I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 55 Immigrants
"Hoo-ha! Ho-ha! Ho-ha!"

After forming the formation, the Macedonian heavy infantry was imposing like a rainbow, advancing along the dirt road in the barbarian barracks, beheading all the enemies in front of them. With the addition of these heavy infantry, the morale of the barbarian infantry suddenly fell like a cliff However, the spies from the barbarian camp who had infiltrated here before also started to set fire to it and spread rumors, making the situation even more chaotic.

Seeing that the barbarian barracks were easier to conquer than expected, Antigonus let go of his guard and immediately ordered the whole army to launch a general attack-this was undoubtedly the last straw that broke the camel's back. , the barbarian army collapsed across the board, and could no longer organize resistance.

Next, it's time for the Macedonian hunting carnival!

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In the evening of the same day, Antigonus, who returned to the barracks, received Kronos' report on the battle, which was no different from what he expected. The casualties of the Macedonian army in this battle can be said to be minimal, with only a few dozen soldiers rushing in first. The Agirian axemen and Thracian spear throwers fighting in the camp were killed, and scores of others were wounded.The casualties of the barbarian army were not high. Hundreds of people were killed by arrows and javelins or the ensuing close combat, and thousands of people were captured, including many old, weak, sick and disabled.

For these captives, Antigonus adopted a consistent and ruthless policy, selling everyone into slaves-the maintenance of a great empire requires the blood and sweat of countless slaves. It is no exaggeration to say that there is no classical empire in Europe without the prosperity of These humblest slaves.

In addition to the thousands of slaves, the progress of Antigon's system tasks has increased a lot. Originally, he only wiped out two target tribes, but after this battle, his progress suddenly increased (5/7), That is to say, after eliminating the five target tribes, only the last two tribes remained, and he would be able to gain the allegiance of a famous general.

At the beginning, Antigonus was still wondering why so much progress would be made after destroying the barbarian coalition. After understanding, Antigonus knew the composition of the barbarian coalition, and he let go of his doubts—put the eggs It's in one basket, so it's not all broken.

After some interrogation, Antigonus learned from several captured barbarian chiefs the whereabouts of those tribes that were not all soldiers. Just in case, those tribes all moved to Mali in the south before the war started. base plain.As the name suggests, the Maliki Plain is the plain where the Maliki people settled. At its peak, tens of thousands of Maliki people lived here, but after a series of war mobilizations, there were only less than [-] people left here, and most of them were old people. Weak and disabled.

It is worth mentioning that although the Maliki are as good at ambushes and raids as their Salo allies, they have settled on the endless plains. Several large tribes among them have united to build a large-scale city that vaguely resembles a city. Settlement, this large-scale settlement has three functions: living and residence, item trade (they are still in the stage of bartering) and material production.

Arguably, if the Maliki had established a kingdom, the settlement known as Messuion (meaning huge tribe in Maliki) would have been the undisputed capital of the Maliki kingdom.

After learning that the Salo people had moved en masse to their Maliki allies, Antigonus was not upset. While letting the spies from the Outer Barbarian camp go south to investigate, he ordered the army to repair in place.In addition to the news of the Salo people moving south, he actually also learned from the barbarian chiefs that the Duretika army in the north had moved south and was coming here.

The Duretika people are a branch of the Danno people. They like to paint or apply tattoos on their bodies with a certain kind of unique bright blue pigment to frighten the enemy and enhance their courage. When they fight, they like to drive two horses. The pulled chariot breaks up the enemy's formation first, and then the infantry wielding irons rushes into the gap, killing all directions.

Because they belong to the kind of peaceful tribe, they are not very enthusiastic about the Bloody Moon, and they do not send that many warriors. However, the Macedonians have almost reached their doorstep. The chief of the Duretika people They immediately couldn't sit still and immediately agreed to Salo's envoy's request for help. At the same time, they also mobilized a large number of warriors within the tribe.In their view, it is much better to be neighbors with the Salo people who are also barbarians who will not take the initiative to offend them than to be neighbors with the Macedonians who rely on their civilization.

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While waiting for the Duretika people to go south, Antigonus is also controlling the progress of immigration in the rear. Because the immigration policy allocates more land, this condition has attracted many poor people in Pella to sign up. For these Those who signed up, Hephaestion, the chief clerical officer in charge of this matter, would not refuse anyone who came. He just briefly reviewed their personal files and gave the green light directly.

However, one thing is very realistic. Those Macedonian citizens and Greeks who have stable jobs or good family backgrounds in Pella are unlikely to give up their current lives and follow the poor to the barbaric land outside Thermopylae. They all knew that although the vast land outside Hot Spring Pass was rich in resources, it was not safe. Although the surrounding barbarian tribes had nominally surrendered, no one could guarantee that they would not rebel again and attack the town strongholds that the immigrants had finally built.

Antigonus could understand their idea, so he did not force it. He just focused on the new immigrants who landed at the port of Pella with the ship and some free people tribes who settled outside the city.Regarding the former, Antigonus did not care about their thoughts and directly and forcibly assigned everyone outside Thermopylae. They would be the first generation immigrants together with the poor people of Pella City, carrying sufficient supplies and slaves. Build towns on land that the Macedonian army never really controlled.As for the latter, it is even simpler. Whether they are Agrians, Thracians, or Paeonians, they have no resistance to migrating outside Thermopylae, because they are very open-minded. The land in the plain is not large. Rather than staying here, it is better to get out of Hot Spring Pass and own a wider land.

However, Antigonus did not intend to let them continue to settle as scattered tribes. He decided to let those tribes be divided into tribes (that is, one unit for Agrians and one unit for Thracians), together with the Greek immigrants. The purpose of building a city outside Thermopylae was to deepen the settlement of those free people and further consolidate the Macedonian Kingdom's ability to control the land outside the Pass.

Although he can control a vast land by building military camps outside the pass, he is more inclined to use an assimilation policy to make this land gradually become the "sacred territory" of the Kingdom of Macedonia "since ancient times".

(End of this chapter)