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After the Germanic barbarians won a great victory in the counterattack against Caesar's army, they also did not have enough strength to carry out a large-scale counterattack on Caesar's army; Coupled with the dissuasion of the tragic dead soldiers, the coalition of Germanic barbarians had to temporarily abandon the counterattack on the Julius Empire.

Later, the Ulius Empire was indeed mired in infighting as Ares expected, and the Germanic barbarians did not send troops to stimulate the Ulius Empire when the Ulius Empire fell into infighting, but hurried to recover their own strength.

At this time, the Germanic barbarians had successively lost four traditional spheres of influence, including the Macomani region, the Kadi region, the Gothic region, and the Saxon region, not counting the Boheim region, which was occupied back and forth by the Julius Empire and the Germanic barbarians; Even so, the strength of the Germanic barbarians should not be underestimated, and they also have the Upper and Lower Germanic regions and the Agridigumat region.

Among the three regions, the Upper Germanic and Lower Germanic regions are the true birthplaces of the Germanic barbarians, and the Agridigus Gumat region is also considered to be the prosperous place of the Germanic barbarians after the Kadi region; As long as the Germanic barbarians firmly held the Julius Empire to the east of the Agripgumat region, the Germanic barbarian alliance did not necessarily have the possibility of turning defeat into victory.

Even in the unlikely event that the Germanic barbarians would be able to maintain their rule over the last three regions, ensuring that the Germanic barbarians would not be wiped out by the Julius Empire; In fact, with the strong help of the tragic dead soldiers, the strength of the Germanic barbarian alliance is also growing rapidly, at least it has been qualitatively different from the previous Germanic barbarian army.

After several months of rapid recovery and development, the number of the Germanic barbarian coalition also exceeded 100,000; But the basic premise of their ability to assemble such a large army was that they could have Karabes, a secret ally, to help them hold the rear.

Once Carabes's army had to be withdrawn from Gaul, and the six legions of Julius's empire were stationed in Greater Gaul and Belgium, the Germanic barbarians would not have a good time; Because they had to defend not only Caesar's army in the region of Agridigumat, but also the armies of the Western Front of the Empire of Julius in the Upper and Lower Germanic regions.

In this way, the 100,000-strong army that the Germanic barbarian coalition had managed to accumulate would fall apart in an instant; Ric Burgess, the leader of the Trier tribe in Upper Germania, and Atrilius, the leader of the Badawi tribe in Lower Germania, will immediately return to the Trier and Badawi tribes with their respective 20,000 troops.

The Germanic barbarian coalition led by Arminius and Odovaka had only 60,000 troops left at most, and Caesar's army still had a huge strength of ten legions after being drawn away from two legions; Coupled with the fact that the Julius Empire was already massively replenishing Caesar's army, it would soon have an army of 100,000 on the eastern front of the Germanic barbarian alliance.

It was not difficult for the Julius Empire to station large armies on the eastern and western fronts of the Germanic barbarians at the same time, the strength of these sixteen legions was far from the limit of the Julius Empire, and it was impossible for the Germanic barbarians to form more armies to deal with it.

This is why it was crucial for Carabes to prepare 60,000 British barbarian captives for the Germanic barbarians, if Carabes did not make arrangements for the Germanic barbarians before he left Gaul with his army; If the Germanic barbarians were indeed wiped out by the Julius Empire, then the territory of the Julius Empire in the Germanic lands would be connected to the Gallic lands.

If such a thing had happened, Caesar's ten legions would have been joined by the six legions deployed by Julius in Gaul; With Flavis' attention to Caesar, the six legions of the Julius Empire in Gaul will definitely be assigned to Caesar's command, and even Caesar will become the rightful Germanic governor and governor of Gaul of the Ulius Empire.

Caesar was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and even Calabes had to admit that Caesar was indeed a genius; If Julius's imperial army, commanded by Caesar with sixteen legions, was stationed in the Germanic and Gallic lands, Carabis could not guarantee that his fifteen legions would be able to defeat Caesar's sixteen legions.

In order to avoid such a situation, Carabis could only strengthen the Germanic barbarians as much as possible before he led his army out of Gaul; Sixty thousand captives from the British barbarians, it is not too much to say but it is definitely not too little to say less, as long as the Germanic barbarians can make good use of this power, it is absolutely impossible for the Julius Empire to destroy the Germanic barbarians in the short term.

Two months later, the five regiments of recruits and thirteen garrisons under the command of Carabes had all been formed and engaged in intensive training; Carabes, who had time to spare, used his First Legion to escort 60,000 British barbarian captives into the Upper Germanic region and advance towards the Trier city of Trier.

