Julian understood that his general Benobades was right, and he was eager to succeed in usurping the throne, but at the same time he was also very afraid of failure, and of being exiled, imprisoned, or executed by Constantius II again. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

His life was full of suffering, and all of this suffering came from Constantius II, who hated him to death, and longed to eat his flesh, drink his blood, draw his tendons, and break his bones to relieve his hatred.

"I have decided to attack Constantinople, but before attacking the city, we must be prepared not to be able to break the city, lest we be destroyed if the siege fails." Julian said calmly.

Bainobades hurriedly asked, "Does Caesar have any specific plans?" ”

Julian thought for a moment, and said, "We must make a long-term confrontation plan, and once the siege fails, we can unite enough forces so that the emperor cannot launch a counterattack against us." ”

"Caesar's intention is to make a plan to prevent the Roman soldiers in my west from defecting, so that they will be loyal to Caesar and oppose the emperor." Bainobades hurriedly said.

Julian nodded and said: "That's right, that's what it means, he is the emperor after all, if we fail to attack Constantinople, the emperor will definitely announce to the whole country, saying that we are rebels, so as to call on the soldiers of the whole country to oppose us, in this way, we will be completely finished." ”

Bainobades nodded, and said, "Caesar is so right, we must be prepared in case the siege fails, we must have a way back." ”

Julian smiled and said: "The Gallic army and the British army are both very effective troops, and they must be completely loyal to me, which is a necessary condition for us to be able to stabilize Rome in the west, which is very important, and must be paid attention to, and must not be careless." ”

"Caesar, how are we going to stabilize these two forces? Do I need to increase my military salary? Benobades asked.

Julian shook his head and said, "No, do you think that increasing the salary of the army will make the army loyal to us?" This will not work very well, or even, it will not work at all, what we have to do is to make these armies oppose the emperor from the bottom of their hearts and support me, and this requires conspiracy. ”

"Conspiracy, it seems that Caesar already has a specific idea." Bainobades said happily.

Julian nodded, and said, "We must immediately spread the rumors, count the charges of the emperor's defeat, and tell the Gallic army and the Germanic army that the emperor will send them to fight a bloody battle with the Jin army, so that they will be disgusted, so that we will have absolute certainty that we will control these two forces for our use." ”

"Caesar is so wise, and Bainobadus is nowhere near it." Bainobades said modestly.

Julian smiled and ordered: "All right, Benobades, immediately mobilize the troops and tell the soldiers that due to the incompetence of His Majesty the Emperor, our Roman Empire has lost 150,000 troops, and such a deaf emperor must be overthrown." ”

"Okay, Caesar, I'll do it all!" Bainobades accepted the order and immediately turned to carry it out.

Soon, at the instigation and instigation of Julian's general Benobades, nearly 100,000 Roman troops began to make noise and began to prepare to attack the city.

The 100,000 Roman army immediately and quickly prepared the siege equipment, and since all the accessories had been prepared in advance, the construction of the siege equipment was very fast, and it did not take long to assemble a large number of siege equipment and be ready to attack Constantinople.

Outside the city, Julian's soldiers and horses were building siege equipment on a large scale, and such an unusual behavior was naturally immediately discovered by the Roman soldiers defending the city, and immediately reported the situation to the defender of the city, Severus.

"General, the army outside the city is building siege equipment on a large scale, and it seems that it is going to attack the city." One of the soldiers looked at Severus and reported nervously.

"What, Julian's troops are building siege equipment, is he really here to fight for the throne, no, I want to go to the city wall to see it myself." Severus said incredulously, and strode out of the barracks and toward the walls, following only the rest of the people.

Soon, the defender of the city, Severus, and his henchmen arrived at the city wall and looked out of the city.

"General, Julian's soldiers and horses are indeed preparing siege equipment, and they have prepared a lot, it seems that they are really planning to attack the city." One of the henchmen said as he looked at Severus.

