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- Aristotle (one of the great philosophers, scientists, and educators in the ancient history of the world)

The main forces of Farius's Fourth Army and Julius's Ninth Army were simply unable to stop the advance of the well-coordinated and powerful Germanic pikemen; And the main force of Clyde's Eighth Army was engaged in a fierce battle with the noble cavalry of the Mainz tribe.

Although the noble cavalry of the Mainz tribe suffered heavy casualties, the strong and fearless qualities of the Germanic people were still vividly displayed by these noble cavalry; No matter how heavy the casualties were, they still maintained their charging posture, and the battle was still fierce, and it was not easy for the Eighth Army to complete the annihilation of these cavalry in a short period of time.

In the wars that the Julius family has experienced, the key to winning or losing each battle is whether the army of the Julius family can defeat the enemy army as quickly as possible; So far, the Julius family has not even fought a battle to the death.

And the indomitable and unyielding of the Germanic barbarians really shocked the soldiers of the Julius family, and even Flavies himself did not understand why those enemies who had suffered more than half of the casualties were still fighting to the death, were they really not afraid of total annihilation?

The Germanic barbarians' pursuit of freedom and counterattack against the invaders exceeded Flavis's imagination, and also caused Flavis to encounter an unprecedented crisis; The Eighth Legion was already in a battle with the enemy's cavalry units, and could not support the main forces of the Fourth and Ninth Legions, which were retreating step by step under enemy attack.

At this time, Flavis still had two thousand light infantry and two thousand archers, and even with the five hundred guards of Flavies himself, it was only four thousand five hundred; With an enemy that even so many hoplites could not fight, could Flavies expect those two thousand light infantry to play any special role?

However, archers can pose a sufficient threat to a well-coordinated pikeman phalanx, but only if they have enough archers and have a chance to play them; In order to save the tide of the battle, Flavis had no choice but to invest 2,000 archers to join the fighting force, and the 2,000 light infantry was responsible for protecting the 2,000 archers from marching forward.

After all, the Mainz tribe also had 2,000 archers, and their combat effectiveness was far superior to that of the Julius family; Flavis must equip his archers with some meat shields, otherwise if his own rain of arrows attracts the enemy's rain of arrows, won't the two thousand archers be quickly lost?

After the soldiers of the 4,000 auxiliary regiments were sent out by Flavies, there were no more reinforcements in the hands of Flavies, and Odovaka still had a reserve army of about 5,000 men in his hands that was not put into battle; In other words, the 20,000-strong Mainz tribal army occupied the initiative and advantage on the battlefield in the battle of the three Julius family legions.

I have to admit that the combat effectiveness of the Germanic barbarian warriors really surprised Flavis, and also made Flavis's heart full of worries about the next battle; What made Flavis even more helpless was the current battle situation, if his three legions could not win the battle, then what would the Julius family use to conquer the Agridigumat region of the Mainz tribe?

There are only nine legions in the entire Julius family, and three legions are left in the homeland, Caesar has taken three legions, and the three legions in the hands of Flavies are already the only strength of the Julius family; If such strength could not defeat the Mainz tribal army, Flavis would not be able to increase the power in his hands for a while.

Although Calabis had five legions under his command, even though Flavis had learned that Calabis had led his army to defeat the armies of the Gallic barbarian Rimon tribe and successfully conquered the region of Aquitani, which was controlled by the Rimon tribe; Even, the formation of the Sixth Army by Carabes, Flavis was reported in detail.

The crux of the matter is that Calabes' army was used by the Julius family to conquer the Gallic barbarians, which was an important strategic purpose for the Julius family to conquer the Germanic barbarians, and it was also a conquest plan that Flavies could not give up halfway.

Sending in Carabes' army to reinforce his own army was, in Flavis's opinion, an impossible strategy for himself; In any case, Flavies could not delay Karabes's war to conquer the Gallic barbarians, and more importantly, Flavis did not trust the fighting power of the Gallic barbarians.

In the eyes of Flavies, the fighting power of the Gallic barbarians was not at all a class compared to the well-armed army of the Julius family; The reason why Flavis allowed Calabes to use the Gallic barbarian army to conquer other Gallic barbarian tribes was only to reduce the cost of war for the Julius family.

