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Chapter 606 Mansion Soldiers
Richard chose to let these people go, but at the same time he had to give them a severe punishment.

Joining the vassal army is a good punishment. If you can behead three levels, you will naturally recover. If you die in battle, there is nothing to say.

On the other side, Richard also punished Horn. Richard didn't care about his subordinates trying to win people's hearts. If the commander didn't protect his soldiers, Richard would doubt whether he was suitable to be the commander.

Since he wanted to save these people, Richard gave him a chance.

But this will not happen again. Military discipline is no joke.

Richard directly ordered that he be stripped of all his official posts, and now he was required to make meritorious contributions while serving his sentence and temporarily take over the position of commander-in-chief. Then he ordered his men to beat him with a hundred military sticks.

An ordinary person would have been beaten to death by a hundred military sticks, but only these extraordinary knights could not take it seriously.

After resolving this incident of killing prisoners, the army continued to advance. This area, which later belonged to Belgium and the Netherlands, was now basically occupied by the Germanic people. Richard sent a large army to sweep across the area. The Gallic Legion, which had been re-armed and strictly trained, was completely beyond the ability of the Germanic people to resist.

After several consecutive victories in the field, the remaining Germans no longer dared to fight the Gallic Legion in the field, and they all fought to defend the city. However, defending the city is not something that ordinary people can afford.

The Gallic Legion had a wide variety of siege weapons, including catapults, siege towers, and ladders, which were used one after another. The small Germanic cities could not be defended at all.

More importantly, while they were being beaten badly by the Gallic Legion in the front, a fleet on the Rhine River in the rear directly cut off the connection between these Germans and other Germans.

After a series of defeats and with their retreat cut off, the Germans on the south bank of the Rhine completely collapsed.

It took Richard only two months to defeat all the Germans who had invaded Gaul for decades, and more than 100,000 Germans surrendered.

Richard completely dispersed these Germans and scattered them to the Rhine Province, Lyon and Paris. The prisoners of war were incorporated into the production corps.

In the following period, these production corps were sent to various places to build roads, reclaim land, mine and construct various large-scale buildings.

The Germans in the production corps need to work here for five years before they will be released and become ordinary people. Of course, they can also choose to join the vassal army.

After defeating these Germanic peoples, the Germanic tribes on the north bank of the Rhine also realized that the situation was not good and formed an army to move south, but this army was soon blocked by Richard's Rhine Corps.

The Rhine Army, which had ships, fought several battles with the Germans with the help of the ships and completely defeated this German coalition force.

After the defeat of this German army, the psychology of the Germans on the north bank of the Rhine completely collapsed, and some small Germanic tribes began to surrender voluntarily.

Richard also accepted these people, but all the Germans had to be dispersed and were no longer allowed to live together as tribes. Instead, they were split up into families and settled.

Richard completely recaptured the south bank of the Rhine.

After regaining the Rhine region, Richard did not continue to attack northward. The Germanic people in the north were poor and incompetent, and attacking here would be a thankless task.

Richard planned to build beacon towers and strongholds along the Rhine River to prevent the Germanic people from plundering from the south. At the same time, his attention began to turn to the Visigoths in the southwest.

The Visigoths were also a threat. Over the past few decades, they had been constantly attacking the Gaul province, just like the Germanic peoples.

Later, Aetius led his army and fought several consecutive battles with the Visigoths, forcing the Visigoths to sign a peace treaty and no longer dared to invade.

But after Rome was defeated by the Hun Empire, the Visigoths realized the weakness of Rome, so they have been causing friction on the border in recent times.

Richard planned to teach the Visigothic Kingdom a lesson and then occupy the Pyrenees Mountains to establish a defensive stronghold.

The Pyrenees Mountains are the natural dividing line between Gaul and the Visigothic Kingdom. Over the past few decades, this dividing line has been occupied more by the Visigothic Kingdom. Richard plans to build a line of defense here to block the Visigothic Kingdom inside.

In fact, a better way to deal with the Visigothic Kingdom would be to attack from both the sea and the land. However, Gaul is currently limited in strength and has not built a large-scale navy. Richard plans to recruit the navy after he occupies Rome.

At that time, the army would attack from both sea and land, completely destroy the Visigothic Kingdom, and restore the territory of the Roman Empire.

If you want to quickly resolve the Visigothic Kingdom, you need a strong navy. Currently, only Rome has this technology and ability. Richard plans to occupy Rome and then build a strong navy. By then, the entire Mediterranean will be his territory.

The Roman Peninsula has a very advantageous geographical location in the Mediterranean, almost occupying the middle of the Mediterranean. As long as it has a strong navy, it can attack from all sides of the Mediterranean.

