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This is exactly what we talked about before about the foreign invasion of the Roman Empire. During this period of the Roman Empire, it was a common phenomenon that emperors, nobles and even wealthy people treated civilians as talking tools. Therefore, the overall Roman Empire
The strength has declined to the point of a complete mess. The soldiers of the Roman Empire have long been different from before. Today's Roman soldiers basically have no fighting spirit, and they all want to live through this day without the next day.
After the Huns attacked the Thrace region, the Thracian army was unable to resist the Huns at all. They were massacred to a horrific extent by the Huns. There were corpses and minced meat flying everywhere. The Romans fled crying loudly.
Some even stood there in despair, waiting for the Huns to kill them in order to achieve complete relief.
Anyway, the governor of Thrace led their Roman army and could not withstand the attack of the Huns, so they begged for peace from the Hun king Uldin! When Uldin met with the governor of Thrace, he arrogantly said
Pointing to the sun, he said: Any place that the sun can shine on, as long as I am willing, I can conquer! In fact, at this time, the king of the Huns, Urdin, also knew about the countries in the east, that is, our China. He would dare to say in our China
If you say something like this, his head will be moved in seconds! So we can also say that the current King of the Huns has completely discovered that the Roman Empire has been weakened to the point where it is not what it is. He can fight casually, and only then is he pretending.
Just thirteen at a time.
But King Uldin of the Huns pretended to be thirteen this time, because the people in the European empire did not know the existence of China at all, so they thought that what Uldin said was the truth, and the real truth is: the Roman Empire was
Because the emperor, and even the nobles and rich people regarded all Roman civilians as talking tools, and then they themselves also lived a luxurious and extravagant life style. This led to the military strength of the entire Roman Empire and even all aspects of it being rotten.
It was a complete mess! So King Urdin of the Huns, based on the truth, carried out crazy burning, killing and looting against the Roman Empire, and the military power of the Roman Empire was completely unable to resist!
Therefore, King Uldin of the Huns ended up frantically burning, killing, and looting, all of which reached the walls of Constantinople, the capital of Rome. The emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, out of helplessness and self-protection, signed a city-wide alliance with the Huns. East.
The Roman Empire promised the Huns to pay a tribute of 350 pounds of gold to the Huns every year starting from 431 AD, and the gold tribute had increased to 700 pounds four years later, so it is not difficult to see from this.
, how weak is the current Roman Empire? The Eastern Roman Empire also ceded a large area of territory to the Huns, and also allowed the Huns to trade with each other in some Eastern Roman cities on the Danube River.
These large resources eventually led to the formal establishment of the Hun Empire by the Xiongnu in 444 AD! At this time, the territory of the Hun Empire spanned Asia and Europe, starting from the Aral Sea in the east, the Balkan Peninsula in the south, and the Rhine River in the west.
, reaching the sea of pineapples in the north, the capital is in the area of Brapest, Hungary in today's era. Moreover, the Hun Empire during this period was very powerful, so every country in Europe sent envoys to pay tribute to the Hun King in order to beg.
Get peace.
We can also say that the Hun Empire during this period simply regarded the entire European empire as a slave state, even the once infinitely powerful and glorious Roman Empire. It is not difficult to imagine that if the emperors, nobles and even wealthy people of the Roman Empire
If people don't seek death like this, what will happen to the Huns? With just one attack of troops, the entire Xiongnu Empire can be completely annihilated! Unfortunately, it has come to this, and no one can change this history at this time. Moreover, paying tribute to the Xiongnu every year is
As a result, the development of various European countries was extremely slow, and the civilians were even more miserable. However, on the contrary, the people of the Huns lived a very good life, living a completely extravagant and lustful lifestyle.
In 449 AD, Honoria, the sister of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian, was discovered to be having an affair with the captain of the bodyguard. So the extremely angry Western Roman Emperor Valentinian imprisoned her sister.
They arrived at a monastery. But Honoria couldn't stand the anger, so she secretly wrote a letter to Attila, the Great Emperor of the Huns, and gave her a ring to express her admiration for Attila and her willingness to show her body to him.
May.
But at this time, the Hun Emperor Attila had long coveted the wealthy Western Roman Empire and had long wanted to attack the Western Roman Empire. Therefore, after receiving this letter, the Hun Emperor immediately proposed to the emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
He wanted to marry Honoria and asked Western Rome to cede half of its territory as a dowry.
