Oka’s sneak tour in Spain is a wonderful move arranged by the emperor himself. Young people need more opportunities to polish and exercise. Valentinian is looking forward to how he can make people shine in Spain. If he stands the test and proves his potential and ability, the emperor doesn’t mind breaking the rules and pulling a young man into the top of the empire to inject new blood into the aging empire!
However, even though every step of the Roman emperor’s arrangement was under control, the psychology of high-ranking people was always on thin ice, especially when the Gothic rebellion suddenly occurred near the head, which made the emperor feel uneasy and worried. The key to solving the Gothic rebellion as soon as possible was to bring it back to the army. Valenian believed that with the secret arrangements earlier, he would be able to wipe out the Grace family with full confidence.
Spain’s stability will be a good opportunity for the empire to revive, and at the same time, it will be difficult for Valenian to carry out large-scale reforms! To master the conclusive evidence that Grace’s family is familiar with foreign countries, he can have the excellent weapon reform against the obstruction of the die-hards in the Senate and the imperial legal principles. Even the Roman emperor’s power can’t trample on the brute force without restraint. The result of the reform is often a fiasco. Of course, Caesar is an exception, so Valentinian expects a hearty victory after being attacked from both sides.
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Warning post
"There are a lot of people! ! ! It’s all troops! Can’t see the flag clearly! " The post was suddenly broken by a shout, and the soldiers in the tower raised their arms and pointed to the distance and roared at the top of their lungs.
"Alert!" Without the slightest hesitation, the supreme commander here, that is, the centurion, immediately waved his arm and sat around to warm up and chat. The soldiers quickly got up and lined up, while the only cavalry directly turned over their horses and flew towards Kadirae. Although the identity of the newcomer has not yet been determined, his mission is to immediately arrive at Kadirae to inform the news that a legion will quickly come to guard against the accident. Even if the cavalry disappeared in just a few minutes, a solid defense line was formed. Even if the enemy came, a squadron of Roman veterans could at least guarantee to stop the enemy here for more than half an hour! Half an hour later, the Roman legion had already arrived, and it was wishful thinking to capture a fortified city with a steady stream of reinforcements.
As time passed quietly, the atmosphere finally became dignified as the footsteps approached the post in the distance. The soldiers stared at the end of the line of sight at the foot of the mountain.
"It’s our army!" After another moment, suddenly an exclamation came from the front of the infantry line! At the forefront, an eagle-eyed soldier suddenly pointed to a faint figure in the distance, looked around and shouted with his comrades.
"ah!" Hearing that the bearer was actually a Roman army, the whole squadron couldn’t help but exclaim. How could there be a Roman army here at this time? Has Vallans’s army defeated the Goths and sent these people to report good news? There were loud cheers among the soldiers.
However, the moment of cheering came to an abrupt end!
When the distant figure finally appeared clearly in the sight of everyone, the whole squadron of Roman soldiers was silent, as if frozen. The faces of the soldiers in the front row were full of tremors and inexplicable expressions of horror. Because they appeared in the mountain road, they were not a victorious army with bright armor, but a defeated army composed of several scared and unarmed Romans! They came in like a torrent of rout, and their faces were numb and desperate, and they stumbled like walking corpses.
There is no doubt that this is a defeated army, a defeated army that has completely lost its soul! What’s really incredible is that at the front of this defeated army, the only soldier who is still wearing armor is holding a flag in his hand. He pursed his mouth, looked firm and walked heavily, but he kept the flag high in front of him. However, the flag painted with patterns represents the lion of the Eastern Empire!
Section 23 Xiongnu xiaoqi
One evening before, Edil, southwest of Fort Adrian.
A vast wasteland and lush grassland vegetation cover every inch of the earth’s surface. However, with the arrival of winter, these most tenacious lives can also sway and struggle hard not to be swept away by the strong wind, and their roots will be firmly rooted and they will live tenaciously in their familiar homes.
