Chapter 548: Night Attack, Return the Color [Subscription Request]

Pliny was the head of the Roman Senate's acolytes.

The so-called Corps of Retinue was a group of people trained by the Senate in order to cope with the rapidly changing situation hundreds of years ago after Rome changed from a consul system to a monarchy.

Most of them were selected at a young age, and it was announced to the outside world that they were there to serve the gods.

The real duty is to assist the Senate and be responsible for sending and receiving messages, assassinations, investigations, etc.

But Pliny was different from ordinary servants.

He came from a prominent Roman family and was directly responsible to the senator.

"let us start."

Pliny said to Quintilian beside him.

Quintilian was the leader of the guards under Severus. He was tall and strong, with bulging muscles and amazing bravery.

The two men's joint actions also represent the cooperation between Severus and the Senate.

The bright moon casts its light and the night is hazy.

Pliny and Quintilian were surrounded by dozens of people, all following in silence.

Ahead of them was the city of Albil where Cao's army was stationed.

From the perspective of Pliny and others, they could see the other side of the city where Cao's army was stationed, with tents connected together.

"The Emperor Wei is in the city."

"If we can kill the emperor of the Orientals, so that they lose their commander, and then attack with our army, we will surely win a great victory."

"Look at their camp and the city. There is a special kind of divine energy spreading through it. It won't be that easy."

"If it were easy, there would be no need for you and me to come here."

Pliny and Quintilian, A Brief Dialogue.

There was a thoughtful look on Pliny's long face.

Just watching the Wei army camp from a distance made him feel terrified:

"I have a bad feeling we should retreat."

Quintilian chuckled and said:
"Your Majesty and the Grand Senate have mobilized a number of people stationed in Parthia. We are here to send your Majesty's greetings to those Easterners. We haven't done anything yet. Do you want to leave?"

Rome and Parthia infiltrated each other, and each had people planted in the other's camp.

The situation in Parthia has been dire recently, and the number of people secretly turning to Rome has suddenly increased.

Two of them were in the city of Albil, ready to meet and cooperate with them.

Quintilian: "Even if we can't kill their emperor, it would be good to teach them a lesson and find out their true colors."

Pliny thought about it, finally nodded, and led his team towards the city of Albil.

They were moving at an extremely fast speed, and all of them were wearing a cloak that looked like a black curtain.

The cloak seemed to be able to absorb the darkness, helping them to hide their bodies in the night and allowing them to successfully avoid the sentries and scouts outside the city.

Just by looking at their speed and equipment, you can tell that these people are all experts.

A quarter of an hour later, they bypassed the west side where Cao's army was stationed and approached a city gate on the flank of Albil City.

The city gate, which was originally tightly closed, opened a gap from the inside.

Someone in the city was there to meet them.

After entering the city, the group, led by an insider, passed through several long streets and buildings, and soon approached the city lord's mansion where Cao Cao was.

Pliny and Quintilian, from a distance, looked out at the palace ahead.

"This mansion is so quiet."

Quintilian frowned:

"Why aren't there any soldiers patrolling and guarding?"

The city lord's mansion was neither as heavily guarded as expected nor had any garrisoned soldiers. It did not look like the residence of the Wei emperor.

At this time, Pliny took out a parchment scroll and unfolded it.

On the leather scroll, there is an eye composed of tens of thousands of ancient Latin characters.

"Eyes of the Gods!"

Quintilian whispered.

The eyes on the scroll had intricate and overlapping spell patterns, and staring at them for a moment gave one a feeling of falling into them.

This parchment scroll is a treasure of the Senate.

The parchment scroll was unfolded, and Pliny murmured in a low voice, as if reciting a sacrificial oration.

There were symbols and spell patterns on the eyes of the gods, which began to flicker.

Scenes slowly emerged in his pupils, which were exactly the layout, rooms, and courtyards of the City Lord's Mansion in front of him.

Through the Eye of the Gods, one can see that the City Lord's Mansion is filled with Cao's army checkpoints.

Some nearby houses were also filled with Wei troops.

"This Wei emperor is really cunning. The defense of his residence is loose on the outside but tight on the inside."

Quintilian determined that the emperor of Wei was in the palace ahead and immediately prepared for battle.

The more Pliny looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong.

Even if one uses the Eye of the Gods, one can only see part of the scene outside the City Lord's Mansion.

A little deeper, the magic parchment scroll of the Eye of the Gods was stained with a layer of purple.

Moreover, the spell pattern engraved with the Eye of the Gods began to collapse and break.

Pliny trembled slightly and closed the scroll:
"We can't go in. The power inside is too strong. I have only seen a situation like this that can block the eyes of the gods in the Senate's Pantheon."

"We will retreat immediately."

"You can leave if you want. I won't stop you."

Quintilian took a deep breath, and the sound of blood surging could be heard in his body, and his fighting spirit soared:

"Your Majesty has long anticipated that you, the Senate, would hesitate and change your mind before a battle. I can tell you that Your Majesty has made a lot of preparations for tonight.

Our strength is more than what you see.

Besides me, there are other generals in this city who will be the commanders of the operation."

"As soon as I send out a signal, this city will soon be in chaos. If you don't go, we will do it ourselves."

At this moment, the power fluctuations surging in Quintilian's body became stronger.

He shouted softly, and someone behind him sent a signal.

"Do it!"

