The Great Arcanist Who Traveled Through the World of American Variety Shows.

Chapter 629: Sweeping Western Europe
After attacking the city of Toulouse, Richard sent a group of soldiers who understood the Visigothic language to call on them to leave the city and surrender every day.

As long as they left the city and surrendered, they would be spared from death, and they were promised to be released as civilians after the war.

At first, the soldiers on the opposite side responded to the shouting with a barrage of curses, and some even used bows and arrows to fight back, but the arrows they shot could not reach them at all.

As the siege progressed, and Richard's army suppressed the enemy, the soldiers in the city began to curse less and less, and later they disappeared. However, no one left the city to surrender.

The soldiers in the city pretended not to hear the shouts of these people, but in fact many soldiers had already remembered them. These soldiers may not understand the battle formation, but they are very clear about the strength of the opponent.

Now they can only rely on the city walls for defense and cannot even counterattack. The chances of victory are slim, so these soldiers do not want to die and begin to look for a way out for themselves.

Today, explosive news came that the reinforcements from all over the country were completely wiped out by the enemy. Toulouse has become an isolated island, and there will be no more reinforcements for at least three months.

At first, many soldiers did not believe it, but many soldiers swore to believe it. Later, Richard released prisoners into the city several times, and more and more soldiers saw these prisoners and immediately understood the authenticity of the news.

Therefore, the entire army was in a complete panic.

At this time, if Thorismund came out and announced that this was the enemy's strategy, and then used his own prestige to stabilize the situation, he might still be able to stabilize the army. But Thorismund himself was also stunned by the news.

After all, although Torismund has experienced many wars, he is still young and inexperienced.

By the time he reacted, the news had spread throughout the military camp and the people in the city also knew about it. Although Thorismund immediately ordered his guards to block the news and then personally announced these enemy rumors.

Those soldiers were just civilians captured by the enemy in other towns in order to disrupt their own defenses.

But they simply did not accept this argument.

Thorismund could only suppress it forcefully and forbid people from talking about it anymore. On the surface, it seemed that he had suppressed the incident.

But in fact, his actions made people more certain that the captives were real and that the kingdom's reinforcements had been completely wiped out.

It was soon night and the guards felt tired. They stopped patrolling and instead stationed themselves in various strongholds.

In the military camp, the soldiers who had learned the truth began to quietly leave the camp after some discussion, then slid down the city wall with ropes and ran to the outside of Richard's camp to surrender.

In just one night, hundreds of soldiers climbed over the city walls and surrendered.

The next day, when Thorismund learned the news, he immediately imposed a blockade and ordered the soldiers to monitor each other. Once a deserter was discovered, his family would be punished, and the soldiers in the same team would also be punished.

At the same time, he ordered the Imperial Guards to strengthen patrols, hoping to suppress the army in this way.

However, his method of mutual supervision not only failed to play a supervisory role in this situation, but instead caused the army to flee and surrender in large groups.

Some soldiers even fought with the guards in order to escape. The situation in the city became a complete mess.

At this circumstance, Richard suddenly ordered the army to launch an attack. The army, which was in chaos at the time, had no defense at all. Many soldiers even dropped their weapons and surrendered after seeing the Roman army.

The morale of the army completely collapsed, and the Roman army easily occupied the city wall and opened the city gate. Then the army rushed into the city, some of them controlled various strongholds, and the other part rushed directly to the palace.

At this point, Thorismund, knowing that the situation was hopeless, fled on horseback under the protection of his personal guards, intending to flee to the northern defense line or the Gibraltar Legion in the south.

Unfortunately, Richard had already prepared troops waiting outside the city. His guards, along with himself, were surrounded by the army and had to surrender in the end.

In just one month, the city of Toulouse was conquered by the army led by Richard, and the army suffered minimal losses.

After occupying the city of Toulouse, Richard immediately ordered the cavalry to the north, asking them to cooperate with the Gallic Legion in the north, break through the northern defense line, and encircle the northern legion.

At this time, the Northern Army relied on the river defense line to confront the Gaul Province. Although the general in charge of the command had known that Toulouse was under siege a month ago.

But the army here didn't know about it, and in order to avoid the army's morale being shaken, the generals directly blocked the news. But this time, Richard sent cavalry to attack from behind them.

This time the northern defense line could no longer hold on. The cavalry suddenly launched an attack from the rear, directly disrupting the defense of the northern defense line. The Gallic Legion took the opportunity to launch an attack. Under the pincer attack from both sides, the northern defense line began to collapse.

