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While Calabes's army was conquering the land of Gaul, Flavies' war against the Germanic barbarians began; In addition to the 1st and 2nd Legions remaining on the mainland and the 3rd Legion stationed in Illyria, the other six Eulius legions will participate in the war and play a huge role.

When a large number of grain, grass and various weapons and equipment were continuously transported to Norikum Province, the various legions ordered to participate in the war were also driving to Norikum one after another; This war was not only another expansion of the Julius family, but also a war that Flavies used to train his own heirs, in which Caesar would play a greater role.

As soon as the six legions were massed in the Norikum area, Flavies made new arrangements for Rabinus's Fifth Legion and Varus's Sixth Legion, as well as Cecil's Seventh Legion.

The Germanic barbarians were a barbarian force slightly stronger than the Gallic barbarians, and they were also more difficult to deal with than the Gaul barbarians; Compared to the frequent infighting between the Gallic barbarian tribes, the Germanic barbarian tribes were much more united.

The Germanic barbarian tribes living in the Germanic lands often broke out between each other in conflicts and contradictions that could only be resolved by force; But in the face of foreign invasion, all the tribes of the Germanic barbarians will unite and work together against the foreign enemy.

The Gallic barbarians used to be the world's first barbarian power with ten major tribes, and later with the increasing civilization of the Gallic barbarians and the Veneto barbarians outside the mountains, and the Regulian barbarians established their own kingdoms; Among the ten tribes of the entire Gallic barbarians, there are only seven tribes that continue to maintain the identity of the Gallic barbarians.

It is the alliance of these seven Gallic barbarian tribes that is still the barbarian power with the largest sphere of influence in the world; In fact, most of the countries of the civilized world did not own the vast lands that the Gallic barbarians possessed.

At that time, the Germanic barbarians were still a weak barbarian force composed of only two tribes! The Germanic barbarians who have lived in the Upper Germanic and Lower Germanic regions for generations have never been a small force in a corner of the country, and they are also powerful beings with outward expansion ambitions and outward expansion strength; It's just that the powerful Gallic barbarians restricted the development of the Germanic barbarians.

With the passage of time, the seven tribes of the Gallic barbarians, who were constantly fighting among themselves, also organized a powerful coalition army and launched a war of aggression against the Germanic barbarians further north; The Germanic barbarians are not soft persimmons to be pinched by others, let alone weak people who will succumb to the strong, they are a true people of courage!

Thus, a war broke out between the Germanic barbarians and the Gallic barbarians; In the early days of the war, the powerful alliance of the seven tribes of the Gallic barbarians won all the way, and the two major Germanic tribes, which were not as strong as the Gallic barbarians, lost their armor and were embarrassed.

In just one month, the armies of the Gallic barbarians completely occupied the Upper Germanic barbarians, and expelled all the Germanic barbarians throughout the Upper Germanic region; In the process of expulsion, it is inevitable that some invaders will massacre and plunder innocent people, which is also something that cannot be avoided in war.

The brutality of the Gauls completely enraged the Germanic peoples, and these already fierce and brave Germanic people united like never before and began to fight a real all-out war against the invading Gauls; For the survival of their people, countless Germanic young men put down their agricultural tools, left their relatives at home, and took up arms to participate in the war with the Gauls.

This protracted war lasted for seven years, and the 100,000 allied troops of the seven barbarian tribes of Gaul finally paid the price of more than half of their lives in these seven years; However, the army of the Germanic barbarians went from less than 20,000 at the beginning to 50,000 seven years later!

The Germanic people, who were all soldiers, taught the invading Gauls a good lesson with their bravery and fearlessness, and also completely failed the wishful thinking of the Gauls; In the last year of the war, one of the largest decisive battles broke out between the Gauls and the Germanic peoples.

In order to win the final victory, the seven tribes of the Gallic barbarians once again increased their troops by 40,000 to the expeditionary coalition army; At this point, the total strength of the Gallic barbarians in the Germanic lands was as high as 90,000, while the Germans still had only 50,000 troops.

The decisive battle between the two sides took place only in Upper Germania, which had been at war for seven years, the homeland lost by the Germans and the lands seized by the Gauls; The life-and-death battle of nearly 150,000 people was the largest and most far-reaching decisive battle in the history of the Gallic barbarians and the Germanic barbarians.

Before the decisive battle began, the leaders of the Germanic barbarian armies had no idea that the Gallic barbarian army had grown from 50,000 to 90,000; In fact, even if they knew, it would not affect their determination to launch a decisive battle, and bravery and fearlessness were the greatest traits and the best qualities of the Germanic people.

