"He was able to win the hearts of all men, between soldiers and women, between his countrymen and Spaniards, between the political enemies of the Senate and the great enemies of Carthage." —Monsen's praise of Scipio

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The thousands of auxiliary cavalry of the three tribes looked at each other, watching as Honorex was beaten without a head, and then the feathers on the helmet of the little Crassus flew, shouting loudly for everyone to follow his banner, staring at his white feathers not to be distracted, and charging at the approaching cavalry of the Helvetians, providing a shelter for the main legion.

On the slopes of Tijón, Caesar rode on a white horse and gave a very impromptu speech to all the soldiers who were still being prepared, but Caesar was still impassioned, and he was agitating and explaining: "Soldiers, Roman citizen army, I will soon give the signal for the decisive battle, and this scarlet cloak on my body will be erected with a spear, which means that you will soon take your sword and fight the enemy." Admittedly, our army was outnumbered and unable to build fortifications in such a time, which meant that we were about to fight a decisive battle with 200,000 Helvetians on this hillside. After using all kinds of tactics, these barbarians finally couldn't hold back and came out to fight us, and since they entered Gaul for more than half a year, haven't everyone been waiting for such a moment? ”

With that, Caesar jumped off his horse, and just like Catiline in the Battle of Strari Plains, he loosened the reins of his mount and stabbed the "silent comrade" with his sword. The mount screamed. Run towards the end of the wilderness on the back side of Mount Tijon. The rest of the generals followed Caesar's example, and in an instant Mount Tijon was full of scattered horses, "Brethren of the Gallic legions, need not be afraid of the barbarians, although they claim to have two or three hundred thousand men, but a quarter of them have been annihilated in the battle of the Ara River, and most of these people are old and weak, women and children, and only fifty thousand can take up arms and fight. Besides, we occupy a good position, and as long as we remain calm and courageous, no one will be able to defeat the legions of our republic in a head-on battle. Brethren, the riches are at hand, and here are your consuls and eagles, to defeat the Helvetians, and then I, Julius. Caesar has made each of you rich, and it is too late for a temporary pre-war sacrifice, so I have raised the war wounded pension to 100 dinars, and the war death pension to 300 dinars! ”

“VO! VO! VO!” Drop off your luggage and backpacks and give them to the soldiers of the slaves. On the slopes of Mount Tijon, swords or shields were raised and cheered. What the soldiers are most afraid of is the cover of the commander, and the uncertainty of the future, once these things are explained by Caesar, the battle will not be a problem - now it is these trailing barbarians who prevent us from going to Bibrakd to be free, in order to protect their own money, in order to get more rewards after killing the barbarians, let the sword in hand, give this boring cat-and-mouse game for more than half a month a happy end!

Caesar's detailed arrangement on Mount Tijon was such that the outpost was a barbarian cavalry, led by Crassus the Younger, who was responsible for engaging the Helvetians in the vanguard, holding back the enemy's pace and preventing them from rushing to his own line quickly. Up the hill in turn, Caesar's most trusted Tenth Legion (the original Seventh Legion in the Mithridates War was the backbone, with many veterans, the strongest combat effectiveness, and of course the worst discipline, Caesar was the owner of this group of wolves), all fifty hundred-man troops (owing to the First Brigade, because they were under Rabinus, and were in the distance on the hill of Little Tree) were all arrayed along Mount Tijon and were responsible for fighting the Helvetians head-on. The Seventh and Eighth Gallic Corps formed a multi-line formation and took over the battle behind the Tenth Legion, while the Ninth Legion remained on the top of the hill with slaves, the sick and wounded, and the baggage, all of whom were also given axes and spears, and the sick and wounded carried daggers on stretchers, and their duty was to take charge of the rearmost line of defense, for there were four eagle flags.

At this moment, on the back of the mountaintop, the commander of the Ninth Legion, Koda, mysteriously came to the side of the baggage car, and his own soldiers uncovered the cover on the car, and there were several cages inside, each cage had an eagle with beautiful feathers, when Caesar's red cloak was screaming at the soldiers, and the spear was raised in front of everyone's eyes, Koda waved his hand, and the cages on the car were opened one after another, and the eagles screamed and rose to the sky, hovering above everyone's heads, many officers and hundreds, nervously holding their breath, looking at this group of flat-haired beasts, At the end of the day, they began to fly around the spear with Caesar's cloak on it, and the last one landed lightly on it.

"The gods are on our side, thank you Father, thank you Mars!" One of the generals drew his sword and shouted loudly, and then the whole hillside went into a state of madness, and the high morale was really like divine help, of course, the fact is that before Koda and Pedis, on this special spear, hung sausages, and smeared with the eagle's favorite sheep fat lard, in this era, people rely on the face of the gods to deceive people, but I am afraid that it is easier than the future - Caesar also knew that the Father would forgive him, and the ancient Roman commoners would use poppy seeds to pretend to be sheep's heads when they sacrificed, He used real sausages anyway.

Just when the morale of the four legions soared, at the ten Stadians in front, the thousands of cavalry of the little Crassus, and the Hervi advance cavalry had already let out an earth-shattering shout, rushing to the opposite side, the two sides were neatly clothed, rushed to the opposite side, and then turned the horse's head to continue to assault each other, and the eyes of the little Crassus saw in the white blades, and after the dust and smoke raised by the horse's hooves, countless barbarian soldiers filled the entire horizon of the eyes and rushed towards the direction of Mount Tijon. So when he saw the striking red cloak that had risen on the hillside behind him, and knew that his delayed task had been accomplished, he gestured on horseback, and his personal cavalry soon followed the young commander's gesture and turned to retreat towards the side of Mount Tijon, followed by the rest of the barbarian auxiliary cavalry, forming a sinuous turnback formation, and easily escaping from the pursuit of the Helvetian cavalry.

The Helvetians, Rabidochs, and Dulinch, who came up with them, believing that the weak Roman cavalry had been "defeated and scattered" by their own forces, formed themselves in a huge phalanx of countless horizontal rows, with short spears and swords in their hands, and rudimentary shields in their left hands, and their chariots and baggage behind them, and attacked Mount Tijon like a swarm of locusts.

"You should tell your people to calm down, you see this mountain is full of Romans, Caesar has already prepared, we have been deceived by Considiaus!" On the small central plateau surrounded by campervans, South American Yusi was furious, "What we are pursuing is not Caesar's bloated and unsuspecting rear army in the mouth of Concidius at all, not even the rearguard, but in the face of four legions that are in full formation, the iron-like legion, the main force of all Caesar's essence. ”

Over there, Verokro lowered his eyebrows, was silent, and said for a long time, "Then let's fight here, anyway, we don't have any food reserves to support us to continue wandering in Gaul." (To be continued......)