Chapter 433: Falling short

A generation of heroes Li Ximir died like this, and the culprit who pushed the Western Roman Empire into chaos was finally done by Majorian, who he supported with one hand, this person overthrew the two Western Roman Emperors, although the two emperors were not killed by him, but he had an unshirkable responsibility in the political chaos of the Western Roman Empire, and it was he who violated the majesty of the imperial power as a mere local overseer, which made the Western Roman Empire chaotic, and the provinces of the world did their own thing. It was he who caused the internal division of the Western Roman Empire, and such a person was calculated and killed by Majorian.

In real history, due to the death of Attila and the disintegration of the Xiongnu Empire, the Western Roman Empire, which had no external threat, completely fell into civil strife, and now because of the emergence of Qin Dong changed history, so that Majorian transferred Richmir out of Rome with the help of external forces, and finally killed him with a knife, since then the Western Roman Empire seems to have entered an era of unification, and the imperial power is more stable, but things are not so simple, and history has a huge inertia.

A few days later, when the Middle Route Army and the Right Route Army arrived in Selivia at the same time, the soldiers who entered the city saw a dead city, a ghostly city, and the city was littered with corpses, which had begun to decompose, and the stench was almost fatal.

Li Ximir's body was found by the soldiers, and the bodies of several of his generals were also found, and Majorian looked at these corpses with a cold expression, secretly relieved in his heart, but he wanted to show a ashamed and angry expression, "It's all my fault." It's all our fault that we were late, and if we had come a few days earlier, General Lechmir and these soldiers would not have died......".

Majorian used his trained acting talents to play the expression of a man who was heartbroken and regretted. As a politician, he has practiced this kung fu very well, and people who are not familiar with the inside story will never see that he is performing, in fact, any politician and politician is a master of acting, and Majorian is no exception, in the past few years of the emperor's career, he has practiced such a skill.

After holding Richmir's body in agony for a while. He changed his expression again, angrily declaring to the generals and soldiers that he would avenge General Richmir and the soldiers killed by the Vandals by slashing Geseric with a thousand knives. The surrounding generals and soldiers were infected by Emperor Majorian's expressions and words, and they all shouted for revenge on the Vandals.

After a short rest, Majorian immediately led his army in pursuit of the Vandals, learning the lesson of the ambush of the Richmir army in the city. This time, Mayorian ordered his troops to camp outside the city along the way. Without giving the Vandals a chance to attack, they wanted to destroy the Vandals' army head-on with their overwhelming superiority.

Due to the large number of supplies and prisoners escorted, the Vandal's army could not move fast at all, and in order to delay the march of Majorian's army, Gaceric sent several camel cavalry as a rapid agitation force to harass Majorian's army, which did work very well.

There were not many cavalry in Majorian's army, and even if there were cavalry, they could only be used for reconnaissance and escort, not for field battles at all. Therefore, in the face of the harassing camel cavalry sent by Geseric, Mayorian did not have a good solution for a while. The army could only be ordered to defend to the death, and not to give the Vandals a chance.

After being harassed by many camel cavalry, Majorian's army of more than 200,000 men stopped and stopped, never being able to catch up with Geseric's army, and could only watch as Gaiseric's army entered the Strait of Gibraltar.

At this juncture, Majorian, who was cautious in the back, received the news that almost made him vomit blood, that the naval fleet of the Dalmatian governor Masilin had been besieged by the Virate fleet of the Vandal Kingdom in the southern waters of the Gulf of Almeria, and suffered heavy losses, and that Masilin's naval fleet was defeated and had to retreat north to the port of Barcelona.

The news of the defeat of the naval fleet was like a thunderbolt that almost stunned Majorian, in fact, Majorian was a very talented emperor of the Western Roman Empire, and later historians also believed that he was the most promising emperor at the end of the Western Roman Empire, but unfortunately his opponents were not simple goods, take Geseric as an example, this person is the same era as Attila and Aetius, and his talent and courage are not far behind Attila and Aetius, and the current Visigothic king Theodoric II has the style of a father, The Eastern Roman Emperor Leo I was an emperor who rose from the bottom, and his talents were extraordinary, not to mention Qin Dong. Majorian's own talent and courage are there, but it is a pity that when he took over the Western Roman Empire, the Western Empire was already in a mess, and he was basically powerless to return to the sky with his talent, and it was precisely because of the appearance of Qin Dong that he had the opportunity to use external forces to rectify the interior, and it was already a great blessing to be able to do this kind of Cheng Dรน now.

Fearing another ambush by Geseric, Majorian could only watch as Gaiseric and his army swaggered aboard the fleet and departed.

