Chapter 248 - 246
Our time on the defesive was over, the Greecian peasent army had been broken and routed by the Romanus Auxillary army, that had followed in the advancing wake of the Romanus second legion.
The day had passed and the siege broken, the exhausted forces were relaxing the besieged were gorging on fresh supplies brought in by the Auxillary force.
Meanwhile Julius was absent from the feast, within his command tent atop the hill with commanders of the Germanian, and Dacian forces who’d come to their aid.
"King Julius, we are pleased to see you are well, and are glad to join you on your warpath!"
"Yes! Let the tales of blood flow, songs will be sung about our battles till the end of time!"
"Good good, pleasure to meet both of you commanders. As you noticed we’ve been here for some time now, so we’re a bit behind on news of the warfront how are thing progressing?"
"Sir, well firstly all territory save for Athenia have been overtaken or surrendered to your crown, but..."
"Yeah, sadly it’s not all good news?"
"Oh?"
Hearing this shocked Julius the fall of Greecia was almost a forgone conclusion at this point given their repeated defeats, the fall of their entire professional army, and then the fall or capture of thousands of their levies.
The commanders present shifted uncomfortably in place, each making eyes at the others silently trying to decide who should speak.
"Out with it, what don’t we know?"