Looking around, there are several humble buildings in this deserted wasteland except the grass field. These buildings are made of rammed earth and earthen castles. From the appearance, they look a little like Persian-style earthen castles in western Asia. It can be seen that there used to be a circle of tall and solid earthen walls around them. However, now there are only crumbling walls, and the middle-earth castles are also in ruins. Obviously, this is a manor that has been abandoned by the previous lords. For some reason, its former owners have always lost their maintenance in hou zhuang. The garden has been eroded by wind and rain for a long time, and the ruins can no longer see the glory of the past. However, these ruins have not been completely lost in the wind and sand, and they are still playing a residual heat. If the weather suddenly becomes less, can there be a temporary shelter for business travelers passing through this place?
However, hiding in this ruin at the moment is obviously not a business trip, but an army of about 200 to 300 people. Although this is a demoralized, disheveled, and fleeing from the east, it is easy to tell that this is not an ordinary army from the broken flag lion pattern inserted in the earthen fort.
This is not an ordinary army, of course. This is the Roman Guards! It’s the bodyguard of the Eastern Imperial Emperor Yu Lin! The Byzantine Guards are full of people! However, there are two or three hundred people left here and most of them are injured! What is it? What made this empire’s most elite and loyal legion suffer such heavy losses in World War I that it has reached the position of canceling the legion number! What is supporting this legion to persist and not give up at the last drop of blood? !
The only outer wall of the earthen fort is still complete. A large wooden board is paved with grass to make a simple bed. An old man is lying there with his eyes closed. His pale hair is as messy as turf trampled by horseshoes. His face is covered with dust. His eyes are closed tightly and he looks young in front of ordinary people because of careful maintenance. At the moment, his skin is old and ugly, but there is no trace of blood. The old man’s clothes are obviously replaced with a close-fitting white silk dress. However, half of the white clothes are stained with large black and red stains. If he has seen the dead on the battlefield, he will never admit it.
Keep looking along the stain depth! In the waist and abdomen of the old man, there is a wound that has been simply bandaged with linen strips! The linen in the wound has been soaked with blood, but it is also a black-red solidified stain. Obviously, the blood flow in the wound has stopped, but a lot of blood loss and great mental shock still make the old man fall into a deep coma and wake up.
Beside that old man, several people in Roman-style armor and helmet were kneeling on one knee around the bed board with painful expression. each of them was covered with blood and dust. the armor was full of weapons, cracks and traces of smoke. their waist was still straight and they exuded a terrible murder! But if you look carefully, you will be surprised to find that these generals’ eyes are all gray and their pupils have no focal length. It seems that they are all staring at a virtual point. What is even more frightening is that these generals’ faces are expressionless. That is not indifference, but a kind of muscle rigidity after losing all their vitality! It’s a combination of despair and pain!
We can’t help exclaiming that there are many familiar faces among these Roman generals, such as Tessius, the court guard of the Eastern Roman Empire, Kanus, the commander of the standard-bearer company of the Guard Corps, Maksimian, the commander of the Prince of Saret, and Lubich Yunus, the city official of Constantinople! And the few remaining generals who know a little more about the legions in the East Rome will surely recognize their identities here-not some elite corps commander of the East Roman Empire or a senior general in the post of military tribune!
It is self-evident that so many senior generals of the Eastern Roman Empire can gather around to watch anxiously and hope for a miracle to happen. This old man with unyielding and dignified face even when sleeping is the current emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, Vallans!
No one expected that the Battle of Adrian Fort would end in such a tragic ending!
Huns! It turned out to be Huns!
No one thought that ostrogoths’s last card was not a homologous visigoth reinforcement, but a Hun from the northern grassland who was in the rapid rise! No one would have thought that ostrogoths, who had lost his mind, would collude with him to expel them from their homes and kill Huns who had killed several of their compatriots!
However, ostrogoths forgot his ancestors and humiliated his enemies, but it was an unexpected and unimaginable victory! They were only one step away from the abyss, but they were rescued by the Huns in time!
Just as Emperor Vallans personally led the imperial elite army to the Gothic Camp, the pledge was as fast as the wind and as fierce as the fire, and the Xiongnu fighters arrived! To guard against the Visigoth Empire, the peripheral troops did not find their trace. The Xiongnu fighters roared from a high ground in the north and easily rushed into the flank and rear array of the unprepared imperial army like bloodthirsty wolves!
