Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

The next night after returning, the Gallic noble who was afraid that Orville would change his mind launched a military coup.

He asked his subordinates to open the gates of Paris to welcome the Romans into the city, and cooperated with the Romans to fight against Jeanne d'Acre's army.

Orville was the only one who rebelled so smoothly and decisively. I thought that the other party would at least hesitate, but I didn't expect that he would do things faster and more efficiently than Orville.

In fact, if Orville dared to attack the city repeatedly for many days despite casualties, he would have noticed that there were not many defenders in the city. Not counting the citizens who were temporarily mobilized, there were only about 5,000 people in total, about half of whom were the soldiers of the noble, and only the remaining half of the soldiers belonged to Jeanne.

After several offensive and defensive battles, manpower would be stretched to the limit, but Orville was too cautious, and finally did not decide to attack the city but used psychological warfare.

These people could not defend such a large city of Paris at all. After a symbolic resistance, the large army withdrew to the Ile de Cité on the Seine River.

This is an island in the middle of the Seine River. The earliest urban area of ​​Paris was built on this island. It covers an area of ​​about two hectares, which is not large, but it is the origin and core area of ​​Paris.

Later buildings such as Notre Dame de Paris and Sainte-Chapelle were built on this island. In this era, the Isle of Cité was also the last line of defense of Paris. Now the Gaul army is stationed on the island.

Orville could have attacked the island by force. Ragnar had already prepared the ship, but he did not give this order, but asked for peace talks with the other party again.

Ragnar was certainly not surprised by this request. In his opinion, the other party should surrender: "So do I need to prepare a ship for you? The most fair way of negotiation should be that both parties negotiate on the ship. The river surface is not within the control area of ​​both parties. In concept, it is the most fair and just."

"There is no need for this. Just send me to the Isle of Cité and I will negotiate with them in person."

This time Ragnar's expression was very surprised. In his opinion, this Roman prince was a very cautious person and did not seem to make such a bold decision.

"Are you sure? The lame old wolf will bite people."

"I'm sure, just send me there."

Orville decided to take a gamble. The Gauls were very important to his subsequent plans, and the one with the strongest appeal among the Gauls, and he was relatively willing to cooperate with Jeanne Dacre.

After the negotiations between the two sides, Orville took several of his servants to the island of Citi. To show his sincerity, he didn't even bring Belisarius or Stilicho.

When he got to the island, he found that all the defenders on the island were eyeing him covetously. This was no wonder, as the two sides were enemies in the war.

Orville ignored the hostility of these people and came to a stone church on the island, where the conversation between the two sides would take place.

To be honest, Orville had never entered a church since he crossed over. The temples of Athena or Minerva were because the Flavian royal family believed in Minerva, so he would occasionally go to feel the atmosphere.

Standing at the door of the church, he suddenly felt a little guilty - he was the one who instigated the burning of the largest and most glorious temple of God. He didn't know how powerful the gods of this world were, but Orville estimated that if possible, there would probably be a few angels with wings chasing him down to chop him.

The person who led him into the church was Gilles Dereth. He didn't look good to Orville, but just said coldly: "Wait a minute, Jeanne is praying."

"Whatever, I'll wait." Orville didn't take it to heart. He had plenty of time and it didn't matter if he was left alone for a while.

After entering the church, Orville began to observe the internal environment. The most conspicuous was Jeanne Dacre, who was kneeling in front of the altar and praying with her head down. Orville couldn't see her expression and micro-expressions, but he thought she would be fully focused. He didn't disturb her rich spiritual world, but just found a place to sit quietly.

Looking at the cross in front of Jeanne, which was obviously erected temporarily, Orville felt a sense of confusion in time and space.

The Romans at this time liked to crucify people. This was a cruel instrument of torture. It later developed into a symbol of the sect, which should have been about three hundred years later.

Christianity at this time was still very immature. Maybe during the time when Orwell was daydreaming, a certain gospel of the New Testament was being written somewhere in the Mediterranean. The New Testament was mainly written to preach to the Romans. Christians are still often persecuted in Rome.

Early Christians believed that they were a variant of Palphism, not a new religion. Palphists generally believed so, which shows that faith was still in its immature stage.

But the situation in this world is not quite the same. Although people in Gaul and other places also believe in the Eternal, they developed their own understanding of faith earlier, which has not reached the level of later generations, but at least they do not think that they believe in a variant of Palphism.

Jeanne d'Acre claimed that she was the daughter of God. In fact, Orville couldn't understand how some of the Gauls in this world viewed this matter, and how they understood the God of the Eternal. He could only say that at first glance it seemed similar to later generations, but in fact there were many differences. The ones here were obviously more simple and less dogmatic.

After waiting for a while, Jeanne Dacre stood up and walked towards Orville. After getting closer, Orville discovered that the other party's mental state was very bad - there were some dark circles under his eyes, his expression was haggard, and his originally confident eyes were also a bit dim.

She was silent for a few seconds and then said, "Are you here to persuade us to surrender?"

"Speaking of which, this is a secondary reason. The main reason is that I want to save your life. Surrendering now is probably the only way for you to survive."

Jeanne did not speak, but Gilderes glared at him, his hand already on the hilt of the sword. He has a typical warrior character, rough and somewhat arrogant.

"Don't be in a hurry to get angry at me. You can get angry after listening to what I said." Orville looked at him calmly.

Jeanne stretched out her hand slightly and grabbed Gilderes, signaling him not to act rashly and letting Orville continue to speak.

"You should all know the story of Vercingetorius, the leader of the Gallic uprising. He died in the end because the Romans thought he was a big enough threat and could not let him continue to live. I personally feel that Jeanne Dacre has already It is regarded as the spiritual totem of the Gauls. If my father or other senators were to deal with this matter, there should be only one result.

You will be detained and then taken to Rome to participate in the triumphal procession. What awaits you after the procession may be execution or life-long exile and imprisonment. Anyway, it is completely impossible for you to return to the land of Gaul. of. My father may be okay, but the people in the Senate are very unhappy with you. They are waiting for you to be assassinated, and then they will publicize that you died of fever in such and such a place. They are capable of such a thing. "