Chapter 68: Reorganization of the Troops
"Guy, arrange a decent place for your soldiers to rest," Aetius pointed to a grove not far away, and said, "The sun is scorching, the soldiers need to find a cool place to rest, and the subsequent reinforcements will report to your team." Guy took the order and retreated, and before leaving, he did not forget to glare at me fiercely, and then led his remaining two phalanxes of soldiers towards the grove pointed to by Aetius.
"Oh, I forgot an important question, this is for you!"
Before leaving, Aetius seemed to have suddenly thought of something. He spread out his hands and gestured to Levi to ask for the items.
Levi understood and took out two iron horned helmets from the backpack on his horse and handed them to Aetius.
"Here, take this helmet I gave you."
Andrew and I looked at each other and thought for a long time. I was just a small fry. It was impossible for me to be favored by the most important person in the empire so easily. Maybe there were more people in his spare time. With this mentality, I took the helmet, took off my decapitation helmet, and put on the centurion's horned helmet.
"Oh, my God!" Andrew took the helmet with both hands as if he had found a treasure, holding it in his hands, afraid that it would fall to the ground and break. "Thank you, really, sir." Andrew held the horned helmet, and his voice began to tremble as he spoke, and his whole body began to twitch. I turned my head to look at him. At this time, Andrew couldn't stop crying. Because his right hand couldn't move, he held the helmet with his left hand, letting his tears flow.
"Stop crying and put it on!"
Aetius smiled, put his hand on Andrew's shoulder and comforted him: "Don't cry, you deserve it!"
"Luka, help me."
Andrew was sobbing and he didn't even have a spare hand to wipe his tears. I think he was so excited that he couldn't speak. I helped him untie the leather rope around his chin, took off the bird feather helmet for him, and helped him put on the centurion's horned helmet.
"Sir, Luca, you know what?" Andrew cried and said, "I have never thought of becoming a centurion in my life. Thank you, Marshal!" Andrew was about to kneel down to Aetius. Aetius did not stop him, but he restrained his usual smile and replaced it with a serious face. He said to Andrew and me in a very serious tone, "You must have a bright future. Work hard!"
"Oh, by the way," Aetius pointed to the two bird-feather helmets in my hand and asked me, "Did Antony give these to you?"
"Yes, sir," I said truthfully.
"Ha, this guy is really too stingy, but it's not surprising, this is the style of the Senate."
As he spoke, Aetius reached out and took the two centurions' helmets from my hands, turned around and threw them to the ground.
"This..." I was about to say something, but Aetius turned around and smiled at me and Andrew, and then said: "This is already in the past, look forward, the glory will be with you."
After saying this, he held up the long robe with his right hand, fearing that the blood on the ground would stain his bright red robe. Under the guidance of the guards, he mounted his horse, turned his horse around, and walked out of the battlefield.
"Hey, Orius Luca!"
I was staring at Aetius' back in a daze when I was awakened by a call. I looked up and saw it was Levi.
"Good job, man." Levi finally smiled knowingly at me and Andrew, because this smile was not mixed with any other thoughts such as contempt, belittlement, etc. It was just a smile, a very relaxed smile. For me, his smile to me was also a kind of affirmation of me!
When Livi turned around and followed Aetius on his horse and disappeared around the corner of the road ahead, I still hadn't come back to my senses. Centurion, this position is almost the dream of all veterans. In the past, it was a position that could only be promoted at the request of the emperor. In just a few words from Aetius, it fell on Andrew and me. To be honest, not only Andrew, but even I began to feel proud.
As for the two centurion helmets that Anthony gave us, please, who would still wear these at this time? Wouldn't it make them look cheap?
Andrew was still crying, his only left hand constantly wiping his tears. This time, Andrew felt the sweetness of crying for joy.
"Let's go, Andrew!" I helped him up, and after searching all over my body, I couldn't find a clean piece of cloth to wipe his tears. Forget it, let's find the team gathering place first. When we get there, we can solve many problems, right? At least that's what I thought.
The location where the team was stationed was very conspicuous. I could immediately see the location of the First Battalion through the golden light reflected on the flag of the Gemini Legions.
"Andrew, if we go over like this, will Guy take the opportunity to kill us?" I was still a little worried, and continued to say to Andrew: "Because Guy wanted to kill me in the first place, but now he failed, and I got promoted instead. Isn't this indirectly slapping him in the face!"
"Don't worry, Luca!" Andrew stopped crying, and his voice was much calmer. He sniffed the snot that had just flowed out of his nose, and said in a deep voice: "Originally we were centurions, humble, and he could kill us if he wanted to, not to mention that you questioned him first. Now, Luca, we are centurions, centurions!" He said this title very seriously, and slapped the horned helmet on his head with his left hand.
"Luga, do you understand? We are centurions! We are basic officers of the legion! Let alone the fact that he wants to kill you, even removing you from your position requires the consent of the legion commander. Even his deputy legion commander doesn't have the qualifications! Not to mention killing you, that's the power of the enemy and our emperor!"
"So what you mean is that we don't need to be too afraid of Guy now, because he can't restrain us now, right?" I seemed to understand. Aetius made us centurions, not only slapping Guy in the face, but also putting a talisman on us! But why did he do this? This is a new question.
Let’s not think too much about it for now, because we can’t think of any clues. We just supported each other and came to the place where the troops were stationed.
Facing our arrival, everyone in the brigade, from the centurion to every soldier, lowered their heads, as if we didn't exist. I knew this was jealousy and dissatisfaction.
"Andrew, let's sit here!"
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I supported him and walked to an open space in a corner and sat down.
"Orius Luca!"
Just as I sat down, I heard someone calling me. I turned around and found that the person calling me was the chief centurion Guy. He had a gloomy face and threatened me viciously: "You'd better be careful and don't let me catch any handle on you!"
"Excuse me, is this His Excellency Guy, the Chief Centurion of the 1st Battalion of the 14th Gemini Legion?"
Not knowing who dared to interrupt the chief centurion, Guy turned around with a puzzled look on his face and saw a soldier with a big smile on his face. Judging from the French trumpet in his hand, he was just a trumpeter.
"What's the matter?" Seeing that it was just a small trumpeter, Guy straightened his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, we are here under the orders of Marshal Aetius to fill the vacant position in your first cohort." The trumpeter said, and stepped aside to let us look behind him. There were two fully-organized centuries.
"Okay, okay!" Guy was delighted to see this. He quickly pulled the bugler and said, "I'm just short of people. You guys can add more people to the two hundred-man teams!" The direction he pointed to was the phalanx that was resting on the other side.
"No, sir, that's not the case." Guy's request was rejected by the soldier. Then the soldier said to Guy: "We are specially sent to obey the orders of the two centurions, Orius Luca and Orius Andrew. We belong to them!"
Guy was suddenly speechless, his face turned pale and blue. After a long silence, he said, "Then you guys stay here!" After saying that, he turned around, glared at me, and left!
(End of this chapter)