There are more than 10,000 people in tarkan. However, these more than 10,000 grassland cavalry make Rome tremble and collapse due to its terrible strength!
The Huns rode beyond the scope of grassland cavalry that the Romans could understand and imagine! In front of several Roman elites, they are like a group of enemy ares, rushing to kill like people! They scattered like a group of ghosts wandering on the flank of the battlefield and took the lead in attacking the imperial cavalry! So an incredible scene happened in front of the Vallans emperor, the old Prince Bakurus, Prince Sebastian and other senior Roman generals!
It took decades and hardships for the imperial army to bring its tribe into imperial rule, and then recruited its people to join the imperial army. The barbarian light cavalry was defeated by the Huns, who were proud of the eastern Roman empire and relied more and more on the main force of the army. The empire composed of Arabs, Samar and Persians was like a child who didn’t fight back. It was slaughtered one-sidedly!
The Huns, who had never been witnessed by the Romans, showed the strength of the terrorist cavalry to the fullest in front of everyone. The complex terrain of the Huns was like the fish in the stream weaving, weaving, outflanking, intercepting, flying or merging or gathering or scattering without any obstacles. The attack and defense were swept up by the wind and the invasion was like fire. All kinds of incredible methods of terrorist cavalry warfare were used by them, and waves after waves were higher than waves. The empire was lightly attacked by the Huns, which was simply worthless. It was completely defeated in an instant and then collapsed. While the rest of the Xiongnu Qingqi gathered together, and the compound bow as strong as pouring rain shot arrows and rained wantonly on the heads of the Imperial Guard Shield Bow Corps and Bow Brigade! Besieged on all sides, advancing and retreating like the wind, and arrows like rain, the imperial crossbowman did not know how to effectively fight back and defend himself, and in just a few minutes, the army was almost wiped out, and there was a sea of blood!
And the cruelty of reality is far more than that! Although the Xiongnu Qingqi reversed the war and the Roman army suffered heavy casualties, the result of World War I, which really laid the foundation for Adrian Fort, was another part of Xiongnu cavalry-armored xiaoqi!
In the eyes of the Romans, only riding and shooting are worthy of vigilance, but the Huns easily subverted their cognition! Huns can’t rely on strong riding and shooting to harass their opponents in the periphery like other grassland nationalities, and weaken their opponents until they can’t stand the pressure and collapse again, so they can avoid snakes and scorpions and retreat from the rocks!
In the rumbling earthquake, a torrent of steel went straight to the most powerful infantry phalanx and the last line of defense of the empire! This is the Xiongnu armored xiaoqi!
Fish-scale breastplate, pointed iron helmet, fine steel round shield, compound strong bow, sharp spear and sharp machete constitute the Huns’ formidable cavalry who are afraid of heavy infantry phalanx! As the tide comes, the Xiongnu xiaoqi rushes thirty paces, and the only wave of arrows and rain roared! In the charge of the Huns, the arrow rain was completely different from that of the empire to the handkerchief people. It was not just to create chaos and fire disorderly arrows, but to chase after the arrows! At such a rapid speed, the steeds and Huns shot every arrow as if they had eyes, and they were looking for a gap to drill sharp tears. The arrows in the air either grazed the gap of the shield or just grazed the edge of the shield array and fell into the back row of Roman soldiers. They hit the soldier’s shield at the same point, penetrated it and then flew to the soldier’s body without exhaustion!
Shield array and armor are useless! A wave of arrows and rain on Huns’ stomachs made the Roman elite form a shield array that almost collapsed! And then it’s scary!
The torrent of steel rushed to the Huns as if they were aware of death. It was not their stupidity, but their longer sharp spears would flexibly avoid the infantry phalanx and stick out their spears to prevent them from penetrating into the Roman soldiers! In the rain of blood, the Xiongnu knights surged in front of them, and the Roman infantry were knocked down and drowned in the crowd without raising their spears or daggers, but the Xiongnu lost little!
