Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

Obviously, Aurelian's military ability is very strong, otherwise he would not be jokingly called Jupiter's substitute, Sol's human body, etc. In terms of military literacy and the ability to seize opportunities, he is better than those under Orville.

Under the same conditions, Orville may not be able to take advantage of the battle, on the contrary, it is very likely to suffer a loss, but it can only be said that one thing defeats another. The other party is suspected of cheating, and Orville is really cheating.

After thinking for a while, Orville finally decided to follow the other party's advice and ambush on that road in advance.

Of course, he also left himself a way out. A large amount of supplies in Brindisi were still on the ship and had not been unloaded. The army had already planned the retreat route. If Jeanna was wrong this time, he would soon let the follow-up troops withdraw from Brindisi and make other plans near the Strait of Messina.

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Two days later, by the Lake Consa, the army finally saw everything that Jeanna predicted. Aurelian did choose to go around to Brindisi at this time, and he was not discovered by the sentries arranged by Orville before that.

At this time, he marched fast and hurriedly. It would take too long to disperse the scout team, and it would be easy to be discovered by the troops sent by the emperor, so he took the risk and chose to march directly.

This is what is called "a skilled man is bold" and dares to take military adventures in various senses. If Orville had not had Jeanna's help, he would have succeeded this time with a high probability.

But it was still the same as before. Orville had a perspective, so it can only be said that fate was not on the other side this time, and it was not unfair to lose this battle.

It was impossible for the troops to deploy on the mountain path. In order to ensure the marching speed of the army, Aurelian asked most people to unload their weapons and equipment and put the supporting equipment on the car.

He did not plan to encounter the enemy in his plan, because according to common sense, the other party would focus on the main road, but he did not expect to be ambushed at this moment.

The soldiers who had been prepared for a long time rushed out of the woods on the south side of the trail, catching Aurelian's soldiers off guard. The result was completely disastrous. Even if the general was brilliant, he would be helpless in this situation.

Aurelian's soldiers retreated step by step, and the enemy soldiers followed closely.

After all, he was a decisive officer. Faced with this situation, Aurelian simply chose to abandon the car to save the king, giving up a considerable number of soldiers and leaving with the remaining large army.

Of course, Orwell would not let the enemy go so easily. He sent light cavalry and skirmishers to follow the enemy and hold on tightly, but some of the enemy's confidants took the initiative to stay behind and dragged Orwell's army for a while, but finally let the enemy run away. But the good news is that the enemy broke through in several ways, and the army was very scattered. It must take time to regroup.

Orwell did not intend to give the enemy a chance to regroup. He continued to hold on to the enemy at the risk of the army being out of touch, and he would not stop until he caught up with the enemy.

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This is the homeland. After all, many people managed to escape, and they successfully hid in the crowd without being discovered. They brought the news of the war back to Rome.

The distance was so close that a few days later, the elders also learned that Aurelian was ambushed during the march. Such an unexpected change also made them panic.

They made mistakes in the chaos, and they chose the most conservative approach - mobilizing the remaining troops in their hands, trying to continue to defend the city of Rome first, instead of going out of the city to risk going 100 or 200 kilometers away to meet Aurelian's army.

This left Aurelian isolated and helpless, and he could only run around in the face of the Orwell army that was biting him.

Finally, a few days later, Orwell got a result, but it was not the result he wanted.

Frowning at the head in the box, Orwell looked gloomily at the soldiers tied up on the opposite side: "Did you do it?"

The other party nodded tremblingly, indicating that it was indeed their idea.

To be fair, Orwell had no grudge against the other party, and even wanted to try to recruit the other party after the civil war. After all, this was an extremely outstanding military talent, but it seemed that the world line correction force was really weird.

Aurelian was killed in the camp by some wavering soldiers in the army. Most of his trusted soldiers were killed or captured because they blocked the pursuers. Not many people stood on his side, and he also relaxed his vigilance, which led to this result.

If Orville was fighting with foreigners now, he might reward them a little if the foreign soldiers did this, after all, he wanted to cultivate the power of the empire in foreign lands, but now this is a fratricide, and Orville's reason for dealing with them is completely greater than the motivation to reward them.

Sighing slightly, Orville waved to his adjutant and said, "Conspiring to kill the superior, as a soldier, this is absolutely a capital crime, take them away and beat them to death."

Agricola hurriedly arrested these people and executed them, ignoring the pleas in his ears.

"It's a pity that I haven't had a good chat with him yet." Muttering this, Orville wrote a letter to Tia in the rear to convey military information. With the efficient operation of the messengers, he soon received a reply - march to Rome immediately and use force against the local garrison if necessary.

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Unlike the dynasties in the Central Plains, the Central Plains dynasties have a powerful and loyal guard army to the emperor himself for a considerable period of time. With such a large number of people and strong combat effectiveness, they are not very weak against any border defense army alone, but the Romans do not have such an army at this stage.

The Guards were nominally loyal to the emperor, but in fact the senators also had influence on the Guards, and the Guards were only 10,000 people, which was not enough compared to the three major border legions, which had 50,000 or 60,000 people or even more (including auxiliary soldiers).

So rather than saying that this was a powerful military force to deter local forces, it was better to say that this was a military force used to maintain stability in the central government. Anyway, the sacred law had already stipulated that troops from other provinces could not enter the mainland with weapons without permission.

Even such a military force was now split into two forces due to different positions - most of those loyal to the emperor chose to remain silent or simply fled to Sicily to continue fighting, while those loyal to the senators suffered heavy losses in Aurelian's military defeat. Now the senators' regular military forces were already very weak, and most of them were temporarily mobilized troops. These people were either veterans who were so old that they could hardly hold weapons, or new recruits who could not wield weapons. How could these people fight against regular legion soldiers who were in their prime and trained day and night? In fact, the senators had long been pessimistic.