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Caesar's choice to march west into the region of Agripometh also had his own reasonable analysis; In Caesar's view, the Mainz tribe in the region of Agripumat must have gathered all their military forces in the border area under the invasion of Flavis' army to fight against Flavis's invading army.

If this were not the case, the army of the Mainz tribe would not have been able to inflict heavy damage on the three legions led by Flavies himself; What's more, while the Mainz tribe has inflicted heavy losses on the Julius army, it must have paid a very heavy price for itself.

Especially now, the army of Flavis is still stationed in the territory of Agridigumat, and the army of the Mainz tribe is also being led by its leader Odovaka to confront the army of the House of Julius; If nothing else, both Flavis, the leader of the Julius family, and Odovaka, the leader of the Mainz tribe, are actively accumulating strength for the next round of decisive battles.

Caesar, as the heir personally chosen by Flavies, naturally it is not difficult to know that Flavis has issued an order to the nominal heir of the family to form a recruit corps to reinforce the front line; Quintus Julius is Caesar's second uncle, and Caesar certainly knows what kind of person his second uncle is, and he is not a qualified family heir at all.

In terms of ability, Caesar's second uncle is not a little worse than the uncle who was the captain of the Bull Army in the past; The former was just a disciple of Governor Arimiron, while the latter was a well-known battlefield general. Caesar knew that if Uncle had not died in Sicily, the heirs of the House of Julius would not have to argue at all.

In terms of quality, Caesar's second uncle was even inferior to Caesar's father, Vibius Julius; Although Caesar did not get along very well with his father, Caesar had to admit that his father was indeed a gentleman of good character, as can be seen from his insistence that the family should be inherited by Caesar's second uncle, not Caesar.

However, Quintus Julius is not useless, in addition to the good order of his birth, he also has another characteristic that is more prominent, that is, he is very obedient; In particular, the words of Flavis's father were regarded by him as a golden rule.

Therefore, Caesar can be sure that after his second uncle receives the order of his grandfather Flavis, he will definitely do his best to form a new army of recruits and send them to the battlefield where his grandfather Flavis is; With the reinforcements of new soldiers, the Julius army will re-establish its battlefield superiority over the Mainz tribes, and the Mainz tribes will definitely gather more troops accordingly.

In this way, both the Julius family and the Mainz tribe have to face a helpless fact; That is, the excessive concentration of military forces at the front has led to the emptiness of the rear of both the Julius family and the Mainz tribe.

The Julius family is slightly better in this regard, after all, with the presence of Marius, Flavis has always kept two of the most elite legions of the Julius family on the ground to defend against the capricious Marius; And the Mainz tribe doesn't have that strength.

Caesar's strategy was to take advantage of the emptiness in the rear of the Mainz tribes to gather all his forces and march directly from the border between the Caddy and Macomani regions to the west of the Aglidigumat region; If nothing else, it only takes five days for Caesar's army to reach the outside of Mainz!

As long as your own army can take the city of Mainz in one fell swoop, and then flank the main army of the Mainz tribe with the army led by Flavies himself; Once the Mainz tribe is finished, the combined forces of the Julius family can turn the tide and reassert their superiority in the Agripugumat region.

It doesn't matter if you can't take the city of Mainz, or even if you can't completely annihilate the main army of the Mainz tribe, as long as the two armies of the Julius family can successfully join forces, then the situation is not so irreparable for the Julius family.

After being unable to resist the combined attack of several Germanic barbarian tribes, the army of the Julius family could completely abandon this Germanic barbarian strategy plan and withdraw all the armies to the Norikum area; With the elite army of the Ulius family, combined with the home advantage in the Norikum area, it is impossible for the Germanic counterattack army to penetrate the territory of the Ulius family.

In this way, the Julius family wasted months of precious time, and lost a newly occupied barren province of Poheim; Such a loss was not unacceptable to the Julius family, nor was it a terrible loss.

Compared to this choice, the choice to stay is more difficult; According to the current situation, it will only take three days at most, and the army led by Caesar will be caught in the front and rear of the Damm tribe and the Germanic rebels.

You know, the enemy army is a Germanic barbarian warrior with an army of nearly 70,000; Even if the 30,000 warriors of the rebels are not strong, the combat effectiveness of the 30,000 elite warriors of the Dam tribe should not be underestimated, plus the 10,000 cavalry troops of the Gothic tribe, if Caesar's army is defeated, there will be no chance to escape.

