At this moment, Duncan had already entered his sight, making him contemplate adopting him as a son and grooming him as a successor.

"Attila wants to have a decisive battle with us here!"

Theodoric I pointed to the vast plains on the map and said in a deep voice, "This terrain is also very suitable for our battle; the victory or defeat of this battle might well be decided here."

Aetius looked at the map in silence for a long time, then said slowly, "There is a high ground here."

"It is the decisive ground."

"I estimate you must lead the army to capture it!"

He had to admit that the Western Goth Kingdom was especially strong now, and the true main force of the decisive battle still had to be Theodoric I's elite armored cavalry.

Duncan silently observed everyone.

At this moment, his most direct impression of Aetius was—much stronger than Yuan Shao, with an astonishing strategic intuition.

The Eighteen Lords crusaded against Dong Zhuo, fighting a mediocre battle, and in the end, it was Cao Cao who led his army to pursue and distinguished himself in a famous battle. Aetius clearly understood that these people were temporary cooperative allies, so he assembled a large army for one goal, and that was to have a decisive battle with God's Whip—Attila!

Not a moment could be delayed, the more the internal conflicts would grow.

"Historically, after winning the Battle of Sharon against God's Whip—Attila, Aetius seemed to have let him off."

"At that time, God's Whip was already planning to set himself on fire."

"In the end, Aetius persuaded the Western Goth grandees to leave and then withdrew his own troops, allowing Attila to break through and escape."

"This laid the foundation for future disasters."

During this period, Duncan made up for his history through the Crow Queen—Triss, learning about Aetius's past, and then recalled some knowledge from previous life's games, finally remembering a lot of details.

This battle had too many tricks!

During the fight, although both sides were trying their best, in the end, God's Whip—Attila broke through and escaped, which was completely allowed by Aetius.

He might have had his own considerations, thinking Attila could balance the Barbarian Race invasion.

But in reality, if you were the emperor of the empire, concentrating the elite force of the whole country to have a decisive battle with the Hun Empire, finally won with heavy losses, had the chance to kill the Hun emperor, and at this moment, your Protector of the Realm let the opponent escape.

No matter who was the emperor, they would probably doubt whether this Protector of the Realm was nurturing bandits to intimidate the sovereign, right?!

Moreover, Aetius had black history before.

In 425 AD, after the Western Empire Emperor Honorius died, the Eastern Empire Emperor Theodosius II sent troops to support his favored candidate, Valentinian, to Rome to inherit the throne.

At the same time, there was a general named John in Western Rome who also demanded the throne.

Aetius, seeing this Roman turmoil, led a Hunnic army of up to 60,000 men into Italy, helping John seize the throne.

However, unfortunately, John was too inept, and before Aetius arrived, he had already suffered a total defeat.

But Aetius didn't return but had a clever idea and instead swore allegiance to Valentinian.

This move was so surprising that the emperor of the empire was helpless.

Valentinian had just ascended to the throne without a stable rule, and Aetius had a large army, so the emperor had no choice but to accept his allegiance and appointed Aetius as the Governor of Cavalry of Gaul Province, allowing him to command the empire's army.

Aetius thus rose to power in the Western Empire with the support of the Huns, becoming a real powerholder in military and political affairs!

That's how Protector of the Realm—Aetius rose to prominence.

One could say that Duncan played with what others left behind. The witch—Anya's scheming was all learned from this famous general of the empire. He went to the Hunnic court as a hostage, became a close friend with the Hunnic prince, and could even borrow the Hunnic army to successfully climb the ranks in the empire.

This was a true hero!

His early script was even more offbeat than Cao Cao's.

Later, Aetius waged war year after year, suppressing the Exile rebellion, defeating the Western Goth invasion, annihilating the Burgundy Barbarian Race, reorganizing the imperial order, and gradually saving the Western Empire, which was on the verge of collapse from the Barbarian Race invasion. He also utilized the Hunnic allied force and, in the case of an already feeble imperial army, maneuvered among various forces, using leverage, to re-stabilize the empire's territorial defense.

After rising to power, he no longer acted like Cao Cao.

He became a Yue Fei scenario, called one of loyalty and dedication, fighting at the frontier battlefields for decades, reversing the collapse single-handedly, mending the sky's breach with one hand, and stabilizing the crumbling Western Empire.

Aetius was not loyal to the emperor of the empire, but he was loyal to the Roman Empire.

Being a famous general of the time was not easy!

Aetius used the power of the Huns to suppress the Barbarian Race, and conversely, when the Hun Empire rose to invade, he began to unite the Barbarian Race against God's Whip—Attila.

But in the end, the empire was still beyond saving.

If it were the once-dominant empire, he could lead the warlike Roman Legion to crush all enemies, but now he had to cautiously borrow external forces for every battle, even against God's Whip, he had to guard against the Western Goth Kingdom's rise as a major imperial threat in the future.

That's why he was so eager to see Duncan leading the British Legion, even entrusting him with a major responsibility without hesitation!

The empire's orthodoxy lay with the Barbarian Race.

Aetius didn't care about the origin, he himself had Barbarian Race blood, he only cared if someone could shoulder the heavy burden of the empire.

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