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- Aristotle (one of the great philosophers, scientists, and educators in the ancient history of the world)

Flavies's ambition is very great, and it seems achievable; As long as the Julius family continued to provide all kinds of materials that Calabes needed, Flavies had absolute confidence in Carabes, and he believed that Carabes could complete the conquest of the Gallic land in his lifetime.

As for the Germanic barbarians, since Calabes needs to fight in the land of Gaul, then the affairs of the Germanic barbarians will be left to the Julius family to solve by themselves; Even Calabis could use his poorly armed Gallic army to achieve glorious victories, but wasn't the elite army of the Julius family enough to conquer the Germanic barbarians, who were similar to the Gallic barbarians?

The self-confident Flavis naturally waged war against the Germanic barbarians, and the members of the Julius family and the commanders of the various legions had long been fluttering in the continuous victories like Flavis, who would pour this basin of cold water on the Yulius family when it was thriving and invincible?

Even the commander of the Rabinus army, whom Flavis valued, had no opinion on Flavies' strategy of conquering the Germanic barbarians; The entire Julius family is gearing up before starting a war, hoping to build more feats in this war!

In particular, the commanders of the 1st and 2nd Legions, which were ordered to remain on the mainland, and the 3rd Legion, which was stationed in the province of Illyria, did not fail to find Flavis for this matter; However, Flavies insisted on his orders and promised the three legion commanders that they would be sent into battle first if there was a war next time, which convinced the three unconvinced legion commanders.

After the army entered the region of Aglidigumat of the Mainz tribe, the commander of the Fourth Legion, Farius, advised Flavis to divide the army in two; With the Eighth and Ninth Legions as the main forces, they continued to follow Flavis from the front, while Farius himself took the initiative to lead the Fourth Army to make a detour to attack the city of Mainz of the Mainz tribe!

In fact, it was not only Flavis who relaxed his vigilance against the Germanic barbarians, but even the commanders of these expeditions did not take the Germanic barbarian army seriously; Wasn't the reason why Farius proposed to divide his troops in order to speed up the march to take the main city of the Mainz tribe and win the first credit for occupying the Agripumat region in one fell swoop?

Since Farius wanted to fight for merit in this way, the other two legion commanders naturally wouldn't admit it; They all agreed to Farius's suggestion in front of Farius, but they naturally recommended themselves for the choice of dividing the army.

I have to admit that Flavis's proposal to divide his troops and move forward and quickly solve the Mainz tribe still moved Flavis; However, as the three Legion Commanders competed with each other, Flavies finally abandoned the plan for the sake of fairness.

No one could have imagined that Flavies' decision to abandon the division plan would become the decision to save the army of the Julius family; After the dispute over the division of troops was over, the three legions led by Flavis continued to march forward, and Odovaka also led the 25,000 troops of the Mainz tribe to the front of the army of the Julius family!

The day after Caesar led the Sixth and Seventh Legions out of the fork in the road, leaving Rabinus' Fifth Legion to garrison the Macomani region and continuing its march toward the Cadi region; The army of three legions led by Flavies finally met the army of 25,000 Mainz tribes in Odovaka!

When the news of the appearance of the mighty Germanic barbarian army was reported by the cavalry sent out by Flavis, Flavis immediately ordered all three legions of the army to stop marching; Farius's Fourth Army and Julius's Ninth Army simultaneously gathered the hoplites of the main army at the forefront of the army to form a strong defensive line.

Because the areas ruled by the Germanic barbarians were densely forested jungle areas, and their jungle density was worse than that of Gaul; Therefore, when Flavis led the three legions on the expedition this time, he left the equipment brigades of the three legions in the Norikum Provincial Barracks, otherwise the marching speed of the Flavis' army would not be so fast at all!

Even without the aid of the Armed Army, Flavies was confident that his Eulius legion could defeat the Germanic barbarian army of the Mainz tribe; After all, in this war between the advanced forces of Roman civilization and the backward Germanic barbarians, the armies of the two sides were not at the same level at all in terms of weaponry and battle formations.

In addition to the 12,000 hoplites of the 4th and 9th Legions, who were massed at the front of the army, Flavies also deployed all the cavalry of the three auxiliary legions on the left and right flanks of the hoplite battle formation, in case the cavalry of the Mainz tribal army attacked the flanks of the hoplite battle formation.

