Five days later, just as the Gallic defenders in the city felt hopeless and on the verge of collapse, Vicintoli's reinforcements arrived outside Alesia. From a distance, the Roman legionnaires www.biquge.info looking through the tower, and could see that on the dawn horizon, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of Gauls were like herds of migrating beasts in the wilderness, densely packed and converging from all directions.

They marched into battle armed with rudimentary weapons, shields, and most of them wore little armor on them, except for a crude linen garment, or clothing woven from animal skins.

It was an army rather than a Gallic peasant regiment. The soldiers who were improvised from these tribes were farmers, hunters, blacksmiths, beggars, and vagabonds. They cobbled together only to answer the call of their own patriarchs to drive the Romans out of their domains. In the case of bringing its own equipment, such a national army with ragged clothes and different equipment will be formed.

All kinds of weapons, all kinds of equipment. Scythes, spears, bows and arrows, chopping axes, so to speak, apart from their long hair, Apis could hardly find any unity in this army......

On the first day of the siege of the Roman legions, the legionnaires could not estimate the number of this Gallic army, and standing on the towers, the barbarian soldiers all over the ground were like a raging tide, wave after wave.

However, in the face of the traps and ditches that the Romans had long arranged, these Gallic soldiers could not even get close to the walls.

In just one day's siege, the Roman legions' trenches full of spiked wooden stakes were also covered with piles of corpses of Gauls.

"Caesar?"

After a day of fighting, Rabienus came to Caesar's tent. Here, Caesar is sitting at his desk, munching on a pot of fine grapes of Gallic origin.

"Rabienus, this is only the first day of the offensive and defensive battle, and the next battle we will face will be more severe and dangerous. The Gauls may have sent only a small force of tentative forces today. A large number of barbarian warriors are still to come. Our fortifications have a weak point. After that slope, the wall was built lower than the high ground outside, and we were afraid that Vicintoli's reinforcements would arrive here in half a month, so when we built the siege network, in order to reduce the amount of work, we bypassed the high ground and chose to build a wall behind the high ground. Now that the barbarians are coming, I think, in the next siege, sooner or later they will discover the weakness of our siege nets. ”

Caesar came out of his musings and told him what to look out for in the next battle of the city, and what to expect.

The biggest weakness of the entire Alesian siege network is what Caesar said it was. There, the height of the wall was even lower than the height of the high ground in front of it. As a result, once the Gauls attacked the wall from there, it was easy to throw all kinds of debris from the high ground, thus causing damage to the defenders. And fill in the traps laid by the Legion.

And Caesar's response was very simple.

"Rabienus, concentrate all your siege weapons behind that wall, and if the barbarians rush into the siege net, let all the catapults and archers strike at the void. Let the corpses of those barbarians be re-piled in the gap. ”

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Finally, after a week of bloody sieges, the Gauls finally discovered the loopholes and weaknesses of the Roman legionary siege net. As Caesar said, the barbarian armies gathered here and launched an onslaught from the high ground. The Celtic hunters opened fire on the high ground at the Roman legionary defenders on the wall. A large number of branches, stones were pushed down from the high ground and smashed directly into the walls of the Roman legions here.

Appis was ordered to rush there with a detachment of veterans.

However, it was not possible to carry too many legional infantry. For elsewhere in the siege network, likewise, there were many Gallic soldiers besieging them. The leaders of the Gallic tribes apparently did not want to concentrate all the defenders of the Roman legions. Elsewhere in the siege network, Caesar also had to send a large number of soldiers to garrison it.

"Brothers, run, climb the wall!"

When Appis reached the weak point of the wall, a large number of barbarians were climbing the wall. Since the trap ahead had already been filled by the Gauls with branches, stones. This allowed a large number of Gallic soldiers to pass through the trap belt on the periphery of the Roman legionary siege network unimpeded.

Now, the barbarians are passing through the ladder, the rope over the not-so-tall siege net.

As in all previous battles, there was bloody fighting at the forefront of the legions, and by the time Apis climbed the wall, a large number of barbarian soldiers had already fought the Roman defenders in close quarters.

"Three people in a row, line up!"

Ahead, the barbarians kept climbing over the wall. Appis rushed from the other side of the wall, took the lead, raised his great shield, and whistled. Behind him, three hundred legionnaires pulled their shields back and placed them on their chests. Then, on the perimeter wall, lined up in a neat phalanx, they trotted towards the barbarians and rushed.

"Roar."

What followed was the brutal hand-to-hand combat and slaughter at the head of the city.

A Gallic brute rushed in front of him, his axe raised high in both hands, and then fell heavily. In order to maintain his formation, Apis could not dodge, but could only fight hard. Raise the shield to meet the interview and block the blow. However, in the next second, the heavy axe smashed through the Centurion's large shield. The tip of the axe was not even a few centimeters away from the tip of Appis's nose.

On the bloody battlefield, Apis threw away his shield and stabbed his sword with a swift sword, piercing the barbarian soldier's abdomen. When the dagger was drawn, it carried with it the blood of the savage and the shattered internal organs.

The eagle swept across the sky, overlooking the land, and at this moment, the entire siege network of the Roman legions was full of Roman soldiers and Gauls fighting.

The collision of axes and heavy shields, the swords and spears stabbed back and forth. A feast of blood.

And in the gap in the siege net, where the barbarian warriors were most concentrated, all the ranged weapons of the Roman legions had been aimed at them.

Rabbi Enus led an elite general guard, standing in front of siege weapons, keeping an eye on the battle ahead, ready to give the order to shoot the barbarians......

Outside, the shouts of killing were already shaking the sky, and in the barracks, Caesar was sitting in the camp tent, in front of the mirror, and his personal servants were helping him put on the general's full body equipment. Roman daggers with ivory handles, general's cuirplates with elaborate portraits, fine legional greaves, and a large red commander's mantle.

"Cagabis, we've been together for years, and I've never been so cold as I've been now, have I?"

Looking at himself in the mirror, Caesar asked thoughtfully.

"No, master, you will always be the greatest general of Rome."

The servant Calgapis replied respectfully, and then he saw Caesar, dressed in military uniform, walking out of the gates of the Legion Headquarters. (To be continued.) )