There is no such thing as a collective person, each person is concrete, the individual is the most important, and each person is Christ to me, and she is the only person in the world at that moment.

- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)

With 130,000 warriors retreating more than ten miles, Viriacius did not give up the opportunity to destroy the Eastern Alliance in one fell swoop because of the defeat of a battle;

Viriacius knew better than anyone else what the overall strength and military strength of the Eastern Alliance of the multi-tribal confederation would be, and as the old saying goes, those who know you best will always be your enemies.

Therefore, Viriacius knew that this army that suddenly appeared was definitely not the army of the Eastern Alliance; otherwise, how could the 700,000-strong army of the Eastern Alliance be defeated so badly?

I don't know why, at the first glance of this new army, Viriasius subconsciously thought of the rebellion that took place in the south of his tribe, and this feeling was as if the rebellion was provoked by this army!

With two generals, Roderick and Hall, who assisted him in commanding a large army in battle, and had not been on the battlefield for several years, Viriacius was confident in defeating the enemy in front of him, even if the opponent had a powerful heavy cavalry force, but so what?

Antio's 4,000 heavy cavalry was, in the eyes of Viriacius, indeed an elite cavalry force of incomparable courage and invincibility, but even so, it did not mean that this cavalry was an invincible army.

Seeing the 20,000 soldiers under his command die on the battlefield, the extremely sharp-eyed Viriacius, Roderick, and Hall have their own gains, and among them, Roderick and Hall alone have proposed several ways to deal with the enemy's heavy cavalry.

With a total of only 4,000 hoplites, no matter how strong their combat strength is, they cannot become a decisive force on the battlefield, and as long as they are properly prepared, Viriacius is sure that this elite cavalry unit of the enemy army will be completely annihilated in one battle.

As for the 10,000 light cavalry that later rushed into battle and slaughtered in all directions, from beginning to end, Viriacius did not care about this much larger cavalry unit, because he could see that the combat effectiveness of this cavalry unit was far inferior to that cavalry unit.

Out of trust in the fighting power of his warriors, Viriacius did not become very wary of the 60,000 infantry under Luquis, except for the two cavalry, and he did not think that his Lucie warriors could defeat the only 60,000 enemy infantry.

Since Viriacius did not lead his army to withdraw, but put on a posture of preparing to lead his army to attack at any time, it was even more impossible for Luquis, who had just won a small victory and killed 20,000 enemies, to take the initiative to lead his army to retreat.

The remnants of the Eastern Alliance army trapped in the camp had obviously exhausted the food in the camp, but they did not dare to leave the camp for the first time.

The remnants of the Eastern Alliance's army, who were in a place of life and death, had no choice but to pin all their hopes on their respective tribal leaders, which was also the consistent principle of the Eastern Alliance tribal armies, and unconditionally obeyed any orders of their tribal leaders.

The crux of the matter is that even if they are unable to conjure food out of thin air and lead their armies to slaughter the besieged tribal leaders, what hope can they bring to the remnants of the army in the face of such a precarious situation?

The choice now faced by the tribal leaders of the Eastern Alliance was nothing more than two things: first, to hold the camp and wait for the enemy army to attack, and then to live and die with the camp, and second, to surrender to one of the two enemy armies in order to have a chance to survive.

The reason why there is no option to fight their way out of the encirclement is not because the leaders of the tribes of the Eastern Alliance do not want to fight to the death, but because they do not have the strength to fight to the death at all; with the existing strength of the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, choosing to break through is simply asking for their own death!

To the east of the camp, Luquis's army numbered 60,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, as well as 4,000 super cavalry that harvested the enemy like a scythe of death, and to the west of the camp, Lucy's army, with more than 130,000 soldiers, was also a behemoth in the eyes of the remnants of the Eastern Alliance.

The two enemy armies outside the camp were both powerful beings that the remnants of the Eastern Alliance could not defeat, and the seemingly simplest option to hold the camp was not so easy to choose, because there was no food to eat in the camp.

It is impossible for the chiefs of the Eastern Alliance tribes to understand what the lack of food meant for a remnant army of 70,000 men, and if they did choose to hold the camp, it would only take three to five days at most before they would be defeated by starvation.

At that time, the only thing left for the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, which has lost even the last negotiating capital, is unconditional surrender, and the leaders of the Eastern Alliance will have to find a more suitable choice for the future of their respective tribes.

The more appropriate choice was whether they surrendered to the unidentified enemy forces to the east of the camp or to the Lucy army to the west of the camp;

Viriasius, who has a vendetta with the Eastern Alliance, bluntly rejected the surrender of the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, and warned the negotiators of the Eastern Alliance: Within three days, if the remnants of the Eastern Alliance do not surrender unconditionally, Lucy's army will slaughter all the living mouths after the camp is broken!

Luquis, who had never had a grudge against the Eastern Alliance, did not make any unfulfilled promises to ensure that the good reputation of the city of Rome would not be destroyed, but he did not hesitate to refuse the conditional surrender of the remnants of the Eastern Alliance.

Luquis's condition to the Eastern Alliance negotiators was that the remnants of the Eastern Confederacy must surrender unconditionally to the city of Rome, and that the city could promise them that they would return home unharmed after the war as long as the remnants were willing to lay down their arms.

The two replies brought back by the negotiators of the two teams directly left the leaders of the Eastern Alliance with no choice, and the murderous warning of Viriacius was really terrifying, and the leaders of the Eastern Alliance did not dare to throw themselves into the net.

Surrendering to an unidentified enemy became the only option for the Eastern Alliance leaders, and after the resolute Eastern Alliance leaders made their decisions that night, the remnants of their army opened the camp for Luquis's army early the next morning.

Luquis, who did not want his army to be bound by the camp, only sent 30,000 soldiers of the Fifth and Sixth Army Corps into the camp of the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, on the one hand, to send food to the remnants of the Eastern Alliance, and on the other hand, to ensure that the remnants of the Eastern Alliance who surrendered did not move.

Knowing that the result of his ruthless efforts to force the remnants of the Eastern Alliance was that the remnants of the Eastern Alliance would surrender to the unknown enemy army, Viriasius still did it, and that was because Viriasius wanted to use this method to disperse the enemy's already limited forces!