"The Fifth Lark Legion has been assembled in New Carthage, with a total of more than six thousand men."

"The Fourth Auxiliary Regiment has now reorganized four and a half thousand men after the losses of the sneak attack two weeks ago, and has lost the number of soldiers of a field regiment."

"The retinue army of Palermo was three thousand people. Stand by outside the city of New Carthage. Again, Matteolius' helpless tone.

"Six thousand, four thousand five hundred, three thousand!" Luga counted on his fingers, "Plus the auxiliary army of three thousand, a total of more than sixteen thousand!" ”

"An army of nearly 20,000 men, if brought together, we will be enough to fight against the Alans and even the Vandals." Matteorius said confidently, "Your Excellency Luga, we are fully capable of confronting them. ”

"The army brought by Gaisaric is enough for 10,000 men, which is probably our underestimation of them, just look at their fleet!" Andrew retorted to Matteolius dissatisfied: "You haven't experienced war, how can you make such casual decisions? ”

"Ha, I don't believe that the Vandals who have just suffered a heavy blow have such a strong fighting power?" Matteorius smiled indifferently, which drew disgusted glances from the other people present, but he still said indifferently: "Anyway, if you think I'm annoying, fire me and go back to Palermo, anyway, I don't want to stay in this damn place for a long time." ”

"People can go, but the army stays!" Malenius said coldly, but Matteolius snorted coldly and didn't bother at all.

"Enough!" At this time, Luga finally stood up and loudly reprimanded everyone present: "I have summoned you now to discuss countermeasures, not to make a big noise because of your current rejection of each other! ”

In the face of Luga's reprimand, everyone else present stopped talking and looked at the map below without saying a word.

"So, who has the good attention to deal with the situation in front of them. Let's talk about it, shall we? ”

Andrew looked left and right, and seeing that the others did not speak, he pointed to the map in front of him and said to Luga, "According to the scout's report, the Alans have become much more active since Gaisarric's army came from the sea and tried to land. Now they have mobilized a large number of troops on the front lines of Malaga and Córdoba. ”

"How many?" Luga asked.

"Thousands." Andrew nodded and said to Luga: "They have done their best to organize the army, and brought all the men who can be recruited as much as possible, and their current strength should not be underestimated." ”

"If we count the 10,000 men they can fight, plus the 10,000 men brought by Gaisarric, it is estimated that they have a total of 20,000 or more, then they will have 4,000 more than us!" Luga pointed to Malaga and Córdoba on the map, and said to everyone present: "I think everyone present can see the fighting ability of the Alanish cavalry, their heavy cavalry can cooperate with the infantry to tear apart our army's line, so we must far outnumber them in numbers, and be able to have an absolute advantage in the battle to compete with them!" ”

"So, where did these more than 4,000 people come from?" Matteolius' question stumped everyone, and they all had a hard time with it, and they didn't know what to do.

Seeing the difficulties of the generals, Matteorius sneered and said, "Then, I will say an effective method for you!" Don't forget the nobles of New Carthage, their personal guards are rare and excellent warriors, Lord Luga, what are you hesitating about, asking them to contribute their own way in the same way that you asked my father to serve Rome. Anyway, you have practice makes perfect such a move, so why don't you come in handy at this time? ”

"Enough, Matteorius!" Andrew interrupted Matteorius loudly, "The nobles of New Carthage have offered to donate two hundred pounds of gold to support our army, which is already very generous!" ”

"Two hundred pounds, huh!" Matteolius sneered, dismissive of his appearance, after all, he was the son of a rich family, and although Andrew valued two hundred pounds of gold, it was a small object that was not worth mentioning in Matteolius's eyes.

"It can only be said that our soldiers are more elite than them." At this time Luga finally spoke, and he then asked Sergius, "Is there any news on the sea?" ”

"The Vandals' fleet doesn't stop there, Mr. Luga." Sergius replied: "They remained on the surface of the sea, and wandered between Malaka and New Carthage. They have cut off all our sea roads. ”

"The road from New Carthage to Tarraco on land has also been blocked, and now we are truly isolated!" Andrew added.

All you said and I said was bad news, not any good news, so Luga was very disappointed, they were all talking about how the enemy was doing, how they were deployed, what role they played in such a deployment, but they didn't say anything about what we should do, or they couldn't figure out how to solve the current dilemma.

Lu Jia has heard enough, this situation does not need to be said by others, Lu Jia himself can understand what is going on just by imagining, he wants to listen to the way, but no one can come up with it.

"That must be looking for an opportunity to force a landing again. The Vandals are really determined to fight us to the end this time! Luga said, "snapped" and threw the wooden stick in his hand on the map, and said to everyone present: "Then, here for today, let's all disperse, disperse!" ”

They must have had something else to say, but Luga didn't want to hear a word, so Luga hurriedly reached out to them and motioned for them to shut up, and then waved his hand so that the officers would turn around and leave, leaving Andrew alone.

"The situation is very bad right now, isn't it?" Andrew looked at Luga, not knowing what to say, so he could focus on the topic and add: "We seem to have fewer and fewer options. ”

"Of course, the choice becomes difficult, and every next step must be taken carefully, as long as you are not careful, it is an abyss." Luga took a glass of water and drank it with his head up, because he was already disgusted with the taste of wine, and the damned nobles did not hesitate to eat something that would make him sick in order to make it sweet, and Luga did not want to get sick.

"Perhaps, we can talk to Gaisarik." Andrew said.

"I've thought about this, Andrew!" Luga said, shaking his head, "He will definitely ask for a huge compensation, we will not lose our money, but also disgrace me, I have no way back, so I must fight them!" ”

"But we still have coastal defense!" Andrew said: "The nobles are now in a state of panic, and no one knows how much their loyalty is worth. ”

"So try not to disturb them," said Luga, "and don't take this step until you have to!" ”