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Compared with the smooth march of Caesar's army, the army led by Flavies himself was not so lucky; The Mainz tribe in the Agripu Gumat region is not comparable to the Macomani tribe in the Macomani region.

According to Flavies's understanding, the 25,000 barbarian army of the Mainz tribe should be far behind the three legions of the Julius family compared to the army of the three legions; After all, the army of the Mainz tribe was just a poorly armed and poorly coordinated barbarian army, while the army of the Julius family was a well-trained and well-armed elite army.

More importantly, except for General Clyde's Eighth Legion, which was a barbarian army composed of Salzburg barbarians, the remaining Fourth Legion and Ninth Legion were all well-established Ullius family legions; These two legions had a full twelve thousand invincible hoplites, while the barbarian armies of the Mainz tribe had no hoplites in the true sense of the word.

In infantry-to-infantry engagements, the number of hoplites is definitely a key factor in determining the outcome of the war; The difference between the two warring parties, the Julius family, which had a large number of hoplite troops, and the Mainz tribe, who had only poorly armed barbarian soldiers, was simply not to be calculated.

Whether it was the region of Norikum that Flavis himself had conquered not long ago, or the region of Poheim, which Caesar had just conquered, the Barbarian tribes of Salzburg and Lovošice were branches of the same Celts as the Germanic peoples; Since the hoplites of the Julius family played a mainstay role in these two wars of conquest, this time was no exception.

With such preconceived ideas, it was difficult for Flavies to be wary of the 25,000-strong army of the Mainz tribe; In Flavis's opinion, as long as the army of the Julius family was willing to pay some casualties, the army of the Mainz tribe did not have to worry at all, it was just a battle that was predestined for a long time.

But is that really the case? If the Germanic barbarians were really so vulnerable, could they have completely suppressed the once powerful Gallic barbarians? Flavis probably forgot that before Calabis helped the Julius family completely defeat the Gallic army of the famous Gallic general Lugotorix, the Gallic barbarians in the mountains had always been a big problem for the Julius family!

And the strength of the Gallic barbarians in the mountains is more than a star and a half worse than the Gallic barbarians outside the mountains, and the deep meaning contained in this can be completely understood: the strength of the Julius family is on par with the Gallic barbarians in the mountains, and the strength of the Gallic barbarians outside the mountains is not as good as the Gallic barbarians outside the mountains, and the strength of the Gallic barbarians outside the mountains is not as good as the Germanic barbarians.

Of course, such a comparison is also inaccurate; After all, when the Julius family confronted the Gallic barbarians in the mountains, the strength of their family was also very different from the present, and the two were not at all the same.

In addition, the reason why the Julius family has been unable to defeat the Gallic barbarians in the mountains is not that the military strength is inferior to the Gallic barbarians in the mountains, but there are two other very important reasons; The first is that the Gallic barbarians have always had the strong support of the Gallic barbarians outside the mountains, and it was from Gallic outside the mountains that Lugotorix and his army rushed to Gaul to fight against the Julius family.

secondly, that the methods of warfare of the Gallic barbarians were very different from those of the civilized world; In civilized countries, wars are usually fought by two belligerents amassing large numbers of armies and engaging in decisive battles to determine the outcome of the war.

This was not the case with the wars between the barbarians, as with the invasion of the Gallic barbarians against the Germanic barbarians; Even if the Gallic barbarian army occupied the Upper Germanic region of the Germanic barbarians, the Germanic barbarians had no intention of giving in at all, but instead took up arms and fought a national war against the Gallic barbarian army for seven years.

In fact, if it weren't for the Gallic barbarians in the Gallic and Veneto regions of the mountains and the Veneto, they would have been imperceptibly civilized by the Roman Republic; With the character of the Gallic barbarians, even if the Julius family occupied their land, they would not give in, and it was even very likely that they would fight a national war for their own ********** at all costs, just like the Germanic barbarians back then.

It is undeniable that the non-resistance of the Gallic barbarians in the mountains still has a lot to do with the policy of the Julius family without discrimination; In addition, those in power in the Gallic barbarian tribes, large and small, also gained more wealth and privileges under the preferential policies of the Julius family, and they naturally lost the idea of rebelling against the rule of the Julius family.

