"664th Palm: Cross-Sea Attack"
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Wisdom consists in one thing alone, and that is to know the mind that is good at controlling everything. 【】
—Heraclitus (a legendary philosopher and a representative of the Efes)
When Karabes led his army to attack the Diwa and Tara tribes, the performance of the Fourth and Fifth Legions was not good, at least it was still far from their previous performance; However, the Sixth and Seventh Legions and the Eighth Legion, these three legions even showed good combat effectiveness, which was not much stronger than the performance of the Fourth and Fifth Legions.
Of these legions, the Fifth Legion was slightly inferior in combat effectiveness, and Karabes was still acceptable; After all, the main force of the Fifth Legion is a war mastiff, and the infantry is just an auxiliary presence in the Fifth Legion, and the training in this area is almost understandable.
However, this is also before, and from now on the Fifth Army will also become the real main army; In addition to the original five brigades of mastiff troops, the infantry size of the Fifth Legion will also be expanded to 10,000 people, and Carabis wants to turn the Fifth Legion into a more powerful army than other legions, and the Mastiff can become the trump card force of the Fifth Legion, but it is absolutely impossible to become the sole force of the Fifth Legion.
This attack on the four armies of the British barbarians was just a test of the combat effectiveness of the various legions under his command; After annihilating the 60,000 invading army of the British barbarians, Calabes also had a full understanding of the combat effectiveness of the eight legions under his command.
The First Legion is still as strong as ever, and has even become more effective with the addition of 5,000 Germanic warriors and the expansion of the size of the Forest Hunter troops; The combat effectiveness of the Second and Third Legions also maintained their former strength, and they were still elite divisions that could fight to the death on the battlefield, while the other five legions were more than a step behind.
In addition to these eight legions, the ninth and tenth legions that remained in the Alesian region at this time are even less worthy of mention, and how much combat power can Karabes, the two newly formed legions, expect them to have?
After annihilating the army of British barbarians who had invaded Belgium, the war between Carabis and the British barbarians had just begun; Whether it was to improve the combat effectiveness of the various legions, or to take revenge on the British barbarians, Carabis would lead his army across the sea to conquer the British barbarian homeland. 【】
If the British barbarians had been allowed to live freely on the island of Britain overseas, then the British barbarians would have become a potential threat to the land of Gaul; No one knows when these British barbarians will invade the continent in a big way, and Calabis can't always have an elite army stationed in the Belgian region to guard against it, and the best way is to completely solve the threat.
It just so happened that the seven legions under the command of Calabes all needed actual combat to improve their combat effectiveness, and the British barbarians were naturally the best whetstones; Carabis believed that the British barbarians of Britain and Ireland would fight to the death against their armies, and that it would be the perfect time for the Legionnaires to quickly increase their combat effectiveness.
In fact, it was not so easy for Calabes to quickly cross the sea to attack the native of the British barbarians; In the process of exterminating the invading army of the British barbarians, Calabess's army also seized countless gold, silver and jewels from the British barbarians, which they plundered from the Belgian region, which were to be returned to the people of the Belgian region.
Especially after the army of Calabes recaptured the Belgian ports, dozens of transports loaded with plundered gold, silver and jewels did not have time to sail back to Britain, and finally all returned to the hands of Calabes.
These mountains of gold, silver, and jewels were in stark contrast to the almost completely destroyed towns of the entire Belgian region, and Calabes, as the governor of Gaul, could not ignore the affairs of the Belgian region and directly lead an army across the sea to attack the British barbarian homeland; The immediate priority for Calabes is to take care of the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Belgian region.
In order to speed up the reconstruction of all the large and small towns in Belgium, Carabis not only invested all the captured gold, silver and jewelry in the post-war reconstruction, but also sent all the soldiers under his command to help the people in Belgium rebuild their homes.
After more than a month of struggle, all the Belgian towns except Samaro Briva have been rebuilt, and as for Samaro Briva, the reconstruction is not something that can be completed in a month or two; But with the massive investment in Calabes, the rebuilt Samarobriva will be bigger and more prosperous than ever!
After such a long delay, Carabis did not want to waste any more time in the Belgian region, and the date of the army's expedition to the British barbarian homeland was specifically set by Carabes, and the army to be sent out was the other eight legions except for the Second and Third Legions, and the first legion was mainly to stabilize the war situation and ensure that the other seven legions would not suffer too heavy casualties.
