Gold and wealth were the main sources of war.

- Tacitus (the greatest historian of ancient Rome)

After gaining the allegiance of the Grace tribe, Carabes did not ask them to move out of their place of residence, as the Alpine tribe did; On the one hand, this was because Carabis promised to make the Grace tribe the first tribe in Gallic beyond the mountains in the future, and on the other hand, Carabes's selfishness was at work.

After all, Carabes's true identity was not the general of the Julius family, so it was naturally impossible for him to sincerely inform the Julius family of this mastiff army; Having enough hole cards is the way to survive in troubled times, how can Carabes not know this? The Grace tribe and the elite mastiff army under Grace will be the first hole card hidden by Karabes!

Upon his return to the barracks, Carabis began to prepare a large number of ordinary and high-quality hounds for Grace and his trainers; According to Grace's report, each trainer can train up to fifteen mastiffs at a time, and the training cycle is at least one month before the initial effect can be achieved.

At present, Grace has a total of 124 trainers, all of whom are descendants of villagers who followed his ancestors to train war mastiffs and establish the Grace tribe; These people now have 1,200 war mastiffs, and their strength is not bad. Carabis didn't care about these specific things, he just prepared 3,000 hounds for Grace, and he didn't bother with these training mastiffs.

Of course, Carabes also gave Grace the longest deadline, which was to complete the training of the mastiff within a month; In a month's time, Calabes would lead his entire army against the Maasai tribes, and it would be time for Grace's mastiff troops to come into play. After settling the mastiff's training, Carabis began to ask Grace about the Maasai tribe.

To Calabess's frustration, Grace didn't know much about the Maasai tribe; Before the Maasai tribe launched an attack on his Grace tribe, he only knew that the ruling tribe of Gaul beyond the mountains was the Maasai tribe, and the rest was unknown. However, after the war with the Maasai tribe, Grace finally knew something about the Maasai tribe.

At that time, the total strength of the Maasai tribe to attack the Grace tribe was about 20,000 people, which was also the vast majority of the strength of the Maasai tribe; Later, when Grace fled with his tribe, he learned through some Gallic merchants that after the Maasai tribe sent 20,000 troops, the remaining strength of the native city of Marseille was between 5,000 and 10,000.

Because the Maasai tribe paid nearly 10,000 casualties when they attacked the Grace tribe, plus Grace still had about four or five thousand troops and more than a thousand mastiffs; He even had the idea of revenge for attacking the Maasai stronghold directly. However, upon learning that the Maasai tribe still had a Deiru Order of several hundred men, Grace gave up on this dangerous idea.

Carabes, who had long heard of the Gallic Iru Order, certainly understood why Grace gave up the attack on the base camp of the Maasai tribe, and with the support of the De Iru Order, the Gallic army of the Maasai tribe would burst out with extraordinary combat effectiveness; The information provided by Grace has largely portrayed the strength of the Maasai tribe to Calabes.

The current Maasai tribe, after the battle with the Grace tribe, has a standing army of about 15,000 to 20,000, and the most noteworthy of them is naturally the Deyiru Order of several hundred people; In addition, the Gallic army of the Maasai tribe is also a normal Gallic army, and it has some regular troops of the Gallic army.

The so-called regular arms of the Gallic army are the common Gallic infantry, Gallic cavalry, Gallic warriors, Gallic elite warriors, Gallic noble cavalry, etc.; Similarly, Calabes also has a large number of Gallic cavalry, Gallic warriors, Gallic elite warriors, Gallic noble cavalry, and so on.

As for the Gallic infantry, there is naturally no such a scumbag under the command of Karabes; Moreover, Calabis also has under his command a force of forest hunters and mastiffs that the Maasai tribe does not have, as well as extremely powerful hoplites. If there is a chance to fight with the Gallic army of the Maasai tribe, the 3,000 hoplites will teach the Maasai tribe a good lesson.

As for the Gallic noble cavalry and the elite Gallic warriors of the Maasai tribes, the combined number of both could certainly not have exceeded three thousand; Because the Gallic barbarians north of the Alps are the real Gallic barbarians. They did not have the opportunity to come into contact with the civilized world like the Gallic barbarians in the mountains, and they could neither obtain high-quality weapons and equipment for civilization time, nor could they create more high-quality weapons and equipment.

