After capturing Lyon, Qin Dong did not lead the army south, but took over all the land of the Burgundian Kingdom, after the Burgundian king Gundorbad led the remnants of the defeated generals to surrender, Qin Dong forced him to issue a king's edict, ordering all the defenders and cities in the Burgundy Kingdom to surrender, Qin Dong quickly sent troops to receive the surrender army and the city, and fully occupied the Burgundian Kingdom in less than half a month.

When Qin Dong learned that Li Ximir and the others were ready to assemble the coalition forces again to confront him, he snorted coldly and said, "You can play if you want?" Don't play if you don't want to? How can there be such a good thing in the world? I don't play with you! ”

So Qin Dong ordered Duoyin to guard Lyon, and he led the main force of the army to retreat to Dijon, but the accompanying hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops could not let them return empty-handed, he immediately ordered these barbarian armies to plunder in Gaul, the barbarian army was overjoyed after getting Qin Dong's promise, and soon, the Germanic barbarians began to wreak havoc in Gaul, and cities and towns in Gaul were sacked by the Germanic barbarians.

Qin Dong's move made Li Ximir and others of the Western Roman Empire, who were forming a coalition army again, like a punch on the cotton, using all their strength, but they did not hit the enemy, but instead suffocated themselves from internal injuries.

The coalition army can't be formed, after all, Qin Dong has already led the army away, and even if the coalition army is successfully formed, there will be no opponent, so it can't fight Leon, right? To whom will Lyon be defeated? The coalition forces could not always fight for territory, and the further north they went, the colder the climate became, and with the current conditions, it was impossible for the coalition forces to supply logistics to support too long transportation lines until the coalition forces disbanded. Qin Dong came over again to recover the lost lands one by one, wouldn't the coalition army work in vain? Therefore, the coalition army could not be formed, and the Visigothic king Theodoric II and the king of Alan, Sanjiban, who had arrived halfway, led their armies back home again. Pope Leo I, who was on the way, could only return to Valence in discouragement and meet with Lichimir and Egidious to discuss countermeasures.

When Lichimir, Egidious, and Pope Leo I learned that Qin Dong had ordered the Germanic barbarians to ravage all the cities in the Gallic provinces, Aegidius couldn't sit still at first, the Gallic provinces were his territory, and now those Germanic barbarians who obeyed Qin Dong got Qin Dong's orders and plundered the cities and towns all over Gaul, how could he sit still, he immediately bid farewell to Richmir and the Pope, and led his army of 50,000 to return to Paris to prepare to defend Gaul.

See this happens. Li Ximir knew that the general trend had gone, it was good that Qin Dong did not go south, and he could go back to Italy to live a comfortable life. Once Qin Dong goes down, he is afraid that his life will not be easy, but looking at the current situation, Qin Dong does not have such a big appetite. Therefore, he decided to lead his army back to Rome and become his own warlord.

But just as Richmir was preparing to return to Rome with his army. A delegation from Rome arrived at his camp, sent by Emperor Majorian, who ordered him to lead an army to help Aegidius, the governor of Gaul, to repel the armies of the Hu Empire and the Germanic barbarians and defend the province of Gaul.

As soon as Li Ximir heard this order, he was furious on the spot, how can this drop? It's not my responsibility that this battle didn't work, who made Qin Dong so cunning? Now that Lao Tzu is going to lead the army back, you still don't want Lao Tzu to go back? Lao Tzu wants to go back!

Therefore, Richmir ignored the orders of Emperor Majorian. Determined to return to Rome and continue to be his warlord, he did not stop doing anything and killed all the members of the mission that conveyed his will. And he had already thought of countermeasures, and once the Roman side questioned him in the future, he only reasoned that he had not received this mission, and that perhaps the mission had been killed by mountain bandits on the way here.

When he led his army to the pass into Italy, the defenders of the Western Roman Empire who were guarding the pass claimed that Richmir's army had not moved the pass, so they refused to open the door, and shot a flurry of arrows from the city wall and killed dozens of Richmir's army.

Li Ximir was furious, and when he was dizzy, he was about to order a large army to attack the city, but he was immediately stopped by his staff, and after Li Ximir was sober, he also knew the consequences of forcibly attacking the pass, and from then on he was a rebel of the Western Roman Empire, and he did not have the courage to openly rebel.

Under the advice of his staff, Richmir led his army back and did not return to Valence, but prepared to head south to the city of Marseille, which was too close to Lyon to be safe, but Marseille was different.

