Nova Roma Chapter 53 - Romulo Wall

Right in the morning, he devoted himself to reviewing the body of the shaman in the found something quite interesting seems to be that it has the same functionality as the nahuales this quite surprised the members of the inquisition and scientists.
"It seems that my uncle/brother Poseidon will be surprised by these species" said Flavio while he saw the corpse.
The count of dead and captured surprised Flavio was 10,000 captured Caribs and 5890 dead, the leaders said they were a shock force that they expected to attack when we arrived but as we arrived before there was only the night attack but with the death of the shaman leader they lost the faith.
Flavio understood that these attacks could possibly be repeated even though the tribes are completely divided if one is not careful, attacks like this one can occur because these are not tribes but leaders who command volunteers.
That is why having intelligence is even more important, Flavio decided to bring scouts on horseback, unlike the continent where they are forbidden to use them because they can fall into bad hands in Cuba this risk is small because it is an island and the scouts' horses they are all males even if they are captured they will not be able to reproduce them.
The Roman cavalry of explorers occupy arms and light armor such as the saber and cotton clothes, they do not use anything else except the sergeants who have a flintlock pistol for use in case of emergency.
Flavio ordered them to map and review the perimeter to look for possible attackers like those of the night, the advantage that they do not have a horse is that they have to run and even if they run they will not be able to advance more than 20 or 30 km a day and being completely exhausted therefore having a revised perimeter of 50 km is more than enough for the preparation of troops for defense.
Another thing that Flavio did was to create fortified Watchtowers every kilometer where they had a fire that sent an attack was on and alerted the other Watchtower, for its construction the newly captured slaves were occupied if the Romans are good at using it. and train slaves.
Thanks to the 10000 slaves the construction of the watchtowers and the roads were without problems in only one week the trees of the coast were cut except for the coconut palms that Flavio declared as a strategic tree.
Meanwhile on the coast began to arrive small boats with materials for both use of the army and for the construction of the port, the person in charge of this work was the architect Marco one of the men of confidence of Flavio since he met him in Emerita Augusta.
He quickly began to order the slaves and artisans "Move those woods you have to build the crane to load the cement pillars for the construction of the port"
For the construction of the port 3 cranes were occupied that moved the pillars to the water once placed part of the port is built, when that part is finished they are dismantled and they move again to the edge of the construction of that form they are built continuously.
They brought the pillars and made them unloaded from ships and were placed on the coast, the larger the pillar was only made with geometric shapes so that once they joined did not move for any reason, of course using a bit of cement to seal them.
The cavalry proved its worth during two attempts of attacks by Caribbean shaman leaders but even with their divine blessings they could not do anything about an army with muskets and crossbows perfectly accommodated when their leaders died the Caribs wanted to flee but the cavalry caught them in the way.
Also, the inquisition in these battles participated to have better tactics against the shamans and their divine energy, the elven snipers proved to be definitive weapons against the shamans because no matter how hard they had a well-aimed lead bullet it was enough to blow the top of their skulls.
In just one month of the campaign, Flavio conquered the first 100 km on the coast, did not want to get into the mountains because of the danger it was to be in it if the place was not known.
Therefore began the construction of a network of forts that will surround a total of 16 km, once built will be joined by a brick wall this will be the first wall built therefore called the wall of Romulus in honor of the founder of Rome.
This wall will delimit the limits of the city of Magna Caribe, Flavio did not want to go to increase its troops because it has to divide the legion in two and keep garrison in the watchtowers.
Fortunately, of the two previous failed attacks, 15k slaves added to the previous 10k were added to 25,000, this labor guarantees that the Rómulo wall will be built quickly.
In the meantime, new Mayan recruits were being brought in daily from the continent, seeking lands to serve the empire and with them, their families arrived, therefore the workforce continued to grow and it was brought from Origin Civitatem asphalt for the construction of roads quickly.
The rapid construction and guidance of Flavio helped that the Romulo wall was completed in just 2 months forcing the slaves to work 24/7 in shifts was not left to build even a single day, because it was not a rainy season the cement Used it dried quite fast the wall had a height of 4 meters and 3 of width.
Each kilometer had a tower with a ballista and 15 permanent guards every 500 meters there were a barracks that dispatches troops that crossed the kilometer of the wall that was of its defense the barracks had about 300 guards in charge of the defense of its perimeter also had cavalry of messengers to ask for help if necessary.
There were only 3 doors on the entire wall, the first at kilometer 3 and another at kilometer 9 and another at kilometer 15, each of these doors had a military city behind, the doors were suspension bridges that prevented emergency could be lifted.
A 2.5-meter-deep moat was built outside the wall and covered with bricks to create an artificial channel fed with seawater to prevent direct attacks on the walls, while on the coast on both sides they became small watchmen who had the mission of caring for canoes that will try to land by winged.
When Flavio myth the wall was proud of this could put its strength in the conquest of the capital of the province the island of youth unlike this part of Cuba will conquer using cavalry to take advantage of the flat terrain of the island.
Flavio looked towards the horizon and pointed his finger "Amalivaca I will conquer Cuba, then Jamaica and la española with those big islands your people feed an empire lacking in manpower, what follows is the war of extermination island by island looking for your people until it is completely in the hands of the empire "...