After receiving an urgent report from the scouts, Wang Jun ran to the battlements of the military village with his generals.

Tonight's night is dark and windy, it is a good time to kill people and sell goods, the enemy chose this time to come, and the time is good.

But...... Is the sky south of Mao red?

This Celtic is really too bold... The night raid also brought torches.

Maybe it's because people living on the grasslands are different from people living in the mountains!

The Picts in Britain are in a state of war all year round, experienced in mountain and forest combat, very fond of night raids, and will never go out with torches at night; In addition, the number of Pickts who carry out sneak attacks at night is small, so it is more suitable to command and avoid accidental injury.

The Celts, who lived in Ireland, preferred to fight during the day; Moreover, they have returned tens of thousands of people.

For the first time in hundreds of years, the Celts in Ireland united, and in addition to the dozen or so small tribes in the north that had been subdued by the Romans, dozens of tribes in the central and southern regions worked together; For every Celtic warrior who participated in the war, who had not fought for decades, and suddenly could participate in a battle, or participate in such a large battle, the emotions were quite excited, the confidence was innumerable, and the nerves were extremely excited......

But for the dozens of enthusiastic tribal leaders, there was a big problem in front of them.

What kind of command, how kind of coordination?

It's okay to talk about it during the day, even if the tribes cooperate with each other a little messily, but at least they won't cut at their own people; It's just that the operation is scheduled at night, how can these more than 60,000 people do it?

Dogs and war horses can't solve the problem of night recognition and coordination, so only roaring and torches can be used.

Speaking of which, for the Celtic Combined Armed Forces without a professional military commander, no matter what the enemy thinks, no matter what the reader thinks, anyway, this torch is settled.

(Looking through the historical cases of the night war, the author was very moved when he saw some materials on the Korean War.) Under the faint moonlight, tens of millions of Chinese soldiers were crossing the mountains and mountains, hungry and enduring the bitter cold, running for hundreds of miles in a row, and immediately entering the battle when they arrived at the place; During the attack, they fell to their deaths, did not get up again after falling down, and froze to death, and many soldiers fell forever on foreign lands; Respectable! Alas! ）

Under the glow of the fire dragons, dense figures approached Belfast from south, west, southeast and other directions.

Because of the Celts' flamboyant marching style, the Wang army gained more time to prepare.

After taking Belfast, Deputy Commander Villeries combined the characteristics of the bow and crossbow to build a new type of camp, which made the camp not only tall and strong, but also greatly increased the lethality when defending; At this time, Wang Jun realized what a wonderful thing it was to have such a steady assistant as Villeris, because he was still thinking about playing Villeries to maintain stability a few days ago.

6 meters away from the outer wall of the strong and tall battlements, a huge trench 5 meters wide and 3 meters deep, surrounding the entire camp, is the first line of defense of the new camp; At the bottom of the trench, there are countless sharp wooden stakes, although they cannot be compared with the sharpness of metal weapons, but people fall directly from above, and the results are not optimistic; With the officer's order, the gates of the camp on all sides were fully opened, and the soldiers who rushed out quickly pulled out barrels of fire oil and poured them all the way down the trench.

On the inside of the battlement walkway, the general Roman military practice was to erect load-bearing wooden piles every five meters, but when Villeries was building, he asked the soldiers to build the load-bearing wooden piles one by one, and completely built a circle of wooden fences on the inside; In fact, except that it is not necessary to be 1.2 meters higher than the walkway like the outer fence, there is not much difference between the two, and between the wood and the wood of the wooden fence, the short sword cannot be inserted, and it is tight. Regardless of whether it is the inside or outside of the battlements, Villeries has opened dozens of centimeters of shooting holes at a height of 1.5 meters above the ground, one every 1.5 meters, and in order to make it easier for soldiers to enter and exit the inside of the battlements, some fence gates are also set up on the wooden fences on the inside of the battlements that can be opened and closed, and can be locked inside.

