"Stay in formation, stay in formation!"

Outside the city of Kielkovia, in the last evening of late autumn, Apis was leading a small number of Roman soldiers, trying to attack the position of the Gauls, on the slopes and paths, the Celtic axes and the Roman short swords struck together again and again, the shields collided together, the soldiers let out a muffled roar, and then the shields of both sides collided together, and the Roman short sword stabbed from above the shield, stabbing the Gallic soldiers who were climbing the shield wall, and the bloodshed of the battlefield happened again and again. This is the battlefield of Rome against the barbarians www.biquge.info barbarbarian, barbaric, brutal, bloodshed.

"Lucuris, don't get out of the queue, keep your position."

"Utirina, hold on to your shield and keep the shield wall intact."

On the bloody and noisy battlefield, Apis constantly whistled, ordering the soldiers around him to keep their positions and maintain their shield posture, and every small mistake would increase the casualties of the centurion, as the field commander of this Roman brigade, Apis did not want any soldier to be injured or even killed under his command, and put on this helmet that symbolized the centurion, and put on the heavy responsibility of wearing it, he must always remember his mission, every battle, every mission, and bring his soldiers back alive and out of the battlefield as much as possible. Otherwise, it was a terrible feeling to watch his comrades fall in front of his eyes, and he blamed himself in his heart, and Apis had been completely sleepless for this.

A Celtic warrior rushed towards Appis's location with a large axe, perhaps it was the horizontal mane on the centurion's head that attracted the attention of the savage warrior, or maybe he just inadvertently rushed up, just rushing to the centurion's position, in short, Apis didn't know, but, when this barbarian warrior rushed up, the two legion veterans beside Apis suddenly attacked this brute force Celtic warrior on the left and right, and two Roman short swords pierced through his ribs, cutting the skin and muscles sharply, Then go deep into the belly of the savage samurai. With a sharp pull, the barbarian warrior in front of him suddenly fell to his knees with one foot screaming, revealing a painful expression, and his blood spurted out as the Roman short sword was drawn, staining Appis's feet red.

Then, two Roman legionnaires kicked the Celtic warrior to the ground, one on the left and one on the right, and prepared to meet the next Celtic soldier who rushed up, regardless of whether he lived or died.

It was a seemingly ordinary encounter that ended when dusk was nearly gone and the moon climbed the branches, and both sides retreated, leaving the ground covered with hideous corpses. Rabienus sent a small team to try to understand the fighting power of the Vicintoli anti-Roman alliance.

The mountain skirmish became a prelude to the siege of Kirkovia.

"General, I think the quality of these Gauls is even higher than we expected."

After returning from the battle, Apis honestly reported to Rabienus about the battle that had taken place outside the Gaul camp during the day.

"Why? Apis. All I know is that you defeated the barbarian attack and did not let a single soldier die in that mountain forest. ”

Rabienus, in the tent of the camp, turned to look at Appis, his most proud man. The words are full of boasting and appreciation.

Appis, however, did not think so.

"General, I did not defeat the enemy, they were about the same number as us, so none of our soldiers died on that battlefield, but I found a new phenomenon in the battle with these Gauls, they are no longer so reckless and careless, there seems to be a certain organizational discipline, at least I hear the sound of the drums, their battle moves rhythmically with the sound of the drums, and when they retreat, there is also a certain organized retreat, no longer fleeing separately. What I mean by this is that they can have a field commander and strictly follow that commander's orders. ”

"Apis, are you saying that these barbarians have learned our way to fight? They have such field commanders as centurions, centurions, and are no longer impulsive and bloodthirsty? ”

Rabbi Enus quickly picked up on Appis's words.

However, his words were full of ridicule, mocking that barbarians will always be barbarians, and they don't know any art of war at all. As the commander of the orthodox Roman legions, Rabienus's impression of the barbarians was forever reckless, brutal, Gaul, Germanic, and in the eyes of the Romans, a pack of wild beasts. They will only roar before the battle, and then they will rush forward in any form. This is what Labi Enus thought about the Gauls.

"Yes."

But Apis had to say what he thought, after all, before this battle, Caesar's purpose and order was like this, to understand the actual combat effectiveness of this barbarian army. It's just that before the war, Caesar and Rabbi Enus may have focused their energy and attention on the individual combat effectiveness of this barbarian army, and no one thought that Vicintoli would slowly train Gaul's temporary army of farmers, hunters, and blacksmiths into a half-finished regular army. Although there is still a huge gap compared to the Roman legions. But this was already the first step in the qualitative improvement of the Gallic army.

"Well, Appis, I'll tell Caesar what is going on here. Also, you need to prepare, in a few days, there may be a real battle waiting for us. ”

Rabienus reluctantly agreed with this view at Appis's insistence. And the new arrangement was explained.

"A real war? General, do you mean that in a few days we will need a frontal assault? ”

Appis reacted quickly, the adjective "fierce battle" only appears when there is a positional battle, a frontal push, and Rabienus said that this sentence already indicates that Caesar has made the next tactical arrangements.

"Yes. Caesar had in the past two days had the caravan mules disguise themselves as legionary cavalry and Germanic cavalry, and in two days this disguised army would bypass the wall before us and attack from the rear of the Gauls. Of course, they can't really achieve any success, and they can't really take the city, they just delay us and confuse the Gallic defenders in the city. Caesar was going to trick that Vicintoli again, so that he would think that the main force of our siege was in the back mountain. This tactic was used by Caesar before, wasn't it? At that time the Gauls did not believe it, and now they dare not believe it anymore. ”

Rabienus said excitedly, while Apis remembered the siege of Ribry more than half a year ago, when all the defending Gauls did not believe that Caesar would focus the siege on the back hill, because the terrain there was steep and difficult to climb, and it would take a lot of physical strength for the Roman army to march in such a terrain, but Caesar insisted on ordering the legion squad to set out from there and attack the city of Ribris. After that battle, the Gauls believed that the Romans would attack the city by all means they could not think of, including steep and difficult forest paths and snow-capped mountains.