On the way back, Luga locked himself in the cabin and thought about it, leaving Berial, Andrew, and a team of guards posing as sailors busy on the deck.

"It seems that what Gaisaric did in Carthage has made Luga feel uncomfortable." Andrew looked at the endless sea in front of him and the ships in twos and threes, and said with feeling: "Not only Luga, but everyone else can't tolerate the increasing strength of their enemies. I have to say that he is really in trouble now. ”

"I think it's like I said." Berialius answered, "We will concentrate our superior forces and deliver a fatal blow to the Vandals, just like the Combined Legion commanded by Luga in the first place. ”

Andrew shook his head when he heard this, only to see Andrew say, "Oh, come on, Berialius, we were backed by Augustus of Eastern Rome at that time." We don't have the strength we used to have. ”

"We can mobilize the forces of the Greater Sicilian Region, and now Luga is the captain of the soldiers, do you understand what I mean?" Beriali insisted and continued, "Besides, I can still ask my father Hermanus to help us properly, and as long as our navy is stronger than the Vandals, we can or have a chance to defeat them completely!" ”

"But I don't think so, Berialiu." At this cold moment, Luga interrupted them and asked them to turn around, only to see Luga unkempt and disheveled, walking slowly towards this place with a piece of bread in his hand, shoving the bread into his mouth as he went.

"Oh my God, Luga, what's the matter with you?" Seeing his sloppy and decadent appearance, Andrew couldn't help but ask.

"Oh, don't mention it!" Luga ate the bread in his hand and ran to the two of them, and said with a smile as he clasped his head, "I thought about it for a long time until I fell asleep. ”

"So, what do you think of?" Berialiu, who was on the side, couldn't wait.

"Oh, sorry, I didn't come up with anything!" Luga said, smiling at Berialu, looking indifferent.

"Oh my God, you saw it too, Luga." Seeing Luga's attitude made Berialiu reluctant, he raised his voice an octave and yelled at Luga: "The Vandals have become stronger, and we must make decisions at this time, not child's play!" ”

At this moment, only a heavy footstep was heard, very heavy on the deck, Luga quickly turned around, only to see a guard running quickly to Luga and said, "My lord, pirates, there are pirates!" ”

Everyone looked in the direction of the guard's finger, and saw only three ships that resembled warships, their canvas was white, and no one knew where they belonged, only that they knew that this group of fellows must have come from a bad place.

"They seized that there were no Roman or Vandal navies cruising in this area, so they could plunder it in a grand manner!" Beria's expression was solemn, and he knew that the merchant ship under his feet could not be the match for the warship.

They were very well organized, with one medium-sized ship and two smaller ships, which were more akin to the leading warships of the barbarians to the north, and much lighter than the ships behind them, and the pirates were driving them towards Lugar.

Seeing the situation, the other merchant ships scattered and fled in different directions, but the pirates' goal was very clear, that is, to rush at Luga, because among all the merchant ships, only Luga and their merchant ships were the largest.

"Hurry up, we don't have time!" Berialius shouted and hurried into action, and he ran up the deck, patting every guard he could reach on the shoulder, signaling them to cheer up. "Quick, pick up the oars, we have to speed up, otherwise they will catch up quickly, as long as they are entangled, they will not be able to escape!"

All the guards rushed to the deck, picked up the oars that had been placed on the deck, and waited for the order of Belialius.

"Move! Get moving, get moving! ”

Oars stretched out from the deck to the sea, rowing one after the other under Berialius's slogan, and the merchant ships gradually picked up speed.

"Hold on, yes, that's it, just follow the rhythm one after the other, do your best, do your best!" Beria shouted hoarsely, commanding the soldiers.

The soldiers did their best, but the huge merchant ship was much slower than the fast warship, so gradually the two sides became closer and closer.

"We can't just be unprepared!" Luga shouted, "Keep up the speed, armed without oars in your hands!" ”

The soldiers took their leather armor and shields and spears from the cabin, and one by one they armed themselves, while the soldiers with bows and arrows ascended to the top of the ship, and faced the approaching pirate ship, and they aimed their bows and arrows at them.

The pirates didn't look like a lawless mob, they had shields and tomahawks, and they roared at Luga.

The archers shot their arrows at the approaching pirates, but the wind was strong, and the arrows quickly deflected in the air and landed on the sea not far from the pirate ship.

The pirate ship picked up speed and approached Luga's merchant ship directly, getting closer and closer, and the archers drew their bows together and aimed at the pirate ship below.

"Click..."

A flurry of bowstrings flicked, and several arrows landed on the deck of the pirate ship, but most of them were blocked by the pirates' raised shields, and only one hapless man was shot in the shoulder and fell to the ground with a scream.

"Dangdangdang......"

Iron hooks fell on the deck of the merchant ship, and on the masts, only a few pirates below could be seen climbing up the ropes.

"Archers! Shoot them down with archers! ”

Luga shouted to the top of the mast, and the archers above understood, drawing their bows at the climbing pirates below. The sea breeze was too strong, which made it extremely difficult for them to aim, so that even if they aimed and shot for a while, they would probably not be able to shoot the pirates who climbed up below.

From time to time, pirates with arrows fell into the water, but more pirates climbed up the ropes. At this time, all everyone heard on the merchant ship was the rough shouts of the pirates.

"Spear, spear ready!"

Luga beckoned to the soldiers around him, picking up a spear himself, ready to see the enemy who might climb the deck at any moment.

"Ahhhhhhh......h

These pirates screamed to intimidate the people on the merchant ship, and if it were an ordinary merchant ship, such a strange scream would be enough to make the sailors on board frightened and surrender directly, but they robbed the wrong ship after all.