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With the full assistance of the Tragic Dead, the Germanic barbarians were all equipped with sophisticated weapons and equipment and had good combat effectiveness among the more than 50,000 troops in the region of Agridigut. In particular, the training of the Germanic barbarian warriors by the tragic warriors in the battle formation has improved the already brave and fearless Germanic warriors by more than one level in terms of combat effectiveness.

In addition, Hades, the leader of the Tragic Dead, also sent Ares with Oscar's permission to organize an elite team of 500 Tragic Dead to directly help the Germanic barbarians fight; This elite warband led by Ares did not only rely on 500 Tragic Dead Warriors to fight, Ares also carefully selected the most elite 1,500 warriors from the coalition army of the Germanic barbarians.

In this way, the Ares team, which has 2,000 elite fighters, has considerable combat effectiveness, and the role it can play in battle is also extremely sharp; Compared to the reinforcements of the Tragic Dead, Calabess's help will come more efficiently.

As soon as the Sorrowful Dead informed Calabes that Caesar was about to lead an army of eight legions to attack the region of Agripus again, Calabes immediately secretly raised enough food and grass for an army of 50,000 men for three months and sent it to the Trier tribes; At the same time, Karabes had the entire army of the Trier and Badawi tribes immediately march east to reinforce the combined Germanic barbarian forces in the Agripugumat region.

As for the two tribes' own guards, Carabes, who had expanded to 5,000 men in his First Legion, immediately transferred them to Ricus Burgess and Iterius; Let them take these 5,000 people as the core, and then recruit 5,000 Germanic young men in the Trier tribe and the Badawi tribe, and mix them into a Germanic garrison army of 10,000 people.

The task of this 10,000-strong Germanic garrison was to garrison the Trier tribe with 5,000 men, and the remaining 5,000 men to garrison the Badawi tribe; In order to ensure that the Trier and Badawi tribes did not have to worry about this, all the weapons and supplies of this army were borne by Karabes, and Ricbergis and Iterius only needed to lead the armies of their respective tribes to reinforce the coalition army.

Over the course of five years, Carabes established a very deep friendship with Rike Burgess and Itrilius; Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Germanic warriors under the command of Calabis to reach 5,000, and it would be impossible for Calabis to propose such a plan to Ricberdges and Iterius, which would have allowed the Trier tribe and the Badawi tribe to entrust their rear unsuspectingly to Calabess!

If Karabes had used a little tricks, the Upper and Lower Germanic regions of the last three remaining regions of the Germanic barbarians would have fallen; If Rikerburgess and Itrilius had not been fully sure and trusted in Carabes, they would not have agreed to this plan at all, let alone acted upon.

Needless to say, Carabis chose to trust Rick Burgess and Iterius, so he came up with this plan; Ricus Burgess and Iterius also chose to trust Calabes, so they left their rear unguarded to the army sent by Carabes, and they themselves led the armies of their respective tribes to the region of Agripumat with grain and grass.

The total number of troops that the Trier tribe can take out now is only 25,000, and this is still the strength that Karabes has only been able to help the Trier tribe accelerate the recovery of strength after the last war; The Badawi tribe, which is inferior to the Trier tribe in terms of overall strength, naturally has an army that is inferior to the Trier tribe, and the entire army of the Badawi tribe is only 15,000.

Even so, the reinforcement of these 40,000 troops was invaluable to the Germanic barbarian coalition in the region of Agridigumat; After all, this is a full 40,000 well-armed and well-trained Germanic army, and with these 40,000 reinforcements, the total number of Germanic barbarian alliances in the Agripgumat region will reach 100,000!

A coalition of 100,000 Germanic barbarian tribes against Julius the ** army of less than 80,000 led by Caesar; The battle between the two was still dominated by Caesar's army, who made the number of hoplites in the army of Julius Empire really amazing, these hoplites were enough to put Caesar in an absolute advantage.

However, the armies of the Germanic barbarians were not as vulnerable as the Julius Empire had imagined; With the full help of the Dead Warriors, the coalition of Germanic barbarians is also getting stronger and stronger in terms of combat effectiveness, and it is still unknown who will win and who will lose the battle between the two sides.

There was a steady stream of intelligence officers who sang the dead to provide information to Arminius, the supreme commander of the Germanic barbarian alliance, and Arminius could also make corresponding arrangements in advance for Caesar's military deployment; Upon learning that Caesar's army would attack the region of Agripum on three fronts, Arminius immediately divided his army.

