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- Socrates (famous ancient Greek thinker, philosopher, and educator)

After the loss of three generals in succession, the coalition army of the Rimon tribe was left with only thousands of soldiers under the personal command of Vaktisa who were still fighting to the death against the youth army of Allah; The frontal defense line taken over by Anerin and Aminos quickly broke away from the attack range of the forest hunters after completely defeating the mastiff troops, and formed a new battle formation to protect themselves.

Instead of panicking when he found out that the tide was over, Vaktisza left behind hundreds of Gallic warriors to retreat, and he himself led the rest of his soldiers to retreat, and used his 1,000 Gallic noble cavalry to collect the rout.

The Gallic soldiers, who had collapsed in battle, soon discovered that they had no place to escape; The entire battlefield had been surrounded by Calabess's four-way army, and even in those holes, Itami's cavalry was in charge of chasing and defeating the troops.

After Brigo's Third Army had completely blocked the rear of Vaktisza from the rear, thousands of Gallic warrior troops led by Anerin and Aminos also retreated to the place where Vaktisza had gathered the rout; The frontal troops and the soldiers on both flanks led by Calabis himself also slowly advanced, surrounding all the Limon tribal armies!

At this time, Brigo's Third Legion had not yet participated in the battle, but only formed an encirclement side, and the entire army of 7,000 was not lost; And the hoplites of Tursus and the youth army of Allah also suffered little losses, only Itami's cavalry troops, the casualty number exceeded 2,000, and there were less than 5,000 cavalry left.

The Forest Hunter unit, which has been serving as the main force of the range, has not suffered any damage; Grace's Mastiff Legion was the legion with the highest casualties of all the legions. The more than 6,000 mastiffs of the entire mastiff army were all lost, and the 4,000 Gallic warriors and fanatics also lost nearly 2,000, almost half of the casualties.

In fact, the reason why Grace's Fifth Mastiff Legion suffered such heavy casualties was due to the fault of the Mastiff Legion itself; The hatred between the Grace tribe and the Rimon tribe is also something that cannot be explained for a while, and the soldiers of the War Mastiff Legion led by Grace are fighting so hard, and Karabes can't say anything.

Up to the end of the battle, Carabess's army of 31,000 had only paid the price of 2,000 cavalry and less than 3,000 infantry; Of the 50,000 coalition troops organized by the Rimon tribe, there are less than 20,000 left.

Judging from the current situation, the last battle force of the Limon tribal coalition is the soldiers on the frontal defense line of more than 4,000 people who have just withdrawn to the central belt; Among the soldiers under the personal command of Vaktiza, there are still about 5,000 people who can withstand a battle, and the remaining nearly 10,000 defeated troops are more symbolic than practical.

After encircling the remnants of the Rimon tribe on all sides, Karabes did not rush to attack the remnants of the Rimon tribe in the encirclement; The trapped beast is still fighting, and it is not worth paying a heavy price of casualties for the sake of a low-hanging fruit.

Because of the terrain and the inconvenience of transportation, the newly formed armament unit of the First Army of Calabes has not been able to keep up with the pace of the march of the main army; And in order to implement the concept of the speed of soldiers, Karabes did not bring the three thousand people at all.

After a few days of waiting in place, when Carabis had completed his preparations for the ambush, the unit of equipment belonging to the First Legion had finally arrived; Now, Calabes is waiting for the arrival of this equipment unit.

The leaders of the other tribes, large and small, did not know what the enemy's commander was up to, nor did they understand why the enemy had not taken advantage of the victory to attack the remnants of their own army; The current situation has left the most powerful people in the Aquitani region with no choice but to wait quietly for the enemy to attack, and prepare for a last-ditch effort.

Calabes did not keep the chieftains of the Aquitani region waiting, and soon the equipment of the First Legion rumbled out of the forest under the tuds of their horses; After all forty-eight ballistas had been dragged to the Forest Hunters, Karabes ordered the Forest Hunters to clear the open space and have the Ballista Crewmen immediately start loading their bolts and shells, ready to attack!

The forty-eight ballistas lined up in a row are an extremely shocking scene; Although none of the tribal leaders of the Gallic barbarians had ever seen the power of the ballista, looking at the solemn appearance of the enemy, they knew that these ballistas must be very powerful weapons.

