You will surely feel indignant if you leave your body to a stranger to dispose of at will. Don't you, then, feel ashamed when you leave your spirit at the mercy of a chance encounterer?

- Epictetus (famous Roman philosopher)

Since the barbarian tribes of Salzburg will hold a grand feast tomorrow, it is naturally impossible for Flavies to disturb the laughter and laughter; Flavies then ordered his army to be stationed on the spot. The cavalrymen were also sent out by Flavies to guard and patrol within five miles of the garrison; Ensure that the traces of the army are not discovered by the barbarians.

After arranging the garrison of the army, Flavies began his own plan to train his grandson; Caesar had already been next to Flavis and had access to all the information that Flavis knew, and of course Flavies wanted to use this to test Caesar. After inspecting the temporary camp with Caesar, Flavies led Caesar to a high ground outside the barracks, and then pointed to the barracks below and asked:

"Caesar, you know the information provided by the merchants just now; Tell Grandpa why we should station our army here, instead of immediately speeding up our march and killing the barbarians while they are celebrating the holidays? Also, if you were the commander of this army, what would you choose to do, and why would you do it? ”

Flavis was always testing Caesar, and whenever Flavies would ask Caesar to answer some of his questions from a different level, and Caesar was used to all this; Before Flavies had even asked questions, Caesar had already begun to think habitually about the questions that Flavies asked.

So, after Flavies had asked these questions, Caesar replied as a matter of course: "Grandpa, the reason why we stationed our army here is not to immediately hasten our march and kill the barbarians while they are celebrating the feast; In order to defeat the Salzburg barbarian horde better and with minimal losses, to occupy all of Norikum.

If we quicken our march now, we will reach Salzburg by to-morrow afternoon; At that time, the barbarians were still holding a grand banquet. While it is true that we can kill them by surprise, the barbarians who have drunk are more terrible than the barbarians who have not; They will fight back against us even more fearlessly.

In this way, even if we win, we will suffer considerable losses; However, if we had stopped marching now and had chosen to set off early tomorrow morning, the outcome would have been completely different. The army will be ready early tomorrow morning, and we will march at a fixed pace for a day and a night, and we will be able to reach Salzburg the morning after tomorrow before dawn.

By then, our army will have long since recuperated and regained its best combat effectiveness; And those barbarians, after more than a day of drunken revelry, have long been drunk and unconscious and asleep. Our army does not need to fight fiercely at all, and can easily take over all of Salzburg and capture all those barbarians in their sleep.

However, if I were the commander of the army, I would not have chosen this safe way of attacking; I will choose to lead the army to kill it immediately, fight the drunken barbarians, defeat the strongest barbarians on the battlefield, and then make those barbarians submit to my feet as a conqueror! ”

Caesar first analyzed all that Flavies had in mind in an orderly manner, and then he himself denied this method of attack from the perspective of the main general; And frankly admitted that he would definitely choose a more domineering, more direct, and more bloody way to end the war. Looking at the strong confidence on Caesar's face, Flavies couldn't help but quip:

"Caesar, then tell Grandpa; How dare you guarantee that your army will be able to defeat the drunken barbarians? Moreover, wouldn't your way of fighting bring even more heavy casualties to your army? ”

Caesar had long expected his grandfather to say such a thing, and he said without showing any timidity: "Grandpa, I believe that the army under my command must be able to defeat those drunken and crazy barbarians; Because their commander is Caesar, they will surely win the final victory!

As for casualties, I would rather see my army triumph in a bloody battle than see my army conquered without a fight; The 3,000 elite soldiers born in bloody battles are more valuable to me than the 7,000 soldiers who have not been in battle! If such a bloody battle can give me 3,000 lions, I am willing to pay 4,000 soldiers' lives for it! ”

Caesar's words revealed an indescribable momentum of contemplation of the world, and Flavies must have agreed with Caesar in his heart; But he knew that Caesar could do more than himself, and that was enough! After this grandfather's examination of his grandson, Flavies returned to the barracks with Caesar; Flavies still needs to plan for the upcoming battle.

