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The 25,000 troops of the Mainz tribe are not comparable to the Norikum barbarian army and the Poheim barbarian army in the past, it is a real barbarian regular army, and it is also an elite division with clear combat power!

Before the invasion of the Agridigumat region, Flavies had already sent men to investigate the army of the Mainz tribe; Among the 25,000 troops of the Mainz tribe, the real core combat strength is only 10,000, which are all elite troops composed of extremely strong Germanic elite axe soldiers and Germanic noble cavalry, including a certain number of Germanic night raider regiment soldiers.

The Germanic elite axe soldiers and the Germanic noble cavalry, as the name suggests, know what kind of troops they are; As for the Germanic Night Raider Regiment, which is small in number but equally strong in combat, it is another extremely special existence.

When the Gallic barbarians invaded the Germanic barbarians, the huge army of the Gallic barbarians was unable to resist the Germanic barbarians; In addition to the extremely helpless methods of national warfare, the Germanic barbarians often used night sneak attacks against the Gallic barbarian armies in order to effectively attack the Gallic barbarian soldiers.

For the men and men of the Gallic barbarian armies had no habit of fighting at night, nor were they in the habit of guarding against the enemy at night; Therefore, the leaders of the Germanic barbarian army took advantage of this shortcoming of the Gallic barbarian army, and repeatedly used elite Germanic warriors to sneak attack the Gallic barbarian army at night, and all of them achieved good results.

Slowly, these elite warriors who were temporarily formed were officially formed into a special night raid unit, which is the so-called Germanic night raid group; In a way, the Germanic Night Raiders were the main force of the Germanic barbarians who resisted the invasion of the Gallic barbarian army in the Seven Years' War, and they were also the most decorated and honored troops among the Germanic barbarians.

In terms of honor, the barbarians are much more pragmatic than the people of civilized countries; Only the troops with strong combat effectiveness and outstanding merits will be regarded as honorary troops in the world of the barbarians, that is, the combat effectiveness of this Germanic night raid regiment is very strong.

About 5,000 Germanic elite axe soldiers and about 5,000 Germanic noble cavalry, plus a Germanic night raid regiment of several hundred people, this is the core combat power of the 25,000 army of the Mainz tribe.

Among the remaining fifteen,000 troops, the absolute main force is naturally the Germanic pikemen and Germanic axe soldiers most commonly used by the Germanic barbarians; The combined number of these two is more than 10,000, and the last remaining two or three thousand people are the elite archer troops and fanatic troops of the Mainz tribe.

From the perspective of combat effectiveness alone, the elite archer troops of the Germanic barbarians are not as good as the forest hunter troops of the Gallic barbarians, but they are also one of the top archer troops in the world; Its powerful attack power is definitely no less than those elite axe soldiers and noble cavalry with strong combat effectiveness, and even surpasses it.

However, during the decisive battle between the Germanic barbarians and the Gallic barbarians, the Germanic elite archers were overpowered by the enemy's forest hunters in the battle, which made the seven major tribes of the Germanic barbarians full of distrust of this Germanic barbarian archer army.

More importantly, in the barbarian world that values physical combat, the greatest value of the bow and arrow is only for hunting, not fighting the enemy; At the very least, in the world of Gallic barbarians, Spanish barbarians, Germanic barbarians, archers are worthless.

Originally, the Mainz tribe still had a large number of Germanic female warriors, and their number and scale were five thousand; This is also a tradition of the Germanic barbarian tribes, and in order to commemorate the great role played by the Germanic female warriors in the original war against the invasion of the Gaul barbarians, each Germanic barbarian tribe will form a Germanic female warrior army.

Of course, as the times changed, the existence of these Germanic female warrior units slowly became more symbolic than practical; Once the threat of national survival is lost, will the Germanic barbarian men of the patriarchal society still let women go to war? It's simply not possible!

Thus, in the army of Odovaka, there were naturally only 25,000 troops of the Mainz tribe; As for the symbolic Germanic warriors, their role was only to maintain the stability and internal unity of the Mainz tribe in name.

the mighty army of the Julius family, and the army of the Mainz tribe that is approaching with great momentum; The battle between the two sides was only a matter of time, and as soon as the two armies met each other, the real battle would officially begin.

Compared with Flavis's direct attack, Caesar's preparations for war were more complete; Before receiving the order to attack from Flavies, Caesar sent all the auxiliary regiments of the three legions, in addition to the 1,500 Gallic cavalry, to garrison the towns in the Poheim region to ensure the stability of the Poheim region after the departure of the army.

