Chapter 386: Visit
The army was stationed here for half a month, and a new conscription order was issued, and this time the order given to the rebel prisoners was very harsh, because they only had two choices, one was to join the Roman legions and enjoy the treatment of soldiers, and the other was to continue to be prisoners or be sold into slavery, and they could not turn over in this life.
One is a way out that can get ahead after struggle, and the other is a dead end that can never be turned over, so balanced, if it is not a fool with a dead brain, he will more or less have his own plans. Although life as a soldier is dangerous and you lose your life if you are not careful, it is better to have a head and face than to live a life that is worse than being a slave and living a life that is not as good as a pig and a dog.
If a person has this idea, he will enlighten the relationship around him, and he will spread ten or ten to hundred, and the original dead eyes are also persuaded by them to move their hearts, so they simply follow a piece to defect to the Romans.
The rebel prisoners are very active in signing up, except for the disabled ones, all of them have come to sign up, and this is good. When more people learned that the accompanying auxiliary legion had been reorganized into a regular legion, even the villagers who enjoyed Roman citizenship came to sign up, and the original plan was to have an auxiliary legion of 3,000 men, but more than 4,000 came. Luga believed that half of the people who had come here must have been able to eat free food, after all, failure to resume production after a long war would cause famine. For such an enthusiastic registration, Luga actually asked his officers to accept them in full, which made Andrew very incomprehensible.
"Luga, we have so many people to raise, this is a big burden, if we don't fight quickly, maybe the army will be hungry after a while!" Andrew complained to Luga.
"Oh, my friend, don't complain, at least nowhere else in Rome has such a large number of soldiers been summoned so quickly."
"But Luga! Don't forget, quite a few of them used to serve the rebels in Ba Gouda, and who knows when they're full and full of food and drink will stab us in the back like wild beasts! ”
"Don't worry, Andrew!" Luga got up and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back, and then said: "I won't use him to fight the Bagunda rebels, on the contrary, they are ready-made combat power, and they will naturally have a vanguard role, but not now." ”
"What do you mean?" For Luga's words, Andrew heard it in a fog.
"Alright, Andrew." Luga walked up to Andrew's side and said, "I think Arecio and Sebastianus in Augusta-Treville have arrived, let's go out to meet them, I just want to see how this guy feels when he sees this city that has been absent for so many years." ”
To Luga's relief, this time Anai came with Arecio. Seeing Ana, Luga couldn't help but go up and hug Anai tightly, but Anai smiled bitterly, her face looked very ugly, probably because her weak body couldn't withstand such torture after a long time of running. Luga did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly helped Anai back to the governor's palace, and asked Andrew to accompany Arecio along the way to see the city that he had specially ordered the soldiers to clean.
The result was not good, and what Arecio saw was an even more dilapidated Agrippina, although it was crowded with people, and it was sembrishing on the surface, but not only were there very few nobles here, but the estates outside the city were deserted, and they had to adopt Luga's proposal to lease the land to the townspeople in the name of lease to estimate their cultivation, and then as long as they paid one-fifth of the annual tribute, the rest could be disposed of by themselves, sold or saved, which was much better than farming in the village. This was a last resort, but the villagers seemed willing.
"Why does it take so long for your face to look so bad?"
Three days passed, and Lu Jia thought that Anai needed to replenish nutrition because of his weak body, so he gave Anai all the best food he could buy in the city, hoping that Anai could recover quickly, after all, Luga liked to see Ana's lively appearance. But the truth is not as Luga imagined, after all these days, Ana's face is still so pale, without a little blood, and even what is fed to her is eaten a little, and the amount of food is not very good.
"I don't know, dear."
Anai stood and shook her head, and Luga grabbed her arm and took her into his arms, only then did Luga feel that Anai was already skinny.
"No, you have to eat more for my sake!" Luga's attitude was very resolute, he put the fruit and bread to Ana's mouth, and forced Anai to eat it, but Anai was very resistant.
"You're sick." Luga ** Anai's forehead, she didn't have any symptoms of fever or anything, but she looked very weak, I don't know why. Anai thought for a moment, nodded, and agreed with Luga's statement. "Can you put your arms around me?" Anai asked, Luga didn't speak, he just opened his arms and hugged Anai tightly, his cheek was against Anai's forehead, there were only the two of them in this room, and no one would disturb them.
"I always have a strange dream these days without you." Anai whispered to Luga, not knowing if she was too weak or afraid that the wall would have ears.
"You say."
"There was a baby, he grabbed my legs, he kept crying, he was naked, he was so thin, he was just born."
"So how do you do it?"
"I was at a loss, I could say that I was so scared to be held by this child, I didn't know what to do, and then I saw the child talk."
"What did he say?"
"Why have you forsaken me, why have you forsaken me?" As she spoke, Ana's voice gradually choked, and she buried her head in Luga's arms and trembled, her throat whimpering and crying softly. Luga hugged her tighter, and he could feel Ana's pain, and that was enough because he was there.
"I didn't mean to, Luga, my love, you can prove it for me!"
"Yes, I can!"
"Then I saw my former lover, my dead fiancé." Anai collected his emotions for a moment, and then said, "He was dressed in rags except for his head, and I tried to grab his hand, but found that I was grasping a lot of white bones, and I was terrified, and I desperately shouted your name. And that dead fiancé of mine yelled hysterically at me"