"Caesar, there are many enemies, about 30,000 people, gathering in the forest clearing ahead. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Antony's cavalry returned, but the report was a headache for Caesar.

After receiving a letter from Tullius Cicero asking for help, Caesar had his two legions travel day and night to Cicero's camp, where the soldiers barely rested, and now stood in the way the Menabis, allies of the Ebronys. Their numbers exceeded Caesar's estimates.

"We should probably wait until Fabius's legions arrive at the convergence before attacking the rebellious barbarians."

Rabienus stood up and, as the commander of the corps, gave his opinion. Compared to Caesar, Rabienus was more sedate in style, and although Caesar was often so cautious, Caesar, unlike everyone else, the great Roman legionary commander occasionally employed some extremely bold and risky strategies. Sometimes, it can even be a dangerous tactic that can put the legion to death, but this is the case with great military strategists, who strike when the enemy does not expect it, and complete a Jedi counterattack.

"I don't think so, Rabienus, the barbarian position tells us that they knew we were coming, and perhaps the barbarian cavalry had spied on us in the darkness and told their leader the location of the legion and the speed of the march. So these barbarians blocked our way early. Or, when their leader was besieging Cicero's camp, he guessed that sooner or later my reinforcements would arrive, and called his allies, the tribe of Mennabi, to stop our march, but for whatever reason we were stopped by this large number of barbarians. ”

Caesar got up, looked at the map on the table, and continued—

"Cicero's eleventh and thirteenth legions were surrounded, and we received the news a week ago, at that time, Cicero had been holding the camp for half a month, and he made it clear in his letter that the food supply in the barracks was only enough to last for another half a month, and now, it is estimated that the food in the camp is only enough to last another week, and if we delay at this time, wait for the troops of the Sixth Legion, then, when we arrive at Cicero's camp, we will be left with another collective tomb of Romans."

"I think you've figured out tactics and strategies?"

Rabienus had followed Caesar for many years, and knew that this Roman legion commander would not talk nonsense before the battle, and Caesar dared to refuse his tactical arrangements like this, he must have had his own strategy and ideas in his heart.

"Rabienus, you always know and know me so well. Yes, I have a strategy, but I need your absolute cooperation with Anthony, and while I command the legions to penetrate the barbarian lines, you and Anthony must take a small number of troops and feint on their flanks. ”

Caesar said confidently, and at the same time, both Rabienus and Mark Antony looked surprised......

"Caesar, you mean, you want to lead the main army to break through the defenses of these barbarians from the front?"

Rabienus asked.

"Yes, the barbarians would never have thought that I would pick the place where they were most numerous, and that your feint would cause them to draw out most of their troops, and at the same time, while you were dealing with them, my legions would open their lines from the front. By the time I join Cicero's legions, the situation will once again be in favor of the Roman legions, and the barbarians will once again offer their hostages and weapons. ”

Caesar's plan was astonishing and at the same time extremely risky. The Commander led the elite legions through the strongest part of the enemy's defense, and if the Mennabees did not believe that the army led by Rabienus and Antony was Caesar's main force, then Caesar could dig his own grave and send himself into the encirclement of the barbarians.

"Don't hesitate, my friend, we don't have extra time to think about it, to wait. The safety of the legions will be in this battle, and if we win, Gaul will be pacified, and the result of defeat will be that I will be a prisoner of the barbarians, or die in this land, and at that time, Rome will lose its vast province of Gaul, and our ideals will remain at this moment, and the blood of tens of thousands of Roman soldiers will be shed in vain on this land, becoming a tragic line of history. I would never allow that to happen, you know that. ”

Caesar continued to mobilize. Although he was essentially the supreme commander of all Roman legions in Gaul, Caesar could have simply issued orders for his soldiers and generals to carry them out, many times Julius Caesar preferred that his men would understand what he was doing. Rather than simple execution. The training of commanders and soldiers was the primary purpose of the conquest of Gaul, not simply victory and conquest.

"I believe in you, Caesar. No matter what decision you make, Anthony will always be there for you. ”

After Caesar finished talking about his tactical arrangements, Mark Antony made the first statement, and his heartfelt Caesar did not doubt that even when Caesar was at his worst, this cavalry commander was always by his side.

"What about you? Rabienus. ”

Caesar looked at Antony with a smile, then turned to look at Rabienus, his right-hand man.

"Caesar, I think, soon, you're going to have a good lesson for us again."

Rabbi Enus's answer was humorous, but it also paid homage to Caesar.

The Ninety-Tenth Legion began to select personnel that night, and all the cavalry was evenly divided between the commands of Rabienus and Antony, Caesar himself led only the infantry, and the elite veterans of the Ninety-Tenth Legion, who were selected to be the main force of Caesar's next attack on the Menebys. And the remaining recruits, the young soldiers, became the "workhorse" of Rabienus and Antony.

The next day, Caesar led the main force of the Ninetieth Legion to the base camp of the Menabites. This sudden action caused serious divisions among the barbarians, and many elders thought that the Romans had behaved too arrogantly, and that the tribe should fight the Romans head-on and teach these little dwarfs who are still so arrogant to this day. But the leaders of the tribes believed that Caesar's real main force was in the other two ways. No leader would be foolish enough to send his large army into the encirclement of the other side, not the other tribes of Gaul, Caesar, who was a veteran of many years of warfare, would not have acted so recklessly, thought Mandel, the leader of the Menabines.

Two days later, all the Menabians ran to meet the Roman army on the other two lines, and the tribes left in the forest were pitifully numerous.

When Caesar's army appeared and encamped on the hillside, the Menabites, who had remained in the forest, rushed up to Caesar's camp like wild beasts seeing their prey.

And Caesar also deliberately set up the camp very small, and let the soldiers withdraw from the city defenses, and when the barbarians rushed up to dismantle the fortifications, the elite main force of the legion suddenly came out of the camp, and the Menabians carefully laid out the defense line for a month, which was so broken through by Caesar.