Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

At this time, both sides involuntarily turned their attention to the only Roman legion stationed there. After Antonius was assassinated, they never attacked Orwell again except for the initial wave of searches, and remained silent during the war.

Now they are the winners of the war. Seeing that the guards were struggling to hold on, the palace was about to be breached. Their station was near the Roman governor's palace, and the governor's palace was not far from the palace. If they decided to fight Orwell at this time, they would be able to rush over to fight.

They had reasons to fight Orwell, after all, Orwell assassinated their legion commander. They also had reasons to fight Ptolemy Egypt or stand aside, after all, the interests of the empire as a whole were above everything else.

After a lot of entanglement, they finally chose to stand aside, and the reason was not difficult to understand: they were not Egyptians but Romans, their homes and roots were in Rome, and perhaps some people would continue to stay in Egypt after retirement, but this was only a part of the people, and more people would always go home.

They did have feelings and friendship for Antonius, and they were indeed very unhappy with Orwell, but they did not have the determination to challenge the emperor openly. This was a crime of treason, and no one could afford it. After carefully thinking about his relationship with Antonius, this more rational legion commander chose to sit on the sidelines and turned a blind eye to the fight between Orwell and the Egyptians.

Orwell also felt the other party's goodwill. He did not force these legion soldiers to participate in the attack on the palace. After all, there were inextricable interests between the two sides. It was not a bad thing to leave some room for the other party. His own troops continued to attack the palace gate.

In the end, it was the gifted who led the team to climb the palace wall first, and seized the city gate with their combat power advantage. The army poured into the palace from the gate, and then found that this was an empty palace. There were only a few cats and cats left in it, and no one was worth paying attention to.

Achilles, Berdinos, King Ptolemy, Arsinoe and others whom Orwell wanted to find were all gone. Only a few cousins ​​of Cleopatra were in the city and did not have time to evacuate.

Trajan was puzzled by this: "We only have a few thousand people, and they know it. There are definitely a lot of soldiers stationed in the palace, and the gates are wide and the walls are high. It looks easy to defend and difficult to attack. They just gave up the palace and ran away?!"

After searching the palace for several times and even looking for the secret room that Cleopatra mentioned, they still found nothing, which puzzled Trajan. In his opinion, if he were the king of Egypt, he would definitely mobilize heavy troops to defend the palace that symbolized the dignity of the royal family. Giving up without much resistance was not a good choice, let alone a brave and honorable choice.

If the palace is abandoned at this critical moment, morale and people's hearts will be scattered. In war, hard power and data comparison are one aspect, and the confidence of one's own people in winning the war is also extremely important. Giving up the palace is definitely a bad move from this point of view. When the supreme commander has no confidence in winning, it is strange that the people below will fight to the death.

Orville didn't really understand, but he could only go on and say, "Maybe in their eyes, these things are not important. Anyway, the overall situation is now determined, and it's only a matter of time before we win in Alexandria. Search for the location of His Majesty the King. They should go to places like Memphis. Be careful not to let them go and join the local garrison, otherwise things will be much more troublesome.

The first, second, and third battalions will clear the surrounding enemy forces, the fourth battalion will specifically chase His Majesty the King, and the remaining 100-man team will stay in the palace and stabilize the order in the surrounding areas. I don't want riots or robberies to happen under my nose."

Just as Orville was speaking, a messenger ran over breathlessly, saying that Cleopatra had important matters to report to Orville.

Orville frowned. His instructions made the other party wait at ease on Soros Island, but he didn't make trouble with the messenger. He waved his hand to let his subordinates perform their respective duties, and he asked someone to bring Cleopatra into the palace.

When they met, he said bluntly: "It's better for you not to use your subjective initiative at this time. I won't pursue the matter of Soros Island for the time being. You can stay here for now."

He is not conservative and thinks that women should not go to the battlefield. He simply doesn't believe in Cleopatra's military ability. She is not like Tia who has received training in this area since childhood and is a qualified military aristocrat, nor does she have plug-ins like Jeanne Dacre. According to the system panel, her military ability is not even up to the level of ordinary people. Letting her come up will only increase uncertainty.

I don't quite understand what "subjective initiative" means, but Cleopatra probably understands that Orville dislikes her for causing trouble.

She said seriously: "Your Highness, I now ask you to set this palace on fire. The more intense the fire, the better. Don't think about saving this place. It is most useful for us to burn it down now.

As long as there is a fire here, the defenders in other parts of the city will be in chaos. You will definitely be able to move smoothly. By then, the city will be in your hands.

Although you have seized the palace, there are still many enemies in this city. It is better to attack their hearts. Can you accept letting your brave warriors bleed in vain?"

It must be said that Cleopatra's words also make sense. According to Orwell's own ideas, if these monuments can be burned, they should be burned as much as possible, but now the owner has spoken, then he has nothing to say, just do it, it can indeed save a lot of trouble.

It is a pity that hundreds of years of ancient buildings are destroyed, but it is even more a pity to pay hundreds of casualties. Buildings are dead, and people are alive.

Under Orwell's order, the army in the palace began to set fire to the palace. Because the city wall was made of stone, the fire did not spread, but people in the city could see the sky-high flames rising from the direction of the palace. Orwell's goal has been achieved.

As Cleopatra said, this move destroyed the will to resist of many people. More people chose to remain silent or lay down their weapons and be captured. The few people who had the will to resist saw that the situation in Alexandria was over, and they did not resist stubbornly. Instead, they quietly evacuated with the necessary things and manpower, preparing to retreat to other places to continue the resistance.

As Orville said before, most of their targets are also Memphis, the capital city of Ptolemaic Egypt before Alexander, which also has troops, wealth and population, enough for them to continue to fight against Orville.