However, this request of the Hun Emperor was immediately angrily rejected by the Western Roman Emperor! So the Hun Emperor Attila used this kind of thing as an excuse, and then led an army of half a million people to launch an offensive war against Western Rome.
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The emperor of Western Rome did not show any weakness. He felt that the Huns were more dissatisfied than himself, so he united the Germanic tribes in Chalon in Gaul and started a war with the Huns! But in order to survive,
The Germans, especially the Visigoths, fought desperately, which was inseparable from the Huns' killing. The Huns shot a blinding rain of arrows at the Roman army, causing countless casualties to the entire Roman army.
Corpses, the entire battlefield, and the sounds of pain were everywhere.
Then the Huns' cavalry inserted into the Roman coalition at lightning speed and carried out extremely crazy killings. Even the king of the Visigoths died on the spot because of an arrow! So the Visigoths saw at this time
Their kings were all killed, so they were extremely angry! Everyone rushed forward to fight the Huns desperately, regardless of their own safety.
The battle lasted for about five hours, with corpses all over the ground, and 160,000 people died on both sides. At this time, the Hun emperor saw the situation on the battlefield and knew that it was difficult to win, so he led his army back home. At this point, the Romans
Kill all the other remaining armies on the battlefield! However, we still dare not act rashly against the Hun Empire, because although the top leadership of the Hun Empire is already decayed at this time, we can still get troops through compulsory conscription or conscription of slaves.
However, in the summer of 453 AD, Attila, the great emperor of the Huns, suddenly died of illness. Therefore, a large group of sons of the great emperor of the Huns, in order to compete for power, launched a very bloody and large-scale civil war, with countless casualties. Anyway,
It was a scene of killing each other. This scene of killing each other eventually led to the disintegration of the Hun Empire, and the mythical Hun Empire came to an end.
Then we push the history forward a little further. During this period, the high-level officials of the Western Roman Empire had become incredibly corrupted, so the people were in dire straits. This resulted in the Western Roman Empire actually being overrun by the Huns and even the Visigoths.
Two sacks were carried out! Even when the Visigoths took advantage of the opportunity to sack the Western Roman Empire, the process actually lasted three days and three nights. How outrageous is this?
However, even though the Western Roman Empire had gone through two sacks and large-scale massacres by foreigners, it still had a lot of gold and silver treasures, which led many foreigners to still want to loot the Western Roman Empire. As the saying goes, a man is innocent and has a jade.
Is it their crime? So this time the Vandals in North Africa also wanted to loot the Western Roman Empire. After all, the Western Roman Empire was so backward and weak. Everyone wanted to take the opportunity to eat some meat.
The Vandals are not the indigenous people of North Africa. They are a branch of the Germanic people who originally lived in southern Scandinavia. In the third century AD, they went south to Central Europe and bribed the Roman emperor with heavy sums of money.
Constantine gained the right to live in the Roman Empire. Later, the Huns came to Europe. The Vandals could not defeat the Huns, and even the Roman Empire could not defeat them, so the Vandals were forced to move to the west.
They also joined the great migration of ethnic groups during this period. Because they were no match for the Huns, they were all forced to migrate.
The Vandals first came to Gaul, then crossed the Pyrenees, and then arrived in Spain. They directly used very violent and bloody methods to destroy the Roman regime in Spain, because the Romans here were all different.
The capital of the Roman Empire was not very good, so why not here? So the Vandals regarded this place as their own home and established their own Vandal Kingdom here.
In 416 BC, the Visigoths attacked Spain, but the Vandals had just established their country, so they were not very strong and were forced to move south. The leader of the Vandals at this time was named Guy
Cyric was not tall but very resourceful. He decided to completely avoid the more powerful Visigoths and moved to North Africa, where Rome's control was relatively weak.
After the Vandals arrived in North Africa, they headed east again and began to burn, kill and loot very crazily along the way. Because there were very few Roman troops in this area, they could kill and play casually. At this point, the local civilians here
It was like being in hell, but there was no way to resist.
At this time, the Berbers in North Africa were resisting because of the brutality of the Roman Empire, so the Berbers regarded the Vandals as liberators and actively supported the Vandals and the Vandals.
They massacred the Roman army together, which led to the complete collapse of the Roman regime in North Africa in an instant!
So in 438 AD, the Vandals occupied the city of Carthage in North Africa, and after plundering the city of Carthage and massacring many civilians, they settled here and made it their
Chapter completed!