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

At the time of the decisive battle two days ago, the total number of troops invested by Carabis and the British barbarians was as high as 200,000, but the total number of troops invested by both sides in this decisive battle dropped to more than 100,000; If nothing else, today's battle will determine the outcome of the two armies.

Under the orders of Calabes, the officers and men of the First Legion attacked the enemy of the British barbarians with their most high-spirited posture; And the central army of the British barbarians also launched a-for-tat charge, and they wanted to prove their bravery with the blood of their enemies.

Although the soldiers of the First Legion were absolutely inferior in numbers, their quality was far superior to that of the British barbarians; It is impossible to put all the soldiers into battle in an instant, and there are always more than 10,000 people who are really at the forefront of the fight, and this is still the number of people who are both the enemy and the enemy who are engaged in the actual battle.

The other soldiers rushed to the front to continue the battle after the soldiers at the forefront fell, and this situation was still more favorable to the soldiers of the First Legion, and their numerical disadvantage was too great; Of course, the British barbarian armies were too densely packed together, which also provided the forest hunters with more targets for the rain of arrows, allowing them to kill and damage the enemy army more effectively.

As soon as the soldiers on both sides of the central battlefield fought, they fell into an extremely fierce battle, and the battle on the left and right flanks was even more intense; This time, the leader of the London tribe did not hide his chariot troops anymore, but directly threw his chariot troops into battle at the beginning of the battle, helping his flank army to flank Calabes's left flank army.

At the beginning of the war, with the aid of chariot troops, the flank army of the British barbarians directly suppressed the left flank army of Calabes; However, the chariot force of the London tribe was only one, and the other flank army of the British barbarians without the reinforcement of the chariot troops was not in such a good situation, because they were also at a disadvantage in numbers.

The Gallic barbarian soldiers under the command of Calabis did not break away from the Gallic barbarians in terms of weaponry at all, and their rudimentary armor and single weapons were still their main characteristics; However, their single weapon was only a weapon created by the craftsmen of the Julius Empire, and it was only a superior weapon used by the elite warriors of the Gaul barbarians.

Perhaps these Gallic warriors under the command of Calabes did not have the fighting power of the elite Gallic warriors, but their weapons surpassed those of the elite Gallic warriors; It is no exaggeration to say that in the world of barbarians, such weapons are already the most sophisticated, and the British barbarians are almost not a star in this regard.

The inferiority of the British barbarian army in terms of weapons and equipment and the inferiority in numbers directly led to the unprecedented superiority of Calabes's right-wing army in battle; From the very beginning of the battle, the army on the right flank of Carabis suppressed the flank army of the British barbarians, and then the three legions on the right flank of Carabis launched an extremely fierce attack on the enemy.

Even if Calabes's right flank army had the upper hand, it could not quickly defeat the enemy's 10,000 men with a division of 16,000; The general situation on the battlefield was still in a stalemate, and the army of Carabis and the army of the British barbarians were once again in a fierce fight, only this time it was Carabis who had the trump card weapon.

After more than three hours of fighting, a brigade of equipment that had not been used by the First Legion suddenly emerged from the flank of the British barbarians; At this time, the British barbarian flank army, which was fighting against the right flank army of Calabes, was simply not free to deal with the attack of the armed troops, until the bolts and shells fired from the forty-eight ballista guns fell on them.

The volley power of the forty-eight ballistas was still very terrifying, and after only four volleys, the flank army of the British barbarians fell in pieces; The British barbarian flank army, which had suffered heavy casualties, finally could not hold out, and they completely collapsed before the fifth round of the ballista troops, and the British barbarian flank army of 10,000 men was scattered with less than 3,000 soldiers.

After the right flank army of Calabis completely defeated the flank army of the British barbarians with the cooperation of the equipment troops, they did not immediately reinforce the main army of Carabes, which was closest to them, but quickly reinforced the left flank army of Carabis according to the predetermined plan, and the battle was finally about to be decided!

The right flank army of Calabes rushed in the direction of the left flank army, and the soldiers of the equipment unit once again let the war horses drag the ballista to the battlefield where the main army in the center was fighting; After entering the 150-meter range of the central battlefield, the soldiers of the equipment unit quickly loaded the ballista bolts and shells, and prepared to attack the main army of the British barbarians.

