"General, our food reserves are insufficient, and if no flour arrives, the soldiers will not know how to survive the winter. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Facing the gloomy and bleak Roman legion barracks, the construction officer reported to the legion commander Maxim with a serious expression. It had been a long time since Lepida's main army had been annihilated in the Germanic forest, and it was clear that the Germanic siege of the Roman legions had spread throughout northern Gaul, and now, although the Roman legions stationed in western Gaul had not been encircled by the Germans, they could not get the food and grass that should have been brought from Gaul.

Looking at the desolate legion camp, Maxim's mood was low to freezing, even he didn't know when the Germans would attack here, and Lepida's fate was uncertain, although it was rumored that the commander was dead, but no one had really seen Lepida killed by the barbarians, because no one escaped from that forest, not even horses and hounds...... As a member of the Roman legion, one could not evacuate the post without receiving clear orders and information. This is where Maxim is torn between a rock and a hard place.

"How much money do we have left? It is really not possible to buy food and grass from the Gauls for the winter. These damn brutes. ”

Maxim said melancholy.

"But, judging from the reaction of the soldiers, it is not that these Gauls did not deny us food, but that they were afraid of the Germans, and they feared that if they supplied us with food, they would be slaughtered by the Germans. So, in fact, the two of them didn't want to offend, but just pretended that they didn't have food. The soldiers tried to buy supplies with their own money, but the Gauls all pretended to be destitute. ”

The construction officer reluctantly rejected Maxim's suggestion.

"Then we can only pray and ask the gods for mercy."

Legion Commander Maxim was stunned.

A few days later, the treasurer announced that the regiment would reduce its daily ration supply, which was tantamount to telling the soldiers that there was not enough food in the barracks, and that the loot piled up in the camp would easily let the soldiers know what was going on. In order to reduce food loss, Maxim had already ordered all the slaves in the legion to be sold to the Gauls. In exchange for some Roman currency that now seems meaningless.

Fortunately, it was not long before the cooks in the legion discovered a new type of food for hunger, which was a kind of low vegetation that spread throughout the camp, which the Roman soldiers dug up, mashed into powder, poured milk into it, mixed it together, and baked it on the fire when it was sticky, and then formed a new type of food in the shape of bread.

Since most of this food is made from tree roots, milk is only a small part, and the low vegetation that surrounds the camp makes it possible to use this food on a large scale.

With this new type of food, the morale of the legions began to rise again, and the soldiers even carved a stone sculpture of the god Ceres, set up altars, and offered these root foods as a token of gratitude to the gods, and in their opinion, it was the Roman gods who were with the legions to save them at such a time.

In Maxim's mind, he was still waiting for another miracle, another hope, that is, in Italy in the south, the news from the cavalry that Apis had formed a large new army in the capital Rome, and that, at the end of winter, he would go north to settle the Germanic rebellion here. Of course, not many people were excited about such news, and without the great Germanic rebellion, many Roman soldiers felt hopeless and hopeless about the road ahead.

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Just when the northern Gauls and the remnants of the Roman legionnaires felt hopeless, in Rome, the capital of the empire, Apis was training the new Roman army, which had undergone the highest intensity of training in history, day and night. The Germanic people taunted these diminutive Roman recruits, a little-known Roman army that would completely shatter the enemy's shields and crowds.

In order to train the unity of the phalanx, Apis even demanded that if one person made a mistake, the entire hundred-man team should be punished for the erring soldier. The centurion, on the other hand, had to take up the heavy responsibility of managing the centurions and personally carry out the flogging or stick punishment.

The erring recruit was stripped of his clothes and subjected to the severest flogging in full view of the public, while his companions were subjected to the same number of lashes. Under a strong sense of self-blame, many recruits took each training camp more seriously and seriously in order to prevent their comrades from being punished for themselves.

"You know, you're not dealing with ordinary humans, they're beasts! It's the barbarians! The Germanic people are completely superior to you, they are numerous and bloodthirsty, and you can only defeat your enemies if you are united! Your brother's shield has the potential to shield you from a barbarian's fatal blow, while your short sword will stab the barbarian in the heart under the cover of your companion's shield. This is the Roman legion, and it is what you are to be trained for. ”

This was the briefest speech Apis ever given to the new legionnaires, but it also spoke to the crux and importance of the camp.

Acute physical training was another harsh event, originally the physical training of the Roman legions was to march separately until the team reached the finish line, while Appis's emergency training required the soldiers of the ten-man team to wrap ropes around the waist of their comrades, run together and rest together during physical training. In the middle of the way, which soldier couldn't stand it and stopped, which directly affected the clearance of this physical trial. Because ten people will affect the performance because one person can't run.

Solidarity became the slogan of the legion.

During the three-month intensive training, soldiers continued to fall and quit. Originally, 60,000 recruits were recruited, but after three months, less than half of them were left behind.

However, what was trained was the Roman legion that Abyss wanted, at least this legion of new recruits would not be so easy to throw off their armor and flee under the furious swords and axes of the Germanic people. And then, what is even more unexpected is that just when everyone thought that the war would break out in the spring, Abyss secretly set out from Rome with this army that had never experienced war, all the way north, under the premise of blocking the news, landed along the coastline in Marseille, and did not even pass through the big city, and then quickly advanced north along the Gallic road, and when passing through the outskirts of Marseille, the children playing by the river watched the continuous Roman army drive by, and stood in place in surprise, his eyes were endless red armor... …