"Chapter 681: The Conquest of Britain"
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While Calabis was still reorganizing his legions and replenishing his troops, the officials sent from Flavies arrived in the city of London in Upper Britain; This official brought not only new orders from Flavius to Calabes, but also a detailed battle plan for the Empire of Julius to attack the Iberian Peninsula.
In such a battle plan, Carabes would become the military commander of the combined forces of the Julius Empire and the Roman Empire in attack on the Iberian Peninsula; The armies used by both sides to attack the Iberian Peninsula would also be as large as twenty legions.
Carabes did not receive any information about this attack plan from the Dead of Sorrow, which means that the Augustan Empire was not aware of this information; Thinking of this, Carabes took advantage of his imminent position as commander-in-chief to inquire in detail about the preparations of the Ulius Empire in terms of war.
This official personally appointed by Flavies was naturally a trusted official within the Ulius Empire, and he not only knew everything about the preparations for war in the Ulius Empire, but he was also involved in the Supreme Imperial Council; And Calabis was the commander of the army appointed by Flavis, and he would of course tell Calabes everything he knew.
When the Julius Empire convened the Supreme Imperial Council, Flavis also elaborated on the sharing of responsibilities and troop deployment of the four empires when attacking the Augustan Empire; All this was finally told to Karabes by this official, and after hearing these things, Karabes, who was calm on the surface, also felt a storm in his heart, and even felt incredulous.
The three Roman empires, which had always been at odds with each other, were united again in order to deal with the Augustan Empire, and even the Seleucid Empire in the Eastern Continent actually joined this alliance; What's more, it is very likely that the Augustan Empire did not know anything about this, and the consequences of this incident simply made Karabes break out in a cold sweat.
After clarifying the matter of the alliance, Calabes promised the officer that he would end the war on the island of Britain within three months, and then return to Gaul for an army build-up; The officer was satisfied, and left the city of London with Carabes's reply.
Immediately after sending off the officials of the Empire of Julius, Carabes wrote down everything he had just known in a parchment scroll; Including the agreement between the four empires and the specific expansion plan of the Ulius Empire, Calabis wrote it down in its entirety and handed it over to the intelligence officers left by the Tragic Dead in the First Legion.
Having settled the matter, Calabis turned all his attention to the conquest of the island of Britain; Time is pressing, Calabis will not have time to improve the combat effectiveness of his legions, and even the time to march to the island of Ireland is not enough, the only thing that can be completed by Calabis is to complete the occupation of the British Isles as much as possible.
The last decisive battle of London not only allowed Carabes's army to completely wipe out the most powerful London tribe among the British barbarians, but also made the York tribe in Lower Britain and the Diwa tribe in West Lury pay a very heavy price; The 30,000 reinforcements each sent by the two tribes to the London tribe were wiped out in the decisive battle of London.
Although the eight legions of Calabes had paid a terrible price in the war against the London tribes, the Seventh Legion, which had suffered the heaviest casualties, even lost 4,000 soldiers in the battle, and almost all of the remaining 6,000 soldiers were wounded; But within two or three months of recuperation after the war, the size of the Seventh Army was again restored to 10,000 men, not counting the wounded outside London, who had not yet recovered.
In order to cope with the ensuing battle, Carabis removed two or three thousand wounded from each of his legions, and then replenished the number of soldiers of their legion to 10,000 people; This means that after all the wounded of each legion have recovered their combat effectiveness, the total strength of their legion will reach 12,000 to 13,000.
In this way, the ratio of veterans and recruits to each legion can basically reach one to one; Even if it costs thousands of dead again in future battles, it can ensure the size and number of veterans of each legion, which is also a new method that Calabis has come up with, purely to improve the combat effectiveness of each legion.
Sadly, Calabes didn't have time to implement this new approach now; The alliance of the four empires was about to break out into a full-scale war with the Augustan Empire, and Carabis himself was the commander of the coalition of twenty legions appointed by Flavies himself, and soon Carabis was about to be thrown into a fierce and vast war, and there was no chance to waste time on the island of Britain.
