Chapter 336: The Final Battle to Recover Ludugu Gaul (IV)

"Oh, are you planning to declare war on me?" Theodoric sneered at Luca and continued, "I still advise you not to ruin the overall situation for your own personal interests. After all, our two countries have signed an armistice agreement. If you take another step forward, it would be equivalent to unilaterally tearing up the armistice agreement. I don't mind starting a war again, but I'm worried about whether Ravenna and Rome can be defended?"

"Armistice agreement? Ha, what a joke!" Luca smiled, his expression looking very indifferent, making Theoderic feel that Luca seemed fearless.

"You are just a newborn calf. You don't know fear at all." Theoderic I sneered, slowly drew out the iron sword, and pointed it at Luca.

This made the soldiers behind Luca nervous, and they drew their swords and stepped forward, ready to protect the soldiers at any time. But Luca waved his hand to stop the soldiers behind him, as if the sword drawn by Theodoric I did not scare the ignorant Roman in front of him.

"I'm afraid you can't withstand our attack just relying on a few of you!" Theoderic I said confidently. The cavalrymen behind him also raised their lances, rode forward, and aimed at Luca.

"What? Does he want to kill Luga here?" Andrew felt something was wrong. He hurriedly stepped forward and stood behind Luga, saying to him, "Luga, I'm here. You run!" As he said this, a dozen soldiers behind him also came forward. They held lances in their hands and formed a simple line of defense in front of Luga, in order to buy enough time for Luga to escape.

"Look, the fighting has started, the fighting is about to start!" The Bagauda rebels behind the defense line said one after another. This was exactly what they wanted to see. Behind this group of rebels, two people looked at the scene in the distance and couldn't help but smile at each other, with a hint of ruthlessness revealed in their expressions.

"Don't worry, why are you panicking?"

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Luca patted Andrew's shoulder calmly, comforted him, and took the Labran flag from the flag bearer. He said to Theodoric in front of him: "I think you are sincere in wanting to stop me now. It's ridiculous that you want to use the armistice agreement signed between Aetius and you to deal with me. Please look at this flag!"

As Luca spoke, he suddenly raised the Labran flag above his head so that Theoderic could see it and shouted at him: "This is the flag of the Eastern Empire. We are the army of the Eastern Empire, so we are not interfered with by the agreement of the Western Empire!"

"To me, whether you are from the Eastern Empire or the Western Empire, you are all Romans, a bunch of disgusting hypocrites, and you have never changed in hundreds of years." Theoderic smiled sinisterly, and he slowly walked forward with an iron sword in his hand.

"laugh!"

With a sound, a huge crossbow arrow was inserted in front of Theodoric. This sudden danger caught the Gothic king off guard. He was frightened and roared, his legs retreated repeatedly, and he fell to the ground. This was really dangerous. The crossbow arrow was just a little bit away from tearing his armor and piercing him. In this case, even if their gods came, they could not save him from death.

"King! King!"

The cavalrymen behind him shouted his name, and the ones in front quickly dismounted, helped him up, and retreated quickly. Theodoric was still in shock, his eyes were still fixed on the huge crossbow arrow that was stuck several inches deep in the ground, because this had never made him feel so close to death.

"This is my warning to you, Your Excellency Theoderic I." Luca pushed aside the guards in front of him, and then said to Theoderic who was slowly walking away and the cavalrymen behind him who were holding iron swords and ready to charge at any time: "This is also my warning to all of you! If you dare to cross this line, I can assure you that this crossbow arrow will pierce your chest."

After saying this, fearing that they still didn't believe him, Luca nodded to the trumpeter beside him, signaling him to blow the horn. The trumpeter immediately understood, raised the horn and blew it towards the sky.

“Wuwuwu…”

With a series of horn sounds, the entire forest behind Luga began to boil.

“Boom…”

With the roar and the horn sounded, a large number of Roman soldiers slowly walked out of the forest, with catapults and crossbows behind them. A large number of troops advanced like a dark cloud falling to the ground, and the sound of their footsteps shook the enemy's heart.

"What do you mean?"

Theodoric glared at Luca, but there was a hint of fear in his eyes. The only thing he had to consider now was what the huge army behind Luca meant by, and whether they wanted to destroy the Bagauda rebels in front of them. He gritted his teeth, took the iron sword that had been hastily dropped from the soldier's hand, and stood in front of Luca again.

"I just hope that you will not block my path when I attack, because my request is very simple." Luca said slowly, wiping the golden spear head of the Labran flag. Then he paused for a moment, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and said fiercely: "Otherwise, I will crush everything that stands in my way into dust!"

“Boom boom boom…”

This army formation, so huge that there was no end in sight, shocked Theoderic I and the soldiers on the defense line outside the city of Durocortolum. The two guys who had just smiled at each other had already hidden inside the city gate. Facing such a huge Roman army, they realized that the Goths could no longer help them and they had to defend themselves.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry…”

The Bagauda rebels were in chaos. They finally woke up from their dream and hurriedly began to take care of their own deployment.

There was the neighing of war horses in the woods, and more than two thousand cavalrymen were seen galloping out of the woods in a mighty manner. They formed a longer and wider array than the Goths and displayed themselves in front of the Goths. Aren't they proud of their cavalry? Now Luga has a larger cavalry than theirs. They stared at the Gothic cavalry closely, and at that moment, the situation between the two sides changed drastically.

"I don't think you will launch a suicidal attack on us at all costs just to vent your anger, right?" Luga asked him arrogantly.

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"King, what should we do?"

The guard cavalryman beside him asked Theoderic, and Theoderic gritted his teeth. He now knew that he was no longer qualified to bargain with Luca, so he could only swallow his anger.

"Okay, Flavius ​​Luca." Theodoric said this with almost gritted teeth: "I hope your choice today is correct. Of course, in the future, you will definitely pay the price for what you did today!"

Luca listened to his words with a calm expression, without any fear. He just waved at Theodoric and said, "Please!"

"Let's go." Theoderic was no longer willing to endure the humiliation here in vain. He said to the soldiers around him, turned around, jumped on his horse, and led the cavalry back.

"They're gone! They're gone!"

The Bagauda rebels cried out in surprise as they watched the Goths recede in the dust. They were probably never expecting such a reality.

(End of this chapter)