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Carabes's reorganization of the First Legion was, in the final analysis, to use the more sophisticated weapons and equipment sent by Flavis to improve the combat effectiveness of the First Legion; The original First Legion had 3,000 heavy infantry and 3,000 forest hunters, as well as 4,000 youth troops.

Whether it was the 3,000 heavy infantry who played the mainstay role in several major wars, or the 4,000 young soldiers who fought bravely on the battlefield, they all used the old Roman standard weapons and equipment that had been eliminated by the Roman powers; Although these weapons and equipment were very sophisticated compared to the armies of the Gallic barbarians, they were backward to the armies of the Roman powers.

The reason why Carabis chose to let his legion's light infantry use the weapons and equipment of the youth army was also to better play the combat effectiveness of these light infantry; It turns out that the light infantry with the weapons and equipment of the youth army is indeed more combat-effective.

However, the choice of weapons and equipment of the 3,000 heavy infantry was simply a helpless move; The standard weapons and equipment used by the regular legions of the Julius family were more sophisticated hoplite weapons and equipment, and they were also weapons and equipment that Carabis could not obtain.

And the hoplites are the key force in the decisive battle of the infantry on the battlefield, and Carabis can't let his army not even have hoplites; As a result, Calabes had to find some weapons and equipment of the old Roman heavy infantry from the warehouse where the Julius family had eliminated weapons and equipment, and formed a heavy infantry of 3,000 men for his First Legion.

Now that Flavis has finally become generous, he has not only sent a large number of old weapons and equipment, but also sent a complete regular army of weapons and equipment, and Calabis naturally wants to make good use of these weapons and equipment to improve the combat effectiveness of the First Legion.

The replacement of the 3,000 heavy infantry of the First Legion with the finest Roman legion-standard weaponry was only the first step, and the sheer number and power of the equipment were what Calabess valued most; When Karabes saw the forty-eight ballistae and the twelve stone catapults, the surprise in his heart was indescribable!

In Carabess's opinion, after the First Legion under his command has these powerful weapons, the overall combat effectiveness can definitely be raised to a higher level again, becoming a real elite division with both offense and defense, and also an invincible lion in a hundred battles!

The catapults, which were too large to be transported, were extremely inconvenient to transport in the jungle-strewn land of Gaul, and Calabes did not intend to incorporate them into his First Legion, but left all the catapults in the city of Marseille for the time being; The rest of the ballistas were formed into a special ballista brigade by Karabes, which belonged to the First Legion.

This ballista brigade, in addition to having a full forty-eight ballistas and the men who operated them, also had a special protection force, consisting of two thousand newly recruited Gallic warriors; In addition, Karabes equipped each ballista with four horses, which were used to tow the ballista forward and transport the bolts and shells.

With the formation of this ballista brigade, the First Legion of Calabis had thirteen thousand men, almost twice the strength of the other legions; As for the combat effectiveness, it is even more incomparable to the two ordinary armies!

After the reorganization of the First Army was completed, Calabes entrusted all the affairs of Gaul beyond the mountains to Kadoradu and his Second Army; After that, Calabes personally led the First Legion to the border region and joined the other three legions to fight against the Rimon tribe.

Among the three legions of Calabes's expedition against the Rimon tribe, the first legion is a multi-class composite legion, and it is also the most powerful army; Itami's Third Legion was a pure cavalry corps, consisting of two thousand Gallic cavalry and five thousand elite Gallic cavalry; Brig and Magglo's Fourth Legion consisted of 7,000 mountain infantry from the Alpine tribes.

Although the 7,000 men of the Fourth Army were nominally so-called mountain infantry, they sounded like units specialized in mountain warfare; However, its own strength is still very strong, and the 7,000 mountain infantry also have the combat effectiveness of Gallic warriors, but the Alpine tribes used to live in the mountains, so they are called mountain infantry.

The most special is naturally Grace's Fifth Legion, that is, the newly formed War Mastiff Legion; Karabes asked the Grace tribe to use the war mastiff training method they were good at to train a powerful army of war mastiffs, and the entire war mastiff army had a total of five brigades of war mastiffs, a total of six hundred and twenty-five war mastiff trainers!

Don't underestimate the mere six hundred and twenty-five war mastiff trainers, they are skilled trainers who can control a considerable number of war mastiffs at once; It is no exaggeration to say that the 2,000 Gallic warriors and 2,000 Gallic fanatics of the Mastiff Legion are just the guards to protect these mastiff tamers, and these tamers are the core of the entire Mastiff Legion!

The grievances and hatreds between the Grace tribe and the Rimon tribe do not need to be repeated, and this expedition to the Lemon tribe is a real revenge battle for Grace's mastiff legion, and their enthusiasm is naturally extremely explosive.

