I'm just a layman, so why should I treat myself with the demands of a saint?

Just have a clear conscience!

Xia Dong, who had figured out this, was in a good mood, he returned to the room, lay down on the bed, and his body after turning into a stone statue pressed against the wooden bed and made a heavy wailing sound, but in the end, although the furniture made by these soldiers was not fine enough, the quality was passable.

When Fu Xueqin saw him sleeping, she also leaned on the side of the bed and closed her eyes to rest, of course, she still held the long sword in both hands, just in case.

"Knock knock" sounded on the door, Fu Xueqin opened her eyes, got up and opened the door.

Standing outside was Marcus, covered in blood, "I am very sorry that I disturbed Your Excellency the Archmage last night. ”

"It's nothing, you fought valiantly, and the Empire is proud of you." Fu Xueqin casually perfunctory him, but did not mean to let him enter the room, after all, his master had just fallen asleep, and it was better not to wake him up if there was nothing important.

Marcus, of course, could see what she meant, so he took the initiative to speak, "Then I'......"

At this moment, a shout suddenly came from the wooden wall of the fortress, "Sir, come and see!" The voice was full of anxiety.

Marcus didn't care about being polite, turned around and hurriedly left, Fu Xueqin looked at his back, and secretly guessed in his heart, what happened? Could it be that last night's enemy is here again?

Thinking of this, she wanted to go with Chu Lu to have a look, but she turned her head to look at Xia Dong who was lying on the bed, and she stopped again.

When Marcus hurried to the wooden wall and looked out by the guard's hand, he saw that barbarians were constantly pouring out of the forest in front of the fortress, and most importantly, in the front row of their ranks, the patrol that had left the fortress yesterday was impressively escorted.

The barbarians stopped a few hundred meters in front of the fortress gate and gathered together in a haphazard manner, and then a bare-chested creature appeared in the field of view on a white horse, and he controlled his mount to the captured patrol members, and the poor soldiers were forced to kneel in front of the fortress by the barbarians.

The horse-riding barbarian, who seemed to be their leader, turned his horse's head, looked down at his people, and began to speak in their own language, and the barbarians frequently responded with enthusiastic chanting.

After a while, the leader dismounted, roared loudly at the fortress, then turned and drew his weapon, and suddenly cut off the head of the patrol adjutant who was kneeling at the front, and the body that lost his head immediately splattered with blood, and all the barbarians excitedly waved their weapons and shouted excitedly.

In the room, after Xia Dong was lying on the bed, he had just felt a little sleepy, when he heard Marcus's knock on the door, and after he left, he finally fell asleep again, but it didn't take long for the roar like a tsunami to come, which woke him up again!

He sat up angrily, I wipe, in the end, let people sleep?

Sensing his movements, Fu Xueqin also opened her eyes and looked at the depressed Xia Dong, "Master, don't you sleep?" ”

Standing up, Xia Dong replied angrily, "Who needs to sleep like this outside?" Let's go, let's go out and see, what the hell are they doing? After speaking, he walked outside, and Fu Xueqin had to follow him quickly.

The two walked out of the room, the shouting outside was more violent, the soldiers in the fortress were obviously assembling, Fu Xueqin saw the adjutant named Lutoris standing next to him, so he asked, "What happened?" ”

The latter pointed to Marcus, who was walking out of the council chamber, "The barbarians have captured our patrol and are preparing to execute them outside the fortress, and the chief wants to bring them back. ”

Xia Dong raised his eyes, and sure enough, Marcus was fully dressed and was gathering soldiers to line up, he touched his chin, "How many barbarians are outside?" ”

"Who knows, there are probably hundreds of people." Lutorius shook his head.

Looking at the soldiers who were still gathered in formation despite their fearful faces, Xia Dong asked again incomprehensibly: "Is he going to take such a few people?" How many people are here? "Although it is said that the barbarians have not undergone professional training, they will definitely suffer if they encounter this kind of army that knows how to cooperate in battle formations, but after all, the barbarians' physique must be more advantageous, right? Isn't it too arrogant to just let people out like this?

"Fifty people, we can only dispatch so many, and no more will be able to hold the fortress." Lutoris was also clearly not very optimistic about Marcus's operation.

Not only him, but even the soldiers involved in the operation probably had this idea, Xia Dong could even see that some soldiers were so scared that they vomited, he frowned and walked towards the wooden wall.

"Open the door, the soldiers obey my orders, siege formation, advance!" Marcus shouted orders as he took the lead and stepped out of the fortress gates, and they began to jog closer to the barbarian array.

When Xia Dong walked up the wooden wall, what he saw was that countless barbarians were rushing towards the phalanx they formed, I have to say that the training of these Roman soldiers is still very good, I saw that they were fifty people lined up in a square, the soldiers in the front row were connected together with huge shields, and the soldiers in the second row raised their shields to block the top, and from a distance, they soldiers were completely wrapped in shields, leaving no gaps.

When those barbarian soldiers came into contact with them, they seemed to have no way to take these shields, so they could only rely on their strength to push and shove, trying to break the formation and open the gap, Xia Dong even saw that many barbarians directly pounced on the phalanx and jumped on top of Marcus's head.

The Roman soldiers in front of them tried their best to maintain their formation, knowing full well that once the formation was broken by the enemy, they would all have no way out, and the soldiers who were slightly further back continued to stab the approaching barbarians with short swords through the deliberately left gaps between their shields.

Standing on the fortress, although the small phalanx was surrounded by barbarians in an instant, it always maintained its formation and never wavered, but many barbarians screamed and fell.

Seeing this scene, even Fu Xueqin couldn't help but nod in admiration, "Their cooperation is good, and the empire that can conquer so many lands is really extraordinary." ”

Similarly, this scene also deeply shocked Xia Dong, before he always thought that the ancient war was just a super-large-scale group fight, and those so-called formations were just good-looking, after all, in his mind, no matter what formation was arranged, the last thing was not that you slashed me, and I stabbed you with a few swords?

However, after watching the battle of this Roman legion, he suddenly realized that it was not what he thought before, and it turned out that the formation and cooperation of Hao Lu really had a great effect, as long as he looked at the front of him, he knew that the phalanx of only fifty people could actually block hundreds of barbarians, and even when they stabilized the formation, they could start to approach synchronously, but the side of the barbarian warriors who had a large number of people but fought separately had to retreat.

In a short time, they succeeded in forcing the enemy back, approaching the captured patrols, and in order to accommodate them in their own phalanx, their formation changed again, and they quickly switched from square to circle, with the soldiers on the periphery responsible for continuing to block the barbarians, while the soldiers inside began to untie the captives.