Because the size of the navy under Calabes's command was extremely limited, even with the addition of some of the transports and warships captured in the port area this time, Calabess's fleet was not enough to transport such a large number of troops to the British Isles at one time.
So Calabes decided to divide the army into three groups for a cross-sea expedition, the first of which was the First Legion and the Fifth Legion; This expedition was purely because in order to completely eliminate the threat from the British barbarians and enhance the combat effectiveness of the various legions under his command, the mastiff troops of the Fifth Legion were abandoned in the Belgian area, and only 10,000 infantry went overseas.
The next two batches were the 4th and 6th Legions and the 7th Legion, and the 8th and 9th Legions and the 10th Legion. Carabis didn't know how large the British barbarians were, so he cautiously abandoned the landing on British soil, choosing instead to land on a beach.
Landing on the beach is not as quick and convenient as landing at the port, but it is better to ensure absolute security, at least without having to engage the naval fleet of the British barbarians; In fact, Calabess only chose the difficult and complicated beach landing for the first batch of landings, and the next two landings were to take place in the ports of Upper Britain.
Calabes, with the men of the 1st and 5th Legions, landed in Upper Britain and immediately launched an attack on the ports of Upper Britain; In order to prevent the counteroffensive of the mainland forces, the British barbarians, who had long received the news of the annihilation of the coalition forces, deliberately concentrated a large number of warships in the waters off the ports of Upper Britain, and more than 20,000 elite troops were stationed on the ports.
But none of them expected that the army of Calabis would come out from behind them, and when the Gallic warriors of the Fifth Legion entered the port, the bewildered British barbarian soldiers could only rush into battle; The Fifth Legion, with 10,000 Gallic warriors, fought against 20,000 elite British barbarians, and it was an unfair duel.
Unfortunately, war is never a fair duel between the two sides of the battle, and Carabis is trying to force Grace and the soldiers of the Fifth Legion to fight the enemy to the end; The forest hunters and Germanic warriors of the First Legion were behind the Fifth Legion, and the hoplites and British warriors were also flanked by the Fifth Legion, but no one would intervene in this battle that belonged to the Fifth Legion without the orders of Carabes.
When the 10,000 men of the Fifth Legion were killed or wounded more than 3,000 but still fighting to the death, Calabis finally gave the order to attack the forest hunters and Germanic warriors; The rain of arrows from the forest hunters accurately hit the heads of the British soldiers, and the fierce attack of the Germanic warriors instantly repelled the British barbarian army.
With the cooperation of the First Army, the officers and men of the Fifth Army attacked more actively; The battle on the harbor was officially over four hours later, the 20,000 British barbarian army was all crushed, and Grace's Fifth Legion paid the price of nearly 4,000 casualties, but the soldiers who survived the fierce battle were already real veterans.
After occupying the port, Carabis did not continue to advance to the core area of the London tribe, but led the army to be stationed in the port, on the one hand, waiting for the arrival of the next two batches of armies, and on the other hand, it was also so that the London tribes of the British barbarians could have more time to gather troops, and Carabis did not have time to conquer all the British barbarian tribes in Upper Britain one by one.
In fact, while Calabis was waiting for a follow-up army, the London tribe of the British barbarians also organized a sizable army to carry out three counter-attacks on the port area; This time, Karabes did not use the soldiers of the Fifth Legion again, but directly let the soldiers of the First Legion quickly defeat the British barbarian army attacking the port with a thunderous force.
The hoplites were as immobile as mountains, the Germanic warriors were fierce as fire, the forest hunters were as swift as a forest, and the ballista troops roared like the wind; The British barbarian armies that fought back against the port were not at all able to fight back, and even before they had even made a hand-to-hand encounter with the hoplites and Germanic warriors, they had already suffered heavy casualties.
After the London tribes had paid the terrible price of 20,000 dead in the port area, they completely abandoned the counteroffensive in the port area and turned all their attention to strengthening themselves; In addition to a large build-up of troops from the tribes of Upper Britain, the London tribe also extended a helping hand to the Yorkist and Diva tribes on the island of Britain.
The York tribe and the Diwa tribe did not understand the truth, but it was impossible for them to send all the troops of their tribe to reinforce the London tribe; So, they each formed a combined army of 30,000 tribes in the area where their tribe was located, and sent it to the tribe of London. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.