Chapter 3: Divine Will (Part I)

Here, Caesar had already galloped into the broken camp of Severus with his cavalry, full of burning ruins and corpses lying in pools of blood, when he saw Lybida and Koda, he hurriedly asked if the hostages of the various tribes of Gaul in the camp were safe, and the two opposite sides replied very confidently, most of them were rescued, Caesar was relieved, and then he pointed at the two under the banner of the eagle and gave an order:

"Unlike the previous wars against the Helvetics, this battle requires no mercy, and must terrorize all the Germanian barbarians and make them aware of the cost of crossing the Renus at will. I order that all those who stand in front of our army, regardless of the old and weak, women and children, and whether they are royal civilians, be dealt with as enemies, and after destroying the chariot camp, your two legions will sweep along the Renus River and all the strips of Besançon, burn all the Germanic villages, kill all their men, plunder all the cattle and property, and completely eradicate their traces of the west bank of Renus! ”

This order was too cruel even for Lybida and Koda, but they both knew that this was Caesar, a clever but brutal Roman, and he was still angry at the damage done to him by the Sewver cavalry, and he needed to show the enemy the price of being an enemy of the Republic.

At the edge of the ditch, rows of Sewefers stood numbly on the edge of the ditch, then stabbed by the Roman soldiers behind them with swords or javelins, and planted one by one into the ditch, where they were buried with timber and earth. As for the aristocratic men and women, their clothes were torn, their trousers were torn, and they were nailed to the cross screaming, and then they were led up by ropes, and it took a long time for them to slowly bleed and die.

Li Pida's eyes under the brim of the helmet. As the owl walked. and the neat steps of his subordinates. From time to time he looked at the pile of corpses of the slain barbarians outside the camp, and the soldiers of the legion were climbing on the mountain of corpses to pick up valuable items, when there was a sound of horses' hooves, and Duçonvier and his subordinate cavalry followed, and asked Li Bida through the interpreter: "Your Excellency, I have followed your order, and with each small wing as an independent detachment, I will carry out a thorough removal of the enemy back and forth along the Dukes Hill and the Renus River. ”

Li Bida gestured to Saab next to him. Saab cleared his throat and instructed: "Don't completely separate the winglets, know how to cooperate, combine the three winglets into one big wing, two pursuits, one runs and rests, alternately, preferably in a triangular shape" When talking about the triangle, Sabo found that Juniper Vier looked confused, so he could only stop. Emphasizing the "alternate" is over.

Even this pursuit tactic had already wiped out the Severites who had escaped from the camp. Many ran to the side of the road bleeding from their mouths and noses, while others hid in Germanic villages on the banks of the river, only to be slaughtered and destroyed by the Roman legions along with the aborigines. And Aliovistus ran and killed two horses, and the nobles and attendants around him died, only to break through the Romans' interception and pursuit, and run to the side of Dukes Mountain, where the Renus River bent again into a great meander, and to the east of the mighty river was his hometown.

Fourteen years ago, he led thousands of sturdy tribes across here, trampled on the dignity of his enemies in Gaul? But now there was nothing, and the 120,000 Sewefers (plus servants from small tribes and volunteers of the same tribe) had fled after the last, probably no more than 20,000.

When the wind blew by the river, and Aliovistus on horseback saw an ownerless boat swaying violently in the long grass on the shore, he understood the true meaning of the witch's divination:

"My king, the River Renus will help you."

I see! I see! Aliovistus felt a sense of humiliation at being teased by the gods, and he couldn't help but sob, but he also had a wife and two daughters, and he had to return the royal family so that he could hope to survive and reproduce.

Just as he had jumped off his horse and was about to go with his two remaining retinue to bring the boat with him, his two daughters and his wife from the tribe of Noregum (the Gallic race, the second wife of Ariovistus, whom the king had married his sister to after the invasion of Gaul by Ariovistus), sat down in the shade of a grove with gritted his teeth and cried (if she wept for fear of the enemy, it would be the greatest shame for a Germanic woman).

At this time, the commander of the Twelfth Legion, with the cavalry of the Vibichinas, chased up, the golden mountain falcon flag shook vigorously in the rumbling hooves of horses, under the sharp Celtic "Sparta" sword, a group of helplessly fleeing Germans fell one after another, turned into ghosts, when splitting the head of the famous blonde Germanic man, the other party's blood splashed on his cloak and neck, and the Romans had a black hair and black eyes Lybidaeus, suddenly had an inexplicable feeling in his heart - it turned out that these guys, It was so barbaric and backward, so miserable, and so slaughtered many years ago!

Many of Severver's soldiers were slaughtered, and some of the remnants jumped into the Renus River, some swimming in vain to the opposite bank (most of them could not reach it), and some of them shook twice in the river before sinking without a trace.

At this moment, one of the cavalry soldiers suddenly saw three women sitting in the shade of a tree in a distance of furlong, and rushed over with a shout, shaking their spears and swords.

"Let go of me, let go of me!" Ariovistus stretched out his hand, but was held up by two attendants, crying out in grief at his wife and daughter, and was dragged to the ship, but he had no power or hope to save them.

The wife of Ariovistus looked at her husband who had been pulled aboard the boat, and saw the fierce cavalry rushing towards her, and immediately understood everything, and ran in the direction of the ship with a scream, and one of the Vibicinas at the head shouted that the Sewefers who oppressed Gaul should die, and threw out the cavalry spear in her hand, and pierced the shoulder to the waist of the wife of Ariovistus, who spun twice in a strange position, and then was struck by the horse's head and rolled into the Renus River with the spear.

Aloobistus, farther and farther away from the shore, cried out at the tragic death of his second wife, and then he saw the brutal Gallic cavalry, which began to run around his daughter, who was crying in vain, laughing in circles as if playing with two dying animals.

"Don't kill them all!" The commander Li Bida, who came from behind, shouted, but he quickly realized that his language, the attached barbarian cavalry could not understand, so he hurriedly called the interpreter to shout. (To be continued......)