After all, the Roman population of the Julius family was limited, and these trustworthy Roman populations were the source of the large number of hoplites for the Julius family; In this regard, Flavis's thinking was still very traditional, and he only believed in the Romans.

The fundamental reason for the formation of Clyde's Eighth Legion was simply that Flavies did not want Julius's army to pay a heavier price for casualties to conquer the Norricum region; Coupled with the fact that the limited Roman population under the rule of Julius could not always provide enough soldiers, Flavies began to use barbarians as regular legions of the Julius family.

Prior to this, those Gallic barbarian warriors who had been recruited had become soldiers of the auxiliary legions of the Eullius family, and it was impossible for them to enter the main battle legion of the Eullius family; Now, Flavies is a bit of a remorse.

If Flavies could have trusted the fighting power of the Gallic barbarians, and had enough trust in the Gauls who were brought under the rule of Julius; With the strength of the Julius family, nine legions is not the entire strength of the Ulius family, and the Ulius family can form at least twelve or so legions.

Unfortunately, the situation on the battlefield did not give Flavies time to regret it, and the two thousand archers and two thousand light infantry who had just been sent out by Flavies, before they could get close to the enemy's pikemen phalanx, were hit by the enemy's elite archer troops.

The Germans were not fools, and when they spotted the rapidly approaching archers in the enemy's hoplites, they naturally understood that these archers were there against their own pikemen; As a result, their elite archer troops immediately changed their attacks from the hoplites, armed to the teeth, to the light infantry and archers with weak defenses.

These elite archers of the Germanic barbarians could not do much damage to the well-armed hoplites when attacking the hoplites of the House of Julius; However, when attacking those lightly armed infantry and defenseless archer troops, they have a very strong attack power!

A sudden rain of arrows caused heavy casualties to the archer troops and light infantry; At least more than 200 archers and dozens of lightly armed infantry were shot by the rain of arrows, and even if not many were killed on the spot, those who were hit by the arrows were considered incapacitated.

However, this round of arrows did not frighten the light infantry of the Gallic barbarian warriors, who picked up their shields on the ground and protected the archers in the very middle; Even the shields in their hands were on the heads of the archers, and they themselves were alone in the rain of arrows from the enemy.

Under the incessant rain of arrows from the Germanic barbarians, 2,000 lightly armed infantry paid the price of nearly 1,000 casualties to escort the archer troops to a position only fifty meters away from the enemy pikemen; The casualties paid by the archers along the way were only more than 300 unlucky people, including more than 200 casualties in the first wave of arrows.

Flavis also witnessed the courage and fearlessness of these Gallic barbarian warriors, and perhaps, at this time, Flavis really understood why Calabis could use the warriors of the Gallic barbarians to conquer other tribes of the Gallic barbarians; These warriors from the Gallic barbarians do have the strong combat effectiveness and firm will to fight of the barbarians, and they are trustworthy warriors!

For the first time, Flavies had the idea of recruiting the Gallic barbarian warriors under the House of Julius to form a new legion; But before that, the most important thing for Flavis is to win the current war, which is the most important thing.

Approaching the phalanx of pikemen of the Mainz tribe, the archers of the auxiliary legions immediately began firing at the phalanx of pikemen of the enemy; Even as the enemy's elite archers were shooting at them, they rained down on the pikemen.

The courage shown by the archers of the auxiliary legion made the hoplites who had been suppressed inevitably show a look of shame; As the commanders of the corps, Farius and Julius even gave a death order to the centurions and captains under their command, which centurion retreats, the captain kills the centurion on the spot, and which brigade retreats, they themselves kill the captain on the spot!

After killing four captains and seven centurions in succession, the retreat of the hoplites of the House of Julius was finally stopped; The captains and centurions who were feared by their own commanders had to force their hoplites to fight to the death, but the archers who had been shooting opened the gap in the enemy's pikemen phalanx in time!

Seeing that there were gaps in the enemy's originally well-organized formation, the light infantry played by the Gallic barbarian warriors immediately launched a spontaneous attack on these gaps, and successfully disrupted the formation of the pikemen phalanx of the Mainz tribe completely! (To be continued.) )