After a short stay of only a week, Luga finally let go of the barrier and accepted the little Maximus.

But with being in a prominent position came great responsibility, and early that morning, Sebastianus arrived at Luga's villa with an emissary from Eastern Rome.

"Sebas, didn't I tell you that you can't just bring outsiders in!" Luga rubbed her sparse sleepy eyes and complained.

"I'm afraid that the current situation is not what Your Excellency wants!" Sebastianus shook his head helplessly, and then he dodged sideways to the side to let Luga see the Eastern Roman messenger standing behind him.

The messenger seemed to have been in a hurry all the way, and his splendid clothes were covered with mud spots, and the mud spots made him look embarrassed and rude, but he still held his head high and faced Luga with an untouchable look, and Luga saw him at first and even had the delusion that Theodosius himself had come to him. The appearance of this messenger is as if he has come to ask the teacher for sin!

"Emissaries from Rome in the East." Luga muttered, looking at this envoy who had come from afar, Lujia immediately thought of what the Rhine Line, which was in the northern province of Ludug Gaul, had promised to the Eastern Roman envoy at that time.

After such a long time, the Eastern Rome actually sent emissaries again, so it must be because of the problem of the Rhine Line.

"What to do, what to do!" Luga gritted his teeth and thought hard in his heart, he hadn't yet figured out how to prevaricate the envoy of the Eastern Romans, after all, after such a long time, Augustus, who had countless things to do every day, should forget about this matter and devote himself wholeheartedly to the problem of fighting the Hun army.

"Emissaries from the Eastern Romans, welcome, faithful Romans! I'm honored to be in such a place, um, I happen to visit when I have time, um, as you know, I rarely have time to chat here. Luga hurriedly pretended not to be surprised, raised his head, and with an extremely calm bluff, he put his hands together to tidy up the messy clothes he was wearing.

"Yes, Lord Luga, I am honored!" The Eastern Roman envoy said with two lips closed one by one, his facial expression unchanged, "I will say it to your face, Lord Luga. ”

As he spoke, the messenger took out a parchment letter from his robe and handed it to Sebastianus, who handed it to Luga. "This is Augustus asking me to put this thing in your hands, after all, this thing is too important to you."

"What is this?" Luga looked puzzled, but opened the letter under the watchful eyes of the messenger and Sebastianus, and read it carefully.

"Your Excellency, can I know the contents of this letter?" Watching Luga read for a long time, Sebastianus looked puzzled, driven by curiosity, he stepped forward and stretched out his head to see the contents of the letter in Luga's hand.

"The Huns attacked the Thracian province of Eastern Rome and defeated the Thracian field army." Luga said, handing the letter to Sebastianus's hand so that he could read it clearly.

"So, what Augustus means is that it is necessary to gather all the forces available in the empire and resist the attack of the Huns with all their might, right?" Luga looked at the messenger, although his expression was serious, but there was no one who was faintly secret, and secretly said in his heart: "It's okay, it's okay, as long as you don't blame me." ”

"More than that, Lord Luga." The emissary's eyes were fixed on Luga, "I have not only brought this very bad news, but also the question of Augustus Theodosius, why did the Huns attack so recklessly, did the Rhine line not advance and threaten the Huns?" ”

"No threat? How can it be! Luga's pompous expression felt very incredible, after all, it was a big deal, for Luga's performance.

"Indeed, Lord Luga." The messenger continued: "Attila has brought his army of servants to attack the line of defense we have formed, and the soldiers have tried with all their might to resist the barbarians from the east. He was a cautious man, and it was impossible not to take the Danube line without taking the Roman army in the Europa area. ”

"And how long has it taken for Your Excellency to be here?" Luga asked the messenger in a serious manner.

"Two months." The messenger looked down and pondered for a moment, then added: "Two months plus two weeks and three days, to be exact, we have not rested along the Flavia Avenue along the way. ”

"So that means that the war was more than two months ago?" Luga then asked.

"Yes, more than three months have passed, to be exact, after all, it will take some time for the news of the war to reach us."

"Such a long time has passed, just to Milan, and then to the edge of the world of the Rhine Line, another month, this is three months or even more than four months have passed, at this time we are not able to do something at all, and even attract the Huns to attack. Our army is much weaker than yours, so coming to Xingshi to ask for guilt at this time will not solve the problem. ”

Luga's whole set of well-reasoned words made the messenger speechless, and he looked at Luga, and his Adam's apple moved up and down, but he didn't speak.

"So, it's just this parchment that Augustus sent you?" Luga asked, pointing to the parchment.

"As mentioned earlier, Augustus hopes to gather all the forces he can muster and concentrate all his efforts to protect Constantinople and Macedonia, after all, to protect Augustus is to protect Rome!"

"But there's nothing I can do right now!" Luga shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "My army is divided into two parts, the Ninth Army is on standby on the Rhine Line, and the Fourth, Fifth, and Twenty-first Army are all on standby in the Spanish Province..."

"Your Excellency, Augustus is not very demanding!" The messenger interrupted Luga's gushing, "Augustus only needs his son to be by his side in this most dangerous time, and even to integrate and command the army that can be assembled to continue to resist!" ”

"Oh my God!" Luga slapped himself on the forehead, it seemed that this time the idea of going back to the Rhine Line was shattered, and he had to accept the fact.