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

As soon as Caesar's army approached the city of Mainz, he launched an attack on the city, which was defended by 300 warriors led by Ares himself and 15,000 warriors from the Germanic tribes who had not yet completed their training.

With the wooden walls of Mainz, it was impossible to withstand the attack of the Julius legions; However, it is a pity that Caesar's army has already destroyed all the equipment of the three legions on the spot in order to speed up the journey, which means that Caesar does not have powerful equipment to attack the city of Mainz.

In fact, even without those equipment, Caesar could have temporarily built some small ladders to attack the city, but the effect was a little worse; An army of more than 20,000 people could not have been thrown into battle at once, and Caesar's first round of troops was only a few thousand soldiers of Rabinus's Fifth Legion.

Watching Rabinus command the hoplites of the Fifth Legion to attack Mainz with a ladder, Caesar prepared the light infantry around him to charge; Once Rabinus' hoplites could storm the walls and open the gates, the swift light infantry would be the first to attack the walls.

In order to better play the role of the 15,000 Germanic warriors in his hands, and in order to reduce the casualties of these first-time warriors, Ares threw all the 300 experienced and tragic dead soldiers under his command into battle; Each of the Sorrowful Dead Warriors would be the direct commander of fifty Germanic warriors, and the entire army was divided into three hundred such squads by Ares.

Because the city of Mainz was only a small city, the defense of the city walls did not require the full investment of 15,000 troops; Therefore, Ares divided all the three hundred squads into five troops, each consisting of sixty squads and three thousand men.

Of the five troops, four of them were to guard the walls for twelve hours, taking turns to do so, and the remaining were to act as a reserve under the personal command of Ares himself; In the event of an oncoming enemy attack, the defending troops will be reinforced directly by the reserve forces if they suffer heavy casualties, and the other troops will only need to do their own thing.

When Rabinus's Fifth Army launched an assault on the city of Mainz, it was at the time when the Third Army was guarding the walls; In order to cope with the enemy attack, Ares himself sat on the city wall and commanded this force to resist the attack of the enemy hoplites.

In addition to this force to defend the walls, sixty squads of the reserve force were also deployed by Ares near the walls, ready to support the battle on the walls; As for the remaining three troops, they were all resting in the barracks in the city, waiting for new orders.

These Germanic warriors, who volunteered to be recruited, used the most common axes of the Germanic tribes as weapons; Ares also trained them to be melee axemen, which was indeed the Germanic man's best attack.

The hoplites of the House of Julius against the unbattled Germanic axe soldiers are a pure duel between the well-trained civilized world and the bravery of the barbarian world; The two sides fought in a similar number, but in fact, the Germanic barbarian warriors who had always been on the defensive had an absolute advantage, pressing the hoplites of the Julius family.

The daggers of hoplites were far less useful in small spaces than the tomahawks of Germanic barbarian warriors; Although the Germanic warriors had not participated in any formal battles, their instinct for the use of battle axes was astonishing.

In the end, Rabinus's Fifth Legion, after paying the price of nearly a thousand casualties, ended the siege in disgrace; The defenders on the city walls only paid the price of hundreds of casualties, and did not even enter the battle with reserves.

Rabinus, who had withdrawn to Caesar's vicinity, did not explain anything to Caesar, but silently reorganized the soldiers of the Fifth Legion; Seeing that there were only about 2,000 left in the Fifth Legion, Caesar didn't say anything, and directly ordered Varus to lead the Sixth Legion to continue the attack.

The Sixth Army, which had hardly participated in a major battle since the beginning of the war, naturally did not suffer any major losses; The casualties of the various legions attacking the Poheim area were modest and quickly replenished, and the later capture of the Macomani area was also accomplished by Rabinus's Fifth Army Corps on its own.

The Sixth and Seventh Legions did not experience any more fighting, except for the cavalry assault of the Gothic tribes; At present, the Sixth Army still has about 5,500 hoplites in its main army, and only about one-tenth of its soldiers have been lost.

After Caesar's order was issued, Varus led more than 5,000 hoplites of the Sixth Legion to pick up the siege ladders of the soldiers of the Fifth Legion and started a new attack on the city of Mainz; This attack was much sharper than the attack of the Fifth Army.