As soon as the battle began, the Gallic barbarians took advantage of their absolute superiority in strength to attack the Germanic barbarian army on three sides; The pikemen of the Germanic barbarians, on the other hand, were at the forefront to block the onslaught of the Gallic infantry.

As for the battle on the left and right flanks, it was a bloody battle between the axe men and fanatics of the Germanic barbarians and the warriors and fanatics of the Gallic barbarians; Next, the melee between the two sides, which was not much different in combat effectiveness, was affected by the long-range archers' counterfire.

The thousands of forest hunters painstakingly organized by the Gallic barbarians engaged in fierce fire with the elite archers assembled by the Germanic barbarians with all their might; It turns out that the existence of the Forest Hunter is indeed one of the most powerful archers in the world.

The elite archers of the Germanic barbarians, whose combat effectiveness was far superior to that of ordinary archers, were no match for the forest hunters, and in the battle between the two sides, the elite archers of the Germanic barbarians suffered heavy casualties, while the forest hunters of the Gallic barbarians suffered few casualties.

After having completely routed the elite archers of the Germanic people, the forest hunters of the Gauls turned their attacks to the rest of the Germanic forces; Countless elite warriors of the Germanic people fell in the rain of arrows of the forest hunters, powerless to resist.

Faced with such a dilemma, the leaders of the Germanic barbarians immediately threw their last two ace troops into battle; The five thousand Gothic cavalry, the most powerful of the Gothic tribes, and the five hundred berserkers, where the elite of the entire Germanic barbarians were, were sent out.

The fierce Gothic cavalry quickly tore through the frontal defense line of the Gallic barbarian army, and the Germanic berserkers, who were terrifying in melee, took the opportunity to kill the Gallic barbarian army; With the cooperation of these two elite forces, the army of the Germanic barbarians was able to stabilize the situation on the battlefield and successfully turned from the inferior side to the superior side.

Unfortunately, it was not only the Germanic barbarians who had the trump card troops, but also a large number of elite Gallic warriors and noble cavalry in the Gallic barbarians' army; Although the combat effectiveness of the elite warriors of the Gallic is far inferior to that of the Germanic berserkers, and the combat effectiveness of the noble cavalry is not as good as that of the Gothic cavalry, they are superior in number!

After the Gauls had once again committed all their elite troops, the dominance of the Germanic barbarians was once again suppressed; By this time, the battle had been going on all morning, and the casualties on both sides were very heavy, and there were still 30,000 troops on the Gallic side that had not yet entered the battle, but the Germanic barbarians had already gone all out.

Even after fighting all morning, the two barbarian tribes who had not yet decided the winner were still persevering in the life-and-death struggle; The main ace of the armies on both sides has also been overwhelmed by a staggering number of regular troops, and the battle has returned to flesh and blood.

In fact, the Germanic barbarians were still superior to the Gallic barbarians; Although the armies of the Gallic barbarians almost always dominated the battle, their casualty numbers were much higher than those of the Germanic barbarians.

However, the Gallic barbarians, relying on their absolute numerical superiority, firmly controlled the initiative on the battlefield; If nothing else, this battle for the survival of the Germanic barbarians should be the final victory of the Gauls.

But when it comes to accidents, there will always be accidents, and this time is no exception; Just when the Germanic barbarians were fighting more and more, and were even on the verge of being completely surrounded, the left and right flanks of the Gallic barbarian army slaughtered a huge Germanic army at the same time!

In order to win this war that decided the life and death of the Germanic tribes, the leaders of the Germanic barbarian tribes had already pulled out all the young and middle-aged people who could go to the battlefield, and even those who were old had to take up arms for the survival of the nation.

So the question is, where did this sudden army come from? It turned out to be a large army of wives of those Germanic warriors who had died in the war against the Gallic barbarians for seven years; These Germanic barbarian women, in order to protect their people and tribes, and also to avenge their husbands, resolutely took up arms and went to the battlefield.

The sudden arrival of tens of thousands of Germanic female warriors completely changed the situation on the battlefield; The Gallic barbarian army, which was besieged on both flanks at the same time, quickly collapsed, but the main Germanic army in the encirclement seized the opportunity and launched a decisive counterattack!

Even the women have gone to the battlefield, what reason do the warriors of those Germanic tribes have not to fight to the death? In the end, the decisive battle was won at the cost of more than 30,000 casualties paid by the Germanic barbarians, while only a few thousand of the 90,000 troops of the Gallic barbarians were able to return to the territory of the Gallic barbarians, and the rest were killed by the pursuing Germanic people in retaliation. (To be continued.) )