Chapter VI Dangerous Traditions
Where there are people, there are contradictions, where there are contradictions, there are rebellions – Sura Abi
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Europa's revolt was like a kind of fire, burning the invaders of the Republic and the legions of the Republic stationed there.
In the cold and humid city of Western Europa, the Gauls gathered a knight and became the strongest representative of the resistance in the entire west.
They Gauls are arrogant, reckless but courageous, as if the Gallic nation is born to attack, their knights will only charge, will only put up their spears in front of them, and then charge, undisciplined, but completely fearless, full of romance, but always like to carry forward the most primitive spirit of mankind - uprising, the central city of the Gauls, Fort Paris, has become synonymous with "uprising" in the minds of the nobility of the republic.
The Gallic knights who charged were not the greatest danger, although they were trained from an early age, their fighting ability to fight alone was very amazing, and the existence of fighting spirit also caused heavy casualties to the soldiers of the Republic, but they did not have any discipline, and the act of charging without permission was considered honorable.
Honor is death, this is the Republic's description of the Gallic knights, a group of reckless men who call themselves France and are no match for the great god of war Sullo stationed in Europa.
The real headache is the bitterly cold north-central Europa, where the huge Black Forest, which has always been covered, greatly hinders the use of the Republic's bandits, the skeleton hussars.
The dreaded Black Forest stretches from the west bank of the Rhine to the east bank of the Oder River. The Germanic peoples, the tallest and most ferocious and tenacious fishermen and hunters, have maintained their most barbaric customs and primitive courage, despite having settled for many years and separated from the most primitive tribal communes of mankind.
The Germanic people tried to establish a unified state long after the assassination of the military dictator of the Yagonagus clan, and although it was eventually destroyed by another dictator, Sura Abi, they quickly regained their state and became an important part of the original crusaders at the instigation of the Crusaders.
Although the Crusaders were destroyed by Sullius, the Germanic empire continued to live tenaciously in the Black Forest, even the Holy See was forced to announce its dissolution in order to avoid Sulliu's edge, the Pope himself fled to the East, and many of the Holy Daughters of the Holy See were captured by Silze Uzor in the Apollo continent, most of them have been tortured to death, and the rest of the people may be hiding all over Europa, maybe they went to the East, maybe some mountain area in Boyue, maybe India. It was so embarrassed that everyone in Europa began to question the authority of the Holy See, so at first in the face of Sulliu's conquest, the resistance was not fierce.
However, the Germanic peoples resisted fiercely from the very beginning, hiding in the forests of the far north and central Germania and becoming bandits, or they called themselves "green forest heroes", in short, they would attack any existence they considered to be infidels. From time to time, when the Republic Legions could not react, they suddenly appeared in the military-controlled areas in the south to plunder the locals, or planned various rebellions with the locals, causing further chaos in law and order.
Surio, the god of war, was not really a god, although he conquered all of Europa, whether in the form of direct control, vassalage, or submission. But he had always only led 150,000 men, not even as many as the army that Cizawa Uyi had originally led against the Oghuz. Anyway, the parliament will not give him an extra soldier, in this case, it is not easy to defeat various opponents one after another, the Crusaders, Visigoths, Magyars, polar Norwegians, centaurs, and the combined forces of Serbs and Bulgarians, how can he be strict that his army can always monitor the every move of the whole of Europa.
In the Apennines, the Centaur Commander, who was still grieving the battle of Garipolia, had to immediately move to the Black Sea to fight against the rebellious Centaur Centaur tribe of Casimerin, and at the request of the Centaur King, the Republic sent the Centaur Commander, who was arguably unlucky, to help the Centaur King restore absolute order and authority over the kingdom. So much so that he was unable to support the great Sullius, and for this reason he also felt that he had lost a good opportunity to curry favor with the great god of war, so he developed a deep resentment towards the Casimelin tribe.
Centaurs are very ferocious xenomorphs, more powerful than the legendary werewolves and minotaurs, they are all samurai in one, they are extremely brave in the savannah, and it is normal to drink the blood of livestock and eat raw meat when they are hungry and thirsty.
