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Since there was no longer an order from the Julius family, Carabes no longer needed to find a way to delay the attack on the Germanic barbarians, and the freed Calabes immediately turned his attention to the Belgian region further north, which was now empty.

According to the information of the tragic dead, the Alesian tribe had been in contact with the British barbarians in Belgium before they set out to conquer the Trier tribes, and the two sides even agreed to join forces to launch an attack on the Germanic barbarians; While Brenus led an army of 40,000 Gauls to attack Upper Germania, the British barbarians also had an army of 46,000 to attack Lower Germania.

In contrast to the Alesian tribes, which had only 10,000 recruits stationed in their homeland, the British barbarians left behind a full 20,000 elite warriors in the Belgian region; These British warriors from overseas did have strong combat effectiveness and an amazing will to fight.

With Karabes' current strength, he was able to assemble no more than twenty thousand troops for battle; Except for the 13,000 soldiers of the First Legion, none of the soldiers of the other legions had the strength to fight the 20,000-strong British barbarian army head-on.

As for the Alesian warriors who were temporarily loyal to Karabes, their capture by Karabes' army in battle speaks for itself; It is still small to expect these people to assist the soldiers of the Sixth Legion in fighting the Gallic barbarian tribes, and it is relatively weak and pale to deal with the elite warriors of the British barbarians.

More importantly, the Tragic Dead gave Calabes an important suggestion on this matter; After all, Calabes was a member of the titular Julius family, and in order to gain the friendship and trust of the Germanic barbarians, it was crucial to help the Germanic barbarians attack the British barbarians before the Germanic barbarians fought back against the British barbarians.

As long as Carabis was able to lead his army to capture the Belgian region, and then attack from the rear of the army of the British barbarians who had invaded the Germanic regions; The Tragic Dead had a way to mediate with the Germanic barbarians, so that the Germanic barbarians and Karabes could be at peace in the border areas.

Otherwise, with the special status of Calabes, coupled with his act of picking up bargains in Greater Gaul, it would inevitably cause the displeasure of the entire Germanic barbarians; When the Germanic barbarians took full control of the situation, it was inevitable that they would become hostile to Karabes, who occupied Greater Gaul, and that they were a real threat to Karabes.

Even Calabes himself had to admit that his own strength alone was indeed not enough to deal with the strong pressure of the Germanic barbarians; After all, the strength of the Germanic barbarians is not blown, it is really hit.

Those former glories aside, even the war that is now taking place against the Germanic barbarians is enough to make Calabes, who has received detailed information, feel frightened; From the day the war began, the army of the House of Julius had never even achieved absolute superiority in any battle, and ended the battle with heavier casualties than the Germanic barbarians.

The fact that the hoplites of the House of Julius have repeatedly fought such a record against the warriors of the Germanic barbarians speaks for itself a lot; If the warriors of the Germanic barbarians were equipped with sophisticated weapons and equipment, the consequences would be unimaginable, and who would still be the opponent of the Germanic warriors?

This, of course, was one of the reasons why the Germanic barbarian warriors were so strong; It is precisely because these Germanic barbarian warriors did not have sophisticated weapons and equipment and good living conditions that they honed strong and fearless Germanic warriors.

Now these powerful warriors have a strong will to fight and superb fighting skills, if they are given enough sophisticated weapons and equipment; Calabis still felt that there would be an army in the world that would be so strong that it would be almost invincible.

To be sure, Carabes was unwilling to be an enemy of such a powerful Germanic barbarian, nor was he willing to leave behind such a safe hazard; After the capture of Greater Gaul, the last three tribes of the entire Gallic barbarian tribe remained.

The land of Gaul has been divided into two parts, east and west, the east is occupied by Carabes, and from south to north are the Extra-mountain Gaul, Aquitani, and Greater Gaul; The western part of the country was occupied by the last three tribes of the Gallic barbarians, from south to north were the Narbang Gaul, Lugdunansis, and Amaurica.

The area of these three Gallic barbarian regions is larger than the three regions already occupied by Calabes, and even if Calabes can successfully take the Belgian region, the ruling areas of the two sides will be roughly equal; However, Karabes had a hunch that it would not be so easy to complete the attack on these three tribes next.

The Gallic barbarians are not fools, and after the destruction of four of the seven tribes in succession, especially the most powerful Alesian tribe, it must have put the remaining three Gallic barbarian tribes in danger; In the face of such an existential crisis, the Gallic barbarians are no longer united, and the three tribes will also unite under the pressure of survival.

