At this time, a Roman soldier next to him quickly stepped forward and said to Heras Curt: "Commander, the Han army on the opposite side has launched an attack on the main camp of our army, please give us instructions on how to proceed with the next move." ”

"There are no instructions, order the troops to hold their own camps and beware of enemy attacks, we are here waiting for the commander-in-chief to give us orders before we can act, and before that, we will just guard our own barracks here." When Heras Curt heard the words of the Roman soldier, he woke up from his contemplation, and then said to the Roman soldier calmly.

"Are we really just sitting on the sidelines? If you don't help the main army to reduce the pressure now, if you lose the war, will you be held accountable when you return home? And we, the slaves of this legion, even if we are justified, I am afraid that we will have to bear the fault of this defeat at that time, and those Sassanids will not give us any chance to quibble. The treasurer was beside Heras Curt, observing the situation on the battlefield with him, and then said to him.

"Don't worry, if this battle is won, then it's okay to say; Naturally, it was the result of the Sassanid commander and the Sassanid legion he led in a brave battle, but once the battle was defeated, then if we sent troops to rescue us, we would attack without obeying the military order, and thus those Han people caught a loophole and were defeated, and then exposed the flank of the entire army to the Han Chinese, which eventually led to the rout of the whole line; On the other hand, if we don't come to the rescue, it will be like you said, because we can't come out and support the main camp in time, so the main camp will be defeated. So in any case, as long as the battle is defeated, then the fault must be us Romans, who made us slaves of the Sassanids now? But if they are kind-hearted, they can still only record us for a mistake that delayed the military aircraft, but if they are ruthless, do you believe that our entire legion of Romans will become traitors who defect in front of the battle? After Heras Curt finished speaking, he turned and walked down from the observation tower of the camp, and accompanied by the treasurer, returned to his barracks, where he awaited the order of the commander of the Sassanid army from the main camp.

"Then are we really watching the defeat of the Sassanid army like this? As you say, once the Sassanids are defeated, we will not be able to escape in any way. Therefore, it would be wise for us to help the Sassanids defeat the Han army on the other side. After entering Heras Curt's own tent, the treasurer sat down beside him, and asked him with some doubts.

"Treasurer, I remember, uh, if I'm not mistaken, your father was a Roman. And on top of that, your father's parents were all Romans. Of your generation, Roman blood should be relatively pure, right? Instead of answering the Treasurer's question explicitly, Heras Curt asked the Treasurer something else.

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander. As you say, I am one of the purest Romans of my generation, and I am deeply proud of the Roman blood in me, but what are you asking me this question about? The treasurer nodded a little inexplicably, and then asked Heras Curt.

"Well, since you admit it, and take pride in the Roman blood within yourself. Then when you think about the problem, you have to think from the perspective of the Romans. When the elders of the tribe took us to move east, we were forced to live in slavery in the Sassanid Empire, and thus became the private property of the Sassanids. Moreover, there were hundreds of thousands of people among the tribes that moved east together at the beginning, and they came to the Sassanid Empire one after another in the past ten years. But what about now? Now the only Romans in the entire Sassanid Empire who can fight are these tens of thousands of people in our military camp. The rest of the people were either old and sick, women and children, and most of the young and strong women were Gentiles. Unlike the Romans, they were able to fight even as women. Therefore, if one of these young men in our military camp dies, if they really fight for those Sassanid troops, I am afraid that there will be no Romans in more than ten years. Therefore, if we want to continue the blood of the Romans, then we have to have no choice but to do something that we don't like to do, and something that we have no choice but to do. You know what I mean? Heras Curt said in very ambiguous words to the treasurer in front of him.

This treasurer is technically also a servant of Heras Curt, and he is also the hairmaid of Heras Curt. From an early age, Heras Curt was protected from being born a slave like the other Romans because of his family's wealth, which he enjoyed in the same way as the nobles of the Sassanid Empire. This treasurer was one of the Romans who had been assigned to serve Heras Curt, and as Heras Curt grew older, his understanding of the Romans in the Sassanid Empire was no longer limited to what his elders had described him, but he saw a slaughtered and docile appearance. Eating the worst quality food every day, living in the worst quality environment, but taking on the heaviest work.

He had seen Roman slaves who could not do their jobs being whipped to death by their slave owners, but the eyes of the Romans around him were full of numbness. And the other onlookers, driven by the slave owners, took their own bread and dipped it in the blood of the man who had been beaten to death. The reason for doing these things is only because the Sassanids believe that the horror of a person who is flogged to death by a whip will remain in the blood of the human body. If you let your slaves eat the blood of slaves who have been whipped to death, you can make these slaves feel terrified in their hearts, and from then on, they can only obediently accept their status as slaves, and no longer think about running away and other things.

When Heras Curt came of age and inherited a large family fortune, he traveled extensively to improve the status of Roman slaves in the Sassanid Empire. To this end, he lobbied the nobility of various places throughout the territory of the Sassanid Empire. But with the exception of a handful of nobles who had promised to improve the treatment of their Roman slaves in the face of Heras Curt's father, the vast majority dismissed his proposal.

(End of chapter)