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- Aristotle (one of the great philosophers, scientists, and educators in the ancient history of the world)

After reciprocal promises to Ares, Odovaka returned to his resting place to continue treating his wounds; As for the five thousand Germanic warriors, Odovaka did not make any other arrangements for them, except to let them rest in place.

At this time, the twilight also began to fade, and the night was approaching; Today's daytime battle cost the Odovaka warriors a heavy price in casualties, but the warriors of the Mainz tribe were not afraid of the heavy casualties.

For the warriors of the Germanic barbarians, it was only natural that fighting for the survival of the tribe and ********** future was to die on the battlefield; This is the glory of all Germanic warriors, and something to be proud of for their families.

For every warrior who dies in battle, his family will be honored by everyone else; His parents who have lost their ability to survive, and their children who are waiting to be fed, will be treated kindly by all the people of the whole tribe, and the warriors shed their blood for the tribe and the nation on the battlefield, and the tribe and the nation will not let their families shed tears, this is the belief of the Germanic people!

However, glory is glory, reality is still reality after all, so many former friends died in battle, which still made the soldiers under the command of Odovaka reveal a sadness that is difficult to hide; Even Odovaka himself was saddened by the sacrifice of so many brave warriors under his command, the children of the Mainz tribe!

Odovaka is not only a battlefield commander who commands thousands of troops, he is also the leader of the Mainz tribe, and all the warriors of the Mainz tribe are his most valuable treasure; In today's battle, the enemy actually killed more than 12,000 soldiers of the Mainz tribe on the spot, such a loss is simply unheard of by Odovaka.

However, no matter how heavy the casualties are, and no matter what the cost, Odovaka will not be afraid, let alone retreat; Since the enemy wants to conquer the Mainz tribes, let them pile up their lives, the Germanic people have never been afraid of fighting!

The end of the day's fighting does not mean that today's battle is over; The Ulius family was naturally unable to fight again after paying heavy casualties, and the warriors of Odovaka did not have the physical strength to take the initiative to attack.

There is another unit, but it is specially there to fight, and they can continue the battle today, or they can take advantage of the darkness to launch another fierce attack on the enemy; That is the remaining 300 soldiers of the Germanic Night Raid Regiment.

Although there were only 300 soldiers in these night raids, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated; In today's daytime battle, if it weren't for the fact that the soldiers of these night raiding regiments seized the opportunity to surprise when the enemy hoplites counterattacked, the warriors of the Mainz tribe would have paid a much heavier price to achieve such a result, and their merits are obvious to all.

The crux of the matter is that the fighters of these night raiders are not only extremely combative, they are also better at attacking the enemy at night; Vigorous and nimble skills, one-hit fatal attacks, and the will not to fear death all give these soldiers of the night raid group unparalleled combat effectiveness.

More importantly, from the beginning of the Seven Years' War of that year, the Germanic Night Raid Regiment was a special unit specially formed by the Germanic barbarians to conduct night battles; Odovaka's throwing them into a frontal fight during the day was purely overkill, and the sneak attack at night was their battlefield, and it was also when they played their greatest role.

After a day of fierce fighting, the warriors under the command of Odovaka were exhausted physically and mentally, and after a brief meal and drink, they each fell to sleep in a resting place; Since the warriors with strong physique on their side are tired, the exhaustion of the enemy is inevitable.

Therefore, Odovaka decided to take advantage of the enemy's fatigue tonight to launch a night attack on the enemy; Three hundred soldiers of the night raiding regiment with determined faces quickly disappeared into the night under the orders of Odovaka, holding the weapons in their hands tightly.

As the commander of the army of the House of Julius, Flavis had collected countless information about the major tribes of the Germanic barbarians before he officially invaded the region of Agridigutumat; In particular, the intelligence of the Mainz tribe, the Macomani tribe, and the Damm tribe is the object of Flavies's greatest attention.

Facts have proved that many of the data listed by intelligence officers in parchment rolls are still far from the real reality; The combat effectiveness and will to fight of the Germanic barbarian army were not something that could be extracted from the information, and after a day of bloody fighting, Flavis was able to understand what kind of existence the Germanic barbarians really were.

Fierce warriors who are not afraid of death, tacit cooperation with the troops, and unyielding will to die are all admirable qualities, and they are also the qualities that an elite division must have; Unfortunately, these are the qualities of the enemy's army.