In view of this, Caesar would not have considered the option of staying and fighting to the death, which would be a dead death in Caesar's eyes! The option of marching west is the only option that can turn the crisis situation of the Julius family around; Naturally, Caesar did not hesitate to give this order and asked his soldiers to carry it out.

The soldiers of the three legions all knew the fact that there were large-scale enemy forces in front and behind them, and they were just ordinary soldiers, so they were naturally unwilling to choose the path of death; Therefore, they strongly supported Caesar's westward strategy.

In fact, the situation in the region of Agripugumat at this time was not as favorable to Julius as Caesar had imagined; After that trap, the Mainz army of Odovaka did come into a confrontation with the army of the Julius family of Flavies, but it was Eudovaca's army that was in the ascendancy.

After 4,000 dead and wounded in the camp of the House of Julius, the total number of Odovaka's army fell to 14,000, including only 2,000 Germanic female warriors; However, Odovaka soon received 5,000 warriors from the Trier tribe and 3,000 warriors from the Badawi tribe, and the total strength was restored to 22,000.

The army of the Julius family of Flavies, after the equipment brigades of the three legions in the rear arrived at the front, regained the combat effectiveness of some of the wounded, but the total strength was still only fifteen thousand, a full seven thousand fewer than the army of the Mainz tribe.

The two sides, which were not in a hurry to go to war after receiving additional reinforcements, were still waiting for more reinforcements from each side; The three new legions of recruits formed by the Julius family will soon arrive, and the first 20,000 warriors that Ares has helped Odovaka train in the city of Mainz will soon be ready to join the battle, and both Flavis and Odovaka are waiting for this force to join.

On the third day of Caesar's march westward, Odovaka received 20,000 Germanic warriors initially trained by Ares, with a total strength of 42,000; And Flavis, after 30,000 Gallic barbarian warriors arrived at the front line, with 45,000 soldiers, the total strength even surpassed the army of the Mainz tribe!

At this time, Caesar's army was only about two days away from the city of Mainz, and those who remained in the city were Ares and his three hundred warriors, as well as fifteen thousand Germanic barbarian warriors in the area of Agridigumat, who were being trained.

Originally, Ares did not have so many warriors left in the city of Mainz, but the large army recruited by Odovaka forced Ares to call in more Sorrowful Dead soldiers to help him train his army; With the addition of these men, Ares was able to train the 20,000-strong army to reinforce Odovaka so quickly and easily, and to retrain the 15,000 warriors in the city.

More importantly, on the first day of Caesar's army turning around and marching west, Ares knew the movements of Caesar's army and began to actively prepare for war; In other words, from the very beginning, Caesar needed to face not the empty rear of the Mainz tribe, but the fifteen-thousand-strong army that Ares had helped organize for the Mainz tribe!

In the rear of Caesar's army, about two days or so away, were the combined army of the Damu tribe and the rebels in the Macomani area; After it was established that the invading army of the House of Julius had turned westward, the armies of the Damm and Gothic tribes led by Arminius consulted with the Germanic armies in the Macomani region of Vercaris.

Arminius felt that all the Germanic tribes were one family, and that they must be united in the face of the invasion of the Julius family; Since the army of the House of Julius has diverted into the region of Aglidigumat, it is also necessary to organize a united army to continue the pursuit to avoid the huge losses of the unprepared Mainz tribe.

Naturally, Langadis and Vercaris would not oppose the suggestion of the respected Arminius, so they organized a new combined army, consisting of 10,000 elite warriors of the Damm tribe and 10,000 cavalry of the Gothic tribe, as well as 10,000 warriors from the Macomani region; The commander-in-chief was still Arminius, and the other two commanders were Langadis and Macuy.

In addition to the 30,000 troops, 5,000 of the remaining 15,000 Dam tribe troops will return to the Dam tribe, and the other 10,000 elite warriors will follow Vrkaris back to the Makomani region to help him restabilize the Makomani region; And Vercaris also said that for the sake of the stability of the Germanic tribes in the Macomani region, he will only keep a maximum of 10,000 soldiers after returning to the army! (To be continued.) )