The news that Caesar wanted to cross the Rhine and conquer the Sugambrian was not made public, and all the Gallic tribes did not know about it, but they felt that this autumn, the Roman legions had levied more grain for them, but after all, even the Eblonnis and Delawrian were conquered by Caesar, so no one dared to object to this conquest. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

A few days later, the good news came that Pirno, the leader of the Eblonnis who had organized a tribal alliance to destroy the two legions of Sabinus and Cota, had been captured by the Averni in the forest, and because Caesar had ordered that no tribe should be rewarded with 200,000 Sestyrs if they caught Pirno, so the Averni took Pirno to Caesar's camp in a hurry. In their hands, Pirno was no longer the patriarch of a Gallic tribe, but a cart full of coins......

Pirno was wounded and carried by the tribesmen to Caesar's tent. Seeing the leader of the Ebronis captured and taken to his camp, Caesar fulfilled his promise and gave the leader of the Averni a wagon full of Roman currency and gold. The barbarians went back overjoyed, and only a few tortured and dying Eblonians remained, Pirno, and the loyal tribal elders around him.

Caesar's punishment of Pirno was so terrible that Appis stood in front of the square where Pirno was executed, and couldn't help but think of Ge You's classic line - "Uncle Li is very angry, and the consequences are very serious......"

That night, Pirneau was brutally crucified after twelve hours of terror without a drop of water, his gaze no longer calm and cunning three months ago, but full of fear and despair. It was not his idea to oppose the Romans, it was the Delawri's instigation, however, it was the Eblonnis who finally wiped out the legions, and the Ebron were hated by Caesar, and Pirno, who could have become a generation of heroes, was defeated in the confrontation with Caesar, and he could only be blamed for choosing the wrong opponent.

After the execution of Pirno, which was tantamount to killing chickens and monkeys, Caesar announced that he would lead his legions across the Rhine to punish the Germanic people who had helped the Gallic tribes rebel against Rome. The conscription of cavalry from the tribes of Gaul became a justified reason.

In the real ancient Roman world, Apis personally felt that the strength of Rome did lie in its inclusiveness, the strongest combat effectiveness of the Romans was better than their heavy infantry phalanx, but the long-range troops and cavalry troops were the existence of war scum, so they hired Cretan archers, Balearic slingers, cavalry could not work, so they requisitioned the Gallic cavalry, and the historical Caesar even later requisitioned the Germanic cavalry, which was stronger than the Gallic cavalry.

All of this made the Roman legions, which were not very strong, perfect and powerful, their weapons imitated the Spanish daggers, throwing spears, the phalanx imitated the Greek phalanx of the classical era, and the shoulder pads and helmets were constantly perfected in the battle against the barbarians, and the powerful empires in history all had an eclectic quality.

In the fall, the legions went into action, and five legions, 30,000 men, began to build bridges over the Rhine. This kind of "black technology" is simply a miracle for the barbarians, several Germanic tribes on the other side of the Rhine sent cavalry to the bank of the river every day to spy on the movements of the Romans, and for ten days, none of the Germanic troops dared to attack the Roman army that was building bridges.

And the matter of building bridges, in Apis's opinion, is also awesome, because Apis himself does not know much about engineering, and he does not know anything about ancient bridge-building, so he temporarily followed the legion infantry to learn engineering technology and bridge-building skills.

This Roman bridge over the Rhine completely convinced Appis.

First of all, it was not a normal stone bridge, because during the war, there was not so much time for the army to transport stones and various raw materials to the front, and it was only a temporary bridge, which could be dismantled after ten days and half a month after it was built, to prevent the Germanic people from entering Gaul through this bridge when the legions withdrew to Gaul.

Therefore, to build this bridge across the Rhine, its designer adopted the design of a boat pontoon bridge, and when Appis participated in the bridge construction project, he found that the Roman engineer Onex, who was in charge of the bridge construction, did not use conventional means to let soldiers drive wooden piles into the riverbed, but in the place where the bridge was to be built, dozens of sturdy boats were laid out in advance, and each boat was anchored at the bottom of the river separately, and fixed in a straight line, and then the wooden planks and ropes were tied to build wooden bridges connected together on small boats. Each step of the project is separate, but when it is completed, it is a unified whole.

The Roman legions used the bridge to transport an army of 30,000 men to the other side of the Rhine in two days.

Caesar happily accepted the surrender of the Germanic tribe called the Uppis, who were relatively weak in the entire Germanic region, and promised not to harm any of the tribe and not plunder any of the tribe's property.

The barbarians are called barbarians because they do not have a unified government or organization, and like Gaul, the Germans are not a unified whole, it is divided into dozens of small tribes, large and small, such as the Upi are often oppressed by the surrounding large tribes, such as the Suebi tribal alliance, so when Caesar's army crosses the Rhine, the Upi feel that they have a backer, and they can use the Romans to show off their power and regain the land they lost before.

Apis sometimes felt sorry for the intelligence of these barbarians, they knew every day that they were fighting for the petty profits in front of them, but they didn't know that Rome was their biggest threat, just like Gaul, if dozens of tribes in Gaul were united, Caesar might not be able to conquer them, but the pathetic barbarians were like this, fighting on their own, and then conquered by the Roman legions one by one, or even exterminated.

The surrender of the Upi gave the Roman legions an instant guide in the Germanic region, and Caesar simply stationed the legions outside the towns of this tribe, on the one hand, to show the other tribes that Rome would protect the Upi and that no one would be allowed to invade this tribe again. On the other hand, they were stationed outside the town, which was relatively flat, the key point was that the trees were all cut down, and outside the town was an open field, and if other barbarians wanted to attack and sneak up on the legions, the Roman soldiers could easily observe them from the towers.