For the sake of the seniors, but also for the sake of the younger generations.

- Tacitus (the greatest historian of ancient Rome)

Although the Grace tribe has become the second largest tribe in the Gallic region outside the mountains after the Maasai tribe after a hundred years of expansion, its core force is still the group of villagers who followed Grace at the beginning, and the method of training war mastiffs is also kept within a small range by the descendants of these villagers and Grace's descendants, and is not known to other outsiders.

Even those others who later became part of the Grace tribe were unable to learn the secret of the Grace tribe's core war mastiff training; With other people in the same tribe being so secretive, it is easy for outsiders to get it. There was also a person who learned that the war mastiffs of the Grace tribe especially wanted this training method, and the conflict arose.

The man was no more than the leader of a small tribe, and the Grace tribe did not even send a war mastiff army, but easily defeated the tribe using the regular Gallic infantry that had expanded later; However, the leader of the small tribe who was not willing to give up did not give up, and he told the Maasai tribe leader about the training of war mastiffs by the Grace tribe, and successfully attracted the attention of the Maasai tribe leader.

The Maasai tribe was able to become the largest tribe in Gaul beyond the mountains, and the ambition of its tribal leader must have been no small few; After learning that the Grace tribe had a training method for war mastiffs, they immediately sent an envoy to ask the Grace tribe for this training method. Will the Grace tribe give the Maasai a method of training that was created and handed down from their ancestors? The answer, of course, is no.

On the orders of Grace, the leader of the Grace tribe (each of the leaders of the Grace tribe was a direct descendant of Grace and took Grace's name), the warriors of the Grace tribe expelled this emissary from the Maasai tribe. In the opinion of the current chief of Grace, since his ancestors could escape the pursuit of the Rimon tribe, the largest tribe in the Aquitani region, he certainly did not need to fear any Maasai tribe.

However, this is not the case; The reason why Grace and his villagers were able to escape the pursuit of the Rimon tribe was not mainly due to the strong combat effectiveness of the war mastiff, but the small scale of himself and others who were easy to hide, coupled with the fact that the Rimon tribe was unwilling to pay too many casualties, so they successfully escaped the pursuit of the Rimon tribe and came to the Gaul area outside the mountains.

It is clear that with the formation and expansion of the Grace tribe, the current Grace tribe has lost the advantage of the past; It would be impossible for the Grace tribe, which is tens of thousands of people, to escape into the jungle so easily. Of course, the Grace tribe also has its own samurai army and a larger army of war mastiffs, and its strength should not be underestimated.

It turns out that the gap between the second tribe and the first tribe is still very large; Even with the support of a powerful mastiff army, how can the Grace tribe, which has a total strength of less than 10,000 under the total strength of the whole army, be the opponent of the 20,000 Maasai tribe army?! At the cost of almost half of the men killed and two-thirds of the mastiffs, the Grace tribe managed to escape from the Maasai tribe.

However, after this battle, the Maasai tribe did not dare to pursue the Grace tribe easily; Although the Grace tribe has been defeated, the fierce strength of the thousands of war mastiffs has made even the most fearless warriors of the Maasai tribe feel terrified! You must know that in order to defeat the Grace tribe, the 20,000 army of the Maasai tribe is less than 10,000 people left.

It can be seen from this that the battle mastiffs of the Grace tribe have how strong they are; Even the most powerful Maasai tribe in Gaul outside the mountains did not dare to exterminate the Grace tribe, and what they were afraid of was not the powerful fighting power of the war mastiff? In other words, the hole card that the Grace tribe relies on to survive is this formidable and formidable mastiff army!

After learning so much about the Grace tribe, Carabes's curiosity about the Grace tribe became even stronger; It is undeniable that Grace, the founder of the Grace tribe, is definitely a genius, otherwise he would not have created such a powerful way to train war mastiffs.

In Karabes's opinion, the idea of the leader of the Rimon tribe back then was right, the existence of this war mastiff was definitely a superweapon that could change the situation of the war; With enough mastiffs, this will be a nightmare for any enemy light infantry and cavalry! Horses mounted by light infantry and cavalry, which lacked adequate protective equipment, were absolutely impossible to escape from the attack of an absolute number of mastiffs.

Of course, such a mastiff army is absolutely invincible to the Gallic barbarians, who lack weapons and equipment or are extremely poorly equipped, and can only be stacked for human life; But for the armies of the civilized world, the lethality of the mastiff army is relatively limited. After all, the armies of the civilized world are dominated by hoplites, and the protection of hoplites is not something that a mastiff can handle!