Severus nodded, and said: "Julian, this bastard, actually plans to take advantage of the situation to attack the city, he will greatly weaken the strength of the Roman Empire, and the army of the Jin Kingdom is still eyeing it?" ”

"General, look at the current position, Julian's army will launch an attack tomorrow, and we must immediately prepare for defense." One of the subordinates said.

"General, we must immediately report this situation to His Majesty the Emperor and let him return to the city as soon as possible." Another general said.

The general defending the city, Severus, nodded lightly, and said: "The order is given, the whole city immediately prepares for battle, ready to resist the attack of Julian's rebels, you immediately go to tell His Majesty the Emperor that Julian is going to rebel." ”

"Yes, General." The generals and their own soldiers hurriedly answered loudly, and immediately dispersed to prepare.

Severus looked up at the busy soldiers and horses outside the city, frowned, he was confident enough to hold on to Constantinople for a few days, but Julian's rebellion would seriously weaken the strength of the Roman Empire, so that the Roman Empire no longer had the strength to deal with the harassment of the surrounding small countries, and what was even more terrifying was that the powerful Jin Kingdom in the east had extended its power to Persia and could attack the Roman Empire at any time, a weak Roman Empire, where there would still be strength to deal with the attack of the powerful Jin army, so it was very possible to lose the country.

However, there is no point in worrying, Julian has decided to rebel, this is a fact that no one can change, as the commander of Constantinople, all he has to do is to do his best to defend Constantinople and prevent Julian's troops from breaking through the city, as for the total decline of the Roman Empire because of this rebellion, it is not a problem that he can solve, and he has no way to do it.

Under Severus's order, the 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city immediately launched active preparations, in order to transport enough materials to defend the city, Severus also recruited tens of thousands of people in the city, with the help of the people, the efficiency of the preparation was significantly accelerated, a large number of city defense materials were continuously transported on the city wall, and with these city defense materials, the probability of defending the city was greatly increased.

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On the road to Constantinople, the Roman Emperor Constantius II seemed a little uneasy, he always felt as if something was going to happen, but he couldn't tell what would happen.

"Your Majesty, it's not good that you're in a better mood." The Roman general Orleans greeted softly.

Constantius II nodded and said softly, "I'm a little distracted, as if something was going to happen. ”

"Is His Majesty the Emperor worried about the affairs of the Jin Army, or is it because of Julian's affairs." Orleans asked softly.

Constantius II said softly: "The Jin army is from thousands of miles away, what is there to worry about, what I'm worried about is Julian, his wings are getting harder and harder now, he actually dares to lead the troops to Constantinople without authorization, what kind of heart does he have, does he want to rebel?" ”

"His Majesty the Emperor is too worried, maybe Julian really came to reinforce His Majesty the Emperor." Orleans persuaded softly.

"You know very well what I do with Julian, do you think Julian will be grateful to me?" Constantius II spoke.

Apparently, he remembered better than anyone how he had treated Julian, and he was very afraid that Julian would hold a grudge and rebel against him.

And the reason why he reused Julian later was because his brother was the only one left with Julian, and he was confident that he could easily control Julian, so he would not allow Julian to have the opportunity to rebel, and when Julian was not needed, he could easily get rid of it, but the failure of the Eastern Crusade completely buried the elite soldiers and horses under his command, which made his confidence seriously low, without a strong army and horses, he could not be very effective in deterring Julian, so that Julian was obedient.

"Your Majesty, we will soon return to Constantinople, and when the time comes, we will let Julian enter the palace alone and interrogate him, so that we will naturally know the purpose of Julian's eastward march." Orleans said lightly.

Constantius II nodded lightly and said, "That's right, once I arrive in Constantinople, I'm going to let Julian enter the city alone, and ask him to explain why he is gathering a large army to march east for no reason." ”

"Report, Your Majesty the Emperor, the big thing is not good, General Severus has sent an urgent report, the 100,000 army under Julian is building a large number of siege equipment, it is estimated that it may be to attack Constantinople." Just then, a soldier rushed over and reported loudly.

