Rome Must Fall

The companions around him all said good things about the Knicks tribe, leaving Gowes completely unable to interrupt and continue to question.

"Bee! Bee! Bee!..." A sharp and rapid wooden whistle suddenly sounded, cutting through the din.

"The game is about to begin!" Glasson shouted excitedly, and everyone immediately stopped talking and focused their attention on the field.

15 Pannoni players wearing white linen-lined shorts and 15 Skodisci players wearing black linen-lined shorts entered the pitch led by two referees wearing red linen lining and shorts. .

At this time, Italians never wore trousers, but the Skordischi, a branch of the Celts, had the custom of wearing striped trousers, which also affected the Pannoni. After Maximus established the tribe, he advocated that the tribesmen should learn from the Skodisci - put on trousers. Of course, this requires a process. Not only do concepts and habits need to be changed, but the lack of cloth is also a problem.

But Maximus believes that players participating in rugby matches must wear shorts. Firstly, it is convenient for movement, and secondly, their private parts will not be exposed. After all, men are not the only ones watching the game.

For this reason, the weaving workshop had to modify the trousers worn by the tribesmen, and in order to distinguish between friends and foes, the competition sides and the referees during strenuous sports, the clothes must be eye-catchingly uniform. The weaving workshop is also preparing the tribesmen and Ai Under the guidance of Merici, unique plant juices were collected and dyed, so that the colored clothes worn by the players were created. Although they are easy to fade, it has made the weaving workshop a big leap in dyeing.

At this moment, the players from both sides stood in the middle of the court, without any communication, just glaring at each other.

The captains of both sides were reluctantly called together by the referee...

The referee is tossing a silver coin and asking them to guess heads and tails. The one who guesses correctly can attack first...

While listening to Glesson's explanation of the rules of the game, Gowes stared at the court: The court is very wide, and the 32 people on the court are like sprinkling a few sesame seeds on a big cake, looking very small; both ends of the court are different. Four wooden pillars with a height of three meters were erected, and the two middle ones were connected by wooden poles above, forming a large and tall gate; the stadium was also filled with people...

This surprised Gowes. When he first sat down, there were not many spectators outside the field belonging to the Pannoni players, because the Pannoni reserve people were much smaller than the Skodisci, and in addition The diversion of the four courts resulted in the opponent's court being completely unsatisfied, but after they talked for a while, the seats there were actually full, and the number of people there was almost the same as here.

He immediately raised his question, and Glasson explained: "Look carefully, there are many official tribesmen sitting over there. Although they also have their own people playing in other stadiums, they are not as good-looking as ours, because the official tribesmen are sitting there." The people are just playing rugby, but we are working hard!”

"Beep!..." A sharp long whistle marked the official start of the game, and deafening shouts suddenly erupted from all around the stadium.

Gowes immediately cheered up and widened his eyes. He wanted to take a closer look at this game that made the tribesmen work hard.

It begins with the Pannoni serve, in which a player stands outside his own goal and throws a ball shaped like a rugby to his nearest teammate.

As soon as the ball was released, the Skordischi players who were originally gathered in the center immediately ran quickly to the front half and quickly approached the opponent they were trying to defend.

A Skordischi player even rushed towards the opponent holding the ball.

The Pannoni player holding the ball immediately threw the ball to a teammate not far away, and then without dodging, he gathered enough strength to face the oncoming opponent.

The two collided head-on and fell to the ground at the same time.

The referee took a look and did not blow the whistle. The spectators outside the court roared excitedly, but no one was surprised.

The two people who fell to the ground quickly got up and stumbled towards the ball without any quarrel.

While the football was still flying, the Pannoni player who was about to catch the ball was tackled by the opponent who rushed towards him. The moment he fell to the ground, he kicked up and kicked the football forward.

The rugby soared into the sky, drew an arc in mid-air, and flew towards Skordischi's goal. Players from both sides who were originally scattered rushed over from all directions. While chasing and waiting for the rugby to land, they continued to collide with each other. Hug, for a moment people turned on their backs and countless people fell to the ground.

The rugby ball landed on the ground with a large kinetic energy, and its trajectory was quite erratic. It passed through the open arms of the players, hit the ground, and then bounced up. The oval ball swayed forward... The balls from both sides

A Pannoni player bent down to hug him first, and was immediately tackled by a Skodisci player, but before he could catch the ball, another Pannoni player pressed him down... …

Watching the players from both sides rushing to grab the ball on the ground, the ball was just picked up by one person and knocked down by another... Gowes was extremely nervous and began to yell like other teammates.

