Chapter 112: Crash Down

Aloyos' army rushed to the outskirts of Aretien and confronted the assembled Roman army. Soon the defense of Salzburg was successful. While the Macedonians were crowned with victory, the Romans were in a difficult situation.

When King Garas, who was in the north, heard the news of the southern front, he suddenly became melancholy. The battle reports are all positive, but the world is unpredictable. The promise of the Julius family is not worth a penny, and they turn their faces and attack from behind. The most heart-wrenching thing for him was the death of his third brother, and Damasos was only 50 years old. The king burst into tears and blamed himself for not taking good care of his brother. On weekdays, he loves the third child the most, but he didn't expect a hurried goodbye to become a farewell.

Garrus was exhausted and tired of military life. After deciding to take the important cities of Trier and Alesia, he handed over command to Oonos. He returned to Thessaloniki to retire alone. With a goal there will be motivation, and the king will no longer be sentimental. The army was decisively assembled, and after a short rest, the soldiers were full of energy and set out on the journey again. The goal is the city of Trier.

The troops marched from Badawi in Lower Germania into the Upper Germanic region, along the way in open plains. The roads are lined with abundant water and grass, and it seems that Western Europe is a flat and fertile land. Garrus had always thought that the west was a wild land, full of endless forests like before, but the scenery in front of him made him feel much more comfortable. Soon the Invincible Legion reached the outside of the city, and without saying a word, Garas ordered his soldiers to set up a stone crossbow and attack the city.

The Germanic Union was shattered and the hearts of the people were lost. There were few defenders in the city, only three heavy cavalry brigades, and it was thought that the noble leader must be putting up a dying resistance. Innocent civilians were ordered to participate in the defense, lacking training and decent weaponry, some were issued with short guns, and some simply picked up farm tools. Such a "soldier" cannot fight.

The Macedonian army threw stone shells and artillery outside the city, followed by a rain of arrows and javelins. Garas saw that there were many defenders in the city, and although it was very chaotic, it was not to be rash. His army was well stocked with ammunition, food and grass, and was not in a hurry at all. So the invincible army carried out a three-day siege attack on the city, and what stone crossbows, ballistas, bows and arrows, javelins, and mechanical bidding machines, fiercely projected into the city, and those militiamen suffered many casualties. By the third day, the people of Trier had ceased to be disbanded on their own.

The Macedonian army entered the city and fought to wipe out all the resistance in the city. To the surprise of Garras were the Germanic hoplites, the guards of Carolus, the city's defender, and they were very loyal. He did not flinch in front of the Macedonian phalanx of spears, and also launched a frontal collective charge, directly rushing to the gun. Cavalry, barely three hundred men, rampage through a pike-phalanx of two thousand, regardless of casualties.

The Macedonian phalanx fought against many enemies, and none of the cavalry dared to charge the pikes head-on, and what is even more interesting is that these Germanic cavalry also broke through the defense line formed by many phalanxes. Ordinary phalanx pikemen can't even help these cavalrymen in chain mail, even the royal phalanx can be broken through the formation. All the members of the Germanic cavalry died in battle,

Garas finally understood why his second brother Oonos had formed the Germanic Foreign Cavalry Regiment, thinking about how many battles he had fought against the Germanic army. If they had the ability to concentrate on cavalry, then the war would not have been so easy. In fact, the Germans used to have objective heavy cavalry forces, but in the war against Britain, they were wiped out by chariot restraint.

Capture the city of Trier, the king carried out the usual pacification. Upper and Lower Germania were included in Macedonia, and at the same time the Seventh Army completed the conquest of the Saxons.

Oonos moved earlier than Garas, but the main Saxon city, Bodenshom, was remote and the roads were difficult to navigate and densely forested. So Oonos led the Seventh Army up the Elbe with great difficulty. Later, on a plain outside the city of Bodenshom, the Saxon army was defeated. During siege warfare, easily capture the central city.

In the obscurantist Nordic forests, the corrupt primitive clan system has long since been rotten. The Macedonians found many prison-like places in the city of Bodenshom, filled with grotesque and cruel torture instruments, which were disgusting. In some of the huts or haystacks, there were many naked local women, even young children. I don't know what the barbarian soldiers did, but their eyes were full of horror and helplessness. It was barbarism that annihilated humanity.

The Germanic Confederation and its primitive clan system were as crumbling as this broken grass house now. Under the strong blow of Macedonia, it collapsed with a bang.

In order to obtain a better defensive position, the Britons resolutely captured several Germanic villages and towns in the Belgian region. The Germanic factions are destroyed.

It was a moment of great joy, the kingdom of Macedonia was missing another rival, and the barbarian alliance had lost a major pillar. I think that the Germanic people were ambitious and resolutely invaded Macedonian territory, but now they have been conquered by Macedonia.

Alesia is an important city in the Greater Gaul region on the west bank of the Rhine, with a large population and relatively advanced city. It was one of their two capitals and the main birthplace of the Gauls. Since their successive defeats in Central Europe, the Gallic chieftains decided not to take the initiative and instead deploy their armies in two major directions. The north was gathered in Alesia, and the south was garrisoned at Narpung Mathius, pincer-shaped to hold off the enemy's attack. Thus, as the only significant city in the north, Alesia was armed with a large number of soldiers, almost two and a half legions.

When Gueras learned of this, he became frightened, and he returned to his Macedonian homeland more than once in his dreams.

(End of chapter)