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

After seeing the fighting power of the Germanic barbarian warriors, Flavis greatly changed his opinion that the barbarian warriors were inferior to the hoplites of the Julius family; In particular, the performance of the Gallic barbarian warriors who served as light infantry on the battlefield made Flavis disappointed in the hoplites of the Julius family and shocked by the combat effectiveness of the Gallic barbarian warriors.

In Flavies's view, the combat effectiveness of these barbarian warriors did not lie in weapons and equipment at all, but in their firm will to fight and their courageous fighting posture; Coupled with the fact that the hoplites of the Julius family did not perform well, Flavis, who was in urgent need of reinforcements from the rear, asked Quintus Julius, who remained on the territory of the Julius family, to recruit 30,000 Gallic barbarian warriors for himself.

But what no one expected was that after these 30,000 Gallic barbarian warriors entered the battle, they did not play the role expected by Flavis at all, but became the first Julius family army to collapse in the battle; Even, the hoplites of the Julius family had just fought with the warriors of the Mainz tribe for less than half an hour, and the Gallic barbarian warriors on the left and right flanks began to collapse.

Had it not been for the fact that Flavis saw the opportunity and did not hesitate to reinforce the Gallic barbarian warriors on the left and right flanks of the hoplites of the two legions, the battle would have ended in a complete rout of the Julius family less than an hour after it began.

Even though Flavies's quick decision saved the Julius army's entire line from collapse, the losses suffered were much greater than those of the Mainz tribes; The Mainz tribe, with 42,000 Germanic warriors, paid only 7,000 casualties in this battle, while the Julius family paid 15,000 casualties.

With more than twice the cost of casualties, Flavis, who thought that with the armed forces and the large number of Gallic barbarian warriors in battle, he could turn the tide of the situation, also reluctantly admitted his defeat; Back in the barracks, Flavies began to wonder why his side had suffered this defeat.

After learning from the pain, Flavies had to admit that in today's battle, the equipment units of the three legions still played a very large role; In particular, the two salvos before the start of the battle cost the army of the Mainz tribe nearly 1,500 casualties, and the blow to the enemy's morale was very heavy.

Later, as the fighting between the two armies began, the attack was stopped in order to avoid accidental damage to the ballista unit, while the stone catapult unit that continued to attack continued to give the enemy effective damage throughout the battle; According to Flavis's observations, at least two thousand of the seven thousand dead and wounded of the Mainz tribe were due to the instrumental troops.

What's more, when the army of the Julius family can't support it and wants to end this battle, what really gives the army of the Mainz tribe an effective deterrent, and even makes the army of the Mainz tribe dare not pursue too much, is the powerful power of the equipment force.

Throughout the battle, the performance of the equipment unit was remarkable, and it can be regarded as living up to Flavies's expectations; Therefore, it was not the equipment troops that really caused the defeat of this battle, but the newly reinforced Gallic barbarian warriors.

You must know that the light infantry in the auxiliary legions of the various legions of the Julius family were all Gallic barbarian warriors who surrendered under the command of the former famous Gallic general Lugotorix; They are elite warriors who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they are Gallic warriors with extremely strong combat effectiveness among the Gallic barbarians, so naturally they are not comparable to ordinary Gallic barbarians.

After joining the auxiliary legions of the Julius family, these surrendered Gallic warriors not only got the life they dreamed of eating and drinking, but also had more time to practice systematically; After a series of training and sophisticated weaponry, these Gallic barbarian warriors already possessed combat effectiveness that was not inferior to that of the elite Gallic warriors.

Of course, the so-called sophisticated weapons and equipment here are only relative; The weapons and equipment given to these Gallic warriors by the Julius family were nothing more than normal light infantry weapons and equipment, but for the warriors of the Gallic barbarians, it was indeed much better than their own weapons, and they could be called absolutely sophisticated weapons and equipment.

The combat effectiveness of the Gallic barbarians was only a line worse than that of the Germanic barbarians, and there was no substantial difference; These lightly armed infantrymen with the combat power of the elite warriors of the Gallic barbarians can definitely compete with the elite Germanic axe soldiers of the Germanic barbarians, and how can those Germanic pikemen who are not strong in melee combat be able to deal with it?

