Re: Chronicle of Laurentiu
"July year 410 of our Lord Christ.The Huns led by theyr commander Tengiz, put siege to the roman city of Sirmium , in Moesia. In a few months, they were ready to storm the town, and even more hunnic reinforcements were ready to cross the Danube at any moment to support the invading force.
Emperor Theodosius gave command to Cassius Laetus, a noble daco-roman from Hadrianopole , sending him many of the elite forces in Constantinopole, in order to save Sirmium and re-establish a limes on the Danube. In a matter of weeks, Cassius assembled an army, and altough he was an inexperienced leader, he managed well to command its man with the strenght of wise words. He went to Durostorum, south of Scythia Minor establishing a fort , and also a couple of wathctowers. Then, he went further west, establishing another fort between the town of Bononia and the what-was the roman colony of Sucidava in Dacia.
He prepared to launch an attack in autumn against the Huns, hoping to catch them by surprise in the nearby woods....
In the same period, the Emperor Theodosius has decided to deal with the pagan problem, by giving to the pagans all across the empire three cities to live whithin, the city of Pergamum, known in more ancient times as the Seat of Satan, the city of Ancyra in Galatia, and the city of Nicomedia.... off course, the christians in these cityes started rebelions, and all in all of the western Asia Minor they gathered in armed groups blocking the trade routes and devastating the fields. In response, the Emperor has ordered the troops to go and hunt for these "brigands", and in a few weeks all of them have been caught and killed, hunted down to the last in a brutal manner.
Meanwhile, in Caesarea - Mazaca, there was much fear as the armies of Persia marched towards Cilicia and the rich mining city of Tarsus. But there where no troops to spare as Antioch needed defense, and Edessa also.
The roman troops in Syria gathered under the command of one captain, and decided to attack in haste the poorly defended persian city of Hatra, in Assirya... and Hatra did fall easily into the hand of the romans, as it was poorly defended. Howewer, once the city was secured, the local zoroastrians filled by hatred against our kind declared a rebellion, so the city`s population needed to be slaughtered. Howewer, the christians did spare the woman and the children, and also the man who submitted to the Emperor`s rule.
Further north, the Armenian Kingdom made alliance to the Persiand and even more, the Ivirians threathened to do the same. So in answer, a siege was put on the city of Kotais, to determine the proud Ivirians to submit."
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"Autumn, year 410 of our Lord Christ.In the early autumn, the daco-roman Cassius Laetus, marched with its army trough the Haemus Mons, under the cover of deep woods, towards Sirmium. And it came into the field to meet with the army of the Hunic warlord Tengiz. The garrison of Sirmium also sent some man to join the battle.
Cassius deployed all its army into a deep forest, to have protection from the deadly hunic bows... he ordere to the man not to go out of the forest, as the huns will slaughter them easily...
Howewer , when the battle begin, some Milites Romani left the woods, and in a matter of seconds they were shot to death by the Hunic horse archers. Tengiz believed it would be indeed an easy victory, and he sended all his army to attack ... warriors from all the Barbaricum could be seen in his army, some of them caming from the most remote areas of the northern steppes. And they charged, and trough the forest they run screaming wildly, but the comitateneses wayted for them, hidden, only to unlish a deadly rain of javelins upon them. Hundreds of Huns died... and the Hunic light infantry fled the field. But then Tengiz sent to the battle the mighty Argaragantes Sarmatians, wild men who knew to wield well both sword and bow, but again they fled... and even Tengiz has fled, as the bodyguards of Cassius slaughtered almost all of his cavalrymen... The Huns fled in terror from the forest, only to be awaited in at the outskirts by the reinforcements from Sirmium.
And thus Cassius Laetus won a great victory, with the help of our Lord Christ, saving the northern christian towns from great perils !
Into Syria, Hatra was secured even more, and two pitched battles were fought at its outskirts against invading persian armies. Mardonius, the persian satrap of Ctesiphon meet his death in the second battle, with his entire army . And many persian women remained widows, as the military guvernor of Hatra hired to fight some terrible man, caming from the steppes... some where huns, some where of sarmatian kin, others might have been of gothic kin as well. They asked for little money, and fought very well in deserts, raining death onto the enemyes from theyr composite bows. They where fearless, and with no mercy by any mean... even the mighty Gyan Avsphar, the Immortals, could not deal with them in open field, such was theyr power when in great numbers...
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