Byzantium was an important eastern town of the Roman Empire and the gateway to the eastern part of the Roman Empire. For the Roman Empire, Byzantium was very important in terms of geographical location or military status.

but--

Such an important border town, the Roman Empire gathered a total of nine corpses, totaling 160,000 troops, which has never happened before.

Moreover, the commander-in-chief was Gallienus who defended the Germans.

It can be said that this time the Romans attached great importance to the invasion of the Eastern Han people, and they wanted to block the Eastern people under the city of Byzantine.

But--

The war between the two sides lasted only one day and one night, and the Ming army occupied Byzantium. Prince Galienus finally escaped from Byzantium overnight with a guard of more than a hundred men.

That's right, it's just escape.

If it wasn't dark, perhaps Gallienus had become a prisoner.

Orientals are terrible.

Gallienus is too trash.

In an instant, the entire Roman Empire was shocked. You must know that the Roman Empire had not suffered such a crushing defeat in the past few hundred years. It was so embarrassing and cowardly.

When news of Byzantine's fall reached the city of Rome.

It caused a stir soon.

First, the people in the Senate began to get ready to move. They wanted to put pressure on Emperor Varelion when the Byzantine defeat was taken.

For a long time, the real person in the Roman Empire should be the people of the Senate. However, in recent decades, the newly ascended emperors have intentionally or unintentionally begun to reject the Senate. To this day, the Senate is completely in the Roman Empire.

This opportunity is here.

The prince personally led his troops, but was beaten to the point of being thrown away by the Easterners. The 160,000 army failed to block the attack of the 100,000 Ming army. The Ming army occupied Byzantium, the gateway city of the Roman Empire, in just one day and one night.

What is particularly important is that in this battle, nearly 70,000 Romans were killed and injured, and more than 20,000 surrendered to the Ming army.

But what about the Ming army?

Only three or four thousand people were killed or injured.

The people of the Senate hoped to use Byzantine defeat to put pressure on Emperor Varelion to get back some of the power that should have belonged to the Senate.

only--

While they were about to put pressure on Varelion, an urgent report came from the border.

After the Ming army occupied Byzantium, they did not stop there. They just rested in Byzantium for three days, and nearly 100,000 troops rushed westward.

Because the Ming army showed its power in Byzantine, some towns west of Byzantine took the initiative to send people to surrender to the Ming army before they saw the Ming army's flag.

In just three months, the Ming army was unstoppable. Although some Roman towns had resisted, most of them chose to surrender without fighting.

It should also be mentioned that in order to win the hearts of the people, the Ming army chose to value the surrendered Roman city-states, Liu Chan, the Emperor of Han. That is, as long as you surrender to the Ming army, the city lord will still be the city lord, and the treatment you enjoyed before will remain unchanged.

Faced with such generous treatment, almost no towns along the way chose to resist. Even the towns that rarely resisted could not stop the Ming army's advance under the fierce attack of artillery fire.

what to do?

At this time, the Senate gave up the pressure on Emperor Varelion because they knew very well that the Orientals were too terrible. Even at this time, they drove Varelion off the throne and the senators of their Senate came to rule.

But--

Who can stop the terrible Oriental people?

...

April 19, 259 AD.

Roman Palace.

Nearly a hundred senior officials of the Roman Empire sat in the hall. Emperor Varailian's face turned pale, and no one spoke at the scene, and the scene seemed a bit weird.

Walailian was anxious.

In front of him were war reports one after another.

From May 28 last year to almost a year, Emperor Liu Chan of the Han Dynasty led 100,000 Ming troops to invade Rome.

In a total of eleven months, the Ming army successively occupied Byzantine, Thrace, Macedonia, Sparta, Dalmatia, Pannonia, Norrik, Lessia, etc. Now the former army has entered the Alps.

This is a death-taking.

When the Ming army walked out of the Alps, they would soon reach the Apennine Peninsula.

"Everyone!"

Varian glanced at the civil and military ministers in the hall, suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "Now it is an urgent moment for the critical survival of my Roman Empire. Let's talk about how we should deal with it now."

"If there is no more countermeasure, when the Han people reach the city of Rome, we will all become slaves to the Han people."

"It's a slave!"

In the end, Varian was so angry that he was so angry that he was not angry.

During this year, he also sent several troops to block the Ming army, but what was the result?

Without exception, they were either defeated by the Han army or surrendered to the Han army.

The current Roman Empire has really reached the critical moment of life and death.

Once the Ming army walked out of the Alps, the Roman Empire might soon perish.

but--

At this moment, the civil and military ministers in the hall were still silent. It was not that they did not want to give advice for the empire, nor that they wanted the Roman Empire to fall, but that they really couldn't think of how to deal with it.

"Do you all want to be slaves of the country?"

Varian could no longer hold it back, and he slapped on the table with a slap and roared: "The Han people have arrived in the Alps, only a month away from Rome."

The emperor was angry.

The civil and military ministers in the hall were so scared that they were all panicked.

"His Majesty!"

Gallienus suddenly stood up and said, "It's over, we have no way out. The Han people are going to destroy my Roman Empire." As he said, he looked around the civil and military ministers present, sneered, and then said, "Let me, the defeated general, be ordered to go to war."

Galienus was the son of Vallien. Last year, he was defeated by the Ming army in Byzantium and escaped from Byzantium with more than a hundred personal guards. Later, he was impeached by several senior Roman officials. So Vallien had no choice but to recall him.

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In the past year, Gallienus stepped down from all positions and became a powerless prince.

To this day, no one in the entire hall dares to stand up.

Gallienus, he stood up.

He was a prince of the Roman Empire. His defeat in Byzantium last year made him very upset. The former No. 1 warrior of Rome was beaten to the point of being abandoned by the Easterners and fled in a panic.

He kept breathing, and he wanted to prove himself again.

As soon as Galienus finished speaking, the civil and military ministers in the hall all looked at him with strange eyes. Some people think that you, a defeated general, dare to lead troops to war again; some people think that at this time, only the first warrior in Rome took action, and maybe they could resist for a while.

However, none of them spoke.

People who thought that Galienus was a defeated general, they did not speak because if they opposed Galienus's expedition, they did not recommend a better candidate.

Now--

Many people actually don’t have any hope for this war in their hearts.

In their opinion, the Roman Empire is probably going to be over this time.

Why?

Because the weapons of the Han people were too advanced, they were definitely not something that the Romans could stop.

Looking at the entire hall, only Galienus stood up, Varian was a little desperate, but also a little happy.

As the saying goes, father and son soldiers are in battle, and when they are at this most dangerous time, they still have to rely on their sons.

"Okay!" Varailian said with satisfaction: "I will give you 50,000 elite cavalry and go to Modena immediately to resist those Easterners. This time, the Easterners must not be allowed to cross Modena."

"Yes!" Gallienus answered immediately.

The 50,000 elite troops are indeed a little small. Last year, 160,000 people could not stop the 100,000 Ming army. This time there are only 50,000 people. Can the Ming army be blocked?

But there was nothing we could do about this. During this year, Varian sent a number of troops to stop the Ming army. At this time, the number of troops he could mobilize was only 100,000, and he would not dare to fall out to resist the Ming army.

If all the last 100,000 troops were transferred out, and when the Ming army came, the city of Rome would have to open the city and surrender.

...

April 23.

It was just dawn.

Walalian was not ready to get up yet, but a guard hurried to the bedroom and asked for a visit and called Walalian out of the bed.

"His Majesty!"

"The Han army is here!"
To be continued...