While the auxiliary legions of the Fourth and Ninth legions consisted of only five hundred Gallic cavalry, Clyde's auxiliary legions of the Eighth Legion consisted entirely of cavalry; A full 2,500 barbarian cavalry, plus a thousand Gallic cavalry, this cavalry force is not weak, at least enough to resist the cavalry units of the Mainz tribe and give the hoplites time to react.

As for the remaining 4,000 light infantry of the main army of the Eighth Army and the two auxiliary legions, they were all left by Flavies's side; Clyde's Eighth Regiment would serve as reinforcements for the entire battlefield, and the 4,000 light infantry of the Auxiliary Corps would be the mobile force in Flavies' hands.

The so-called mobile force means that if something unexpected happens, Flavies will use these 4,000 light infantry to carry out special tasks at the first time; For example, after defeating the enemy, it is necessary to pursue or something, after all, light infantry can be flexible with heavy infantry.

After deploying his three legions, Flavis waited quietly for the arrival of the enemy; Odovaka's army of 25,000 was also divided into three parts, 15,000 Germanic pikemen and Germanic axemen walked in the center of the entire army, 5,000 Germanic noble cavalry were on the left flank of the middle army, and the right flank was the 5,000-strong Germanic elite axemen.

Of course, among the 5,000 elite Germanic axemen were hundreds of Germanic night raiders, and among the Germanic pikemen and Germanic axemen there were also a large number of Germanic elite archers and Germanic fanatics.

Moreover, the battle habits of the Germanic barbarians were different from those of other powers; Even the Gallic barbarians, like the forces of the civilized world, will first send regular troops to pay for the battle, and only after the two sides are caught in a scorching battle will they engage their respective ace troops in a decisive battle.

This is not the case with the Germanic barbarians, who are the first to enter the battlefield at the moment of battle in a battle of the Germanic barbarians; Those regular troops will only go into battle after the elite troops have opened up the situation.

Therefore, Odovaka's 25,000 army was not the 15,000 regular troops of the Chinese army that entered the battle first, but the 5,000 Germanic elite axe men on the right flank who took the lead in launching an attack on the enemy; At the same time, the 5,000 Germanic noble cavalry on the left flank would also take the opportunity to charge the enemy's flank, and finally the 15,000 troops of the Chinese army would enter the battle.

Flavies knew nothing about this, and the soldiers of the Julius family knew nothing about it; When Eudovaca's army approached Flavis' army for 500 meters, the 15,000 troops of its army stopped marching, while the elite troops on the left and right flanks simultaneously charged the hoplite battle formation that the Julius family was waiting for!

The five thousand Germanic elite axemen rushed towards the hoplites of the Julius family with their battle axes held high, and the shield walls of the hoplites once again played a huge role, and the axes of the Germanic warriors could not split the shield walls of the hoplites at all, but were blocked out of the shield wall.

However, just as the hoplites were customary to fold half of the shield wall to counterattack, the soldiers of the Germanic Night Raiders mixed in the middle of the elite Germanic axe men took the opportunity to rush into the gap where the shields were retracted; The inflexible hoplites were attacked by the soldiers of the night raiding regiment who moved extremely quickly, and suffered heavy casualties on the spot.

As long as the shield wall of the hoplites is broken, it is difficult to recover, but those elite Germanic axe men seized the opportunity created by the night raid group to break through the shield wall defense of the hoplite battle formation in one fell swoop; Even after falling into a frontal battle, the hoplites, with their sophisticated weapons and equipment, still fought with the elite troops of the Germanic barbarians.

However, the combat effectiveness of the elite troops of the Germanic barbarians was not blown out, but fought in a sea of swords and fires; The Germanic warriors who were not afraid of death had extremely strong combat effectiveness and a strong will to fight, and under their completely reckless attack, the hoplite battle formation was beaten back step by step, and it was difficult to stabilize their position.

However, it is precisely because of the Germanic warriors' way of fighting at all costs that their casualties are more severe than those of the hoplites of the Julius family; Although the 12,000 Eullius hoplites fought by the 5,000 Germanic warriors slowly retreated, the death of every two hoplites killed three Germanic warriors.

At the same time, the five thousand noble cavalry of the Germanic barbarians were also entangled with the three thousand five hundred cavalry under the command of Flavies; The Gallic cavalry and barbarian cavalry with mediocre combat effectiveness, compared with the powerful and fierce Germanic aristocratic cavalry, the combat effectiveness is really not half a star, and the battle between the two sides was a one-sided slaughter from the beginning! (To be continued.) )