Chapter 485 Super Legion

"Luga, it may be hard for you to imagine that these two nobles who cried poor actually took out more than 13,000 pounds of gold. Really, I was shocked to see so much gold!" Andrew reported to Luga. From his excited and flushed face, it was not difficult to tell how excited he was when he saw so much money.

"Thirteen thousand pounds of gold..." Luga repeated, smiled and shook his head, his eyes full of helplessness.

"We can use this gold to pay the ransom your father owes. After all, we now have another option to end this war, right?"

"No, this is not our choice, Andrew!" Luca shook his head firmly and continued, "This is a problem that old man Theodosius needs to consider. What I should consider is to use all this money for the war."

"This is nothing more than a crazy move, Luca." Andrew continued, "Can we choose a better solution? For example, can we have a new choice in the life-and-death position?"

"I've made up my mind, Andrew, don't say anything more!" Lu Jia now seemed to be very difficult to talk to, and his position was very clear. He then waved his hand at Andrew, signaling him to stop talking. Andrew was helpless, he knew that Lu Jia would find it hard to swallow this breath, and he had to do something earth-shattering, so he couldn't say anything, so he could only leave in dismay.

Everyone, everyone in Athens, whether nobles or commoners, realized that Luca had gone mad. He was so eager for war and to compete with Attila, so he squandered the gold he had plundered from the nobles. Compared with Attila, he was the biggest plunderer or the source of disaster, but Luca was completely unaware of this.

Because of the sufficient gold supply, both mercenaries and ordinary border guards were all included in Luga's army. The size of the army was calculated based on daily growth. If it were the Athenians, they would probably see the army coming in and out of the gates of Athens every day. The soldiers were young and old. The only thing worth celebrating was that they all had simple armor protection and, of course, shields.

Half a month later, Athens had become a military city, with the streets full of fully armed soldiers. They were organized into centuries, followed by field regiments.

Arletto stood on the city wall, looking at the soldiers everywhere below and couldn't help but sigh: "In a very short and amazing time, Luca used his ruthlessness to restore and strengthen the Thracian field army, but because of this, he emptied all the soldiers in the Peloponnese and bet on them, putting all of them in the war with Attila."

"Luga, we have organized a total of 120 field regiments, a total of 60,000 people." Andrew reported to Luga again: "Thanks to the gold, we have enough money to arm the soldiers who come to the war and provide them with sufficient food so that they can at least eat simple bread. At least now we can go north to fight Attila."

"Thank you for your hard work, my old friend." Luca nodded continuously. "Attila's army has looted Dion and Larissa and is now heading for Athens. Let's meet them now."

"Luga," Andrew continued, "where do you plan to stop Attila?"

"Thermopylae..." Luca said slowly, "The terrain there is dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. The Spartan King Leonidas led 300 warriors and cooperated with the coalition forces of other city-states to block Xerxes' wave after wave of attacks. We will follow Leonidas, Andrew, but we are stronger than Leonidas."

An army of 60,000 men marched out of Athens in a mighty force. This was a feat that had never been seen before. Even the coalition army that had used up half of the empire's strength to fight against the Vandals had never been so powerful.

The army marched in a mighty force, stretching for thousands of miles to the Wenquan Pass. At this time, the armies of both sides were less than two days' journey apart.

At this time, due to the drop in sea level, the Thermopylae area was much wider than in the time of Leonidas, which meant that it was no longer so easy to defend and no longer so difficult to attack.

The soldiers set up chevaux de frise and slanted wooden boards on the high ground in front of Thermopylae to block the Huns' terrifying rain of arrows.

In the open space in front of them, the soldiers had filled the open space with half-covered holes and inserted spikes into them, and also placed spiked weapons to give the Hun cavalry armed with bows and arrows a taste of their own medicine.

There was a cliff on the other side of Thermopylae, close to the sea, so Luca ordered his soldiers to place stones on the top of the cliff so that they could push the stones at any time to deal a fatal blow to the Huns when the two armies were fighting.

It seemed that everything was ready. Luca led the army to camp. He could not sleep at night during this period. People said he was crazy, but he was not crazy. He understood the significance of resisting Attila. It was just that many nobles in the Roman territories hated Luca much more than Attila.

"Obviously, this is a war where victory or defeat has nothing to do with me." Luca thought to himself, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly. After all, he was the son of Theodosius II. Although he couldn't talk about big things, he had to do something in this disaster.

I couldn't sleep, so I went out for a walk. It was indeed a 60,000-man army, a real army. Even the tents stretched for several kilometers. Standing on a high place, I could clearly see the bonfires lighting up the entire Thermopylae. I had never seen such a magnificent scene before. Looking at such a huge army, Luca couldn't help but smile a little. At least this was the motivation that could encourage him to continue fighting.

But he saw Andrew not far away. What Luca didn't expect was that Andrew was not sleeping either. Instead, he was standing by a campfire, looking up at the sky in a daze.

"Hey, my old friend, what are you doing?" Luca walked up and asked Andrew curiously.

"Oh, no, nothing?" Andrew heard Luga's voice, and quickly turned around to look at Luga, smiled, then looked up at the sky and said to Luga: "I just don't know if there are more stars in the sky than the bonfire we have lit now."

"Your question is really interesting." Lu Jia was amused by Andrew. "I don't think you would think about such a boring question. Tell me, what is it that is bothering you so much?"

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"Listen, Luca, I know this is crazy." Andrew lowered his head and looked at Luca beside him. "But you also understand that I really didn't expect such a large army. What's more, we will go all out to face Attila. Luca, don't forget that we once fought side by side in Ludinan. Yes, we fought the Huns, but now, we are fighting each other, and we can't wait to see who will die. Everyone present now knows how powerful and brutal the Huns are. No one knows how they will behave when they really face the so-called demons."

"Why do you say that, Andrew? Are you afraid that we will fail?"

"Things change rapidly on the battlefield, Luga." Andrew's face was solemn.

"Don't worry, Andrew." Luga said to Andrew in a firm tone, "We will kick Attila's ass hard, and then send him back to the damn northern wasteland where he trembles like him. Then, because of this, we will make great military achievements and go down in history!"

(End of this chapter)