I felt the heat in the flames like never before, and the painful real feeling kept reminding me that yes, it was real, it wasn't a dream!

I struggled in pain, but I felt like I was chained and couldn't move.

"Hmm!! Not!!! ”

I struggled and tried to scream and force myself to wake up, but I couldn't move, I felt like I was being scorched, and the burning flames drained the air from all around me, and I almost stopped breathing.

At that moment, I opened my eyes suddenly, and all the flames that bound me in front of me were extinguished, and it was pitch black before me, and the only thing I could see was a faint moonlight shining in from outside the tent.

"It turned out to be a real dream!" I stroked my head and got up, only to feel my sweat drenching me, and I pushed away the layers of thick blankets that had covered me, because they were so hot on top of me that they must have caused my nightmares.

I didn't feel sleepy any longer, and got up and put on my clothes and fur boots, and my helmet sat quietly at the head of my bed, reflecting a faint silver glow in the moonlight.

Clothed in a fur blanket that was covered with heat, I knew that the temperature outside was not friendly, so I deliberately tightened the fur blanket with both hands, got up and walked out of the tent.

At this time, everyone outside the camp was still asleep, except for the soldiers standing guard and patrolling, so I went to sit down by the campfire, gently brushed the snow from the firewood with my hands, and took out a few pieces of wood and put them into the campfire, so that the flame could burn more vigorously.

A new day had begun, and it was only the beginning of winter, for the bitter cold and heavy snow prevented us from attacking the Burgundian garrison of Worms, but it also made it difficult for them to retreat in the city. Every day of the visit is essential, every day is different, for example, today you don't bring anything, tomorrow you have to carry the ladder up, the day after tomorrow to push the trebuchet, but this is all a deterrent, there will be no substantial attack. But the Burgundians never once let up, for they did not know at which time we would come, and over time they all calculated the time of our arrival, and stood at the head of the city in advance and stared at us.

Aetius did not let up, taking advantage of the vast amount of time left in the winter snow to make siege equipment day and night, using the mechanical masters he had invited from Milan. Don't ask me how I know, the gate of the camp that was wide open to the south was never closed, and there would be a constant stream of timber and iron-covered siege cones into the camp, and the Burgundians were fond of measuring the treachery of fire and boiling oil before this iron fellow; The towering siege towers were also covered with iron and cowhide, and I think that even in Worms, they could clearly see such a majestic siege structure. Siege is only one aspect, deterrence is the main purpose.

This daily repetition of time after day, I now have a deep understanding of the famous saying "time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle", and if I do not wash my hair for a long time, my hair begins to grow long, and it becomes greasy and dirty, and there are lice living on it, and I usually use my sharp cavalry sword to cut it off. When the beard grows, the same method is used.

The food does not change every day, and sometimes I stare at the bread in my hand, and even wonder what the Burgundians in the city of Worms will eat, and I wonder if the food they hoard will be enough for them to sustain the siege day after day, because it is an invading race, neither here nor other peoples north of the Rhine, no one will help them out of the siege. Now they were like Aetius's fat on his plate, except for a hard carapace on the outside.

The high latitudes, especially near the end of what the Roman population calls known civilization, are harsh than everyone can imagine, and winter comes earlier and, of course, later, than elsewhere in Rome. Until Aetius was ready for everything, and the siege equipment he stored in the camp was enough to support his army to level the walls of Naworms, but the snow deep at the base of his thighs was still the biggest obstacle to him, this must be God's will, he didn't want him to conquer everything in front of him too soon, he had to choose to wait.

A month, two months, in addition to completing the work that must be done every day, that is, every weekend I will receive my share of salary, a little bit and no less, ten Oren. After a long time, I almost forgot the appearance of Tenaia and Anai, and the appearance of Xiaoya became more and more blurred in my memory, I thought about it every day under the city of Worms, and I also thought about it when I returned to the camp tent and lay down, I didn't want to forget them, this may be the only little fun left in my life.

From time to time, the soldiers could be heard whispering around the campfire, because of the cold, the peddlers had long since left, and the leather girls they missed did not know where to go to do business, probably in the Italian provinces, where it was still relatively warm. But these "hungry wolves" are really rich and have nowhere to go, and some have to look at their comrades with greed, to be honest, I am very disgusted with such behavior, in short, it is psychologically unacceptable. But I'm not going to stop or punish those who do this, it's probably a centuries-old tradition of the Roman army, there is nothing to forbid it, if it used to be, then it must be invalid now.

I really don't want to move too much without any fun in life, and the most strenuous thing now is to catch lice on my body. It's not that I don't take a bath, it's that I'm out fighting. It's really not everything, the most important thing is water, the water that usually boils soup and drinks is not enough, let alone take a bath, it's okay to wipe your body with snow water. Take the snow water melt and boil the water for a bath, the first consumption time is long, and the workload is also a lot, chopping wood, lighting the fire, as soon as we go out, the toiling masses who stand for a day, who has the strength to come back and do this, besides, boil the water, a group of people come up, you have a cup and I have a cup, and you will drink all the bath water if you are a centurion, but as a centurion, I am too lazy to do this. If you are a soldier, don't say that the cooking soldiers will give you a pot or not, you are complaining, you have to protect your chrysanthemums when you sleep at night, and really not everything can come from your temperament.