"Behold, the barbarians have retreated, and the glory is ours!"

The chief centurion stood in the center of the crowd, raising his arms and shouting. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info his voice was so loud that when the cry was first uttered, it won a high-pitched response from all the Roman soldiers on the field.

Does glory matter? The way people in this era speak and fancy things are incomprehensible to Apis, glory in modern times, is simply worthless, in order to achieve victory and achieve the goal, Apis will use all kinds of means, even if sometimes the character is a little bit bad, but as long as the goal is reached.

But in this ancient society, the Romans valued this "nothing" thing so much. Appis remembered Julius Caesar the Great, who was at war with the barbarians and was once attacked by the Senate for detaining tribal elders and attacking tribal camps.

In modern times, this is too normal, in order to obtain the ultimate goal, the means are a little despicable, no one will say anything, but now in ancient Rome, people's thinking and morality are still so "simple".

"Majestic, tragic, when the barbarian crowd receded, the battlefield was left with dense stumps and broken bodies, and entrails and blood lay all over the land outside the city. It's like a slaughterhouse, where wild beasts roar and die. This is the battlefield, the battlefield we are experiencing today. ”

Appis stood under the walls of Remy after the bloody battle, and as far as the eye could see, there were dense corpses, and the whole land was covered in blood. And this is only a battlefield of tens of thousands of people, and Apis can't imagine what it will be like if he encounters hundreds of thousands of battlefields next. According to historical records, Caesar's last battle to pacify Gaul - the Siege of Alesia, attacked the Roman legions of Gaul with as many as 250,000 Gauls. What kind of scene is that......

A war poet used a quill to record such a tragic battle. Then, like Appis, he looked at the blood-colored corpses in his eyes, and was full of sorrow. Perhaps the profession of a poet is prone to sentimentality? At least the soldiers were only concerned with looting the belongings of the dead barbarians, though not much......

News of the defeat of the Germanic army by the Roman legions reached all parts of Gaul and the northern provinces of Rome, and some Roman merchants began to stir up. Everyone knew that winter was a truce, and for both the Gauls, Germans, and Romans, it was almost an unwritten rule not to fight in winter.

So, in late autumn, a large number of Roman merchants flocked to the northern battlefields, where legions sold their booty and slaves cheaply. The merchants, on the other hand, brought the quality of Rome's native service to the legions.

Taverns, courtyards, casinos, and inns sprang up next to the legion's quarters for a while, and these temporary structures may only last three or four months before they were demolished, but even in this short time, the cheap slaves and booty sold by the legions were enough to make a fortune for the Roman merchants who came from afar.

Unloading their uniforms, Apis and Titus went to a tavern outside the garrison to spend the long winter days. Here, there is no longer a bloody picture, no longer full of roars and screams, no more terrifying horses' hooves and the sound of arrows flying, but full of a jubilant and lively atmosphere.

Merchants and legionnaires from all over the world gathered and talked about the price of the trade. A large round table was surrounded by Roman soldiers, no doubt it was a medium-sized table, I don't know how many people would be beaten in a few minutes, and there were not a few legionnaires who were mad and beat people because they lost their earnings for a year, and the centurion and the officers didn't bother to care about these things, because they themselves were already lingering on the waist of the girl.

"Soldier, the Legion Commander is looking for you."

A familiar voice came from behind, and Apis knew almost without thinking about it that it was Kota who had summoned him to meet him, and that it was probably some difficult task to solve.

"Apis, ah, Apis, sit."

When he entered the Legion headquarters, Cota was sitting in a comfortable chaise longue, dressed in a loose robe, drinking the fine wines, still Gallic products......

Seeing Appis come in, Kota got up slightly, but sat there casually, and drank the wine from his glass.

"General."

Compared with Cota's loose face, Apis maintained a good standing posture and military etiquette, officers can be casual with their subordinates, but subordinates must respect their superiors, and it seems to be this law wherever he goes. Although Appis sometimes found this to be ridiculous, as an ordinary legion scout, he had no background and could only strictly obey orders.

