The Anglo-Saxon forces were approaching step by step, and they took advantage of the warmer and warmer weather of spring to speed up their offensive, probably fearing that the Roman legions would mobilize more and more soldiers from Gaul to join the war, making the whole battle a huge tug-of-war that the tribal Anglo-Saxons could not bear.

It's just that the current situation of the war can be said that the Anglo-Saxon alliance has greatly overestimated the strength of the Romans, but they still made the right choice, which is to attack the towns occupied by the Romans.

Soon, they were able to target their next target, which was Luntinlum, the first to be breached by Rome. Because of the timely briefing of the scouts, Luga was the first to know about the offensive of the Anglo-Saxon coalition.

He urgently dispatched the strength of the four field regiments of the reconstituted troops of the Ninth Army Corps, and came to Lundinglum, and together with the soldiers of the two field regiments of Lundinglum, there were a total of 3,000 troops.

The Saxons who came to attack the city did not seem to be as many as they imagined, and their more than 1,000 people numbered nearly 2,000 people, standing scattered outside the city, boldly even leading their soldiers to a distance close to the range of bows and arrows.

They were thinly dressed, mostly sheepskin jackets and polished belts, a simple helmet made of leather over their heads, and the mustaches and attire peculiar to the barbarians, the corners of their mouths slightly raised in the messy beards, revealing a disdainful smile.

They stood at the bottom of the city and confronted Luga, led by a man in iron chain mail, armed with a two-handed axe, carrying a wooden bow and a bag of arrows on his back, a world of equipment compared to Luga, but even so, he did not hide his arrogance at all, only heard him stand under the city and shout at Luga: "I am Archie, the master of Linton, of course, I stand under your city in order to let you know me." ”

"Latin." Luga nodded as she spoke, "I'm amazed at your Latin skills, after all, I've rarely heard anyone who can speak Latin so fluently, well, barbarians." ”

"Oh, of course, it does!" Archie nodded, then spread his hands and said to Luga: "I once had a Roman teacher, he was an outcast who did not have time to escape, and my father forced me to learn Latin, saying that it would be useful in the future, and I didn't believe it until I stood here and talked to you, and I realized that my father was so wise." ”

"Yes, your Latin does increase the likelihood of our communication, Archie." Luga continued, "You look better than your ally, Kevin. Sain was much more practical, and he could only fight me except to intimidate me, and according to his broken Latin, there was no possibility of negotiation. ”

"Yes, it does." Archie said and showed Luga the scattered soldiers standing behind him, and then said to Luga: "Our intentions, very obviously, as your Excellency can see, are here to take back what belongs to us Saxons. If you are willing to accept our terms, we can guarantee that you and your soldiers will not be harmed. ”

"What belongs to you?" Luga didn't understand what he was trying to say, so he asked, "What's that?" ”

"Land, and water." Archie spoke very casually, but such casual language expressed his meaning succinctly, he wanted to take the city without a single soldier, which was to intimidate Luga. Trying to use their own clumsy mouths to intimidate Luga into surrendering in disguise, no one will accept it.

"I'm afraid you'll only be able to get what you want if you stop the waters of the Thames, Archie." Luga sneered and looked down at the barbarian he thought didn't know the height of the sky.

"Oh, really?" The seemingly kind smile on Archie's face disappeared, his eyes were cold, faintly mixed with murderous aura, only to hear him grit his teeth and say, "Then let's try it!" ”

After saying that, he turned around and retreated with his soldiers, and Luga could not be complacent because he had won, and he hurriedly beckoned the soldiers to prepare for battle, because he would definitely gather the soldiers to prepare for the siege when he returned in this way.

"Quick, archers, javelinmen, come up and prepare for battle, prepare for battle!"

At the shouts of Luga, the soldiers in the rear were in disarray, and they began to divide their labor, some of them formed engineering teams, which were responsible for temporarily reinforcing the city walls, and the other part were combat teams, ready to be on the alert for possible surprise attacks of the Saxons.

The city of Lundinglum was open and high above the city gave the soldiers a good view, but there were no walls along the Thames River in the middle of the city, but the Romans did not believe that the Saxons would swim against the current.

There are many trees along the river, and you can only see the movement of the river in the distance if you are close to the banks of the Thames. None of this mattered, though, because outside the city of Lendinlum, the Saxon forces began to attack.

They were as black as a herd of bison running, and the barbarians were very clever enough to make improvised siege equipment, such as siege cones lined with wooden grips and ladders made of wood tied with ropes.

"Stepping on ......"

Their footsteps rumbled, mingled with roars and wicked laughter, and they gradually ran within range of the archers, and the Romans were about to give them a head-on blow.

"Archers! Archers ready! ”

"Brush Brush ......"

At the shouts of the centurion, the archers drew their bows and arrows in unison, and fired their arrows at the approaching Saxon siege forces below. The Saxons were also prepared, and their vanguard braved the rain of Roman arrows with huge shields on their shoulders, and instantly approached the city of Lundinlum.

"Dangdangdang......"

Siege ladders were erected on the city walls, and the Saxon javelinmen below held javelins on their shoulders, aiming at the Roman archers on the city walls, as soon as they showed their heads, they would be attacked by javelins, and many archers fell with javelins.

The soldiers on the city wall saw a Roman archer with a javelin fall and pushed it off the wall without saying a word, and there were soldiers in charge of handling the corpses and transporting the wounded soldiers.

"Ready! Get ready! Luga carried his sword on the wall and shouted at the soldiers behind him, "Come up, come up and prepare for battle." ”

By this time the first Saxons had already said that they had climbed up the improvised ladder up the walls of Lundinglum, when he was met by a sharp spear that pierced his chest and thrust him down.

Next, more and more Saxons climbed the walls and strangled with the Roman soldiers on the walls.

Luga held a shield and an iron sword, held the shield against the wall, and then stabbed the Saxons who pounced on him with his sword.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The Saxons began to attack the city gates, the wooden gates were constantly vibrating under the Saxons' self-made siege cones, and many soldiers spontaneously resisted the city gates in an attempt to relieve the Saxons' impact on the gates with their own strength.

"Luga, Luga!"

Andrew waved his sword from behind the city gate and shouted to Luga, and when Luga turned around, Andrew waved at him, indicating that he would lead the soldiers out and disrupt the Saxons' plans.