I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 158 Consolidation
On the night of the fall of Liscam, the Gilis and Macedonians held positions along the areas they occupied. They dragged various materials to the streets and piled them up to form a roadblock that could hinder the soldiers' advance. They also posted additional sentries behind the roadblock. and patrols to prevent the enemy from launching attacks at night.

Their worries were completely unnecessary, because after a day of fighting, both the Gilis defenders and the soldiers of the Macedonian army felt very tired and had no energy to carry out the more difficult night attack. The soldiers of both sides lay in the tents. Get a deep sleep and recharge your batteries for the next day's battle.

Looking at the city of Liscam with only sparks of light, Antigonus stood on the city wall patrolling with his hands behind his back. The corpses on the city wall had long been cleaned up, leaving only the mottled bloodstains and indelible stains that could not be washed away in time. ballistic traces.

There is a faint smell of blood in the air, mixed with the refreshing freshness unique to the night. Antigonus does not know how many soldiers will lose their lives in tomorrow's siege, but what he can be sure of is that in today's siege, During the battle, we lost nearly a thousand heroic soldiers, and the hulls of the three Greek tri-radiators responsible for clearing the way were seriously damaged. A large amount of seawater was poured into the cabins, and they were already in a semi-sunken state.

However, the rewards for such a huge effort are also gratifying. Most of Liscam City is controlled or infiltrated by his troops. Even the port area is occupied by the naval forces who forcibly landed. All the ships parked inside and The supplies stored in their own warehouses in the port area also fell into the hands of the Macedonians and became their spoils of war. In addition, there were hundreds of defenders who knew they could not win and voluntarily surrendered to the Macedonians and became prisoners. .

Antigonus had great confidence in his side's ability to win the final victory. The Gillis army, which was trapped and struggling, could not defeat the Sarissa phalanx in street fighting. Before the battle, they could only return in vain, leaving behind corpses all over the ground.

Compared to Antigonus' self-confidence, the faces of Mitchelson, who used the city mansion as a command post, and his officers were clouded, and the air was shrouded in an atmosphere called despair. Everyone's eyes were closed. Looking blankly at the city defense map spread out on the table, thinking about what no one knows except themselves.

"The city gates in all four directions are occupied by the Macedonians. We are completely blocked in Liscam City. If we continue to fight, we will be annihilated by the Macedonians sooner or later." An officer spoke first, breaking the strange situation. There was silence, and as soon as he finished speaking, the officers around him seemed to have been turned on, and they all took action.

"The super-long guns equipped by the Macedonians have never been seen before, and the tactics they use are also unprecedented new tactics. With the advancement of the ultra-long gun phalanx, our soldiers cannot attack Macedonian soldiers at all. On the contrary, they can easily attack them." Piercing the bodies of our soldiers with long spears is simply asymmetrical warfare!"

"You are right, but we can't find a way to deal with it." Michelson glanced at the officer who spoke and said solemnly: "At first, our archers were able to inflict casualties on these Macedonian soldiers, but as time went by, The enemy's archers were also mobilized, and our archers had no chance to perform - our people couldn't even defeat the enemy's archers."

Speaking of this, he seemed a little aggrieved, as if he was dissatisfied with the embarrassing performance of his soldiers.

After Michelson finished speaking, the other officers fell silent again. The total number of soldiers they could take part in the battle was only 7000 at most. After a day of fighting, at least 3000 people had been killed. In addition, Many frightened soldiers simply took off their armor and fled into crowded and complicated alleys, becoming deserters and cowards who abandoned their honor and dignity.

The morale of the remaining soldiers was also low. All the food they relied on for survival was destroyed in the fire. The city wall was also captured by the Macedonian army who suddenly launched an siege. Most of the city fell into the hands of the enemy. If it were not for the suppression of the officers, most of the soldiers would have lost their morale. Some of the soldiers may have already dispersed in a hurry, and they also became deserters.

