64. Siege of the Friesian tribe (II)

"Sneak attack, it's a sneak attack! The Germans want to break through! ā€

At dawn, outside the encirclement of the entire Roman legion, countless barbarians dressed in rags and animal skins appeared, who had quietly climbed over the dangerous defensive trenches of the legions at night, and were piled up under the defensive walls of the Roman legions, and the guards noticed this situation and sounded the alarm bell in time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoAll the sleepy Roman soldiers immediately went into a state of alert, took out javelins, spears, shields, stood on top of the city wall, and shot at the barbarian soldiers who were climbing the earthen wall.

"What's the situation? Klein. ā€

Appis was also awakened from his slumber and inquired about the battle on the Klein front.

"In the middle of the night, the barbarians climbed over the trenches and are now breaking through!"

Crane returned breathlessly. Immediately, Appis, Crassus the Younger, and others climbed the city wall and looked at the Germanic army that was breaking through at dawn.

"It shouldn't be! They shouldn't still have so many people! You told me that there were only about 8,000 of them! ā€

In front of him, there was a dense barbarian army like ants moving, and Appis couldn't believe his eyes, and asked the Germanic cavalry captain of the Makonian people around him in confusion.

"Yes...... But this is only a male soldier who can take up arms and fight......"

The elders of the Makonian replied with a look of fame. At this time, Apis saw that the Germanic Frisians who attacked the Roman legionary fortifications this time, even the old people and women joined them. So there was more than double the number of them, and some of the women, without even holding their weapons, followed behind their men and charged wildly, grabbing the ladder with both hands and trying to climb up the legion's fortifications. The legionnaires, forgetting each other's gender in infinite fear, stabbed wildly with their daggers until they stabbed countless holes in the abdomen of the men and women, and at dawn, blood and entrails covered the walls built by the Roman legions.

Crane sidestepped past the oncoming Germanic soldiers, and then appeared behind the barbarian infantryman, and before the other party could react, the sophisticated Roman short sword had already stabbed into the back of the barbarian infantry from top to bottom. Blood gushed out like a fountain and sprinkled all over Crane's face. Then, amid the screams of pain, the gladiator-turned-chief centurion Crane stabbed the barbarian through the back of the barbarian with his dagger in his hand, piercing the barbarian infantryman's heart. The ground was covered with a pool of scarlet blood.

Labinus also stood on the wall and fought hard, and with a sword slit the throat of the Germanic warrior in front of him, the Germanic warrior fell with blood pouring from the broken throat, and when another Germanic soldier rushed to hug Labinus, he was impaled by the Roman veteran with a short sword and pierced through the body from the back.

Above the entire wall, almost all of them were now filled with scenes of Roman soldiers fighting Germanic people.

The ballistas fired deadly stone bullets from the towers, smashing beneath the walls, smashing the "warriors" of the Friesian tribe to pieces and sending flesh and blood flying, if that were soldiers......

It was not until noon that the German-Frisian offensive was suppressed. Then, in front of the entire fortification, the corpses of the barbarians were once again piled up, and all kinds of corpses were scattered under the walls, as if it was a brutal genocide. And on the side of the legion, in the field hospital, there were also hundreds of wounded Roman soldiers.

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"Extremely stupid, at this moment, we have no choice but to surrender to Rome, and if we continue to fight so hard, our tribe will eventually be destroyed. To be exact, our people have paid a huge price for this stupid decision! ā€

After the attack was once again crushed by the Roman legions, the Friesian clan lords and elders could no longer control their anger and demanded that Dolce must stop the war with the Romans.

"Cowards, the Friesians will never submit to Rome!"

Doles yelled bloodied.

"That's your own idea, you ask your warriors to see if anyone wants to continue fighting with you, this hopeless battle."

The Elder of the Clan, Thalman, echoed Dors's roar and roar in the same loud voice. They glared at each other, and then, a dramatic scene ensued, as several of the clan elders suddenly stood up and joined forces to hug the warlike and strong Doles. Doles instantly understood what these people were trying to do. But no matter how strong a person is, he can't fight against four or five stout men at the same time, so Doles was captured alive, and then more than a dozen clan elders surrounded him and tied up this bloody man.

"You cowards! I'd rather die in battle than be a slave to the Romans! ā€

Doles was tied to the ground, angrily accusing the elders of the present for this cowardly behavior. His muscles tensed, but the ropes clung to his torso and arms, almost sinking into the flesh. Doles turned his head to look at the patriarch of the clan, Darman Turus, while the leader of the Fries, who simply looked at his brother helplessly, his eyes full of acquiescence and despair.

"Brother!"

Doles roared.

But he could no longer see the former glory and pride on his brother's face.

The next day, the leader of the German-Friesian tribe, with all the remaining elders of the tribe, young men, came to Appis's account and surrendered to the legion......

Having solved the last hidden danger and threat south of the Rhine, Appis pushed the front back to the edge of Gaul, and the whole of Gaul was undoubtedly once again under the security of the Roman legions.

In just one year, after the treacherous ambush of the Mannheim Forest, the siege of Lugdunum, the Germanic people were driven back north of the Rhine again, and the Germanic Grand League fell apart, however, the Germanic war did not end there. Apis knew that the Rhine was by no means a permanent line of defense, and that the Germanic realms were not just a small area north of the river. According to the knowledge before the crossing, there were still large areas of land and forests north of the Rhine, which the Romans had never set foot in today, and even if the Roman legions crossed the Rhine and conquered these places, the Germanic people also had other tribes north of the Elbe, and there were still endless forests...... It's just that the Romans of this era may not have known about these ...... I don't know that hundreds of years later, the seemingly huge and powerful Roman Empire will eventually be defeated and eaten away by these seemingly backward and primitive barbarians.