North of the Rhine, a land that the Romans had barely set foot in, Apis now marched with three legions to this savage and desolate land. As far as the eye can see, the www.biquge.info Black Forest is still dense with endless stretches of the Black Forest. At this time, with the exception of Caesar, who had penetrated into the Germanic lands during the Gallic Wars, the other Roman generals knew almost nothing about the land.

Of course, it was not so easy for Apis to conquer these barbarians in the forest, and before the army crossed the Rhine, Apis had had the Gallicized Germanic people of North Gaul disguised themselves as tribesmen enter the vast area north of the Rhine to get a brief idea of the local terrain and the places where the tribes lived.

"Appis, are you sure that these barbarians will not lie about the military? They weren't pure Romans, they were barbarians. These Northern Gauls even had Germanic ancestry. ”

Along the way, Sekras nagged about the Belgians. And a look of distrust and contempt for the guide who led the way. However, Appis showed complete trust in these Belgian guides, and gave the opposite answer to Sekras's doubts.

"Don't worry, Sekras. Barbarians can also be assimilated, and these Gauls have been in the cities of Rome for so long that their habits and values have long been inclined towards the Roman world. They just retain the appearance of the barbarians of the north. The thermal baths of Rome made them forget about the dung of their homeland, the fence. Also, the wives and children of these people also live in Gaul, in our cities. So, there is no need to worry at all that these Belgians will defect. Even if they want to rebel, they have to think about their families, wives and daughters. ”

Appis replied on his horse, leisurely and relaxed.

Two days later, the vanguard cavalry force was the first to reach the territory of the Germanic Upi, and as planned, the Germanic Upi accepted Appis' request for an alliance and offered to send a thousand cavalry to assist the Roman legions in battle. The tribal elders who greeted the Roman cavalry even arrived at the entrance of the village early, and stationed supplies and food on the path of the Roman legions. In return, Apis would help them suppress the Suebi by cutting off a piece of the conquered lands and giving them permanent residence, and Apis promised to keep the Upi safe as long as the Roman legions remained in Germanic territory. To do this, Apis had to sign an entente with the local barbarians. Of course, the Romans had done a lot of this, and Apis knew that barbarians were also people, not beasts, and if the Romans rebelled, sooner or later they would be revolted by the barbarians. For, before entering the village of the Upi, Appist deliberately strengthened military discipline and ordered the soldiers not to forcibly take and insult Germanic women when they met them on the road, and if they wanted to vent, there were a large number of slaves accompanying them......

"They're beasts!"

"Yet they are braver than you. These barbarians can charge into battle on their horses without any armor, can you? They are not afraid of wounds and bloodshed, can you do that? The blood of the Romans is noble, so show your noble posture and prove yourself on the battlefield, instead of blindly contemptuous of your allies. If you are not even as good as the allies, then where is the glory and pride of Rome? ”

The addition of the Upi and Makonimans strengthened the Roman legion of Appis. However, as more and more Germanic cavalry and warriors joined the legion, the taunts, arrogance and contempt of the legion's GIs grew. Before he could go on his expedition against the Great Suebi Tribe, Appis had to clean up the atmosphere, or the newly joined Germanic cavalry would defect because they could not integrate into the army. Although most of the time, the lives of the Germanic cavalry and the Roman soldiers were separate.

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"How did you come to terms with these Germanic people?"

Afterwards, Crassus Jr., in his barracks office tent, inquired about Appis' strategic plan.

"You mean the identity of those Germanic cavalrymen?"

Appis looked up at little Crassus, who had hurried into the tent and was worried. His face was full of unease and anxiety, and he feared that Appis had come up with some whimsical and bizarre idea.

"Yes."

Little Crassus said anxiously.

"Don't worry, he just signed a joint battle with them, and, according to the contract, these Germanic cavalry are subordinate armies of the Legion, and they have no right to share the spoils after the war. I think you're worried about this. ”

Appis replied with a smile. For his old friends, Apis knew the character and temper of each of them. Even know what they're going to say next. blocked little Crassus's next question in time. Then, looking at little Crassus's somewhat calmed mood, Appis continued-

"But, in order to encourage these Germanic people to fight, I promised them that if they performed well in battle, I would nominate them for the list of Roman citizenship, which was the only reward for them. Caesar did this in his early years, and it turned out to be a good effect. ”

"But Caesar was eventually disliked by the senators and assassinated."

Little Crassus understood Abysus's story, but at the same time, the straightforward Roman kindly reminded Abys.

"My old friend, I am not Caesar, and the current Senate is not the original Senate."

Abyss replied with a smile.

Three days later, the 13th, 14th, and 19th legions gathered their forces and marched on the next Germanic tribe, the Grumman tribe. It was a small but hard-nosed and barbaric tribe, numbering only a few tens of thousands, but unwilling to submit to Roman rule.

The dark forests and rivers beneath the forests served as a natural defensive barrier for these Germanic barbarians.

The legion's infantry waded into the icy waters of the early spring, but were attacked by a cold arrow and shot.

The legionnaires temporarily raised their shields, and the arrows stabbed at them, and the arrows pinned to the shields with a tinkling and tinkling sound of puncture. Then, a large number of barbarian infantry roared around the "lone army" of the Roman army. The Roman brigade, numbering no more than a thousand people, stood still in danger and erected a shield wall. It wasn't until the Grummans had slaughtered and surrounded them that a loud and majestic legion horn sounded deep in the forest. The three thousand Germanic cavalry of the Makonimans and the Upi were like death knights from the darkness, carrying terrifying legions of cavalry spears, charging wildly......