"Luga, it may be hard for you to imagine that these two poor nobles actually took out more than 13,000 pounds of gold, really, I was stunned to see so much gold!" Andrew reported to Luga, and from his flushed face with excitement, it was not difficult to see how excited he was when he saw so much money.

"Thirteen thousand pounds of gold......," Luga repeated, smiling and shaking his head, his eyes full of helplessness.

"We can make up for the ransom your father owes with this gold, after all, we have one more option to end this war, don't we?"

"No, it's not our choice, Andrew!" Luga shook his head firmly, and continued, "This is something that the old fellow Theodosius needs to consider, and all I should think about is to use all this money for war. ”

"It's nothing more than a crazy thing to do, Luga." Andrew continued: "Could we have chosen a better solution, for example, if we could have a new choice between life and death? ”

"I've made up my mind, Andrew, don't say any more!" Luga seemed to be having a hard time talking, and his position was very clear, and he then waved at Andrew, motioning for him to say no more. Andrew was helpless, he knew that Luga was difficult to swallow this breath, and he had to do something earth-shattering, and he couldn't say anything, so he could only leave in a huff.

Everyone, everyone in the city of Athens, both nobles and commoners, realized that Luga had gone mad. He was so eager to go to war, to compete with Attila, that he squandered the gold he had plundered from the nobles, and he was the greatest plunderer or source of calamity compared to Attila, but Luga did not know it.

Because of the abundant gold supply, both mercenaries and ordinary border guards were all included in Luga's banner. The size of the army was measured in terms of daily growth, and the Athenians, who probably saw it most often were armies walking through the gates of Athens every day, young and old, and the only thing to celebrate was that they all had simple armor protection and, of course, shields.

Half a month later, Athens had become a military city, and the streets were full of heavily armed soldiers, who were organized into hundred-man teams, followed by field regiments.

Standing on the ramparts, Arleto looked at the soldiers scattered below, and exclaimed: "In a very short and astonishing time, Luga used his ruthlessness to revive and strengthen the Thracian field army, but because of this, he emptied all the soldiers of the Peloponnese and put them at a stake in the war against Attila." ”

"Luga, we have organized a total of one hundred and twenty field regiments, with a total of 60,000 people." Andrew then reported to Luga: "Thanks to the gold, we have enough money to arm the soldiers who have come from the war, and we can provide them with enough food, at least a simple bread, and at least we can now go north to fight Attila." ”

"Thank you, my old fellow." Luga couldn't stop nodding, "Attila's army has sacked Dion and Larissa, and is now coming towards Athens, and we will meet it now." ”

"Luga." Andrew then asked, "Where are you going to stop Attila?" ”

"Thermopylae..."Luga said unhurriedly: "The terrain there is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, in the face of the Spartan king Leonidas led three hundred warriors with the coalition of other city-states to block Xerxes's wave after wave of attacks, we will follow Leonidas, Andrew, but we are stronger than Leonidas." ”

An army of 60,000 marched out of the city of Athens, for this was a feat never seen before, and even the combined legion against the Vandals, which had been formed with the strength of half the empire, had never had such a great momentum.

The army was mighty and stretched for thousands of miles to the Hot Spring Pass, and the armies of the two sides were already less than two days apart.

At this time, due to the drop in sea level, the area of Thermopaya Pass was much wider than that of Leonidas, which also brought that it was no longer so easy to defend and not so difficult to attack.

The soldiers erected their horses on the high ground in front of Thermopylae, and planks laid diagonally to ward off the dreaded rain of arrows from the Huns.

In the clearing in front of them, the soldiers filled the empty pits with spikes. He also placed a thorny tuft to give the Hun cavalry with bows and arrows a little color.

On the other side of the pass was a cliff and close to the sea, so Luga ordered his soldiers to place stones on the top of the cliff and push them at any time to deal a fatal blow to the Huns while the two armies were fighting.

As if everything was ready, Luga led the army down, and he couldn't sleep at night during this time. It was said that he was crazy, but in fact he was not crazy, he understood the point of resisting Attila, but now many nobles in the Roman realm hated Luga more than Attila.

"Obviously, this is a war that has nothing to do with you whether you win or lose." Luga thought in his heart, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, after all, he was the son of Theodosius II, although he didn't say anything big, this catastrophe, he had to do something.

I really couldn't sleep, so I simply went out of the camp tent for a walk. It is worthy of an army of 60,000 people, a real army, and even the camp tents stretch for several kilometers, standing on a high place, you can clearly see the bonfire illuminating the entire hot spring pass. He had never seen such a magnificent scene, and looking at such a large military formation, Lu Jia couldn't help but smile slightly, at least this was the motivation that could encourage him to continue fighting.

But he didn't go far before he saw Andrew, and what Luga didn't expect was that Andrew didn't even sleep, but stood by a campfire and looked up at the sky in a daze.

"Hey, my old friend, what are you doing?" Luga stepped forward and asked Andrew curiously.

"Oh, no, nothing?" Andrew heard Luga's voice, hurriedly turned to look at Luga, smiled, then looked at the sky, and said to Luga: "I just don't know if there are many stars in the sky and the bonfires that we have raised now." ”

"That's a really interesting question." Luga was amused by Andrew, "I don't think you can think about such a boring question, let's say, what is it that bothers you so much." ”

"Listen, Luga, I know it's crazy." Andrew lowered his head at this time and looked at Luga beside him, "But you also understand, such a huge army, I really didn't expect it, not to mention that we will go all out to face Attila, Luga, don't forget that we fought side by side in Ludinand, yes, we fought with the Huns, but now, we meet each other, and I can't wait to separate you to the death now." Everyone present now knew how powerful and brutal the Huns were, and no one knew how they would behave when they really faced the so-called demons. ”

"Why do you say that, Andrew, are you afraid that we will fail?"

"The battlefield is changing, Luga." Andrew's face was solemn.

"Don't worry, Andrew." Luga said to Andrew in a firm tone, "We're going to kick Attila in the ass, and then we're going to send him back to the northern wastelands where he is just as damned as he is, and then because of that, we'll go down in history forever!" ”