"The great King Gaseric will definitely return!" The gray-bearded Geseric stood on the bow of the warship and watched Majorian, who had chased him to the shore, loudly proclaim his determination, which was a bit like the gray wolf expressing himself to joy

In fact, Gaiseric's heart is dripping blood, this time he brought more than 10,000 people, and less than 2,000 can go back, which is a big injury, but fortunately his pirate fleet is still intact, as long as there is a pirate fleet, he is not worried about Majorian looking for trouble with him, in this Mediterranean, he is the overlord, Majorian has no navy, naturally there is nothing to do with him.

With a strong navy, even if the army suffered heavy losses, he could stay in Carthage to recuperate and regain his strength, and after returning home, he would recruit a group of soldiers, and after a few years of training, he could run rampant again.

"Bastard, bastard, damn Gasselric, next time you won't be so lucky, Ben Augustus will definitely cut off your head as a urinal!" Majorian rode along the shore and watched the pirate fleet in the distance and the white-bearded Gaiselic standing on the bow of the ship, shouting and cursing.

It is really painful to have no navy, if it was the Western Roman Empire three or four years ago, there was no need to be afraid of the pirate fleet of the Vandal Kingdom, the Western Roman Empire had a powerful naval fleet at that time, but since the Visigothic leader Alaric conquered the city of Rome in 410 AD and the previous several times in the hinterland of Italy turned the world upside down, the economy of the once powerful Roman Empire was on the verge of collapse, and it could no longer afford the huge naval military expenditure, so the navy of the Western Roman Empire gradually weakened, After the Gaceric and Carthaginian kingdoms, they were repeatedly defeated by him. In several naval battles. The naval fleet of the Western Roman Empire was beaten to the ground by Gaiseric's pirate fleet, and the Western Roman Empire gradually lost control of the western Mediterranean.

When Gaiseric's pirate fleet was gone, Majorian breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately returned to Rome with his army, knowing that for at least three years Gaiseric would not be able to invade Italy again, and that he would have to put his internal affairs in order, collect the financial rights and taxes of the provinces, and train an army capable of fighting well to solve the problems of Gaul and Spain once and for all. Otherwise, when the time comes, when that old guy from Geseric recovers his strength and invades from the coast again, it will be a big problem.

Upon his return to Rome, Majorian gained great fame with this defeat of Geseric. The throne was secured, and the people of Rome and Italy believed that he could do a good job as emperor, so they actively cooperated with the decrees issued to him, in order to solve a series of problems such as the Germanic barbarians in Gaul from time to time and the Visigothic kingdom often harassing the territory of the Western Roman Empire in Spain. Majorian began to recruit the strong men to form a new army. This new army was composed entirely of barbarians living in the territory of the Western Roman Empire, not a single native Italian inhabitant, he knew very well that the native Italian inhabitants had become accustomed to a comfortable life, like livestock in captivity in a fence and had lost their wildness, and it was almost delusional to rely on them to win the war, and only those barbarians still maintained their blood, and it was best to use them as soldiers, poor Italians. When they were still scornful of being the subjects of the Celestial Empire, they were despised by their emperor.

Not to mention the fact that Majorian issued a series of edicts in Rome to restore power, strengthen the power of the central government, and vigorously train the army, several months passed in the blink of an eye. It's autumn.

The autumn of 458 AD came early, the weather did not seem to be as hot as usual, all the preparations had been prepared, and the war against Urgan, which did not respect the orders of the royal court, was launched by Qin Dong.

First of all, Qin Dong asked Urgan to write a conquest document on the grounds that Urgan did not respect the orders of the royal court, did not submit to the Dadan to Enek, supported the army and respected himself, and withheld the financial taxes without permission and did not pay them to the royal court, etc., and asked people to write a conquest document, which listed the sixteen major crimes of Urgan, and these crimes could be put to death in Urgan, after the text was written, Qin Dong on the one hand sent people to preach it in various parts of the Xiongnu Empire, and on the other hand, he sent people to send the text to the territory of Urgan and read it out in front of Urgan, and at the same time read it to Urgan's subordinate officials and generals. Divide them. How could Urgan tolerate such a thing and kill the envoy sent by Qin Dong on the spot.

Secondly, on the one hand, Qin Dong imposed an economic blockade on the territory of Urgan to prevent the material of life from entering the territory of Urggan, and on the other hand, ordered Zheli and Afald to lead the army to attack the territory of Urgan from the north and east respectively.

On the east bank of the middle section of the Elbe River, the army of the Xiongnu Empire gathered here, and after receiving the military order from Qin Dong, Alphard immediately raised troops to the west, and it took more than half a month to reach the border line of the middle section of the Elbe River, and stationed on the east bank of the Elbe River.

