"Chapter 665: The Decisive Battle in London"
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Even if things happen and develop the way they want, the world will not get any better.
—Heraclitus (a legendary philosopher and a representative of the Efes)
The 30,000 troops reinforced by the Diwa and York tribes were not an elite division, and the main composition was the most common British infantry among the British barbarians; But anyway, that's a whole army of 60,000, isn't it?
With the reinforcement of this 60,000-strong army, the total strength of the London tribes directly into battle is as high as 100,000; In addition to the heavy casualties paid in the port area before, the London tribe also gathered 20,000 troops in Upper Britain, and the more than 20,000 elite troops that really belonged to the London tribe were the core combat strength of the 100,000 army.
Of the 20,000 troops, there were 8,000 chariot troops composed of light and heavy chariots, plus 8,000 British warriors and 6,000 British elite warriors, which was all the combat power that the London tribe could use.
From gathering 15,000 elite divisions to cross the sea to expedition to the mainland, to the almost total annihilation of the 20,000 garrisons in the port area, to the counterattack on the port, and paying the price of 20,000 soldiers killed; In just a few months, the London tribe lost 55,000 soldiers.
The crux of the matter is never that the London tribe lost 55,000 soldiers, but that all these 55,000 soldiers were from the elite division of the London tribe; Even if the London tribe is the most powerful tribe among the four great tribes of the British barbarians, and it is also the most powerful tribe in terms of military strength and overall strength, it can't afford such a loss!
After three successive large-scale losses, there were only more than 20,000 troops left in the hands of the tribes of London; If it hadn't really fallen to such a point, how could the tribes of London have turned to the Diwa tribe and the York tribe for help.
While the tribes of London were doing their best to gather more troops, the six legions of Calabes' follow-up army also landed smoothly in the ports of Upper Britain; With the arrival of this 60,000-strong army, the army under Calabes's command also reached 90,000 people, which was not much more than the army assembled by the London tribes.
In fact, when Carabes led his army to counterattack the Belgian region, these legions had paid quite heavy casualties in the battle to encircle and annihilate the British barbarian army; In order to completely annihilate the 30,000 British barbarian army of the Diwa and Tara tribes, the army under the command of Karabes paid at least 15,000 casualties.
The vacant establishment of these soldiers who died in the war naturally had to be replenished, and the additional soldiers were young men from the Belgian region who volunteered to join the army; These young men lost their families when the British barbarian army invaded, and they had an unforgettable hatred for the British barbarians, and they wanted to join the army of Carabes to avenge their family.
Only a soldier with firm conviction can become a qualified soldier on the battlefield, and can also play a more important role on the battlefield; For these young men with a strong desire for revenge, it is naturally impossible for Karabes to refuse their joining.
All the vacancies of 15,000 soldiers have been recruited in the Belgian region; This can't help but make the army under the command of Karabes full of a strong desire for revenge and war, and this kind of atmosphere is exactly what Karabes wants to see.
No matter how heavy the price was to be paid in this war of conquest against the barbarians of Britain, Calabis insisted that he would be victorious; Even if the soldiers of the other seven legions are not able to perform well enough on the battlefield, the mighty First Legion can show the British barbarian armies what a true elite army is.
After the previous battles, the soldiers of the First Army also paid some small casualties; But when accumulated, these casualties were enough to reduce the strength of the First Army from 23,000 to 21,000.
Before returning to Alesia, Calabis did not intend to recruit new recruits to join the First Legion at will, and the combat effectiveness of the First Legion has always been Carabess's main concern; If it weren't for Calabess's strict requirements and vigorous devotion to the First Legion, how could there be the invincible First Legion now?
Why did the other ordinary legions have only 10,000 soldiers, while the 1st Legion has an army of more than 20,000; From the beginning to the end, Calabes did not see the First Legion as an ordinary army, the First Legion was the brainchild of Calabes.
It is no exaggeration to say that with the current size and combat effectiveness of the First Legion, let the First Legion deal with the three full legions of the Julius Empire at the same time, and the final winner will be the First Legion of Calabes; Karabes's requirement for the First Legion was that the increase in the number of legions must bring about a multiplied increase in combat effectiveness, which was also strictly controlled by Karabes himself.
With the powerful First Legion as the core combat force, Carabes naturally did not have any concerns about the battle on the British Isle; Once all the legions had been assembled, Carabis left the 6,000 men of the Fifth Legion to guard the port, and he led the remaining seven legions to the heart of the London Horde.
