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After the rapid withdrawal of the nine legions of the Julius to the Norikum area, it took them only a few days to return to the Norikum area, and began to build fortress barracks and defensive lines in the border area; At the same time, Flavis and Caesar were also informed of the fall of the Poheim region, which had been occupied by an army of 15,000 Germanic barbarians.

Although Flavis and Caesar knew in their hearts that the fall of the Poheim region was only a matter of time, they still had great hopes for the Poheim region, hoping that the defenders of the Poheim region could perform a miracle, or that the Germanic barbarian army would not capture the Poheim region so quickly.

Before Caesar led his army to leave the Boheim region, he had recruited tens of thousands of barbarian warriors in the local area, and even now, there are more than 1,000 Boheim warriors in the three legions under Caesar's command; In addition, Caesar also formed a garrison of 10,000 men in the Poheim area with the light infantry of three auxiliary legions as the core.

An army of 10,000 people is not too much, but it is also a force to be reckoned with; I didn't expect it to be captured by the Germanic barbarian army so quickly, which is really bad news for the Julius family.

With the fall of Poheim and the retreat of the main forces of the House of Julius, the Norikum region will soon be at the forefront of the war between the House of Julius and the Germanic barbarians; This has to be said to be a great irony, this war provoked by the Julius family on its own initiative actually hit the territory of the Julius family.

What made Flavis and Caesar even more helpless was that the Julius family had already paid too much for this war; In the end, he shot himself in the foot, not only did he not conquer the Germanic lands that the Julius family dreamed of, but after paying the lives of countless soldiers, he was defeated by the enemy one after another.

Perhaps, this was a wrong war at all, and the Julius family should not have recklessly attacked the Germanic barbarians before they had absolute strength; It's a pity that there is no turning back when the bow is opened, not to mention that this war was personally launched by Flavis, the family leader of the Julius family, and the Julius family can only grit their teeth and continue to fight!

As early as the retreat of the army, Flavis sent several groups of cavalry to deliver orders; On the one hand, Flavies wanted to order Calabes to suspend the execution of his previous orders, and on the other hand, Flavies wanted Quintus, who remained in Aletion, to immediately recruit a large number of new soldiers for himself, and provide him with the necessary weapons, equipment, food and grass supplies.

Flavis had to stop at nothing to fend off the Germanic barbarian counter-attack in the Norikum region, otherwise, once the Germanic barbarians broke through the Norikum region, the prosperous and wealthy Julius family itself would be plunged into a catastrophe.

The barbaric and brutal Germanic barbarians will completely destroy the native territory of the Julius family, and after losing the support of the native land, the entire Julius family will also lose the capital to dominate Rome; This was an absolutely unacceptable consequence for Flavies, and a catastrophe that the Julius family could not afford.

The remnants of the nine legions, divided into three parts by Flavies, were used to construct the defensive line; The Fifth and Sixth Legions, commanded by Caesar, as well as the Seventh Legion, were to be stationed northeast of Norikum to defend the Germanic barbarian armies in the Poheim region.

The Fourth and Eighth Legions, directly under the command of Flavis, as well as the Ninth Corps, were to be stationed in the northwestern part of the Norikum region to defend against the counter-attacking forces organized by the Mainz tribe and other Germanic barbarian tribes; As for the Tenth and Eleventh Corps, which consisted of Gallic warriors, as well as the Twelfth Corps, they were to act as reinforcements for the two front-line units.

Many of the wounded who had been sent back to the Norikum area by Flavies to recuperate were already able to take up arms and continue fighting; All of these regained warriors were reincorporated into their original legions by Flavies, and this time the soldiers of the House of Julius were fighting to protect the land of their families behind them, rather than the invasion of the Germanic barbarians.

Flavis, who mobilized the soldiers to participate in the war as the leader of the Julius family, did not have any meritorious deeds and knighthoods to encourage the soldiers under his command; Rather, they told all the soldiers of the House of Julius that their wives and children, their parents, and everything was behind them, and that if they took a step back, everything behind them would be destroyed by the barbaric Germans.

Caesar also promised these soldiers at the right time that all the soldiers could unite to repel the Germanic attack; The soldiers who survive will become the heroes of the Ulius family, and they will have everything in status and wealth, and the soldiers who died in battle are also the heroes of the Ulius family, and their wives and children and parents will be taken care of by the Ulius family.

