"Chapter 571: Reorganizing the Legion"
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Carabes's kindness was exchanged for a sincere friendship between Ricus Burgess and Itrilius, and the Germanic barbarians were not a people who would take advantage of others at will; As a token of their gratitude to Calabes, Ricus Burgess and Iterius presented the Gallic warriors captured by the Trier tribes in previous battles and the British warriors captured by the Germanic armies in this battle.
No matter how much the Germanic barbarians value love and righteousness, they are still a genuine barbarian people; They may also use negotiation and counselling to solve problems with people of their own race, but for those invaders who bring them war and disaster, they will only use force and blood to bring each other to their knees, and make those invaders pay with their lives!
Whether it was the Gallic barbarian warriors who had been captured before, or the British barbarian warriors who were now captive, their fate was nothing more than that of becoming slaves of the Germanic people; The powerful Germanic people would have them all brutally executed after draining them of their last usefulness.
Barbarians are barbarians, and no other merit can hide their blood and cruelty; In fact, in such an era, the so-called civilized country is only slightly better than these barbarians, and there is no substantial difference between the two.
In the most civilized Roman world, the bloody and cruel gladiator system and the inhumane slavery system were also accepted; Countless Roman citizens would go to the arena to watch the flesh-and-blood gladiatorial battles, and they would also go to the market to buy and sell slaves, and abuse those slaves in their own homes, and even kill slaves directly, and the law would never speak for slaves.
This is a barbaric world in itself, and the inferiority of human beings will inevitably be infinitely magnified in such a world; Compared to the deceitful civilized world, the world of the Germanic barbarians is already a very pure and clean place.
After the night's great celebrations, early the next morning Calabis began to order his men to take over the British barbarian captives; Atrilius also hastened to deal with the many things that his tribe needed to solve after the war, and he also had to recruit 10,000 Germanic warriors to hand over to Karabes in three days.
As for the 10,000 warriors of the Trier tribe, Rike Burgess said that he would recruit them when he returned to the Trier tribe; When the time came, these warriors would escort the Gallic barbarian captives directly to Alesia to take command of Calabes.
In order to allow the Trier tribe and the Badawi tribe to recover their strength as soon as possible, and so that the two tribes could not affect their development after this war and each sent 10,000 warriors to Karabes, Arminius also promised the two leaders that after he returned to the Dam tribe, he would immediately send a large amount of financial supplies to the Trier tribe and the Badawi tribe.
With Arminius' prestige and credibility, it is natural that Atrilius and Richebergis would not have the slightest doubt; This war has unexpectedly given the Badawi and Trir tribes a fairly good external environment, and it can be regarded as a price they pay for a great price, as long as they are given time to regain their strength, it is only a matter of time before they return to the ranks of the strong.
After receiving more than 5,000 British barbarian captives and 10,000 Germanic warriors, Calabes led his mighty army back to Belgium; Arminius also needed to rush to the Norikum area to reinforce Odovaka, so naturally he couldn't delay any longer, and Rike Burgess also went home with the warriors of the Trier tribe.
Upon his return to Belgium, Calabis suddenly found that he had more than 10,000 British barbarian captives in his hands, and all of them were very good warriors; In particular, the elite warriors of the British barbarians were in no way inferior to the elite warriors of the Gallic barbarians in terms of combat effectiveness on the battlefield, and even surpassed.
For these British barbarian warriors, whether it was their own good combat effectiveness or their rich combat experience, Calabes valued them very much; Naturally, Karabes was reluctant to let them survive as captives and slaves.
How to make these British barbarian warriors loyal to him was not a problem for Calabes; Karabes believed that these brave warriors on the battlefield would make a wise choice between warriors and slaves.
All the things of Balenas, Karabes had already learned from the mouths of these captives; If these warriors from the four great tribes of the British barbarians could be bought by Barenas, why couldn't they be allegiance to themselves? Carabis had absolute confidence in this, and he felt that he was about to have another powerful British barbarian army under his command.
In addition to the question of the capture of the British barbarians, the question of the replenishment of the First Legion was a major problem that Calabes needed to solve immediately; In the battle to attack the Belgian region and aid the Badawi tribes, the 4,000 youth troops of the 1st Army had already lost more than 3,000 men, and the 3,000 hoplites had also paid the price of nearly 2,000 casualties, which had to be replenished in time.