Marseille is on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and is surrounded on three sides by limestone hills, with beautiful scenery and a pleasant climate. The surrounding terrain is undulating, and the Rhône River and flat river valleys are connected to Northern Europe in the west. The only thing to worry about is the Virate Fleet of the Vandal Kingdom, but since the Vandal Kingdom was severely damaged by Majorian during the last raid on Rome, it has been honest and has no intention of invading the Western Roman Empire on a large scale.

Although Richimir's idea was good, the governor of the Gallic province did not buy his account, and hoarded his army and blocked his army at the checkpoints that must be passed south to Marseille, and did not allow his army to go to Marseille.

Reichmir did not dare to rebel openly, so he could only lead his army along the northwest direction and enter the territory of Aquitaine Gaul, Aquitaine Gaul and Gruton Sis are the territory of Egidious, Aegidius is worried about his weakness, and he cannot deal with so many Germanic barbarian armies on his own, and now the arrival of Richmir's army is just in time to use the strength of this person to deal with many invading Germanic barbarian armies, so he gave the city of Orleans to Richmir's army as a shelter, and food and grass and other materials were supplied by Aegidius.

Only then did she know that she had fallen for Majorian, and knew that it was Pope I who had deceived him, and in a fit of rage, he wanted to kill Pope Leo I.

Leo I's connections were also very extensive, and many of Lehimir's generals had a close relationship with him, and under the plea of many of his generals, Leo did not kill Leo I, so Leo was able to escape and hurriedly return to Rome.

Since Qin Dong ordered the Germanic barbarians to plunder freely in the Gaul province of the Western Roman Empire, the barbarian armies began to attack various towns and towns in Gaul, and the towns of Lille, Arras, Abwey, Amian, Saint-Quentin, Reims, Metz, and Troyes in the north were successively sacked by the Germanic barbarian armies, and the residents in and around the city were all captured, leaving only empty towns.

In order to vent their anger, these barbarian leaders ordered the massacre of the towns after the towns were breached, so there were massacres all over the northern part of Gaul, and only a little more than a month later, the Governor's Office of the Gallic Province lost its administrative control over most of northern France.

And that's not all, the barbarians were not barbarians after sacking most of northern France, and they began to advance westward, and the Frankish Carty tribe once sacked the city of Soissons, not far from Paris, much to the nervousness of the Roman defenders of Paris.

For this reason, the defenders of Paris began to rearm before Egidious returned to Paris, where his lieutenant and loyal subordinate, General Paul, presided over the military and political affairs of Paris during his march to Valence.

After the barbarian armies and the cavalry of the Hu Empire began to wreak havoc in Gaul, Egidious panicked, the current situation in Gaul Province was the result of his efforts over the years, if it was sacked by the Germanic barbarian armies in this way, it would be a real loss, so Egidious led his army to rush back to Paris day and night.

Returning to Paris, Egidious began to command his army to rush to various places to fight against the Germanic barbarian armies, and Richmir's army went to Orleans, Orleans was assigned to his army by Egidious as a shelter, and now Richmir was living in a sojourn land, so he could not just eat and not work, in order to stop Egidious's mouth, he sent a part of his troops to move north with Egidious's army, looking for the barbarian armies to fight.

Over the next month, the armies of Egidious and Richmir fought against the barbarian armies, which were scattered quickly and could not unite to form a single force, and were easily defeated by the combined forces of Aegidius and Richmir.

After the defeat of several Germanic tribal armies, Qin Dong, who led the army stationed in Dijon, saw that the purpose of this western expedition had been achieved, and was ready to lead the army back to China, so he ordered the barbarian armies to join him in Dijon to avoid further encounters with the armies of Egidious and Rechimir and suffer losses.

However, the army of Qin Dong did not retreat immediately, and he sent people to announce to Egidious that the area north of the middle section of the Marne River would henceforth be the territory of the Hu Empire, and that once Aegidius' army crossed the middle of the Marne, it would be an enemy of the Hu Empire. The lands now inhabited by the Saxons, Franks, and Sarmatians in the region west of the central Marne were all part of the territory of the Hu Empire, and the armies of the Western Roman Empire were not allowed to cross the borders.

This bandit-like declaration made Aegidius vomit blood with anger, but there was no way to solve it, so he could only acquiesce, with the little force in his hand was not the opponent of the Hu Empire at all, and now the Roman side could not give him effective support, so he could only acquiesce to Qin Dong's declaration and restrict his troops from entering the area north of the central Marne.

After the Romans got the news, they had no choice but to send someone to Cedika to convey Majorian's words, claiming that the Romans refused to recognize Qin Dong's declaration, and Qin Dong would not care about this, and after the end of the Western Expedition, he dismissed the Germanic tribes, and then led a large army to escort some captives back to Cedica. (To be continued......)