Chapter 397 Pannoni's Destruction

But it soon became apparent that Catiline had not fled abroad, but had joined up with his right-hand man Manlius and the army he had formed.

The fact of Catiline's rebellion was certain, and he and Manlius were declared enemies of Rome by the Senate.

In view of the fact that many supporters of Catiline were still stirring up trouble in Rome, the Senate held an emergency meeting and asked Cicero to identify the leaders of the Catiline conspiracy and arrest them.

As Catiline's conspirators were captured one after another, including senators who had served as consuls, the atmosphere in the entire city of Rome became very tense. The senators were suspicious of each other and acted with extreme caution.

One of the arrested conspirators was brought to the Senate and claimed that he had been sent by Crassus to inform Catiline. Since Crassus had publicly supported Catiline's candidacy for the consul twice before, this accusation made Crassus angry. Sue is in danger.

However, many senators were in debt to Crassus, and at this time they all shouted that this was a false accusation against Crassus. Other senators believed that it was best to win over a powerful figure like Crassus at this critical moment rather than alienate him, so the senators voted that Crassus was innocent.

Caesar, who had also supported Catiline's candidacy for the consulship, was also accused. The instigator was Catullus, who was still bitter about losing to Caesar when he ran for high priest.

But Cicero refused to arrest Caesar, perhaps because he had a good relationship with Caesar, or perhaps he did not want to push Caesar, who had great prestige among Roman civilians, into the arms of the rebels, which would make the situation difficult to deal with, so he claimed to believe Caesar's loyalty to the Republic.

Eventually, five key conspirators close to Catiline were arrested, including two well-known senators.

The Senate held a meeting in the Temple of Harmony, chaired by Cicero, to discuss how to deal with these criminals.

Some of the senators favored the death penalty, others murmured in agreement. Crassus was absent, and Caesar, as the next judicial officer, expressed his own opinion, pointing out that the death penalty was not in line with Roman customs and recommended that he be imprisoned for life.

Cato severely criticized Caesar's suggestion and insisted on their execution.

Ultimately, most of the senators agreed with Cato that Rome's security was more important than the rights of individual citizens.

So Cicero hanged the five prisoners. When he announced the result of the death penalty to the public, the vast majority of the people congratulated him with thunderous cheers, and some even hailed him as the savior of Rome.

This stranger from the small town of Alpinum never dreamed that he would have such a glorious day.

Order was restored in the city of Rome, but the danger was not lifted. Catiline and his followers were launching a rebellion in the north, threatening the security of Rome.

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The first half of 63 BC (the ninth year of the establishment of the Nyx tribe) was relatively calm within the Nyx tribe. However, considering the tense situation in the north, the Nyx people stepped up their efforts to digest and absorb the newly occupied territory.

After the autumn harvest, bad news came. The Boi people launched a massive attack on the south bank of the Drau River. After fierce fighting, they defeated the defense of the Pannoni tribe's combined army and began to pour into the land on the south bank.

The envoys of the three Pannoni tribes hurried to the Nyx tribe and made a request to Maximus: As long as the Nyx tribe is willing to send troops to help the Pannoni repel the Persian army and drive them back to the north coast, the Pannoni three The large tribes are willing to attach themselves to the Nyx tribe, serve Maximus as their master, and obey his orders.

Maximus's answer was: Unless the Pannoni joined the Nyx tribe, he would not be able to convince the people to risk their lives to provoke the powerful Boi people for the sake of their former enemies.

Naturally, it was impossible for the Pannoni leaders to agree to such an unreasonable request. The envoys returned without success, but the situation of the Pannoni people was deteriorating rapidly...

After the Boi established a foothold on the south bank of the Drau River, they continued to advance southward, and through fierce fighting again, defeated the coalition forces organized by the three Pannoni tribes with all their strength, thus dividing the territories of the three Pannoni tribes. Second, make it impossible to unite.

Naturally, the Boi army also approached the original Maziyi territory newly occupied by the Nyx tribe. However, the Boi people obviously did not want to waste time and effort in marching towards the mountains, so they divided their troops into two groups and attacked east and west.

The Pannoni people could no longer organize effective resistance, and the people fled in panic. The goal of their escape was the same-the territory of the Nix tribe.

Maximus refused to refuse anything and ordered his men to take the initiative to accept them and arrange them properly.

The move of the Nyx tribe eliminated the scruples of the Pannoni people, so more Pannoni people rushed to flee to the Nyx territory, including Pachiras, the leader of Peruste.

Peruste is located in the center of the three large Pannoni tribes in the north and is the focus of the Poi cross-river attack. Pakiras twice organized coalition forces to resist, but failed both times. The Boi people took advantage of the victory to attack, and Pakiras didn't even have time to gather his defeated troops and flee back to the main stronghold. The main stronghold was already surrounded by the Boi people's cavalry. Mikas calls for help.