The First Legion, as a legion directly under the command of Calabess, is also the most elite of all the legions under Calabess; Such a main army and henchmen are naturally the top priority of Calabess's attention, and Carabis still has a lot of sophisticated weapons and equipment provided by the Julius family, Carabis decided to adjust the establishment of the First Legion again.
The hoplites, who have been playing a mainstay in battle, will be expanded from 3,000 to 5,000; And as the number of legions increases, the youth army, which plays a smaller and smaller role, will shrink from 4,000 to 3,000 people. The 3,000-strong Armament Force and the 3,000-strong Forest Hunters remained the same.
In addition, the new First Legion will include a unit made up of the most combat-ready British warriors among the captured British barbarians; Its size will be maintained at 3,000 men, which can be regarded as a way for Karabes to increase the combat effectiveness of the First Legion.
Even the British barbarian warriors Carabes would not let go, and the Germanic barbarian warriors Carabes, who were even more powerful in combat, could not give up; From now on, the First Legion will have 3,000 elite Germanic axemen, and these 3,000 Germanic warriors were recruited by Carabes through the two leaders of Iterius and Ricburgess.
In order to obtain these 3,000 elite Germanic axe soldiers with strong combat effectiveness, Carabis took out a full 10,000 sets of weapons and equipment of the youth army of the Julius family; After the two leaders were given the best weapons and equipment from the Roman world, the two leaders smiled and provided Karabes with the 3,000 elite Germanic axemen he needed.
With the addition of 3,000 elite British warriors and 3,000 elite Germanic axemen, the First Legion of Calabes has reached 20,000 in size; The large increase in the number of troops also symbolized the great progress of the combat effectiveness of the First Army.
In Calabes's opinion, if the previous First Legion could defeat the 20,000-sized Gallic army in a frontal battle, then the current First Legion can already defeat the 20,000-scale Julius family army in one fell swoop!
After the staffing problem was dealt with, Carabes also made new adjustments to the generals of the First Army; Falkus, who had been the commander of the Forest Hunters, became the lieutenant general of the First Legion, and the number of troops under his command increased by 3,000 young men.
Aminos, who had just served as the commander of the hoplites, was also appointed lieutenant general of the First Army, but the troops under his command remained unchanged; The troops directly under the command of Calabes, on the other hand, consisted of equipment units and British warriors, as well as Germanic warriors.
After solving the problem of replenishment and adjustment of the First Legion, Calabis took advantage of the situation to make adjustments to all the regular legions under his command; Itami's cavalry corps will remain at 7,000 cavalry, Grace's Fifth Legion will remain the same, and the remaining 2nd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 8th legions will all be reorganized.
The new legion will still consist of 7,000 soldiers, except that all five legions will use the same formation; In this new formation, the 7,000 soldiers of each legion will be composed of 5,000 Gallic warriors and 2,000 elite Gallic warriors, and all the soldiers of the five legions will be disorganized and reorganized, so that the combat effectiveness of each legion will be balanced.
As for the British barbarian captives, Carabis eventually used them to form a British legion of 7,000 men; Compared to the other eight legions under Calabes, which had no name and only kept the number, this British legion had a special status, because this legion only had a name and no number.
In fact, Carabis felt that it made little sense to assemble a legion of dedicated British barbarian soldiers; The warriors of these British barbarians were all dead and one less existent, and Carabis could not replenish their losses at all.
In view of this, Carabes's definition of this British legion is nothing more than cannon fodder, purely to make full use of these captives who are good at fighting; When Calabis rested his army, he will launch a full-scale attack on the remaining three major tribes of the Gallic barbarians, and it will be time for this cannon fodder army to charge into battle.
The last remaining legion was naturally the Germanic legion that Calabes helped train the Trier and Badawi tribes; For this Germanic legion that is related to his relationship with the Germanic barbarians, Calabis attaches great importance to it, and will train it well, and in the near future, this Germanic army will appear in the war on the land of Gaul, and they will become strong within three years! (To be continued.) )