After all, the Poheim region was only an area that had just been occupied by the enemy's army, and the war never ended after the defeat of the enemy's army; On the contrary, in many cases, after the occupation of new lands, new wars of domination have just begun.

Caesar did not want to see his army leave the Poheim region, so the Lovosice tribesmen again drew up an army to reoccupy the Poheim region; In this case, your three legions will be completely cut off.

In order to ensure the stability of the Poheim region, Caesar had to disperse the soldiers of the 6,000 auxiliary legions in various important towns in the Poheim region without affecting the combat effectiveness of the main army as much as possible; In addition to this, Caesar also made favorable offers, and recruited 10,000 young Lovosice troops in the Poheim region to join the army of the Julius family.

Among the 10,000 newly recruited young men of the Lovosice tribe, there were a large number of soldiers of the Lovosice tribe who had been captured by the Julius family in the last battle; These men with combat experience were willing to join the army of the Julius family, and Caesar naturally couldn't ask for it.

As for why these people who were once enemies of the Eullius family are willing to join the army of the Eullius family, the reason is also very simple; In addition to Caesar's favorable conditions, the strength of the army of the Julius family is also deeply experienced by these people, and now being able to fight with such a powerful army can be regarded as a great temptation for barbarian warriors who advocate force.

With the addition of these ten thousand, Caesar drew 6,000 of them to replenish the auxiliary legions of the three legions; The remaining 4,000 men were also sent by Caesar to various important towns in the Poheim region to maintain stability in the Poheim region together with the 6,000 soldiers of the Julius family.

Now that the auxiliary legions of the three legions have been reorganized, the garrison in the Poheim area, which is now as large as 10,000 people, is naturally not suitable to continue to use the original number; Caesar named the garrison of 10,000 men the Poheim Legion.

After taking care of the affairs of the Boheim Legion, Caesar also received orders from Flavies; After receiving the order from Flavies to immediately attack the Macomani region, Caesar directly led the soldiers of the three legions to set off again!

This time, Caesar did not gather the soldiers of the three legions together to march together, but sent Rabinus's Fifth Legion out, and let Rabinus lead the Fifth Legion directly from the east of Poheim to the capital of the Macomani region, the city of Macomani; The Sixth and Seventh Legions, led by Caesar, marched from the west to the Macomani region to attract the main army of the Macomani tribes.

With the weak military strength of the Macomani tribe, it was simply not enough to resist the strong army of the three legions of the Julius family; However, the fundamental purpose of Caesar's division of troops was to save time for attacking the Macomani region and to march as soon as possible to the more important Kadi region north of the Macomani region.

When Caesar's army entered the Macomani region, he quickly understood what it was like to be sparsely populated in the Macomani region; After entering the Macomani region, Caesar's army walked for four days, and there was not even a single shadow of the Germanic people, let alone the army of the Macomani tribe.

Seven days later, Caesar's army had reached the middle of the western part of the Marcomani region; By this time, Caesar's army had already encountered several Germanic tribes of various sizes, but the army of the Macomani tribe had not yet appeared.

Caesar now had two options: first, to continue his march northward, with the intention of crossing the region of Macomani to the more crucial region of Cadi; The second temporarily abandoned the march to the north and turned to the east to find the main army of the Macomani tribe for a decisive battle.

Whether to solve the worries and set off again, or to seize the time to march to the Cadi region, Caesar is still a fledgling young man after all, and his heart is still relatively hesitant and hesitant; He is not willing to give up his concept of the speed of soldiers, and he is not willing to leave behind the worries of the main army of the Macomani tribe, he is really difficult to choose!

As it turned out, Caesar's luck was still very good, and his decision to split his troops was very correct; Only the day after Caesar's indecision, Rabinus's heralds rushed to Caesar's camp and brought Caesar Rabinus's good news.

Three days earlier, Rabinus's Fifth Legion had arrived in the capital of the Macomani region, the city of Macomani, and had wiped out the entire army of the Macomani tribe outside the city in one fell swoop; Now, the Macomani region is already the territory of the Julius family, and Rabinus will continue to lead the army to garrison the city of Macomani under Caesar's orders to ensure the stability of the Macomani area.

With Rabinus's good news, Caesar no longer had to worry about it; In addition to solving Caesar's choice problem, this incident also gave Caesar a deep sense of trust in Rabinus. At noon on the day of the good news, Caesar's army began again and continued its march towards the region of Cadi! (To be continued.) )