Chapter 43: The Fall of Rome V
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After all, the Kingdom of Sparta has been made angry by Li Liguo, and it is not easy to help a group of soldiers to benefit from it like it did at the beginning......
Therefore, it is better not to be consumed too much by the Roman reserves, let them collapse and die early!
The Spartan cavalry troops led by Guan Yu once again charged!
The desperate Roman commander with a bunch of Roman legions and a small number of guards, and the same as the death guarded the rear of the Roman reserves, and they did not think of the option of surrender until they died, even if the surrounding battlefield was already kneeling with surrendered auxiliary legionnaires!
Naturally, only a hundred infantry could not stop the charge of thousands of Spartan cavalry, and even the speed of the Spartan cavalry charge was completely crushed......
The Roman commander was not so much to make a final contribution to the legion as to make his own death more honorable......
4 sieges, one of which is still a cavalry charge, the stoic Roman reserves, the last essence of the Western Roman Empire, like snow meeting the rising sun, quickly disappeared into the sea of Spartan legionmen!
The army formed by the Western Roman Empire with the strength of the whole country was completely annihilated by the army of the newborn Kingdom of Sparta in the border plains of the Italian peninsula!
Of the 100,000 troops of the Western Roman Empire, less than 10,000 escaped, and the regular Roman legions, as the main force, were not left to be annihilated!
Most of the Romans' auxiliaries surrendered, and after the battle, it was calculated that the total number of prisoners reached a full 60,000!
Among them, the Roman auxiliary legionnaires and Roman soldiers had them, in fact, all of them were killed by only those Roman reserves, and the other Roman soldiers did not have a strong will to resist, and many of them laid down their arms and surrendered, even if they knew how brutal the Spartan king who surrendered was, but in the face of life, they still chose to live in the world......
And Li Liguo, who has achieved such results, has lost less than one-tenth of his troops!
This is definitely a complete victory, it is simply the crushing of the times, just like the Huns invaded Europe during the period, fighting a withering battle with low casualties!
The emperors and senators of the Western Roman Empire panicked, and the Germanic barbarians who originally planned to make trouble in the rear of the Spartan Kingdom were also blinded, and the Goths who were expelled by the Huns also stopped their migration.
The emperors and senators of the Western Roman Empire were busy sending envoys to negotiate peace with the Kingdom of Sparta, well, real peace......
As long as the Italian peninsula, the native territory of the Western Roman Empire, could be kept, the conditions of the Kingdom of Sparta could be opened at will......
It seems that the bigwigs of the Western Roman Empire have not yet figured out their situation......
But it's no wonder that these bigwigs of the Western Roman Empire are so confident, the Italian Peninsula is not like other territories of the Western Roman Empire, most of the people living here are assimilated by the Romans and the Romans themselves, the Western Roman Empire is still very popular here, especially the Christian pope supported by the Roman Empire, and he fully supports the rule of the Western Roman Empire!
Li Liguo, who doesn't care whether the civilians live or die, and has a monopoly on power, is not a good guy no matter how the Pope looks at it, so Christianity is very resistant to the Spartan Kingdom to settle in!
The Goths stopped their migration and went to war with the few remaining frontier legions of the Western Roman Empire, while the Germans continued to live their tribal life, fighting each other in the hope of electing a true national hero to lead them to glory!
The battle between the Huns and the Eastern Roman Empire was in full swing, and for the time being, they were unable to march on the Spartan kingdom, which was not very easy to deal with!
The most interesting is a small city-state on the Greek peninsula, which was named Sparta......
The Spartan city-state, which has long lost its former glory, began to send secret envoys to contact Li Liguo for some purpose, quite with the intention of holding his thick thighs, wanting to get a good position in the Spartan kingdom, which is likely to expand to the Italian Peninsula and the Greek Peninsula and replace the Western Roman Empire.
In fact, Li Liguo's appearance has long been slandered by Europeans, he is not like the Spartans at all, and the 10,000-character eagle banner he holds is also far from the customs of the Spartan city-state, and even the soldiers under his command are not very similar to the Spartans!
This group of 'Spartans' who suddenly rose up is quite similar to the Huns, and not only looks alike, but also has a strong combat effectiveness......
Europeans can't help but wonder, could it be that the yellow-skinned race is born a genius of war?
Of course, there are not so obvious racial differences in this era, and ethnic and religious differences are the mainstream of this era!
Li Liguo's answer to the envoys of the Western Roman Empire was very simple, if he gave up the city of Rome, he could restore peace with the Western Roman Empire, and even give the Gallic region and the Spanish Peninsula to the Western Roman Empire!
However, after hearing this unreasonable request, the bigwigs of the Western Roman Empire directly regarded it as Li Liguo's arrogant declaration of death war, and the bigwigs of the Western Roman Empire completely gave up the road of peace, the city of Rome is a symbol of the Romans, not to mention the people and rulers of the Western Roman Empire, even the Eastern Roman Empire He is not willing to let the city of Rome be occupied by a foreigner!
It's just that the Eastern Roman Empire didn't have the strength to rescue the Western Roman Empire at this time, and the Sassanid Empire established by the Persians and the Hun army made the Eastern Roman Empire anxious, and it was really distracting......
After Li Liguo sent the peace ambassador of the Western Roman Empire, he met with a Spartan secret envoy, and after listening to their sycophants and surrender preaching, he felt very comedy, wasn't he judged to be a traitor to the Spartans?
It seems that the city-state of Sparta really degenerated, and abandoned all the things of their ancestors......
Li Liguo was not in the mood or the need to appease a Spartan city-state that did not have much military strength, he only gave one condition, the Spartan city-state unconditionally joined the Spartan kingdom and provided sufficient soldiers, and the Spartan kingdom could adopt a moderate way of ruling against it!
Li Liguo's moderation is actually a non-oppressive way of rule, which is not much different from the rule of the Western Roman Empire......
Li Liguo's normal way is to look at the miserable civilians of the Kingdom of Sparta......
Of course, he could give the Spartan city-state a deadline to digest slowly until he hit the Greek peninsula! (To be continued.) Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info)