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- Aesop (Greek fabler, Phrygian)

Cecil was defeated by Viritus, and his army was almost completely wiped out, not to mention the loss of his army; Such a defeat had not been suffered in the Empire of Julius for five years, and since the defeat of Flavis's personal conquest of the Germanic barbarians five years earlier, the Empire of Julius had not suffered such a heavy defeat.

Although Caesar also paid a heavy price for casualties in the attack on the Germanic barbarians, it was all the price to pay for victory, wasn't it? Even if Caesar fought a losing battle with the Germanic barbarians, it didn't fail, did it?

Cecil who led the remnants of the two legions back to the Caddy region overnight was also full of helplessness and hesitation in his heart; If he hadn't been defeated so badly, how could he have chosen to return to the Kadi region with the shame of defeat?

What worries him even more is that he doesn't know how the Empire will punish him when he learns of his defeat; As the general of the Ulius Empire defeated for the first time in five years, Cecil knew what he had to pay.

Besides, he is the general of His Excellency Caesar, will the important ministers in the empire who support Quintus inherit the throne of the emperor let him go as a defeated general? At the thought of this, Cecil could only sigh sadly; What else could he do?

In fact, Cecil was still too worried about the defeat; At this time, he did not know that Varus's defeat in the southeast of Agripumat was more miserable than his defeat in the northeast of the Agripgumat region.

Of the 20,000 Germanic warriors led by Odovaka and Vercaris, 10,000 were elite Germanic warriors from the Mainz tribe, and the other 10,000 were the elite of the hundred battles brought by Verkaris from the Macomani region; The combat effectiveness of these 20,000 Germanic warriors is only stronger than the 20,000 Germanic warriors under the command of Veritus, plus the two thousand of the most elite battles of the Ares team, this is really tough!

Of course, this is also a comparison with the infantry, but there are still 5,000 elite Gothic cavalry under the command of Vilitus, which is not a powerful existence that can be compared to the army led by Odovaka and Vercaris; However, Odovaka and Vrkaris have another advantage, which is that the jungle area to the southeast of the Aglidigumat region is much larger.

The Sixth and Eleventh Corps under Varus had to start from the Macomani region if they wanted to attack from the southeast of the Agripugum region; The southwestern part of the Macomani region and the southeastern part of the Agripumat region are dense jungle areas, and there is no open area that can accommodate more than 3,000 people.

This means that the armies of Odovaka and Verkaris only need to find traces of the enemy and can quietly lie in ambush in the jungle and wait for the enemy to arrive; Wait until the enemy army is completely in the ambush circle, and then launch an all-out attack on the enemy army!

Although the armies of Odovaka and Vercaris did not have large cavalry to reconnoiter the movements of the enemy, they did have two thousand super elites led by Ares; Among the two thousand super elites, there are 500 elite warriors from the tragic dead soldiers, and these people are much more concealed than the cavalry in terms of reconnaissance of the enemy.

Coupled with the intelligence support of the Tragic Dead, it was not difficult for the armies of Odovaka and Vrkaris to discover the traces of Varus's army; Just two days after the army left Mainz, the Dead of Sorrow found the detailed route of the Varus army and sent special personnel to track them down to ensure that they would not lose their surveillance.

Without Varus's knowledge, Odovaka and Vercaris had already learned of the route of their army's march; When Odovaka and Vercaris discussed a specific battle plan, Ares was also involved.

The dense jungles in the northeastern part of the Agripgumat region greatly reduced the difficulty of encircling and annihilating the Germanic armies while providing countless ambush sites for them; After all, no matter how familiar the Germans were, it was impossible to really annihilate the 20,000 troops of the Julius Empire in the dense jungle, which was too difficult.

However, such dense forest conditions gave Ares another hint; That is, if the dense jungle can make the armies of both the enemy and the enemy extremely dispersed, why can't the method of assassination be used to gradually encroach on the enemy army from the rear of the enemy army?

Needless to say, the warriors of the Germanic armies were not suitable for assassination, and they always made great noise when they killed; This kind of combat method is only suitable for the frontal battle between the two armies, and it is inconceivable to use it for assassination.

The soldiers of the Tragic Dead are all top assassins, and they have been trained since childhood to assassinate others quietly; For the warriors of the tragic dead, assassination is simply their instinct, and it is what they do best.

