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The various forces in the barbarian world also have their own naval fleets, but the naval strength is much weaker than that of the civilized world; This weakness only refers to the gap between the two sides in terms of scale, not the gap in the construction of warships between the two sides.

The warships of all the countries of the civilized world are built according to the same division criteria, from the weakest double-column battleships to the mainstay three-column battleships, and occasionally some extremely powerful five-column battleships; As for the so-called Seven Columns, it is a legendary warship, and it is said that only the Scipio family in Rome had the method to build such a warship, but who knows the specifics?

The warships of the various forces in the barbarian world are relatively simple, only warships and large warships; From the perspective of the size of the warship and the personnel on board, the barbarian warship is basically the same as the double-column warship of the civilized world, and the large warship is similar to the three-column warship, and the construction of large warships is already the highest technology possessed by the barbarians.

In fact, the barbarians generally couldn't even build a regular port, so they naturally didn't care about the construction of these warships; Whether it was the Gallic barbarians, the strongest barbarian force in the past, or the Germanic barbarians, the strongest barbarian forces now, they hardly invested any resources in the navy, and they had no intention of developing a naval fleet.

The barbarian forces with naval fleets that Calabes knew before were the Spanish barbarians on the Iberian Peninsula; However, the Spanish barbarians are not really barbarians either. After nearly two hundred years of civilization, the Spanish barbarians have long had a fairly high degree of civilization, at least the Spaniards established their own kingdom and completely ended the former tribal era.

Similar to the real barbarian forces such as the Gaul barbarians, the Germanic barbarians, the British barbarians, the Dacian barbarians, the Scythian barbarians, etc., they are still in the era of their own tribes, and there is still a long way to go from the real civilized country; And this Spanish power, which had its own naval fleet, was also completely terminated by the Augustus family not long ago.

What Calabes meant was that the British barbarians still had a sizable naval fleet; With the strength of twelve warships and more than forty transport ships, it can be called a powerful fleet even in the civilized world, not to mention in the barbarian world where there is almost no navy to speak of, it is even more unique.

There is one thing here that Carabis did not know, and that is that the naval strength of the British barbarians was far greater than Carabis had imagined; After all, the British barbarians are a barbarian force that hangs outside the sea, and if they want to expand outward, they must have a strong navy, and even if they want to better protect their own security, they also need a strong navy.

The naval fleet, which had been forcibly controlled by Barenas in the small fishing village, was only half of all the ships of the British barbarians; The four major tribes of the British barbarians, at least a dozen warships are in the native area of Britain.

However, as far as transports are concerned, the forty or so transports controlled by Barenas are almost all the transports of the entire British barbarians; If it weren't for the British barbarians who gathered all the transport ships of the four major tribes together, they would not have the strength to transport all the troops under the command of Barenas to the Belgian region and land.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that Balenas turned out to be a careerist who was good at hiding himself; After he led the British barbarian army to capture the Belgian region, he directly betrayed the four major tribes of the British barbarians, and controlled the fleet that transported the landing of the large army led by him, completely cutting off the connection between Britain mainland and Belgium.

At the speed at which the four major tribes of the British barbarians are building warships, within five years, the British barbarians will not be able to threaten the Belgian region, and they will not have the strength to organize another large-scale army to land on the mainland; The only thing that Barenas didn't expect was probably Karabes, who had all this cheapened the fisherman's profits.

Whether it was the wealth of the Samarobriva tribe seized by Barenas, or the Belgian region occupied by Barenas, or the fleet of the British barbarians controlled by Barenas, they all ended up in the hands of Carabes, and became Carabes's things.

Even though it was impossible for these warships and transports to escape the clutches of Calabes, Carabes was eager to take control of these ships in his own hands; In order to ensure that there would be no accidents with these ships, Karabest intended to send his guards to rule Itami, and let him lead the cavalry legion directly to the vicinity of the fishing village to control all the ships.

As the area of domination continued to expand, Calabes became more aware of the important role of a strong fleet; Especially during the last attack on the Maasai tribes in Gaul beyond the mountains, the support fleet of the Julius family made Calabis very hot.

Unfortunately, it is not an easy task to assemble a fleet; Even if Carabes wanted to form a small fleet on his own, it would not be possible to obtain warships from the Julius family, after all, the Ulius family's own naval fleet was limited.