Xiongnu xiaoqi impulse Roman army array in front of several rows of cavalry continue to charge the arrow and strive to dash forward, while tarkan has abandoned the spear and pulled out the discerning machete, and several teams are scattered and wedged into the chisel, and the head of the chopper is rolling!
So the Romans collapsed a thousand miles!
Section 24 Pathetic
By dominating the Millennium heavy infantry regiment, the empire was defeated in front of several Roman generals who still admired the glory of the past and longed for the glory again! Turn into a dream and disappear completely.
Defeated the backbone of Rome, the Xiongnu mounted the cavalry and continued to expand the results. Several groups of young cavalry attacked madly in all directions. If they tried to rally again against the Roman army, they would immediately encounter a storm of attacks until the formation was torn and the soldiers were scattered throughout the battlefield. The Roman army was completely smashed into pieces, and wolves fled everywhere. If the Roman deserters could not find them, they would chase the Xiongnu, but they would sweep in from time to time and harvest them in batches.
At the same time, at the beginning of the battle, the people were killed by the imperial army, and the Goths finally waited for revenge. The Goth army surged out of the camp and rushed to the mountains, and then divided into several strands to cooperate with their Xiongnu allies to slaughter the Roman army that had lost its will to resist
As if it were a trance-like kung fu, a victory without suspense turned into a recoverable defeat! All Roman generals are dull, including Emperor Vallans!
However, everything is a foregone conclusion. What a heavy blow it is. The most important thing at this time is to protect the emperor! If the empire is still profitable in the future, it will be the first to wake up from the disastrous defeat. Without hesitation, the two princes Bakurus and Sebastian decided to lead the imperial guards themselves. At the same time, they roared at the top of their lungs and ordered the imperial guards to escort the Emperor Vallans to retreat immediately. Never take all the cavalry back to Constantinople immediately after delaying the burning of the grain and hay in Adrian Fort! All the elite armies that can fight in the empire were all lost in the first world war. I am afraid that the eastern empire will face unimaginable difficulties before the arrival of reinforcements from the western empire.
However, these are no longer important to the two princes, Bakurus and Sebastian. Their lifelong pursuit and dream of restoring the former glory of the empire have all vanished with this failure, as well as those imperial veterans who have gone through the same era as them. Their spirit, faith and will have all passed away at this moment.
Looking at the guard cavalry forcibly carrying the Emperor Vallans away, the dust floated away and disappeared into the sight. The last trace of nostalgia and regret in the eyes of veterans slowly faded away, and the face of vicissitudes of life reappeared with the expression of iron and blood. The great empire in their memory may be doomed to collapse here today, but Rome will never perish. Unfortunately, they are afraid that they will see that day!
"Rome! Long live! "
The two princes Bakurus and Sebastian in the wilderness held their swords high like the dying lion king roaring in the sky! Years may have deprived them of their physical strength, but they will never be able to erase their pride and dignity!
"Die! Fight to the death Fight to the death! "
Immediately after the two princes roared, dozens of members were behind them, leaving the Roman generals to whistle! His sword clanged like thunder in dry land!
"The honor! Fight to the death ! ！” And with the old prince and generals’ voice falling, thousands of soldiers of the Shang Imperial Guard Corps are only prepared. The flags are rolled up and the swords are ringing like a raging tide! Turn back! See death as death! This last elite of the Eastern Rome is gradually facing the invincible and broken Xiongnu Xiaoqi with the oblique light in the west.
The Battle of Adrian is the third fiasco in the history of the Roman Empire after the Battle of Canny and the Battle of Teutonburg Forest! It also coincided with this fiasco, which also marked the complete disappearance of the glory of ancient Rome.
At the last moment, the Roman Legion launched a suicide sniper against the Huns, and the guards and cavalry had successfully gone on the rampage with them. Emperor Vallans returned to the cavalry commander of Adrian Fort and reported the situation to the left-behind commander Maksimian. After a long time, the whole Adrian Fort was silent, and the whole castle was in complete chaos. The soldiers recruited from foreign countries fled and the local soldiers were also anxious. However, these Maksimian had already paid attention to it in their spare time, even his father, Prince Sebastian, tried to save it! He knew what he should do. Maksimian’s eyes were red and he burned all the provisions, and then he was ready to organize all cavalry to escort Emperor Vallans to Constantinople immediately. But at this moment, Emperor Vallans made a speech and organized Emperor Vallans of Maksimian to avoid Constantinople. Instead, he bypassed the Huns and Goths along the valley outside the city and went directly to Kadirae, the reinforcement station of the Western Empire!
