"Use your bows and arrows to stop the enemy's cavalry from approaching us, and don't let them outflank our back." —The Prophet Muhammad

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Caesar was not an emotionalist or a superstitious person, and he knew that when he was in trouble on the battlefield, the best way was not to go his own way, nor to pray to God sincerely, but to gather all the front-line elites who participated in the war and listen to what they should do.

This time Li Bida gave the opportunity to perform to Milu, and he asked to speak in the name of the chief centurion of the Twelfth Legion, and Caesar naturally approved of the invitation.

"We must prepare any link, because our army and the enemy are three miles away from each other, and it is better not to throw all our forces at once, but we can disperse the battle, so that our twelve legions can resist Dukes Mountain, and your Excellency will divide the remaining five legions and auxiliary cavalry into two or three lines, and move forward in turns, desperately supervise the battle, and fight head-on, so that the front can not only meet the front and rear, but also make the soldiers in front have no way to retreat, until they break through the enemy's camp. Your Excellency the Governor, I am a man who has served for many years, and I have fought against the Germans, and in my opinion, we should not seek to defeat them in one drum, that would only be counterproductive, because the Germans are good at short battles, which have to do with their physical strength and character characteristics, while our legions are suitable for long-term wars of attrition, which benefit from our formation and discipline. ”

"You're right, but now that the Sewefers refuse to fight us, that's the big problem." Caesar thought Milou's proposal was good. But the premise for implementation does not exist.

"I interrogated the captured warriors of the Germain. Zhilu explained the reason why they didn't come out to fight the decisive battle. Rabinus spoke at this point. Aliovistus was particularly superstitious about a witch who had given birth to three children, and had been asked to do divination every time she had fought in battle, and each time it was very effective, and this one was no exception, and the witch used fruit branches and white cloth to do divination. The result is that before the crescent moon rises, if the Sewefers go to war, they will not receive the favor of the gods in any case. Victorious. ”

"I see" Caesar understood this time, so what is the best way to change the witch's divination? Because there are at least twelve days left before the next new moon, and our army is already exhausted by the battle for the grain routes.

"Why do you want to change that witch's divination! Since the Sewefers have decided that they will not dare to fight before the next month, then we will go straight to the fight, and they will have to fight us by surprise. With a swing of his fist, the reckless man Sekdilius shouted out the suggestion.

Yes, even though Sekdilius was indeed a reckless fellow, he was absolutely right about his proposal. Li Bida also spoke at this time, "The contemptible person has synthesized my chief centurion. and the scheme of the commander of the Ten Army Corps. In order to achieve the effect of surprise, I thought that our army could maintain a market day to paralyze the tired enemy, and then take the lead in reaching Dukes Hill by my 12th legion, pinning down the enemy everywhere, and then His Excellency the Governor led the main force of the five legions to crush the enemy in one fell swoop! ”

Caesar and Labinus bowed their heads together and approved the plan, but asked Li Bida to do a good job in the duties of the Twelve Legions during this time, otherwise if he was defeated by the three thousand elite cavalry of Weaver on Dukes Mountain, it would affect the entire battle situation.

Effect? I will only lead the whole decisive battle to victory, and Lybidaeus is fully confident that through tactical improvements.

The next day, the Romans had all ceased, and they no longer allowed the Gallic auxiliary cavalry to go out to compete with the Severites for food, nor did they let the infantry brigades carry pickaxes forward to dig trenches and build camps, and even the sound of drills and whistles in the barracks fell silent, as if the whole camp had become empty.

The cunning Ariovistus sensed that something was wrong, so he went to the witch and once again sought God's will on the matter, and the witch did another divination with grass roots and red cloth, and came to an inexplicable result: "When the sound of horses' hooves and trumpets reaches the wooden fence by the camp, the Renus River will help our king, the great king." ”

Now, Alio Vistus is the second monk again, and there is no way that the witch's divination is so ambiguous and notorious, and when you believe it with all your heart, it will often give you an unexpected answer.

The Sewefers were also quiet, and held on to the camp of the chariot for the coming of the new moon and a decisive battle with the Romans—many of the remaining Germanic allies who followed were ready to cross the Renus River to join themselves, and Aliovistus was confident of this duel.

But on the fourth day, two brigades of the Romans suddenly swooped down on a Roman place outside the camp, dug up the line of confrontation with great speed, and then set up some improvised ballistas, and fired "duty guns" at the camp one by one, while thousands of Gallic cavalry were also active, shouting and provoking in circles around the arrayed brigade, demanding a battle with the Germanic warriors.

Ariovistus sneered, he carefully observed the position of the Romans below from the tower, and then saw the mysterious atmosphere in Caesar's camp opposite, and remembered the results of the witch's divination, so he ordered the entire tribe and his servants to be calm and wait for the next month, and then rush out of the city to fight the Romans in a decisive battle—and by this time Caesar was at the end of the mountain, and he had to use a clumsy trick to lure the enemy, and let two brigades as bait, Their hoplites were completely hidden in the woods and bushes on both sides of the camp road, and Caesar's behavior was really stupid, because I, Ariovistus, who had dealt with the Romans for half my life, knew that the rule of their camp was to completely cut down all the trees within a radius of ten stadians, and not to give the enemy a chance to approach in concealment, and Caesar was now blatantly violating the battle manual, wasn't it just for the convenience of ambush?

After another four days, with the Romans intermittently harassing and the Germans desperately suppressing, the whole battle was as uncertain as a gray haze, especially for the belligerent Germans, who were as difficult to endure as if they were in a hot and dry sandstorm in Africa.

On the fourth sentry on the eighth day, in the sub-camp of the Twelfth Legion on the side of the camp along the banks of the Renus River, the soldiers began to set up a dense pot for cooking, "Do not erect tents on them to hide the smoke, blow whistles, check the equipment, and fasten the signs." "As if he was afraid that the Germans on the other side would not notice it, he let the soldiers toss with great force, and in front of his tent, he imitated Caesar, and he used the spear that the Germans had thrown at him before, smeared it with blood (of course, not his own), and raised his cloak, "The gods of King Numa have promised me that he will protect our army with his divine power in this battle, and he will return blood for blood and tooth for tooth." (To be continued......)