Chapter 543 The Sharpest Spear, the Strongest Shield

Li Jinia didn’t even know how she got out. She walked like a puppet, swaying with every step as if she had lost her soul.

She did not love him, and even had some disgust for him, but she was not so heartless! Valentinian must have been humiliating her, which was very obvious. Imagine Augustus humiliating Augusta in front of the humble servants, which was probably unprecedented since the first Augustus.

How could this not be a great shame and humiliation for the always proud Li Jinia? She gritted her teeth and tried her best to make herself look like a noble aristocrat step by step.

She walked hurriedly, trying her best to get out of there, the farther the better.

When I opened the door, I saw Yudolia and Obelia playing under the care of the nanny. I saw that the two little ones had no idea what had happened recently. Now in their eyes, there were only toys and everything that could give them happiness.

"Eudolia, you should go study." Liginia rubbed her red and swollen eyes, trying her best to maintain her sternness. She then taught Eudolia: "As a member of the Flavius ​​family, you must show the knowledge and virtue that a noble child should have. You need to find your teacher and let him teach you well."

Eudolia looked timidly at her mother who had suddenly become stern. Her red eyes were fixed on her and her tone was unquestionable. She didn't know what had happened. She was just frightened and stood there, at a loss as to what to do.

"Princess, let's go quickly." The old woman beside her hurried over, bent down, held Eudolia's hand, persuaded Eudolia, and then took Eudolia past Likinia and hurried out the door.

"All of you get out!" Likinia shouted at the other maids, scaring them so much that they dared not disobey and hurriedly bowed and left, leaving only Obelia and Likinia.

"Mother…"

Obelia was obviously frightened by Li Jinia's behavior. She never expected that her mother suddenly became like a different person.

She stood there in a daze and looked up at Likinia. Likinia took two steps forward and hid in front of Obelia.

This child is only a few years old. Li Jinia slowly reached out and grabbed Obelia's arms, her eyes fixed on the girl.

She was so similar to Valentinian, and this damn appearance always lingered in her mind, making it difficult for Licinia to control herself.

"Valentinian..."

Likinia was muttering something to herself, and before she knew it, she reached out and held Obelia's slender neck.

"Mother!"

Obelia couldn't understand what Likinia was doing now. She just felt that the moment her mother's hands were around her neck, her eyes were so cold and her facial expression was so ferocious.

"Oh, oh my god!"

The call woke Li Jiniya up. She looked at her hands and then pulled them back as if she had been electrocuted.

"What am I doing?" Li Jinia stared at her hands in surprise. No matter what, she couldn't believe that she had the urge to kill her own daughter at that moment. Maybe she just hated that face, hated it so much that she wanted to kill anything that looked like it with her own hands.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, my daughter!" Likinia finally couldn't help it and burst into tears in front of Obelia. The overwhelmed young Obelia saw her mother crying so miserably, and she couldn't help crying herself. The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried, and the maids outside heard it clearly.

Outside the city, Aetius was still doing some boring daily things to pass the time until warships appeared on the western sea.

"There are warships, there are warships!" The soldiers who saw the warships hurriedly called out to each other and looked towards the western sea. The warships coming against the wind had red Labran emblems fluttering on their sails. The sharp front end of the warships was like a sharp sword breaking through the water and heading quickly towards the river bank.

"My Lord! My Lord!"

Tereus, Litorius and other officers ran over to wake up Aetius who had fallen asleep again. "Luca, it must be Flavius ​​Luca!" Tereus said to Aetius breathlessly.

When he heard that it was Luca, Aetius instantly became energized. He jumped up from the bed, got on the carriage and drove all the way around the city of Rome, and came to a high ground near the coast with a wide view. He looked at the warships that were about to dock from afar.

"It looks like it must be the Second Phalaenopsis Fleet guarding the capital. They must be bringing Luca's army with them from the west." Littorius analyzed to Aetius: "The situation is very urgent now, sir, we must respond!"

Tereus and the others nodded repeatedly, and some were even ready to call the messengers to ask the soldiers to prepare for battle.

"Great, it's finally here! It's finally here!" Aetius saw that the behavior of this warship was completely different from that of other officers. His face revealed excitement, as if what he had been waiting for was Luca who had come from afar.

"Sir." Looking at the fleet in the distance, Tereus seemed to have figured something out. He walked up to Aetius and said to him, "We are fully capable of giving Luca's army a head-on blow when they land. It turns out that your idea is to let Luca land and then defeat him outside the city of Rome to deter the stubborn defenders in the city."

"What?" Aetius looked at Tereus in confusion, "Why fight? I don't want my soldiers to die in such a meaningless way."

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Aetius' words left Tereus speechless. He began to find Aetius more and more confused. God knew what was going on in this guy's head.

Only twenty warships were seen in the lead. They did not lower small boats by the sea to let the soldiers land, but instead crashed straight into the shore. The soldiers on them jumped off one by one and formed a battle formation in front of Aetius and his army.

There are more than 2,000 of them in total, just to give the follow-up troops enough time.

"Finally, finally!" Aetius murmured, with a faint smile on his face. Then he turned around and got on the carriage and said to Tereus, "Let's go back and wait for him outside the city of Rome!"

Tereus looked at the Luga army being deployed, and then at Aetius. He couldn't imagine why Aetius would give up this excellent attack.

But an order is an order, and it is impossible to disobey it. Tereus gritted his teeth and ordered the soldiers to retreat to the front of Rome, where he waited for Luca to arrive.

Luca landed with the soldiers, but when he saw Aetius leading his soldiers to retreat, he was puzzled and wondered: Could it be that Aetius had other plans? After half a day, the army finally gathered on the shore, and Luca led them forward towards Rome.

Along the way, walking along the walls of Rome, Luca was surprised to find that there were no signs of damage on the walls, which meant that Aetius had not attacked Rome for such a long time.

As if they had telepathic connection, what Luca did not want to see was also what Aetius did not want to see. In this almost peaceful way, the spears and shields of the empire met in front of the former capital of the empire.

(End of this chapter)