Luga did not rush to let the army advance, but took Andrew with him to reconnoiter at the front of the army.

Obviously, such a huge project attracted Luga's attention, and he wanted to find out. He was now a thousand meters away from the rebels' lines, and he was well positioned to avoid the need to worry about them spotting them at such a distance.

"It seems that this last city is also serious." Luga looked at the long temporary wooden wall, and continued, "They are using this line of defense now mainly to start consuming us outside the city, and I can think that they are fighting the trapped beasts. ”

Although this is a line of defense, the whole line of defense is nothing more than a huge fence of wood side by side, and then fixed with stones underneath, I don't know if such a defense line is considered solid, or if these people want to use this to block the attack of the Romans.

"Let's go." Lu Jia looked at it for a while, and when he felt that he couldn't find any more useful clues, he couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Then let's get here, anyway, I can't see anything at such a distance." ”

Andrew did not object to Luga's proposal, and the two of them returned to the Legion's camp under the escort of the Guardsmen, separated by a large clearing full of tree stumps, and the walls of the defensive line were made of felled trees. There is a simple watchtower every fifty meters, on which there are soldiers constantly looking at the open space in front of them for nearly a thousand meters, and the stumps can slow down the march of the army's attack, so that even if they run in front of them for such a long time, they are almost ready, and forcing a thousand meters of marching is really a big burden for the heavily armored soldiers, they will be exhausted when they arrive, and the enemy who is ready to fight will naturally meet the vanguard soldiers.

Luga did not want to see the soldiers suffer heavy casualties without doing anything, after all, it must be very difficult to break through this first line of defense.

Back in the tent of the barracks, Sebastianus, Arecio and Martinius, who had come with him, were discussing while looking at a huge white cloth on the table.

"You're back just in time, Luga." When Arecio saw Luga and Andrew coming in, he hurriedly beckoned Luga to come over, and said to him, "Look, this is the map of the enemy's line of defense that we have prepared for us in the rebel army. ”

"Defensive line deployment map?"

Just when Luga was at a loss, Arecio said something that Luga did not expect, and he hurried forward to watch with the others.

Sure enough, this white cloth clearly depicts the location and deployment of the rebels' defensive line.

"They took advantage of the city's high location to make a semicircle around us in a position, or we came too suddenly, so that their project was hastily used before it was finished." Arecio drew the line of defense marked on the map and said to Luga.

"Then we can take advantage of the darkness to bypass the front of the line of defense and take advantage of the density of the woods to attack from the back of their undefended back, isn't the line of defense they have painstakingly managed in vain?" Martinius said, pointing to the back of the city.

"No, they must have done it with a purpose." Arecio went on to say, "The west of Durotor Colam is close to the territory of the Goths, so that if we let the Goths know that we are at war close to the border of their territory, they will have ample excuse to attack us behind our backs. ”

"It's quite possible that the goths did." Sebastianus said, "But is it not possible that in such a short period of time the Goths will be able to assemble a team capable of attacking us, after all, we must ensure that we will defeat the city in one day." Maybe we've succeeded before their scouts get the news out? ”

"But don't forget, Sebas!" Arecio didn't seem so reluctant to Sebastianus's proposal, and he tapped his finger on Durokortoram's picture on the table and said, "Don't forget that the number of rebels in this city is probably more than 20,000, and the army we brought with us is barely 20,000. ”

"Yes!" Luga finally spoke, agreeing with Arecio's statement, "Although they don't seem to be as well equipped as we are, taking advantage of the bunker and terrain will cost our heavily armed soldiers dearly, but I'm inclined to bypass this line of defense, or we'll pay a terrible price." ”

Now that Lugardu has agreed, then Arecio has nothing to say, and if he has something to say, then he must come up with an opinion and propose a better way to bypass the defense, otherwise he will really not be able to convince everyone present.

"General, there's a gothic messenger outside the door."

The herald suddenly stood in the doorway and said this to Luga and the others in the tent, which surprised Luga. He hurriedly confirmed again, "What did you say?" Is it the messenger of the Goths? ”

The herald did not know why Luga was so sensitive to the Goths, but in his surprise he nodded, confirmed the news to Luga again, and continued: "The man was waiting outside the tent, and he said that he had to hand it over to you according to the orders of their king. ”

"What's going on, how did the Goths come, did they also know that we were going to attack here?" Arecio also felt incredible.

"It must be that the Bagoda rebels are afraid of being defeated by us, so they asked the Goths for help." Sebastianus said with a puzzled expression: "But this question arises again, what is the intention of the Gothic king Theodoric, who will send messengers to interfere with us, can it be said that they have obtained the absolute benefit of the rebels in this city?" ”

"I don't know." Luga shook his head, then left the table and said, "Now the contents of the letter sent by the messenger are exactly what they intended, and I will come as soon as I go." ”

With that, Luga walked out of the tent and saw a well-dressed goth man at the bottom of the steps. He clutched a parchment letter tightly in both hands, and when he saw Luga coming out with Andrew following him, he opened his mouth and asked, "Your Excellency is the general of this Roman army?" ”

"Yes, I am." Luga nodded, and slowly walked down the steps to him.

The messenger handed the letter to Lugar and said, "This is what our great king has commanded me to give you this, and it contains all the meaning that our king wants to convey to you." ”

When Luga took the letter, he saw the messenger saluting slightly, and turned away without looking back.

"What a barbarian!" Andrew couldn't help but curse behind Luga.

Luga opened the parchment letter and read it carefully.

"Well, what did Theodoric say?" Andrew asked from the side.

"He asked us to negotiate with them." Luga put away the letter, sighed, his face solemn, and then said slowly: "It's just outside the city of Dulokortolamb. ”