Because of the special topography of Gaul, dense jungles and lush vegetation, the hoplites of the civilized world are not a very useful army; On the contrary, it was the light infantry of the Gauls and such mastiff troops that were more suitable for fighting and exerting their own combat power. This was also the reason why Calabes rejected Flavis' suggestion to allow himself to form hoplites, and insisted on the use of large-scale Gallic weaponry.

Originally, Calabes wanted to gain the support and help of the Grace tribe in order to attack the Maasai tribe; But with the in-depth understanding, Calabes has given up the idea of forming an alliance with the Grace tribe, and how to make the Grace tribe a power in his own hands has become Karabes's new idea.

Just five days later, Brigor and Margelow's spies brought back news of the Grace tribe; According to information provided by some Gallic villages hidden in the jungle, the spies found traces of the Grace tribe twenty miles west of the Gallic Pass between the Alps and the Beyond the Mountains, and they had settled down in the area and began to annex nearby tribes, large and small, in order to regain their strength.

As for the current size and military strength of the Grace tribe, these spies don't know the specific details, but the general situation can still be observed; The entire Grace tribe has a population of about 50,000, and the number of troops will definitely not exceed 5,000, but it will not be less, and the rest is unknown.

Ten miles west of the Alps and the Extra-Gaul Pass, isn't that less than fifty miles from his own military camp? Calabis didn't expect that this Grace tribe would live under his nose, and immediately Calabes ordered Brig and Marglo to lead the Fourth Legion, Kadoradu to lead the Second Legion, and Falkus to lead 3,000 Forest Hunters to march to Grace!

For the generals, attacking a tiny Grace tribe with an army of fourteen thousand and three thousand of the most elite Forest Hunters was a bit of a fuss; But Carabes knew that the reason why he sent such a large army was not to destroy this Grace tribe in one fell swoop, but to take this Grace tribe into use!

Therefore, this expedition to the Grace tribe is not so much a military operation as a military threat; The goal is to force the Grace tribe to surrender to him with absolute strength. With this clear purpose, Carabis led his army to march mightily towards the Grace tribe, without concealing the traces of the army along the way.

Fifty miles was but an hour's march for the Gallic army under Calabes; After all, they were not the armies of the civilized world, they were all natives of Gaul, and they were also Gallic soldiers who were accustomed to the terrain of Gaul since childhood. With such a large march, it was naturally impossible to hide from the people of the Grace tribe, and they began to prepare for it.

The idea of fleeing from here is unrealistic, where a tribe of 50,000 people wants to flee like this; As for the idea of abandoning the tribe to escape on its own, the leader of the Grace tribe would not have thought of it. This is the Chuangqi tribe created by his ancestors, as a descendant of his ancestors, how can he turn his back on his ancestors and flee alone?

You must know that in the hearts of the ignorant Gallic barbarians, the status of ancestors is definitely comparable to that of the gods; Even to a certain extent, the ancestors who left behind brilliant deeds are beyond the gods in the hearts of future generations. In the vast land of Gaul, conflicts and battles between neighboring tribes over the ancestral cemetery were already commonplace among the Gauls; It is enough to prove the status of the ancestors in the hearts of the Gauls.

Now that this Grace has decided to live and die with his tribe, the intense preparations for war have begun; After the battle with the Maasai tribe, the remaining army of the Grace tribe was about 2,000 Gallic infantry and about 2,000 Gallic fanatics, and the rest of the army had already been lost in the battle with the Maasai tribe.

Of course, there is another special force under Grace's command, that is, the last remaining more than 1,000 mastiffs; This is also the last hole card in Grace's hand. It is a pity that such strength is too far from the seventeen thousand army of Calabes; It was simply impossible to resist the overwhelming superiority of Karabes' army.

Soon, Calabess's army slowly appeared less than three miles from the Grace tribe; At this time, in front of the army of Calabis appeared an army of 4,000 people of the Grace tribe and more than 1,000 mastiffs full of wildness and unruliness. They were so quietly in front of the army of Calabes, and they were also guarding in front of their own tribe!

Upon the discovery of this enemy force in front, the Fourth Army Corps, which was in charge of the vanguard, immediately halted its advance; While Brigor ordered Margelow to go to the Chinese army to inform Calabes of the situation ahead, he himself rode his horse to less than two hundred meters in front of the Grace tribe army, and shouted at the Grace tribe army: "Surrender, or destroy!" (To be continued.) )