"Leonie ......"

Appis gritted his teeth, trying to make his emotions seem calmer. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoBefore meeting the Germanic chieftain, Appis imagined the appearance of this legendary Germanic female chieftain, but he never imagined that this Sucumbri matriarch who led the Germanic tribes and repeatedly defeated the Roman legions turned out to be his former lover - Emma.

"Romans, are you surprised that everything you see today is not what you want to see. Lepida is not the Lepida you are familiar with, and your army, your soldiers, have worked hard to break into my camp, only to find that there are countless more tribal warriors around me. This is indeed a sad one. And I appreciate it, I love it. ”

Leonie said, slung the short bow over her shoulder, and walked calmly step by step towards the opposite Roman legion commander Appis, who was dressed in gorgeous armor. Although verbally, she had changed her address to Apis, who was known to be a Roman, but from the look in her eyes, there were countless complex emotions. Compared with her lover and enemy, Leonie is full of emotions for the Roman officer in front of her, but she hates it to the core. This complex emotion was incomprehensible to the Germanic and Roman soldiers present, but they were waiting for orders from their respective commanders.

During the dialogue between Leonie and Apis, countless black figures had gradually surrounded the elite Roman legions led by Apis. In contrast to the Germanic chieftains who came out of the camp in a frenzy, Leonie hid all her people in the camp and waited for the Roman legions to fall into the trap.

"Emma, tell me, what is it that makes you what you are today? What happened to you after you left Rome? ”

Appis struggled to adjust his emotions, but his eyes remained fixed on Leonie as he approached. Her face and posture were so familiar that it was easy for Apis to remember those distant years. At that time, Octavia had just left, and Tertila had not yet appeared in his sight.

"After going through difficulties and tribulations you can't imagine, I will not have many fewer knife wounds than you over the years, Appis, your cowardice and cringe have made me who I am today, and I, with the flame of revenge, will kill all your people in this land."

Leonie approached Appis and answered his questions head-on. And the barbarian warriors beside him, including the Roman soldiers, no one understood and understood what they were chatting. There are too many bitterness of the past years hidden in this, which is not only personal emotions, but also the contradictions of the country and the nation.

"Tell me why? When you were found by me in the ruins, I didn't sell you as a slave, I even treated you as a friend. Everything about you is the ...... of my church."

Appis said, clenching his dagger tightly, his arm trembling with emotion.

"Your people killed my mother. This is a hatred that will never be forgotten. You taught me to slaughter your enemies the Gauls in the way of the Romans, and I, with it, slaughtered the Romans. I hate the Romans, you have brought destruction to my homeland. ”

Emma spoke, her fluency in Latin to the surprise of the Roman soldiers present. They did not expect that the leader of a primitive Germanic tribe would be proficient in the language of the Roman world, and it seems not surprising that the patriarch of this Germanic tribe had lived in the Roman world, lived in the Roman military camp, and probably fought with the Roman legions......

Appis understood that Emma's apparent cause of the Germanic war against Rome was in fact nothing more than the trigger for this brutal war.

The two leaders stood in the center of the field and continued the conversation back and forth, but the content of the conversation became clearer and clearer. And Leonie doesn't seem to want to catch up anymore and keep it alive. She habitually removed her bow and arrow, and held it high into the sky. This simple action foreshadowed that the leader of the tribe had given the order to attack on the spot. The conversation with Apis was so brief that, in fact, since Apis told Emma that she could not be his wife, Emma's only remaining affection had been shattered and vanished, and that the Germans were loyal to their emotions and valued chastity so much, while the Romans were the opposite, and in this day and age, it would be absurd for the Roman people and nobles to accept their general as a lawful wife of a barbarian. Appis couldn't make a decision, but the cultural differences made Emma leave angrily. And all the sad stories, from that moment, planted the seeds of hatred.

The Germanic Sucumbri swooped out, berserkers roaring and brandishing battle axes and mallets in a furious charge, while the Roman soldiers under Appis instinctively clenched their shields and, under the orders of the centurion, quickly lined up for the barbarians' fiercest slaughter. Apis and Leonie stood in the middle of the two armies, looking at each other's eyes, drowning in the surging crowd.

A Germanic berserker brandished a battle axe and slashed at Appis, who was standing on the spot before he could react, and Crassus Jr. rushed out at the moment of danger, stabbed the short sword into the Germanic warrior's abdomen, and then, against the Germanic man's massive body, pushed the badly injured barbarian warrior to the ground, and then pulled the sword out of his wounded body, causing blood to splatter out.

"Appis, you must get back to the troops! That brute is taking advantage of you! She's set the trap! ”

Crassus Jr. yelled at Apis after killing the barbarian infantry in front of him. And it was only at this time that Apis had to react and follow Crassus Jr. back to the legion.

The Germanic attack was overwhelming the Roman legions led by Appis in an instant. On the periphery of the circular defensive formation, countless weapons slashed back and forth, stabbing and stabbing, and blood flowed and converged into a river.

Leonie stood at the back of the crowd, looking coldly at the tribal army, eating away at the Roman army that had thrown itself into the net.

"Appis, we are surrounded! There is no way to break through at all! ”

In the midst of the bloody battle, little Crassus turned back and shouted at Appis. On the periphery of the defensive ring, barbarians arrived from all sides of the camp and almost crushed the legions.

"I didn't think I'd break through, brother."

However, Appis, who was in a state of flux, looked very calm and calm, and this answer made little Crassus on the side look confused.

"What do you mean?"

"My reinforcements have arrived......"

Appis replied lightly. Then, in the dark night, there was a piercing neighing of war horses......