Chapter 388: The Last Battle to Regain Ludug Gaul (3)
"Luga, are we really okay?" Andrew rode after Luga, and he asked Luga very uneasily.
"God knows, just see how sincere Theodoric is in the face of us." Luga said as he walked, "I am already very surprised by his messenger. Since the king himself arrived, he must have an army equal to us. ”
"First the Bagorda rebels, then the Goths, I even have a vague feeling that it will be even more difficult for us to take the city this time."
Luga didn't say anything about Andrew's words, his eyes were red, he hadn't slept well all night last night, and his time was spent studying how to confront this Gothic king he had never met.
As he pondered this, he heard a rumbling sound not far away, and then Luga felt the ground tremble. He hurriedly looked up, and saw the smoke and dust whizzing in the distance in front of him, and the only thing Luga could see clearly was the knight who rode his horse at the head and the cavalry with spears behind him.
"Oh my God, the tall battle!" Andrew couldn't help but sigh secretly. At this time, Luga did not say a word, but stared at the cavalry that was getting closer and closer.
The leader looked old, and he had a beard peculiar to barbarians, which of course seemed normal to them, and there was not much wrong with it. He wore a simple golden crown with a chainmail hood underneath it, an iron cuirass, and a chainmail skirt on which no other soldier could have been better equipped.
"Theodoric!" Luga whispered his name as he slowly dismounted, Andrew didn't know what Luga's meaning was, but he hurriedly beckoned the guards behind him to turn over and dismount and follow closely behind Luga.
"Whoa..."
Theodoric I led his cavalry to a distance of more than fifty meters from Luga. As time passed, the smoke and dust that had been raised in the ranks of the Gothic cavalry gradually fell. Luga was presented with a large number of cavalry, more than five hundred men, heavily armed behind Theodoric, and it would be chilling to stand so quietly like this. They pulled their army apart, five hundred against a dozen, which was clearly a show of their strength and a demonstration to Luga.
Facing Luga standing on the ground, they didn't seem to feel that they should show enough sincerity and dismounted.
"You, the Roman general who attacked Dulocor Torham?" Theodoric I pointed to Luga, the head of Rome, and said in a hoarse voice: "I am the king of the Goths, the only king, the supreme king." ”
"Enough is enough!" Luga was impatient to hear this, who would have thought that this guy would ask for so many titles when he declared himself home? Luga waved his hand at Theodoric I, who was on a horse, and then pointed to himself and introduced himself: "My name is Flavis. Luga, maybe you'll hear a lot about me later, Mr. Theodoric. ”
Sir, such a title made Theodoric's face blue and purple with anger. Such a title is obviously very disrespectful, and of course this does not matter to Luga, because after all, it is this Theodoric I who is not respectful in the first place.
"Okay, okay, okay!"
Theodoric I said, sighed, turned over and dismounted, straightened his armor, and patted the dust off it, it seems that he also spent a lot of time day and night for this meeting. Slowly following the guards, he made eye contact with Luga, only to look up and down the armor on Luga's body with a strange gaze.
Because the armor on Luga's body can be described as absolutely classical, Corbridge Type B, wearing a Gallic J-type helmet, which was abandoned by the Roman legions a long time ago because of the high cost, of course, for these barbarians, such armor is even more unheard of, called unseen. The king of a country must be jealous when he sees that the other party's armor is far more gorgeous than his own, but there is no way to do it, and it is impossible for them to see Roman armor, which is about to be lost in the Roman Empire. However, as a king, he still restrained his untimely expression in time, after all, he had received a very strict education. Such a scene reveals his jealousy, which is obviously not something that a nobleman can embody.
"I've heard of you." Theodoric I looked at Luga and said, "You are the one who beat the Vandals in Carthage a year ago, I didn't expect to meet you here, really, I respect the warriors." Of course, the entire Gothic nation revered the warriors. ”
"I really want to thank you for your kindness, Lord Theodoric." Luga smiled and said to Theodoric, and then looked at the Dulotor Koram Line of the Bagoda rebels not far away, which was already crowded with people, and they watched from afar, wondering what kind of ending Luga and Theodoric would end up with the city, and they were all hoping that Theodoric could use his threatening power to scare Luga away.
"Say, Lord Theodoric." Luga looked impatient, and now that he saw Theodoric come to him with such an army, Luga thought that he would lead a huge army to confront Luga, or that he had taken a fancy to the city. "You appeared in front of me at this critical time and should not have appeared, and asked me to negotiate with you outside the city, tell me, what are your intentions?"
"I only learned a few days ago that you were going to attack Dulo Tor Lamm, really, Luga, I am very shocked by the speed of your offensive now, you must know that King Alaric did not have such a speed back then."
"I'm just doing my job, Lord Theodoric."
"I'm afraid you'll have to stop your assault now, Lord Luga." For the first time, Theodoric added an honorific title to Luga's name, and it seemed that he was determined to stop Luga this time. "The other day, Dulotor Korham had chosen to surrender to us and had shown us that he already existed as our vassal. Of course, we also acknowledged such a relationship, but when such a relationship was not yet clear, Your Excellency came here and threatened to attack this city, of course, as the suzerain, I will definitely not let this matter become a reality. Therefore, I also ask Your Excellency to withdraw from the army. ”
"Retirement?" Luga sneered and looked at Theodoric I, this old guy actually let himself retreat, if he had endured the Roman Senate once, now even if any senator of the Senate dared to mention him like this in front of him, he would definitely kill him without hesitation.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to do what you want, Lord Theodoric." Luga sneered, and continued: "Dulocor Torham is an inherent territory of the Roman Empire, where is there any talk of a vassal state? I'm reclaiming our land, I mean Your Excellency has come at an inopportune time, and I hope you understand your situation! ”