20. On the eve of the storm

At dawn, in the grove outside the city, rows of ragged but ferocious barbarians appeared. There is no doubt www.biquge.info that they are the Germanic people who crossed the Rhine before.

The town of the Remi had now become the base of the Roman legions, and in two days the legionnaires had built more than a hundred towers within the walls of the Gauls. In addition, outside the city, a moat was dug around the whole city, and it was covered with sharp stakes, so that if the barbarians rushed up, there would be no place to climb.

In the sun-drenched morning, a bloody battle is about to break out. The Germans were five times outnumbered the Roman legions, but the Roman legions were defending the city, and the fortifications were almost completed, so the soldiers were no longer so afraid in the face of the large number and incredible combat effectiveness of the barbarian army.

The barbarians, led by their leader, marched mightily towards the town. The archers on the towers also pulled the bowstring to the maximum. Waiting for the Legion Commander's order to shoot at any time. The atmosphere on the battlefield became more and more tense, and the soldiers almost held their breath, and no one knew what would happen in the next moment.

The Germanic army came to a collective halt when it was still 150 meters away from the city walls. Then they roared in unison, accompanied by the sound of axes and shields beating, wave after wave, as if tens of thousands of wild beasts were roaring collectively, and the crowd saw the Germanic people who had already walked out of the forest, how many barbarians were still in the forest, the Romans did not know, although the information from the mouths of the Gallic prisoners of war was 50,000 people, but looking at this posture, it was estimated that it was far more than that.

"Launch!"

The first wave of attacks was launched by the Roman legions, and the giant catapults were methodically operated by the soldiers in the city to drop the first round of stone projectiles. The tar-covered boulder leaped from the ground with a roar of flames, like the roar of a giant, and the entire Roman legionary engineering position was shaken.

The boulder roared through the sky and fell from the sky, spilling into the Germanic positions with a terrifying roar.

"Roar, roar, roar!"

The moment the blazing boulder fell to the ground, tens of thousands of Germanic people, like a raging storm, rushed towards the Romans' position, the low Gallic wall.

"Launch!"

"Launch!"

Bow captains everywhere gave the order to shoot almost simultaneously. The Roman archers on more than a hundred towers let go at the same time and released their arrows.

The first rain of arrows swept across the land like locusts on the charging barbarians.

Soon, however, the arrows rained down on the roar of the barbarians...... There were too many Germanic people. At this time, the Roman soldiers defending the city realized that in fact, the Germanic people numbered far more than 50,000, and 50,000 was only the number of their men, and behind these strong men, there were tens of thousands of old people and women, who were also following their husbands and sons, and were charging......

"What a savage race."

Standing on the city walls, Apis finally understood why the ancient Roman Empire, which spanned three continents in history, conquered all the countries and peoples along the Mediterranean coast. But they did not conquer the Germans, and were even destroyed by these barbarians. This is simply a frenzied way of fighting, as soon as they go out on the expedition, they are dragging their families and mouths, and all of them go into battle, which is equivalent to all the soldiers, they are not here to fight, but to settle down, to migrate!

"Soldier, hold on!"

The barbarians were about to rush to the bottom of the city, and a distance of one hundred and fifty meters was only enough for the archers to shoot three rounds of arrows, and the enemy rushed in front of them. The centurion shouted, ordering the soldiers to prepare. The Legionnaires were each armed with a javelin, a weapon for a round of kills.

"Steady!"

The centurions shouted again, and even though the soldiers had begun to loosen, the Roman infantry could barely resist throwing their javelins at the face of the beastly roar.

However, the commander of the corps ordered that no soldier should be allowed to project without authorization, otherwise it would be dealt with by military law after the war. Appis looked back and saw Sabinus standing on the highest conning tower, watching the entire battlefield. And Kota, already on the city walls, stood with the soldiers, fighting without a fight, and each legion commander was on the battlefield in person.

"Steady!"

The centurion shouted again. The roar of the barbarians has surrounded the entire Roman legion. Many Germanic axemen had already begun to climb the city walls, and they jumped into the ravines en masse, and after some of the dead and wounded, the people behind began to step on the corpses of the people in front of them to climb up, without siege equipment, relying on simple wooden ladders and ropes. A bloodthirsty and brainless race. Appis looked at the Germanic people in close proximity, their faces like primitive humans, roaring strange screams of completely unknown origins, and their half-naked upper bodies covered with various tattoos. The blood-red eyes were like the eyes of a wild beast, as if they were ready to eat the Roman infantry on the walls at any moment.

Tens of thousands of barbarians were climbing over the ravines full of sharp stakes, eagles flew across the sky, and below, the Germanic army from the forest surrounded and tried to rush into the Roman line like a swarm of wriggling black insects, while twelve thousand Roman soldiers were only enough to surround the town in a circle, and from the air, the Roman line was only a light red.

"Launch!"

Finally, when the barbarians were halfway up, Sabinus gave the order to shoot the barbarians. All the legionary infantry, led by the centurion, threw the first round of spears, javelins.

Thousands of rounds of iron-tipped Roman heavy javelins flew towards the Germanic people who were climbing the city walls, and the sound of spears piercing flesh* was heard in the air, and barbarians roared and screamed. Blood burst out of the living body, like a gushing fountain, spilling all over the deep ditch in front of the Romans.

In less than two minutes, a large number of barbarian corpses were piled up in this deep ditch outside the city walls. The blood of the barbarian soldiers flowed and could even converge into a moat.

A strong smell of blood emanated from under the city walls, but such a horrific scene inspired the ferocious fighting nature of the Germanic people, who were born warriors and bloodthirsty beasts. More Germanic people were not afraid of the Roman fortifications and the overwhelming rain of spears and arrows. Instead, it charged upwards and climbed like a real beast.

The ravines had almost been filled with Germanic corpses, and the walls of Gaul, two or three meters high, were almost negligible to these rampaging Germanic peoples.

"Soldier, shield wall defense!"

The centurions shouted again, and the time had come for hand-to-hand combat.

In an instant, the Roman line of defense collapsed like a closed wall. Thousands of legionary infantry held their large square shields to their chests, their short swords sticking out of the gaps between their shields, ready to fight to the death against the raging barbarians!