Chapter 325: Majorian ascends the throne
At the end of November 456 AD, Deng Zhixik led the remnants of more than 50,000 people to move east to the east of the lower reaches of the Volga River and entered the area where the Avars lived, including nearly 20,000 young and middle-aged women, and Qin Dong Patolong led the Third Army to pursue to the west bank of the Volga River and stopped, and since then set up checkpoints, lookouts and cavalry patrols on the west bank of the Volga River to prevent the remnants of Deng Zhixik from crossing the Volga River to harass, Qin Dong also authorized the Third Army stationed in this area to send small troops across the Volga River to plunder the land to the east from time to time, in order to prevent Deng Zhixike from attacking first, so that he could only defend.
Under Qin Dong's orders, Tolong then sent troops along the Volga River from downstream to upstream, passing through the forest, forest-steppe and steppe belts, and finally to the lakes and marshes in the Valdai Hills in the western part of the Eastern European Plain, where the Volga River originated, and then from east to west to the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
In January 457, the war of the Northern Expedition was basically over, and Qin Dong left the Seventh Army Corps to garrison the vast area east of the Carba Thousand Mountains and west of the Dnieper River, and ordered Toron to lead the Third Army Corps to garrison the vast area between the Dnieper River and the Volga River, and sent Afar to lead the Fifth Army Corps to garrison in the area of present-day Poland and Belarus, and he himself returned to Saidika with the First Army of the Soviet Union, the Guards Iron Cavalry and the Imperial Forest Army.
By April 457, Zheli, who had continued his expedition northward, sent a messenger back to Saidika to report to Qindong that he had led the Eighth Army to clear the low-lying areas around the Scandinavian Plateau in Northern Europe and all the northern Baltic coasts, with the exception of the southwestern coastal zone of the Baltic Sea (now the northern coast of Germany), which was now under the rule of the Western Greatlord Urghan. All of Northern Europe was under the control of Jeri's Eighth Legion.
That is to say, by April 457, the territory of eastern Qin had expanded tenfold, and the Erga River was undulating in the east. From the Oder River to the west, the border between Germany and Poland in the west, to the Arctic Ocean in the north, and to the borders between Bulgaria and Macedonia in the south, this vast land was under his iron heel.
The territory of the whole of Obaro is roughly as follows: Qin's territory in eastern control includes the territory west of the Volga River in later Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, north-central Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and the whole of northern Europe.
The Gerpids took over what would become Czechoslovakia and Slovakia under the leadership of Aldarik.
The Ostrogoths, under the leadership of Diodemir, occupied southern Hungary, northern Croatia, northern Slovenia, and eastern Austria.
The Western Roman Empire controlled all of Italy, the islands of the Mediterranean, southeastern France, southern Croatia, southern Slovenia, southern Austria, southern Switzerland, and eastern Spain along the Mediterranean coast.
Sambus, the king of the southern court of the Xiongnu Empire, controlled central, northern, and western Austria and southeastern Germany.
Urghan, the king of the western court of the Xiongnu Empire, controlled all of Germany except the southeast, and the west as far as the Atlantic coast. Including the Netherlands, Belgium.
The Anglos and Saxons together controlled the British Isles.
The Franks occupied the western, central, and northern regions of France.
The Burgundians occupied the eastern part of France.
The Alemanni occupied Alsace and northern Switzerland, and they also established the kingdom of Alemania, which was controlled by Sambhus, the southern king of the Xiongnu Empire.
The Visigoths, under King Theodoric II, ruled the south of France, the central, southern, western and northwestern parts of Spain.
The Vandals, led by Odoase, ruled the western part of North Africa. It included later Morocco, northern Algeria and Tunisia, and northern Libya.
The emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) was Leo I, and the entire empire occupied northern Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Jerusalem, Cyprus, Turkey, Greece.
When Qin's northeastern expedition returned to Saidica, the war was largely over, and the long-pending throne of the Western Roman Empire finally ushered in its new master. This man's name is Majorian.
Who is Majorian? His father was a financial officer under the command of Aetius. As a result, he entered the army as a young man and became a subordinate of Aetius, a young and promising general.
In order to restrain Aetius, Emperor Valentinian III once wanted to marry his youngest daughter to Majorian, so that Majorian could restrain Aetius, but it was unsuccessful for many reasons, which means that Majorian almost became Valentinian III's concubine a few years ago.
Aetius later dismissed Majorian, and after Aetius was killed by Valentinian III, Emperor Valentinian III reactivated Majorian. Hopefully by stabilizing the situation in Gaul, that's all. Majorian is once again in military power.
At this time, Majorian was still stationed in northern Italy, he commanded an army, and at this time, the Alemanni people were bewitched by Sambus, the king of the southern courtyard of the Hun Empire, to cross the Alps and invade the Italian mainland.
At this time, the actual controller of the Western Roman Empire was Richmel was a good friend of Majorian, and after receiving Majorian's letter asking for help, Richmel knew that if he did not resist the attack of the Alemanni people, he was afraid that his identity as the de facto controller of the Western Roman Empire would not be guaranteed, so he immediately sent a large army to northern Italy to support Majorian, and handed over the command of this army to Majorian, and at the same time appointed Majorian as the commander of the cavalry and infantry, giving him full command of the war with the Alemanni.
