Leo V's speculation has been confirmed.
The other leaders of the coalition no longer have hope for Charles.
But now the question is, where will they go?
These people are all lost dogs, with no base, no source of income, and even no soldiers.
In addition, how to resist the attack of the Western Qin Army?
Even Pope Leo III’s base camp in Rome was captured by the Western Qin Army.
He could not even return to Italy.
There were only more than a thousand priests and church knights left under this pope. .
The atmosphere in the tent was depressing.
The Dalmatian general looked at everyone and spoke first to break the depressing atmosphere: "Everyone, what should we do now?
We have a home and can't go back.
There is no way forward and there are pursuers behind us.
This is how we do it.
In a desperate situation" Among these people, Pope Leo III still had illusions about Charles.
He was the one who persuaded Charles to send troops.
He coughed twice to attract everyone's attention and said: "Anyway, we have no other place to go now.
We might as well continue to move west.
If we If we can reach Bavaria smoothly, how can Charlie keep us away?"
The Governor of Macedonia, Grete, said angrily: "Your Majesty the Pope, you are too spineless, aren't you?
That bastard Charlie deceived us like this.
He treated us like a piece of meat and threw us to the hungry wolf of Western Qin.
He wanted to use us to feed the Western Qin people and block their attack."
Bingfeng, if you still want to go to him and go on your own, I will never go to Bavaria."
Leo III was also furious, "Then what do you think we should do?
Can we just stay here and wait to die?"
This time, the leaders of the coalition forces did not negotiate any results, and it was best to break up on bad terms.
At this time, in the Thracian military camp dozens of miles away to the east, the Thracian soldiers and generals were all so hungry that they were weak.
Two days ago, due to lack of food, they could only use the few dozen horses left.
The war horses were killed for meat to satisfy their hunger, but there were fifteen or six thousand people in the entire camp, and the meat, bones and soup of these dozens of war horses were really a drop in the bucket.
Now two days have passed.
Everyone in the entire camp has been hungry for two days.
Some people can't stand it anymore.
They don't want to starve to death in the military camp.
Some bold Thracian soldiers sneak out of the camp.
Looking for something to eat, once I go there I never come back.
When other soldiers saw someone escaping, they also left secretly.
Batannicus soon discovered this situation and ordered the arrest of the deserters, but now everyone was so hungry that no one had the energy to catch the deserters.
"Sir," a group of generals rushed into Batannicus' tent.
Batannicus frowned and looked at the generals and said displeasedly: "Why are there no rules now?
You broke in without notification.
What do you want to do?"
A general asked with an unkind expression: "Sir, we have reached this point.
All the brothers are so hungry that they are weak.
Do you still want to hold on?
Do you want all of us to die with you?
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I can tell you, we You have a family, a wife and children to feed.
If you want to starve to death here, we can't control it, but don't drag us with you.
Either you order surrender now, or you understand yourself.
We will lead our troops to The Western Qin people surrender, you only have these two choices."
Patanicus stood up and yelled: "Do you want to rebel?"
A general held the hilt of the sword and said coldly: "Sir, we don't want to do this, but we don't want to die even more."
Batannicus stared at a few people and asked: "I think since you have the courage to break in, it means that the outside is already under your control.
In this case, why do you bother so much?
Why don't you just kill me and carry me?"
The head of the Western Qin people went to ask for credit and receive rewards, and wagged their tails to beg for mercy."
Another general said: "Sir, no superior in this world will like a betrayer, let alone those who commit crimes below.
We don't want to be betrayers, let alone the adults who commit crimes below, and make Western Qin suspicious and fearful.
Us, so please don’t embarrass us.
If you don’t want to cooperate, we can only ask adults to cooperate.”
"You guys!"
Batannicus's face turned pale, and he was forced back by several generals.
Until he retreated to the corner of the big tent, there was no way to retreat.
Batannicus knew that he had reached a dead end.
Apart from following the words of these generals, he did not want to surrender.
He did not want to be a traitor.
This reputation was not good.
It sounds good, but he was unwilling to commit suicide, and then his body was carried by these generals to claim credit from the Western Qin people.
Wouldn't this be in vain to benefit these hateful guys?
After weighing it up, Batannicus finally A decision was made.
"Okay, I promise you."
Batannicus dropped the sword in his hand and said decadently: "I ordered surrender, and no one will have to starve to death.
If the conditions given by the Western Qin people are generous enough, maybe you can still get A good future” The generals all breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.
One of them walked out of the big tent and loudly announced to the sergeants outside that Batannicus had decided to lead everyone to surrender to the Western Qin Dynasty.
