After the battle, Constantinus takes a moment to contemplate the dead.
Constantinus: What a catastrophe.
Edobichus: What do you mean? We won.
Constantinus: But now we are weaker, look at those men, we could not face a band of peasants, so pray to God the romans got tired of sending armies to these fields.
Edobichus: And what if they do, we have proven time and time again that we can handle ourselves in battle.
Constantinus: That is because we had a professional legion under our command, that legion is dead right in front of you.
Edobichus: so? We´ll recruit more.
Constantinus: With what money? Constans constantly mentions in his letters the squalor that they live in Avaricum because of the lack of infrastructure, there is not enough money to go around. Look I have been thinking and perhaps soon will be the time to return to Britannia.
Edobichus: endless joy fills my heart by hearing those words.
Constantinus: but we need to secure this front with Honorius.
Edobichus: how are we to achieve this?
Constantinus: I… don´t know, what I know is that we fight for a worthy cause so God is surely on our side, He would not let that weak dog Honorius rule half of Rome.
After this last battle, Constantinus´s army was dangerously depleted, it would be months until something that resembles an army can be put together, and in the meantime the WRE is not waiting around. They send even more armies through the Alps to besiege lugdunum, fortunately the city is flanked by a river and a mountain, which prevents two armies from attacking at the same time.
When the first attack came the odds were not on our side.
Captain Tribigildus thought everything was lost when the romans built siege towers with scorpions on top of them, which made defending the walls suicide, so the plan became to hold the central square. The walls were not given for free however, for archers positioned on the towers gave the invaders hell and many romans died due to this guerrilla tactic.
The WRE were smart enough to send in a reconnaissance unit, but they were not smart enough to not engage in combat with the spear wall that was defending the street, and got slaughtered as a result.
One lonely unit managed to kill a lot of cavalry by just blocking a street because the AI isn´t smart enough to realize they were there and just tried to move through them.
Next up the WRE sent some heavier cavalry but they met the same fate as the scouts that came before. When the infantry came, it was a lot tougher but we manage to hold out.
But this was not the end, there are two more armies waiting their turn to attack.
The situation did not look good, but Constantinus´s army was not strong enough to take the iniciative.
Once more the walls are abandoned, and the city center is defended. The invaders won´t hesitate about pillaging the city, and the people fighting to defend it are it´s very citizens. A section of the wall was destroyed by underground mines, trapping a group of archers, they did not hesitate in charging carelessly, knowing fully well the end as come for them.
And once again the romans tried to assault the town center and achieved initial success, but their tactics could not give them victory, the Romans sent a unit at a time hoping that their superior quality would be enough to break the rebel’s shildwall.
After much fighting the WRE did not took Lugdunum, and most of them didn’t even keep their lives.
Yet there still is the third army ready to storm the city and the citizens are becoming tired of all this war devastating their homes.