Chapter 221: Night Raid (3)
While not the total sum of their forces, a considerable number of the enemy army submitted themselves in defeat against the legions.
As they were processed it was found that not one of them had tried to sneak a blade through in an attempt at assassination.
Honor truly was everything to these people.
The ability to honorable fall on the field of battle, but instead to live for the sake of their comrades and nation, accepting that the crimes they’d commited up to this point against the Spartan’s was what led them now to receiving their just desserts against their Latinium foes.
While we were busy processing those who’d chosen to surrender a runner on horse back approached informing me that the rest of the enemy who’d chosen not to surrender had refused surrender and decided to attempt escape instead, while the army was busy dealing with their new captives.
It was far from an organized retreat, as the men had simply grabbed whatever they could carry it seems and were running in a disorderly mass.
Our limited cavalry were running them down of course but due to the size of the retreating force it would mean that most of them would manage to escape from us, back to the north where they would have a city to hide within.
As much as we wanted to give chase we simply could not, the number of our war slaves climbed once more by the thousands, and we needed first to coordinate where to put and how to feed all these new people.
The King was both impressed at our capture and outraged that we had let the enemy escape however cooler heads prevailed when he realized that the invaision had been stopped and their northern city while still fallen could now be retaken by the Spartan’s themselves.