In addition to the special existence of the war mastiff, the combat strength of the war mastiff regiment is 4,000 men, plus 13,000 men of the 1st Legion, 7,000 men of the 3rd Legion, and 7,000 men of the 4th Legion; The total number of troops on the expedition of Calabis is 31,000, and the Rimon tribe, which is holding a bonfire feast, has an army of 50,000 and is slowly growing!

On the face of it, Calabess's army was at an absolute numerical disadvantage, after all, it was a huge gap of 20,000 soldiers, not a gap of 2,000 men that could be easily bridged; However, the army of Karabes had an even more absolute superiority in quality!

Of the 31,000 troops under the command of Calabes, the cavalry troops and the mastiff troops were not counted for the time being, and in terms of pure infantry, 13,000 Gallic warriors and 2,000 Gallic fanatics, and 3,000 elite Gallic warriors, plus the more elite 4,000 youth troops, 3,000 hoplites, and 3,000 forest hunters; This power is not something that any Gallic barbarian tribe can hold.

Comparatively speaking, among the 50,000 troops of the Rimon tribe, the most elite were only 2,000 elite Gallic warriors and 1,000 Gallic noble cavalry; Even the Gallic warriors with good combat effectiveness are less than 10,000 in total, and the rest are just those Gallic infantry that have been improvised together, and their combat effectiveness and will to fight are relatively poor.

On the whole, the overall strength of the army of Calabes and the army of the Rimon tribe is also roughly comparable; Even Calabess's army is a little more powerful, after all, the role of elite troops is more valuable than that of ordinary troops with a larger number, especially before the difference in numbers between the two sides has not reached a certain level, and the possibility of elite troops winning more with fewer is higher.

This is only to a general extent, and if we add to this the command of Calabes and the special role of the mastiff troops, the balance of victory is tipped in favor of Calabes's army long before the war begins; At this time, the army of the Rimon tribe was still immersed in their endless bonfire feasts, and even the leader of the Rimon tribe, Vaktiza, was no exception.

The tradition of the Gallic barbarians is that the tribal leader leads the army into battle, and bravery and aggressiveness are also necessary for every Gallic barbarian leader; Whether it is the leader of the seven most powerful tribes in Gaul, or the leaders of those small tribes with a population of no more than a thousand, they must be recognized by the tribe as warriors, and they are also one of the most powerful warriors of the tribe, which is the survival law of the Gallic barbarians.

Perhaps, even in the land of Gaul, where the level of civilization is underground and the level of scientific and technological development is backward, there are times when wisdom is more important than force; However, the survival law of the Gallic barbarians determined that only force could ensure the strength of a tribe, and only force could continue the survival of a tribe, which also became the ability that every tribal leader must have.

This time, the Rimon tribe recruited warriors from all the small and large subordinate tribes throughout the Aquitani region, and most of the warriors of the tribes came under the leadership of their respective chiefs to obey the orders of the Rimon tribe; For those small and medium-sized tribes with a population of less than 10,000 and no more than 1,000 warriors, the leader of the Rimon tribe, Vaktiza, could naturally be handed over to those elders to receive.

However, for those large tribes with a population of more than 10,000 and more than 1,000 warriors, how could Vaktiza, who is a tribe of Rimon, not receive them in person? This was not just a matter of propriety, but a means of maintaining relations between the Rimon tribe and the other major tribes of the Aquitani region; In the world of the Gallic barbarians, there are not a few examples of wars for the sake of such a matter of face.

Even those large tribes are nominally subordinate tribes of the Rimon tribe, but their respective strength is not weak; If the Rimon tribe wants to secure its supremacy, in addition to enhancing its own strength, it is also necessary to encircle these tribes.

Therefore, after the leaders of these tribes led thousands of warriors to the Rimon tribe, Vaktisa, as the leader of the Rimon tribe, naturally wanted to personally host a banquet to entertain these friends who came from afar; With the increasing number of leaders and warriors of the Rimon tribe, the entire Rimon tribe has become almost a sea of joy.

However, under such a superficial joy and harmony, there are also various crises; What was the greatest weakness of the Gallic barbarians? It was the inefficient farming methods and the extremely limited hunting harvest that severely limited the development of the entire Gallic barbarians; The problem of food shortage, or food and clothing, is the natural enemy that every tribe of the Gallic barbarians needs to face!

This time, it was the powerful Rimon tribe that recruited the warriors of various tribes in the Aquitani region to participate in the attack on Gaul outside the mountains, and it was naturally impossible for the warriors of the various tribes who came to reinforce it to carry their own grain and grass materials, which was also the tradition of the Gallic barbarians, and the Rimon tribe had to provide the food and grass materials needed by these reinforcement warriors; Then the problem is, the Rimon tribe simply doesn't have so much food and grass materials! (To be continued.) )