This directly led to the fact that their weapons and equipment were still in a very backward state, and the Gallic noble cavalry and Gallic elite warriors who could be organized were naturally not numerous; With these relatively detailed information, Calabes began to train his various legions on how to deal with the standard tactics of the Gallic army.

In particular, the 2nd Regulian Legion of Kadoradu and the 3rd Gallic Cavalry Regiment of Edam, as well as the Alpine Legion of Brigo, were all composed of Gallic warriors; They are very familiar with the tactics of the Gauls, and the targeted training is naturally more handy.

In addition to these basic trainings, Carabis also specially instructed the generals of each legion to organize the soldiers of each legion to train in jungle warfare; Because the terrain of Gallic outside the mountains is completely different from that of Gallic in the mountains, the dense jungle is a common feature of Gallic outside the mountains, and the soldiers under the command of Calabes have not been trained in this area.

If these Gallic warriors from the mountains and the Alps could not adapt to the new combat environment, they would have been at a loss when facing the armies of the Maasai tribes; You must know that the armies of the Maasai tribes will not necessarily fight these warriors in a dignified manner, they are more likely to suddenly kill out of those dense jungles!

Therefore, Carabes must give his generals a death order in this regard; In this way, he can ensure that his soldiers will not suffer heavy losses in this regard. After determining the targeted training of the various legions, Calabes began to send emissaries to the Julius family to ask for supplies for the army.

The march of the army is easy to say, but it is not so easy to do; The most basic materials such as grain and grass are also the most important, and there are more than 30,000 troops under the command of Carabes, and it is necessary to prepare these more than 30,000 troops for at least three months of food and grass before they can set off. Otherwise, once something unexpected happens; No matter how powerful an army is, it is impossible to defeat the strong enemy of hunger!

In addition, there are additions to weapons and equipment, and large-scale weapon damage will inevitably occur in the course of the battle; It is also crucial to have a decent amount of spare weapons. With these bits and pieces of need, Carabis made a detailed list and asked the messenger to give the list to Quintus Julius, who was sitting in Aretien's place with Flavies.

Quintus was told by his father that he must meet all the demands of Calabis for the army to go to Gaul beyond the mountains, after receiving the envoys sent by Carabes; Quintus decisively approved all the supplies needed by Calabes, and ordered the logistic officers of the Julius family to transport them to the military camp in Calabes.

His own adequate preparations and the strong support of the Julius family made Calabes's war preparations go very smoothly; Of course, just because the war is well prepared does not mean that the war can be fought smoothly. Therefore, in recent times, Calabes has been carefully studying the Maasai tribe and the Terma tribe, an important ally of the Maasai tribe.

As the third tribe in the Gallic region outside the mountains after the Maasai tribe and the Grace tribe, the Terma tribe is relatively strong; More importantly, the Telma tribe is not an independent tribe like the Grace tribe, this tribe is purely a puppet tribe supported by the Maasai tribe, and it is also the most important western barrier of the Maasai tribe!

The base camp of the Maasai tribe is their city of Marseille, and the entire Maasai tribe is settled around the city of Masai; The area where the Maasai tribes settled was geographically surrounded by the Rhône River. That is, the Rhône divides Beyond Gaul in two; Outside Gaul, near the Mediterranean Sea, was the core of the Maasai tribes, and to the west were the settlements of various other tribes.

In this way, the Maasai tribe became an independent existence from other tribes; The section of the Rhone that surrounds the Maasai tribe is divided into two parts, one of which is the main stream and the other is a tributary. The main section of the river is near the mouth of the river with a turbulent flow, which is simply impossible to cross by the army; The tributaries are gentle rivers with solid wooden bridges.

The Terma tribe was supported by the Maasai tribe, a tribe that existed to protect the Maasai tribe west of the Rhône; Once a foreign force wants to invade the Maasai tribe, it is necessary to deal with the Terma tribe west of the Rhône River, so that they can really cross the Rhône River to attack the Maasai tribe, such a time difference is enough for the Maasai tribe to make sufficient preparations for war.

In any case, Calabes's determination to attack the Maasai tribes is unlikely to change; If you can't get a solid base, how can you get out of the control of the Julius family? Therefore, Calabes was determined to conquer the Maasai tribes and the Gallic region beyond the mountains; Then this Terma tribe is also the first enemy of Karabes!

Thus, a battle against the Utterma tribe was about to break out; The agents under the command of Calabis have also begun to gather all kinds of information about this Terma tribe from all directions. (To be continued.) )