A day and a night's rest is indeed a rare enjoyment for the army, which has been marching continuously for more than half a month, and every soldier is seizing the time to enjoy a good sleep; The generals also knew that the soldiers under their command were tired, so they ordered the soldiers to put down everything they were doing and go back to the military tent to rest.

The next morning, just after dawn, the soldiers in the barracks got up and began to prepare for the march; The men also prepared a sufficient breakfast for the soldiers, and it was no less hearty than the most important lunch of the day. After finishing this breakfast, which was considered a rare breakfast in the army, Flavies set out for Salzburg with the large army of these two legions in order.

On the march to Salzburg, the cavalry sent out by Flavies encountered four or five tribes, large and small, in succession; The barbarians of these tribes all drank and reveled in their own tribes, a picture of a festive feast. In order to avoid startling the snake, Flavis just kept changing his march route left and right; And there is no 'bothering' the carnival of those barbarian tribes.

When night fell, Flavies let his army eat another sumptuous supper, and then after a brief rest, he began to march again; The speed of the march at night is much lower than during the day, and you can't use too many torches. Flavies could only use two torches for a centurion, and the speed of the march was predictable.

Even so, after most of the night's march, Flavies could already see the roaring bonfire burning in Salzburg in the distance; The light of such a fire was so recognizable at night that Flavis was about to begin to set up his army. On the orders of Flavis, Varus, with his own Sixth Corps, was to attack from Salzburg's left flank.

Cecil, with his own Seventh Corps, was to attack from Salzburg's right flank; The two legions had to surround the whole of Salzburg in a semicircle, and Flavies himself blocked Salzburg's gates with 1,500 cavalry. After the order was given, the two corps commanders each set out with their own legions; Flavis also slowly set out with Caesar and fifteen hundred cavalry.

The barbarians of Salzburg had long since fallen into a dead sleep after a day of revelry and drinking, and even the warriors of the Salzburg barbarian tribes were no exception; You must know that such a grand feast was handed down by the ancestors of the Germanic people, and it was the most sacred and supreme of every Germanic tribe.

Every Germanic man would have a day like this, putting aside everything and enjoying wine and food; Not to mention the ordinary warriors, even the tribal leaders have to enjoy themselves with their people on this day! When Flavis's army surrounded Salzburg, Clyde, the leader of Salzburg's barbarian tribes, was still asleep!

On such a day of revelry, the bold Salzburg barbarians would not close their gates; Their wooden gates were left open, allowing the barbarians to join in their revelry. Unfortunately, it wasn't their barbarian compatriots who had come this time; It's an army from the House of Julius!

Actually, you can't blame the Salzburg barbarians for not being careful; They had no idea that the people of the House of Julius would attack them at such a time, after all, they had imagined that it would take two years for the House of Julius to stabilize their internal situation. Coupled with the deception of those defective spies, the secrecy of the whereabouts of the Julius family's army, the Salzburg barbarian tribe is so tragic.

In this way, Flavis swaggered and led his army through the city gates into the city of Salzburg, and the elite barbarian warriors lying on the huge bonfire square in Salzburg became Flavis's prisoners; By the light of the bonfire, the soldiers of the House of Julius tied up all six or seven thousand armed barbarian warriors to the square.

In addition to leaving half of the legion soldiers to guard the barbarian warriors in the square, Flavies also sent a legion of soldiers to control the four gates and all the important places in the city; Flavis himself took the remaining half of the army directly to the residence of the leader of the barbarian tribe in Salzburg.

When Clyde, the leader of the barbarian tribes of Salzburg, was also tied to the square by Flavies in his sleep, the war, which ended in a ridiculous way, really ended; The movement of the Julius army finally caught the attention of the women of the barbarian tribes who did not drink, but what could they do?

It wasn't until after nine o'clock in the morning that the drunken and sleeping barbarian warriors slowly began to wake up; After discovering the change in front of him, the barbarian warrior who woke up began to break open and curse. This woke up more barbarian warriors, and the chaotic cursing scenes of six or seven thousand people were rare, at least Flavis had never seen them. (To be continued.) )