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Chapter 40, the debut in turmoil (3)

Because the choir was arranged in the audience and they did not have any special makeup. So when the song entered the chorus stage, these people suddenly started singing, which surprised the audience around them.

In this clip, the song only sang the first part. At the end of the song, the members of the singular team closed their mouths and almost suddenly became audience members.

"Hey, man, can you sing this song?" asked a young man with a little hazel freckle on his nose gently pulling the sleeve of a singer next to him.

"Yes. We can sing." The singer replied simply.

"This song is so exciting!" the young man exclaimed.

"There are a few paragraphs at the end of this song. I only sang one paragraph here, and I sang it all, which makes me more energetic." Another person interrupted, "I live nearby. I have heard them practicing this song these days..."

"Shut up, I won't even hear the lines!" another person complained.

The drama on the stage continued to be staged, Vesuvius was too small to accommodate the rebel army. Regarding the future trends of the rebel army, Spartacus had a disagreement with another rebel leader, Cres. Spartacus believed that the Roman legions were very powerful. After this battle, they had attracted the attention of Rome and were difficult to support staying in the local area. The rebel army should first take advantage of the fact that the Roman legions on the border had not been transferred back, leave Rome and go to the north.

, cross the Alps, first establish his own free country in the north of the Alps, and then wait until his strength grows, then fight back to Rome and liberate all slaves. Cres thought Spartac was too timid. He felt that there was nothing scary about the Roman corps. The rebel army should stay in the local area, conquer the Roman cities, liberate the slaves there, and then continue to fight, constantly liberate the slaves to strengthen themselves, and eliminate evil slavery at the least.

Neither of them could convince each other, and in the end they could only resort to democratic voting. As a result, most of the rebel soldiers chose to support Spartacus, and Cres was indignant. Finally, when Spartacus led the army north, he asked to serve as the rear guard of the army. After the rebels set off, he left the rebels with a group of soldiers and launched an attack on the Romans' cities. As a result, he was ambushed by the Romans. When Spartacus arrived, they had already been wiped out. The Romans killed all prisoners of war with cruel punishment. Seeing all this, the rebels were angry. They were unwilling to march north again and demanded revenge. Spartacus could not convince everyone, so they had to vote again. As a result, everyone chose to stay in Rome for battle.

"It's so bad to stay in Rome. Why did Spartacus obey democracy?" One audience member couldn't help but say, "What do those slaves know?"

"You are wrong," another retorted, "If Cres could obey democracy as much as Spartacus, there would be no such thing. And you say, 'What do those slaves know?' Those priests, the nobles would also say to us in the same words!"

The Spartacus rebels remained in Italy. Under his command, they continued to win, but Spartacus became more and more worried. Because he knew that victory was only temporary. The main force of the Romans was approaching. He kept trying to persuade the soldiers of the rebels to go north quickly, but his suggestions were always rejected by everyone.

Crassus led the Roman army to block the northward road of the Spartacus rebels. They approached step by step. Spartacus marched south with the rebels, contacting the pirates, hoping to cross the sea and retreat to Sicily. But when they arrived at the agreed place, the pirate fleet did not appear. So they were surrounded by Crassus' large army. Crassus sent a letter to Spartacus to persuade them to surrender. He promised that if Spartacus surrendered, he could become a Roman citizen and general. But when Spartacus asked about other slaves, Crassus replied: "They will return to the manor and the Gladiator School to continue to be slaves."

Spartacus refused Crasus' persuasion to surrender and led his troops to break through. After paying a huge price, they finally broke out. But the Romans transferred more troops, which forced Spartacus to fight a decisive battle with Crasus in Apriya.

Before the decisive battle, Spartacus met. Crasus once again used the last condition to persuade Spartacus to surrender. Spartacus also rejected Crasus again. He and Crasus agreed that everyone would fight to the death on the battlefield tomorrow morning.

