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- Aesop (Greek fabler, Phrygian)

Arminius was also shocked after receiving Macuy's report on the attack of the enemy cavalry, it was only a few days, the 40,000 troops of Ric Burgess and Iterius were still more than a day away from Mainz City, how could the army of the Empire of Julius come so quickly, could it be that the information of the tragic dead was wrong?

After thinking about it carefully, Arminius firmly rejected the speculation in his heart; It was not a matter of a day or two for the Dead to deal with the Germans, they had never deceived the Germans in anything, how could they have made such a major mistake in such a big matter?

Moreover, the information provided by the Tragic Dead also explained in detail that the Imperial army of Julius led by Caesar would arrive in six days if it marched at a normal pace; If Caesar's army had not marched at a normal pace but at an accelerated pace, it would have been reasonable to reach Mainz ahead of schedule.

The most important thing is that the enemy army that appeared outside Mainz was not the main hoplite of the Julius Empire, but only a light cavalry of several thousand; The cavalry marched much faster than the infantry, and it was also advisable to rush outside Mainz in advance, as long as the enemy's main hoplites had not yet reached the outside of Mainz, and everything did not affect the overall situation.

Whether Arminius was comforting himself or really trusting the Tragic Dead, Arminius chose to trust the information provided by the Tragic Dead, believing that reinforcements from the Trier and Badawi tribes would arrive in Mainz earlier than the enemy's army, and that the Germans would be the victorious side!

It turns out that the development of things really does not depend on human will; When the armies of the Trier tribe and the Badawi tribe were still half a day's way away from Mainz with countless food and grass supplies, Caesar rushed outside Mainz with the main army of four legions two and a half days ahead of schedule and launched an attack on Mainz.

The cities built by the barbarians were always defended by wooden walls, but such wooden walls could not even block the attacks of the ballistas, so how could they exist for more than ten minutes under the attacks of the stone crossbows? This was Caesar's absolute advantage, and any well-defended Germanic barbarian city was as fragile as paper paste under the siege engines of the Julius Empire.

After Caesar led his army to Mainz City, he did not waste time to rest and recuperate, but directly launched a full-scale attack on Mainz City; The hoplites of the four legions surrounded the eastern walls of Mainz and the walls to the northeast and southeast, and the equipment brigades of the four legions began to slowly push all the ballistae and catapults to the front, ready to attack with these weapons at any time.

As soon as all the ballistas and catapults were ready to attack, Caesar gave the order to attack; A gate ballista cannon and stone catapult began a sharp attack, the whistling crossbow arrows can easily shoot the Germanic warriors on the wooden city wall, and the huge stones directly destroy the entire section of the wooden city wall, once the defenders on the city wall are hit, they will turn into a puddle of flesh and mud, and there is no chance to react.

Because Caesar's army was also lightly armed and fast, the crossbow arrows they carried were also extremely limited; After only twenty minutes of volleys, the four legions were depleted of their crossbow bolts and shells.

However, the results of these twenty minutes of equipment attack are also quite good; The eastern walls of the entire city of Mainz have been destroyed, and more than 30 walls have been destroyed, and the hoplites under the command of Caesar can launch the most direct attack on the city of Mainz, and the walls of Mainz can no longer play any role.

In fact, when the defenders of Mainz City were attacked by the enemy just now, not only did they lose the city walls that they could rely on, but even the defenders on the city walls suffered unusually heavy casualties; Of the 10,000 elite Germanic warriors that Arminius left behind in Mainz, 3,000 were elite Germanic archers, and the other 7,000 were Germanic axemen.

Not all of these 10,000 men were deployed on the walls, but 3,000 elite archers and 3,000 axe men were garrisoned on the walls under the leadership of Marcuy; As a result, when facing the attack of the enemy's equipment troops just now, the defenders on the 6,000 city walls were killed by more than 1,000!

The lethal crossbow arrows and unavoidable boulders made it impossible for the defenders on the city walls to effectively reduce casualties; The only thing they can do is to disperse quickly, so that they can dodge the attacks that will kill them.

Even though the Germanic warriors on the walls fled the walls as quickly as they could, they still paid a terrible price under the attack of these weapons and weapons; The cost of more than 1,000 deaths directly reduced the defenders in Mainz by more than one-tenth, and the Germanic warriors who fled the city walls also had many wounded, and the combat effectiveness of the defenders dropped by more than one-tenth!