No one would starve to death.
Suddenly, there was an explosion outside the big tent.
There were bursts of cheers.
The Thracian army surrendered to the Western Qin.
Everyone dropped their weapons and walked out of the camp to wait for the Western Qin army to come to receive and reorganize.
Batannicus held a grudge against several of his generals who joined forces to force him to surrender.
He He hated their subordinates so much that he paid for Wei Gao's order to execute these generals at the price of disarming his troops and returning to his fields and resigning from his old age.
Wei Gao agreed, and these people were secretly executed.
As soon as the Thracian army was collected, Zhao Ziliang arrived with the main army.
Wei Gao gave him a detailed report.
Then Zhao Ziliang led the army to continue to advance westward and sent someone to contact Li Su.
When Zhao Ziliang's main army was less than fifty miles away from the coalition forces defending the highlands, the coalition forces on the highlands were still quarreling internally, and there were already signs of falling apart.
As night fell, several waiters lit up the olive oil lamps in the big tent, but several coalition leaders had gloomy faces, still undecided about everyone's whereabouts.
Leo III was a clergyman and was not well versed in the overall situation or military affairs.
He could only occasionally make some suggestions to ease the conflicts between the parties.
In the past two days, if he had not been the mediator, I am afraid that all the forces would have gone their separate ways.
Something.
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Seeing that everyone was silent, Leo III had to stand up and said: "Everyone, the situation has reached a critical point of life and death.
If we can't unify our minds and decide where to go, once the main force of the Western Qin Dynasty arrives, we will die without a burial place. .
I don’t know what you think.
Maybe some people already have the idea of going their separate ways, but let me tell you.
We, this is absolutely not feasible.
We are still a powerful force when we get together.
If we separate, it will only give the Western Qin people the opportunity to eliminate us individually.
Western civilization cannot end in the hands of people like us.
We must If we persist in resisting to the end, the Western Qin people will not be able to be this strong forever.
As long as we persist, we will have a chance to defeat them."
The Dalmatian general asked: "Your Majesty the Pope, where else can we go?
Now there are Western Qin troops everywhere, and they are all within the sphere of influence controlled by the Western Qin people."
Leo III was left speechless by the question, and he turned his attention to Leo V.
Among these people, only Leo V was more wise and courageous.
Leo V said: "We are not without a place to go.
The Alps in the south and the Balka Mountains in the north can be our shelter, but there are many Slavs and other barbarian tribes living in these two places.
If When we go to these two places, we must first settle the relationship with them and win their support for us.
Moreover, our living conditions will be extremely difficult in the future, so you must be mentally prepared."
These two places are indeed good places, at least much better than facing the Western Qin people.
Everyone began to discuss that the southern Alps region was under attack from the Western Qin forces, and survival would definitely be difficult, while the northern Balkha Mountains It's different.
Although there are many barbarian tribes and forces there, they are an area that is temporarily out of reach of the Western Qin forces.
The chance of survival is much greater.
"I agree to go to the northern Balkha Mountains region" "I agree, I'll leave right away" Several leaders expressed their opinions one after another.
Even Leo III thought it was a good place, but Leo V disagreed.
He said: "If we just go there like this, I think we might as well disband on the spot and make a west."
Forget about the obedient people under the rule of the Qin people."
Leo III was very unhappy and asked: "Your Majesty Leo V, it was you who proposed retreating to the north, and now you say you want to disband on the spot.
What do you mean?"
Leo V said: "Let's go to the north in such a mess.
There are too many barbarian forces there, but we often can't unify our thoughts and opinions, and we can't use our strength in one place.
How can we be the opponents of those barbarians?
I'm afraid we were still there when we arrived.
We discussed who to win over first and who to fight first, and those barbarians have already killed us."
Several other people did not hear the deeper meaning of Leo V's words, but Leo III was a cunning man.
He heard it, and after thinking about it in his heart, he immediately said: "Yes, so in order to gather strength, We must have a top decision-maker to lead everyone.
We cannot be scattered all the time.
Only by electing a top decision-maker can we avoid many unnecessary If everyone wants to continue to survive and drive the Western Qin people back, they must make a choice.
I think Leo V himself was the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Although he only reigned for three months, But he has the qualifications.
At the critical moment, he raised the banner to resist the invasion of the Western Qin people.
Now he is the only one with this reputation and talent.
I only support him."
Under the constant coercion and inducement of the two Leos, several other governors reluctantly agreed to continue to respect Leo V as emperor and obey his leadership, but what they thought in their hearts was probably only known to them
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