Vera's worries were justified, and after she and Limon fell asleep, her father, who was far away in Rome, had already survived a bitter battle......

It's night.

The fire was raging on the earth, and even the canopy of heaven was a dazzling blood-red color at the moment.

The crows were wailing, and they did not dare to land on the ground to fill their hungry stomachs, because their prey grounds were already on fire at this moment.

A disgusting smell of burnt paste filled the air, and the fields of Gelandal were littered with the corpses of barbarians and Imperial soldiers.

Once the most prosperous city in Rome's vicinity and the largest slave trading center in Rome, it is now in ruins, and the occasional animal wail can be heard in the half-burning city, but it is quickly gone.

They would rather stay in the city and be burned alive than escape.

Outside the city, there are their deepest fears.

There are still living people on the battlefield, such as soldiers who carry corpses in silence outside the city, and they are not strictly speaking.

Because after the military reform of Marius the Great, whether it was a soldier belonging to the empire or an ordinary soldier, they would receive standard equipment from the legion before participating in the war.

Ordinary soldiers were given only a set of leather armor, an iron dagger or spear, a simple wooden shield and a few javelins, and some of the special legions were issued with short bows and bows and arrows, which could be used to harass the enemy in the event of a stalemate.

Warfighters, on the other hand, receive a pair of half-body armor and exclusive enchanted weapons, and they are responsible for tearing a rift in the enemy's vital defenses.

But these people, if they didn't have the long knives pinned to their waists, they were more like a group of civilians, they had no consciousness of coming to the battlefield at all, and their bodies and heads were tightly wrapped in a thick cloth stained red with blood, leaving only a pair of dark eyes exposed.

There were also some orthodox Imperial soldiers mixed in, who were just as silent as they were powerful.

Most of them had slept in tents in makeshift camps outside Rome, but dozens of men were silently wiping their blades as they prepared for tomorrow's bloody battle.

Yes, the war is still not over.

Early in the morning, under Richard's planning, the sigil of the management legion was stolen by the ink shadow. Subsequently, one of the legendary legions stationed in the city, the "Golden Spear", was transferred out of the city by a messenger disguised as a messenger from Calle, who was not usually present in Rome, to assist in the defense of the neighboring city of "Gelandal".

And reappointed the corps commander - a straw bale of the Senate.

To Calle's surprise, the senate fools still didn't notice...... Just like before Richard quietly eliminated the legendary legion "Scipio the Great".

Not long after the legendary Legion of the Golden Spear left the city of Rome, the unlucky guy chosen by Caligula to be the captain of the legion, Kayla Brutus, was still enjoying his newly acquired power.

At Richard's behest, Calle sent a small team to meet Kayla Brutus in disguise as a defector from the standing army that was still loyal to the Emperor.

Claiming to reveal the location to him, the straw bag believed it...... He even generously gave Kalai and his party a whole bag of gold coins as a reward, and then waved them off......

Until the moment he left the Legion, Kale still looked like he had seen a ghost......

He finally understood the meaning of the phrase "the louder the noise in the Senate, the more straw bales" were meant by the plebeian of Rome......

Three hours later, the members of the legendary legion of the Golden Spear, including the strawbale commander, who had ordered the entire army to march to the city of Gelandal, found that the city, known as the second largest city in Rome, was deserted...... On the streets, only the owners of the cattle have been lost, wandering aimlessly.

At this moment, a fire suddenly ignited, and the oil prepared by Richard in advance instantly turned half of the city into a sea of fire, just cutting off their retreat.

In the absence of a decisive decision from the commander, the entire legion could only flee to the other side of the city in a panic.

True to the legendary legion, most of the soldiers escaped from the city of Gelandar when the remaining centurions of the legion counted the numbers outside the city......

However, these soldiers were frightened by the strangeness of the city and the sudden fire......

To make matters worse, when the stubborn bale captain finally chose to compromise and let the centurions lead their soldiers around the city to investigate the strange thing, they found a group of barbarians suddenly appearing in the distance on the skyline......

Almost all of them were more than two meters tall, covered in muscles, and carrying heavy hammers, battle axes, and iron sticks more than a man high......

Barbarians emerge from the horizon...... This finally made Kayla Brutus realize that he had fallen into a trap, however, it brought him not fear, but anger!

