After a short break in the afternoon, Grau and Apis blew the whistle for the attack, and the two hundred legionnaires tried to pass through the narrowest part of the mountain road in a straggler's rank. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info There, with a steep slope on one side, it could only accommodate two legionnaires passing side by side, and to be on the safe side, Apis let only one soldier pass to avoid accidents, and the two pressed each other, causing them to fall off the cliff.

One by one, the soldiers passed, and the atmosphere tended to suffocate, and if at this time the Gauls discovered this Roman army and attacked, the army would have wasted a great deal of time here and could not storm the walls on the hillside of Ribry at the scheduled time. Even, the army simply cannot pass here.

Fortunately, the worst did not happen, and the Gauls, as Caesar had expected, neglected to defend the back path, for, on the front, the Sixth Army and Pompey's Fils Legion had already begun to advance towards the main entrance of Ribrys and feint against the front of the Averni. The roar of Roman siege engines had caused most of the city's defenders to concentrate at the main entrance, waiting for the Roman legions to storm their main entrance.

"Hurry, hurry, soldier, we're about to reach the barbarians' back walls. After completing the task, Caesar promised us a reward of one thousand Sestaires each. ”

Grau shouted.

The reward of money was undoubtedly the most tempting thing for the Roman legions of this era, and there was nothing more uplifting and lifting the spirits of the Roman soldiers than this.

One thousand Sistaires, equivalent to the purchasing power of 50,000 yuan in later generations, can get 50,000 yuan for fighting a local battle, such a reward is not only tempting to ordinary soldiers, but also to their centurion-Apis.

The soldiers galloped along the grassy paths until evening, when the Roman brigade of eight hundred men met resistance from the Gauls.

This is the standing garrison of some of the Averni who were originally stationed here, but the number is much smaller than usual, and most of them have been transferred to the front line, the plain battlefield, to prepare for a head-on decisive battle with the Roman siege troops. Because no one thought that Caesar would put the focus of the siege on the back mountain......

And even if the Averni thought that Caesar might attack the town from the back hills, they never expected that the Roman soldiers would arrive so quickly. Less than a day has passed since Caesar began building siege weapons and encamped. The path behind the hill was impossible to pass through at night without torches, which means that it took the Roman army a little more than half a day to bypass half of the city and climb the hillside. Such a speed was simply impossible for the Gauls to do.

But what was a Roman legion? Marius Mule ...... The most training in this professional army is not combat and drilling, but errands and construction coolies. Every Roman legionary infantry is an absolute expert in construction projects and long-distance running training.

With the admonition of sweating more in times of peace and less bloodshed in wartime, the Roman "contingent" led by Grau and Appis finally arrived in the evening less than a mile from the city of Ribrice, where the Gallic defenders were completely defenseless. They hurled stones and spears at the vanguard of Apis, preventing the legionary infantry from advancing any further, while several Averni hurried into the town, trying to report the information to their defenders. However, a dozen elite veterans of the Roman legions did not give them a chance to report at all. They connected their shields together, rushed up to the high ground, and then broke through the barbarians' defenses, and after a simple and rough fight, there were more than a dozen barbarian corpses on the narrow mountain road. Along with those who escaped, they were assassinated here by legion veterans.

"Go ahead, victory belongs to Rome!"

Apis took the lead and shouted slogans as he ran to the looming earthen wall on the hillside.

It was now approaching night, and when the sun had set, there was only a reddish purple sunset left on the horizon, and the soldiers trotted forward one by one, a little tired, and under the cover of night, the Gauls on the walls of the hill behind Riblis were not at all aware of the Roman brigade on the march.

Even, almost all of them ran to the front-line battlefield down the hillside, where the defenders were left in the single digits......

"Siege formation."

It was not until he was very close to the city walls that Apis gave the order to attack the city. If that's what it calls a siege......

Eighty legionnaires instantly drew closer, and they raised their shields above their heads and pressed close to the walls of the Averni. One tactic was to let the tortoiseshell array stick to the city walls, and the Roman soldiers under the shields used shovels, pickaxes and other tools to slowly dismantle the enemy's fortifications, but this trick is obviously not used now. The Averni now had less than ten defenders on the wall, and the height of this earthen wall was only more than one person high, so they went up directly on top of the human wall.

Without Appis giving any more orders, these legion veterans were just like what had been agreed before, the innermost people, standing straight, holding their shields in their hands, while the outermost soldiers were half-crouching, holding their shields on their shoulders, and in an instant, the entire tortoiseshell array was transformed under the walls of the Gauls, forming a staircase made of shields!

The next moment, hundreds of legionary infantry, stepping on the shoulders of their companions, and the shields above their heads, climbed the walls of the Gauls. They are like black cats that sneak around at night, and the thick cushions on their straw sandals make the sound of walking extremely faint. Rush, kill, for money! Well, the most tangible thing, this group of Roman soldiers risked their lives to carry out these tasks, for this.

A Gallic defender spotted the movement of the Roman army, however, Grau had already preempted one, leaned in and wiped his neck.

In the night, faintly, the Roman soldiers who participated in this sneak attack mission heard the roar of the Roman siege weapons on the front line......

……

"Rabienus, what do you think we're doing now?"

Just as Appis and Grau had led the Roman team into the city, ready to join the besieging forces, Caesar stood behind the besieging troops, chatting excitedly with Rabienus beside him.

"Conquer the barbarian cities, spread the civilization of Rome, and bring light to this dark continent, Caesar."

To Caesar's inexplicable question, Rabbi Enus replied reverently.

"No, no, Rabienus. What we are doing is more than simple, we are not only spreading the glorious civilization of Rome, we are creating a new city, creating a new history, we are building a new country with our own hands, Rabienus. ”

"A new country?"

Rabbi Enus was clearly a little confused by Caesar's words, and on the battlefield he was a pious warrior, a general. Personally, he was one of Caesar's closest friends, but even so, Rabbi Enus was still confused and confused by Caesar's recent changes. It seems that in the thought of this great Roman general, the whole of Rome needs to be replanned and developed, the giant of the times, Rabienus sighed in his heart.

"Yes, Rome needs to change, Rabienus, just as we conquered Gaul today, without what we have done, Gaul, this wild continent, will never be part of Roman land, so we need to do something for Rome, make some changes. Rabienus. ”

Caesar did not hesitate to answer Rabienus's question, but "explained" with great interest and high emotion.

"For the sake of Rome, Caesar, I will always follow you."

Rabbi Enus replied with a smile, pulling the dagger from his belt. Ahead, the town of the Averni was about to be breached, and the Tenth Legion would only need one more charge, and the largest town Caesar had encountered since the conquest of Gaul would fall into Roman territory.