The Three Kingdoms

The Capitoline hills are one of them.

This hill is located in the east of the city of Rome. It is very high and has beautiful scenery. However, because it is far away from the main city of Rome, it is not an important area of ​​the city of Rome. It is quite cold on weekdays.

And in a hidden valley of the hill, countless houses stood tall, lingering around the castle in the middle, and around this castle was either bright or dark, and there were at least a thousand elite soldiers.

In the castle, there is a sick 'tiger' living.

On this day, the city of Rome was turned upside down. In the quiet castle, before the bed of the tiger of the sick, kneel down to this giant of the Roman military that can shake and radiate.

"His Majesty!"

Kneeling on his knees was William Augustus who had fled back from the Egyptian battlefield in embarrassment.

After he was defeated, he ran for his life in a panic, and finally returned to Rome smoothly.

"The Augustus Legion of the Empire was destroyed just like that!"

This dying tiger with a pale face and dull eyes is the Roman Emperor Severus who had been 'killed' by the Senate. He looked at the sky of the castle and murmured: "O The glory of His Majesty Gustus was actually broken in the hands of Severus, I am sorry for Emperor Augustus!"

"I am the one who is sorry for His Majesty, and I am also the one who is sorry for the ancestors of Augustus. Please punish me by Your Majesty. I shall be punished by death!" William was ashamed. With an army of 10,000+, only less than [-] soldiers escaped from Egypt in the end. The third of the four great generals under his command, he has never been so embarrassed.

"Death, what's the use!"

Severus struggled, his eyes condensed coldly, like the fierce eyes of an eagle, staring at William: "If you die, you can bring tomorrow to the empire and get rid of demons for the empire, I will kill you without hesitation. Your head!"

"The final general is incompetent!"

Hearing this, William lowered his noble head and became silent.

He is not afraid of death, but he cannot die.

If he could die, he would have died on the Egyptian battlefield.

He knows that he still has work to do.

"Go north!"

After Severus vented a lot, his health improved a lot, and his thoughts began to calm down abnormally. The destruction of the Augustus Legion exceeded his expectations. He would rather lose Egypt and the whole world. In the southern border, they are unwilling to let the most powerful Augustus Legion in the empire perish.

But this is already a fact. He is not a person who cannot accept the fact. If it was a peaceful and prosperous age, he would naturally behead William to rectify the imperial military law. However, at this time, he could not behead William together.

He needs William.

William is one of the most outstanding generals under his command, and it is also the greatest guarantee when the Italian provinces are reduced to battlefields in the future.

He could sit up. After he sat up, he looked at William and said calmly: "The empire spent the last gold coins and food to form three new legions, the Alpha Legion, the Thracian Legion, and the Pannonian Legion. They have moved to the north and hidden in the chaos. This will be the last hope of our empire, but most of them are recruits, and there are not enough generals, so they cannot be dispatched consistently. And you, the most trusted person around me, you go to lead them , to train them and make them knights who can fight for the empire!"

"The last will obey!"

With tears in his eyes, William accepted the order respectfully.

He is touched.

As a defeated general, he should be exiled or stranded even if he is not on the gallows, but now His Majesty Severus still trusts him, which makes him feel moved to die.

"William, you have let me down once, don't let me down again, because the empire can't afford a second failure!"

Severus encouraged.

"If I can't win, I will live and die with the empire!"

"If there is no such thing, we must win!"

"Honor Your Majesty!"

After William left, the atmosphere in the spacious house in the castle became a bit chilly.

"God, please give me more time!"

Severus' body is getting worse day by day. He knows that he can't survive for a long time, one year, two years, at most less than three years, but within this time, he must plan a future for the empire.

He has now truly reached the situation after his 'death'. The Senate has big words and small actions, and is a good player in fighting for power, but it is difficult to keep the empire in the turmoil. His two sons are even more selfish. A careerist who does not care about the safety of the empire.

He is a hero, but after he sat on the throne of the emperor of the empire, he understood a truth, this is a supreme honor, but also a responsibility that can crush people.

If you can't serve the country and the people, if you sit in this position, you will be pushed down sooner or later.

If you can't bear the responsibility, you can't bear this honor.

With millions of soldiers and tens of millions of people in the empire, this responsibility is extremely heavy.

At this time, suddenly a middle-aged Roman hurried in from the outside, with a gloomy expression: "Master Hades, I greet Your Majesty!"

"Aner, what happened?" Severu asked in a low voice.

Rarely had he seen such a panicked moment as his confidant intelligence officer.

"Your Majesty, St. Alveli died in Antioch with the complete annihilation of the German army half a month ago!" Aner knelt down, his voice was low, and he said every word carefully. .

"Olvery is dead!"

Severus looked calm, as if he had expected this, but there was still a trace of uncontrollable sadness deep in his eyes: "He still went to see God before me!"

"Your Majesty, surrounded by demons, the Pope would rather die than surrender. He jumped off the city wall and was pierced by a broken spear from below the city!" An Er said.

"He has always been my best friend and my most steadfast backing. He finally gave his precious life for me, for the empire, and for our oath on the Rhine River!"

Severus' eyes became phantom, and he was recalling the past.

At that time he was only a small magistrate.

At that time, Olvelli was just a little religious.

He could not understand the decay of the empire.

Olveri admired his ambition.

They made an oath on the Rhine River, if one day he raises his troops to level the country for the empire, he will give up the opportunity to serve God and follow his command.

In the end, they finally got the highest power in the empire, and they are also following their original ideals to reform this decadent empire, making the empire stronger again, flattening the northern barbarians, and seizing the eastern province of Mesopotamia , How high-spirited and vigorous to open up territories for the empire.

Unexpectedly, the empire they guarded was still in a mess in the end.

He knew that Olveri would not be reconciled.

So Orvilining used his life to pave the way for this battle, pinning all his hopes on him.

"My best friend, rest in heaven!"