The Elbe River originates at the southern foot of the Krkonoše Mountains near the border between the Czech Republic and Poland, passes through Bohemia in the northwestern Czech Republic, enters eastern Germany 40 km southeast of Dresden, and empties into the North Sea at Kukshamn, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is 1,165 kilometers long, about one-third of which flows through the Czech Republic and two-thirds through Germany.

On its left bank it had tributaries such as the Vltava, Ohge, Mulder and Saale rivers, and on the right bank there were tributaries such as the Isser, Schwarzerelster (Black Magpie), Havre and Alster, and the area through which the Elbe River flowed was known in Germania during this period, including most of the later German territory.

Germania was divided by the Romans into two parts during this period, Lesser Germania, west and south of the Rhine, occupied by the Romans, and Greater Germania, east of the Rhine. Lesser Germania was further divided into two provinces: Lower Germania (equivalent to the southern part of today's Low Countries) and Upper Germania (equivalent to present-day Switzerland and Alsace in France). In 12 BC, the Roman Emperor Augustus began his conquest of Greater Germania and appointed Germanicus and Tiberius to govern the region. By 6 AD, the Romans had taken control of Germania west of the Elbe River, planning to continue to conquer the entire region and incorporate it into the Roman Empire. In 9 AD, the Germans defeated the Romans at the Battle of Teutonic Castle Grove Hill, shattering their plans. Subsequently, Augustus established the borders of the empire on the Rhine and Danube rivers.

The strength of one army of Afald alone was much larger than that of all of Urgan, but not counting the army of Zheli from the north, whose seventh army had now reached the area north of the end of the Elbe, near what would become Hamburg, Germany.

Urgan was not a man to sit idly by, and immediately after receiving the news of the border of the Qindong army's garrison, he personally led a large army to the west bank of the middle Elbe River, confronted Afard's Fifth Army on the west bank of the middle Elbe River, and sent another army north to meet Zheli's Seventh Army.

During this period, the Germania forest coverage was very high, and there were forests everywhere, and the Germanic people lived here in the past, and now the Huns have come and driven most of the Germanic tribes to the south, only a few Germanic tribes still live in the Black Forest, and some Germanic people have submitted to the Huns and become his vassal people and servant army.

Within a few days after the two armies in the east and north arrived at the designated place, Qin Dong personally led the first division of the first army and the third division of the Janissary Army to the camp of Affard in the middle of the Elbe River.

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest took place in the autumn of the ninth year of the Common Era, that is, at this season, the governor of Germania, Varus, received a report that a tribe in northern Germania had rebelled, and Varus immediately led three legions to quell the rebellion, Varus was the nephew of Augustus, the founding emperor of the Roman Empire, and Augustus couldn't help but be a little worried when he received this news, because Varus did not have much experience in warfare. He immediately relieved himself, thinking that no matter how troublesome the situation, the three Roman legions could always cope with it. Unexpectedly, the bad news came quickly, and the army of Varus was ambushed in the Teutonic Forest and the whole army was annihilated.

The annihilation of the three Roman legions shook the world, and since the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC, the myth of the invincibility of the Roman legions has been completely shattered.

In Germania, this is the nest of the Germanic peoples, who are very familiar with it, they know the distribution of the forests, they know any path in each forest.

Here, the cavalry could not run at a speed, and the infantry could not spread out the phalanx formation, the reason why Varus was completely annihilated on a certain distance was because of an ambush and the army was demoralized, and the greater reason was that the infantry phalanx of the Roman army had no space to spread here, and once they entered the forest, whether it was cavalry or infantry, the team dragged the terrain for a long time, and could not set up a defensive or offensive formation at all.

Qin Dong led the army to arrive at the camp of Afald and did not attack because he knew that this war was different from the past, in the past, his cavalry could be hired on the steppe, but not here, the cavalry was almost difficult to exert combat effectiveness here, only to use infantry, the mountain infantry in the infantry as reconnaissance and auxiliary troops, and could not use phalanx attack tactics.

During the period of confrontation with Urgan, Qin Dong did not do nothing, on the contrary, he made a lot of preparations, and the prerequisite for winning the battle was to know himself and the enemy, first of all, he had to understand the army of Urgan, how many people did this person have, what was his combat effectiveness, and who were the leading generals? Secondly, it is necessary to have a detailed understanding of the terrain on the territory of Urgan, and only when you know yourself and your opponent and are extremely familiar with the terrain can you have a great deal of confidence in winning the battle. (To be continued......)