Chapter 67: Regrouping of Forces
"Guy, arrange a decent place for your soldiers to rest," Aetius said, pointing to a small forest not far away, "The sun is scorching, and the soldiers need to find a cool place to rest, and the follow-up team will come to your brigade to report." Guy took the order to retreat, glaring at me fiercely as he left, and then led the remaining two phalanx of soldiers towards the grove that Aetius had pointed to.
"Oh, forgot an important question, this is for you!"
Before leaving, Aetius suddenly seemed to think of something, and spread his hand and gestured to Levi.
Levi understood, took out two iron horned helmets from the backpack on his back, and handed them to Aetius's hand.
"Take it, the helmet I gave you."
Andrew and I looked at each other for a long time, thinking for a long time, he was just a little minion, he wouldn't be favored by such a big man who was second to none in the empire, maybe more people would still be in his spare tire. With this in mind, I took the helmet, took off my ten-cubern bird-feather helmet, and put on the centurion's horned helmet.
"Oh my God!" Andrew took the helmet with both hands as if he had found a treasure, and held it in his hands, as if he were afraid that it would fall to the ground and break. "Thank you, truly, Your Excellency...... Andrew held the horned helmet, his voice began to tremble as he spoke, and the whole person began to twitch, I turned my head to look at him, at this time Andrew couldn't stop crying, because his right hand couldn't move, so he held the helmet in his left hand, and let the tears flow.
"Don't cry, put it on!"
Aetius smiled, put his hand on Andrew's shoulder, and comforted him: "Don't cry, you deserve it!" ”
"Luga, help me."
Andrew sobbed, and had no extra hands to wipe his tears, I think he was speechless with emotion now, and I helped him untie the leather strap that tied his chin, removed the bird's feather helmet for him, and helped him put on the centurion's horned helmet.
"Your Excellency, Luga, do you know?" Andrew cried and said: "I grew up so big, I never thought I would be a centurion, really, really thank you Marshal!" As he spoke, Andrew was about to kneel down to Aetius, but Aetius did not stop him, but only restrained his usual smile and replaced it with a serious face. In a very serious tone, he said to me and Andrew: "You must have a bright future, do a good job!" ”
"Oh, by the way," Aetius asked, pointing to the two bird-feather helmets in my hand, "Is this one given to you by Antony?" ”
"Yes, Your Excellency." I'll be honest.
"Ha, this guy is really too picky, but it's not surprising, this is the style of the Senate."
As he spoke, Aetius reached out and took the two ten-sized helmets, turned around and threw them to the ground.
"This ...... I was about to say something, but Aetius looked back at me and Andrew with a smile, and said, "This is in the past, look ahead, the light will be with you." ”
After speaking, he held the long robe in his right hand, for fear that the blood on the ground would stain the bright red. Under the guidance of the guards, he got on his horse, turned back, and walked out of the battlefield.
"Hey, Aurius . Luga! ”
I was looking at the back of Aetius in a daze when I was awakened by a call, and when I looked up, it was Levi.
"Good job, man." Levi finally smiled knowingly at Andrew, because the smile was not mixed with any other thoughts such as disdain, underestimation, or whatever. Just laughing, very relaxed laughter, for me, he smiled at me, and it was also an affirmation of me!
I didn't come back to my senses until Levi turned around and rode his horse after Aetius and disappeared around the corner of the road ahead. Centurion, a position that almost all veterans of the war dream of, used to be a position that the emperor could only promote at will when he opened his mouth. In the three or two sentences of Aetius, it just fell on me and Andrew, and to be honest, not only Andrew, but even me began to flutter.
As for the two ten-leggon bird feather helmets that Anthony gave us, please who still wears this at this time, won't the price drop?
Andrew was still crying, his only left hand was constantly wiping his tears, and the taste of crying with joy Andrew tasted sweet this time.
"Let's go, Andrew!" I helped him up, and I couldn't find a clean cloth to wipe his tears all over my body, forget it, first find out where the team is gathered, and when the time comes, you can solve a lot of problems, right? That's what I thought, anyway.
The position of the team was very conspicuous, and I could see the position of the first brigade through the golden light reflected on the banner of the Twin Legions.
"Andrew, if we go over like this, will that guy Guy take advantage of the situation?" I was still a little worried, and then said to Andrew: "Because Guy originally wanted to kill me, but now he didn't kill me, but let me be promoted, isn't this an indirect slap in the face!" ”
"Don't worry, Luga!" Andrew stopped crying, his voice was much calmer, he sucked the snot that had just flowed out, and said in a deep voice: "Originally, we were ten masters, humble, he wanted to kill him, not to mention that you questioned him first." Now it's the same, Luga, we are centurions, centurions! He pronounced the title very severely, and slapped the horned helmet on his head with his left hand.
"Luga, do you know anything? We are centurions! is the basic officer of the regiment! Let's not say that he wants to kill you, the removal of you from your post must be approved by the corps commander, and his deputy corps commander is not qualified to do so! Not to mention killing you, that's the enemy and the power of our Emperor! ”
"So you mean, we don't need to be too afraid of Guy now, because he can't restrain us now, do you?" I seem to understand, Aetius named us centurions, not only slapped Guy in the face, but even put a talisman on us! But why did he? This is the new problem.
I didn't think about it so much, because I couldn't think of any clues, so we just helped each other to the place where the troops were stationed.
In the face of the arrival of the two of us, everyone in the brigade, from the centurion to the soldier, lowered their heads, as if we were not there. I know it's jealousy, and that comes from resentment.
"Andrew, let's sit here!"
I helped him to a clearing in the corner, and sat down.
"Aurius . Luga! ”
As soon as I sat down, I heard someone call me, and I turned around to see that the person who called me was none other than Chief Centurion Guy, who had a gloomy face and threatened me viciously: "You'd better be careful with me, and don't let me catch any of your tricks!" ”
"Is it His Excellency Guy, Chief Centurion of the First Brigade of the Fourteenth Twins?"
I don't know who dared to interrupt the chief centurion's words, Guy turned his head in confusion, and saw a soldier with a smile on his face, judging by the horn in his hand, he was nothing more than a trumpeter.
"What's the matter?" Seeing that it was nothing more than a tiny trumpeter, Guy puffed up his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, we have come by order of Marshal Aetius to fill the vacant position of Your Excellency's First Brigade." The trumpeter said, getting out of the way and letting us look behind him, two fully assembled centuries.
"Good, good!" Guy was happy to see this, and he quickly took the trumpeter and said, "I just happen to be short of people, so you guys will add people to the two hundreds!" The direction he was pointing to was the phalanx that was resting on the other side.
"No, sir, it's not like that." Guy's request was rejected by the soldier, who then said to Guy, "We have been sent to listen to Aurius. Luga and Aurius . Andrew was sent by two centurions, and we belong to both of them! ”
Guy was speechless for a moment, his face was blue and white, and he was silent for a long time, and then he said, "Then you stay here!" After saying that, he turned around and glared at me, and walked away!