The decision made by Emperor Vallans is self-evident. Obviously, he still hasn’t given up trying his best to reverse the situation. He can accept the fact of his fiasco in other ways. He wants to avenge himself by borrowing reinforcements from the Western Empire! Emperor Vallans has lost his mind at this time. He is like a gambler who loses his eyes and will do whatever it takes to turn it over!
Maksimian, however, was sober. Emperor Vallans’s practice was simply taking a big risk. The scope of Huns’ Qingqi investigation was judged. Once the Huns accidentally found out that they were surrounded, they relied on this cavalry root method to ensure the emperor’s safety. Once something happened to Vallans, the whole eastern empire would probably fall apart in an instant! This horrible result makes people shudder at the thought! Maksimian, the most loyal prince of Sebastian in the empire, is trying to remonstrate with the emperor in front of him. However, what makes Maksimian unbelievable is that Vallans, who always had a gentle smile and was calm and confident in the past, suddenly became unfamiliar with the emperor Vallans, grabbed him by the collar with a twisted expression, accused him of cowardice and scolded him for insulting the honor of Sebastian’s family. Then the big order made the soldiers watch him!
In this way, in Vallans, the emperor’s gambler-like psychology was arbitrary, and a line of more than 700 cavalry escorted the emperor to the southwest from Adrian Fort. Although he was temporarily detained as a prisoner, the emperor took him with him before he left.
However, it seemed as if they had been teased by fate. Although Emperor Vallans and his party were cautious, they were unfortunately discovered by a Hun rider of about 15 people after flying safely for a few hours! The guards tried their best to kill 12 of them, and the remaining three disappeared at the horizon in a short time. A thick shadow hung over everyone’s mind in an instant, so Emperor Vallans and his party rushed to try to escape from the Huns’ tracking area before the pursuers arrived. However, the Huns’ noses were obviously more acute than they expected.
Only an hour later, a 500-man tarkan came after him, and he had no choice. Emperor Vallans had to keep 500 cavalry behind him and continue to flee. However, the Huns attacked so fast that it was unimaginable that they had roared into the cavalry before the Roman cavalry could be diverted, and a tragic encounter broke out.
Although the Roman knights fought desperately, the fighting capacity of the Xiongnu cavalry still shocked them. The Roman side was heavily armored, while the Xiongnu were light-mounted. However, the casualty ratio between the two sides was almost 2 to 1 in close combat! Only two Roman knights can barely resist a Hun riding a machete!
Even so, with the advantage of numbers, the Romans still had a chance to annihilate this Xiongnu Qingqi, but something unexpected happened! In the melee, a Hun suddenly found a Roman cavalry dressed in gorgeous but sturdy armor, so he did not hesitate to raise the horn bow and shoot an arrow in the chaos of people riding!
Blood spraying in several warriors and guards cavalry holding a knife is more of a way to boost morale. Emperor Vallans suddenly screamed and fell off his waist and abdomen, and an arrow with a spike almost penetrated half!
Emperor Vallans was seriously injured unexpectedly, which made the encounter end hastily and panicked. There were less than 300 Roman knights guarding the unconscious emperor and fleeing, while Xiongnu Qingqi left more than 100 to win by seeing the law and stopped chasing. But obviously, they didn’t leave, but greeted more companions. Because of the combat effectiveness of this Roman cavalry, they realized that there must be Roman nobles in it, but they would never have thought that it was the Roman emperor who was shot by the vector.
And these are all that happened before the Roman generals gathered around the bedplate and looked sad at the moment and led the down archers to the earthen fort. The Xiongnu spike arrow almost killed Emperor Vallans on the spot. However, because there was no military doctor and medicine, Emperor Vallans only pulled out the arrow and stopped the bleeding, but he still inevitably lost his last life.