"And what does that mean?" Andrew sat on horseback and pointed at old Filly casually at the army in front of him. "Are you going to attack us? No, it's like we're invaders, not allies. ”

"No, not really, my lord!" Old Fili was in a dilemma, he was self-aware, and he knew that he was a soft-spoken man.

"It's just you, and you want to fight against the army behind?" Andrew rolled over and dismounted, and in the face of the villagers in front of him, he did not have the slightest fear, but strode forward with his head held high, and boldly bumped into the tip of their spear.

"What? Do? ”

The spear-wielding villagers were horrified, fearing that their weapons would hurt the heavily armed Roman in front of them.

Perhaps they were worried too much, Andrew kept walking forward alone, and the more than 100 villagers with spears in front of him kept retreating, which seemed to others to be like a small army forced back by life.

"Are you going to rebel against the Empire?" Andrew whispered to them, and pulled out from his armor the golden cross that old Fili had given him, studded with precious stones.

"Really, really in their hands."

At the sight of this cross, all suspicions about old Fili disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Your own people, your own people!"

The villagers began to communicate from side to side inside, looking at each other and gradually lowering their weapons.

"Which of you is in the lead?" Andrew held the ornate cross in front of them and asked them in a loud voice, "Come out quickly, don't you want to negotiate with us!" If you want to talk about it, if you want Roman citizenship, that's your attitude? ”

"Why, how could it be!" The villagers laughed and hurriedly dispersed to make a friendly appearance, looking at Andrew with a grin.

"Captain of the Guard! Captain of the Guard! ”

The herald rider ran up behind Andrew and said to Andrew, "Captain, the army has arrived, and the general asked if you have negotiated with them?" ”

"Oh, oh, it's negotiated, it's negotiated!" Andrew turned around, and then found that the villagers had already hid on both sides of the road, and the spears in their hands had long been thrown away, and they were also calling for the wife and children who were hiding in the house to come out, holding flowers in their hands, and making a full welcome ceremony.

"It's changing too fast!" Andrew was startled and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, it was too late now, and when he turned around, he saw that the team of 100 people was slowly coming along the road, getting closer and closer, and the figure was getting bigger and bigger.

"Quick, enter the village, enter the village!"

Andrew beckoned the cavalry behind him to hurry up and enter the village, firstly, in order not to block the path of the infantry, and secondly, to enter the village as a vanguard force to see what hidden secrets there are in this village, such as ambushes or something, after all, they are in the village within the influence of the Ba Gouda rebels, who can be sure that they do not have the psychology of sneak attack.

"Stepping on ......"

Bands of heavily armed soldiers passed in front of them, carrying weapons and bags, stopping the villagers, who had just been cheering, with different expressions on their faces, but most of them with horror. They must have regretted it in their hearts and had a fluke mentality, after all, such a huge army suddenly stiffened the relationship, so no one could say that such a huge army would wipe their small village from this world.

Seeing that this team of 100 people could not see the end at once, the village was already crowded with people, and the others were even standing outside the road. Probably the villagers never expected the Romans to come back with so many soldiers.

The carriage, for a long time, only to see a carriage slowly come to the villagers along the dirt road, surrounded by fully armed cavalry.

"Presumably, this is their supreme general!"

The villagers thought in their hearts, and couldn't help but look at the carriage not far away.

The carriage slowly drove to the largest house in the village, and Luga stepped out of the carriage in armor.

In front of the house, an old man dressed in brand-new coarse cloth appeared at the door tremblingly. Andrew stood beside the old man, and after the old man saw Luga, he was even more respectful and did not dare to say a word before Luga could open his mouth.

"You are the one who is willing to negotiate with us, who is willing to ally with us and choose Roman citizenship!" Luga smiled and looked at the head of the village in front of him.

"Yes, yes, my lord! We are very pleased to welcome adults to our village, and it will be a pleasure for me to meet the general. The old village chief nodded again and again, but after nodding his head, he didn't say anything again, although he was very old now, but his heart was still full of fear for this young general. For fear of inadvertently offending the Roman general, after all, his legions have already besieged the village.

"How?" Lu Jia looked at the old village chief with a smile, and then asked, "Aren't you going to invite me in to sit down?" ”

"Oh, yes, yes, my lord!" The old village chief came to his senses at this time, and he hurriedly stepped back to make way for Luga. He exposed the door of the house in front of Luga, and said to Luga: "My lord, the chief leaders of the various villages who have come to negotiate are inside, and they are very much looking forward to communicating with your lord about the next strategic deployment, and they are very willing to help your lord retake the provinces of Rome, after all, we are all subjects of Rome. ”

"Oh, thank you, really, thank you very much!"

As he spoke, Luga led the old village chief and Andrew into the house, and as soon as they entered, the light immediately dimmed, and through the oil lamp, Luga could clearly see the leaders of the group who had come to negotiate sitting on both sides of a huge wooden table. Everyone looked up at Luga, and there was a slight uneasiness in their eyes, which came from the two rows of heavily armed soldiers standing behind them, but also the expectation, probably of Luga's good idea that would allow them to achieve victory and obtain the Roman citizenship they had so dreamed of.

"Okay, okay!" Luga passed by them, and he secretly wondered in his heart what to say in front of so many people, after all, Luga could not figure out what they were thinking at this time.

"Come on, don't be formal!" Luga sat down, and motioned for the old village chief to sit down with Andrew, and now the whole scene has eased a lot, so Luga proposed: "Now everyone speaks their minds, let's discuss this issue together, of course, there is no need to have reservations, because you keep your own ideas, then we will lose a lot of useful ideas!" ”

Soon, the room was filled with words.