"Chapter 37: The Fallen Queen"

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- Nikos Kazanzakis (Greek politician, writer, poet)

When King Plasus realized that the Aceni tribe had completely disintegrated, he was no longer able to unite his Aceni tribe, let alone subdue the generals and magnates of the Aceni tribe who chose to betray him.

Because among the betrayers of him, the most powerful was his own eldest son, and the others were also generals whom he once regarded as his confidants, and in the face of these betrayals, the angry Plasus could only vomit blood in anger.

At this time, the remnants of the Aceni tribe, which was still in the hands of Plasus, had no strength to continue the attack on the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River, and this war that lasted for five years finally ended after the Aceni tribe was torn apart.

After abandoning the attack on the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River, Plasus and his loyal warriors began to move eastward, intending to restore the unity of the Aceni tribe at its peak.

Just as Plasus was halfway through the retreat with his warriors, Plasus, who had been hit several times in succession, died on the march, and Budicca, the only young daughter who remained with Plasus, became the queen of the Essini tribe appointed by Plasus.

All the warriors who were still loyal to Prasus swore allegiance to the new Queen Boudicca after Prasus's death, and even Eggers, the most brave and warlike general under Platus, stood firmly behind Queen Boudicca.

But how could Queen Boudicca, who was only sixteen years old, be able to take on the responsibility of the rightful heir of the Ethine tribe? It was not that she did not have that ability, but that her brothers would not give her such a chance at all!

The sons who rebelled during the lifetime of Plasus were crowned as the new kings of the Aceni tribe after the death of Plasus, and the entire Aceni tribe was completely divided and entered a chaotic period of four kings and three generals.

There is no doubt that among the four kings and three generals, there is the power of Queen Boudicca, and Queen Boudicca has become the most powerful of these seven forces through her own efforts, who makes her have the supreme legitimacy?

From the time Boudicca succeeded to the throne of the Acenic tribes, she reorganized the remnants of the Esthenic tribes that her father had left for her, and the original plans for the relocation were put on hold indefinitely by Boudicca, and she was stationed on the spot with the warriors and people loyal to her.

In addition to arranging for her 200,000 people to open up new lands, she also handed over all of her more than 50,000 warriors to the loyal and capable Eggers as commanders, while she herself left only an elite cavalry army left to her by Plasus, an army of 10,000 of the most elite cavalry of the Essini tribe.

Over the next few years, Boudicca managed to gain a foothold in the land, attracting countless people and warriors who could not bear the cruelty of the civil war to join her power, and her power grew stronger and stronger.

Unfortunately, when Boudicca's population reached 300,000 and the number of warriors reached 100,000, her power finally caught the attention of her brothers, who wanted to expand their power by co-opting Boudicca.

However, the shrewd and capable Queen Boudicca is not a good person, she does not pay attention to the rhetoric of her three brothers, and she has no intention of merging her own forces into other forces, and even she has the ambition to reunite the Aceni tribe!

The conflict of core interests is irreconcilable, and when Queen Boudicca's three brothers realize that it is impossible to win her over, they secretly unite together, wanting to share the population and warriors of Queen Deica.

Seven years after the death of Plasus, his three sons joined forces to launch a war against his daughter, and Queen Boudicca, who was caught off guard, suffered the first defeat in her life, the cruel reality of more than 30,000 soldiers surrendering and 20,000 soldiers dying in battle, made Boudicca, who was only twenty-three, realize the true face of her three brothers, and also made her understand the fragility of so-called family affection in the face of power.

Thankfully, Queen Boudicca herself managed to break out of the siege under the desperate escort of her elite cavalry, and with the 50,000 soldiers and more than 100,000 civilians brought out of the camp by Eggers, the foundation of Queen Boudicca's rule is still there.

After the defeat, Queen Boudicca had to abandon her tribe's camp and began to flee westward, and her three uncaring brothers returned to their respective tribes' camps happily after obtaining two-thirds of the population under her rule.

From the strongest of the seven forces of the Aceni tribe to the weakest force of the seven forces of the Aceni tribe, Queen Boudicca suffered the biggest defeat of her life in just one battle, and at this time she had almost no strength to protect herself.

In order to make a comeback, Queen Boudicca decided to follow her father's old path again, that is, to continue to attack the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River, and expand her power by conquering the lands on the west bank of the Cangluo River.

The stubborn Queen Boudicca did not believe that the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River were still as united as they had been seven years ago, and she firmly believed that she would succeed in conquering the lands on the west bank of the Cangluo River, and even Eggers' resolute opposition could not change Queen Boudicca's decision.

In order to find out the situation on the west bank of the Cangluo River in advance, she ordered Eggers to send several teams of cavalry to the west bank of the Cangluo River to reconnoiter in advance.

One of the cavalry met the Parthian archers led by Bai Feng himself, and a terrible encounter broke out, and when the cavalry who had withdrawn from the battlefield brought this information back to Queen Boudicca, she saw a new hope.

The cavalry of the Aceni tribe could naturally detect the difference between the army of Rome and the army of the normal barbarian tribes, and they reported the situation in detail to Queen Boudicca, who felt that this was a good opportunity from heaven!

The army of Rome was certainly not a barbarian army, which meant that the army of Rome was from the civilized world, and in this case, Queen Boudicca felt that she could enlist the support of the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River in the name of fighting against foreign tribes.

With this decision, Queen Boudicca continued to lead her army to the Cangluo River, and on the other hand, she sent her cavalry troops to the tribes on the west bank of the Cangluo River to contact them to deal with the new Roman city army!