Don't waste the rest of your life thinking about others when you're not directing your mind to a certain goal of the public good. Because, when you have this kind of thought, you lose the opportunity to do something else. What the person is doing, why is he doing it, what he says, what he thinks, what he argues, paying attention to all these things will make us lose sight of observing our own dominating forces. Therefore, we should suppress all aimless and worthless thoughts, as well as a great deal of curiosity and malice, in the course of our thoughts.

- Marcus Aurelius (the only philosopher-emperor in Western history)

Although the generals of the Julius family had long known that Flavis valued the robber-born Carabes, they did not expect that Flavis would give Carabes such a high-standard treatment; Three legions no larger than the standard Roman legions were thus handed over to Calabes, which made the other generals who had always been loyal to the Julius family embarrassed? However, Flavis did not completely snub the other generals; Instead, he sent Karabes, who was in charge of three legions, to garrison the mouth of the Alps.

Garrisoning the mouth of the Alps was not an easy task, not to mention the armies of the Gallic barbarians who could counterattack at any moment; Even the natives of the Alps, who like to sneak up on their armies from time to time, are enough to give Calabes a headache. Those are the real robbers, whether you are from the kingdom of Regulia, or from the Gallic barbarians, or merchants and nobles from other countries; Anyone who is close to the Alps will be robbed by them, and the complex terrain of the Alps is a natural barrier for them.

Even putting aside this difficult task, the three legions under the command of Calabis were all defeated by themselves; Needless to say, the Karabes Legion was the army that Karabes himself had brought in. The so-called Regulian Legion was defeated by 3,000 remnants when it surrendered to the Julius family, and the current scale was expanded by Calabis through the conquest of the Regulian Kingdom; As for the Gallic Legion in the mountains, they were all Gallic troops who had laid down their arms, and Flavis had put them under the command of the generals of the Julius family, and they would not want them.

In short, although the generals of the Julius family felt that Flavis paid too much attention to Calabes, and Carabis did have a large army at his disposal; But. If you think about it, these are not what everyone wants. Therefore, in the face of Flavis's heavy reward, the generals remained silent; In other words, the generals acquiesced to the special status of Calabes in the Julius family. After the announcement of Karabes' appointment. Flavies began to announce the rewards of the other generals; The atmosphere in the tent soon became warm.

After the end of the war awards, the banquet began in the military tent; And Karabes, who was not familiar with the generals, also left the military tent with Kadoradhu, Itami, and Allah under the pretext of inspecting the barracks. Because the detailed list of weapons and equipment needs would be handed over to Flavies tomorrow, Carabes returned to his temporary military tent with the generals, that is, the former military tent of Lugotorix; All the armies to which Calabès belonged were now stationed in the former Gallic barracks.

In addition to the two Legion Commanders of Kadoradu and Itami, whom Flavis had already appointed himself, Calabis also appointed Falkus as the Forest Hunter Commander of the Calabes Legion. Tursus served as the heavy infantry commander of the Calabesian Legion, and Allah served as the light infantry commander of the Calabesian Legion. Of these, the 10,000 troops of the Calabess Regiment consisted of 3,000 forest hunters, 3,000 heavy infantry, and 4,000 light infantry; The Regulian army consisted of 4,000 Gallic warriors and 3,000 elite Gallic warriors.

Of course, the Gallic warriors and Gallic elite warriors here do not mean that the Legion of Regulia under the command of Cadoradu really already have the combat power of normal Gallic warriors and Gallic elite warriors, but that they will use the weapons and equipment of the Gallic warriors and Gallic elite warriors respectively; As for whether their combat effectiveness can reach the level of normal Gallic warriors and Gallic elite warriors, it depends on the next training and combat training, anyway, this is how Karabes positioned them, and the weapons and equipment will also be asked for from Flavis according to this standard.

The last of the Gallic regiments of the mountain was easier, consisting of five thousand elite cavalry who had surrendered to Calabes, and two thousand Gallic cavalry who had been captured; However, Karabes wasn't going to just let them use normal Gallic hussar weaponry. In the world of the Gallic barbarians, there were two types of cavalry; One is the ordinary Gallic cavalry under the command of Calabes. The other was the Gallic aristocratic cavalry, which was more powerful and well-armed.

The main difference between these two types of cavalry is not the combat effectiveness of the cavalry itself, but the huge difference in weapons and equipment between the two; After all, the Gallic barbarians were still Gallic barbarians, and compared to a civilized country like Rome, Gaul lacked both the technology to create high-quality weapons and equipment, and the means to obtain sophisticated weapons and equipment. Therefore, in the Gallic world, only those warriors of noble birth were able to possess relatively sophisticated weapons and equipment; Ordinary Gallic warriors did not have this treatment.

For example, in the past, the elite cavalry under the command of Lugotorix, they had extremely strong combat effectiveness, but they did not have the weapons and equipment to match them, so that they could only act as ordinary Gallic cavalry on the battlefield, whose status was far inferior to that of the noble cavalry; Now that they are under the command of Karabes. Of course, Karabes had to ask Flavies for better weaponry. According to the conception of Calabes, among the seven thousand cavalry of the Gallic regiment in the hill; The 2,000 light cavalry with low combat effectiveness will continue to serve as ordinary Gallic cavalry, while the 5,000 elite cavalry with extremely strong combat effectiveness will all be redressed into new cavalry, that is, noble cavalry in the eyes of the Gauls.

