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- Heraclitus (a legendary philosopher and a representative of the Efes)

The battle between the invading army of the British barbarians and the Ninth Legion of Aram and the Tenth Legion of Rasini was a true reflection of the current situation of the army under the command of Calabis, and it was also a complete awakening of the army of Calabes, which was gradually lost in comfort; The 60,000 allied forces of the British barbarians used only 8,000 chariot troops and 5,000 cavalry, and the two legions of Aram and Rasini were almost completely wiped out.

By the time Aram and Rasini barely fled with the remnants of their army through the dense jungle to Greater Gaul, their total strength was less than fifteen hundred; Needless to say, it was also the worst defeat of Karabes' army since its formation.

When Calabis received the news from the Mournful Dead that Aram and Rasini had been almost completely annihilated, his army was still in the midst of a nervous build-up; The years of comfortable life not only left the two legions of Aram and Rasini stationed at Samaro Briva in disarmament, but the other legions under the command of Calabes.

With the exception of the First Legion, which had been led by Carabis himself, only Kadoradu's Second Legion and Itami's Third Legion were able to assemble quickly; As for those legions that couldn't even assemble quickly, Carabes didn't dare to guarantee how much the combat effectiveness of those legions could be maintained.

However, the current First Legion is not the First Legion of the past; Under the personal command of Calabes, the size of the First Legion has reached 23,000 people, consisting of 5,000 hoplites, 5,000 forest hunters, 5,000 British warriors, 5,000 Germanic warriors, and 3,000 armed troops.

With the unification of the whole of Gaul, Calabes's attention shifted more from military affairs to internal affairs, and the only thing that could still be noticed by Calabes every day was only the First Legion; This is the main reason for the disarmament of the other legions, as not every legion commander has the same self-discipline as Kadoradu and Itami.

Now that the battle has exploded, there is no point in talking about these things; According to the information provided by the Tragic Dead, Carabis also knew that the invading army of the British barbarians was composed of 60,000 troops of its four tribes, and that this British barbarian army was a fierce rival of Carabis in terms of combat effectiveness and numbers.

In order to better and faster meet the 60,000 British barbarian coalition and retake the fallen Belgian region, Calabes also gave a death order to his commanders; All the seven legions of the Gallic army must arrive in Alesia in the Greater Gallic region within half a month, otherwise the commander of the legion will be dismissed on the spot.

In addition, all centurions and captains who had taken leave to go out must also rush back to their respective regiments within twenty days, and all those who overdue must be put to public in public; It is impossible for Carabis to execute the commanders of the legions under his command who can fight, but he can use military law to strictly bind the centurions and captains of each legion, after all, there are not a few officers of this rank, Carabes.

While Calabis was actively preparing for battle, Aran and Lasini returned to Alesia with the remnants of their army; Calabis looked at the ragged Aran and Rasini, and in the end he did not punish them severely, but only relieved them of their position as commander on the spot, and then asked them to quickly reorganize the ninth and tenth legions in Alesia City.

After six years of exhibition, the whole of Gaul had stabilized; The Ulius Empire behind Calabis gave Calabes a lot of assistance in this regard, which meant that Calabis could expand his army again.

It just so happened that this invasion of the British barbarian army also gave Calabes enough reason to expand the army under his command, after all, the military strength of the British barbarians was there, and it was also a fact that the two legions of Aram and Rasini were almost completely annihilated; Carabis believed that his expansion of the army would be approved by the Julius Empire.

However, this time the expansion of the army Calabis is not willing to increase the number of legions as simply as before, and Calabis wants to comprehensively improve the combat effectiveness of each legion under his command; In recent years, the scale of military battles between various forces has also increased, and even the four major Roman empires have generally increased the size of their respective empires to about 10,000 people.

However, the legion under the command of Calabis has always maintained an establishment of 7,000 men in size, and the difference between 7,000 and 10,000 men is not only a quantitative disparity, but also a disparity in quality; In view of this, Calabis officially decided to expand the strength of his other nine legions to 10,000 in order to increase the combat effectiveness of each legion.