Demicas himself can't be saved, so how can he send reinforcements? Pachilas, who was close to despair, could only follow the fleeing tribesmen into the territory of Pandiziti, eager to see Maximus.

After meeting Maximus, he begged in tears: As long as the Nix tribe was willing to send troops to repel the Boii and save the Perustai people in distress, the Perustai tribe was willing to become part of the Nix tribe according to Maximus's request.

After the two sides reached an agreement, although Maximus had mobilized the army more than a month ago in view of the serious situation, he did not send troops immediately, but first asked the scepter priest Aymerich to persuade the druid Podamoch of the Noriki tribe to go to the Boii army together and meet the Boii king and the archdruid.

They tried to persuade them to withdraw their troops and retreat to the north bank on the grounds that "Perustai is now the territory of the Nix tribe."

How could he spit out the fat meat in his mouth? The Boii king ignored the fact that Aymerich and the two were both Celts and druids, and scolded them for being shameless, and threatened that after the Pannoni were destroyed, it would be the turn of the Nix.

The druid Podamoch, who had come to repay the favor of the Nix tribe and was just pretending to be a part of the story, was humiliated by the King of Boi and was furious. In the following battle, he persuaded the tribe to stand on the side of the Nix tribe and provide more iron ore.

When Aymeric returned to the tribe, he exaggerated the words of the King of Boi to the tribe members, which immediately aroused the anger of the Nix people and the voices for war rose.

Maximus responded to the call of the tribe members and declared war on the Boi in January 62 BC (the eleventh year after the establishment of the Nix tribe), and then led the two legions and cavalry that had been assembled and quickly marched westward.

At this time, the Boi army on the south bank of the Drao River was divided into three parts: one part swept the territory of Desitiatai in the west, one part besieged the main camp of Disione in the east, and a small part was stationed in the territory of Perustai.

King Boi had a bad relationship with the Nix people, and naturally thought that the other side would come to make trouble, but he did not expect that the Nix people would come so quickly and bring so many soldiers.

He hastily summoned less than 10,000 troops from the east and rushed to fight.

The strength of the Nix infantry was beyond King Boyi's expectations. Although the Nix cavalry was large, they were shot by the crossbowmen hiding behind the Nix cavalry when they launched the charge, and suffered heavy casualties.

The Nix army was defeated, and King Boyi led the remaining troops to retreat to the territory of Disione. While urgently summoning the troops in the west to return to defense, he sent people back to the north bank and asked the tribes to send reinforcements.

Before the reinforcements arrived, King Boyi discovered that Nix's huge fleet appeared on the Drao River.

Unlike the Pannoni, who had been independent for only a dozen years, the Boii, who had lived on this river plain for hundreds of years, had a large fleet. Otherwise, after the defeat with the Dacians, they would not have been able to smoothly withdraw the people who originally lived on the east bank of the Danube to the west bank. They relied on the fleet to carry soldiers across the Drau River to defeat the Pannoni...

Seeing the Nix fleet appear, the Boii fleet, which was originally docked on the north bank and was responsible for transporting supplies and wounded soldiers, quickly came to meet it.

The first large-scale naval battle since the establishment of the Nix tribe began.

The ships of both sides were basically shuttle-shaped speedboats of the same style, but most of the ships on the Nix side had sails, while the Boii naval warships did not.

The sailboats were clumsy, but more than 400 ships gathered on the Drau River, which was less than 200 meters wide. The flexibility of the Boii warships could not be demonstrated. On the contrary, the ships of both sides were crowded together and fought close to each other, mainly relying on boarding.

Unfortunately, the Nix ships had tents, which made boarding difficult. In addition, each ship was equipped with crossbowmen. Often, before the Boi ships approached the enemy, most of the sailors on their own ships were shot by crossbows.

In this battle, the Nix fleet won a great victory. The Boi warships were either captured or destroyed. From then on, the Drao River was under the control of the Nix navy. The Boi army on the south bank was cut off from returning and became a turtle in a jar.

Maximus took the opportunity to lead his army to attack them.

King Boi fought desperately, but was eventually defeated and captured.

At this time, the territories of the three major Pannonian tribes were trampled by the Boi army, and there were displaced people everywhere. After going through hardships, they hated the incompetence of their leaders and envied the strength of Nix. There were also many Pannonian reserve tribesmen who spread the benefits of joining the Nix tribe everywhere, so the Pannonian people joined the Nix tribe one after another.

Compared with the time and effort spent on conquering the territory of Segestica, this time after Maximus completely defeated the Boii army on the south bank, he easily took over the territories and people of the three major tribes of Pannoni without any more fighting.

Since then, the Pannoni tribe has perished.