The Alemanni are a branch of the Germanic people. Originally made up of several sporadic Germanic tribes, in the Swibi group of residents, it was always a loose tribal confederation. This name is first mentioned in the record of the Roman attack on the Alemanni in 213. In the decades that followed, they became increasingly threatening the Roman provinces. Approximately 260 occupied the area of the "Ten Barracks" of Agridekmet. At the end of the 5th century, it expanded into Alsace and northern Switzerland,
A.D. 259. The Alemanni entered the Roman Empire in large numbers, and drove long into Italy, deep into the Po River valley and towards Rome. However, under the city of Milan, he was defeated by the Roman star Gallienus (son of Emperor Valerian). More than 300,000 people died. This was the first Roman contact with the Alemanni after the Caracalla period. Since then, large-scale wars have intensified. Only nine years after the Battle of Milan, in 268 AD, the Alemanni invaded Gaul and northern Italy on a major scale. On the Roman side, Emperor Gallienus (who succeeded to the throne in 260) was assassinated in Milan in the same year. His successor, Claudius II, led an army of more than 35,000 men to meet the battle, and again defeated the Alemanni on the shores of Lake Benacus (present-day Lake Garda, Italy), beheading 50,000 people. Finally expelled the Alemanni from the Po River valley. However, this did not fundamentally resolve the threat of the latter to Italy. Subsequently. In 271, the Alemanni invaded Italy on a larger scale. The Roman emperor at this time was Aurelian, who was known for his warlike skills. Aurelian's resistance to the Alemanni during his reign was effective: in 271 A.D., Aurelian fought three consecutive battles against the Alemanni in northern Italy. One defeat and two victories, successfully dismantling the invasion.
Then, in 298 A.D., the war began again: that year. The Alemanni crossed the Rhine with 130,000 horses. After a day of fierce fighting, the Alemanni were forced to withdraw their troops and then moved south into the Alps, where they were again defeated by the Romans. Since these two more battles took place in Gaul in 298 AD, the two sides have been at peace for almost sixty years.
But then, in 356 and 357 A.D., the Alemanni invaded again. This time the battlefield was still in Gaul. The Roman Emperor Julian led his men north to fight. Two battles with the Alemanni in two years, first defeated and then victorious. and captured King Alemanni. The momentum of the Alemanni was contained.
However, less than ten years later, in 366 AD, the Alemanni crossed the frozen Rhine and invaded Gaul for the third time, when the Roman Emperor was Valentinian I, one of the most prolific emperors at the end of the empire. When he received the information, he assembled a large army and engaged in a fierce battle with the Alemanni in the area of Sorisinium. The battle resulted in heavy casualties on both sides, but the Romans were victorious. The battle once again drove the Alemanni out of the west bank of the Rhine. Then, in 378 AD, one of the Alemanni tribes, the Lantiens, led by King Poarius, invaded Gaul again, this time, the Emperor Gratian, who ruled western Rome, defeated the Lantiens in the area of Argentovaria, beheaded more than 30,000 people, and King Puarius was killed in battle. After that, the Alemanni did not raid the Roman frontier on a large scale for many years.
During this period, however, it was not only the Alemanni who invaded the Roman Empire, but also the Goths and Persians. Rome was also exhausted by the constant invasions of the Alemanni and could not safely mobilize its troops on the western frontier to defend against threats from the east. In fact, whether it was the Alemanni, or the Persians, or the Goths, the individual forces were still the power of Rome. However, the succession, or even the simultaneous challenge, of these forces to the Empire's military defenses made the Roman Empire often lose sight of one over the other.
After the battle of 378 A.D., the Alemanni and the Romans experienced a period of peace for about thirty years. But after the Roman Empire was divided in 395 AD, the situation changed immediately.
From the beginning of the 5th century AD, the Germanic tribes of the former Germania began to fully enter the territory of the Roman Empire, and the Alemanni were no exception. Their last migration was in 408 AD, when they crossed the Rhine into Gaul with a large number of other Germanic tribes—what appears to be their fifth invasion of Gaul. This time, they were not expelled by the Romans or other powers, and they succeeded in seizing a large area of southeastern Gaul – roughly the area around present-day Alsace in France, as well as most of the Swiss plateau – and living there. From this onwards, an Alemannian kingdom was formed
Subsequently, during this period of time, the Alemanni continued to slowly spread their influence in all directions. And the outside forces are also in contact with it. Legend has it that during Attila's invasion of Gaul in 451 AD, the Alemanni army appeared among the Huns.
With reinforcements, Majorian's strength grew, and he commanded his army to repel the Alemanni attack based on his combat experience and command skills, and won the victory, which was the honor.
After Majorian repelled the Alemanni attack, Reichmel immediately realized that it was time to support Majorian to ascend to the throne, and the two of them were good friends, and as long as he could control the military power, he would be able to control the Western Roman Empire, so he supported Majorian to ascend to the throne of Western Roman Emperor at the end of April.
Despite Richmel's support, Majorian was not able to officially ascend the throne as emperor this month, because the emperors and ministers of the Eastern Roman Empire did not approve of it and were reluctant to recognize Majorian as the emperor of the Western Empire, which caused Majorian to delay his accession to the throne to handle state affairs for the emperor. (To be continued......)