Players from both sides quickly piled up into a hill during the scramble, and the ball was suppressed beneath them and completely invisible.

The referee squatted aside, leaning his head, checking nervously, and was about to blow the wooden whistle to restart the ball.

The football rolled out of the crowd and landed at the feet of a Pannoni player.

He immediately picked it up, spread his legs, and ran forward.

The Pannoni spectators immediately cheered, while the Skodisci spectators reminded the tribesmen on the field with even louder noises. Soon the Skodisci players got up and wanted to catch up, but were defeated by their opponents. Hug them down one by one.

However, one player violently broke away from his opponent's tackle and chased after the Pannoni player who had already run some distance with the ball in his arms.

"Theresa! It's Theresa!..." The companions shouted excitedly.

Gowes, who still didn't understand the rules of the game, was already filled with blood. He couldn't help but cheer for Teresa along with the other tribesmen in the audience.

Amidst the boiling noise, the Pannoni players ran with all their strength, and Teresa chased with all her strength. The distance between the two was constantly shortening, but the goal was not far ahead.

"Oops! It's too late!" Gresson sighed.

At this moment, Teresa was seen flying into the air, using the momentum to fly up her right leg, and kicked the Pannoni player in front of her on the back.

The player immediately fell over and the ball fell to the ground.

There was even more noise from the sidelines, half cheering and half yelling.

"Good kick! That's how it should be! Kick the Pannoni to death!..." Gowes danced with excitement.

Grasson sighed: "That's good, but Theresa committed a foul and I'm afraid he will be sent off."

"Why?!" Gowes was confused.

Sure enough, the whistle sounded on the court, and the referee ran over, scolded Theresa decisively, and then pointed outside the court.

Teresa did not argue and walked down the field with her head held high. The Pannoni audience yelled even louder, but his tribesmen applauded him desperately.

"During the game, you can hug the opponent's players with your hands and hit the opponent's players with your body, but you cannot hit or kick the opponent with your hands, otherwise it will be a foul and will be sent off by the referee. But what Teresa did just now was right, and Pan must not be allowed to The Noni easily held the ball and ran to the end line to score! ..." Glesson explained.

"Teresa was sent off. Our team is missing one person on the field!" Theresa began to worry about the Skordischi team.

"There will be no shortage of people on the court, and reserve players off the court will replace Teresa. However, because of this foul, not only will he not be able to play again, but he will not be allowed to play again in the next two games."

"That's such a pity!" Gowes looked at Teresa who had walked to the sidelines and was being comforted by her teammates, and suddenly felt: If he were him, he would probably choose to do this.

At this time, the referee found that the Pannoni player who had been kicked to the ground had not gotten up yet, hurriedly bent down to check, and then waved to the sidelines.

"Haha, the Pannoni is injured!" Glaison said with a gloating smile, but then his laughter stopped abruptly because another referee was also waving, and five players did not stand in the crowd just formed. Up, among which Skordisqi players accounted for three.

The audience yelled and cursed.

"What do they do?" Gowes asked curiously, pointing to five or six men and women wearing linen robes who ran into the venue.

"Those are the doctors and nurses from Snotia Hospital. Rugby games are prone to injuries. Without their careful care, some of our tribesmen who played during this period may have been disabled." Glasson said gratefully.

The game was paused for a while, the injured players were taken off the field for treatment, and substitutes were replaced. Then the referee placed the rugby 20 meters away from Skordischi's goal on a spot marked with a white dot on the grass.

"Now it's free throws."

"Free throw?" Gowes continued to wonder.

Glesson explained: “If the Pannonians had just held the ball and ran through the white line between the two furthest wooden poles, they would have scored three points, and Theresa stopped them with a foul.

But fouls require free throws. As long as they kick the ball into the goal made of wooden poles, they can get one point. Therefore, under normal circumstances, players on both sides will try not to foul to avoid giving points to the other party in vain. "

Gowes understood and looked towards the field again.

In fact, free throws are not easy to shoot. Rugby is an oval, and it is difficult to control the direction by kicking it with your feet. Moreover, Maximus also greatly lowered the height of the goal. At the beginning of the game, there were basically no free throws. Later, Maximus shortened it by ten meters. The distance of free throws, coupled with the fact that the people gradually mastered the skills of free throws through training, the probability of scoring free throws has increased.

But this time, the football kicked hard by the Pannoni players hit the goal and the ball did not go in!

The Pannonians sighed, the Scodis cheered, and Teresa clenched her fists and pounded her chest. His efforts were not in vain.