Without the leadership and support of the tribal leaders, the Gallic barbarians were nothing more than a mess, how could they stand up against the rule of the Julius family? As for the conquest of the Gallic barbarians beyond the mountains, you can just look at the composition of the army under Calabes; The army of Calabes was not so much the army of the House of Julius as the army of the Gallic barbarians.

Whether it was the Gallic barbarian tribes that had already been conquered by Karabes, or the Gallic barbarian tribes that had not been conquered by Karabes; In their eyes, the army led by Carabis was not a Roman army, but a real army composed almost entirely of Gauls, but in the name of the Julius family.

Otherwise, do you think the unruly Gallic barbarians would easily succumb to the rule of the House of Julius? That's simply not possible! If the regular legions of the Julius family had gone to Gaul beyond the mountains to start the campaign, then the Julius family could have won in the end; After all, the difference in strength between the two sides is here, and nothing else can make up for it at all.

However, the time and cost that the Julius family needed to do this was not so easy for the Julius family to accept; It is no exaggeration to say that Calabes was able to conquer the Maasai tribes in the Gallic region outside the mountains and the Rimon tribes in the Aquitani region within a year, and quickly stabilized both regions, while the regular army of the Julius family would have taken at least five years or so to complete.

Even, Calabis was confident that he would conquer all the Gallic barbarian tribes in the entire Gallic land in three years, and it would only take another five years to stabilize all these tribes and make the land of Gaul his own territory completely! And if the Julius family wants to do all this, it is simply impossible without more than twenty years; That's the gap.

Unfortunately, with the successful expansion of Karabes in Gaul, coupled with the successful capture of Norikum, Illyria, and Poheim by the Julius family, they were successful; These easy successes had completely eliminated Flavis's wariness of the threat of barbarians, which was why Flavis decided to wage war against the Germanic barbarians.

In terms of the current situation of the Julius family, Calabes's conquest in Gaul beyond the mountains required a steady stream of materials from the Julius family; In addition to the food, grass, weapons and equipment needed for the army, the newly occupied barbarian areas of Gaul also required the Julius family to invest various materials for construction.

The previously occupied Norikum and Illyria regions are also in full swing of construction; For the Julius family, what was needed at this time was not to expand outwards again, but to concentrate on building the foundations within the Julius family while continuing the advance of Calabes into Gaul.

Human ambition is always boundless, especially at the age of Flavies; At the age of fifty, he has already half a foot in the gates of the underworld, and if Flavies does not get some glory enough to remember in Roman history as soon as possible, his life will be over.

Such a thing is really unacceptable for a tyrant like Flavis; As a result, he had to build up his exploits by constantly leading the Eullius family outward in order to gain more glory and fame.

At the age of thirty-seven, when Flavies succeeded from his father as head of the Julius family, the Julius family was a Roman Republic with only two provincial lands; Even when Flavis was forty-seven years old, nothing changed in this situation, and Flavies did not have any commendable achievements.

Now it is different, in less than three years, the territory of the Julius family has successfully expanded to eight provinces; There are two provinces on the mainland, Regulia to the west of the mainland, Gallic and Veneto to the north, Illyria to the east, Norikum to the north of the Alps, and Gallic beyond the mountains to the west of the Alps.

If we add the newly captured provinces of Aquitani and Caesar's Boheim and Macomani, then the Julius family has a whole eleven provinces; At the time of the Roman Republic, when it was the largest in size, there were only seven provinces, and the Julius family ruled over an area that surpassed the heyday of the Roman Republic!

Flavies' ambition was to expand the rule of the Julius family to more than fifteen provinces during his lifetime; In addition to the six provinces in the southern Alps, Flavis wants to occupy all the Gallic lands of the Gallic barbarians and the Germanic lands of the Germanic barbarians, and create a new future for the Julius family!

There were six provinces in Gaul west of the Alps, and seven provinces in Germania north of the Alps. Coupled with some of the other barbarian forces scattered among them, once Flavis's goal is accomplished, the Julius family will undoubtedly become the most extensive force in the world, and there is no one! (To be continued.) )