Veritus, the leader of the Gothic tribe who had previously broken through with cavalry from the Gothic tribe, was appointed by Arminius as the commander of the army of the Ulius Empire in the northeast; Langadis was also under the command of Viritus, and together they led 25,000 elite Germanic warriors to meet the two legions of the Ulius Empire from the northeast.

The leader of the Mainz tribe, Odovaka, was appointed by Arminius as the commander of the army of the Empire of Julius in the northeast and south, and the new leader of the Macomani region, Vercaris, who had previously led troops from the Macomani region, was appointed by Arminius as Odovaka's deputy, and the two of them would lead the army to meet the two legions of the Ulius Empire from the southeast.

Since the total strength of the Germanic army was only about 55,000, Arminius had to leave 10,000 troops as the defensive army of Mainz; Therefore, Odovaka and Verkaris can only take a maximum of 20,000 warriors.

In order to ensure that the armies of Eudovaca and Vercaris would not suffer in the face of the two legions of the Julius Empire, Arminius also assigned 2,000 elite warriors of Ares to Odovaka for command; In this way, with the reinforcements of the Ares clan, Odovaka's army can at least fight the enemy's two legions to the end without falling behind.

Of course, Arminius did not expect that with 10,000 elite Germanic warriors, he would be able to defend the city of Mainz under the attack of four legions led by Caesar himself; His hope was placed on the Trier and Badawi tribe armies who were on their way.

Judging from the information provided by the Tragic Dead, it would take six days for the four legions led by Caesar himself to reach Mainz, while the 40,000 reinforcements led by Rike Burgess and Iterius would only need four days to reach Mainz; If Arminius hadn't left 10,000 warriors out of prudence, he could have sent out even 10,000 warriors from Mainz.

In fact, Arminius's caution is quite justified; Just after Arminius divided the main army in the city into two parts and sent them to the northeast and southeast to meet the other two armies of Julius's empire, there were agents of Caesar's army in several directions outside the city of Mainz who saw the departure of the two armies and quickly sent the information back to Caesar's army.

After learning that at least 45,000 Germanic troops had left the city of Mainz, Caesar was keenly aware that there should not be many defenders in the city, and it was even very likely that the defenders had already been dispatched; Therefore, he immediately ordered the large army of his four legions to speed up the march, and the cavalry of the four auxiliary legions was also drawn by Caesar and sent out as the vanguard.

Each of the four auxiliary legions has 1,000 Gallic cavalry, which adds up to 4,000 Gallic cavalry, and its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated; The reason why Caesar sent all these 4,000 men to form the vanguard force was to let them rush to Mainz City first, test how many defenders there were in Mainz City, and see if the defenders were strong.

If the number of defenders in Mainz was still large, Caesar would immediately abandon the march to Mainz and then lead the main army of four legions to the left or right, and cooperate with the flanking armies of Varus or Cecil to annihilate the army of the Germanic barbarians in one fell swoop.

If the number of defenders in Mainz was extremely weak, Caesar would naturally continue to march towards Mainz without stopping; As long as Caesar's main army can capture the city of Mainz, then Caesar's army will already win half of the attack on the Aglidigumat region, and the Germanic army, which has lost all its supplies and rear bases, will not last long.

Only two days later, Caesar's vanguard cavalry force arrived outside the city of Mainz and tentatively approached the city in an attempt to attack the city; Arminius was not on the city wall at the time, and Marcui, who was in charge of guarding the wall, did not expect that the enemy army would be an impossible cavalry force to attack the city, and as a result, the strength of the defenders on the wall was prematurely exposed.

When observing the specific situation of the defenders on the city wall, the 4,000 vanguard cavalry paid the price of more than 500 casualties under the blows of several rounds of arrows from the elite Germanic archers on the city wall; After getting a detailed understanding of the situation of the defenders on the walls, the cavalry quickly retreated.

When Caesar received the report from the vanguard cavalry, he immediately fell into a state of ecstasy; Caesar sent these 4,000 cavalry to reconnoiter the defenders of Mainz City this time with the mentality of trying it out, he didn't expect that Mainz City was really weak in defense, and Caesar would not miss such a rare fighter in vain, so he immediately ordered the army to march to Mainz City at full speed! (To be continued.) )