Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

Due to the lack of cavalry and Orville not seeing any reliable mercenaries, Tiya lent Orville 500 cavalry from her own legion, and asked the cavalry of both sides to patrol the occupied area continuously. The situation was effectively contained and the advancement speed was much faster.

They easily occupied the two towns and then began to attack the city of Reims.

Although this is a formal city with a wall and there are many defenders in the city, Tiya thinks this siege is relatively easy.

Because the last city she attacked was the holy city of the Parfi people. The city was designed specifically for siege warfare. The three walls were built based on the terrain and the facilities were extremely complete. The Romans couldn't even get the bricks on the hardest temple fortress. She had taken down the big city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Reims was at best a medium-sized city with mediocre city defense. It was just a wall that was almost the same and couldn't stop the attack of the Romans.

There was no need to build earthen embankments, walls, or shooting towers. The siege hammer was pushed up against the defenders' projectiles, and after about half an hour of chiseling, the wall collapsed. Including the time for building the siege hammer and building the camp, it took a total of one and a half days.

After engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the defenders and seizing the city wall, Tiya did not order further attacks on the city, but personally came to the city wall to persuade the defenders to surrender.

"If my army enters the city, what awaits you is only a river of blood. I cannot guarantee the safety of all civilians, nor can I guarantee that anyone's life and property will not be infringed. In order to show mercy and achieve peace, I am willing to make concessions here. I swear in the name of the Flavian royal family that soldiers who are willing to continue to resist can leave the city, and soldiers who give up resistance can drop their weapons and come out to accept our custody temporarily. I will regard those who give up resistance as coerced civilians rather than rebels.

Maybe this is your last chance to escape punishment. Please cherish everything you have now, and pity the residents here, let them be safe, and don't bring the war into this peaceful city."

The entire city has been surrounded by the Roman army. This proposal is still very attractive. Under Tia's persuasion, many people dropped their weapons and walked under the city wall to accept surrender.

Tia always keeps her word. She took these people down and guarded them. After the situation stabilized, she let them go, giving these people a chance.

As for those who still planned to continue to resist, Tiya did let them leave safely, allowing them to take the necessary food and weapons and leave from the main gate to other cities to join other Gaul leaders.

The ratio of surrender to departure was about 3:1. The latter were mainly some local Gaul nobles who left with their own private armed forces, mixed with a few real local garrisons, which was not much different from Orville's valuation.

After all, the main reason why the locals took up arms to resist was to protect the safety of their families and property. After Tiya guaranteed these things and showed her strength, their enthusiasm for resistance would also decrease a lot. Only a small part of them could persist and fight to the death.

After taking Reims, Orville was responsible for clearing out the remaining rebels nearby and consolidating the occupation of the surrounding areas. Tiya led her two legions to continue to advance to the surrounding cities to expand the results of the war.

The Gauls had been in a truce with the Germanic Legion before, and they were caught off guard by the arrival of Tia's army. They did not arrange many garrisons nearby, and all their military strength was used to confront Aurelian, so there would be no decisive battles along the way, only uninterrupted harassment and security battles. Tia would feel very irritated, but she should be able to cope with it.

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Just as Orville thought, Tia, who had done enough homework before the war began, marched smoothly. In the following month or so, she successively occupied the surrounding medium-sized cities such as Soissons and Amiens, and is now advancing towards the English Channel.

While the war on Tia's side was advancing triumphantly, Aurelian received disturbing news - Orville's communications were cut off, and he could not get the latest intelligence there.

He sent someone to communicate with Vespa, and the accurate reply he got was that Vespa's messenger was also missing, and now the emperor was trying to find out the latest battle report of Aurelian in Aquitania.

This was not good news. Orville could say that he had encountered some accidents alone, but Vespa also encountered the same problem, which meant that there was a problem with some section of the transportation line. I'm afraid that the Gauls had some new military actions that affected the transportation.

However, Orville, who was hundreds or thousands of kilometers away, had no good solution. He could only wait for the situation to change and do his job well.

Tia was constantly advancing to the north, and Orville stationed his legion in Reims. The distance between the two was getting farther and farther. He was responsible for maintaining Rome's occupation and rule of the surrounding areas, while advancing along the banks of the Marne River to a limited extent and controlling the land along the river.

After another half a month, the news from the Aquitania front resumed circulation. As expected, the first thing to bear the brunt was a bad news-the Roman army suffered its first real defeat after arriving in Gaul, which occurred in the city of Orleans, which Orville felt was not good.

After reading the battle report carefully, Orville suddenly felt that the situation was getting worse. The sense of déjà vu of the script was too strong, making him, a time traveler, deeply uneasy.

The Romans were going to capture Orleans, and this plan was almost successful. They used the cage tactic to blockade the city of Orleans. Seeing that the city was about to run out of ammunition and food and had to surrender, something went wrong at this time.

The leader of the Gallic uprising was a Gallic noble named Diviciagus Julius Bagauda. His ability was acceptable, but he was still far behind Aurelian and had been running around all the time.

Originally, according to his strategic deployment, he should have abandoned cities such as Orleans, continued to retreat, and organized resistance in his base in the province of Lugden Gaul, but the situation was beyond the expectations of the Romans and himself.

A woman of unknown origin seemed to have persuaded him to send a symbolic reinforcement to Orleans, and bring a certain amount of supplies. It stands to reason that this behavior was just a gesture to let the defenders in Orleans not give up hope. No one expected such a small army to break through the Roman blockade defense line.

But miraculously, the army broke through the Roman blockade and sent all the troops and supplies into the city.