In what context did the Battle of Fort Adriatic take place?

In what context did the Battle of Fort Adriatic take place? What was the situation before the war?

On June 12, 378 AD, the Roman emperor Vallance and his elite imperial field army were stationed in the south of the Adriatic castle. At this time, it was early summer, and the whole military camp was full of hot air. They are waiting for another Roman emperor, Grady Annous, to lead reinforcements from the western part of the empire and defeat the Goths who have plundered the Balkans like hungry wolves since crossing the Danube two years ago.

What he didn't expect, however, was that Grady Annous was rushing to meet the news that the Rhine defence was in an emergency, and sent reinforcements to support the Balkans to return to the Rhine. What he didn't expect was that this place, Fort Adria, was about to become the graveyard for him and the imperial soldiers. At that time, the emperor of the largest empire in the world would be buried here with most of his soldiers.

In 376 AD, two years before the Battle of the Adriatic Sea Fort, a large number of refugees suddenly appeared in the Danube region on the border of the Roman Empire. The vast majority of these refugees belong to the Goths, a branch of the northern Germanic nation. They were forced to leave their homes and fled to the west with their small property because Hungarians attacked their residence on the Black Sea coast.

According to the Roman historian Amian, the number of these refugees is as high as 200,000, of which 20,000 are soldiers who can fight. The image of these Goths fleeing in haste was vividly described by Amian: the news spread all over the Goth tribe, and a nomadic people who had never heard of it suddenly appeared, like a snowstorm on a high mountain, unstoppable, and wherever they went, they were either occupied or destroyed.

These poor Goths hope to be sheltered by the Roman Empire and find a place to live in it. For the Roman Empire, this is not an unprecedented requirement. As early as the reign of Nero in 1 th century, the empire moved 654.38+million immigrants from the north bank of the Danube to Thrace. In 300 AD, the Roman emperor also placed a large number of Dachians who moved into the empire on the route from Hungary to the Black Sea.

So when the Goths asked to move into the empire, many people were ecstatic. Officials praised Emperor Varan for being blessed, because a large number of barbarian immigrants not only meant that a large number of barbarian soldiers suitable for enlistment would enhance the military strength of the empire, but also meant that taxes from barbarians would enrich the Roman treasury. It seems that a prosperous time for all countries to come to Korea is just around the corner.

Historical materials can't remember how Vallans responded to this request of the Goths. But one of the Goths, the Severnji tribe, crossed the Danube in 376.

The time they crossed the Danube happened to be the time when the Danube defended the emptiness. At that time, because of the military threat of Persians in the eastern part of the empire, all the troops in the Balkans were transferred. As a result, the Goths were like nobody's business in the Balkans, which was a very serious threat to the Roman Empire. Emperor Varan had to negotiate with the Severnji tribe to relax the immigration conditions. It is not the emperor who chooses their place of residence, but they choose their own place of residence.

However, because the Roman Empire did not provide enough food for the new immigrants, the hungry Sevenji people began to riot. The local Roman commander can only transfer another Gothic tribe on the Danube, the Gruseni, and cross the Danube to deal with the Sevenji. At the same time, a banquet was held to assassinate the leader of the Sevenji people. As a result, the decapitation plan failed and the war between the Goths and the Roman Empire officially broke out.