At the same time, a large number of soldiers also heard the news that Toulouse had been captured and Thorismund had surrendered, which directly made the soldiers who originally wanted to resist become disheartened.

Even the general in charge of commanding the northern defense line was silent for a moment after hearing the news, and then gave an order, ordering all the soldiers to surrender.

The entire northern defense line surrendered. The Gallic Legion immediately led the army to capture all of the north of Toulouse, and the army joined forces in Toulouse.

After resolving the situation in the north of Toulouse, Richard directly ordered Chris and Horn to lead their troops to attack the remaining forces of the Visigothic Kingdom with the cooperation of the navy. With the help of the navy, all places along the coast of Spain became landing points for the army.

In just one month, all parts of Spain either surrendered or were conquered by the army.

With the surrender of the last army, the entire Visigothic Kingdom was completely destroyed by Richard.

After conquering the Visigothic Kingdom, Richard immediately ordered that all the Visigoths, except those who surrendered before he entered the city, be forcibly relocated to North Africa, Gaul, Italy and other regions.

Nearly 300,000 Visigoths were forcibly dispersed throughout the empire.

After the resettlement of 300,000 people, these Visigoths were directly diluted into the population of 6 million and basically could no longer make any waves.

Some of the remaining captives were left behind to continue living here. At the same time, Richard began to draw some people from the densely populated areas of Gaul and Italy to fill the blank areas left after the Visigoths were relocated.

Through this forced population migration, after just one or two generations, the entire Visigothic nation basically disappeared in the long river of history.

The people of this period had little awareness of ethnicity or country. Once they were split up, they would quickly merge into other ethnic groups.

After all, that’s how the Visigoths integrated other tribes.

Richard directly abolished the title of nobility of the Visigothic nobles, confiscated their land, and only left a small part of their property. Then these people were forced to migrate to Rome.

After arriving in Rome, these nobles would soon become commoners and integrate into Rome.

The Visigothic Kingdom was torn into pieces by Richard in the blink of an eye, and finally disappeared. Perhaps there will only be a few records of it in future history books.

In addition to these, Richard launched the Equal Distribution of Land in Spain and the Order to Release Slaves. Through these two orders, Richard easily won the hearts of the Spanish people.

The entire Spanish province quickly stabilized and began to resume production.

In addition to farming, the Spanish province also has a large number of mines with abundant metal mineral resources. Richard collected these minerals into the Roman treasury and then arranged for craftsmen to begin developing this area.

Spain can serve as another treasure house of the empire.

After regaining the Spanish province, Richard appointed Drenos as the governor of the Spanish province, and then was responsible for the reconstruction of Spain and the development of mineral resources.

If nothing unexpected happens, Spain will become the rear base of the Roman Empire.

As for the British Isles in the Atlantic Ocean, once Richard has time, he can simply send a navy to destroy them.

Britain was still in chaos at this time, and the Anglo-Saxons were wreaking havoc here. If Richard sent a large army here, he would immediately be welcomed by the Celts.

After experiencing the invasion and looting of Anglo-Saxon pirates, these people realized the benefits of having a father.

Without a father to protect them, they would only be beaten.

In addition to these, Richard ordered the army and the Gallic Legion to launch a direct counterattack against the Germanic barbarians in the north.

When Richard attacked the Visigothic Kingdom, the Germanic barbarians in the north also cooperated with the Visigothic Kingdom to launch an attack on Gaul.

Richard would not let go of those enemies who dared to attack him. Previously, because the Gaul army was attacking the Visigoths, the northern part of the Gaul province could only rely on castles for defense.

These Germanic barbarians looted here and stole a lot of food. Now that the Visigothic Kingdom has been dealt with, it is natural to turn around and deal with these Germanic barbarians.

When the army returned, the Germanic barbarians had no idea that the Visigothic Kingdom had been destroyed. In their opinion, the Visigothic Kingdom was so powerful that it would not be easy for Rome to defeat them.

They simply don't realize it.

As a result, when the Roman Gallic army returned here, there was no defense at all. The Gallic army immediately attacked, and the scattered looting Germanic barbarians were caught off guard and had no time to react.

A large number of soldiers were killed by the army. By the time they realized something was wrong, the Germanic barbarians had already suffered heavy losses. This time, let alone looting, not many of them could return alive.

(End of this chapter)