Chapter 224 - 223
The overall war is going well.
The Greecian forces have been forced back to the point that they’ve left the Spartan lands in their entireity.
The sting from the invasion still marks the lands, and the war machine that is our own army continues to churn.
The number of slaves we’ve aquired through repeated combat against the greecian allied nation has swelled our number incredibly so.
We’ve honored our agreements and sent "tribute" in the form of slaves back to the Spartan crown, while the majority of them remain in our own hands, at regular intervals we’ve started to send the Greecians identified with skills other than those of combat away and back to the coast where, our waiting fleet will ferry them across the ocean back to Romanus to fuel our growing kingdom and it’s burgeoning industries.
However our fleets could only take so many of these captives with them, meanwhile the war itself was technically still ongoing, the Greecians had been pushed back but their ability to wage war had not yet been dealt with, their elites mightve fallen but the overall population of their nations could easily call up new levies to field armies vastly outnumbering our own.
However we did not do this, we did uproot ourselves from our defensive base at the fortification we’d previously made, instead keeping it as an outpost along the road towards the coast where goods and slaves were hastily being ferried in either direction, our main force meanwhile left spartan lands but only just, across the point that both sides would say was no long Spartan lands we staked out claim and conquered a swathe of land.
The Spartan King could only honor the agreement and remain within Spartan lands not going on the offensive himself.
His royal guard likewise wanted to join us and see further combat, but with all lands returned to them without a vote from their senate of elders or the religious leaders there was nothing they could do without breaking the law.
And no man commoner or king was above that law.
So the Roman’s were free to march off, leaving their escort behind.
Being freed from spartan lands allowed Julius to also adjust their combat measures back to something they were more used to, the methods drilled into his legionaires by their own military captains and generals back home.