The officers all knew that the current predicament they were facing could not reverse the situation. Many of them even thought of surrendering to the Macedonians and ending this losing war that had already been decided. But no one wanted to be the first to stand out. They were all waiting for others to propose surrender first, and then borrow donkeys to go downhill and surrender together.

However, they waited until the end of the meeting and no one offered to surrender. The officers could only regretfully obey Mitchelson's order and prepare the army for the next day's attack.

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The next morning, after breakfast, the highly motivated Macedonian army once again launched a new day's attack. Under the exciting sound of bugles, countless Macedonian spear phalanxes crossed the roadblocks that were more symbolic than practical. The military bugle sounded, and they marched in uniform steps along the streets towards the center of the city.As soon as the Gillis soldiers heard the sharp bugle sound, they jumped up from their positions as if they were conditioned reflexes, holding weapons and shouting and running to their respective fighting posts. Some archers climbed up to the roof of the building with the help of wooden ladders. They tried to shoot at the Macedonians from a high position, but after they emerged, their location would soon receive special attention from several experienced Cretan archers. The two arms cooperated perfectly, leaving almost no chance for the Gillis to participate. Chance.

Under the steady tactics of the Macedonian army, the scope of activities of the Gillis army became smaller and smaller, and the number of soldiers killed by super long guns was also increasing. They had no intention of fighting. In the end, an officer led the crowd to launch a counterattack. After the Macedonian army surrendered for the first time, the defenders' will to resist completely collapsed. They laid down their weapons in groups and declared surrender. It was not until the afternoon of that day that Michelson committed suicide in the municipal official residence and the city of Liscam fell.

After the fall of Liscam City, the blockade on the city was quickly withdrawn, and the news of the city's fall immediately spread through various channels, and quickly spread throughout the Gillis Federation in a short period of time.Regarding the news of the fall of the federal capital, the attitudes of each force were different. The Matthaeus rebels were naturally delighted with the victory achieved by their allies. They also celebrated in their territories as the Gilis Federation, a great enemy, had suffered a heavy blow and began to The matter of the founding of the People's Republic of China was officially brought to the table.

In the north and other regions of the federation, the minds of the governors of various counties also began to become active. The three counties led by Saroyan, the governor of Shamei County in the north, began to take over the banner of the federal parliament and announced that in Shamei, the capital of Shamei County, Var reorganized the council and led the remaining Gilis people in a rebellion against the Macedonian invaders.Naturally, the governors of other counties would not recognize this so-called successor. They all used their own banners to split off one independent force after another.

Of course, some county governors feared the power of the Macedonian army, and directly sent envoys to negotiate with Antigonus to discuss matters of surrender. Antigonus responded generously and benevolently to these governors who expressed their willingness to surrender, and accepted their surrender unconditionally—this is also true. That's another story.

After occupying the entire city of Liscomb, Antigonus did not order the massacre of the city, considering the significance of the city to the Gillis. However, it is also true that they rose up to resist, and it is impossible for Antigonus to let it go so easily. They, so he just issued an order to plunder, asking the soldiers not to massacre the residents of the city as much as possible, but even so, many residents were killed in the resistance, especially the nobles living in the noble district in the center of the city , they were not willing to have their wealth taken away, so they defended the manor protected by the wall to resist, and in the end they were easily suppressed by the Macedonian soldiers. All those who participated in the resistance were crucified regardless of their status and placed in front of the Bundestag In the square, kill chickens to make an example to monkeys.

In the first few days of the looting, hundreds of people were executed every day for resistance or other crimes. Their blood flowed out of their homes and stained the streets in front of their homes. The civilians passing by watched all this numbly. I dare not have the thought of rebellion, because those who have the courage to resist are executed.

Under the Macedonian iron-fisted suppression, the order in Liscomb City gradually stabilized, and the spies of the Kingdom's Intelligence Department stationed here also gave up their lurking identities, and took on new identities to go to other places to perform tasks.Through conversations with these spies, Antigonus learned the price he paid for the arson that day: two spies were buried in the flames because they were too late to evacuate, and one spy was arrested by Gillis soldiers who heard the news when he was evacuating. Executed in public.

