When Caesar's army arrived at Ribris, the largest town of the Averni, the people were still busy collecting the grain ripened for autumn. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info unprepared for the arrival of the Romans.

The Legion quickly captured the farmers who were harvesting their crops outside the city, and the Averni who resisted the Legion were mercilessly slaughtered.

In the evening, the gates of Ribrice were closed, and all the tribes gathered into the city. Celtic archers ran up the walls.

Before arriving in the Averni town, Appis had assumed that the Gauls were small towns surrounded by low earthen walls, and that the Roman legions could take them without even using any large siege weapons. This time, however, when Apis himself arrived at the foot of the town of Ribris, he discovered that the Gauls were not all as primitive and simple as they had imagined. They also had their own walls, and even these walls were made of stone, which were probably more than three meters high, and in short, it was impossible for the Roman legions to climb the walls by taking ladders.

As Appis had guessed, after the legion's camp was set up, Caesar ordered five hundred soldiers to cut timber in the forest not far from the camp. Used to craft siege weapons, catapults and battering rams. Three hundred soldiers followed into the forest, but instead of felling, they went to search for some food. Whether it was gathering wild berries or hunting, the legion did not rely on food in its wagons everywhere it went. Local supplies were also a frequent method of supplementing food for Roman legions on the march.

The city of Riblis was a hillside of a plain near the Roman legions, where the Averni had grown grain and grain, and during the day, the peasants were driven into the city by Roman soldiers or executed on the spot. So now, this open terrain belonged to the positions and camps of the Roman legions.

The other half of the city of Riblis was built on the hillside, and the Averni built their town on the hillside, and the whole city occupied almost half of the hill. Apis speculated that when the Averni first built their town, they may have built it on a hillside to defend themselves against other tribes, so that they could occupy the hill and fight the invaders from a high position when the surrounding tribes sent people to plunder. However, in the later period, it is estimated that the development of the town caused the original hill to not be able to accommodate so many residents, so the town expanded to the plain at the foot of the mountain. Therefore, the walls were also built on flat ground.

Appis's suspicion was warranted, for the walls on the hillside were not as high as those on the plains, judging by the scouts' reports. They were only as tall as a short man, and they could go up by stacking human walls.

But the problem was that the road up the mountain was so narrow that it could not accommodate the passage of a large phalanx of troops. The Gauls only needed to send a few men to block the mountain road to block the Roman army from passing through the mountain road.

With such a formation, no one expected that Caesar would attack the city from the front, because almost all the materials for making siege weapons were ready.

But at dawn the next day, Apis and many of the centurions on the front line received Caesar's order that the legions would focus on attacking from the hillside, which meant that the overnight logging and preparation of siege weapons and materials last night was actually confusing the Gauls in the city. Let them think that the Roman legions will attack from the front.

Caesar was a cunning legion commander, he always gave the enemy a surprise blow, which Apis was convinced, and again and again, conquering a single Gallic tribe in the early stage, entering Britain in the middle period, and then suppressing the Vicintoli uprising in the later period, this great Roman commander showed command skills and abilities beyond ordinary people. His courage is unparalleled, and when he arranges and deploys the legions for battle, he is both unexpected and steady. His strategy and tactics were always unconventional, and Apis was completely convinced. He is worthy of the famous Julius Caesar in history, an emperor who has been famous for thousands of years, and his historical status in the West is similar to that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Qin Shi Huang in China.

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"Soldiers, hurry up, we must be halfway up the mountain before noon, this is Caesar's order!"

In the dense forest on the hillside outside the city of Ribrice, hundreds of elite Roman infantry are carrying equipment and weapons weighing up to 20 kilograms, and they are sweating and walking on the dense forest path outside the city.

Even in autumn, the soldiers did not feel a trace of coolness during high-intensity exercise and marching, on the contrary, the heavy weapons and equipment on their bodies almost crushed them. But it was already settled, and before leaving, Labienus removed all the rations of the elite infantry of the legion, leaving only one night's food, with the clear meaning that if the town could not be captured before dark, they would be trapped on the hillside. This is Caesar's philosophy of military governance......

Although there are differences between Eastern and Western cultures, Apis feels that many things are still the same in terms of fighting and governing, such as Caesar's trick is the same as our ancestors' theory of putting them to death and then rebirth......

"Centurion, we need to rest, just a little bit. Let me catch my breath. ”

By the time of one morning, eight hundred legionnaires had climbed the hill behind the city of Ribrice, and had reached a position near halfway up the mountain. This speed had almost reached the limit of the Roman march. However, the veterans' request was rejected by Graus, a centurion who, like Apis, strictly carried out Caesar's orders. The soldiers must not be allowed to rest until the designated position before noon. Although Grau, like Appis, was tired into a mule himself.

"I can't rest, keep going. At noon, I rested halfway up the mountain, and in the evening, I climbed into the city from the back wall. ”

With a stern tone, Grau refused the soldiers' pleas to rest halfway.

This was Caesar's overall arrangement, and he had the legions make siege weapons during the day, and at noon, bombard the Gallic defenders in the city. Then, in the evening, let Pompey's Fils Legion and his own Sixth Army attack the town from the front. The purpose was to mislead the Avignes in the city into believing that the Romans would storm the city from the front, so that the Avignes could relax their defense of the mountain road, so as to win the opportunity for the 800 legionnaires in the back hill to climb into the city from the back hill and attack the defenders in the city from the rear.