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Clyde was the leader of the Salzburg tribe, and the connection between the Salzburg tribe and the Germanic barbarians was not unlimited, and the Salzburg tribe has always maintained enough reverence for the powerful Mainz tribe.

Especially the leader of the Odovaka of the Mainz tribe, who is a very famous brave god of war in the entire barbarian world, although Clyde has never really seen the leader of the Odovaka, but he has been admired for a long time; Frankly, Clyde was very reluctant to fight against the powerful Germanic barbarians, let alone the god of war Odovaka.

Unfortunately, the strong military power of the Julius family confused Clyde, making Clyde also feel that the Germanic barbarians were not the opponents of the Julius family at all; After all, no matter how powerful the Germanic barbarians are, they are almost the same as the Gallic barbarians, and General Carabes, the Julius family, led a large army into the interior of the Gallic barbarians, and the Gallic barbarians were defeated and retreated!

In Clyde's simple comparison, this basically means that the Julius family was indeed much more powerful than the Germanic barbarians; What's more, after all, Clyde has not seen the strength of Odovaka with his own eyes, so how can he be afraid?

Now it was different, after personally leading the army to fight the noble cavalry of the Mainz tribe, Clyde really understood the strength of the Germanic barbarians; In addition, the two main armies of the Julius family were suppressed by the outnumbered Mainz tribal army in a head-to-head battle, which made Clyde's heart full of regret.

I knew that I had persuaded Flavis not to attack the Germanic barbarians, after all, the strength of the Germanic barbarians was also well known, so why did the Julius family get bogged down in this war? After seeing the invincible existence of Odovaka, a demon god, Clyde not only regretted it, but was deeply afraid; Germanic barbarians are really not easy targets to provoke!

Flavies pinned all his hopes on Clyde's insistence, but Clyde was too afraid to confront Odovaka head-on; Clyde's performance has caused the morale of the entire Eighth Army to drop to the extreme.

You must know that Clyde's Eighth Legion is the Legion of the Julius family, which is composed of the original Salzburg tribal warriors; Although nominally the Eighth Legion of the Julius family, it was essentially an army of barbarian warriors.

If the real army composed of the Romans relied on strict discipline to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, then the combat effectiveness of the barbarian warriors was mainly supported by the strength of the leader; This is also why the commanders of the barbarian armies are the leaders of their respective tribes, because the leaders of their respective tribes also rely on their bravery and strength to sit firmly.

Why were the noble cavalry of the Mainz tribe able to burst out with great combat effectiveness again when they were on the verge of collapse, and even launched a counterattack against the soldiers of Clyde's Eighth Legion; Isn't it because Odovaka, who personally led the troops to kill, gave them the courage and faith to continue fighting?

As the leader of the Mainz tribe, Odovaka took up arms and killed the enemy in a near-invincible way; The warriors and cavalrymen of the Mainz tribe naturally launched an attack on the enemy with even higher fighting spirit.

The soldiers of the Eighth Legion, who were attacked, quickly organized several large-scale sieges under the strong attack of Odovaka; Unfortunately, these sieges ended in failure, and even the chief captain of the Eighth Army died tragically on the spot.

The defeat of the chief captain lowered the morale of the soldiers of the Eighth Army to a low point, and the inactive Clyde did not have the courage to take up arms and confront Odovaka; As a result, the 5,000 soldiers of the entire Eighth Legion were defeated and retreated by Odovaka's 2,000 axe soldiers, and more than 1,000 noble cavalry have been resisting, and the situation of the Eighth Legion is even more difficult.

The decline in morale made the soldiers of the Eighth Legion also begin to cringe when fighting, and did not dare to fight desperately against Odovaka's axe men as they had done in the previous attack on the noble cavalry; In fact, the Eighth Legion did not even have any warriors who dared to approach Odovaca, and wherever Odowaka wielded a giant axe, the soldiers of the Eighth Legion would quickly disperse.

Except for those soldiers of the Eighth Legion who were unlucky enough to escape, who were killed on the spot by Odovaka, the rest of the soldiers quickly dispersed; Only the soldiers of the Eighth Legion, who did not approach Odovaca, were still struggling to resist the attack of the axe soldiers under Odowaka and the indomitable counterattack of the noble cavalry.