Although the London Tribe's army suffered a heavy defeat in the counterattack on the port, this did not mean that the London tribe gave up the counterattack on the port area; While the London tribe did everything they could to gather more troops to counterattack the port, they also left a large number of spies to observe the movements in the port.
It was naturally impossible for the two armies that landed one after another to hide from these spies, and the information that Carabes personally led the army to advance to the core area of the London tribe was also sent to the London tribe in time; After receiving this information, the London tribes did not immediately send troops to meet the deep army of Calabes, but decided to set the decisive battle on the plain south of the city of London, where the London tribe was located.
Since the enemy wanted to attack on the expedition, the leaders of the tribes of London were to meet the enemy's attack with a strong battle; In order to be able to prepare for battle in advance, the leader of the London tribe also divided the 100,000 troops now stationed outside London.
Eight thousand British warriors and six thousand elite British warriors belonging to the London tribes, as well as twenty thousand British infantry from other tribes in Upper Britain, would serve as the absolute central main force in the decisive battle; The 30,000 troops from the York tribe and the 30,000 troops from the Diwa tribe will serve as the two wings of the main army, and the last 8,000 chariot troops will be the trump card force in the decisive battle.
In fact, as long as the London tribe is given another half a month, the leader of the London tribe still has the confidence to gather another 10,000 or so British infantry in Upper Britain; However, since the enemy chose to attack first, the army of the London tribe could only meet it with all its might.
Compared to the dense army of the London tribes, Calabes is much more laid-back; The huge strength of the seven legions was divided into two parts by Calabes, and the main army in the center was naturally the first legion directly under Calabes, the left flank was Brigo's fourth legion and Anelin's sixth legion and Aram's ninth legion, and the right flank was Tusus's seventh legion and Allah's eighth legion and Rasini's tenth legion.
This combination was relatively balanced for Calabes's army, especially the armies on the left and right flanks, which were more than a step inferior in combat effectiveness to the First Army of the Chinese army, but they were superior in numbers; The rebuilding legions of Aram and Rasini were divided into the left and right wings, and under the leadership of the other two legions on both flanks, they would not fight too badly.
Carabes's demand for this battle was to win the battle and completely destroy the London tribe, the most powerful of the British barbarians; As for the casualties on his side, Carabis was ready to kill and wound more than half of them before he set out for the battle, and the phrase "one will be successful" is not just talking, it is the law of the battlefield summed up with countless blood and tears.
When Carabes's army entered within twenty miles of the city of London, the formation that was originally advancing in corps units quickly turned into the battle formation that Carabis had already arranged; The First Legion led by Carabis himself remained in the center of the army, while the other six legions quickly turned to the left and right flanks and spread out horizontally to meet the enemy.
After advancing ten miles further, the 100,000-strong army of the London tribe slowly appeared in Karabes's line of sight; Carabis didn't expect the tribes of London to be able to assemble an army of 100,000, but he didn't think there was anything wrong with that.
In Carabes's view, it was absolutely impossible for the 100,000 British barbarian army to be assembled in Upper Britain, and there must have been assistance from the British barbarian tribes in other regions; In this way, as long as his army can completely annihilate the 100,000 army in front of him, it should be impossible for the entire British island to gather such a huge army to resist his own army.
After the army had advanced to a distance of only five hundred meters from the enemy, Karabes ordered the army to stop advancing and organize a defensive formation on the spot; How could the leader of the London tribe give Calabes's army time to rest, and he immediately ordered his more than 90,000 troops to launch an attack on Calabess's army on all fronts!
The left and right flanks of Calabes were still separated from the First Army of the Chinese Army by some distance, and the left and right flanks of the British barbarian army also went directly to the left and right flanks of Calabes's army; Only the 34,000 troops in the middle rushed towards the soldiers of the First Army, and the soldiers of the First Army naturally used their sharpest attacks to meet the enemy.
The Forest Hunter took the lead in a salvo of arrows under the command of Falkus, and the Germanic warriors also came to the left flank of the Forest Hunter under the leadership of Iophes, and on the right flank were the five thousand British warriors led by Marglow, and only the hoplites remained in front of the Forest Hunter under the leadership of Aminos; At this time, the soldiers on the left and right flanks also fought with the warriors of the British barbarians. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.