If Flavis really agreed with Karabes in its entirety. Then of the three legions under Calabes; Of the 24,000 troops, 17,000 will be fully equipped with the same standard equipment as the Gallic barbarians. The remaining 3,000 hoplites and 4,000 light infantry, Carabes, were undoubtedly equipped in the standard Roman legionary system; Calabes's plan was that the 3,000 hoplites would use the equipment of the current Roman legionnaires, and the 4,000 light infantry would use the equipment of the former youth army.

Although the use of such a class as the Youth Army had been abandoned in the reform of the Marian military system, Carabes felt that such a class was very easy to use; In fact, it is also inaccurate to simply regard the youth army as light infantry. At least not in Carabes's opinion. According to Carabes, the advantage of the youth army is that it is completely a branch between hoplites and light infantry, rather than light infantry in the simple sense.

The standard armament used by the youth army is a square wooden shield, three javelins, short swords, and light armor; Such weapons and equipment are completely simple versions of hoplites, or enhanced light infantry. Only if the warriors who use these weapons and equipment are strong enough, then their combat effectiveness is very impressive; In the eyes of some. The weakness of the youth army is obvious, because the youth army is neither as fast as the light infantry nor as strong as the heavy infantry on the battlefield.

But. This view seemed to Calabes to be absurd; You look at the problem from a different angle. If the opponent of the youth army is the hoplite, then the youth army can take advantage of the advantage of being faster than the heavy infantry to get rid of the hoplites and take the lead in javelin shooting at the hoplites; Even if the youth army could not defeat the hoplites, they ran away. If the opponent of the youth army is the light infantry, then the youth army can rely on the superiority of weapons and equipment to suppress the light infantry.

In Carabes's opinion. There is no absolutely perfect class of troops and invincible armies in the world; It is the generals who command the army that really determine the strength of an army. The former Alexander the Great, commanding a corner of the Macedonian kingdom, swept the world with the powerful combat power of the Macedonian phalanx and royal cavalry, and established an unprecedented huge empire; And then what? After the untimely death of Alexander the Great, what happened to the so-called Diadochi? The armies are still those armies, and without the command of Alexander the Great, they are nothing more than a plate of scattered sand; It is always the generals who determine the ultimate combat effectiveness of an army, not anything else.

Of course, it is undeniable that there are three important factors behind Calabes's decision; First, the current Calabess Legion is no longer the Carabess Legion of the original. After gaining the allegiance of the Gallic barbarians' elite three thousand forest hunters, the enemy's ranged units could no longer pose a threat to Calabes' army (weapons did not count); In this case, there is little point in forming a standard light infantry. Therefore, Karabes not only did not intend to form standard light infantry, but also abolished the original archery formation.

The second is that the legions of Calabes did not allow the formation of large-scale hoplites at all; Because at this stage, the enemies of the Julius family can only be barbarian armies, such as the Gallic barbarians, Germanic barbarians, British barbarians, and Dacian barbarians. As a result, the role that hoplites can play is extremely limited, not only in the terrain of barbarian states; More importantly, the barbarian armies generally did not have heavy armies, and their lightly armed armies were not to be underestimated in combat and moved quickly, which was also an important reason why Calabes still let the Legions of Regulia and the Gallic Legions of the Mountains use Gallic equipment.

On the one hand, these soldiers were Gauls and were not accustomed to using Roman equipment, but were proficient in using Gallic weapons and equipment; On the other hand, it was also because Calabes knew that the enemies he would face in the future were mainly barbarians, and it was not suitable for forming large-scale hoplites. The last factor is the one within the Julius family; With the victory of the Gallic War, the Julius family achieved unprecedented leaps and bounds, and it can even be said that the Julius family has become one of the most powerful forces on the European continent.

The next Julius family will recuperate and completely digest the annexed three provinces. It will also actively expand its armaments and wars to form a larger army, so as to continue to expand its family power in the future; Flavies was no senile Decius, he had plenty of time and ambition to lead the Julius family to continue their expansion. This will lead to an extreme shortage of weapons and equipment of the Julius family, and the generals of the Julius family will definitely quarrel over the distribution of weapons and equipment.

Carabis was reluctant to meddle in the trivial affairs of the Julius family. So he wisely asked for only three thousand Roman standard legions; Others demanded the creation of underappreciated Gallic equipment and discarded youth army equipment. In this way, they can meet their own needs without getting bogged down in the internal strife of the Julius family. After discussing the specific weapons and equipment and establishment issues with the generals under his command, Carabes instructed the generals to go to the various legions to patrol the camps, and he himself began to patrol the camp tonight.

Early the next morning, Calabes handed Flavies a list of the weapons and equipment he needed; Flavis didn't say anything more than patted Karabeth on the shoulder, saying that he was grateful for Karabeth's understanding. Flavis's request for Calabes was quickly satisfied. In just half a month, all the weapons and equipment that Karabesso had were in place; In addition to these, Flavis gave Calabis an additional 10,000 youth and 10,000 elite spearmen, as well as 10,000 old hoplites.

In order to buy hearts and minds and facilitate Calabes's future war, Flavis even appointed a hundred craftsmen who were dedicated to making all kinds of Gallic weapons and equipment and twenty craftsmen who were dedicated to crafting new Roman weapons and equipment to follow Carabes to the mouth of the Alps; This can be regarded as Flavis's own compensation to Calabes, and the two know this but know it. After receiving the weapons and craftsmen, Calabes officially led his army to the mouth of the Alps. (To be continued.) )