After the establishment of the Roman Empire, the Romans were strong and powerful, and often beat the surrounding barbarians to lose their armor. However, no matter how powerful the empire faced the collapse of the cornerstone slavery system, it could only lament that time was gone and inevitably declined. Previously, the barbarians who did not dare to invade the Romans also made a comeback, pushing the empire into the abyss of destruction.
However, the old saying is very good, "Ten chambers of the house, there will be faithfulness", when the Roman Empire was in decline, and the barbarians were suffering everywhere, people with lofty ideals began to emerge, leaving their mark on the imperial history books that recorded the turbulent years.
Among them were Aetius and Boniface, who were extremely capable in the late Western Roman Empire. Because they fought all their lives for the Western Roman Empire and achieved brilliant results, historians call them "the last Romans". In my opinion, the two of them are comparable to Wei Qing and Huo Fuyi during the Period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, and they were the imperial double bi of Western Rome at that time.
When the Roman Empire entered the end of the fourth century, it was divided into two under the influence of various factors. Although the divided Roman Empire was still ruled by the sons of Theodosius the Great, the identity of the same empire and the blood kinship of the family did not bring unity to the two sides.
As a result, the barbarians, who had barely coped with it, marched westward and were no longer able to resist. From the specific point of view, because the Western Rome is located in Western Europe and can be connected with Central and Eastern Europe by land, the Western Rome is facing a more severe situation than in the east.
Especially after the death of Emperor Hornorius, the newly succeeded Emperor Valentinian III was young, and the Western Roman Empire was run by his mother, Placidia. Facing the orphaned and widowed Western Roman court, it was instinctive to feel that the western part of the Roman Empire was about to fall into continuous turmoil. After all, under such circumstances, it is very easy to have internal and external troubles.
However, this did not happen precisely because Prasidius had full trust in Aetius and Boniface at that time, and let them command the Western Legion, which secured the rule of the Western Roman Empire.
For the western part of the Roman Empire, its main territory was only three regions, namely, Italy, Gaul and Spain, and North Africa. As long as Gaul and North Africa maintained stable rule, the Western Roman court's rule over the empire was as stable as Mount Tai, after all, one was an area that could directly threaten the security of Gyeonggi, while the other maintained Italy's food security problems.
Aetius and Boniface, on the other hand, were in charge of a region, and with their abilities, won many victories against the barbarians. Their victory allowed the prestige of the Western Roman court to be gradually restored, and the court's rule over the west was gradually restored.
Although the war in and outside the Western Roman Empire at this time was still continuing, the Romans finally ushered in a period of relatively peaceful life after decades of barbarian ravages. This credit depends entirely on the efforts of Aetius and Boniface, whose military strikes have enabled the once rampant barbarian plunder to be effectively curbed.
However, a mountain does not allow two tigers, two people look at each other unfavorably, often friction. Originally, the court should have done a good job of balancing, but the supreme ruler of Western Rome, Placidia, did not do so. Her attitude made the fight escalate, and eventually, war broke out, with both sides leading their soldiers to the battlefield.
It didn't matter whether Aetius and Boniface won or lost on the battlefield, and in any case, the Western Roman Empire must have lost.
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