There is no difference between nature and wisdom in anything.

- Jade Waina (ancient Roman satirical poet)

The battle site, which had been compressed by the Gallic warriors, was suddenly expanded, and the light infantry who launched the counterattack quickly smashed into the Gallic warriors from the compressed place like a spring; The Gallic warriors, who were caught off guard, suffered unusually heavy casualties in the face of such a sudden attack, but the battle did not end there.

The reason why the Gallic warriors were able to become Gallic warriors instead of ordinary Gallic infantry was not only a slight difference in some weapons and equipment, but also a huge difference in combat skills and fighting will; Even though the casualties were now more than half, the Gallic warriors, led by their captains, stubbornly resisted the sharp attacks of the light infantry.

However, the situation of the battle changed markedly when the captain of the Gallic warrior was killed by four light infantrymen; After losing the captain's command, the less than forty Gallic warriors present had to fight on their own. The captain of the light infantry took the opportunity to give the order for the siege, and the light infantry of more than 80 people immediately besieged the Gallic warriors in groups of two.

There was no longer any need for such a battle, but it was almost impossible for the Gallic warriors to retreat; They had been so entangled by the light infantry that they could not escape from the battle in front of them. In the camp of the Marseille army behind them, the leader of the Maasai army could only watch them being strangled and unable to send reinforcements.

If the leader of the Marseille army decided to send reinforcements for the few Gallic warriors, then Carabes would also send reinforcements for his own light infantry; It is possible for both sides to start a decisive battle without preparation, which is something that neither the leader of the Marseille army nor Karabes wants to see, and it is also the tacit understanding in the hearts of the two.

The battle between the infantry ended in a complete victory for the light infantry, and the casualties between the two sides of today's battle were quite disparity compared to yesterday's casualties. The price paid by a hundred light infantry was only twenty-one, and only forty-two were wounded, while the hundred Gallic warriors were all slaughtered, leaving only a hundred corpses.

When the seventy-nine lightly armed infantrymen returned to the barracks, they were greeted by the cheers of the army of Calabes; Looking at the high morale in the barracks, which swept away the gloom of yesterday, Calabis also announced the order to allow the soldiers to celebrate in a big way, which is exactly the same as the leader of the Marseille army yesterday!

Of course, the barracks of the Marseille army were just like yesterday's Carabes, not to mention the collapse of morale, and countless soldiers were worried about the next battle. However, in general, the two sides have also engaged in two tentative battles, and there is no way to talk about the outcome of the overall situation under the mutual victory or loss.

For the next few days, the armies of Calabés and the armies of Marseille fought once a day on the same scale; The armies sent by both sides gradually rose from 100 men to 300 men, 500 men, and finally to the highest size of 1,000 men. In the contest between the scale of 100 people and the scale of 300 people, the two sides still have their own wins and losses, and they are evenly matched, but this is not the case at all after that.

After the scale of the battle reached 500 cavalry on both sides, the army of Calabis was able to seize the initiative in such a battle; Whether it was the engagement of five hundred cavalry or the battle of five hundred infantry, the army of Calabis won a complete victory. Especially in terms of infantry, the combination of 500 light and hoplite infantry of Carabis overwhelmed the 500 Gallic warriors of the Marseille army.

After two defeats in a row, the leader of the angry Marseille army no longer sent an army of 500 men, but directly sent a multi-service mixed army of 1,000 men; Not only were there 700 Gallic infantry and Gallic warriors, but there were less than 300 cavalry left, and 50 Deiru soldiers mixed in with it!

And the thousand-strong army sent by Calabis was also a combination of seven hundred light and hoplites, and three hundred cavalry; It's just that this time Calabes sent out not ordinary Gallic cavalry, but more elite Gallic noble cavalry! In terms of the weaponry and combat effectiveness of the warriors alone, the army sent by Calabes can completely destroy the army sent by the Marseille army.

But that's more than that; The reason why the Deyiru Order can become the trump card of the Maasai tribe and the army sought after by the entire Gallic barbarian tribe is naturally beyond doubt. On the battlefield, the fifty Deyiru soldiers did not directly participate in the battle, but gathered together to begin a special shouting ceremony.

As this ritual progressed, the other Marseille army of nearly a thousand people fell into an extremely frenzied state, and even their eyes turned red! When the real battle began, the thousand-strong Gallic army uncharacteristically abandoned all formations and defenses, and launched a desperate attack on Calabess's thousand-strong army.

