Chapter 692 Chapter 796: Interception (Part 1)

"Caesar is coming! Caesar is coming!"

Outside Mursa, a group of officers came in a hurry early in the morning.

"Hurry up, hurry up and get up, you lazy bastards!"

The officers who came running over shouted and cursed, kicking the soldiers lying lazily on the ground one by one to wake them up.

Such shouts made most of the lazy soldiers present stand up from the ground in a hurry as if they had been injected with chicken blood. They stretched their necks and stared with wide eyes, looking around for Augustus's carriage.

But now there was nothing, but they could tell from the serious expressions on their officers' faces that this was not a joke, and they hurriedly gathered together, forming a complete square formation and lining up on both sides of the road.

The army that stopped attacking had been staying there doing nothing, but the arrival of Augustus finally made them regain the desire to fight. Everyone gathered on both sides of the road, looking at the army slowly approaching not far away.

The cavalry in gorgeous clothes passed in front of them, and next to them came Luga's carriage escorted by infantry. Luga slightly opened the tightly closed curtains and looked through the gap at the soldiers gathered on the side of the road.

They were dressed in dirty clothes, and some of them had such messy hair that they could barely wear helmets. Even though they were keeping a certain distance, Luga could still smell the faint stench coming from so many people.

Everyone looked dusty and their clothes were tattered. Their chain mail was still... "Isn't this the smell left behind by the army?" Luca was very familiar with this smell. Although he was familiar with it, he hadn't smelled it for a long time. When he smelled it suddenly, he still felt a little uncomfortable.

He then lowered the curtain, shook his head slightly, and sat in the carriage slowly moving forward in silence.

When we arrived at our destination, the main camp outside the city of Mursa, we could have a panoramic view of the city that had been devastated by multiple attacks.

Luca got out of the car, and Atilinnaeus followed closely behind him. Compared with yesterday, Atilinnaeus now looked less angry, although his face was gloomy and he did not look that happy.

"I have read your offensive ideas. I have to admit that your ideas are totally out of line with your age, Sir Atilinnaeus." Luca said to Atilinnaeus as they walked, "Sir, I believe you have greatly overestimated the combat capabilities of our soldiers. Even when I was most eager to expand, I didn't have such crazy ideas as you do now."

"But isn't that what you said, Caesar? We need to teach these barbarians a heavy lesson, so I think we should launch a large-scale attack and deal a heavy blow to Attila!" At the mention of his plan, Atilinnaeus instantly became alert. He raised his fist high in the air and then dropped it hard beside him. The wind from his fist was whistling. He looked at Luca with an extremely firm gaze. I originally planned to take this town within three days. We can go all the way west and eventually cut off Attila's retreat! "Oh my God, I only gave you 10,000 people, but you wanted to do something with 50,000 people. I am really surprised, very surprised!" Luca said, shaking his head repeatedly, "Sir Atilinnaeus, I think you are still too optimistic about the current situation. We are fighting alone, and Attila's army is four times ours. We can't just go ahead and take risks."

"We can also ask Aetius for help!" Atilinnaeus continued to insist, "You are Augustus, you can order him to cooperate with your actions. As long as we cooperate well this time, we can turn the entire Roman land into a huge cage to imprison the devil. When Attila is unable to break free, he will surrender. Not only that, as long as Attila surrenders, he and his tribe will never pose a threat to Rome again."

"Oh, forget about Aetius." Luca looked at Atilinnaeus with a wry smile and continued, "Now the Goths are ready to enter Narbonne Gaul. They seem to want to make a fortune from the national disaster."

"Damn it! Damn it!" Attylinnaeus roared loudly. It was obvious that the news he had just learned was a heavy blow to him who thought he had a thorough plan.

"So, my old friend." Luga walked over and patted his shoulder, saying helplessly, "Plans can never keep up with changes, so we can only hold back this time. After all, a bigger threat is brewing, and we have to deal with it. But as compensation, I will personally supervise you to take over this city."

Although he was extremely unwilling, he had to make concessions under the pressure of the overall situation.

Luga did not tell him the truth, but this was also Luga's own purpose. He did not want too many people to see his thoughts clearly. After all, a king's greatest advantage lies not only in his majesty, but more in his mystery. Luga is very willing to lie in order to maintain his mystery and does not feel ashamed.

The next day, at dawn, Attylinnaeus could not wait to blow the horn of attack. His officers urged the soldiers who were still sleeping to wake up, and reorganized the army and began to march towards Mursa in front of them.

But Luga did not come to watch the battle as he said yesterday. After all, he was not interested in a battle that was almost certain to win.

In the central army tent, he rolled up a letter of parchment written by himself, tied it with a straw rope, and handed it to John Antiochus.

"Give it to Lord Aetius and tell him that this is my request." Luca looked at John Antiochus, his eyes seemed to be questioning him whether he had the confidence to get it done.

"So if he asks me, what should I answer him?" John Antiochus carefully turned out the parchment letter.

"Let's just say this is a very important matter. If Aetius can get it done, it will be of great benefit to him." Luca said, grinding the feather pen in his hand, and said slowly: "He will definitely do it. After all, he has to take care of the things in the west."

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A month and a half later, in the governor's palace in Ludinum, John Antiochus handed Aetius a letter written by Luca himself.

"What a bold idea." Aetius glanced at the letter and snorted coldly. Then he put the letter down and looked up at John Antiochus and asked, "How can you be sure that I can accomplish this?"

"Because Caesar trusts you, Lord Aetius." John Antiochus said bluntly: "Caesar believes that this will be of great benefit to both Rome and you."

"Of course, there are many benefits." Aetius smiled, carefully rolled up the parchment letter in his hand, and then said to John Antiochus: "You can go back and report, sir, and please tell Caesar that I will definitely do what needs to be done."

(End of this chapter)