Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

"Putting down your weapons can save your life. I won't kill those who surrender!!!"

Seeing that the morale of the Wessex people was on the verge of collapse, Orville actually wanted to recruit Alfred, so he didn't want him to die in the battle with Cu Chulainn, so he began to persuade the Wessex warriors to surrender.

The effect was quite significant. Many Wessex soldiers on the edge of the battlefield surrendered at the first time, but the Wessex people who were killing in the center of the battlefield couldn't stop, and the Romans couldn't stop either, and they were still fighting each other.

Orville couldn't stop these people for a while, so he could only order the reinforcements coming from the periphery to detain those surrendered Wessex people. If you can save one, it's one, and if you really can't save it, there's no way. Both sides are elite divisions. Once they go to the battlefield, they have to be prepared to be killed. Dying in the war with the enemy is also a decent way to die in line with the identity of an ancient warrior.

The overall situation of this battle has been settled from this time, but there is still a small problem-how to hold back Cu Chulainn in a frenzy.

Alfred obviously wanted to surrender because he couldn't win, but Cu Chulainn was still chasing him, and the Wessex soldiers around him who wanted to surrender didn't dare to surrender, so they could only pick up their weapons and fight Cu Chulainn.

At this time, if they put down their weapons, they might be killed by Cu Chulainn, so it's better to hold the weapons to have some resistance, which is human nature.

Seeing this, Orville frowned and used flags to signal Belisarius and Stilicho to hold down the crazy Cu Chulainn.

The three parties immediately changed their positions, and the Wessex soldiers and Roman soldiers made way for their respective talents to fight Cu Chulainn.

After Belisarius and Stilicho joined the battle, Alfred, who had fought hard, was able to tie with Cu Chulainn, which could barely be said to be a slight advantage. But this advantage could not end the battle: they didn't want to kill Cu Chulainn, but wanted to control the other party and calm him down.

Killing someone in battle is one thing, and capturing someone alive in battle is another. The difficulty of the two is completely different. Being able to suppress someone does not mean being able to capture someone alive. They are timid while Cu Chulainn is going all out, which makes the three of them feel a little frustrated.

Alfred may have some thoughts, but the other two do not want to kill Cu Chulainn, so they are ready to waste time until Cu Chulainn is exhausted and then rush to control him.

But even though Cu Chulainn had fought for a long time before, and he fought with the three for more than ten minutes, he still did not show any signs of fatigue. On the contrary, he felt that he was getting braver and braver. Alfred has been fighting for the longest time and is now a little exhausted. The balance of the battle has become a little delicate.

At this time, Jeanna wanted to go up, but Astolfo stopped her: "Let me do it. We can't let him kill indiscriminately. If you go up, it might be a little dangerous."

If he had to give these talents a score for their actual combat ability, Orville would give Astolfo 65 points and Jeanna 35 points. The gap between the two is still very large, so it might be just right for him to go over to the dangerous things that Jeanna went over.

Orville glanced at him and didn't stop him. Instead, he ordered his men: "Someone give him a gun and a sword, and make way for him."

Astolfo nodded slightly to Orville, which was considered a thank you. After getting the weapons, he joined the battle and started to beat the crazy Cu Chulainn with four people.

One more person joining completely reversed the balance of the battle. Although the cooperation between the four people was not skillful at all, after more than ten rounds of fighting, Belisarius still found an opportunity. He successfully knocked the spear out of Cu Chulainn's hand, and then the four people rushed up and directly pressed the opponent down.

Seeing this, the soldiers around rushed forward and completely controlled the other party. The soldiers hurriedly tied up Cu Chulainn with the reins for tying horses and the leather ropes for tying javelins. Only then was the dust settled.

Cu Chulainn still had no intention of calming down. He roared loudly with red eyes, like a patient in the late stage of rabies. Orville looked at him from a distance and gave an order.

"Give him water to calm his mind. Maybe it will work. If it doesn't work, you can only knock him out and take him back."

Orville also guessed the correct answer by accident. When Cu Chulainn was crazy, he really wanted to pour water to "cool down".

After pouring several buckets of water, Cu Chulainn regained some consciousness. His body shrank rapidly like a balloon, and soon returned to its normal size. He looked at the people around him weakly, and then immediately fainted and his life or death was unknown.

After the military doctor ran over to confirm that Cu Chulainn was still breathing and alive, Orville asked someone to take him down to recuperate, and he continued to command the battle.

The battlefield became a little out of control because the command center was temporarily paralyzed, but fortunately the Wessex people were unable to organize a larger offensive, and everything was still under control when Orville resumed command.

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The Wessex people who came to raid first were killed or surrendered, and they were completely controlled. Orville ordered the soldiers to detain them and deal with them slowly after the battle was over.

As for the Welsh Celts who broke into the city, they had to withdraw from the city after suffering heavy casualties and return to their camps to recuperate.

The Roman soldiers still firmly occupied a large section of the city wall. The heavily armored legionnaires blocked several passages and set up simple obstacles, while the auxiliary soldiers using slings, bows and arrows or javelins followed to the city wall and attacked. They fired suppressively at the Wessex soldiers emerging from the city, making it difficult for them to attack the city wall.

The war was at a stalemate for the time being, and Orville was prepared to wait and then ask for peace talks again, allowing Winchester to surrender to the Romans.

He did not order the soldiers to open the city and let the civilians leave. Instead, he continued to blockade the city, but he did not launch any further offensive into the city.

Then the first thing he did was not to negotiate with Alfred, nor to persuade the people in the city to surrender, but to start looking for a way for these Wessex people to raid.

He really couldn't understand how the city was surrounded by the army, and these hundreds of people could not be considered small, so how could they appear so close to his headquarters.

The light cavalry were searching around, and with the Wessex soldiers providing intelligence, he quickly figured out the reason, which also made him a little dumbfounded.

I had suffered the consequences of tunnels when I was in the Holy City before. I didn't expect that the same trick would be effective twice in a row. This time, the Wessex people still used tunnels. They came to the outside of the city through the tunnels that had been dug in advance and went around. After a circle, launch a surprise attack on Orville's headquarters.

This reminded him that he should pay attention to the other side's engineers in the future. Not only the Romans had the ability to do civil engineering work.