As for the Gallic barbarians, who were ruled by Calabes himself, it was even more pure nonsense; The Gallic barbarians did not have any sense of sea power at all, so it was naturally impossible to build any warships, and the entire Gallic barbarians, Calabes, had not heard of any tribe with their own powerful fleet.

Of course, Karabes does not rule out coastal areas such as the region of Narbang Gaul, Lugdunansis, and Amaurica, and the Gallic barbarian tribes that rule these regions must have had some maritime power; However, those scarce ships are of no value at all, and they cannot even be used as fishing boats to go too far to sea.

It is no exaggeration to say that all the tribes of the entire Gallic barbarians combined could have assembled less than ten ships that Calabis now possessed; This shows how difficult it is for Karabes to form a fleet of his own.

Even if Carabis could successfully unify the entire land of Gaul, after stabilizing his rule, it would be impossible for Carabis to develop a fleet of twelve warships and more than forty transports in less than ten years.

The British barbarians are island barbarians, and their naval strength is indeed the best in the barbarian world; It's a pity that now the warships and transports that these British barbarians have accumulated by frugal food and clothing are all cheaper than Carabes.

When Itami received orders from Calabes, he split his cavalry in two; He himself led half of his cavalry to the fishing village under Calabes's command to take control of the battleship, while the remaining half of the cavalry escorted more than 4,000 captives to Samarobriwa.

Only one day later, Itami arrived at the city of Samarobriva with two thousand cavalry, and he had taken full control of twelve warships and forty-four transports near the small fishing village; In order to ensure that no enemy approached the small fishing village, Itami also deliberately left a whole thousand cavalry to garrison the small fishing village to ensure the safety of those ships.

As for Itami's arrangement, Calabis was still very satisfied; At this time, the Seventh Legion, which was responsible for cleaning the battlefield, also ended its cleaning of the battlefield and came to the city of Samaro Briva, and after all the troops were assembled, Calabis was about to start leading the army again!

In fact, the fundamental purpose of Calabes's army to attack the Belgian region was to occupy the empty rear of the British barbarian army, and then cooperate with the Germanic barbarians to counterattack the British barbarian army from the rear of the British barbarian army; In this way, Calabes could use his practical actions and the mediation of the tragic dead to gain the friendship of the Germanic barbarians, as well as a stable rear in the future.

After the successful capture of the city of Samaro Briva by chance, the Belgian region was already under the control of Calabes; In addition to the 6,000 British barbarians who were still in custody, the British barbarians were scattered in Belgian areas with no more than 2,000 stragglers.

At this time, the main army of Germanic barbarians led by Arminius was only a day or two away from the Badawi tribe at most; As a result, Carabes immediately decided to immediately lead his First and Third Legions to attack the rear of the British army.

Anelin's Sixth Legion and Tursus's Seventh Legion, all infantry legions made up of Gallic warriors; In terms of marching speed, they were much slower than Itami's Third Army, and in terms of combat effectiveness, they were much worse than the First Army.

In addition, there were still 6,000 captives to guard over the newly occupied Belgian territory, and more than 1,000 British barbarian warriors scattered throughout the Belgian region to watch out for; For the sake of stability in the rear, Calabes decided to leave the Sixth and Seventh Army Corps to defend the Belgian region.

Resoluteness has always been the merit of Calabes, and it was decided to seize the time to march into the Lower Germanic region, and immediately began to prepare for the departure of a large army; The 1st Army's inaccessible equipment units were left behind by Carabes, and the real troops were less than 3,000 hoplites and 3,000 forest hunters, as well as about 2,000 youth troops.

The 1st Army, with 8,000 men, and the 3rd Army, with only 5,000 cavalry left, these 13,000 soldiers were the entire army of Calabes's attack on the rear of the British barbarian army; Carabis believed that with an absolute number of Germanic barbarians as the main force, his own army only needed to cooperate with the attack.

What's more, the Lower Germanic region was originally the territory of the Germanic barbarians; If Carabes led too many troops into the Lower Germanic region, it would inevitably cause misunderstanding among the Germanic barbarians, so it would be better to set off with these troops. After determining the legion to be sent out, Karabes made some arrangements for the remaining soldiers, and then set out for the lower Germanic region. (To be continued.) )