The most helpless thing for Arminius and Marcui was the destruction of the walls of Mainz, without which enemy forces outside the city could launch a direct attack on the city; And the defenders of Mainz had no choice but to use street fighting to deal with the enemy's strong attack, and there was no better way.

After Caesar ran out of bolts and shells from his ballista, he stopped attacking the stone crossbows that could be used anywhere at the same time; After that, Farius, under the command of Caesar, commanded the soldiers of the Fourth and Tenth Legions and began to attack the city of Mainz.

The officers and men of the 4th and 10th Legions launched an attack on the inner city of Mainz directly over the dilapidated walls; Caesar, on the other hand, continued to command the soldiers of the Eighth and Ninth Legions, quietly watching the attacks of the soldiers of the two legions.

Although Caesar did not know that the 40,000-strong army of the Trier tribe and the Badawi tribe would arrive in Mainz in half a day, this did not prevent Caesar from leaving the army of two legions as a reserve and staying in the rear; From the previous weapon attack, Caesar had already judged that the defenders in the city did not exceed 10,000 at most, and after such a sharp attack, the defenders in the city did not even have 10,000 people.

If the wounded enemy army were removed, Caesar's estimation would never have exceeded 7,000 defenders still intact; Either of the Fourth and Eighth Legions had 6,000 hoplites and 2,000 light infantry, and it was already a crushing attack to attack Mainz with two such legions at once, and there was absolutely no need to invest more in the army.

Judging from the current situation, it is no longer possible for the battle between your own army and the Germanic barbarian army to be the city wall, so the next battle must be a tragic street battle between the two sides; For a combat mode such as street fighting, it is not the case that whoever invests more troops can have an advantage, and reasonable troop investment and tactical choices are much more efficient than blindly investing more troops.

When Farius commanded the soldiers of the Fourth and Tenth Legions into the city, he was immediately met with a frantic counterattack by the Germanic warriors in the city; The Germanic axemen armed with tomahawks used their nimble skirmishers to deal with the hoplites of the Julius Empire, while the elite Germanic archers occupied the high ground in the city and used their bows and arrows to shoot the enemy with precision.

Under the premise of not being able to use tortoiseshell battle formations, the enemy is a skilled Germanic elite archer, and the hoplites of the Julius Empire are not much better than the light infantry in the face of these sharp arrows fired at their vital points from high places; From the beginning of the battle, the defenders of the city had the absolute initiative, and the casualties of the Fourth and Tenth Legions also skyrocketed.

However, Caesar's army had an absolute advantage in numbers, even if the casualties in a short period of time were much higher than those of the Germanic warriors, they could persist in the battle and advance little by little; The number of elite Germanic archers was limited, and so were the arrows they could shoot, especially when the hoplites of the Julius Empire were prepared, and it was even more difficult to shoot the enemy.

Rather, it was the fierce Germanic axemen, who had been slaying the attacking enemy with their razor-sharp tomahawks; In the small spaces of the city's streets, the Germanic axemen inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy hoplites with their nimble battle axes, but their own losses also skyrocketed, and there was a feeling that they had all died.

In fact, the defenders of Mainz had no capital to die with the enemy; Because their numerical disadvantage was too great, as time went by, the army of the Ulius Empire occupied more and more places in the city.

When Farius's two legions paid more than 5,000 casualties, the number of defenders in the city dropped to about 5,000; At this time, there was another force that became an important force to prevent the army of the Julius Empire from continuing to advance.

After the army of Julius occupied about a quarter of the eastern part of the city of Mainz, the young Germans in the city, who had been evacuated by Arminius to the east of the city, took up their own weapons and joined the battle; At least 7,000 young men in the entire city of Mainz took up arms, and spontaneously joined the attack on the Imperial army of Julius attacking the city of Mainz.

These young men in Mainz had no experience in fighting people, and they did not know how to cooperate in battle; However, the difficult living environment of the Germanic land and the militant blood in their bones made these young men have good combat ability, especially since they are also very familiar with the houses and streets in the city of Mainz, which is the most important for street fighting.

With the addition of more than 7,000 fierce young men, the attack of the Imperial army of Julius was completely blocked in place; Not only that, but their casualties are rising at an even faster rate, and they have even been beaten back by the Germanic warriors for a time! (To be continued.) )