The commander of the legion had to be cautious when the 100,000 most elite warriors of Sura Abi were hated there, but because of his grudge, he advanced quickly, only to meet another "great man of the Republic" who went to the Black Sea on the way, which was another matter.
On the island of Malta, outside the palace where the setting sun shines brightly, only a few soldiers are stationed, but they are all the most powerful warriors and magicians, and the palace is the most powerful god of war in the Republic.
This man had both a Goliath's handsome appearance and a slender build, as well as a love for his country, and a trace of compassion and tenderness for foreigners, even his fellow citizens, that most Goliathians did not have. Countless Goliaths are always full of hatred, they are full of hatred and murder for everything, and there is no mercy in their actions except for their loved ones.
Under the phantom dancing back and forth on the crystal wall, Su Luo wrote with a hurried brushwork:
"O Chosen Fathers, it is worth mourning that, from the moment we entered Europa, the resistance never ceased, that people rebelled against us wherever they could, that they resisted taxes, that they armed themselves against us, and that the reason for this was that our swords were always raised.
If the sword of killing and hegemony is still raised, then I can assert that the resistance will never cease, and that the Republic will be left with nothing but a scorched earth, a land of constant hostility, unless there are no men or animals.
It seems to me that all the revolts were caused by anachronistic reforms – the agrarian system applied to the republic was forcibly moved here by the republic, using military maneuvers, in an attempt to establish the order we imagined, the nationalization of land, rather than the centralization of the land in the hands of individuals. Just as the ancient Egyptian pharaohs did with the land of the conquered areas, centralizing everything, the Egyptians in the name of religion, we with the privilege of the conquerors, turned out to be more sophisticated.
Our reforms may be good, but they are not right in terms of manner and timing.
There is always a lot of helplessness in war, so it is difficult to distinguish between crime and merit in a short time, and we need to know that wrong policies can be more deadly than crimes committed directly in war.
I live here, like an old farmer who has lived here for decades, and I know very well that the parliamentary reform is to unify Europa's scattered land and tariffs, which is good for the economy, but good for the long run, and at a time when this reform is really damaging to the local people.
People's vision is always narrow and short-sighted, especially ordinary people, who only care about today and the day after tomorrow, and do not think about the future, and if they have to consider their feelings, they cannot rush to carry out various policies on land.
The lesson of the Aksilyuya brothers is at hand. ”
(The Aksilyuya brothers were a prominent group of Goliaths.) The two had served as land officers in Sura Abi, and had presided over a reform program for the republic's land, with the aim of finding a home for more retired soldiers, which offended the interests of many and led to their union. Therefore, there are many historians who specialize in this unique period of the Sura Abi era, and it is generally believed that the defeat of the Sura Abi family is doomed from this reform. Because the reforms did not solve anything, the soldiers still did not get even a piece of land for them to live in, but they had already offended all the interests and magnates of the entire republic, including some who supported him, and began to question them.)
——— Sulius, in his letters to Parliament, shows that he has a lot of antipathy to current politics. He offered his views on the land reform programme to be implemented by parliament in Europa.
In addition, he wrote a more subtle text in Latin on the envelope:
As for the election campaign, I ask the fathers of the senators, don't manipulate or bribe anything, if I do become an archon, it will make me feel bad, and I have always believed that the military does not enter politics. If those who have ambitions or other intentions want to be consuls, let them go, and whoever they are, if they are sincere to the country, I will lay a wreath for them at the ceremony, and on the contrary, we will punish them with the same way that the country has always treated dictators, I, Sulliu, will always put the existence of the republic above all else.
The neatly written letter was stuffed into the envelope and delivered to Abiwei, thousands of miles away, with a fluctuation of space.
Almost at the same time as Sullo finished writing his letter, bad news appeared again, and before he had been in this Maltese palace for long to exterminate the pirates in the Mediterranean, he received a message from the Legion stationed in the Europa region:
Now the resistance of the Gauls has once again gathered an army to attack us, and I have crushed similar attacks many times, but they, the reckless warriors who call themselves France, have resisted again.
