"I think the crisis of the Germanic people may not be as terrible as we think, in fact, when I served in Caesar's legion, I also fought against these barbarians, although they were bloodthirsty and brutal, but more often they actually acted alone, because the Germans had many tribes, and they rarely united together, even if they were united in a great war, they still dispersed into tribes after the war......"

Lepida spoke in full view of everyone, feigning to be timid and cowardly, expressing his reluctance to go to Gaul to resist the Germans. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info And the more he did this, the more Octavian and Antony demanded that he go north......

"You mean the Germans are not much of a threat?"

Anthony asked impatiently.

"Hmm...... Roughly speaking, they will only operate on the borders, and as soon as they infiltrate Gaul, they will be stagnant because of the disagreement of the patriarchs, and our garrison will constantly destroy them. ”

Lepida replied immediately.

"But the truth is that the local defenders of northern Gaul were almost defenseless against the barbarian invasion, and the Germans were slaughtering the Romans on the border with heinous acts."

Anthony interjected again without waiting for Lepida to finish, his meaning was obvious, and asked Lepida to leave here and go north...... Once Lepida left, there was one less competitor here, and everyone knew that as long as Octavian and Antony were in alliance, Brutus would one day fail, and neither Antony nor Octavian wanted to lose this achievement. Killing Brutus greatly pleasing the Roman commoners, and taking advantage of the situation to occupy a large area of land in the East.

"Lepida, you must go to the north, take your legions, and slaughter those Germanic people, and show no mercy."

Antony spoke again when Lepida was "hesitating", leaving Lepida speechless, and then looking at Octavian, who had the same acquiescence written on his cold face.

Two days later, under the persecution of the people, Lebida gathered his army with a "sad face" and went to Rome, from which he marched to Germania.

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To Octavian's surprise, however, Apis remained in Greece and continued to command the poor 1,000 soldiers who helped Antony and himself guard the siege.

"Brothers, hold the line!"

Under the overcast sky, Appis stood behind the dilapidated fence, shouting loudly and directing his soldiers to guard this line of defense, which was the diversion of the Ebris River, and if the canal was successfully diverted in a few days, there would be no water available in Brutus' camp, so Brutus and Kventus kept sending troops to attack for several days.

With the sound of a loud trumpet, thousands of Brutus' Roman legionary infantry began to charge......

On Appis's side, the gunners on the tower had tightened their pimps, and the giant crossbow bolts more than two meters long were aimed at the dense legionnaires below on the battlements.

Immediately, as the enemy approached, the spears were rapidly ejected, and the gunners on more than a dozen towers fired almost at the same time, and a gorgeous arc appeared in the air.

With a whistling sound, the spear stabbed into the Brutus mercenaries in the front row, and then, with a powerful piercing force, the spear pierced through the shields and bodies of the legionary infantry!

With the sound of bones collapsing, more than a dozen of Brutus' legionnaires were brutally shot. Although this is not very effective compared to a team of thousands of people, the fear generated by the ballista makes the soldiers on the flat ground panic.

As the infantry phalanx of Brutus approached, the two sides began the most traditional hand-to-hand encounter.

Then, a large number of heavy javelins were thrown from the hands of the infantry of the Apis legion, and at a distance of less than fifty meters between the two sides, a large number of heavy javelins flew in the air, like a mass of locusts flying by, instantly obscuring the sky between the two armies.

The oncoming heavy javelins had a strong weight and penetration, and even if the Roman soldiers in the front row had already set up their shields, some could not resist, and the heavy javelins sporadically pierced into the shields, nailing some soldiers' hands to the large shields, while the legionnaires who had been pierced through the arms by spears were obviously incapacitated. And what awaits them may be the fate of a lifetime of disability.

But Appis didn't have time for any of this, because soon, the two would have to engage in even more bloody and brutal hand-to-hand combat here.

"Roaring ......"

In a roar of invincibility, Brutus' phalanx of legions rushed into the weak line of Apis. After the earth-shattering shouts, the two sides of the battle line were already crowded, stabbing each other through this low fence.

Klein grabbed one of the mercenaries by the head and slit the throat with his short sword. A large amount of blood splattered out and sprinkled on the faces of the Legionnaires who rushed behind. The recruit looked terrified, but was pushed up by the men behind him and forced to fight, Crane only roared, Brutus was afraid like a recruit, and then, the burly Crane in front of him split his helmet with a tomahawk......

Appis hid behind the shield, calmly resisting the opponent's frenzied weapon strikes, and waited until the opponent's attack was interrupted, before stabbing the short sword from under the shield and piercing the opponent's body through the fence.

More soldiers stabbed with spears, like the Macedonian cavalry, with spears in their backs, stabbing through the fence.

The constant whistling sound in the air was terrifying, and the legion gunners who had been placed on the tower by Apis did their best to operate the machinery, throwing spears and stone projectiles out, some of which shattered the heads of the infantry as they flew into the crowd, and the head of one of the Brutus mercenaries was hit by a merciless flow stone, and instantly shattered into powder, and brains and blood were scattered to the ground, and the helmet that originally wrapped the head was completely deformed and twisted into a shriveled shape, and the whole soldier fell headlessly, The horrific images intimidated the Brutus legion again and again. The soldiers even trembled and did not want to fight again.

It was not until dark that the offensive was blocked, leaving a dense belt of corpses on the battlefield, all piled up on the narrow front where the two armies fought during the day, and covered with all kinds of stumps and broken arms in horror. Blood sausages, internal organs scattered on top of the corpse, around. Some are still attached to the body.

The strong smell of blood attracted many scavenging creatures, and Appis ordered that when it was dark, all these corpses should be burned, the weather was getting warmer, and it was about to enter summer, and in order to prevent the emergence of epidemics, all sources of infection must be removed, and these corpses, yes, they are the places and sources of germ parasitism, but they can't explain so much to the people of this era.