Except that it was a wooden structure, the battlements around the camp were no different from stone walls, and more soldiers could be hidden inside; In order to cope with the greatest drawback of the wooden structure of the building, a layer of cloth bags filled with sea sand was laid on the walkway of the battlements, and a large number of sandbags were piled up under the outer edges of the inner walls of the battlements to meet the needs of wartime.

Walking 60 meters from the inside of the outer battlements to the camp, there is a high wooden fence; Inspired by the mouth-moving Wang Jun, Villeries built an inner battlement that was identical to the outer battlements, except that the circumference was much smaller and there was no ditch on the outside. After the Battle of Glasgow, Wang Jun proposed that the camp should be designed with an inner and outer city structure, and this proposal was well absorbed by Villeries and put into practice in the construction of this new camp.

The inner battlements go further in, the camp is full of thousands of buildings similar to the bunker form of later generations, the two-meter-high flat roof is covered with sandbags, after entering the house, I find that the ground in this house has been dug down dozens of centimeters, the space is not bad, but the number of "windows" is a little more, and the opening of the "windows" is too small.

The absence of tents is a huge change inside the camp; Since it is a permanent surname building, Wang Jun still supports his subordinates to invest manpower and material resources to do a good job; The tent is only used as a temporary camp, it has no protection, it is more flammable than wood, it is just easy to carry and easy to set up.

In the camp near the inner battlements, there was a relatively simple "bunker" in each of the four directions, south, east, west, and north, and the gate was three times larger than the other "bunkers" that served as dormitories for officers and soldiers; This is another "invention" of Wang Jun, from these four "bunkers" can directly enter the interior of the outer battlements from the spacious underground passages, that is, the soldiers in the camp can go to the outer battlements in a concealed and safe way, and the soldiers in the outer battlements can be concealed to withdraw to the inside of the camp.

As the battle was imminent, Wang's army quickly recovered the infantry that had been deployed in the town of Belfast to maintain law and order, and the expatriate scouts were also withdrawn one after another; The cavalry regiment had Otta lead all the way north, to hide near Barlicaire, a dozen kilometers away, and then return at dawn to enter the battle at his own choosing.

The Celtic infantry formed two brigades, a total of 1,200 troops, all of which were now sent to the outer battlements to take charge of the guard; Their families have been sent to live in Britain by the shameless Clark, and the Clark King's army has obtained the qualification of third-class citizens of Rome for the families of the soldiers, and the military salary for another three months has been paid directly to the families to take away, and now these Celtic soldiers are very well-behaved.

The outer battlements are square, with a length of 500 meters on the outer edge, and a circle is 2 kilometers.

Clarke, the general of the Second Corps, personally led 2 battalions of hoplites and 2 battalions of Celtic infantry to guard the outer battlements; 2 squadrons were placed on each side of the battlements, and the other 1 squadron rested against the inner wall under the corresponding battlements, and could be put into battle at any time as the first reserve; And in the four underground passages that traversed the inner and outer battlements, two brigades of hoplites were resting in place waiting for orders, and they were considered Clark's second reserve.

Clark patrolled the battlements in full armor, and in the battlements beneath his feet, four brigades of miscellaneous soldiers were hiding inside, watching through the small shooting holes in the thick wooden fence, each armed with a bow and crossbow, waiting for the battle.

Alex, the general of the Fourth Legion, with a longbow in his hand, stood in the open ground between the inner and outer battlements on the south side of the camp; Behind Alex, there were 2 brigades of hoplites, 1 brigade of crossbowmen, 1 brigade of archers, and the soldiers of the entire 4 brigades lined up in a neat rectangular battle formation; The crossbowmen are on the outside of the archers, and each crossbowmen or archers have a hoplite armed with a shield in front of them; The open field in the other three directions was also arranged with the same number of troops as here, and the open field was not dug and dilapidated like the battle of Glasgow, and it was very smooth.