Fortunately, this time there was support from Serbia and Arminia, as well as Bulgaria, and the republic exchanged a high degree of autonomy for the support of the other side, with the Serbs and Arminians each providing 20,000 heavy cavalry, while the Bulgarians were 70,000 infantry, of which 20,000 were archers.
Both the Serbs and the Arminians are full of fighting power, and their abilities can be trusted. Both of these hill peoples possessed strong cavalry, and their heavy cavalry inflicted heavy losses on many powerful nomads who were proficient in Parthian tactics (the practice of running and shooting arrows while the Romans called Parthian tactics).
The Serbs had already shown their superiority in battles against the Magyars, who were extremely good at cavalry and archery and were proficient in all kinds of nomadic harassment tactics, and they always had an overwhelming superiority over the Magyars.
The Arminians were able to repel the heavily armored cavalry of the Oghuz at their height.
The Bulgarians, however, are not to be trusted, the rabble is not enough to describe the speed of their collapse, they are absolutely not good at handing them over, and as long-range archers, their archers may not be as good as the temporarily recruited hunters, at least the former are more courageous than the latter. As for discipline, although temporary recruits may not necessarily be much disciplined, it is only necessary to know that the Bulgarians themselves do not have discipline to make it clear that they are not very useful.
However, as people who voluntarily defected to the Republic, their allegiance was accepted by the Goliaths, and although the Goliaths did not expect anything from them, as long as they did not become wasteful enemies, it was enough.
In this way, 20,000 heavy cavalry from the Arminians were transported to Gaul by naval units stationed in the city of Riza, while the heavy cavalry of the Serbs continued to advance along the Danube towards the Gaul region.
It was not for nothing that the Goliaths were nervous about the Gauls, and their knights did fight well.
After a millennium of Europa, with both the destruction caused by the Goliath invasion and the catastrophe from the Germanic invasion, the glorious civilization of Rome is gone. But at the military level, it was not just a regression, at least the craftsmanship of the armor, and their skills were not as bad as the Romans.
And the people here are already equipped with armor constructed by magic patterns from the Republic.
Dressed in uniform, riding warhorses, the knights charged, and they were almost unstoppable except to fire the arrows with their longbows, like a tsunami of steel.
Moreover, the armor they wore was not bulky, so these knights had good combat effectiveness and mobility, unlike some knight novels circulating in the Republic that wrote that they could not get up after falling off their horses.
Eventually, the Arminian and Serbian heavy cavalry converged, and then the Bolgars arrived, and they were stationed on the other side of the Rhine, where the line of defense kept a close eye on the Gauls west of the river......
The Bolgars began to protest, they did not want to be cannon fodder in the battle of a group of cavalry, they also asked to fight on horseback...... They told the Goliaths that they could ride horses and that they were the descendants of nomads, but the Goliaths laughed at this and refused.
Eventually, however, before the battle could begin, the Goliaths prepared some horses for the Bolgars, who could mount and shoot on horseback, because they found the Bolgars very demoralized and even refused to participate in the battle.
At least make it look like it's the same thing, at least to be able to fight. The Goliaths thought so, and then they provided their Bulgars who could fight on horseback with excellent newly bred horses, and as for the remaining Bolgars, they were directly forced by the Goloids to join the war, and the Goloids threatened them that they would order the Serbian heavy cavalry to charge them, so that they finally reluctantly showed their desire to go to war.
On the other side of the river, a battle finally broke out, and strangely enough, the Goloids became the defending side, and the Gauls took the lead in attacking, as the Goliath proverb says: "The French from Gaul worship the attack......
The brave French knights attacked directly at the first line of defense of the Goliath army.
The archers of the first line retreated to the left and right after two rounds of arrows, revealing the second line of stake fortifications that had been undetected until now due to blocked view, and the third line of infantry archers behind the fortifications.
