase of the battle goal was to take over the Port of Palermo."

As soon as Feng Yu said this, many people immediately objected. Douglas first said: "General, after the division of troops, you will not have many people left, only about 7,000 people, and most of them are soldiers from the auxiliary corps. You are facing more than 50,000 rebels. How do you fight this battle? Even if you can win consecutive battles, you only have 7,000 people and cannot divide the troops to occupy the area. Sicily is so big that they have enough space to eliminate them, and will eventually exhaust you. Moreover, their defense is unknown, and you don't know when thousands of enemy troops suddenly pop up behind you, surrounding your lonely army."

Feng Yu smiled and said, "The commander of the Legion said very well, but there are two things you didn't consider. The remaining ships in Ganning will be with me, which is the main reason why I marched along the coast. Second, although Sicily is vast and there is enough room for rebels to move, they have to take all the food and grass to move because they have not made reasonable arrangements, but they have not had enough time to move."
Chapter completed!