Regarding the performance of his family's soldiers, Flavis didn't say anything in front of the soldiers, but he saw it clearly in his heart; If the enemy's performance can be described as shocking, then the performance of his own soldiers can only be described as miserable, and even Flavis could not bear to look directly at the cowardly performance of the hoplites on the battlefield.

The same were the Roman legion hoplites, and didn't the hoplites of the House of Augustus use the same weapons and equipment as the hoplites of the House of Julius? Why was the hoplites of the House of Augustus able to resist the attacks of Hannibal's elite army in the battle with Hannibal, and finally won a brilliant victory for the House of Augustus.

The hoplites of the House of Julius, on the other hand, retreated step by step on the battlefield, and were almost crushed by the numerically inferior Germanic barbarian army; What is it that makes the soldiers of the House of Julius so far apart from the House of Augustus?

Flavies's mind was not only confused, but more worried about his family's future; Out of rejection and fear of the Augustan family, the major families in Rome have been closely united in order to deal with the Augustan family, but can everyone's union really deal with the rapidly rising Augustan family?

Before fighting the Germanic armies of the Mainz tribes, Flavies had confidence in his family's legionnaires; After all, there is no essential difference between the legion of the Julius family and the legion of the Augustus family, except for a slight gap in combat experience, which can be made up by numbers or other means.

More importantly, the Augustus family has only one family, and according to the current intelligence, even if the Julius family has taken the Iberian Peninsula, its total strength is only seventeen legions; The Julius family owned fifteen legions, including six under the command of Calabes.

Originally, Flavis thought that the legions formed by the Gallic barbarian warriors under the command of Calabis were not trustworthy in combat; But after today's battle, Flavies had to admit that the legion under the command of Calabes was perhaps no worse than that of the Julius family, and perhaps even more combat-effective.

However, the legion of the Julius family needs to be reformed, otherwise sooner or later, the gap in the combat effectiveness of this legion will be further widened; However, there is one thing that still reassures Flavis, that is, the Roman power against the Augustus family is not only the Julius family, but the strength of several other families should not be underestimated.

The Marius forces and the Scipio family, which were suppressed in Rome itself, also had a strong force of nine legions; The Brutus family, which gradually expanded deeper into the Greek peninsula, had a huge army of thirteen legions, and everyone knew that the thirteen legions of the Brutus family were only thirteen in name, but the actual size was fifteen legions, and the scale of two of them was too large.

After thinking of this, Flavies's heart was a little more relaxed, so that he did not seem too anxious; After all, no matter how strong the legions of the House of Augustus were, it was impossible to resist the combined attack of all the other Roman forces at the same time. For the Julius family, the Augustus family is not the biggest threat, and how to solve the problem of the Germanic barbarians is a more important matter.

While Flavies was thinking alone in the military tent, the soldiers of the three legions who had fought hard all day also seized the time to rest; The whole barracks was quiet except for the wails of the wounded, and there was no other sound.

In order to guard against a possible sneak attack by the enemy, Flavies also deliberately sent 1,000 hoplites from the Eighth Army, which had relatively low casualties, to serve as night patrols in the barracks; When the free-spirited officers and men of the Eighth Army carried out this training mission, they only patrolled very casually, and there were countless people who were lazy and took the opportunity to sleep.

But Flavis also turned a blind eye to this, after all, the battle during the day today did exhaust these soldiers, and Flavis was not willing to be too harsh on them; Moreover, Flavies did not think that the equally exhausted Mainz tribal army would send a night raider to attack his own barracks.

It is a pity that Flavies still underestimated the will of the Germans to fight, and also underestimated the significance of the existence of the Germanic night raiders; While the trained soldiers were drowsy and lazy, the soldiers of the Three Hundred Germanic Night Raiders quietly entered the barracks of the Julius army and began to assassinate the sleeping hoplites.

When a patrolling hoplite stumbles upon these ghostly enemies, he immediately cries out in terror; After their whereabouts were detected, the soldiers of the night raiders did not fall in love with the battle, but quickly picked up the torches from the braziers around them and threw them at the military tents, and then formed a battle and left, leaving only the Yulius family camp in flames. (To be continued.) )