Late at night on the third day, it was already deep, and Spartak led the people down from the cliff.
It turned out that Spartak and everyone spent a whole day weaving a very strong rope with vines. They tied one end of the rope to the big tree on the edge of the cliff. Then, everyone slipped down the rope. In this way, all the soldiers are behind enemy lines. The enemy is sleeping, I don't know. In this battle, Spartak won a great victory and immediately mobilized morale. More people came to look for him, and soon the team reached 70 thousand.
The victory in the first battle greatly boosted the morale of the rebels. Spartak carefully analyzed the situation, and it was very difficult to establish political power in Rome when the enemy was strong and we were weak. Therefore, he decided to take the rebels out of Italy and get rid of the slavery of Rome.
The rebels marched into northern Italy, ready to cross the Alps and enter the Gaul region where the Roman army had not yet reached.
Not satisfied with the defeat, the Roman Senate sent about10,000 soldiers to pursue the rebels in three ways. After the war between the two sides, Spartak defeated two enemy troops in Rome.
Because of continuous fighting, the rebels were trapped in a ravine by another enemy during a proper rest. The enemy was in high spirits and thought that they had killed the rebels. Late at night, Spartak came up with another clever plan. The rebels tied the bodies left by the enemy to wooden stakes and lit bonfires nearby. In the distance, it looks like a sentry is standing guard, and several soldiers are honking their horns at the same time. The rebels still seem to be trapped in the mountains. Right under the eyes of the enemy, the rebels quietly rushed out of the enemy's encirclement along the rugged narrow path. At dawn, the Roman army found the recruits, and quickly led the army to hurry. On the way, it was ambushed by the rebel ambush team and suffered heavy losses. Spartak broke through the enemy's repeated encirclement and interception and continued northward. In 72 BC, the number of insurgents increased to 6.5438+0.2 million, and the Alps were nowhere in sight. The Alps are towering into the sky, covered with snow all year round, and the climate is bad, so it is difficult for a large group of people to climb the mountains. Perhaps because of this particular situation, Spartak gave up his plan to cross the Alps into Gaul. He suddenly turned around and sent his troops south, ready to cross the sea to Sicily.
The Roman Senate used to do everything possible to prevent Spartacus from running out of Italy, but now it does everything possible to prevent him from entering the center of Italy. Roman soldiers set up a defense line on the way the rebels passed, but they could not resist the rebels with high morale, such as tigers descending the mountain. The Roman Senate sent two consuls to suppress it, but both failed. Rome is in a state of emergency. The Senate elected crassus, the great slave owner, as consul and led six regiments to deal with the rebels.
In 7 1 BC, crassus spent the whole summer in the rout of the rebels. In order to rectify the army, crassus restored the cruel "Eleven Rules of Killing and Shooting" of the Italian army: every ten soldiers fled at the scene, and each group drew lots to kill one person. In order to survive, the soldiers regained their courage and improved the fighting capacity of crassus troops. Spartak troops quickly advanced to the southern tip of the Italian half island. Spartak negotiated with pirates on the rough sea, and the pirates transported the rebels to Sicily by ship. The pirates got the money, swore an oath, but disappeared at the appointed time. It turned out that they were bought by the governor of Sicily. This treachery put the rebels in a desperate situation. But Spartak didn't lose heart. He organized the rebels to make their own rafts, and tied wooden barrels under the rafts to cross the sea instead of ships. But the big storm at sea made the plan fall through. The rebels are surrounded. Crassus is a sly fox. In order to prevent the slave uprising from going north again, he ordered his soldiers to dig a trench across the whole channel, each trench was 4.5 meters wide, and a tall and solid protective wall was built next to the trench to prevent the rebels from breaking through.
One day in the early autumn of 7/kloc-0 BC, Spartak launched a decisive battle with the enemy. More than 60,000 uprising slaves died heroically, and Spartak and tens of thousands of insurgents were surrounded. But the rebel soldiers are still fighting bravely. They growled and tried to break through again and again.
Spartak rode a black horse and fought fiercely with the enemy in despair. Suddenly, a Roman officer stabbed him in the back, hurt his leg and fell off his horse. Soldiers came to his rescue at once. The soldiers begged Spartak to ride out of the encirclement, but Spartak stabbed the horse with a dagger and vowed to die with the soldiers. He knelt down on one knee, raised his shield, went forward bravely, and fought back against the attacking enemy until he fell with the enemy who surrounded him.
Spartak was stabbed in more than a dozen places and died heroically. More than 6,000 captured slaves were all crucified by bloodthirsty crassus on their way from Kapuya to Rome. In this way, the vigorous Spartak uprising was suppressed.
Although the uprising led by Spartak failed, it dealt a heavy blow to Roman aristocratic rule.