Sacrifice is something that spies often encounter when performing their missions. Antigonus knew this very well, but he still asked Evanus, the minister of the intelligence department, to give the families of the three spies a generous pension, and his children also had A spot in the Cadet Corps or Pella University.

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After taking the city of Liscam, the Macedonian army did not continue to attack. Seeing that the Macedonians had no offensive momentum, the splintered counties could safely withdraw more of the troops originally used to prevent them to join in with other forces. Although Saroyan knew that now was not the time for civil strife, the banner he raised could easily arouse the dissatisfaction of other governors. Therefore, he was forced to lead an army to meet the attacks of other governors, and a melee began.The Macedonians had no intention of getting involved. They just consolidated the existing occupied areas and watched the Gillis civil war with joy.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Matthaeus rebels are also actively expanding their territory, and their preparations for the founding of the country are coming to an end. Ilitekla originally wanted to invite Antigonus himself to be there to support him, but Antigonus still has the power to rule the eastern region. He declined Ilitekla's invitation on the grounds of instability, and instead sent his chief foreign affairs officer Hieromos to participate. Although Ilitekala was a little disappointed by this, he still didn't say anything.

Against this background, on August 8 of the same year, Ilitocla was officially crowned the king of the Kingdom of Matthaeus in the city of Ditape, becoming the king and spiritual leader of everyone in the entire area occupied by the Matthaeus religion. , after the coronation ceremony, King Ilitecra publicly announced a military alliance with the Kingdom of Macedonia, and together with Hielomus, claimed that they would withdraw the army from the Nuu County area and establish a new country there. After the Nuu Kingdom is established, it will form an alliance with the two countries to ensure that one of them will not send troops to carry out military aggression against the new kingdom...

The news that Matteus taught the rebels to establish a country quickly spread to the ears of other Gillian forces in the north, disrupting the plans of some of the governors. Some of them began to exchange envoys to discuss a ceasefire and decided to jointly fight against the threat. The larger Matthaeus Rebel Army——Ilite Kela didn't expect that he would unknowingly unite those governors of Gillis.

Antigonus in the city of Liscomb didn't care how the governors of Gilis and the so-called Mateus Kingdom would fight, he stopped completely after eating the rich land around Liscomb Instead of all military operations, he set up strongholds or camps at the junction with the governors of Gillis, in case some governors made a mistake and dared to attack him, and at the same time, he supported the local people in the occupied area. The well-known nobles and squires governed the newly conquered people through them, and abolished some of the harsh laws of the Gillis Federation period, allowing the Gillis civilians to slowly accept their rule.

It's not that Antigonus doesn't want to go north immediately to eliminate the remaining Gillis forces, mainly because he considers that the supply line from the Ogrell Peninsula to Liscomb is too long. If he goes further north, it will only consume food on the road It's a huge sum, so it's better to stop the expansion first and digest the occupied land.That's what he thought, and that's exactly what he did. After discussing with "One-Eyed" Antigonus and other generals, he finally decided to send all the troops back home except for the First Army, leaving only the more than 1 troops. Soldiers defend the occupied area.

After disbanding the army, Antigonus started to resume agricultural production and commercial trade in the occupied area. He salvaged the wreckage of the sunk ships in and around the Liscomb port, and cleared the route. Although there were not many merchant ships coming in and out at first, But as time went on, more and more merchant ships entered and exited this port. They were protected by the powerful Macedonian navy from the attack of the Gilis navy-under Saroyan's instructions, the remnant navy who obeyed his orders often Haunting the Gilis Sea, attacking merchant ships heading for Liskam, and after the Macedonian Navy was ordered to escort, the safety of this sea area was greatly improved, and the reputation of the Macedonians was even better.

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Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it came to the spring of the second year.

After half a year of war, the governors of Gillis suffered from both losses, and under the threat of the Macedonians and the Kingdom of Mateus, they merged into three new forces with different strengths. Hostility and attack, if not for the current foreign enemies, a full-scale war sweeping across the entire Gillis region would definitely break out.

(End of this chapter)