When the sails of the last ship of the Second Fleet disappeared to the end of the west, Luga was not idle, and he ran quickly down the heights all the way to the barracks.

There, there was a small tent, but there was a whole team guarding it. Others will be puzzled when they see this, this is completely a general's battle, but there is no general in it.

This camp was located in the easternmost part of the barracks, on the outskirts, and the closest was Dillakim.

When Luga arrived at the tent, the soldiers in charge of the guard immediately stood up straight and saluted.

At this time, a gray-faced man came out inside, his loose clothes had already been wet with sweat, and his arms and neck were covered with beads of sweat.

With his head bowed, with a horned helmet hanging from his right arm, he complained to the ten-captain behind him with a look of resentment: "My God, it's so hot, it stinks, and I'm almost suffocating in it." ”

After a few complaints, as soon as he came out of the camp tent, he bumped into Luga, and the officer fixed his eyes and saw that it was the chief soldier, and he was so frightened that the whole person instantly stood straight in place like a stake.

His lips trembled, and he didn't say a word after seeing Luga for so long, which made the soldiers behind him look puzzled, and thought that this guy had fallen into evil.

"How's the tunnel ready?" Luga asked unhurriedly, "This has been preparing for nearly a month, and it has been working day and night. ”

"Your Excellency." The trembling officer finally spoke, "We're almost open, let's set up the ladder in the upward tunnel." ”

"Then we can get through the final passage tonight!"

"Yes, my lord, we are only a stone-brick away from the streets of Deraqim."

"Okay, then, tonight, let's see how to do it." Luga nodded and was about to turn away, but he hesitated again, turned around and hurriedly asked the centurion, "So, can you guarantee that the defenders in the city have not heard the slightest movement?" ”

"I can't guarantee that, my lord. But I saw the water pipes in Dilakiu, and maybe this thing could be used. ”

Seeing his centurion, he shrugged his shoulders and said that he couldn't guarantee it, but Luga just shook his head slightly, it was like a gamble, and he couldn't know the enemy's path.

Compared to sealing the enemy's water source than directly opening the enemy's city gate, Luga wants to defeat Marcian in a dignified manner, so Luga has great expectations for the tunnel.

In the evening, seeing that the barracks were almost packed, Luga gave the defenders of Dilachium the illusion that the Western Roman army was ready to leave.

But the secret operation is still going on step by step, after all, Lu Jiake is pointing to all this.

As night fell, all the soldiers tightened their armor and armed their weapons, and none of them carried torches, but hid in the grass more than two hundred meters from the outer walls of Dirachium.

The fields outside the city of Dirachium had long been deserted, because no one in the city dared to come out to take care of them, and the grass provided cover for the soldiers.

They were all waiting for the moment when the gates were opened, and it was the soldiers who had slipped through the tunnels.

At first, everything seemed as quiet as usual, as if the soldiers of the Eastern Romans had not noticed these small movements of the Luga army.

In an inconspicuous corner of the streets of Deraqium, the loose stone bricks were silently lifted away by a pair of hands sticking out from underneath, and an iron helmet poked out, and a pair of alert eyes looked around underneath.

It's curfew time, and the streets are very quiet, except for two patrolling soldiers hiding in a corner with torches and talking.

Afraid that they would be found out and punished by the officers who patrolled the night, the two of them were careful and careful, and they were even careful when they spoke.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the soldier carefully put the board aside, and then quietly climbed up.

Then, under the darkness hidden, he beckoned his companions to climb up one by one.

"We're going to have to get rid of these two bastards!"

One of them pointed to two men not far away who were talking with torches, and whispered a discussion.

Seeing that more than a dozen people had already come up, crowding this small space, they had to take action to make plans for the safety of the hundreds of people behind!

Just as they stood on tiptoe and cautiously touched behind the two conversing soldiers, suddenly, only a roar was heard: "Stop!" ”

Frightened by this, the men were stunned, and they hurriedly raised their heads to find the direction from which the sound came, when a row of torches appeared on the fence across the street, and the soldiers stood opposite them.

Looking at the two people in front of them, they had already dropped their torches and ran to the opposite side, and then they saw the Greeks in front of them stretching their bows and arrows, and one by one the sharp arrows were aimed straight at the dozen or so Roman soldiers in front of them.

"Defense! Defense! ”

Seeing that the situation was not right, the officer hurriedly called out to his soldiers, but they had come from the narrow pit without shields, and now they were completely exposed to the arrows, and had no defense.

"Surrender, your plans have already been revealed!"

The officer led by the Greeks was now at the front of them and pointed at the Roman soldiers, and as he said that, he waved to the soldiers behind him, and saw more than twenty soldiers armed with shields and spears forming a shield wall ready to advance towards them.

"Sir, we're exposed!"

"They're trying to capture us so that we can get our next plan out of our mouth!"

"We can't be captured!"

As he said this, he saw the officer raise the iron sword in his hand and shout at the Greeks in front of him: "Long live Rome!" ”

The soldiers behind them responded, raising their iron swords and roaring at the Eastern Romans across the street.

"Kill them!"

As soon as the Eastern Roman officer gave the order, the archers who had locked onto the target through the light of the fire immediately released the rounded bowstring. Deadly arrows escaped from their hands, instantly piercing the already fragile chain mail of the Western Roman soldiers who rushed up.

In an instant, the roars of the dozen or so people stopped abruptly, and there were more than a dozen warm corpses on the empty street.

"Quick, block them, stop them!"

The Eastern Roman officer, who was devastated by the resistance, shouted orders to the soldiers beside him, and the soldiers went into action, and at this time the empty streets were crowded with people, each armed with torches, and nailed the soldiers who had climbed up in the small space to try to resist with sharp spears to the wall.

It turned out that they had been prepared for a long time, but they saw the Eastern Roman soldiers carrying buckets of boiling hot oil and pouring them into the tunnel, and the soldiers who could not escape the hot inside screamed again and again.

Next, the Eastern Roman officer held a torch and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Now, the enemies of Western Rome are still trying to fight us, they want to be our Augustus, and we are going to give them an answer today!" ”

"Whew! Call! Call! ”

The soldiers of Eastern Rome were demoralized by the officer's encouragement, and they raised their arms and shouted, and everyone watched angrily as the officer threw his torch into the tunnel, which had already been filled with oil.

"Boom!"

The violent burning caused a huge explosion, and the fierce flames consumed all the Roman soldiers inside.

"My lord! My lord! ”

A soldier hurried to the command area where Luga was, "The tunnel, the tunnel is finished." ”