Crusader Kings: Prisoners of War

Their courage is indeed worthy of recognition, but the use of phalanx soldiers to attack the city is not worth advocating at least. These Macedonian infantry suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat to a safe position on the battlefield before they could control the battering ram to reach the city wall.

Later, the young king did not believe in evil and organized several attacks from other locations on the city wall, all of which resulted in heavy losses and the morale of the troops basically collapsed.

Tiya was also afraid of causing any problems, so she tried to send the king away. This incident could only be regarded as a minor episode.

"If the Kingdom of Greece is like this, I would be relieved. At least the Roman defenders in Greece don't have to worry about risks. Those people don't understand the essence of Alexander's tactics at all. They just worship Alexander's statue." Her disdainful evaluation is now of many Greek monarchs.

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The famine problem in the city soon became more and more serious, and many people began to go out of the city at night to look for anything they could eat.

Tiya sent several cavalry teams to patrol the valleys on both sides of the city to capture any Parfis operating in the valleys.

At first, only a few dozen could be caught in one night. Later, the number quickly increased to two to three hundred. Now, three to four hundred people can be caught every night.

The placement of these people is a big problem. The Romans' military supply lines are also under certain pressure. There is a certain distance from the coastline to here. With tens of thousands of people eating horse chews, there is already a lot to eat, and there are not too many people to distinguish. To specifically guard these refugees.

"For this reason, I suggest that all captured Parfis be put to death. Crucifixion is the best solution for them."

Old Trajan was not afraid of Orville's objections and directly expressed his thoughts. He believed that execution was the best and most realistic option.

Tia didn't accept it emotionally: "They are not soldiers, just a group of refugees."

"We can't guarantee that they are not spies and will wait for an opportunity to launch a riot in the military camp. We cannot afford this risk. And although they have no weapons now, they will not surrender to us Romans, right?"

"This is just because the rebels in the city only let people with family backgrounds come out to look for food. Once they surrender to us Romans, the rebels in the city will kill their families, so they dare not surrender to us. This is because A desperate act of persecution.”

"No matter what the cause or process is, we only need to pay attention to the result. If they don't surrender to us, and we don't have the ability to take in thousands more refugees, we can't put them back, right? Isn't this increasing the enemy's power? What's more, precisely because they were unwilling to surrender, they fought tooth and nail to resist before being caught, resulting in heavy casualties among our men. It would be difficult to quell the resentment of the soldiers unless we deal with it. "

What Old Trajan said made sense, and Tiya didn't know how to refute it. She glanced at Orville and signaled him to come up with a good idea.

Orville is actually similar to Tia. He can't accept it emotionally, but he knows rationally that this is the best way.

"I also agree to execute them, but I don't agree to crucifixion. It will only set an example for the Palfi people and give them the motivation to resist. After fighting for so long, you should have discovered that the rebels are not so afraid. Death, and further forcing them will only arouse their ferocity. Since these people are going to be executed, they should die with value.

We can crucify soldiers from Parfi, but at least don't execute civilians in front of them. We just need to take them away, take them to the desert or some other place far away from the city, kill them quietly, and then bury them where they are without leaving any traces.

The city where the rebels are located is an isolated island, and they cannot get enough information from the outside world. We turned back and claimed that these refugees had surrendered to the Romans and were now heading to safety in the north. At that time, these rebels will have to face the choice of killing so many relatives or giving up on pursuing accountability. The former will widen the rift between the two, while the latter will allow more people to turn to us unscrupulously.

We can leave a few typical examples, and if we really send them to the northern safety zone, if anyone questions them later, let these people come back to testify. "

This idea is obviously more reliable than crucifixion, but some people still put forward their opinions in a critical manner: "What if the people in the city still don't believe it and see through that we are lying to them?"

Orville continued to answer: "First of all, I don't think those gangsters have this kind of brain. If they find something is wrong, they can just use it to their advantage.

Those defenders had enough to eat and naturally had the ability to think rationally, but if the civilians below were hungry and anxious, they would not be able to think about many things. They will become impatient, blind, and irrational. We just need to add more fire. The city will soon become an erupting volcano, and we will enter the city as saviors. "

Orville knew that unless he was possessed by Zeus or Jupiter, kicked open the city wall and struck a bolt of lightning through the temple, he would not be able to save everyone, so he could only find another way and sacrifice as much as possible. Few people to save as many people as possible.

For every additional day of siege, more people will die. If you want this disaster to end as soon as possible, you must end the war as soon as possible. For this reason, there will definitely be casualties.

The picture Orville paints convinces everyone, including Tia. She didn't want to cause more deaths, but she didn't want anyone to survive. That was an idea only a woman who had never been on the battlefield would have.

She made the decision to adopt Orville's plan, and everyone started to arrange it.

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The cavalry teams personally escorted the refugees to a sandy area outside the city, and then they killed most of the refugees themselves and buried them in the sand without anyone noticing.

This was considered to have calmed the soldiers' grievances, and then the Roman army claimed that they had released all the refugees and allowed them to return to the safe zone in the north.

The pressure came to the rebels, and they finally chose stability, killing most of the relatives of those "traitors" and taking their remaining wealth and food for themselves.

The situation in the city was now very bad. They no longer had the strength to bury the bodies of those who died of starvation and disease. They could only hastily throw the bodies off the city wall and let them rot in broad daylight.

This was a huge blow to morale, but the defenders had no other choice, either morale or stability.

Just as Orville was about to implement the next plan, an accident suddenly occurred.

The army spent nearly three weeks filling the ditch, and then gradually built an earthen embankment in front of the city wall. But at noon one day, when the earthen embankment was about to be completed and they were about to launch a full-scale attack with battering rams and catapults, the earthen embankment began to collapse.

During this time, the Parfi people dug a tunnel, quietly came under the earthen embankment, and hollowed out the soil under the earthen embankment without anyone noticing. Only a few pieces of wood supported the huge fortifications.