"Don't be so serious, Appis. I have called you today to assign you a task. ”

Kota stood up and slouched over to the huge map of the command. Appis saw that the huge Gallic region only marked the area north of the Alps and south of the Germanic Forest, and that neither Spain nor Britain appeared on this map, and it is not known whether the Romans at this time did not know about the existence of Britain, or did not pay attention to it at all, in short, although the map was huge, it was limited to the Gallic region.

"This is where we are, between the Belgians and the Germans, and the next target that Caesar wants us to conquer is here - the Banonsens."

Appis' gaze moved with Cota's instructions. On the huge map, mountains, swamps, lakes, woodlands are all there, this is the first time Apis has seen such a complete and huge ancient military map, his level of detail is beyond Apis's imagination at first, and Cota continues to explain the next task on this map.

"Right here."

Cota drew the fine Roman dagger on the table and pointed its edge to a slightly north-west spot. Appis found that now the whole Gaul is actually like a piece of scattered sand, through the pre-Apis knew that in the early days of Caesar's conquest of Gaul, Gaul was indeed like this at the beginning, each tribe fought separately, there was no unified tribal alliance, and there was no unified military command, so that the Roman legions would be overwhelmingly defeated again and again, but what Apis did not expect was that these tribes were scattered to this extent, and there were close to fifty tribes of all sizes on the entire Gaul map. It is no wonder that Caesar had no difficulty conquering Gaul in the first place......

"Caesar's spies have recently infiltrated this tribe, and judging from the intelligence fed back by the spies, this tribe has a motive to counter-judge Rome, but we can't take the initiative to attack them before this tribe makes a move, otherwise, the other tribes in Gaul will say that we Romans are still plundering the tribes that have been submitted, which is not trustworthy, which will not only cause a bad impact on the reputation of the Roman legions, but also cause anti-Roman sentiment among many Gallic tribes that have surrendered."

"So, we're going to get evidence of their rebellion?"

Appis reacted quickly, and Cota nodded his head in acknowledgment.

"Next to this Gallic tribe lived a Roman noble family that specialized in the slave trade in Gaul, and this was the focus of this operation. The Banonsen rebelled against Rome, and the legions were not stationed around them, only this one large Roman family, so if the Banonçons rebelled against Rome, then the first target they chose to attack was this Roman villa, and the wealth in it was enough to feed the barbarian army for two months, so the Banonsen would definitely start from here. ”

Cota said, putting away the delicate portable sword, and pulling his gaze back from the map to Appis, there is no doubt that the last time Apis did undercover work, Cota felt that some dangerous and difficult tasks could be undertaken by this clever young man.

If this mission is successful, Kota even has plans to raise the rank of the young man in front of him.

"You want me to lurk in this house?"

Apis returned.

"Yes, we can't take the initiative to send troops before the Banonsen people make an anti-Roman move, so just wait for them to attack, and it doesn't take much manpower to loot a villa, so I want you to protect the family from Gaul and return to Rome at that time."

Cota's expression suddenly became serious. And Apis wondered why Caesar knew that the tribe had anti-Roman motives, and did not let the family move out in advance, but waited for these barbarians to attack, and then protected them to leave?

"General, I have a question......

"You must be asking, why don't you let them out of there early?"

……

Appis didn't know how Kota knew what he was thinking, but perhaps they had anticipated their reaction before they gave the order?

"Hmm."

"Well, Appis, since I intend to train you, I must tell you the truth."

Kota paused for a moment and continued-

"Because we have only heard that these barbarians have anti-Roman motives, but they have not done so, that is to say, we have no evidence that they are anti-Roman, and if we let this family evacuate the border of the Banonsens at this time, then the Banonsons will definitely perceive the anomaly and no longer act rashly, then Caesar's conquest of this tribe will become unjustified. That's the last thing we want to see. ”

So we're going to risk this family's lives to be the bait for the Legion? Appis wanted to say this, but swallowed it again, this is perhaps the cruelty of war, and in order to achieve the end, sometimes under the glorious victory lies many unknown "despicable" acts and means.

And what is even more tragic is that it seems that every successful king, leader, on his way to his own glory and glory, will more or less resort to these so-called despicable methods in the eyes of the world......