796: Cutting off the beard (I)
"Caesar is coming! Caesar is coming! ”
Outside the city of Mursa, a group of officers came in the morning,
"Hurry up, hurry up, you slackers!"
The officers who came in a hurry shouted and cursed, and one by one kicked the soldiers who were lying on the ground lazy to wake up.
Such a shout caused most of the lazy soldiers present to get up from the ground in an instant, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. They craned their necks and stared wide-eyed for Augustus' car.
But now there was nothing, but they could see from the serious expressions on the faces of their officers that it was not a joke, and they hurriedly gathered together in a complete phalanx on both sides of the road.
The army that had stopped the attack had been staying where they were and doing nothing, but the arrival of Augustus had finally regained their desire to fight, and everyone gathered on both sides of the road, looking at the army that was slowly approaching not far away.
The richly dressed cavalry passed in front of them, followed by Luga's carriage escorted by the infantry, and Luga opened the closed curtains slightly and looked through the gap at the soldiers gathered on the side of the road.
They were dirty, some of them had hair so disheveled that they could barely wear helmets, and even though they were still at a distance, Luga could still smell the stench emanating from so many people.
Everyone looked disgraced, the clothes on their bodies were shabby, and the chain mail on their bodies was still there
"Isn't this the smell of the army?" For this smell, Lu Jia is very familiar, although it is familiar, but he has not smelled it for too long, and suddenly smelled it, and he is still a little uncomfortable.
He then lowered the curtains, shook his head slightly, and sat down in silence on the carriage and slowly moved forward.
At the destination, the main camp outside the city of Mursa, where you can see the city in front of you, which has been shattered by multiple shocks.
Luga got out of the car, and Attilineus followed closely behind him, Attilineus looked less angry now than yesterday, although his gloomy face didn't look so happy.
"I've seen your offensive ideas, and I have to admit that your ideas have nothing to do with your age, Lord Artirinaeus." As he walked, Luga said to Attilineus, "Your Excellency, I believe that you have greatly overestimated the combat capabilities of our soldiers, and even when I was most eager to expand, I did not have such crazy thoughts as you do now. ”
"But isn't that what you said, Caesar, to teach these barbarians a heavy lesson, so I think it is necessary to attack on a large scale and deal a heavy blow to Attila!" As soon as he mentioned his plan, Attirius instantly came to his senses, only to see that he would raise his fist in the air and then fall hard beside him, the fist wind was whirring, he looked at Luga, his eyes were extremely determined, I originally planned to take this town in three days, we can go all the way west, and finally cut off Attila's back road!
"Oh my God, I only gave you 10,000 people, but you want to do 50,000 things, it really surprises me, I am very surprised!" Luga said, shaking his head repeatedly, "Lord Attilineus, I see that you are still too optimistic about the current situation, we are fighting alone, Attila's army is four times our number, we cannot rush in. ”
"We can also turn to Aetius for help!" Attilineus still said unrelentingly: "You are Augustus, you can order him to cooperate with your actions, as long as we cooperate well this time, we can turn the entire Roman land into a huge cage that imprisons demons, and when Attila can't break free inside, he will be captured, not only that, as long as Attila surrenders, then he and his tribe will no longer be able to threaten Rome." ”
"Oh, forget about Aetius." Luga smiled bitterly and looked at Attilineus and continued, "Now that the Goths are ready to enter Narbian Gaul, they seem to want to make a fortune. ”
"Damn! Damn it! Artirinaeus roared loudly, apparently the news he had just learned had dealt a heavy blow to what he thought had been well planned.
"So, my old fellow." Luga walked over and patted him on the shoulder, and said helplessly, "Plans can't keep up with changes, so we can only hold back this time, after all, an even bigger threat is looming, and we have to deal with it." But as compensation, I will personally oversee your Excellency's taking of the city. ”
Although he was unwilling in his heart, he had to make concessions under the compulsion of the overall situation.
Luga didn't tell him the truth, but this was also Luga's own purpose, he didn't want his thoughts to be seen by too many people, after all, the greatest advantage of a king is not only his majesty, but also his mystery, Luga is very willing to lie in maintaining his mysterious aspect, and is not ashamed.
The next day, at dawn, Artilineus sounded the horn of the attack, and his officers urged the sleeping soldiers to wake up, and reorganized their army and began to advance towards Murza in front of him.
But Luga didn't come to watch the battle as he said yesterday, after all, he was not interested in a battle that was sure of anything.
In the tent of the Chinese army, he rolled up a piece of parchment written by hand, tied it tightly with a straw rope, and handed it to John. In the hands of Antioch.
"Give it to Lord Aetius, and say that this is my request." Luga looked at John. Antioch looked like he was asking him if you had the confidence to do this well.
"And if he asks me, how should I answer him?" John. Antioch carefully turned out parchment letters.
"Let's just say that this is a very important matter, and if Aetius can do it well, it will be of great benefit to him." Lu Jia said and scrubbed the quill in his hand, and said unhurriedly: "He will definitely do it, after all, the affairs of the west must not be cleaned up by him." ”
A month and a half later, in the Doge's palace in Ludinand, John Brown. Antiochus handed over Luga's handwritten letter to Aetius.
"What a bold idea." Aetius glanced at the letter, snorted coldly, then put down the letter and looked up at John. Antiochus asked, "How can you be sure that I will be able to do this?" ”
"Because Caesar trusts you, Lord Aetius." John. Antiochus said bluntly: "Caesar believes that this is of great benefit to Rome and to you. ”
"Of course, there are many benefits." Aetius smiled, carefully rolled up the parchment letter in his hand, and then said to John. Antiochus said, "You can go back to your life, your Excellency, and tell Caesar that I will do what I have to do." ”