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Chapter 618 Recovering North Africa
In North Africa, Carthage is the largest city and the former capital of the Roman North African province. In those days, the North African powers Carthage and Rome fought several wars.

Carthage even invaded Italy at one point and almost reached Rome, but was ultimately defeated by Rome.

From then on, Carthage became a Roman colony, the Carthaginians were reduced to slaves, Rome won a complete victory and gained hegemony over the Mediterranean.

Now the city is occupied by the Vandals, and the Romans who were originally here have basically either been killed or become slaves of the Vandals.

In the past, the Vandals relied on their army to suppress the people here, but now almost all of the Vandal army has been lost in Rome and is no longer sufficient to suppress the locals.

Under such circumstances, the Vandals gave up many places in North Africa and gathered their troops in Carthage, hoping to use the walls of Carthage to fight against Richard's army.

Richard's expeditionary force soon landed in North Africa. After a brief training, the 20,000-strong army headed directly towards Carthage. At this time, Carthage was still building various defensive facilities and the city was relatively stable.

However, there were undercurrents among the slaves in the city. These slaves already knew that the Vandals had been defeated and suffered heavy losses in strength, and now they were all looking forward to the arrival of the Roman army.

Some people even wanted to take the opportunity to revolt.

Richard led his army to Carthage. Although this North African city was not as magnificent and tall as Rome, it was still a rare large city in that era.

The Vandals were able to break through here because they took advantage of the opportunity to launch a surprise attack. At that time, the Roman nobles and a large number of citizens in the city were watching the horse racing competition.

They had never expected that the Vandals would make a long-distance attack, and were caught off guard and were directly captured by the Vandals.

These tall city walls may be difficult to conquer for others, but for Richard's Gallic Legion, they are nothing.

Under Richard's guidance, the Gallic Legion has mastered the methods of manufacturing siege equipment such as catapults, siege vehicles, ladders, and ramps.

With these engineering equipment, the city defense conditions of that era could not resist at all.

The army surrounded the city of Carthage, then unloaded various materials from the ships and manufactured siege equipment directly on site.

Once completed, launch an attack directly.

Faced with the attack of the Gallic Legion, these old, weak and sick Vandals, who had not received systematic training, fought desperately but were still defeated by the attack of the Gallic Legion.

Four ramparts were erected high near the city wall, with rows of archers on them looking down from above to suppress the city walls. On the other side, battering rams and ladders quickly rushed to the edge of the city wall. When the ladders fell, teams of soldiers swarmed up.

Those Vandal soldiers were no match for the well-trained Gallic soldiers.

The battering ram slammed into the city gate violently. Even though there were a large number of people behind the gate to resist, it was only a matter of time before the city gate was broken under the impact of the battering ram.

Richard commanded the army's attack in an orderly manner. With God's vision, he could easily find the enemy's weaknesses, and then directly command the army to attack.

Soon the Vandals could no longer bear it, and the heavy casualties left loopholes in their defense line.

At this time, the slaves in the city took the opportunity to start a riot, and the Vandals did not have enough troops to suppress it.

The city soon fell into chaos, and the rebellious slaves began to attack the city gates. Richard immediately ordered his soldiers to suppress the city gates and then took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack.

Soon the Vandals, attacked from both sides, could no longer hold on.

The city gates were lost and the city walls were lost.

A large number of Gallic soldiers rushed into the city and began to attack the Vandals.

In just one day, the North African capital of Carthage was captured by Richard's army, and the casualties were unexpectedly small.

The army then began to clear out the city and restore order in the city.

Richard did not intend to destroy the city, so as soon as he occupied the city, he ordered that those who surrendered would be spared, and at the same time sent out a law enforcement team. Anyone who dared to take advantage of the fire to rob, burn, kill and loot would be beheaded.

Then, Richard issued a notice to reassure the people, announcing the abolition of slavery. All slaves were freed and became free people. At the same time, he ordered people to control the treasury and open the granaries to release grain.

On one side, the army was responsible for maintaining order, and on the other side, food was distributed. Soon the entire city was under his control. Next, Richard once again used the equal distribution of land.

The successful implementation of the equal-field system, which divided the land among the common people in the city, won him the support of the people. After completing the occupation of Carthage, Richard also implemented military management here.

Then, using Carthage in North Africa as a base, they began to conquer other areas of North Africa and brought these lands back under Roman rule.

With his powerful military strength and the magic weapon of the Equal Distribution Order, the entire North Africa was completely pacified by him without any disturbance. Whether it was the former Vandals or the tribes in various parts of North Africa, they were all conquered by Richard.

