Chapter 209 Meeting the Army

I said so much just to let Luca know that he is still a useful person.

Luga thought to himself, this is not impossible, after all, it is good to have an extra counselor, but it is hard to say how capable this guy is.

However, it seemed that this guy knew a little about the army that Lujia would soon have, which really made Lujia a little confused. What was this guy's background? He was becoming more and more mysterious.

"We are indeed not familiar with each other, and I don't need anyone for the time being." Faced with such self-recommendation, Lu Jia couldn't bear it for a moment. After all, he was such an old man, and Lu Jia really couldn't say anything.

A trace of disappointment flashed in Sebastianus' eyes, but he was not a man who gave up easily. After all, he was a nobleman and a soldier who had once been glorious.

"What you need, Lord Luca! I am an experienced officer with more than ten years of service. Your legion also needs an experienced officer like me to manage it!" Sebastianus raised his head and stared at Luca. Luca had never seen such a look before, tough and fearless, which left him no reason to refuse.

"Besides, I want to go home!" Sebastianus' tone was heavy, his eyes were filled with tears, and he looked like he was about to cry. Luca couldn't bear to see this.

This reminded him of how nervous he was when he applied for the job. He didn't even dare to raise his head when he saw the interviewer. He thought that if he could compete for the job with the same decisiveness and irresistible tone as Sebastianus, his life would be much easier! "Let's keep him!" Luca thought silently in his heart, "Maybe there are still many things he can learn from him. At the very least, he needs to learn how to manage a reorganized field army."

"Of course, Lord Luca!" Sebastianus looked at Luca, slowly took out a scepter from behind his back, and showed it to Luca with a parchment letter, saying: "Although this legion is for your use, without the scepter, how can you command the army?"

"Damn! It turns out this old guy has this trick!" Luca was immediately furious and had to take the scepter and letter from Sebastianus with an embarrassed look on his face.

"This is what Theodosius II asked me to pass on to you before he left. I am also responsible for conveying the orders given to you this time, Luca." Sebastianus changed his previous gentle attitude and raised his head, showing his noble arrogance to the fullest. "Strictly speaking, I am your guide. Augustus knows that you have no experience in leading troops, so he asked me to assist you. Before you can manage one or several legions independently, I will be by your side!"

"Damn it, if you had taken it out earlier, I would have taken you away!" Luga was even more furious when he saw the old man's appearance. There was nothing he could do since he had a strong backing, so he just did as he was told.

"Okay, you can come with me, but if you fall behind, I won't wait for you!" Even at this point, Luca still pretended to show him his "domineering and cold" appearance in order to shock him and tell him that although I am young, I am the real boss.

This did not seem to have much deterrent effect on the shrewd Sebastianus. He immediately held back the tears in his eyes, grinned, showing his yellow teeth, saluted solemnly and said to Luca: "As you wish, Commander!"

It was much quicker to change one's words, Luca thought to himself, and got out of the carriage without looking back.

Two days later, Luca, Andrew and his party appeared outside the city of Athens. At this time, Athens was no longer a Greek city-state. After being conquered for hundreds of years, it had long lost its city-state color and became a city in the Roman Empire.

There is a unique port here, which leads directly to Asia Minor in the east, to Jerusalem and even Egypt, and to Sicily and Carthage in the west, allowing for a good grasp of the situation in the entire Mediterranean.

"After my defeat by Aetius, I went into exile here. I have spent all these years traveling between the Peloponnese and Constantinople." Sebastianus was very familiar with this place. He stood at the gate of Athens. The gray stone walls looked like they had not been repaired for a long time. Because so many years had passed, the civil war had not occurred here, the barbarians had not arrived here, and there was nothing worth defending. However, the docks here were an indispensable military base for the empire, so it was full of vitality. Merchant ships of all sizes and various warships filled the sea outside Athens.

"The young men in your legion were recruited locally and have undergone rigorous training. Except for the lack of actual combat experience, they are not much different from the mature field legions." As expected of the guide sent by Theodosius II, he knew more about this information than Luca, and it even made Luca feel that this legion had nothing to do with him, because as the commander of the legion, he knew nothing about his own legion. It was really embarrassing to say that.

Sebastianus brought Luca and his party to the port outside the city, where there was a huge military camp, like a fortress.

"The citizens jokingly call this the Castle of Athens because it has been built a long time ago. Young men from the Peloponnese join the army here and then set out from here to wherever the empire needs them." Sebastianus said as he came to the gate of the camp.

"Who?"

The guards on the tower above the city gate drew their javelins and stared at the group of people downstairs.

"I am your new legion commander, Aurelius Flavius ​​Luca!" Luca looked up and shouted at the vigilant soldier, afraid that he would not believe it, and then raised the scepter in his hand to prove it to him.

"Hey!" The soldier shouted to the camp behind him, "There's a man outside who claims to be our legion commander. He has a scepter in his hand."

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After more than half an hour of trouble, the gate of the camp was finally opened to Luga and his group.

Behind the open gate, the first thing you see is a large number of soldiers running back and forth in a hurry. Their clothes are disheveled, and their armor is even more messy. They are running, as if they are looking for their own team. But what surprised Luka was that the moment the gate was opened, the chaos disappeared, replaced by neat teams of hundreds of people. Everyone turned their heads 45 degrees to look at Luka, apparently to accept the inspection of the new legion commander.

If the dust from the running had not yet dissipated, Luca would have mistakenly thought that he was dazzled. Riding forward, looking at this group of disheveled soldiers, Luca really wanted to look back at Sebastianus who had been hiding in the car from the beginning, to let him see if this was the unit he mentioned that was almost the same as a regular field army.

(End of this chapter)