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Faced with the armies of the Rimon tribe and the unprepared Mathius tribe, the generals under the command of Calabis decided that they should attack the Mathius tribe in the west of Gaul outside the mountains, and then attack the Rimon tribe in the north.

The generals' reasoning was also simple: the armies of the Lemon tribe were a real formidable enemy, while the Mathias tribe, unprepared for war, did not have enough strength to deal with a large attack on their side; As long as your own army can conquer the Mathius tribe in the Narbang Gaul region, you can take the entire Narbang Gaul region!

Such an analysis may seem plausible, but it is actually risky; Calabes's idea was not to attack the tribe of Mathius first, and then to attack the tribe of Lemon, his idea was the exact opposite of what the generals thought.

In Calabes's view, there were two prerequisites that could not be guaranteed for attacking the Mathius tribe first; First, there was no guarantee that Gaul beyond the mountains could reach the attack of the Rimon tribes; Second, there is no guarantee that your own army will be able to quickly take down the Mathius tribe.

The very existence of the Mathias tribe, which was not prepared for war, was two-faced; From the perspective of your own army taking the initiative to attack, it is naturally advantageous, at least you don't have to worry about the Mathias tribe will cause heavy casualties to your own army, and you don't have to worry about the possibility of your own army failing, which is extremely beneficial to your own side.

However, the pros and cons coexist; There are pros and cons. Since the Mathius tribe did not make any preparations for war at all, it means that the strength of the Mathius tribe is quite scattered, and the entire Narpon Gaul region is like a plate of scattered sand; This situation, while helping his army to capture Mathius smoothly, also increased the danger of the entire Narpung Gaul region.

The tribes, large and small, scattered in the Narbang Gaul region, are not at all a trouble that can be solved in a day or two; Even if Calabes had a large number of Gallic barbarian soldiers under his command, how could they be as familiar with the terrain as those people?

Once it is impossible to wipe out the unruly Gallic barbarian tribes, with the xenophobia of the Gallic barbarian tribes, it is very likely that your own army will be mired in the war of Narpung Gaul; At that point, your own army will be really dangerous.

Even if your own army has a strategic advantage, you can slowly wipe out the entire Narpung Gaul region by breaking through one by one and advancing slowly; However, before the completion of this large-scale purge, their own army was dragged to the Narpung Gaul region, and could not leave at all.

No one knows how long it will take to get out of such a deep quagmire of war, and no one knows when the armies of the Rimon tribes will attack Gaul beyond the mountains; What if the army of the Rimon tribe attacked Gaul outside the mountains while its army was mired in the Narpung Gaul War?

The 2nd Regulian Legion of Kadoradu was indeed an elite division, with 3,000 elite Gallic warriors and 4,000 Gallic warriors not to be underestimated, and at least it could defeat more than twice as many Gallic barbarian armies in head-to-head combat; After all, the main composition of the Gallic barbarian army was still the Gallic infantry, which was poorly armed and not very effective, rather than the real Gallic warriors.

The difference between the Gallic warriors and the Gallic infantry was not only in weaponry, but in their fighting skills and will to fight; Every Gallic warrior came out of the Gallic infantry step by step. They possessed a stronger will to fight and more skilled combat skills than the Gallic infantry, coupled with better weaponry, the Gallic warriors and the Gallic infantry have never been the same concept!

For the true Gallic barbarian tribes, the number of Gallic infantry is one of the important factors affecting the strength of the tribe, and the number of Gallic warriors is the main factor determining the strength of the tribe; As for the elite warriors of Gaul, they are elite divisions that only the seven tribes of Gaul have, and the strength of ordinary Gallic tribes is good if they can have a small number of Gallic warriors.

In the entire land of Gaul, in addition to the invincible forest hunters, the elite warriors of Gaul and the cavalry of the Gallic nobles are the top troops; Their existence itself is the trump card power of a powerful tribe, and it is also an extremely valuable force!

Why was the Alesian tribe, the most powerful of the seven barbarian tribes of Gaul, able to sit on the richest region of Greater Gaul and still control the Gallic alliance that existed in name only? Isn't it because the Alesian tribe had a full five thousand elite Gallic warriors and five thousand noble Gallic cavalry? This is a force that is almost invincible in the land of Gaul!

Whether it is the Mathius tribe of Narbang Gaul or the Rimon tribe of Aquitani, their top power is extremely limited; According to the report of Grace and others, the Rimon tribe probably has about 2,000 Gallic elite warriors and about 1,000 Gallic noble cavalry, and the top strength of the Matius tribe is about the same.