As one Greek scholar put it, "The fool is more angry at the humiliation of his own stupidity than the threat."

The fame and strength of the legendary legion gave Kayla Brutus plenty of confidence. With unconcealed anger, he arrogantly declared that he was going to crush the barbarian army outside the city.

A large line was unfurled, with sturdy spearmen with round shields at the front, behind them legionary infantry armed with short swords and shields and short javelins, and behind them were auxiliary legions with archers and mages as the main force.

The cavalry, on the other hand, was on both flanks, waiting for an opportunity to strike at the flanks and rear of the barbarians.

The front line was held by a military array led by a centurion, and the tacit cooperation between the soldiers of these formations, who were the legendary legions, allowed them to harvest the heads of one barbarian after another, and it was like the tip of a sharp sword, mercilessly piercing into the torrent of barbarians.

However, the spearmen who were also at the forefront did not have the morale of the legendary legionnaires - not everyone in the legendary legion turned their backs on Caligula, but those who dared to resist were mercilessly executed.

The Senate generously gave gold to the rest of the men, and by the way, the spearmen of the legion, whose status was not very important, were added to other positions.

Most of these spearmen were improvised from among the Roman civilians, and they were even inferior to the soldiers of the standing legion.

After withstanding several waves of barbarian onslaught, the soldiers in the front row suffered heavy casualties, and after a civilian in the center was splashed with brains splashed by the man standing in front of him, he broke down and tried to flee backwards.

The Warlords were of no avail, for they no longer trusted the Straw Bale Captain, who was usually a big blow, after being frightened by the sudden fire that had been fought before. So, too, they fled backwards.

Deprived of the protection of their long weapons, the legionnaires retreated under the onslaught of the barbarians, and they were eager to raise their shields, reorganize their lines, and throw their spears in a counterattack.

It's a pity that the power of the barbarians does not make sense to humans......

Eventually, they began to lose the enemy, and then, in a state of mental breakdown, they fled with the rout, and they could not care about the archers who only had a knife and the mages who were usually high-minded.

The cavalry was even more miserable, and when the battle situation in front of them was at the beginning of the rout, they were ordered to come to the rescue by the captain of the bale regiment, Kayla Brutus.

By this time, the barbarians were too close to them, and instead of advancing and retreating in the same orderly manner as Rome had previously faced the enemy, they were swarming in......

A cavalryman who loses distance is as vulnerable as a lamb to the slaughter.

After a feeble resistance, they gradually disappeared into the one-sided warband......

The consequences of the defeat were obvious, and no one survived this legion of almost per capita mid-level warriors, except for those who narrowly escaped......

......

In the main tent of the camp, the leader of the legendary legion "Augustus", Kale, carefully looked at the two holy clans in front of him.

Sitting on the throne was Richard, who was wearing a noble robe that he had gotten out of nowhere, and he revealed this indescribable temperament in every gesture, but in the traditional Roman aesthetic, he was a damn little white face!

The long black and thick hair, handsome facial features, burly figure, and the frivolity inadvertently revealed at the corners of his mouth always make people think that he is ...... Not very serious.

The teenager standing beside him had too many similarities with him, except for his temperament......

Unlike the youth, this teenager is like a young lion cub that is just starting to emerge.

Calle knew that even though this was the boy's first time in battle, the hands of him and the Holy Assassins he led were already stained with the blood of countless Romans on the battlefield.

"Richard, what are we going to do tomorrow?"

I don't know when it started, but Kalai gradually began to put this once invisible holy clan in the position of commander.

"What else can I do? Trust me, Calle ......"

"Okay...... Then I'll go and see how the brothers are doing with those corpses, your request is very strange...... ”

"Kale, remember to leave me with those gears, and count me as owing you a favor. ”

"Well, I tried my best, right...... Richard, can you promise me one thing?"

"What?"

"In the next battle, if there are soldiers who are willing to surrender, I hope you can spare them......"

"You need to ask His Majesty the Emperor about this...... It was his order not to be left alive...... Also, I want you to keep the appearance of the barbarians a secret......"

"Okay......

"Will, you go and send Captain Kale. ”

Just as Carlis was gloomy, Richard inadvertently glanced at Will. Will, who was already an adult, understood, nodded to Richard, and left the tent with Kale without looking back.