The subsequent equal distribution of land directly destroyed the ruling foundation of those people, and peace was restored in the whole of North Africa.

After defeating the Vandals, Richard re-established the North African province, and then began to restore and rebuild it with Carthage as the provincial capital. Richard left 10,000 troops to garrison North Africa, and also left those Greek scholars here.

These Greek scholars were proficient in mathematics and had systematically studied government affairs, so they had become qualified officials.

After the conquered land was cleared, the population was counted, and then the land was measured and distributed to the slaves at the bottom of society.

As for the Vandals, except for some who refused to surrender and were killed, the rest were all reduced to slaves. These people would be sent to the province of Gaul, and after farming for a few years, they would be pardoned and become ordinary people.

At the same time, the former Germanic barbarian slaves in the Gaul province would be freed and transported here to be allocated land.

In this way, Richard balanced the populations of various places and then integrated them through the law.

Basically, as long as you don't mess around, these places won't become messy.

At the same time, Richard used these Greek scholars as officials, and polytheistic beliefs began to spread rapidly here.

The North African province used to believe in Arianism. After the two wars of the Vandals and Richard, a large number of Arian believers began to believe in polytheism.

Monotheism? Will it give us land? Will it save us from the water? Will it free us from slavery? No? Then I don't believe it.

Now all of this is given by His Majesty Richard. We will believe in whatever His Majesty Richard tells us to believe in.

The slaves who were freed and given land by Richard had a worship for Richard that completely surpassed their previous beliefs. If Richard was willing, these people would immediately worship him as a god.

It's a pity that Richard didn't plan to deify or form a church, so he didn't need these believers. Eventually polytheism began to develop rapidly here.

There is a lot of land in North Africa. In order to guard this land, Richard plans to implement the military system here. The Carthage region has a lot of fertile land, but a small population.

Richard planned to station 5,000 soldiers here, allocating 100 acres of land, cattle, sheep and war horses to each soldier, and at the same time allocating the captured women to these soldiers.

Let the soldiers settle down and start a family here.

After his operation, Richard deployed 5,000 soldiers.

With these soldiers stationed there, there would be no problems in the North African province for the next 10 to 20 years. At the same time, when North Africa recovers and develops, when Richard attacks the Visigothic Kingdom, he can launch an attack from three directions: North Africa, Gaul, and the sea.

By then, the Visigothic Kingdom would be doomed.

As long as the Visigothic Kingdom is destroyed, the land of the Western Roman Empire will basically be recovered. As for the overseas British Islands, after the Visigothic Kingdom is destroyed, a navy can be formed to conquer them.

There is chaos on the British Isles now. Since the Romans withdrew, the Celts, Welsh and Anglo-Saxons have started fighting each other.

It can be said that the entire British population dropped sharply to less than one-third of its heyday, and the Anglo-Saxons then gained the upper hand.

According to the development of history, the British Isles will be in chaos for at least two or three hundred years.

Richard has plenty of time to retake this place.

As for whether the Celts would welcome the return of Rome, these miserable Celts, who had experienced repeated beatings by Anglo-Saxon pirates and northern barbarians, had sent envoys to the empire for help several times.

Without the protection of the empire, these Celts were eventually killed and turned into a minority.

If the empire entered the British Isles, the oppressed Celts would probably have to prepare food and drink to welcome the royal army.

The reconstruction of the Roman Empire was already on the agenda, and the decline of monotheism was getting faster and faster. In fact, not only the Roman Catholic Church, but even the Arian sect that occupied Milan in the north was weakening.

Because of the war, a large number of humans died, and the rapid development of polytheism supported by Richard also squeezed the population of monotheism. Now only Gnosticism was the least affected.

But when Richard began to unify the East and West Rome, the Gnosticism would inevitably decline. More importantly, with the revival of polytheism, polytheism in the Greek region also began to quietly revive.

In the Eastern Roman Empire, the most populous place was the Greek Islands, followed by Constantinople. The emergence of these polytheistic religions was quickly recognized by the Greeks.

After all, Greece was once the stronghold of polytheism.

Today, it has only been a few decades since polytheism was completely banned, and some older people still clearly remember the glory of polytheism.

Richard looked up at the sky, which represented that the area of ​​the monotheistic kingdom had begun to shrink, while the area of ​​the polytheistic kingdom, which had been squeezed and almost disappeared, was expanding.

Seeing this situation, Richard thought to himself that the battle between him and the Creator's kingdom of God was not far away.

(End of this chapter)