The leader of the London tribes had watched his flank army collapse on all fronts under heavy casualties, and he naturally knew the might of the enemy's sudden appearance of the machined troops; Therefore, when this equipment unit wanted to get close to his main army, he also immediately sent a small force of more than 3,000 people to rush towards the enemy's equipment force.

The central main army of the British barbarians has expanded to nearly seven thousand men at the forefront of the battle, but there are still seven or eight thousand troops in the rear, and it is difficult for them to enter the battle for a while; At this time, the equipment unit of the First Army approached within one hundred and fifty meters of the central battlefield, and the leader of the London tribe naturally did not hesitate to send 3,000 soldiers to attack the enemy's equipment unit.

The equipment brigade of the First Legion was not a subsidiary equipment brigade of other Roman powers, the normal Roman legion equipment brigade was less than a thousand people, while the equipment brigade of the First Legion of Carabis had a full 3,000 soldiers; With the exception of the hundreds of real instrumental soldiers, the others were Gallic warriors who were used to protect the equipment.

It was precisely because the equipment unit of the First Legion was also protected by two thousand Gallic warriors that Calabes was confident and bold to use this equipment brigade alone in this kind of battle; When more than 3,000 soldiers of the British barbarians rushed to the equipment brigade, the first to meet them were the more than 2,000 Gallic warriors who belonged to the equipment brigade.

Just as the subordinate infantry of the Instrument Brigade was fighting with the British barbarian soldiers who rushed over, the forty-eight ballistae of the Instrument Brigade also began their 'roar', and the British barbarian soldiers who were fighting against the Calabesian army were immediately attacked by crossbow arrows and artillery shells, and their casualties naturally rose inevitably.

The other flanking army of the British barbarians was also in a bad situation now, and the left flank army of Carabes, after receiving reinforcements from the right flank army, directly reached 25,000 men; However, the flank army of the British barbarians had less than 6,000 soldiers, and even with nearly 4,000 chariot troops, it was impossible to turn the tide of the battle.

As for the battle on the central battlefield, since the First Legion's equipment brigade was officially engaged in the attack on the British barbarians, the main army of the British barbarians has risen rapidly in the number of casualties, and the entire battle has been slowly controlled by the army of Calabes, and victory in the battle is no longer so unattainable.

After more than an hour of fighting on the left flank, the last flank army of the British barbarians finally could not hold out and collapsed; The victorious army of Calabis did not pursue the fleeing enemy, but directly joined the battle in the central battlefield, assisting the soldiers of the First Legion in launching a final attack on the main army of the British barbarians.

Half an hour later, the main army of the British barbarians was also routed on the battlefield by the army of Calabes; This time, the soldiers under the command of Karabes have no enemy troops to defeat, and all they need to do now is to pursue the fleeing enemy forces with all their might!

This war between Calabes and the British barbarians was the most difficult war Karabes had ever fought; It's not that Carabis wants to pay such heavy casualties to win the war, it's just that Carabis has to restore the various legions under his command to their proper combat effectiveness, and it is also necessary to pay the price for being strong.

If Calabes had only wanted to win, he would not have been able to march on the Isle of Britain with the reconstituted Ninth and Tenth Legions, leaving the formidable Second and Third Legions in Belgian territory; Compared with the 100,000 army that is fully equipped but has poor combat effectiveness, Carabis prefers to have a strong army of 30,000, and this is Carabes's choice.

After the collapse of the army that the London tribes had worked so hard to assemble, the army of Calabis captured the London city of the London tribes in the process of pursuing the enemy's rout; At this point, the London tribe, the most powerful of the British barbarians, was officially destroyed, and the army of Carabes, which had suffered heavy losses, was temporarily unable to march into the rest of the British Isle.

From the mighty 100,000 and 3,000 soldiers who marched to the island of Britain, to the present time there are only 35,000 soldiers left, Carabis paid the price of 68,000 soldiers to conquer the British barbarian Upper Britain; However, Calabes got not only a region of Upper Britain, but also 35,000 elite soldiers for the rest of his life after the war.

In addition, the 68,000 soldiers were only casualties, not casualties; A large number of wounded soldiers can return to the army after regaining their combat effectiveness, and when the time comes, they will be experienced veterans, which will improve the combat effectiveness of their legions.

However, after all, these are all things for later, and Calabes's top priority is to recruit more recruits from the mainland to replenish the losses of the various legions, and the British barbarians still have three tribes waiting for Calabis to conquer! (To be continued.) )