This is also one of the reasons why the Roman Empire was able to establish a vast territory. After all, sea transportation is much more convenient and faster than land transportation.

With a strong navy, it is easy to control the Mediterranean Sea. After defeating the Germans, Richard began to build beacon towers on the Rhine River and divide the land in the area on the north bank of the Rhine River.

Because they often had to defend against the Germans in the north, the amount of land here was larger. In other places, the average land was 15 to 20 mu, but here it started at 40 mu.

At the same time, in order to encourage the soldiers to settle here, all soldiers who were willing to settle down were directly allocated 100 acres of land, and were also given wives, cattle, sheep and other livestock.

In fact, Richard was planning to establish a military system similar to the Fubing system here, so as to establish a military system here that could defend against the northern Germanic peoples in the long term.

The Fubing system has many advantages, and it can reduce the country's financial investment in the military. Fubing does not need military pay, and even needs to provide their own weapons, horses, and armor. Once there is a war, they will be called up. At the same time, Fubing generally has good financial resources and is from good families.

He was skilled in martial arts and the army he formed was also quite strong. In ancient times, the Tang Dynasty relied on the Fubing system to sweep across the world.

Of course, the fubing system is not a perfect system. Once the fubing system reaches the middle stage of national development, it is basically difficult to maintain.

A series of problems such as population growth and land annexation would make the fubing system unsustainable.

After all, the Fubing system requires a steady supply of land to support it. Another thing is that the Fubing cannot suffer consecutive defeats, because once this happens, it will cause the Fubing to go bankrupt.

When the country re-recruited soldiers, they needed to purchase armor, weapons and horses again. Also, because of the defeat, the soldiers did not get any share of the spoils. It was okay once, as they could use their previous savings, but if it happened twice in a row, the soldiers were basically bankrupt.

After all, the prices of war horses, weapons and armor in this era are not cheap.

Another important reason was the issue of land annexation. The state had no spare land to allocate to the new soldiers. Without land, there would naturally be no soldiers.

This is also the reason why the army changed to a recruitment system after the mid-Tang Dynasty.

Gaul is now vast and sparsely populated. According to the development of the times, even if the military system is implemented, it can last at least a hundred years. If there is no land in the future, it can expand outward. There are lands in North Africa, Britain, Northern Europe and West Asia.

Oh, and there are also those lands in Eastern Europe.

As long as it expands outward, Europe is not like East Asia, where its territory will eventually reach a point where it cannot be expanded any further.

Besides, after Richard finishes the God War and seizes the divinity, he will leave this world. It depends on the wisdom of future generations.

Unless Richard is willing to leave offspring in this world and give them extraordinary powers, the dynasty will eventually perish.

After defeating the Germans, Richard began to distribute the land he recovered in the north evenly. At the same time, he built several cities along the Rhine River. These cities served as connecting hubs of the Rhine defense line, forming a complete Rhine defense line.

At the same time, Richard established several naval forces here. The navy and the army were used for defense. It would be much more difficult for the Germanic people in the north to move south.

Richard stationed a large number of soldiers here, and the formation of the palace soldiers made the military force here sufficient. When the defense system here is completed, it will not be the Germans who move south, but the Gallic Legion that will move north to plunder.

Having resolved the northern border threat through this war, Richard once again entered a phase of rest and recuperation.

But the situation of Rome at this time was not very good. Because it had paid a huge amount of compensation to the Hun Empire, the finances of the Roman Empire were becoming increasingly difficult.

In order to solve financial problems, Aetius had to carry out financial reforms, but financial reforms were bound to affect the interests of the nobility and monotheism.

After all, the only people who still have money in the Roman Empire are the nobles and monotheistic religions. If we don't ask them for money, we won't be able to squeeze much money out of ordinary people.

Naturally, the nobles and monotheists would not be happy about this. After all, in the eyes of these nobles and monotheists, it was they who solved the crisis of the last Hun invasion.

Now that the crisis has been resolved, the Roman Empire is not thinking about how to repay the debt, but instead wants to cut flesh from them. How can this make sense?
As a result, these nobles and monotheists became increasingly dissatisfied with Aetius.

At the same time, due to the increase in taxes, even the lives of ordinary people in the city became more difficult, and Aetius' reputation began to reverse in just one year.

This made Aetius' reforms increasingly difficult to sustain. The non-cooperation of the nobles and the resistance of monotheism made it difficult for Aetius's decrees to be implemented, and there was widespread resentment in the local area.

Aetius was also overwhelmed and unable to cope with the situation.

(End of this chapter)