Chapter 314 Advancement

"Victory came too easily!" Luca thought to himself. The group of Bagauda rebels in front of him fled too quickly, which confused his thoughts for a while. How could it be possible that the real battle had just begun and then ended.

"Luka! Luka!"

Andrew rode up behind him and watched the situation on the battlefield carefully from the city wall. Andrew naturally had the same doubts as Luca. As soon as he met Luca, he asked, "What's going on? They're retreating before they even have a so-called evenly matched opponent."

"I don't know either." Luga dismounted and came to the front of the army with his lance in hand. The soldiers stopped cheering and waited quietly for the general's decision.

Stepping over the still warm corpse, Luga couldn't understand why they made such a decision. They clearly had an absolute advantage, but they hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield when the outcome was decided.

"Oh my god, I really didn't realize they were so vulnerable!" Andrew followed behind Luga. He looked at the bodies of the Bagauda rebels abandoned on the ground, laughed at Luga's back, and then said: "It's been two years, and I don't know why they are like this. It seems that all their courage has been worn out in the internal fighting over the past two years. What's wrong with them? Luga, didn't you see any clues during the contact and combat with them?"

"I really don't know!" Facing Andrew's question, Lu Jia didn't know how to answer this question for a while. He just looked at their backs as they went away. The group of Bagauda rebels didn't even throw away their weapons when they fled. It was unknown whether the weapons in their hands were too precious or they had some intention. This reminded Lu Jia of the "Cao Gui's Debate" that he had learned in school. They didn't panic, so they naturally had some intention.

"So what should we do?" Andrew asked. "Since the Bagauda rebels are so vulnerable, we can just go all out to take down Augusta Travel first and show those two old guys that we have the strength to do so."

"Of course!" Luka held the gun in both hands, because he found some movement in the pile of corpses under his feet. It was only a moment, but unfortunately, Luka discovered it! He did not hesitate at all, stretched out his foot and kicked the corpse lying on it. As expected, there was a Bagauda rebel lying inside. His leg was injured and he could not escape, so he thought of pretending to be dead and using the corpse of his dead comrade to hide himself. However, the pain was unbearable. The wounded soldier could not help but let his injured leg move a little, but he never thought that this detail would be discovered by Luka.

Suddenly seeing Luca, he was terrified, because the Roman he saw was the general who had just ridden on horseback to encourage the soldiers. If the Roman generals found him, he would be in danger of death. His eyes were full of fear, and he spread his hands upward to cover his face, trying to beg for mercy or afraid of seeing this terrifying Roman.

"It was my illusion that they retreated so rashly. It must be like this!" Luga held the spear in both hands, with the tip of the spear pointing downward. As he spoke, he stepped on the Bagauda rebel who was not dead. This group of lawless thugs has been a scourge to the empire for too long. Although Luga has no grudges against them, the formation is clear and they are naturally irreconcilable. Even though the Bagauda soldier was in tears because he quickly saw Luga's intentions, he kept waving his hands to Luga and begged him to live a miserable life, even if he was sold as a slave again, it would be better to die than to live a miserable life.

"May God have mercy on you, whether you are wrong or not!" Luca murmured, suddenly raised his lance and stabbed it hard.

As light as a feather, the death of this Bagauda rebel, apart from staining the tip of Luga's gun red with his own blood, did not even make the executioner, who had already killed countless people, blink an eye.

"laugh!"

Luca swung his lance back and forth twice, making sure that the Bagauda soldier would not move again, and then he pulled out his lance. He turned around and looked at Andrew who had been looking at him from behind and said, "No matter what tricks they play, they can't stop us from moving forward. We must let them know that it is impossible to stop us!"

Hearing this, Andrew burst into laughter. He said to Luca, "That's right. This is the perfect Luca in my image!"

Luga grinned symbolically and tore off a piece of clothing from the enemy's body to wipe the lance in his hand because it was still usable.

After two days of rest, Luca left behind the dozens of soldiers who were seriously injured in the battle, and the rest followed the army to continue moving forward. He walked carefully along the way, because ahead was the forest where the Bagauda rebels besieged Augustus. The bloody smell in the air was gone. But the battle at that time was still vivid in his mind. Luca seemed to have never thought about how he would respond if the Bagauda rebels attacked him here.

"I just hope that Alessio won't contact the Bagauda rebels in Vesantio. After all, this guy has a criminal record." Luca was most worried about Alessio, so he kept thinking about this guy on the way forward. He didn't know if Sebastianus could keep an eye on him. After all, the two of them had been partners against Aetius. Luca was betting that they would not get any benefit while framing him. After all, Luca was their only hope to return to the political arena of the Western Empire. When he thought of this, Luca's nervous heart finally felt a little peaceful.

Scouts are the most critical and tired troops in this army. Luca specially arranged carriages for them to sleep when they are tired without affecting their progress. However, they have to go deeper into the dense forest on foot, because Luca chose to bypass the forest and attack from the north of Augusta-Travel while searching for the scouts of the Bagauda rebels, so as to avoid the constant attacks from the front.

The journey lasted half a month. The men who had shaved clean when they set out had untidy beards when they arrived at the city of Augusta-Travel. If it weren't for the Roman armor and flags, they would really not be much different from the barbarians.

Maybe the Bagauda rebels defending the city did not expect the Romans to appear from their north, so when the Romans formed an attack array and pushed twenty newly assembled catapults and countless crossbows, the city was filled with Romans. The people inside the city were naturally in a panic and at a loss. All the archers went up to the city walls, ready to fight Luca's legion to the end.

Luca was not in a hurry. He guessed that the defenders of Augusta-Travel had not yet asked for help from the Bagauda rebels in other parts of the province. So where would the reinforcements come from?

He led Andrew and a rider holding the Labran flag to a distance of 200 meters from the city. Seeing that the city wall was full of Bagauda rebels, he guessed that their commander must be there. He nodded at Andrew, who raised his head and shouted at the defenders on the city gate: "Will you be slaughtered by us, or surrender in exchange for peace?"

There was no response from the defenders. Luca suspected that they did not hear clearly, so he asked Andrew to shout again.

"Fight or surrender?"

Andrew shouted twice in a row but got no response.

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"Andrew, stop shouting!" When Andrew wanted to shout for the fourth time, Lu Jia reached out to stop him. A cold light flashed in Lu Jia's eyes, and he said slowly: "They have made their choice, so we will respect them!"

Then Luga rode his horse back.

"Prepare for battle! Prepare for battle!"

The moment Luga turned around, the war machines of the two legions had already started operating!

(End of this chapter)