Gelimer King of the Vandals ensured his communications with the other two sections of the Vandal Army was in order. It was not perfect and Ammatas, brother of the king was killed (as in OTL) but his nephew Gibamund attacked with his forces quickly trying to save his uncle (as he did not do in ATL).
This disrupted the Byzantine forces and the Huns hed back from committing their cavalry. Then Gelimer struck and cut Belisarius and his whole command from the rest of the Imperial force. While the Vandals under Gelimer attacked Belisarius' position, the remaining Vandal forces under Gibamund had swept the field of their immediate opponents and now attacked the remaining Imperials.
While the Huns now withdrew from the battle, the Vandal cavalry under the king destroyed the whole high command of the Byzantine army. With Belisarius' head displayed on a pike, the rest of the Imperials army surrended.
How could Justinian survive politically after such a defeat?
Italy would stay Gothic for the foreseeable future and so the importance of the Franks would be diminished and so no Holy Roman Emperor, or Empire. Italy, too, would remain fairly prosperous with no ruinous war raging up and down its length and breath for years.
What would the world look like a century from this if Byzantium was kept out of western affairs permanently? How would our modern world evolve?
This disrupted the Byzantine forces and the Huns hed back from committing their cavalry. Then Gelimer struck and cut Belisarius and his whole command from the rest of the Imperial force. While the Vandals under Gelimer attacked Belisarius' position, the remaining Vandal forces under Gibamund had swept the field of their immediate opponents and now attacked the remaining Imperials.
While the Huns now withdrew from the battle, the Vandal cavalry under the king destroyed the whole high command of the Byzantine army. With Belisarius' head displayed on a pike, the rest of the Imperials army surrended.
How could Justinian survive politically after such a defeat?
Italy would stay Gothic for the foreseeable future and so the importance of the Franks would be diminished and so no Holy Roman Emperor, or Empire. Italy, too, would remain fairly prosperous with no ruinous war raging up and down its length and breath for years.
What would the world look like a century from this if Byzantium was kept out of western affairs permanently? How would our modern world evolve?