The soldiers of the Sixth Army, with high morale, attacked the city of Mainz extremely fiercely, and even hit the city wall at one point; However, under the calm command of Ares, coupled with the 3,000 soldiers of the reserve force, the attack of the Sixth Army still did not achieve the expected results, and the casualties paid by it were heavier than those of the Fifth Army.

The Sixth Army, which had 5,500 hoplites, had no choice but to withdraw from the battle, and the number of intact hoplites left was less than 3,500; In other words, in the fierce siege battle, Varus's Sixth Legion also paid the price of 2,000 casualties, almost twice as many as the Sixth Legion.

The total casualties of the defenders on the city wall were only about 1,500; Although today's battle cost the defenders on the city wall a quarter of the casualties, the remaining 4,500 soldiers have rich combat experience and their combat effectiveness has also been greatly improved.

After two successive attacks ended in failure, Caesar did not let Cecil's Seventh Army continue the attack, but abandoned the attack for the day and temporarily camped outside the city of Mainz; In fact, today's battle had convinced Caesar that there were sufficient guards in the city, and he had no intention of continuing to attack the city of Mainz.

For Caesar, attacking Mainz is a one-shot deal, if you can occupy Mainz City at once, you can occupy it as much as possible, and if you can't, you must evacuate quickly; Otherwise, once the pursuers behind him arrived, the own army would be caught in the front and rear.

As for why he was temporarily stationed outside Mainz, that was just Caesar's strategy; In order to confuse the defenders of the city, they will mistakenly believe that their army will surround the city of Mainz and continue to attack. As soon as night falls, Caesar will immediately retreat south with his entire army to the south of the region of Agripugumat to join the main army of Flavis.

The next morning, even if the defenders of the city sensed the withdrawal of the troops outside the city, it was too late to pursue them; I have to admit that Caesar's strategy is still very successful, at least Ares really plans to suspend the attack first and continue the attack tomorrow when the army of the Julius family outside the city really intends.

Not only did Ares not doubt that the enemy army outside the city would give up the siege, but even actively prepared for battle inside the city, preparing for a more fierce attack by the enemy army tomorrow; While Caesar's army was fighting Ares, Odovaka's regrouped army and Flavis' assembled army began a new round of confrontation.

Odovaka, with an army of 42,000, already had the capital to launch a full-scale counteroffensive against the invading army of the House of Julius; And Flavis, who was supported by three new legions in the rear, had an army of 45,000 troops, which was even more numerous.

In particular, the arrival of the three legion equipment brigades gave Flavis the confidence to fight in the field with the Mainz tribal army; Both sides were ready for war, and the battle naturally began.

This time, it was still the army under Flavies that took the lead in the attack; With the 3,500 hoplites of Farius' Fourth Legion as the absolute core, the newly formed Tenth Legion and the Eleventh Legion formed two wings respectively, which was the main attacking force of the Julius family, and Flavis himself followed with the Eighth and Ninth Legions, as well as the Twelfth Legion.

Among them, the Twelfth Legion was a fully manned legion of 10,000 Gallic warriors, while the Eighth Legion had 4,000 hoplites capable of fighting, and the Ninth Legion had 3,000 hoplites capable of fighting; This 17,000-strong army was the reserve force under the personal command of Flavies, and between the main offensive force and the reserve force was an equipment force of 3,000 men.

In the last battle, the Julius family suffered a big loss in front of the Germanic warriors of the Mainz tribe, and this time Flavis wants to use the equipment of the Julius family to let the Germanic barbarians see what the war of civilized people is like!

Odovaka was not a proper commander, he was just a brave warrior; The method he knew how to command a large army was nothing more than the tricks that Ares had taught him, and this time he used the same method of attacking the army that he had used in the last battle.

Even with the assistance of the Eulius family, the Germanic barbarian warriors' fearlessness to death still played a huge role; The warriors of the Gallic barbarians were still more than a step behind the warriors of the Germanic barbarians, and their weapons and equipment were rudimentary, and they did not even have the most basic training, so they were not as good as the hoplites of the Julius family on the battlefield!

For a whole day of fighting, Odovaka's 42,000-strong army was thrown into battle, and a full 35,000 soldiers were finally withdrawn from the battle; And the 45,000 army of the Julius family of Flavis paid the price of 15,000 casualties, and there was no way, who made the performance of those Gallic barbarian warriors really bad! (To be continued.) )