Don't think that about 2,000 Gallic elite warriors and 1,000 Gallic noble cavalry are very small elite troops; You must know that the Maasai tribe, which dominated the Gaul region outside the mountains, only had 1,000 elite Gallic warriors and 1,000 Gallic noble cavalry.

In fact, the Maasai tribe has always been the lowest of the seven tribes of the Gallic barbarians; Otherwise, how could the Grace tribe threaten the Maasai tribe's dominance? In the other barbarian regions of Gaul, there has never been a case where a vassal tribe threatens the ruling tribe!

The reason why Kadoradu's Second Regulian Legion has such a strong strength is due to two aspects; First, the strong support of Karabes in terms of weapons and equipment; Second, the former kingdom of Regulia no longer belonged to the category of Gallic barbarians.

It was for these two reasons that the Second Legion of Regulia, with three thousand elite Gallic warriors and four thousand Gallic warriors, was created; However, it would be a bit unbelievable to use the 7,000 elites of this legion to fight against the 50,000 troops of the Rimon tribe.

This means that if the army of the Rimon tribe attacks the tribe of Matthias with its own army, it will attack Gallic outside the mountains when it is difficult for them to return to the Gallic outside the mountains; Then Gaul outside the mountains, which was only garrisoned by the Second Army, was in danger of falling.

Of course, under this hypothetical premise, Karabes could also choose to decisively abandon the attack on the Narpung Gaul region and return to the aid of Gaul outside the mountains with his whole army; Such an option is also possible, but what is the point of such a futile expedition?

Attacking the Rimon tribe first will have a different situation, the Rimon tribe with a large army seems to bring an extremely serious threat to their own army that is at an absolute disadvantage; Even if your own army can win the war, it will have to pay a very heavy price, after all, it is a strong enemy with an army of 50,000!

However, the benefits of such a risk cannot be ignored; The Rimon tribe has gathered the main forces of all the Gallic barbarian tribes in the entire Aquitani region in one place, which also means that as long as their own army can defeat and annihilate these 50,000 troops in one fell swoop, the entire Aquitani region will become an undefended area, and it will completely lose the ability to resist its own army.

At that time, as long as your army sends troops to receive those tribes that do not have an army, the Aquitani region, which belongs to the Rimon tribe, will become the spoils of your own army along with the Rimon tribe.

More importantly, when his own army was at war with the tribes of Rimon, there was no need to worry about the tribe of Matthias to the west; With the strength of the Mathius tribe, they did not have the strength to defeat the second legion of Cadoradu in one fell swoop on their own, nor did they have the strength to invade Gaul beyond the mountains.

As to whether they would also recruit the armies of all the Gallic barbarian tribes throughout Narbang Gaul, as the tribes of Rimon did, and wage an all-out war against Gaul beyond the mountains, Karabes was not worried; Because Calabes believed that the Mathias tribe would not have taken less time to do all this than the Rimon tribe.

More than a month of mobilization time was enough for the decisive battle between Karabes and the Rimon tribe to come to fruition; The efficiency of the Gallic barbarians allowed Calabis to boldly lead the main army to preemptively attack the Limon tribe, without worrying that the unprepared Matthias tribe would join the battle in a short time.

Calabes's reasoning succeeded in convincing his generals, and all of them agreed with Carabes's opinion and were willing to follow Carabis to take the lead in attacking the armies of the Rimon tribes; Actually, these reasons of Karabes do not need to be explained at all, and they do not need to be explained, and those generals who are loyal to Karabes only need Karabes's orders.

This is the merit of the Gallic barbarian generals, who are not at all so curious, and do not want to think too much; When Carabis asks them to speak their minds, they will not hesitate to say what is in their hearts, and once Carabis gives the order, they will be determined to carry out Carabess's order.

Whether or not Karabes's order was reasonable, and whether or not their hearts approved of Karabes's order; They will faithfully carry out these orders without any doubts or hesitation, which is the key to Calabes's preference for using Gallic generals!

Now that the Rimon tribe in the Aquitani region has been chosen as the target of his army, the various legions under Calabez have also begun to prepare for war quickly; A steady stream of grain and grass supplies are being transported to the border areas, and the third, fourth, and fifth legions are also moving towards the border areas, only the first legion under the personal command of Karabes is still being rectified! (To be continued.) )