"What, Julian is going to attack Constantinople, is this bastard crazy?" When Constantius II heard this, he immediately scolded angrily.

When Orleans and Marcellus and other generals heard this, they were all taken aback and looked at each other.

"Your Majesty, there are only 20,000 defenders in the city of Constantinople, and we must hurry back immediately." Orleans hurriedly suggested loudly.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, now our army is all cavalry, as long as you speed up, you can return to Constantinople in a few days." Marcellus said.

Constantius II nodded, and ordered loudly: "Order the whole army to speed up the march immediately, and must return to Constantinople within three days, and also, immediately order Severus to transfer all the transports of Constantinople to the east coast, so that when our troops and horses arrive at the ferry, they can quickly enter Constantinople by boat." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor." All the Roman generals shouted their orders and immediately went to carry them out.

Subsequently, the Roman Emperor Constantius II, personally led 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry, abandoned the baggage that did not have much effect, and rushed to the direction of Constantinople as fast as possible.

In the direction of Mulu City, Hua An and his subordinates were talking about how to collect the surrendered Roman soldiers, after all, there were more than 60,000 Roman soldiers who surrendered this time, including 20,000 Spartan soldiers and 20,000 soldiers.

"Your Majesty, in the opinion of the last general, these Roman soldiers should be mixed with the surrendered soldiers of Persia and Tianzhu, so that the soldiers of the three kingdoms will be mixed together, and they will not be able to rebel." A Jin army general Zhengse said.

"Yes! Your Majesty, these Roman legions should be mixed with the Persian legions and the Tianzhu legions, and only the mixed formation can prevent them from rebelling. Another Jin army general said.

Hua An nodded and said, "Okay, from tomorrow, these surrendered Roman soldiers will be incorporated into the auxiliary army, and let them mix with the Tianzhu and Persian armies to contain each other." ”

Wang San frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty, it seems a little inappropriate to mix it rashly!" The Persian soldiers knew the brutal massacre of the Roman army when it captured Ctesiphon, and if they were allowed to mingle, they would fear that they would not live in harmony but would fight each other, thus ruining our plans to build an auxiliary army. ”

When Hua An heard this, he thought for a while, nodded and said: "What you said is also right, now the Persian soldiers hate the Roman soldiers to the core, and rashly mixing them will indeed cause such consequences, but if these Roman soldiers are grouped alone, this king is worried that they will defect, after all, they are Romans, not my people of the Great Jin, and they will not have much recognition of the Great Jin for a while and a half, which is really difficult!" ”

Obviously, Huaan is also in a dilemma and does not know what to do.

"Your Majesty, it is better to disband them all and let them return to their hometowns to farm, so that this problem can be solved well." A Jin army general said.

"No, to return to their hometown is to return to Rome, as long as they go back, they will soon be called up again to join the army, so as to strengthen the strength of the Roman Empire, this is absolutely not good." Before Hua An could speak, Song Cheng hurriedly opened his mouth to object.

"Your Majesty, don't be in a hurry in everything, in the opinion of the last general, after a while, the anger in the hearts of the Persian soldiers will dissipate, and we will mix the Roman soldiers with the Persian and Tianzhu soldiers, and I believe that things may go relatively smoothly." Wang San opened his mouth and said.

Hua An frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "Okay!" For the time being, keep these Roman soldiers first, and then not take them in, and when the time comes, they will be co-opted. ”

Obviously, Hua'an did not want to let the Persian soldiers and the Roman soldiers fight each other because of the inclusion of Roman soldiers, so as to destroy the good image of the unity and mutual assistance of the auxiliary army of the Great Jin, which is not conducive to the long-term rule of the Western Region of the Great Jin. (To be continued.) )