Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

After reaching an agreement with the Danube Legion, a letter began to circulate in the Roman Empire.

This was a handwritten letter from Emperor Otto, in which Otto begged Vespa to "save the Roman Empire". Anyone with a discerning eye knew that the letter was forged, but the Danube Legion declared that the letter was legal and valid evidence, and then began to march into Rome to fight the German Legion.

In the cold winter, more than 10,000 soldiers of the Danube Legion were sentenced to labor service, with extremely poor treatment conditions and insults from the locals. These soldiers were filled with anger and could not release it.

Even the soldiers of the Danube Legion who did not have time to participate in the war were furious when they heard the news and knew that their comrades were insulted in this way. As soon as these people who were serving labor were released, they immediately assembled their troops and made a comeback.

Unlike the speculative mentality last time, most of these soldiers of the Danube Legion were rushing for revenge. Hatred can make people strong, but it can also make people lose their minds.

Vespa, who was still building momentum, did not expect the Danube Legion to move so quickly. He did not even have time to react, and his main force was still on standby in Alexandria.

The cooperation between the two sides could not be said to be close, but it could only be said that there was no connection at all.

After a brief thought, he could only follow up. He asked the Ptolemy royal family of Egypt to mobilize and borrow a large fleet, and began to let his most elite soldiers set off by ship, preparing to land in Italy from the sea, and then go straight to Rome.

The commander-in-chief of this operation was not Vespa himself, but his confidant, the Syrian governor Mucinus. Vespa, as he said, completely trusted his subordinates.

As for the reason for not personally leading the expedition, it was very simple.

First, Vespa knew clearly that his military ability was not outstanding, and it was much worse than Mucinus, who had been fighting against the Parthians or Armenians for many years and was always undefeated.

Secondly, he could not let his hands be stained with the blood of the Romans. So far, the orthodox emperors of Rome have been descendants of Augustus and belonged to the senator class. Vespa was of a low origin and belonged to the new nobles. It was already very unwelcome for such a person to ascend the throne, so he had to try his best not to touch the sensitive nerves of the Romans and make them feel more favorable towards him.

Finally, someone was needed to stay in the rear. A palace coup had just broken out in Egypt and almost turned into a national uprising. Palfi was fighting, and Syria's border defense was empty. It needed someone with enough prestige and ability to watch over the three places. Vespa was just right.

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On the other side of Palfi, neither Tia nor Orville paid too much attention to the external situation. That was not what they should worry about most now. The war in front of them was enough to consume their energy.

Compared with Vespa, Tia's strategy was gentle.

Two weeks after ordering a full-line attack, the Romans pushed the front line forward about 80 kilometers.

It sounds not far, but Palfi was originally a small country, about 300 kilometers long from north to south and about 100 kilometers wide from east to west. The part of the border close to the desert was uninhabited. Generally speaking, only the coastal areas and the vicinity of the holy city were densely populated.

Adding the land originally occupied by the Romans, these 80 kilometers are a lot. Most of the territory of the entire small kingdom is controlled by the Romans, and the scope of the rebels' activities is constantly being compressed.

Tiya basically does not execute rebels on a large scale, but only executes some leaders with serious circumstances. In her concept, rebelling is not an unforgivable crime, but betrayal and moral degradation are the real capital crimes.

Based on this idea, as long as they surrender and hand over all weapons at the first time, Tiya will forgive them and just think that they are helpless under coercion.

Of course, if they pretend to surrender and regret it later, Tiya will no longer be polite, and will suppress them all by force, and all the participants will be auctioned off as slaves.

Orville played a very important role in this process-who is simple and honest, who is treacherous and cunning, who is easy to plot conspiracy, and who is easy to go with the flow, he can see, as long as there is something wrong with his personality, he will order the Romans to pay special attention to it.

Because all disguises are exposed, his accuracy rate is very high, and the Romans have also changed their impression of him.

Whether it is accurate identification of people or strong intelligence ability, these are outstanding skills, so they feel a little more balanced. A captured foreigner suddenly becomes a relative of the immediate boss. Everyone is inevitably disappointed and a little indignant.

The army advanced all the way to the vicinity of the holy city with great momentum, and only then did they encounter a little decent resistance.

Looking at the holy city built on the high ground in the distance, Tiya was also very troubled. This place has been the holy land of the Parfi people for thousands of years, so the Parfi people have been building here for thousands of years.

The city is located on the high ground between two valleys. The terrain behind is extremely steep. It is difficult for people to climb up, not to mention weapons such as siege hammers. There are also high walls and towers for protection. It is almost impossible to attack.

The front of the city is protected by three walls. There are also buildings such as temples and palaces built according to almost fortress standards in the city. It is also extremely difficult to break through the hills built on high terrain.

Towers and watchtowers more than ten meters high can be seen everywhere on the city wall, which are equipped with crossbows and catapults captured from the Romans. Combined with the city wall built at a very delicate angle, whether attacking the protruding or concave parts of the city wall, they will be attacked by a large number of projectiles.

Before the war, a lot of food was stored in the city, and there were also springs and reservoirs.

This is one of the strongest and largest cities that the Romans have ever attacked. Even Carthage is much worse. Maybe the population difference between the two is not big, but Carthage does not have such a well-armed defense system. When they built the city, they did not think of defending the city, but the Holy City was built for this purpose.

Since Parfi became a vassal state of Rome more than a hundred years ago, the Herod royal family has been in a state of peace and danger for a long time, constantly bribing local governors to let them turn a blind eye to the defense construction of the Holy City.

After more than a hundred years of hard construction, the city has been fortified and designed entirely to deal with sieges.

Architas II on the side also looked embarrassed, hiding in the corner of the team and shrinking his body, not wanting to attract attention. Because the third wall of the city was ordered to be built by his father, and the basic construction was completed during his reign. Now this wall does block the Romans, but it also blocks himself.