The inner battlements were all defended by light infantry, half of whom stayed on the battlements and the other half rested under the inner battlements; The inside of the battlements was empty, and there were no soldiers in it for the time being. The gates on all sides of the inner battlements were wide open, and they were guarded by Hoge and other guards, and if the enemy had the ability to attack the outer battlements, Hoge and them would have something to do, in fact, the same was true for the light infantry.

In the inner camp, Deputy Commander Villeries was directing the soldiers to place ranged weapons near the edge of the battlements, with 10 trebuchets and 10 bed crossbows on each side; The Celts defending against "infantry control" used weapons such as trebuchets to "fight mosquitoes with cannons", but in Wang Jun's words, it was better than nothing. There are still some auxiliary soldiers who are older or less physically strong, and all of them are ordered to stay in their respective "bunkers" and sleep; As for whether to sleep or not, this Wang Jun can't help it.

At midnight, the combined Celtic army, which lacked coordination, arrived one after another; Tens of thousands of torches, reflecting the night sky of Belfast, barking dogs, neighing horses, and the roaring of human beings, this is more lively than the devils Wang Jun knows about entering the village.

Something unexpected happened

Wang Jun did not expect that the tribal coalition army that arrived in Belfast first did not immediately attack the military camp located on the outskirts of the city, but ran to bloody the entire town! The reason for the massacre was very simple, the people of the town surrendered to the Romans.

Now in Belfast, most of them are from the Bretto and Katua tribes, and a few are from other tribes in the northern part of Ireland; These people, mostly old men, women and children, could hardly believe that they had not died at the hands of the Roman invaders, but at the hands of their own people.

In less than an hour, more than 10,000 people in the towns of Belfast were slaughtered by the combined army of their kind; The houses of the inhabitants were lit with torches, and the raging fire was devouring everything in a frenzy.

Two brigades of Celtic infantry climbed the waist wall of the battlements to watch all this; On the one hand, they were glad that their families had been sent to live in Britain by the "shameless" General Clark, and on the other hand, they hated the former people on the other side; More than 10,000 old people, women and children! And some of the soldiers are from the Bretto tribe, although their immediate family members went to Britain, but there are still many of their own relatives, neighbors, and their own houses in this city, and there are so many of them!

There was a roar of rage on the battlements, and the slightest resentment of the Romans was completely overshadowed by the hatred that had sprung up tonight.

"That's a good deal, I'm sorry!"

Wang Jun appeared on the outer battlements on the south side with a longbow specially made for himself, staring at the Celtic coalition troops that were slowly surrounding from afar.

At the rear of the Babataean tribe's ranks, Dukaru's old face looked a little cloudy in the light of the torches; Sitting on a large chair carried by eight warriors, Dukaru could see the general outline of the exterior of the Roman barracks in the distance. In fact, Dukaru was far from being as great as the common people of Ireland had claimed, he was, after all, a man, and a man who, through countless killings, had achieved his present position; If the situation is not right, his first consideration will inevitably only be the interests of the Babataean tribe.

The slaughter of the inhabitants of Belfast by the tribal coalition was not an order given by Dukaru, and God knows which tribe's warriors did it first, anyway, many warriors were involved later; However, Dukaru did not intervene to stop it, but sat back and watched the tragedy.

Let the coalition have some blood on their hands, and the morale will be a little higher, even if the blood is the Celts' own; In addition, subconsciously, Dukaru did not want other tribes to surrender to the Romans in the future, so that the Romans would gain more and more resources and soon be able to gain a foothold in Ireland; And the massacre caused by the chaos just served as an example to others, so that other tribes would have to weigh again and again if they wanted to surrender in the future.

Dukaru is very mentally active, which seems to be in stark inverse proportion to his physical condition.

The Romans were really well built, taller and bigger than they had seen in Gaul when they were younger, and if they attacked it, they would have lost a lot of people...... Well, why don't you let the other tribes try it first?