Thus, the sight of Flavis was born, and the Gallic barbarian warriors, who served as the light infantry of the auxiliary legion of the Julius family, broke out on the battlefield with superior combat effectiveness; In fact, that is simply how powerful the warriors of the Gallic barbarians are, but the combat effectiveness of this Gallic barbarian warrior unit of the Julius family is relatively amazing.

Flavis, who had long ignored the existence of the Gallic barbarian warriors, naturally did not care about these things; It wasn't until the newly recruited 30,000 Gallic barbarian warriors performed extremely poorly on the battlefield that Flavies began to think deeply about these realistic things and assess the combat effectiveness of the newly recruited Gallic barbarian warriors of the Julius family.

Naturally, Flavies left these matters to the elite Gallic warriors who now belonged directly to him; Three hours later, Flavis had got what he wanted. According to the frank confessions of those Gallic warriors with strong combat effectiveness, Flavis knew that the newly recruited Gallic barbarian warriors could not even reach the standard of the Gallic barbarian infantry in combat effectiveness!

How could 30,000 Gallic barbarian warriors, who could not even meet the standards of Gallic infantry, have the combat power of the elite Gallic warriors? Flavies was completely dead to these new Gallic warriors; However, in order to make a reasonable use of his limited combat power, Flavies retained the formation of the three recruit legions and sent these elite Gallic warriors to them.

In Flavis's view, with these Gallic warriors with the combat power of elite Gallic warriors leading and commanding those Gallic warriors with poor combat effectiveness, they can also support themselves on the battlefield for a while and play some greater roles.

While Flavies was reorganizing the three Gallic barbarian recruits, several horsemen from Caesar's army arrived in Flavies' barracks on Caesar's orders; After being identified, the cavalrymen were taken to Flavies' tent.

After giving Flavies a detailed account of the current state of Caesar's army, as well as information that the Marcomani region had fallen and that the Poheim region might fall, Flavies would also be in a state of great shock; Flavies didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, the situation of the Julius family had become so corrupt.

However, Caesar was able to successfully lead his army from the front and back of the Germanic barbarians all the way to here, which undoubtedly made Flavies feel a little gratified; As long as Caesar, the perfect heir to the Julius family, is unharmed, losing a war is not an unacceptable thing for the Julius family.

Having determined the location of Caesar's army, Flavis gave new orders to the cavalry; Caesar was required to lead the army to enter the battlefield in two days, and together with the army led by Flavis himself, he flanked the army of the Mainz tribe in Odovaka!

Soon the army of the Germanic barbarians pursuing Caesar's army will arrive in the border area, and if the army of the Mainz tribe of Odovaka cannot be inflicted heavy losses before then, then the army of the House of Julius will be at an absolute numerical disadvantage; Even if you want to retreat at that time, you may not be able to retreat.

In view of this, Flavis decided to take advantage of the position of Caesar's army and fight a decisive battle with the army of the Mainz tribe led by Eudovaca, and after defeating Eudovaca's army in one fell swoop, the army of the Julius family was about to quickly retreat.

There was no point in continuing the war until now, once the Poheim region was really conquered by the Germanic barbarians; The Norikum area of the Julius family would be in danger of being attacked, a price that Flavies could not accept.

Not only is the Norricum region the native province of the Julius family, but also that the Norricum area is the only way for all the Ulius families to retreat; If Norikum is lost, then all the armies of the Julius family against the Germanic barbarians will be alone, and sooner or later they will be routed and wiped out by the Germanic barbarian armies.

The Germanic barbarians would have captured the Poheim region sooner or later, and the situation was already very unfavorable to the Julius family, and Flavis had to retreat as soon as possible to ensure that he would not be defeated in this war initiated by the Julius family; What Flavis didn't know was that at this time, the Germanic barbarians were also mired in war and could not extricate themselves.

After Balenas's British barbarian army invaded the Lower Germanic region, the strength of the Badawi tribe alone was simply not enough to resist these brave and warlike British barbarian armies; Even with the support of 20,000 mobile troops, the Badawi tribe was still at an absolute disadvantage in the battle against the British barbarians.

The leader of the Trier tribe, Rick Burgess, led 8,000 Trier warriors to reinforce the Badawi tribe, and also sent several groups of cavalry to ask for help from other Germanic tribes; The Germanic barbarians, who were caught in a two-front war, were already overwhelmed! (To be continued.) )