After all the ballistas were ready to attack, Karabeth did not immediately order an attack, but sent a personal guard to the remnants of the Rimon tribe, hoping that they would consider surrendering and that Karabeth could guarantee their safety.

Before the guard could finish his promise of surrender, the leader of the Rimon tribe, Vaktisa, raised his short sword and gave the order to the warriors of the Rimon tribe to charge again against the enemy's ballista troops!

Vaktisa showed his resolve by his actions, and the guard of Karabes immediately returned to Karabes's side; Looking at the Rimon warriors who were charging with Gallic slang, Karabes raised his right hand directly, and then lowered it heavily at the commander of the ballista unit.

With Calabes' order, the first salvo of forty-eight ballistas was immediately launched; The attack composed of thirty crossbow arrows and eighteen artillery shells killed more than a third of the two thousand or so Rimon tribe warriors who rushed up on the spot!

The warriors who had been nailed to the ground by huge crossbow arrows, and even two or three people pierced by a crossbow arrow, plus those who had been hit directly by the shells, the bloody corpses made all onlookers shudder; The originally fierce and decisive charge was forcibly stopped by such a round of ballista attacks, and the entire battlefield fell into a deathly silence.

In fact, not only the Gallic soldiers from the Aquitani region had not seen the power of ballistas, but even the Gallic soldiers under the command of Calabes, the vast majority of them had not seen the great power of such an instrument attack.

In addition to the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Legions and the 3rd Legion, who had witnessed the power of large-scale weapons in the war between the Julius family and the famous Gallic general Lugotorix; The soldiers of the Fourth and Fifth Legions had really never seen the lethality of ballistas, and the scene in front of them was also very shocking.

However, their shock was accompanied by a strong sense of surprise; After all, this is your own weapon, and isn't it a pleasure for your army to have such a powerful weapon?

As for the soldiers of the Rimon tribe, they were shocked and felt deep fear at the same time; When the ballista unit of Calabis finished the first round of shooting and began to reload the second round of crossbow arrows and shells, the Rimon tribe stormtroopers who were still standing in place fled back in a panic.

This time, Carabis still did not let his ballista troops continue to attack, but let them stop the attack for the time being; You know, the remnants of the Rimon tribe are all within the range of the ballista, and Karabes is not in a hurry to attack at this time.

After suspending the attack of the ballista troops, Calabes once again sent the same guard to persuade the remnants of the Rimon tribe to surrender, all on the same terms and promises; However, Carabes also asked the guard to bring a sentence, that is, this persuasion is already the last persuasion, either surrender or complete destruction!

In the face of such an aggressive enemy, Vaktisza did not have the toughness of last time this time; After seeing the powerful attack power of the enemy's special weapon, Vaktisa also knew that he didn't even have the capital to resist stubbornly.

After careful consideration, Vaktisa said to Aminos, who was beside him:

"Aminos, this time we really failed; These enemies from the Roman world are not powerful beings that we can deal with, and we should not start this war, nor should we provoke them.

However, it is too late to say all this now, and we can only choose to surrender; Don't think about revenge or anything after you surrender, we didn't lose to a powerful enemy, but to our own insatiable ambitions. ”

Aminos heard the implicit meaning in his father's words, and he hurried forward to comfort:

"Father, you ......"

Unfortunately, before Aminos's words could be spoken, Vaktisa directly interrupted him and said in a slightly angry voice:

"Aminos! Did you know that the Rimon tribe had a history of chieftains who surrendered to the enemy? Our tribe of Limon has never lacked leaders who have died in battle, but there have never been leaders who have surrendered; You are not the leader of the Rimon tribe, you can surrender, I can't! ”

Aminos, who spoke of the words of Vaktiza, was speechless, yes, there was no leader in the history of the Rimon tribe who surrendered to any enemy; How could a father, who regarded honor as his life, surrender to this enemy from the Roman world?

In the end, in his capacity as the leader of the Rimon tribe and the supreme commander of the coalition forces, Vaktisza gave the order to surrender to all the remnants of the army; As for whether you are willing to surrender or not, that's your own business, anyway, the order was given to Vaktisa.

After giving the order to surrender the whole army, Vaktisza ended his life with the short sword at his waist; His son, Aminos, according to the tradition of the Gallic barbarians, took up the short sword that killed his father and plunged it into his waist! (To be continued.) )