The fate of defeat seemed inevitable for the soldiers of the Eighth Legion, and the inaction of Clyde as the commander of the Legion and the arrogance of Odovaka made the collapse of the Eighth Legion a matter of time; Flavies, who had been following the battle of the Eighth Legion, had to shake his head helplessly, he had hoped that Clyde's Eighth Legion could play a greater role.

In any case, Flavies could not allow Clyde's Eighth Army to collapse; Now the Fourth Legion, the Ninth Legion and the Mainz Tribe's army on the frontal battlefield are fighting each other, and once the Eighth Legion collapses, the troops led by Odovaka himself can take advantage of the situation to launch an attack on the flank of the Ninth Legion, which is likely to cause the collapse of the entire frontal front of the Julius family.

What is even more deadly is that the four thousand pikemen who had been evacuated by the Mainz tribe have already rested; By the time the pikemen had rested, the Julius family would no longer have the fearless Gallic barbarian light infantry to play a mainstay role.

Flavis never imagined that the Mainz tribe, which attacked the Germanic barbarians with the strength of the three legions of the Julius family, would be in such a situation; This can't help but shock Flavis, and it also makes Flavis feel helpless!

The army of the Julius family, which numbered nearly 30,000, also had 16,000 infantry and was invincible hoplites; And the enemy only has a mere army of 25,000 Germanic barbarians, how can he fight the current situation?

In addition to the determination and courage of the Germanic barbarian warriors, Flavis felt that it was more important that he underestimated the strength of the enemy, and that the army of the Julius family itself was not determined to fight and was seriously proud and complacent.

However, war is war, and you can choose whether to start a war or not, but you can't choose whether to end a war at will. What's more, the enemies of this war are still the powerful Germanic barbarians, which is not something that the Julius family can provoke at will, and once provoked, it will not be so easy to end.

In order to prevent the entire army of the Eighth Legion from collapsing, Flavis sent 400 of the last remaining 500 guards around him to support the Eighth Legion; Four hundred Roman knights in battle armor and experienced in battle fought with all their might, and they slaughtered the noble cavalry of the Mainz tribe who were still charging around in the Eighth Legion.

As the leader of the Julius family, Flavis's personal guards must be composed of the most effective elite warriors in the entire Julius family; As for their weaponry, it was the most well-built by the Julius family.

These men were particularly formidable in combat, and once engaged, they inflicted heavy losses on the noble cavalry of the enemy who were still charging and killing; This is not to say that the combat effectiveness of these guards cavalry far exceeds that of the noble cavalry of the Mainz tribe, but the noble cavalry of the Mainz tribe has been fighting continuously for a long time, and these four hundred guards cavalry are elite divisions that have been recuperating for a long time, and the difference in combat effectiveness can be imagined.

With the addition of these four hundred cavalry, Clyde's Eighth Legion was relieved from the battle on both sides; However, by this time, the number of soldiers of the Eighth Legion had dropped to more than 4,000, and the Germanic axe soldiers under the command of Odovaka only paid the price of less than 300 killed, and even the noble cavalry that suffered heavy losses were still nearly 1,000.

In such battles, the warriors of the Germanic barbarians had no concept of being wounded at all; These tough and fearless Germanic warriors, as long as they have not died on the battlefield, no matter how serious the injuries are, they cannot stop their persistence in pursuing and fighting!

From the melee on the frontal battlefield to the fight between Odovaka and Clyde's Eighth Legion; The army of the Julius family of Flavis and the barbarian army of the Mainz tribe had been fighting for a long time in this not very vast land.

When the sun in the sky slowly went west, the battle that had lasted all day was still scorching, but the warriors of both sides had already been defeated; Flavies, who was bent on crushing the Mainz tribal army in one fell swoop, completely failed his goal.

And the Mainz tribal army, with the idea of annihilating the invading army, did not complete the rhetoric of Odovaka when he set out on the expedition; The two warring parties, exhausted from each other, finally slowly withdrew from the battle as dusk approached, ending the day's fighting and bloodshed.

Odovaka, covered in blood, simply couldn't tell which blood was the enemy's and which was his own; He just kept his head high, put two giant axes on his shoulders, and led his own warriors out of the battlefield and into the depths of the forest.

Flavies, who was full of helplessness, watched without saying a word as the soldiers of the three legions supported their wounded robes, slowly regaining their formation, and then withdrawing to the rear; The wounded soldiers need to be healed quickly, while the soldiers who have fought to the point of exhaustion need to cut down the trees that can be found everywhere to form a makeshift barracks for tonight's rest. (To be continued.) )