The light cavalry, which had moved to both flanks, quickly formed two battle groups to outflank the knights. Those hired miscellaneous archers were able to perform such excellent maneuvers, and naturally the first line also included a large number of Goliath light cavalry.
At this point, the knights were blocked by the "stake of witchcraft", surrounded on the flanks, and baptized by the bows and arrows of the Devil in three directions, and immediately fell into a predicament.
The critical moment of this battle has come, and if the knights who are in a disadvantageous position can retreat and join up with another team of men and horses who are in ambush, there is still a chance to win. However, for the scheming Goliath commander Zimir, there was no doubt about what the arrogant Europa knights would do.
Inspired by the great chivalry, the brave or reckless knights charged directly at the sharp stakes slainted with dragon blood that were pointed at the chests of the horses.
At this time, many knights were directly crucified, and many more were shot down by the Demon Breaker's bow and arrows, and countless people were injured.
However, most of the knights still rushed through the stakes, mostly through or over the gaps, and some of them broke some of the stakes.
Although the knights who rushed over completely lost their formation, they still killed the light-armed archers of the third line of Bolgar and fled in all directions.
I'm afraid that these ragtag soldiers who thought they could shoot arrows safely by hiding behind wooden stakes would never have dreamed that there would be a madman who could rush so hard.
The Goliath commander Zimiel did not expect that thousands of Gallic knights would break through his three lines of defense, but the decoy mission was completed.
Today's knights suffered heavy casualties, were disorganized, and were at a disadvantage with their backs to their stakes.
Seizing this favorable opportunity, the main force of the Goliaths, the Gum cavalry regiment, which was in the main position, launched a charge, so the two sides began a hand-to-hand combat to the death.
The spears and swords of one side faced the spears of the other, maces and scimitars, and neither of them would take a step back.
In the end, incredibly, despite suffering heavy casualties, the knight repelled the attack.
However, before they could catch their breath and regroup, Zimiel sent his last trump card.
Concealed on the flank, the Sipahn cavalry, clad in large black armor, launched a flank attack on the already exhausted Gauls.
The Gauls were completely defeated. Many fought to the end, others were taken prisoner by wounded or exhausted horses, and only a few escaped.
During the whole battle, the main forces of the Gauls in the fortress on the other side did not participate, probably because the battle was too fast, and it is more likely that this battle was launched by the knights without authorization.
The knights had no discipline at all.
However, the knights of less than 6,000 people competed against ten times the opponents, and the light of their fighting spirit really showed their great strength.
In addition to being well-trained, the plate armor constructed by the magic pattern may also be the key, the Goliaths have always had a limited number of magic arrows, and finally had to fight in a short hand, and a large number of casualties Therefore, they found that the Gallics' magic pattern construction was actually from the hands of the master of the Republic's skills?
Arrogance and strength, the two are not contradictory, the Gallic knights make Zimiel unforgettable, but the Gauls have mastered such a high level of magic pattern construction technology is even more surprising, logically speaking, their magic theory is simply not enough to support them to build such a sophisticated armor, although the forging skills of the Europa people are not bad, but with the magic of the magic to forge armor, this ability, in a republic with magical mathematical theory and a large number of magic craftsmen, in this world, there should be no second country.
But he did not know that the rebellion in Gaul itself was supported by some people from the military department of the Republic, and the purpose of their support was to create endless problems for the Republic, and then they could put pressure on the parliament to demand more power in the "trouble in the Europa region", at least to counter the reduction of military spending by the parliament.
The creation of threats to hold parliament hostage is almost a common tactic used by the military department.
This is a very dangerous tradition, because according to the past, once this kind of trick is discovered, the military department will directly take action.
They would encourage soldiers to march, smash, break into the mansions, and sometimes even break out of their control, causing great rebellion and chaos in the country.
At this time, the order is extremely chaotic, and the assassination of parliamentarians, they will do it at this time, and then, after allowing the soldiers to wreak havoc, they will suppress these soldiers with their own hands, and once again honestly submit to the parliament.