"Germanic?"

After extinguishing the Gallic rebellion, Apis led his army deep into the northern part of Gaul to the south bank of the Rhine. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Here the new Roman army of Apis first encountered the army of the Germanic people. They were draped in hair, naked* and topless, with all kinds of terrifying and strange tattoos tattooed on their arms, and their faces were hideous, full of primitive and savage atmosphere. Even stronger than the Gauls, he appeared in the path of the legions...... Crane asked curiously. Before this, he had not seen the "wild" Germanic peoples.

"Yes, they are."

Faced with the sudden appearance of barbarian troops, Apis calmly replied, after all, when he followed Caesar into the territory of the Germans, he had seen too many various Germanic tribes, including Emma, who was also known and captured at that time. Emma...... Appis suddenly thought of the Germanic maiden who had been missing for many years. It's just that Emma, who doesn't know about it, where is it...... And the current situation does not allow Abis to think and sensationalize. The barbarian warriors on the opposite side gradually stood out from the bushes.

"Soldiers, array!"

Crane commanded loudly. Immediately, several hundred-man teams lined up in three lines, as they had done during training, protecting Appis and Flaminius in the middle. In the rear, hundreds of Appis' personal bodyguards, and the Roman legionary cavalry were also on guard. However, not only Appis, but almost all the officers of the legion quickly saw that this was not an ambush by the Germans, nor was it the main force. Probably the vanguard, maybe to test the combat effectiveness of the Roman legions?

After the confrontation, the barbarian infantry began to strike their shields with axes and swords, opening their mouths wide and revealing their sharp canine teeth, while letting out a roar of rage.

"They're really no different from beasts, Commander."

A low-ranking legionary infantryman chatted to his centurion.

Then, without waiting long for the Roman legionnaires under Apis to prepare, the barbarians came forward under the leadership of their leaders. After the first wave of javelin strikes, the two savage armies went head-to-head for the first time.

This time, however, Abys's Roman legions were clearly under-prepared for the strength and explosiveness of the Germanic people. The first wave of oncoming Germanic warriors roared wildly and even broke down the Roman legion defense line in the front row, and the shield wall guards, who had been qualified or even excellent in ordinary training, instantly collapsed under the impact of the Germanic beasts like a flood, and hundreds of legionary infantry were knocked down by the impact of the barbarians, and then, before they could get up, the Germanic axes had been smashed down frantically.

Some legionnaires who reacted quickly enough were able to raise their shields or daggers to block, while others who were knocked unconscious or fell to the ground and did not react quickly were inevitably injured by axes or even killed.

The legion recruits who followed behind were soon led by the centurions to fight the vicious Germanic blood.

Barbarian warriors, whose average height was a head taller than the Romans, roared and swung their tomahawks and smashed them at the Roman legionnaires in front of them. In a panic, the legionnaires raised their battle shields to block, but their shields were shattered by the great axes of the Germanic people...... There was a cracking sound.

The centurion sounded the emergency assembly order, and then dozens of centurions instantly assembled, moving closer to each other to form a denser phalanx, trying to block the barbarians' onslaught. The armies on both flanks gathered in a triangular formation and advanced rapidly.

Abyss rode on a tall war horse and looked at the bloody battle that was going on in front of him, it was the chief brigade brought by Crane. Obviously, the Roman legions were numerous, and the number of these barbarian soldiers did not exceed five or six hundred, but they were extremely fierce and had no intention of fear. The front troops had been repulsed by the Germanic attack, and the dead Roman soldiers fell to the ground, their bodies were mercilessly and almost bloodthirsty slaughtered by the Germanic warriors, many of whom had their heads cut off with axes and hung on their waists to show off as their trophies, but the bloody heads were still dripping with bright red blood.

For the first time, the Roman legionaries were frightened by the frenzied fighting style of the northern barbarians, and they hid behind the shield wall, stabbing each sword with extreme caution, for fear that when their short swords pierced the shield wall in the next moment, they would be chopped off by these terrible Germans!

However, in front of the shield line, there were still hundreds of legionnaires who had been swept away at the beginning of the battle. They were desperate to fight the Germanic people in an almost terrible battle for survival.

One Germanic knocked down a Roman legionnaire, and the two rolled and fell, but the Germanic reacted faster and got up and pressed directly at the Roman legionnaire. When the legionary infantry opened their eyes, a tall figure had swooped down on him, holding a one-handed battle axe, and the Germans made a brutal downward slashing motion, like slaughtering a wild boar. However, the Roman soldier also reacted in time, he subconsciously took out the short sword, held the short sword with both hands and instinctively made an upward thrust movement. At the last moment, the Germanic axe swung and slashed, and the short sword of the Roman soldier stabbed him in the abdomen.

But it is clear that the tip of the Roman soldier's sword approached the body of the Germanic warrior first...... The sharp Roman short sword squeezed into the body of the Germanic warrior, piercing the skin and cutting the internal organs, and the Germanic warrior was no longer able to hold the tomahawk at the moment of chopping the tomahawk, and the whole person fell stiffly, pressing on the body of the Roman soldier, and the Roman short sword pierced out of his back, and the tip of the sword was still sticking to the broken internal organs......

The Roman infantry, glad that they had survived, struggled to move the barbarian warrior who was pressing on them and went to the ground not far away to pick up their shields. However, tragedy struck again at this moment, another Germanic found the Roman soldier who had just experienced a hard battle, and ran away frantically, and then, before the Roman soldier could notice, the barbarian had already run behind him, and the thick gavel smashed down frantically, smashing a hole in the Roman soldier's steel helmet! Inside, blood poured out like a fountain, the eyes of the Roman soldiers were full of blood, and the clear white sky slowly turned blood-red, crimson, dark red, until it was dark......

Another Germanic man brutally clamped down on the neck of a Roman legionnaire, and then, slitting his throat with a sword, the "weak" Roman soldier barely resisted, and fell straight to the ground, blood staining the ground beneath the Germanic warrior's feet.

The fierceness of the battles and the ferocity of the barbarians were beyond the imagination of ordinary Roman legionnaires, and of course, Abyss was accustomed to such scenes......