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While Appis led his army in a bitter battle against the Germanic people in the north, Octavian, who was ostensibly quiet in the warm Italian peninsula in the south, was quietly transforming his empire. Most of the seats in the Senate were already puppets and servants of the young man. And the treatment of these numerous officials in Rome was also in Octavian's plan. Octavian knew that during the period when he and Antony left Rome and went to Greece to eliminate the rebellion of Brutus, Apis cultivated many forces for himself in Rome, and many officials in the posts were Apis's people, and Octavian now wanted to reshuffle Rome and establish a strong centralized power. However, it is not easy to clean up the huge old party of Appis, and it is easy to cause public protest and anger in one fell swoop, after all, these people have not been inactive during their tenure, and the power of public opinion should not be underestimated. And, more crucially, Octavian's treatment of these people also had his own arrangements and plans.

"No, there's no need to arrest them first."

On the other side of Marcellus's admonition, Octavian replied very calmly. The heir, who is only nineteen years old, may not be capable in military affairs, but in terms of internal politics, he shows an astonishing talent. The officials of the Senate, the officials of all levels in Italy, gradually cast respectful and even horrified glances at this delicate-faced, frail young man, because no one knew what Octavian, who was as calm as water on the surface, was planning behind his back. He is like an unfathomable abyss, terrifying. This is what Cicero's colleague Aldatus said about Octavian.

After listening to Marcellus's report, young Octavian sat down in an ornate circle chair and turned his head to look at the huge map of the Roman Republic on the wall. In his eyes, this powerful country is burning, and those who are loyal, those who betray, will become pawns in his hands, and when they need it, they will be arranged in the position they need.

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"It looks like they were ambushed by barbarians, look at these wounds, all of them were blunt objects, some of them even went deep into the bones."

In the autumn Germanic Forest, Apis walked up to the attacked soldier and crouched down to examine the broken corpses. During the attack, all the soldiers of the convoy were beheaded, leaving only a few stripped corpses of the Roman officers. One can imagine, and judging by the size and shape of these wounds, Appis can probably imagine the horror of the attack. The Roman squad had almost no chance of victory, and the Germans did not give them a chance to surrender. And judging by the size of the wounds, Apis could roughly guess the weight of those barbarian weapons.

"What a brutal bunch of monsters. Apis, have you ever seen such a wound? ”

Little Crassus said, pointing his finger at the shoulder of a dead Roman infantryman, where a large hole appeared in the headless corpse. The blood had dried up, leaving a terrifying, bloody wound.

"No, it looks like it's a spear."

Appis walked over and examined the wound on the dead soldier's shoulder with some surprise.

"Not an ordinary wound from spears and javelins."

Little Crassus squatted down and said seriously. And for a moment, Appis recalled the horrible legend. The northern barbarians, who used their spears as melee weapons...... The heavy spear could not even be thrown, but the ability to pierce at close range was amazing. The Germanic people of the north used hunting methods to kill these Roman soldiers. Thinking of this, Appis couldn't help but gasp. Plus at the base of the necks of these soldiers, there are even tooth marks that have been gnawed by wild beasts, if not hunting dogs, they are caused by these barbarians when they are bloodthirsty and fighting.

And judging by the freshness of the body, the death of these soldiers will not exceed three days. That is, the barbarians are around the legion. Like the Germanic army in the past, they fought an endless guerrilla war against the Roman legions.

"Brothers, guard this line of defense, we can't let the barbarians go to the south, where there are our wives, children and families."

Two days later, the Roman army led by Apis himself was ambushed by the barbarians. There was hardly a single open area in the vast Black Forest, and Appis was well aware of the difficulties of the Roman conquest of the Germans. Therefore, the Roman emperors of later generations would travel thousands of miles to conquer the vast areas east of the Mediterranean, and stay away from the Germanic regions, which were geographically very close to Rome.

On the battlefield, Chief Centurion Crane shouted loudly and ordered the legion to quickly form a defensive line against the enemy. Just like the scenes of the Gallic Wars, the barbarian warriors rushed out of the depths of the forest in a furious manner, in hordes, and the legionnaires had little chance to throw their spears in bloody melee combat with the murderous and bloodthirsty Germanic warriors. Like a black wave, it crashed against the red improvised by the Roman legions.

The Germanic people on the front soon formed a state of heaping people and stacking people. The density was as great as a swarm of wasps frantically squeezing outside the Legion's shield walls. At the same time, countless short swords were piercing out from the shield walls of the Roman legions, and the bloody melee combat was the main theme of the Roman struggle with the barbarians in this era.

Crane gripped his shield and slammed into the oncoming Germanic warriors, who were knocked to the ground and tried to get back up, but were stabbed in the chest by Crane with a short sword. The point of the sword hit was extremely accurate, and it directly sliced through the barbarian's heart. The Germanic man who had fallen to the ground barely had time to scream before he died. Blood splattered like a fountain from the broken wound. Then, the Roman soldier beside him gave the fallen Germanic warrior another sword with a blank face, piercing a large hole in the chest even more brutally.

Beside him, a barbarian frantically picked up a big axe and slashed at the wooden shield of the Roman infantry, and the power was transmitted to the hands of the legionnaires, causing the soldier's arm to tremble slightly, and the whole person almost dared not show his shield. After several slashes were blocked by the shield, the barbarian lost patience anymore and directly held the shield of the Roman soldier in one hand and the axe in the other, trying to break the annoying shield before slashing the Roman infantry behind. However, the legionnaires brutally cut off the fingers of the Germanic warriors, and under the screams and bleeding of the Germanic warriors, the Roman veterans seized the opportunity and stabbed their swords into the ribs of the Germanic warriors in front of them. Inflicted mortal wounds, the strong Germanic warrior fell in agony, and was subsequently head-cut off by the Roman legion......

On the entire front, there was almost this kind of bloody picture, and the sappers of the Roman legions seized the time of the front line to resist the enemy, and quickly assembled those cavalry cannons and legion scorpion cannons on the small high ground in the backfield.