Chapter 2575
: Barbarians will always appear on the Empire's borders
...
It can be said that when Ju Yi and his brothers took out their best equipment and prepared to intercept the Claudius Legion of the Roman Empire.
After crossing the Dnieper River and collecting a part of the brainless Slavs who dared to attack Claudia's Legion, Luciano was ready to move forward. However, not long after crossing the river and receiving supplies from Turkey, he received a piece of information that shocked Luciano and made him extremely furious.
"What did you say?" Even Luciano, who was always mature and steady, could not hide his anger. He grabbed the collar of the messenger, his eyes full of disbelief, but he had to repeat the information he asked.
"Reply...General, the Rose Legion was completely...annihilated...when facing the Parthian Empire's Fars Sassanids east of the Digris River and west of Bakhtalan..." The messenger's face turned pale, but the glory and persistence in his heart made him grit his teeth and give the order.
Originally, this matter should have been notified by an expert.
However, because the master had too much information to notify, and happened to encounter their army transporting food on the road, the information was forwarded by them.
And the master flew westwards to Rome!
Hearing the same words again, Luciano took a deep breath, put down the messenger in front of him, then patted the dust off the messenger and said softly, "Thank you for the information you delivered. This is very important. I hope you will continue to work hard in the future. You can leave first."
"Thank...thank you, General!" The messenger was quite surprised at the result. Nothing unexpected happened. He felt sincerely moved and grateful, and immediately left the tent.
Not long after the messenger left, Luciano's face instantly turned blue again, and the emotion permeated his entire face, which was simply intimidating.
As the loyal commander of the Claudius Legion in the Roman Empire, Luciano was well aware of the significance of this legion and their persistence.
As an item left behind by Caesar the Great and a proof in this world, the Rose Legion is the glory left behind by Caesar the Great, the real pillar of the Claude Family, and the true orthodoxy.
Rather than the current false existence which is named after Claude but is actually a branch.
It can be said that whether it is their Claudian Legion or the Rose Legion that has been stationed in the eastern provinces and facing the Parthian Empire, they actually have basically similar ideas on the political level.
That is to maintain his own combat effectiveness and the glory of Caesar through a large number of border battles. At the same time, in this way, he can stay away from the struggles in the court and avoid being involved in internal affairs, and then prove to the world what the glory of Caesar is.
But now we receive such a message. How can we not get angry and furious?
The war lasted for more than two hundred years, and the Rose Legion, which had never encountered any accidents, was gone just like that?
How could anyone believe that a legion that was capable of fighting alongside them, and even had better frontal defense capabilities, had just perished?
To be annihilated, not defeated!
In the history of the Roman Empire, few ordinary legions, let alone the Eagle Flag Legion, were completely wiped out.
Suddenly, the glory of Caesar became the shame of the Roman Empire. The contrast was too great. Even a strong man like Luciano could not accept this reality and fell into a long period of contemplation. "No, I can't accept this result. The Claude family left by Caesar can't accept this result either. Glory becomes shame!" After thinking, Luciano shouted directly to the people outside the tent, "Order all troops to travel light and board the ship to return to the Turkish province. Abandon all food and baggage. Burn what can be burned. Leave what cannot be destroyed quickly at the scene!"
Following Luciano's order, although the entire army was not clear about what had happened, they knew that something big must have happened, otherwise such an order would not have been issued.
Faced with such an urgent order, all officers from top to bottom knew that there could be no delay. Even before the ships transporting food had finished unloading the food, the soldiers had already boarded the ships.
The grain that had been placed on the shore was burned, and the grain that had not been unloaded was used as reserve grain. The ship turned around and headed straight to the east of the Turkish province, preparing to seek revenge on Fars Sassanid.
The shame endured by the Roman Empire and the shame endured by the Claudian family must be washed away with each other's lives. There is no other solution.
But even so, the lost Rose Legion may never come back, and another former comrade-in-arms is gone.
...
It can be said that when faced with the information that Luciano led the army to leave quickly by boat, Ju Yi's face was full of silence.
Ju Yi was ready to show his true strength and send the opponent to death, but after he had made all-out preparations, the opponent did not come and simply withdrew. What was he doing?
You have to know that in order to be absolutely sure, the price to pay just to mobilize Lu Bu and the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry is not small at all.
You can't just ask people for help and then not give them anything, wouldn't that be trouble?
In fact, the other party is still able to provide a large amount of labor and maintain normal transactions between each other. The price to pay is real.
"It's okay. The other party left behind so much food and supplies. At least it can make up for some of the losses." Seeing that Ju Yi was not very happy, Lu Bu felt even more understanding.
Just like when Zhang Fei stood him up, he still can't forget it. It can be said that on the feeling level, everyone is pretty much the same.
"Thank you, Lord Wen, for your reminder. I understand!" Faced with Lu Bu's reminder, Ju Yi calmed down, returned to his usual calm and composed state, and then led his soldiers back to the camp.
As for Lu Bu, Zhang Liao and others who had already arrived here, they looked at each other, then continued to cross the river and continued to implement their previous strategies.
The Romans were certainly strong and numerous, but so what?
If you send out a large army and it turns out to be made up of only infantrymen who then run away halfway, what is there to worry about?
Could it be that the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, which is composed entirely of cavalry, cannot outrun the infantry in this flat terrain area?
With this first-mover advantage, everything will be fine as long as you don't get taken advantage of.
However, it was precisely because of the appearance and proof of Luciano and his army that Lu Bu and others did not go too deep into the Roman Empire, but instead swept away the barbarians around Rome.
After all, there is a very true saying that the borders of the empire will always have new barbarians...
(End of this chapter)