The original battle plan was directly abandoned by Carabes, and all the wounded who had not yet recovered their combat effectiveness were also left by Carabes in the barracks outside London, and the remaining eight legions were all mobilized by Carabes; The flames of war on the island of Britain are once again burning, and Carabis must complete the conquest of the island in the shortest possible time.
The eight re-replenished legions were divided into three armies by Calabes, and the 7th and 8th legions, which had recovered quite well in combat, would form their own armies, responsible for remaining in Upper Britain, with the city of London and the port of Upper Britain as the key garrisons.
The First Army will include the Ninth Army and the Tenth Army, which are relatively inferior in combat; The target of this army will be the Diwa tribe in the West Luri region in the northwest of Upper Britain, and the Diwa tribe at this time can only gather about 30,000 troops at most, while the army of Calabes has more than 40,000 troops.
The Fourth Army will be the main force of the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army, which will be roughly similar in combat effectiveness; The target of this army will be the Yorkist tribe of Lower Britain directly north of Upper Britain, and the Yorkist tribe has always been the weakest tribe of the British barbarians, and it is impossible for the army that can now be assembled to exceed 20,000 men.
Carabis himself commanded an army of 43,000 to attack the Diwa tribes, which had only 30,000 improvised patchwork troops, and the 30,000 Gallic armies along the way would also attack an improvised patchwork army of less than 20,000 of the Yorks; This time, Karabes was no longer thinking about how to improve the combat effectiveness of his legion, he just hoped that the war would end as soon as possible.
It took a month to reach the core of the Diwa tribe from the city of London in Upper Britain, but it took twenty days for the soldiers of the three legions to reach the Diwa tribe under the urging of Carabes; Even the Diwa tribe did not expect the enemy's army to come so quickly, but Karabes chose to attack the Diwa tribe without the slightest hesitation.
At this time, the army assembled by the Diwa tribe was not 30,000 at all, and there were more than 8,000 or so troops of other British barbarian tribes in the West Luli area who were gathering in Diwa City; In other words, the Diwa tribe can only use less than 25,000 troops to resist the attack of the Calabes' army, and such a force cannot stop the attack of the superior army of Calabes.
Three days after the siege of the city of Diva, the army of Calabes captured the city of Diva, and more than 18,000 of the 25,000 troops that the entire Diwa tribe had painstakingly assembled became prisoners of Calabes; As for the more than 8,000 tribal troops in the West Luli area who were still driving to Diwa City, they were directly captured by the army of Calabes.
After leading his army to occupy the city of Diva, Karabes sent a large army to conquer all the tribes and tribes in the West Luli region; Carabis then left behind the men of the Ninth Legion to garrison the West Luri area, while Carabis returned to London with 25,000 captives and two legions, awaiting the triumphant return of another army.
A month after Carabes's army returned to the city of London, the army that had succeeded in occupying the British region also returned to the city; Only two of the three legions returned, and Anelin's Sixth Corps remained in Lower Britain for the time being.
Eighty days had passed, and there were still ten days or so before the March period promised by Calabes; But Calabes no longer needed to delay on the island of Britain, except for the Sixth Legion of Anelin and the Ninth Legion of Aram and the Tenth Legion of Rasini to garrison the British Isles, the other five legions and 60,000 British barbarian captives were all to return to the mainland.
The reason why Carabis chose to bring all the 60,000 captives of the British barbarians back to Gaul was not only to reduce the turmoil on the British island, but also to make full use of the 60,000 British barbarian captives; Soon Calabes would have to lead his army out of Greater Gaul and Belgium, and it would not be easy for the Germanic barbarians to deal with the eastern and western attacks of the Julius Empire.
The 60,000 British barbarian captives in front of him were one of the gifts that Carabes left for his Germanic friends before leaving; As long as they are played properly, these 60,000 British barbarian captives may not be the key to saving the fate of the Germanic people, and it all depends on whether the Germans are willing to listen to Carabes's advice.
After finally appointing the commander of the Sixth Legion, Anelin, as the commander of the three legions left behind in the British Isles, Carabis directly led his five legions and 60,000 prisoners to return to Gaul by ship in four batches; At this time, the fleets that originally belonged to the three major tribes of the British barbarians also belonged to Calabes, and the naval strength in Carabes's hands could be regarded as a great increase. (To be continued.) )
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