The strength of Amaurica's Rennes tribe is very poor, and it is simply a vulnerable existence; However, the Mathias tribe in the Narpung Gaul region and the Lyon tribe in the Lugdunansis region were not to be underestimated, and it was difficult to defeat them in a single battle.

The crux of the matter was that if Calabis really wanted to dominate the whole of Gaul, it would be almost impossible to avoid simultaneous war with the three remaining Gallic barbarian tribes; With the current strength of Calabes, if you want to fight with these three Gallic barbarian tribes at the same time, it is inevitable that you will not be able to do it.

Therefore, for Carabes, once he decided to go to war, he must gather all his strength and devote himself to attacking; Before that, Carabis would at least need to expand his army to a larger size, otherwise he would not be able to cope with the war.

At this time, another problem became more prominent, that is, the attitude of the Germanic barbarians; If the Germanic barbarians were hostile to Karabes, it would have been impossible for them to assemble their entire army for the conquest of the Gallic barbarians.

There is no way, the powerful Germanic barbarians are always difficult to reassure; Calabis had to leave enough troops behind to guard against a possible attack by the Germanic barbarians, which was unavoidable for his own safety.

However, the suggestion of the tragic dead man gave Calabes another choice, that is, to do his best to send troops to the Belgian region at this time, and help the Germanic barbarians to fight against the British barbarian army at all costs, and gain the friendship of the Germanic barbarians.

Did the friendship of the Germanic barbarians matter? For a power that did not border the Germanic barbarians, this was simply inconsequential; But for Karabes, who bordered the Germanic barbarians, the friendship of the Germanic barbarians was extremely important.

What's more, the Belgian region was originally the richest region in the entire barbarian world after the Germanic barbarian Cadi region; As long as Carabes could occupy Belgium, he would gain the friendship of the Germanic barbarians, and he would also gain an important economic development area that would support his independence from the Julius family.

Such a choice to kill two birds with one stone is worth the price for Carabes, no matter how big the price is, Carabis is willing to fight for it; As a result, Calabes began to recruit troops in Greater Gaul in order to accumulate strength to attack the British barbarians!

When the Sixth Legion and the improvised army of captives conquered the tribes of Greater Gaul, the vast majority of them chose to submit to a powerful enemy; For these tribes who were willing to submit, Calabes ruled them according to the previous pattern of rule in the Aquitani region.

The Gallic barbarian tribes of all Greater Gaul, the elite warriors of their tribes, were drawn out and sent to the barracks outside Alesia; By the time Anelin's Sixth Legion had completed the conquest of Calabes, there were nearly 5,000 Gallic warriors in the camp of Calabes.

Coupled with the improvised Gallic barbarian warriors, Karabes naturally would not waste the powerful combat power of these nearly two legions in vain; In order to make these legions have good combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Karabes decided to split the Sixth Legion!

The 7,000 soldiers of the fully manned Sixth Legion will be split into the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Legions by Carabes; Each of these three legions will have more than 2,000 soldiers of the original Sixth Legion, and the remaining 4,000 or so will be replenished by the Gallic barbarian warriors of the Greater Gallic region in the barracks.

The commander of the Sixth Legion was still General Anelin, but Aminos was drawn from Karabes; Tusus, the former hoplite commander of the 1st Legion, will serve as the commander of the 7th Legion, and the former commander of the 1st Legion's Youth Army will serve as the commander of the 8th Legion.

After the reorganization and reorganization, the overall combat effectiveness of the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Army Corps will decline greatly compared with the previous Sixth Army Corps, but the absolute increase in number will enhance the overall combat effectiveness of the army; Carabis believed that the three generals under his command would soon be able to raise the combat effectiveness of these three legions and become even stronger than the previous Sixth Legion!

The reason why Carabis transferred Aminos from the Sixth Legion was not because Carabis did not trust Aminos, nor was it that Aminos was not able to serve as the lieutenant general of the Sixth Legion, but because Carabis lacked enough generals to take on important responsibilities, and he wanted Aminos to play a more important role.

The First Legion, named after Carabes, is the most powerful legion under Carabes; However, after the transfer of two generals in succession, there will be a serious vacancy in the general of the First Legion, and Aminos was selected by Calabes to be the commander of the most elite hoplites, which is much more important than a lieutenant general of the legion! (To be continued.) )