"Navy! Navy! Why don't we have a navy? If you don't have a navy, you can only be beaten passively, and a country without sea power can only be bullied, I need a navy, I need a fleet! After watching Gaceric's army board the naval fleet and leave, Majorian let out such a roar at his admirals and ministers.

The generals and ministers also understood the pain of His Majesty the Emperor after listening to Majorian's roar, and they also understood how severe the consequences of not having a navy were, that is, the Vandal Kingdom could send a fleet to harass the coastal areas of the Western Roman Empire anytime and anywhere, and even land and ransack, but because there was no naval fleet, the Western Roman Empire could only stare dryly, and after the people ransacked it, they got on the ship and ran away, where do you go to chase him?

When the generals and ministers saw Majorian with a sad expression on his face, they all knew that this was an emperor who wanted to make a meritorious career, and he was also an emperor who made achievements, and they were willing to serve him and even pay the price with their lives.

So when Majorian ordered the construction of a naval base in Barcelona and the construction of a large number of large naval warships, the generals and ministers unanimously expressed their support.

Once upon a time, the Roman Empire defeated Carthage because of the strength of the naval fleet and relied on several major naval victories, which determined the supremacy of the Roman Empire in Obaros, created the pinnacle in the history of the Roman Empire, and made the Mediterranean Sea the inner lake of the Roman Empire, but now the Roman Empire has fallen to the point that it has no navy and can only be bullied by the barbarian Vandals, shame, this is simply a shame!

In order to build the naval base as much as possible, and build enough naval warships, Majorian transferred 200,000 sturdy slaves and shipbuilders and technicians from Italy, and it took more than half a year to finally complete the construction of the naval port in Barcelona, and at the same time more than 200 large and small warships were built, this huge project and the construction of naval warships cost a lot of manpower and material resources and countless money, and Majorian has received the taxes of the entire Western Roman Empire for five years. This huge amount of wealth was all used to build a navy, and this naval port, with all its warships and hundreds of thousands of sailors, became Majorian's all hope of defeating the Vandal kingdom.

The king of the Vandals in Carthage, Gaiseric, soon learned the news, he knew that the Western Roman Empire could not be allowed to build a large-scale navy, and once the national strength of the Western Roman Empire allowed this huge naval fleet to be built, then it would definitely be the destruction of the Vandal Kingdom, so he immediately sent people to Barcelona to threaten, intimidate and bribe the residents of Barcelona, bribe the residents of the city and the sailors trained by Majorian, so that they could find out the specific building layout and garrison situation in the naval port, They also set fires everywhere in the city of Barcelona, causing chaos in the city.

This chaos soon spread to every corner of the city of Barcelona, even the newly built naval port was not spared, in the chaos was affected, in order to do his best to quell the chaos, Majorian, who lived in the naval port, personally led a team to quell the chaos, but unfortunately Majorian fell for Guyseric's tricks again.

After he led his troops into the city to quell the chaos, King Geseric, who had already been informed of the layout and defense of the interior of the naval port, ventured to lead his pirate fleet to raid the naval port from the sea in the dark of night, and a large number of Vandal's infantry rushed to the large number of warships that Majorian had just built and killed people on sight, until they rushed into the port, and those Vandals began to attack the defense facilities in the port and set fire to all parts of the port, after setting fire to the port shore, The Vandals began to return to the newly built ships, and because there were not enough men, Gaceric had to abandon his unrealistic idea of driving all the ships away, and ordered the soldiers to set the new ships on fire, and finally sailed away.

As the sea breeze blew, the fire in the harbor began to spread, and in a short time it swept through the entire harbor, and all the newly built warships were burned, and the fire became bigger and bigger, and even burned all the buildings on the shore, and from a distance, the entire harbor was in a sea of fire.

When Majorian, who was quelling the chaos in the city, received the news and looked back to see the flames rising into the air in the direction of the port, Majorian was devastated and fainted as soon as it was dark.

Two days had passed since Majorian woke up, and when he arrived at the docks, he saw that the docks of the Navy Port had been burned to the ground, and the more than 200 warships of all sizes that had been moored on the sea were gone, and only some of the smoking, charred, soaked planks floating.

"It's over, it's all over......."

The naval docks, which had been built with countless manpower, material and financial resources, and a large number of naval ships, were burned down by Geseric, and Majorian was so dead that he no longer had the financial resources to build a navy.

Many days later, Majorian left a part of his troops to guard the Western Empire in eastern Spain, and he set off with the main army to return to Rome. (To be continued......)