"Chapter 33: Francis"
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Queen Boudicca's eldest brother, Francis, is definitely the best son of his father, His Majesty King Prasus, and there is no one! If it weren't for Francis's resolute betrayal of Platus, Boudicca would hardly have any chance of becoming the queen of the Aceni tribe.
It's just that in his later years, Plasus was blinded by tyranny, and the excitement of five years of failed offensive attacks made Plasus fall into madness; Francis tried to persuade Plasus to abandon the war and retreat to the hinterland several times, but Plasus ruthlessly refused.
Until Francis persuaded Plasus for the last time, Plasus, who was furious, actually ordered his eldest son to be put under house arrest, and even revealed the idea of preparing to kill the eldest son to shock the hearts of the army.
There were many generals and courtiers loyal to Francis in the kingdom of Esini, which was founded by Plasus, and in order to prevent their allegiance from being killed by the madness of Plasus, they hatched a plan to betray Plasus.
When Francis was rescued from house arrest by his loyal generals, he understood how bad the situation really was, and for the sake of survival and the future of the Essini tribe, Francis decisively chose to leave Plasus with the support of the generals.
Francis took with him not only the loyal generals, but also the loyal soldiers and their families, and more tragically, Francis's two younger brothers and three other most prestigious generals chose to leave that night.
The betrayal of these six men was fatal to Plasus, who had to abandon the war that had lasted for five years, and after a brief period of sorrow and anguish, Plasus embarked on the path of reuniting the Acenian kingdom.
It's a pity that the heavens didn't give Plasus such a chance again, and on the way back to the eastern hinterland of the Essini Kingdom with his army, he died suddenly and only had time to pass his throne to his only daughter by his side, which was Queen Boudicca.
The sudden death of Platsus made Boudicca the titular queen of the kingdom of Aceni, while Boudicca, who had no ambitions for expansion, gave up and stayed in the place where Prasus died and started a new life.
Francis, who learned of his father's death, did not recognize Boudicca's queenship, and soon he crowned himself King of Aceni, and then his two younger brothers were crowned King of Aceni, plus the three generals on one side, and the once united kingdom of Aceni entered the era of four kings and three generals.
Francis, who had completely inherited his father's ambitions, was desperate to reunite the Essini tribe into the Aceni kingdom, and then he himself would sit on the throne that belonged to him, but unfortunately, the self-proclaimed kings of others had already proved it.
Francis, who had limited strength, successively sent troops to attack three generals who divided one side, but they were all defeated by these three powerful generals.
None of these three generals had any ambition to unify the Esine tribe, and after defeating Francis's army, they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue them, nor did they take any retaliatory tactics against Francis, whose strength had plummeted.
Francis, who was lucky enough to escape, still did not give up his ambitions, since he could not afford to provoke the three powerful generals, he had to find his two younger brothers, who dared to set themselves up as kings.
The ideal is full, but the reality is cruel, and if Francis had decisively attacked his two weak brothers at the peak of his strength, perhaps he would have succeeded in bringing their forces into his sphere of influence.
Francis, who had lost his army, did not have the strength to defeat his two younger brothers at all, not even one of them, and if it weren't for the tens of thousands of cavalry under Francis's command, he would have to be defeated by his own two younger brothers.
Francis, who was barely undefeated on the battlefield, did not win the war, it was another war of both sides, and after this series of wars, Francis, exhausted from fighting, urgently needed to replenish, so he turned his attention to Queen Boudicca.
In the face of her eldest brother's solicitation, Queen Boudicca, who had no intention of intervening in the war, directly chose to refuse, and then was solicited by the other two brothers, Queen Boudicca still clearly rejected them, and bluntly said that she would never intervene in this civil war.
How could the three Francis brothers, who had suffered huge losses from the war, be resigned? After being rejected by Queen Boudicca, the three Francis brothers joined forces to plan a surprise attack on Queen Boudicca's camp.
All this was known to Queen Boudicca, but what she did not know was that his eldest brother Francis had not approved of the attack on his youngest sister, but another plan had been born that made him agree to it.
Queen Boudicca's camp was taken by the combined forces of her three brothers, and she was forced to move west with the warriors and people who remained loyal to her, and on the night of Queen Boudicca's departure, the camp of Francis's two younger brothers was occupied by Francis's cavalry while they were enjoying their victory.
By the next morning, Francis's army had surrounded the camp belonging to Boudicca, and had launched a psychological offensive against the armies of his two brothers, and even the most powerful warrior could only be captured when he saw his relatives captured by the enemy.
In this way, the power of Francis's two younger brothers was completely swallowed up by Francis, and all the booty captured from Queen Boudicca's camp fell into Francis's pocket, and the weak Francis became strong again in an instant.
But the affair between Francis and his two brothers did not end there, and the brothers, who had been imprisoned by Francis, even planned a premeditated assassination attempt against Francis, and after the failure, they paid with their lives for their stupidity.
At this time, Francis had become the most powerful force in the divided Estheni tribe, with 30,000 cavalry and 100,000 infantry soldiers, and even the three generals had to consider the feasibility of returning to Francis's command.
Francis, who has great strength, did not blindly attack the three generals of the separatist side this time, but sent envoys to them at the same time, hoping that they could return to the Iceni Kingdom for the unity of the Escini tribe.
The envoys persuaded the three generals by moving their emotions and reasoning, and Francis kept his promise not to care about the old things they had defeated him in the past, and even entrusted them with a new task, and at this point, Francis finally reunited the kingdom of Aceni!