On the battlefield, the rebels were defeated with few enemies and were defeated without support. Spartacus died in the battlefield. His adjutant, Enomay and more than 6,000 other soldiers were captured. Crassus ordered them all to be crucified.

The final scene of the play is that Enomay and two other rebel soldiers were crucified. They were forced to carry their own crosses and erect the cross themselves. Then the Romans nailed them to the cross. The two warriors were nailed to both sides and Enomay was nailed to the middle.

"This is blasphemy!" A priest grabbed the cross on his chest tightly with his hands and said viciously in a low voice.

Indeed, this scene is obviously a scene that imitates the scene of Jesus being crucified in the Bible. At that time, Jesus was also carrying his own cross and was crucified with two other prisoners, who were on both sides and Jesus in the middle.

Two warriors who were crucified drooped their heads and sobbed. Enomay, who was also crucified, thought of looking around and looking around, and then shouted: "What's wrong, my brother, is it more terrible to lose life than to be a slave? Yes, we were unable to win freedom for ourselves in the end, but at least we won for ourselves from now on, and we will never be enslaved again! This time we were defeated, but in the long run, our career will never fail. People oppress people, and slavery will definitely be overthrown! Spartacus' reputation and career will be immortal! Brothers, let us sing our war song for the last time!"

Then Enomay sang first: "debout! les damnés de la terre, debout! les forats de la faim..."

In his singing, the two crucified warriors stopped crying, raised their heads and sang:

“la raison tonne en son ratère:

c’est l’éruption de la fin”

The Roman soldiers holding a spear raised their heads in horror, looked at the slaves nailed to the cross, and shouted in a panic voice: "Don't sing! Don't sing!" A soldier even stabbed Enomay in a long spear and stabbed his sword under the ribs, and blood immediately flowed out.

"This, this is a terrible blasphemy! Lord, may you drop the thunder..." the priest whispered in a gritted teeth.

In the Bible, when Jesus was crucified, in order to check whether he died, a Roman soldier named Longinus also stabbed him with a spear from the ribs of Jesus. Later, the gun became a sacred object of Catholicism and was called the Longinus gun. He even created legends such as "As long as he holds the gun, everyone within a range of 120 feet will surrender. Those who hold this gun can dominate the fate of the world, but those who lose will die immediately." These legends really deceived many people in later generations, and even Hitler once begged for the spirit of the spirit. It is said that he once obtained this holy gun, but this did not allow him to win the Second World War.

But Enomay's singing did not stop, and he continued to sing.

This lyrics have been sung once before. The lyrics and melody are very simple, so many viewers in the theater also sang them. Only the priest looked ashen and lowered his head and said nothing.

Unlike the previous chorus, this time, the choir directly sang the whole song. Of course, in the original history, this song should have six paragraphs. However, Joseph, who traveled through time, could not fully remember the lyrics of these six paragraphs. Because in the later Red Rabbit Kingdom, due to translation reasons, (several paragraphs were almost impossible to sing in Chinese) this song basically only sings three paragraphs. So now that Joseph has copied it, there are only the original first paragraph, the second paragraph and the sixth paragraph.

With the second paragraph singing, the entire theater suddenly became quiet. Over the years, under the influence of Voltaire and others, the French are far less "pious" than before (but to be honest, France, as a filial daughter of God, did not have too many blasphemy things in the past.) However, such songs that directly deny religion still surprised everyone. However, because of the general dissatisfaction with the church, such extreme denial of religion made everyone even more excited. When the chorus sounded, more people joined the chorus.

Then the sixth paragraph, which is more explicit and passionate about resistance:

And the priest had quietly slipped out and disappeared into the street.

After the song was finished, the entire theater was quiet for a while, and then a voice sounded: "Great, this song is great! Can you sing it again?"

Then the entire theater was filled with such prayers:

"Sing it again, I haven't remembered some of the words yet!"

"Please sing it again."

"Sing it again!"
Chapter completed!
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