The leaders of the Germanic barbarians had received the news of Calabes' Death of the Dead more than a month earlier, and Arminius was shocked to learn that the six legions of the Empire of Julius would be stationed in the western part of the Germanic people in nine months; The leader of the Trier tribe, Rike Burgess, and the leader of the Badawi tribe, Itrilius, were even more bitter and ready to lead the army back to the defense.

This time, it was Hades who stood up to solve the problems of the Germanic people, and Hades had already learned about the 60,000 British captives brought back by Carabes, and he also understood what Carabes's plans were; Hades then went to Mainz himself and informed the leaders of the Germanic barbarians of Calabes's plans.

In fact, Carabes's idea was also very simple, that is, to let the Germanic barbarians persuade the 60,000 British barbarians to join the Germanic barbarian alliance as a barbarian; As long as these 60,000 British barbarian captives joined the Germanic barbarian coalition, the current crisis of the Germanic barbarians could easily pass.

Ric Burgess, the leader of the Trier tribe, and Atrilius, the leader of the Badawi tribe, each had to return to the Upper and Lower Germanic regions with an army of 20,000 men each; Recruit 10,000 Germanic warriors in the areas ruled by their respective tribes, so that the Trier and Badawi tribes would each have a Germanic army of 30,000.

As for the fact that the Germanic barbarians could not get enough food for now, Carabes would provide the two tribes of Upper and Lower Germania with enough food for an army of fifty thousand each for a year before he left with his army; When the time comes, the Trier tribe and the Badawi tribe will each collect 10,000 British barbarian captives, and the two tribes, with a full army of 40,000 and sufficient food, will not be able to stabilize the situation?

The combined Germanic barbarian army stationed in the region of Agripumat, led by Arminius and Odovaka, lost the 40,000 armies of the Trier and Badawi tribes, and left only 60,000 Germanic warriors; But as long as they could integrate 40,000 British barbarian captives into the coalition army, the size of the coalition would return to 100,000 again.

In the same way, Calabes would provide enough food for a year's army of 100,000 men in the region of Agritic Gumat before the army left Gaul; With the selfless assistance of Calabes, the three-way army of the Germanic barbarians can definitely support more than two years, after all, they themselves also have a certain production capacity, and they can also provide a lot of food.

After this arrangement was completed, if the Julius Empire wanted to attack the Germanic barbarians from both the east and the west, Carabis would use more special methods to help the Germanic barbarians if necessary; For example, as soon as the army of Julius Empire stationed in Gaul crossed the border, a large-scale rebellion broke out in the Gallic land behind them, which was all that Calabes could do.

Of course, Carabis did his best to help the Germanic barbarians not for the sake of so-called friendship, he just used the Germanic barbarians against the army of the Julius Empire, so as to prevent the army of the Julius Empire from uniting the Germanic lands with the Gallic lands.

However, no one can deny that Calabes's aid was still vital to the Germanic barbarians; Without the great assistance of Calabes, the Germanic barbarians would not have been able to withstand the two-sided attack of the Julius Empire.

Frankly speaking, Carabis could not actually take out so much grain for free to supply to the Germanic barbarians, how could he have so much grain with the productivity of the land of Gaul; It's just that in order to stabilize the situation of the Germanic barbarians, Carabes deliberately risked this large amount of grain obtained through the Augustan Empire, and the Augustan Empire, which had the Kingdom of Egypt as a grain base, was not lacking in this food.

Regardless, Karabes's help was something that everyone in the Germanic barbarians was grateful; This time, when he received the 60,000 British barbarian captives sent by Carabes, Arminius, the most respected of the Germanic barbarians, also came to the city of Trier of the Trier tribe and personally expressed his gratitude to Carabes, who had generously helped him, and Carabis accepted Arminius's gratitude.

After this handover, in order to avoid attracting the attention of Julius's Empire, Carabess led the First Army and quickly withdrew to Greater Gaul; The leaders of the Germanic barbarians began to persuade the British barbarian captives to surrender, after all, they were all barbarians, and the British barbarian captives soon all became Germanic barbarian warriors.

With these 60,000 captives from the British barbarians, the total number of Germanic barbarian armies in the region of Agridigumat exceeded 100,000 again, and the armies of the Upper and Lower Germanic regions also numbered 40,000; The strength of the entire Germanic barbarian alliance has been improved by leaps and bounds! (To be continued.) )