This kind of unscrupulous is not just a matter of words, if Oscar were in front of these Marseille soldiers at this time, he would have thought that these Marseille soldiers were drug addicts or fanatical religious lunatics; In the face of such an attack, Calabess's thousand-man army could only hold the formation and could not organize a limited counterattack.

However, this state of frenzy did not last forever; After all, human physical abilities are limited. Even the Gallic barbarians, who were physically superior to the Romans, could not have maintained such a fierce offensive without fear of death; As long as he survived the most difficult defensive phase, Karabes still believed that his army could achieve the final victory.

In fact, Carabes's guess was entirely correct; This state of frenzy also has a time effect. However, the temporal effect of this state surpasses the most exaggerated estimate in Carabes's mind; The 1,000-strong army of the Marseille army lasted for half an hour in such a fearless posture, while the attacked army of Calabess paid nearly 400 casualties!

If it weren't for the peculiarities of this battle, Carabis believed that the thousand soldiers under his command would have collapsed long ago; Even so, the remaining six hundred soldiers were only one step away from collapse. But as time passed, after half an hour, the pace of the attack of the Marseille soldiers began to slow down, and slowly lost the sharpness of the beginning.

After another half an hour of fierce fighting, the army of Calabes again paid about two hundred casualties; At this time, there were only about 700 soldiers left in the Marseille army. What's more, the soldiers of the Marseille army have reached a terrifying stage of physical exhaustion after a full hour in the past, and they are no longer able to fight!

In the end, the battle ended in a draw; Less than 400 of Calabes' 1,000-strong army withdrew from the battle, and only 300 of the 1,000-strong Marseille army made it back alive to the barracks. In the later counterattack, Carabes's soldiers killed and wounded a large number of the soldiers of the Marseille army, but they were unable to continue the battle; Both sides had to withdraw from the battle and return to their barracks.

For such a battle, the leaders and elders of the Maasai tribe were naturally incredulous; They did not expect that with the encouragement of fifty soldiers of the Deyiru Order, the Maasai army of 1,000 men would not be able to completely annihilate the enemy of the same size, and even the casualties were even heavier than the other side at the end of the battle, which had never happened in the hundreds of years of history of the Maasai tribe!

In contrast to the disbelief of the rulers of the Maasai tribes, Calabis and his generals were also shocked by the performance of the fifty special warriors of the Maasai army; They also didn't expect that a mere fifty soldiers would play such a huge role, allowing a thousand-scale Maasai soldiers to burst out with several times the usual combat effectiveness.

If the Maasai tribe had a thousand such warriors, it would be possible for their 20,000-strong army to burst out with several times their own combat effectiveness; Then, it is impossible for all the troops under the command of Calabis to resist the strong attack of the 20,000 Marseille army, such a result is simply terrible!

With this battle as a foreshadowing, neither side has any intention of continuing such a tentative attack; This was the end of the tentative battle that lasted more than ten days and had more than ten times. The army under the command of Carabis paid the price of 900 cavalry and 1,200 infantry, while the army of Marseille paid the price of 2,000 cavalry and 2,300 infantry!

After all the tentative attacks were over, both sides had a full understanding of each other's combat effectiveness, and the casualties paid were sufficient, and there was no point in continuing such a battle; So, the two sides began to prepare for the next real decisive battle.

Naturally, Calabes's preparations were aimed at the Deiru Order of the Marseille army, and the preparation of the leader of the Marseille army was not limited to this. After fully understanding the combat effectiveness of the army of Calabess, the leaders and elders of the army of Marseille will no longer be arrogant and think that these armies under their command alone are enough to win easily.

In order to better deal with the army of Calabes, the leader of the army of Marseille immediately sent a new order to the city of Marseille in the rear; Let the Eight Elders, the Ten Elders, and the Eleventh Elders, who remained in the city of Marseille, lead the remaining 1,000 Gallic cavalry, 1,000 Gallic noble cavalry, and 10,000 temporary troops to support the army at the front again.

As for the three elders who remained in the city of Marseille, including the second elder, the fifth elder, and the sixth elder, the Marseille leaders gave them the task of leading the remaining 5,000 temporary troops to defend the city of Marseille while continuing to recruit new temporary troops; This time, the final recruitment figure negotiated by everyone is still 20,000!

With this batch of reinforcements, the front-line army of the Marseille army has reached nearly 30,000; Of these, fifteen thousand were temporary troops, and the remaining thirteen,000 were regular armies of the Maasai tribes. However, the fifteen-thousand-strong army cannot all be regarded as temporary troops; Because the relatively excellent 5,000 provisional army has been incorporated into the regular Gallic infantry battle sequence! (To be continued.) )