Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

The fighting and chaos continued intermittently throughout the night, and the city returned to peace in the early morning of the next day.

Although many battles broke out in the city, Orville's control over the soldiers was generally good. He restrained his soldiers well, and looting or massacres did not happen too often. The Romans took over the control of the city from King Ptolemy and Bodinos, and quickly restored basic order.

In the past few days, Orville was worried about the changes in the war situation and had to plan military operations overnight. He didn't rest well for several nights. He ran around the city all night to command the battle. He didn't feel anything because of the high tension before. Now that the overall situation has been decided, Orville's fatigue soon surged up. Due to fatigue, he handed over the control of the army to his officers, and went back to Soros Island to rest, ready to sleep for a while before dealing with the mess.

Cleopatra took over this part of the responsibility very well. She shuttled around the city at dawn, constantly giving speeches to appease people, and decided to open some granaries and vaults that had not been transported in time, and distributed some of the supplies in them to the civilians in Alexandria who were affected by the war.

This series of actions made the Romans generally have a higher evaluation of her, because Cleopatra had not rested well for several days, and now she could still force herself to do these things. At least she still had patience and sense of responsibility. Moreover, there were still many remnants of the enemy army roaming or hiding in the city. At this time, wandering around in the city would be more or less dangerous, requiring courage and determination.

At least in the eyes of the Romans, Cleopatra was a little better than her brother who fled from the battlefield.

Originally, she was also regarded as the legitimate ruler of the country. In addition to these actions to please the local civilians, the situation in the city did become a little more stable because of this series of measures.

In addition to these measures to appease the people, Cleopatra quickly found a way to organize people to clean up the messy city and the Alexandria Port, which had become a mess due to the fire, and strived to restore the huge city to normal operation in the shortest time.

Even so, according to the calculations of the staff and architects, it would take at least a week for the city to resume production and life, and it would take at least a few years for the city to recover from the trauma of the war. Although she won the war, it was definitely not without cost.

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Owell was not in a hurry to advance, but just consolidated the results of the current stage, and sent people to guard the various transportation hubs around Alexandria to prevent the other side from sending troops to try to retake the city.

However, according to the news that came later, Orwell didn't need to be so cautious, because as he guessed, civil strife broke out within the Ptolemy royal family.

News came from Memphis that a military coup broke out within the Egyptian army. The army impeached Berdinos and Achilles on the grounds that they were not doing their job well.

Since Achilles' guards suffered heavy losses in the previous war with the Romans, and many of them were left in Alexandria and had not yet gathered, their military strength was not dominant.

This was their most vulnerable time, but it was not King Ptolemy who seized the opportunity, but Arsinoe, his and Cleopatra's sister.

She attributed the cause of this incident to the greed of Bedinos and the inaction of Achilles, believing that without their foolish behavior, everyone would never have ended up in this situation. Now was the time when the army was in low spirits and negative emotions were soaring. She cleverly directed the spearhead to the two and successfully persuaded the dissidents in the army to unite for an armed coup.

The two were still on guard against the coup, but the target of their precautions had always been King Ptolemy on the throne. Unexpectedly, it was not him who launched the attack, but the inconspicuous royal princess.

Due to the suddenness of the action and the huge disparity in strength, the resistance of the two men was unsuccessful. Achilles died on the spot, and Berdinos did not survive and was publicly beheaded.

Logically, they should have left at least one person to report to the Romans, because since they chose to ask the two of them to take responsibility, someone had to take the blame. This was certainly not an accidental mistake, it was obviously intentional, because the two knew too much.

Most of the people who really had opinions about the two from the beginning actually had to leave Egypt or were exiled to remote places. A group of such people gathered around Cleopatra, and their current temporary base camp was in Antioch (Antioch).

Even if some of these people in the army hid well and opposed Berdinos from the beginning, this was only a small part. The vast majority of people should be said to be Berdinos faction according to the camp division. They have countless deep interests with Berdinos, but now the monkeys have scattered.

If people like Berdinos or Achilles were allowed to go back, then it was obvious that they would tell the Romans everything in order to save their lives, and then the Romans would have a definite reason to attack them.

Although Orwell certainly had other ways to find out the truth, people always had a lucky mentality, and they were also afraid that Berdinos would save his life this time by relying on political skills, and then look for an opportunity to make a comeback and settle accounts with them, the fence-sitters, so Berdinos was a person who had to die.

Out of fear of retaliation, this military coup was extremely bloody. All those who were considered to be loyal to Berdinos were purged. After the purge, the army was led by the eunuch Gaimud. He formed an alliance with Arsinoe. The two cooperated to once again remove the king from the throne and became the actual ruler of Egypt.

After they came to power, the first thing they did was not to order the whole country to prepare for war, but to send envoys to Alexandria to surrender and explain the situation.

They clearly expressed their purpose: they wanted to fight the Romans before, and the enemies of the Romans were Berdinos and others. Now that they have been dealt with by the Egyptians themselves, there is no need for Egypt and the Roman Empire to continue fighting. The royal family is willing to accept the investigation and guidance of the Roman Empire.

That's why Orville could know the news so early and so quickly. They took the initiative to reveal it.

Orville saw all their fence-sitting behavior. To be honest, he didn't like it very much, but at this point, he would not refuse the other party's surrender. He only asked the other party to disarm and come to Alexandria in person for investigation.