"Soldiers, you don't have to risk with me, it's a conspiracy, an obvious trap. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBut Lepida is my old friend, my closest comrade-in-arms. I can't leave him alone, but you have the freedom to choose. Outside the city, there are more than ten times as many barbarians as we are, and you have wives and children in your families, and if I die in battle, Crassus and Flamini will take my place in the army and lead you in the battle. You don't have to follow me on the adventure, brothers. ”

Before leaving, Apis stood on a high platform and gave a speech to the crowd "from the bottom of his heart". In order to express his fancy and cherishment of his comrades-in-arms, he shows that he will never abandon any of his comrades-in-arms. And in this situation, even if everyone knows that the road out of the city is dangerous, they can't say that they want to quit on the spot. Otherwise, they will be regarded as cowards and ruthless people.

Then, in a tragic and majestic atmosphere, the operation to rescue Lei Bida began "vigorously". The Thirteenth Corps, divided into three brigades, was responsible for covering the attack of the main forces of Appis, who attacked from each of the three gates.

Contrary to all expectations, Appis's rescue operation did not choose to attack during the day, but chose to attack at night...... To this end, Appis ordered in advance the legionnaires, who were responsible for covering the attack, to tie torches to their spears, three torches to each spear, and then, when the soldiers went out of the city, they carried this strange weapon for lighting. In this way, the originally sparsely numbered Roman brigade could look like a large army at night.

The number of soldiers of the three Roman legionnaires in charge of covering was less than two thousand, but in the night, countless torches danced in the night sky with restless firelight, and the three Roman legionnaires held torches that were blazing into the sky, like three galloping fire dragons, appeared outside the city of Lugdunum, which made the Germans in the camp outside the city suddenly alert and uneasy. The main brigade led by Apis himself was only three people with a torch, the people in front held torches for lighting, and the people behind followed the steps of their comrades in small steps. Silence is maintained throughout the stay.

"Leonie, our prey is here."

Seeing that the Roman legions finally attacked, the Germanic leader Swinad roared in ecstasy. The berserkers around him couldn't wait to wave their tomahawks, wanting to rush up and slaughter the Roman soldiers. The previous siege had caused the Germanic horde army to suffer terrible damage, and almost everyone wanted revenge.

"No, send out the cavalry first to see if it is the main force of the Romans. Appis was a very cunning man, and he would never easily expose his main forces. After the cavalry confirms, we will attack again. ”

However, in the face of the eager and morale-boosting Germanic army, Leonie gave the exact opposite opinion. She stared in the direction of the firelight, and her heart became uneasy.

Subsequently, a large number of Germanic cavalry roared to the position of the Romans. But before he could do so, he was shot back by the javelins of the Roman army.

At this time, most of the chieftains of Germania could no longer control their inner ecstasy, and led their people to run frantically towards the place where the fire gathered.

In an instant, countless illuminated torches poured out of the Germanic camp. Like countless glowing boats floating on the black sea, the Germanic people could not suppress the ecstasy in their hearts, and almost poured out their nests, shouting, shouting and killing shook the sky, and the earth trembled to meet the fiercest charge of the barbarians.

Within a short time, three Roman brigades were engaged in the Germanic skirmish. A battle that took place in the night, with the flames intertwined, and the sound of swords slashing and clashing filled the entire battlefield.

Rabinus wielded his dagger and cut off the arm of one of the Germanic warriors, sideways himself from another Germanic attack, and then plunged his sword into the neck of the Germanic soldier. A large amount of blood splattered and stained the old general's armor and face red. The Roman soldiers around him stood in a circular defensive circle. Wounded soldiers, no longer able to fight, were carried into the circle, and legionnaires, who were still physically strong, held themselves to the front line, shielding themselves against barbarians who outnumbered them dozens of times.

All kinds of crude and rudimentary weapons slammed against the shield, making a continuous crashing sound. Patience was a quality that Roman soldiers had to learn, and in their repeated battles with the barbarians, the Roman soldiers under Apis had clearly honed this astonishing quality. They endured the incessant roars and screams of the barbarian soldiers outside the shield walls, and the intense pressure of savage impacts, and when the enemy was at its most frenzied, they stretched out their short swords and stabbed them into the barbarian's softest lower abdomen or ribs. And a single sword is often enough to cripple.

The barbarian infantry, exhausted by the roaring and slashing, fell one by one under the cold sword of the Roman soldiers, and the blood flowed and wet the ankles of the Roman veterans on the periphery.

Three Roman brigades with torches were besieged at the same time, while Appis attacked directly into the Germanic camp with his most elite troops. It wasn't until the Germanic stronghold was ablaze that the Germanic warriors, who had already rushed out of the camp, knew that they had been tricked.

The place where Lebida was held was in the deepest part of the Germanic camp.

Appis, dressed in splendid armor, dismounted, and approached the open space in the camp where the Roman general was tied. Lepida was stripped naked and tied to a sturdy stake. In the firelight, Apis could not see his face clearly, and it was not until he got closer that he realized that the man who was tied to a stake and was struggling desperately was not Lepida at all.

At this time, from the wooden shed of the barracks, a barbarian woman slowly walked out. She was covered in the fur of a beast, and in her right hand she held a fine short bow, her figure was well-proportioned and sturdy, and her outfit looked like that of a tribal elder, and her whole body was covered in strange paint where it was not covered by clothing. And that face, Apis remembers......

"Emma ......"

For a moment, all the sad and beautiful images of the past poured into Appis's mind.

"No, Leonie. My name is Leonie. ”

But in the face of Appis's extremely surprised inquiry, Leonie replied coldly. There seems to be no trace of emotional fluctuations. It's like an incomparably cold-blooded beast staring at its prey. And such a conversation, such a scene, also surprised the other Germanic people present, who did not expect that the Sucumbri patriarch, who had always hated the Romans, had known the supreme commander of the Roman legions......