Quintilian took a spear from the hands of his men beside him, strode out, and openly rushed towards the city lord's palace in front.

Most of the people they brought with them followed Quintilian and rushed out.

In other directions of the city, there were sudden noises and fires in some places. The whole city instantly turned into a battlefield.

"Your Majesty Severus is going to launch a surprise attack to capture the city." Pliny whispered.

Long before Cao Cao arrived, Rome was planning to capture the city of Albil.

They had set up camps in the city and instigated quite a few people to rebel.

When Severus learned that Cao's army was advancing westward and stationed in the city of Albil, he decided to give this surprise attack to the Wei people.

Pliny hesitated for a moment and did not rush out.

Instead, he retreated a distance, and the seven or eight people around him were all covered with a black aura that lingered and obscured their figures.

Pliny looked at Quintilian rushing out from afar.

He and the few people who followed him released their momentum and rushed straight to the City Lord's Mansion.

In other directions of the city, there were also shadowy figures attacking the City Lord's Mansion.

At this moment, chaos broke out outside the City Lord's Mansion.

In a flash, Quintilian took the lead and rushed to the vicinity of the city lord's mansion.

He shrugged his shoulders forward and lowered his center of gravity, intending to smash the outer wall of the mansion, and led his troops in with a terrifying momentum.

But just as Quintilian approached the outer wall, a fist emerged from behind the wall.

This punch penetrated the wall like a layer of thin paper.

The strangest thing was that there was not a single stone chip on the wall that had collapsed, but instead a fist-sized hole appeared as if ice and snow had melted.

The speed of his punch was as fast as lightning, and the wall that was pierced seemed to have no time to react.

It seemed that there was someone behind the wall who had predicted Quintilian's impact position and was waiting there.

Quintilian was fearless and charged forward with all his might, his whole body emitting a fierce fighting spirit.

far away.

Pliny's pupils contracted.

The fist collided with Quintilian, with only a slight delay, and then broke through Quintilian's defense.

From Pliny's perspective from behind, there was a noticeable bulge on Quintilian's strong and sturdy back.

It was a fist-shaped bulge.

The force of the opponent's fist penetrated Quintilian's body.

His heart was broken.

The Wei people had been prepared for their attack.

The City Lord’s Mansion is a killing trap!
The punch that killed Quintilian must have been delivered by a divine general of the Wei people, otherwise it would be impossible for him to have such terrifying power.

Then, Pliny saw cold rays of light appear behind the wall.

The people who were with Quintilian all had their bodies pierced by the cold light.

If Pliny knew the weapons of the Han people, he would have seen that those cold flashes were short flying halberds.

The short flying halberd thrown by Dian Wei.

"Let's withdraw!"

Pliny waved his hand and led his men to retreat quickly.

A quarter of an hour later they returned along the same route, left the city, and disappeared into the night.

Inside the city.

The shouts and flames intertwined, and the flames were blazing.

"Your Majesty Severus mobilized a lot of forces for this surprise attack, but it is obviously impossible to succeed." Pliny thought to himself.

Half an hour later, he led his men over a low hill, mounted the war horses reserved there, and galloped westward all night.

A few hours passed in a flash and it was almost dawn.

The group returned to the Roman-controlled city of Vete.

Pliny saw the senator and Severus in the city.

"The operation failed?"

Before Pliny returned, Severus and the senator learned through other channels that the surprise attack had failed.

"The news that came back said that Quintilian was dead, and the Wei people had a divine general who took action."

Severus asked, "How was the battle between the god and Quintilian? How much chaos did our attack cause them?"

Pliny was about to respond, but suddenly he looked as if he was listening attentively.

Severus, the great senator, also sensed the situation a moment earlier than him.

In the dim sky outside, there was a sudden and alarming sound of gas explosion.

boom!
The whole city was shaken.

"Send the message to the police, enemy attack!"

From outside came the Romans shouting, "Who is coming?"

Then a voice rang out: "Wei General, Zhao Zilong of Changshan!!"

There were deafening noises, one after another, and the city wall seemed to be collapsed.

Another voice followed closely behind: "Dian Wei, the commander of the Wei imperial guards, and the emperor of Rome, get out here."

"Ha, Zilong, you are from Changshan, how would these Western barbarians know?"

Another loud voice, shaking the whole city:
"Listen to how we register.

I am Zhang Yide from Yan. You pigs and dogs of Rome, come out and die quickly! "

"Yide, we have only learned a few short Roman phrases along the way. You are speaking Chinese, and they can't understand you."

The last sound was also heard throughout the city.

Pliny in the city felt his heart tighten and he reacted instantly.

They wanted to launch a surprise attack on the Wei people, but the Wei people immediately retaliated and attacked them from behind.

Just by listening to the power contained in these voices, one can tell that they are all invincible warriors. Otherwise, they would never dare to charge into the camp so blatantly and treat the Roman army as nothing!

At this time, another sound was heard outside.

"Xu Zhongkang, that opponent is mine, why are you trying to steal my opponent?"

"Zhang Yide, you have been in Wei for so many years, don't you understand that military merit depends on robbing? If you don't act quickly, the donkey eater will come and kill you. He is more aggressive than me in robbing!"

"grass……"

Zhang Fei's cursing voice sounded particularly clear.

In the chaos, Pliny led his men out of the hall, and the scene he saw shocked him!
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