In order to show these warriors the determination of the House of Julius and the strength of his promise, Caesar even swore on the spot the ancestor of the House of Julius and the god Jupiter, the god of his family's faith; The efforts of Flavis and Caesar finally restored the morale of the army of the House of Julius, which had suffered successive defeats, and the army of the House of Julius once again burst with great vitality.

It was not only the Romans who had been loyal to the House of Julius for generations who were willing to die for this battle, but even the Gallic warriors who had newly joined the army of the House of Julius, in the encouragement and commitment of Flavis and Caesar, chanted the slogan of loyalty to the House of Julius, and actively stated that they would fight to the death to repel the attack of the Germanic barbarians!

While the Julius family was actively preparing for war, the 25,000-strong army led by Odovaka was aggressively slaughtering the Norikum region; After receiving Arminius's order, the elite army of the 10,000 Damu tribes in the Poheim region immediately left the Poheim region and began to march towards the Norikum region.

When Odovaka's vanguard cavalry discovered the defensive line built by the Julius family in the Norikum border area, they did not attack the well-prepared Yulius army, but retreated straight away, returning to the main army in the rear.

After learning the information brought back by the cavalry, Odovaka did not blindly immediately attack the well-defended position of the Ulius family, but bypassed the defense line of the Yulius family and continued to advance, meeting the elite army of the Damm tribe from the Poheim region in the northeast outside the Norikum area.

At this time, Odovaka's command already had a full 35,000 Germanic army, while the defensive army deployed by the Julius family in the northeast of the Norikum region and the defensive army deployed in the northwest of the Norikum region did not exceed 15,000 individual strength, and they were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and it was difficult to reach the full attack of Odovaka with the strength of a single defensive line.

More importantly, the presence of 5,000 elite cavalry under the command of Odovaka greatly enhanced its own mobility and increased the difficulty of the Julius family army to support each other; In the end, Odovaka still chose the northeastern defense line defended by Caesar's army as his all-out attack, and invested all his troops in the attack, hoping to break through the defense line of Caesar's army in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, this time Odovaka is no longer facing the weak-willed army of the Julius family, but a tenacious army fighting to the death to protect the family behind him; A full 30,000 Germanic warriors launched a full-scale attack on the defense line of Caesar's army, and the 13,000 soldiers of Caesar's army who defended also chose to fight to the end.

In order to reinforce Caesar's army, Flavis specially sent more than 10,000 soldiers of the three Gallic legions as a reserve to the northeastern defense line to participate in the battle; As a result, it was attacked by the cavalry under the command of Odovaka, but the warriors of the Gallic barbarians also fought desperately with the enemy's cavalry to the end, and defeated the cavalry of Odovaka, and finally only about 5,000 soldiers arrived.

The reinforcement of 5,000 soldiers was not enough to change the disadvantage of Caesar's army, but it did bring a morale boost to the soldiers of the family of Julius; In particular, these fierce Gallic warriors also succeeded in inflicting heavy losses on Odovaka's cavalry troops, which can be regarded as completely destroying the mobility of the Germanic barbarian army, and its significance is even more extraordinary.

Caesar's army withstood the attack of 30,000 Germanic barbarians in their camps and defensive lines for five consecutive days, and the soldiers of the House of Julius paid the price of 10,000 casualties on Odovaka's army, but they were never able to push forward; Faced with the army of the Julius family, which did not retreat, Odovaka had no choice but to retreat.

From the heavy losses of the cavalry troops, to the fact that the main army led by himself could not attack the defensive positions of the Julius family; In just five days, Odovaka paid a terrible price, and his remaining army was only 20,000 men.

However, the reinforcements and grain and grass materials in the rear of the Julius family were continuously transported to the Norikum area; Caesar's army alone received 10,000 recruits and enough food and grass for three months on the second day of the Odovaka offensive.

Odovaka, who could not shake the defense line of the Ulius family on his own, chose to retreat five miles in order to avoid the continuous increase in his own casualties, confronted the army of the Ulius family, and waited for the arrival of Arminius's army; And the army of the Julius family, the reinforcements they received were all new recruits, and their actual combat effectiveness was not strong, so they naturally did not take the initiative to attack. (To be continued.) )