The 9th Legion of Aram and the 10th Legion of Rasini were to be formed directly according to the size of 10,000 men when they were rebuilt, and as for the other seven legions that were about to arrive in Alesia, Calabes recruited 3,000 new men for each of their legions in Greater Gaul; Once the seven legions arrived in Alesia, Karabes could directly replenish them with the newly recruited soldiers.

In this way, the total strength of the ten legions under the command of Calabis would expand from the original 86,000 to 113,000; The addition of 27,000 soldiers without any increase in the number of legions is the best way for Calabes to expand, and it is also a sign that Calabis keeps up with the mainstream of the world in terms of legions.

Compared to the intensity of Carabes and his army, the coalition of British barbarians was much easier; While the British and Irish islands, where the barbarians lived, were not even as rich as the ordinary parts of Gaul, their newly conquered region of Belgium was one of the richest in the entire barbarian world.

In particular, after the Belgian region was under the rule of Calabes, the aid from the Julius Empire also affected the Belgian region and brought new changes to the Belgian region; The current Belgian region is basically a fusion zone of Gallic culture, Germanic culture, and Roman culture, and it is the most prosperous and rich existence in the entire barbarian world.

The barbarians of Britain had never seen such a prosperous city and a rich area, and they had no idea that the place across the sea from the British Island would be such a place similar to paradise on earth; Even if they learned that Balenas had been defeated and died a few years earlier after the capture of Samarobriva, they had no intention of returning to the British Isles.

After all, revenge is just a slogan, and what is more important than revenge is tangible benefits; If Balenas occupies the rich and prosperous Belgian region, then the coalition of the British barbarians is the army of revenge, and if the so-called Karabes occupies this place, then the coalition of the British barbarians is an army of aggression.

The question is, do the British barbarians themselves care about the difference between the two? No, the British barbarians themselves naturally don't care about these subtle differences, all they care about is whether they can get enough benefits.

In the British barbarian mindset, the strong deserve better things, and the weak don't deserve anything good; In fact, this is also the mindset of all barbarians, and the world of barbarians is a world where winners and losers are judged by fists.

The allied forces of the British barbarians, the army under Calabes, have seen it, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it in the words vulnerable; How could such a weak army be entitled to such a rich part of Belgium and such a prosperous city as Samara-Briva, which should be enjoyed by the more powerful Britons.

As for whether the British army should snatch other regions from Calabes, the four commanders of the British barbarian alliance have not considered so much for the time being; They were still busy trying to get as much of the Belgian region and the city of Samara-Briva as they could, and then load them on transport ships and send them all back to Britain proper.

On the day of the fall of Samarobriva, the armies of the British barbarians became unscrupulous bandits; They desperately looted any wealth they could take with them in the city of Samaro Briva, and if anyone dared to resist their raids, they would end their lives with their own weapons, the domineering and predatory British barbarians.

The originally prosperous city of Samaro Briva was completely destroyed by the British barbarians in just three days; Countless civilians who dared to resist the British barbarian invaders were killed on the spot, and their families were killed, and even if you did not resist these brutal invaders, you and your family would have suffered unjustified disasters, probably because your family had grown up uncomfortable for them.

The armies of the British barbarians plundered dozens of transports of gold and silver in the city of Samarobriva, and killed at least a third of the innocent people in the city; Samarobriva went from heaven on earth to hell on earth in just three days.

The tragic fate of Samaro Briva was only the beginning and not the end of the whole of Belgium, and after plundering all the wealth of Samaro Briva, the British barbarian invaders set their sights on other large and small towns in the Belgian region; Even in order to compete for more wealth, the alliance of the four major tribes of the British barbarians was directly divided into four, and each of them looted its own tribe.

At this time, the seven legions under the command of Calabesus finally arrived in Alesia; As soon as all seven legions arrived, Calabis replenished each legion with 3,000 recruits, and then began to gather heavy forces to counterattack the Belgian region! (To be continued.) )8