Autumn is already late, and the temperatures are still warm, which is the benefit of the subtropical Mediterranean climate, which eliminates the need for heavy winter leather clothing for soldiers.

Of course, the reduction in logistics also greatly increased the chances of the enemy launching an offensive in winter. They had already understood from the corpses of the "demons" that it was the hands of the Romans, so they were eager to retaliate, after all, these guys had been giving them a headache for a while. According to the urine nature of the barbarians, they are revenge fellows, and they will certainly not swallow their anger because of the unfavorable situation of the current situation.

Luga lived a peaceful life for a while, but his life was not easy, because Fetanius, the envoy of Augustus, had not yet left. Lugar knew too much about the specific reasons for the officials' reluctance to leave, so he accompanied the fellows to feasts every day, eating all the precious delicacies that Iberia could find.

This guy is not unappreciative, Luga is afraid that he will go back and talk nonsense in front of Valentinian, although he has an indescribable intimacy with Valentinian, Valentinian even sees Luga as a lifesaver. But this thorny and extremely insecure guy is extremely fragile in his heart, he can't be stimulated, and it is even more difficult to bear betrayal. The gibberish was enough to crumble his fragile defenses, and this crazy fellow, God knows what choice such a rumor would make him make when it reached his ears.

"This bastard from Ravenna is like a god now!" On the way back, Andrew saw that there was no one around, so he complained to Luga loudly: "Look at his swaggering appearance at the banquet, as if we were his servants, Luga, cheer up, you are the captain of the army, far higher than the general who commands the army!" ”

"It doesn't matter, Andrew, it's not important, although he is below me, but after all, he is Augustus's envoy, an inspector." Luga was burping, full of wine, and the strength of the wine gave him an unbearable headache. Even so, he was able to keep himself awake and not be unable to think and talk nonsense.

Luga continued: "As long as we can guarantee that we will pay a bribe to silence this Augustus envoy, and when we go back, we will not ask him to praise us everywhere, but only that we will not say a word about us, and the inspector will not speak, then Augustus will not be unnecessarily suspicious, but we must speed up our speed, so as to achieve a quick battle with the Alans in front of us, and as for the rest, it will not be too late to see the move." ”

"But Luga, you have to think about what if this guy is an ungrateful man?" Andrew said worriedly: "There are too many such bastards, so many that we can't tell if they are the kind of guys we imagined, or when, when do you think the time is ripe, tell me, I will call a few soldiers to kill this bastard and find a place to bury it!" When the time comes, I will send the inspectors down and tell them that they have been plundered by the Alans, and that there is no corpse left, and if they want a corpse, then look for the Alans, and let the Alans find them! ”

"Nope! It can't be like this, Andrew! Andrew's proposal made Luga immediately veto, only to see Luga continue: "This is a sensitive time, after all, everyone in the hall heard Fetanius's slander of me, no one can guarantee it, or only God knows how many of them are suspicious of me, if the inspector dies at this time, then all the fingers will be pointed at me, then it will only be more and more unfavorable to me at that time." ”

"So can we just let it go?" Andrew asked.

"That's all it can be for now, Andrew, my friend." Luga had some difficulty speaking, after all, it was like a gamble.

In a small fishing village outside New Carthage, because it was within the sphere of influence protected by the Roman army, the Roman soldiers came and went to send a silent message to the local villagers: even the Alans could not break through the defenses to get here.

They lived an easy and pleasant life under the protection of a strong military force, fishing and selling to the army, which was their source of money, and the diligent ones were always able to accumulate a large fortune.

But the good times didn't last long, in the blink of an eye, the climate was warm and humid, it rained again on this day, in the "whooshing" rain, everyone went home to take shelter from the rain, and no one would be stupid enough to go out to sea to fish at such a time.

But there are always such "fools" who go to sea in the rain in order to be able to earn more, Franco is a young fellow, and his years of experience at sea have given him a strong muscle. Every time he went out to sea to fish, he would trade in the nearest military camp, after all, hundreds of mouths always needed such "vegetarian dishes" to fill his stomach, and he could also get a lot of wealth according to the type of fish.

At the east end of the village was a girl named Carmen, an adult girl who helped her parents at home, with plump and attractive buttocks, who always inadvertently caught Franco's eyeballs. This is the most beautiful girl Franco has ever seen, and there is no shortage of suitors for beautiful girls, Franco is one of them, he is a general, an ordinary member, it is difficult to get the favor of this beauty, but he is unwilling, and always thinks of something that can make Carmen impress him.

He had some savings, but they were all inferior copper coins or dinaris, and he had never seen a gold coin of Soules, for he had heard that it was not only made of gold, but also a portrayal of a barbarian subjugating to Roman Augustus, and that it was not just a coin, but a work of art, something that Carmen could hardly refuse.

When it rains, and the fishermen don't want to go out to sea to fish, then there is no one to compete with him for a sea of fish, he can carry a full boat back, and sell the fish to the soldiers at a higher price than usual, even if he risks being scolded by these five big and three rough fellows as a guy who gets into the money.

He disagreed, for he might be able to scrape together enough money and find a soldier to exchange his Dinaris for a Sulledus, so that he could come to Carmen and offer Sulledus to his beauties in front of his rivals.

"Oh, look at your jealous gaze and the look on your dull look at Suledus!" Franco was fascinated by the thought, and he couldn't help but start to mock himself, and his mind had vividly imitated the scene and put himself in it.

"Carmen will be grateful to me for what I have given to Souledus, I am a man who can earn Souledus, and I can support her. She's going to fall in love with me for it, and she'll snuggle up in my arms and listen to me tell the story of the gold coin of Souledus, oh, the story on the gold coin, oh my god, I don't even know what it's about, I'll have to think about it, or I'll be laughing at me if I can't say anything at the critical moment. Franco was fishing, he was clearly delusional, but he was willingly intoxicated with it, as if this was his future.

"Great, oh, Roman Augustus, um...... Lead the army, with the barbarians, oh, which barbarian, what the ......"

It was raining so hard that I saw only a small boat getting farther and farther away.