Half a month passed, and despite repeated requests for help from Ravenna, Valentinian pretended to be deaf and dumb at this time, turning a deaf ear to the imminent crisis in Rome.

Valentinian abandoned Rome!

Such statements had already been heard in the streets of Rome, and everyone's face was full of solemnity, and they worried whether they would be able to survive such a catastrophe so close at hand.

After all, because Augustus Flavis. Luga was in the city of Rome, but Gaisaric outside the city repeatedly refused to negotiate with the Roman Senate, and he wanted to fight Luga head-on, even if his strength was far above Luga, although he did not know the specific situation in Rome at this time.

Luga watched as the siege towers in Gesarric's camp rose from the ground, and they would all become siege weapons in Gaisarric's hands, throwing the young generation of Vandals who were screaming fiercely into the walls of Rome.

The Romans wanted time to pass more slowly, but the Vandals, on the other hand, were eager to see that they had everything ready to knock down the impregnable walls of Rome and rape the city.

What could be more insulting than the ransacking of a city as a national symbol. The Romans knew it, but their rulers were already paralyzed by such insults.

They are good at using money and beautiful women to bully those angry voices, and use gorgeous toga robes to perfectly hide the bloody facts inside.

"A just war is no match for peace sustained by humility."

This sentence was extremely popular in the Purple Room at this time, and both Augustus and the Senate believed it as the truth, and now they almost enshrined it as the truth.

Valentinian abandoned Rome!

While the citizens of Rome shouted angry at Valentinian's incompetence, only Luga remained silent, knowing what Valentinian was thinking.

After all, when he trusted Luga the most, Luga gave him a big green hat, and later when he was most likely to become the Augustus of the entire Roman world, Luga stood on his side, just like Valentinian, Luga was the thief who stole his Augustus.

Luga didn't care about this, he even expected this to happen when he walked out of the gates of Constantinople, after all, Valentinian had assassinated him, but he survived because of his fate.

It's uncertain whether God will be able to stand by his side to dispel the scythe of death this time, perhaps Luga has already thought of a suitable way to die for himself.

After all, he had already been tormented by endless headaches, and his heart was haggard.

This is a bit like Hemingway, who couldn't bear the torture of illness and committed suicide with a gun, although this is a very later story, but at this time Luga's heart is extremely appropriate.

Mencius once said, "Whoever is good at fighting will surely die by the sword." ”

Luga arose from war, and in the same way, as the end of life, it will also be war, which is at least the noblest way to die for a general who commands thousands of troops and horses.

Clearly, Luga was waiting for this moment, and so was Gaisarik, who was even more impatient than Luga.

On the morning of the new day, the camp of the Vandals was crowded with Vandals soldiers, and not only that, but also many of the mercenaries brought from Africa, as Qasariq had replied, that he was so poor that he did not even have the money to pay tribute, because all that money was used to hire soldiers who could fight and forge sharp weapons.

The Vandals were unprecedentedly large, numbering more than 10,000 men just by sight, not counting the soldiers in the warships floating on the sea, and such a huge scale was naturally going to turn the city of Rome upside down.

On the other hand, Luga, in addition to the Ninth Legion, which is half of the Ninth Legion, is only more than 5,000 soldiers who can start the battle, and the citizens and pardoned slaves are only 2,000 people gathered together, after all, more people still have a wait-and-see attitude, and no one is willing to go to the battlefield in person.

The arsenal of Rome was reopened, and the rusty spears and armor were lifted out again and distributed to every soldier present.

Fear was written on each of their faces, after all, they had long been accustomed to a comfortable life, and it was hard to imagine what kind of nightmare it would be for people who thought they had long been away from war to be re-engaged in war.

"First of all, we must understand how to use the weapon in our hands skillfully!"

The veterans who acted as instructors were armed with spears to discipline the recruits, but the faces of the recruits were full of confusion and confusion, and they could not understand the simple weapons in their hands.

Although it is an army of 10,000 people, it can be seen from the quality of it that although Luga is 10,000 people, there are only more than 5,000 people who can play a role.

"There is less and less time for us." Luga stood and paced back and forth in the doorway of the church, while Pope Leo behind him followed Luga back and forth.

"Caesar!"

At this time, Walcreek, who was the bodyguard, trotted all the way to Luga's side, because he repeatedly asked to follow in Luga's footsteps, so he was left to face this winless battle with Luga.

I saw that Walkerrick came to Luga's side with a letter of defense in his hand, and said to Luga: "We have deployed nearly 1,500 soldiers on the city walls and gates, and they are cooperating with the Roman defenders of the city with a total of 5,000 soldiers, and the rest are divided in the streets of the city, so that we can block the attack of the Vandals on the streets as much as possible when the walls fall." ”

Putting away the drawings, Walkrick hesitated for a moment, looked at Luga, and whispered, "Caesar, there is a question that I have always wanted to ask you." ”

"Say it."

"For the reinforcements from the Roman headquarters, can they come?" Walcreek spoke, his voice getting quieter and quieter, as if he was asking a question that he shouldn't ask, for fear that it would anger Luga.

But it often backfired, and I thought that Luga would be furious because of this, but I didn't expect him to just sigh softly, and then replied: "I hope, Walkerrick, I hope." ”

Such a rather helpless tone made Walcreek smile bitterly, and he gestured slightly to Luga, presumably such an answer did not satisfy him, he had to at least give his subordinates an explanation, an explanation that could stabilize morale.

"Hurry, hurry!"

At the sound of shouts, a large number of soldiers poured into the city, their bows and arrows, their eyes fixed on the Vandals who were getting closer and closer.

It seemed that the Vandals were determined to attack the city, only to see the siege towers slowly approaching, and soon beyond the range of the trebuchet.

"Launch! Launch! ”

"Click......"

On the city wall, eight trebuchets roared at the same time, and eight stones slashed through the air and fell straight into the Vandals' formation, and a stone bullet fell, and a large number of soldiers fell, but this could not stop the Vandals from advancing.