So, Ares came up with such a plan, after everyone first chose an ambush location; Odovaka and Verkaris each led 10,000 Germanic warriors to scatter the left and right flanks of the ambush site, and the front blocking force was played by 1,500 of the most elite Germanic warriors of the Ares army.

After these arrangements were made, Ares himself personally led five hundred mournful dead men to ambush ten miles in front of the ambush site; When the army of the Julius Empire enters the ambush within ten miles, Ares will lead the warriors of the Sorrowful Dead to begin the assassination!

As Ares's best friend, Odovaka naturally understands how capable Ares is, and he also knows that such a thing as assassination is indeed a matter of handiness for the tragic dead; As a result, Odovaka agreed to Ares' plan.

Since Odovaka, the commander of the army, agreed, Vrcaris naturally had no opinion; The three of them began to quickly follow this plan to find a suitable ambush site, and made various arrangements and preparations in advance.

On the fourth day, the two legions led by Varus finally reached fifteen miles away from the ambush of the Germanic army; After receiving the report from the scouting warriors, Ares immediately prepared the ambushed Tragic Dead to fight, and sent one of the Tragic Dead to Odovaka and Vercaris, ten miles behind, to prepare for the battle!

Varus was much more cautious than Cecil in his marching arrangements, and the two thousand Gallic cavalry were evenly distributed between the left and right flanks and the front of the army; In addition to these cavalry, the front of the army was not the strong hoplites, but the more agile 2,000 light infantry, followed by the main army of hoplites, and finally the equipment troops and 2,000 light infantry.

It has to be admitted that if Cecil had taken such a cautious march, his army would not have been defeated by the ambush army of Veritus; Varus's misfortune was that his cautious march was met by a tragic Dead Warrior who was proficient in assassination.

After the cavalry units of Varus and the light infantry in front of them, as well as the hoplites of the Chinese army, passed through the ambush of Ares, the rear equipment units and light infantry of Varus's army finally came to the ambush site of Ares; After making sure that there were no cavalry patrols in the rear, Ares quietly approached the enemy troops scattered by the trees from the rear with 500 Mournful Dead Men.

From the moment the first light infantryman who was covered by a tree was covered by Ares and his neck wiped off by his own hands, this feast of tragic death hunting officially began; One of the light infantry was killed by the tragic dead soldiers quietly wiping his neck, without even making a sound, and there were even several light infantry who were wiped on their necks at the same time.

At a distance of only ten miles, the two thousand lightly armed infantry of the rear army of Varus were slaughtered by five hundred tragic dead men; While the Dead of Sorrow's attack began to turn to the soldiers, the ambush armies of Odovaka and Vercaris began to attack!

The 2,000 cavalry under the command of Varus were all slaughtered by the Germanic warriors who had been premeditated for a long time at the first time, and then the Germanic warriors and the hoplites under Varus fought head-on; The sudden battle allowed the soldiers of the rear army of Varus to find the traces of the Dead of Sorrow, and Ares immediately led the Dead of Sorrow to directly attack these soldiers.

The reason why the equipment soldiers are equipment soldiers is that their main task is to operate those ballistas and stone catapults; In order to better operate the ballista and stone crossbow, they did not even have a short sword, only a dagger at their waist as a weapon for self-defense.

How could such a soldier of less than 2,000 soldiers with low combat effectiveness be the opponent of the formidable Sorrowful Dead, who ten minutes later had already launched an attack on Varus's central army from the rear under the leadership of Ares; With the Tragic Dead joining the battle in the rear, Varus's main hoplites were completely surrounded on all sides.

Even more unfortunate, all the Gallic cavalry, light infantry, and equipment men under Varus's command, except for these hoplites, have been killed and wounded; Not to mention whether the clumsy hoplites could beat the ambushed Germanic army in the jungle, their heavy weaponry became their deadliest burden at this time, because they did not even have a chance to escape.

After more than 20,000 Germanic troops besieged Varus's army for three hours, Varus's army completely collapsed; Especially the hoplites who were attacked by the tragic dead soldiers, they didn't even see the enemy's figure, and the robes around them were already dead, and it was really terrible to face such an enemy.

Even after the collapse of the army, the hoplites who scattered and tried to flee could not escape from the jungle from the pursuit of the fast-moving Germanic warriors; Of the entire two legions of the Ulius Empire's army, in the end, only Varus fled back to Macomani with seven personal guard cavalry, and all the other soldiers were annihilated in the Germanic jungle! (To be continued.) )