Augustus Road

Caesar also nodded and said, "We must seize the field camp on the flat land backed by the Renus River and prepare to fight the Serweavers. Now we will deal with it according to Lepidus' suggestion. The Tenth and Seventh Legions will immediately advance for three days. A defensive line was set up in Rome, and the 11th and 12th legions dug trenches behind it, while the 8th and 9th legions stayed in Besançon to monitor and ensure that military rations and funds were paid as soon as possible."

Around the afternoon, the four legions were separated by three Roman miles and began to operate in accordance with Caesar's requirements. As a result, as soon as they crossed the Renus River, the German cavalry was dispatched in full force. This situation was simply terrifying. Just now, Rome The general's contempt for them was immediately shattered. The tall Germans rode slightly short native horses, wading through a shallow river like a swarm of ants, and suddenly faced two regular legions whose footing was not stable. An assault was launched.

As Lepidus expected, Ariovistus was a very cunning man. He understood that Caesar was absolutely committed to causing trouble for himself, and it was completely useless to send bribes, so he sent envoys to implement a delaying strategy to paralyze Rome. Then the 120,000 Serves took advantage of their chariots, camps and cavalry to advance rapidly, determined not to let the Romans set up camp on the flat river plains, so that Ariovistus would have the confidence to attack the people below. In the battle, he took advantage of the cavalry to defeat the short Romans. He had absolute confidence in Seweve's cavalry. All Caesar could rely on was the Gallic cavalry. In the past fourteen years, the Gallic cavalry had been ineffective in his eyes. Here is synonymous with weak chicken.

The assault of the German cavalry was intensive, reckless, and extremely powerful. They were well-trained on horseback. Thousands of cavalry ran like a rolling iron barrel, interlocking with each other and invulnerable. All those who stood in front were shattered to pieces. The Aedui and Seguanni cavalry at the outpost collapsed almost immediately. The Seventh Army and the Tenth Army had no choice but to form a large square formation and fight against these barbaric cavalry. In front of them were The sound of fighting was loud. Although the two auxiliary legions of Lepidus and Apis behind were very worried about the fighting situation of their brothers, they could only follow the governor's request and began to surround the field fortifications with wood and trenches.

Then, when many people were standing on the edge of the trench carrying pickaxes, dust rolled up like clouds. About two thousand German cavalry, wearing long chain mail, uniformly changed their shields to their right hands, under the saddles. The light of Sparta's sword was dazzling, and the columns came out of nowhere, with mocking laughter, swaggering past the wooden fence built by the 11th and 12th legions, "These bastards are going to What are you doing!" Milu hurriedly put on his helmet and ran to the ditch.

Riding a white owl, Lepidus calmly crossed the ditch and trotted towards them. Then he turned back and shouted to the panicked centurions, "It doesn't matter, they are passing through our junction. To go to the Dukes Mountain on the opposite side, it is about to cut off the grain road between Besançon and our camp. "

Suddenly all the centurions were silent. Is this okay?

So in the next three days, the supplies for the city of Besançon could only be transported across the Renus River by small boats. From time to time, they were attacked by small groups of Seweaver cavalry near the camp, and many troops were killed. The slaves, panic and fear of war began to spread in the newly built military camp again, prompting Lepidah to set up many scorpion crossbows behind the wooden fence, and ordered the soldiers to ignore the indiscriminate actions when they saw the colored Weaver people. Shoot, although this trick is easy to accidentally damage one's own side, it is really effective. At least the waterway between the camp and Besançon will be much calmer soon. There are many corpses of Germans and Roman slaves lying outside, including several Ownerless mules and horses wandered hesitantly among them.

"The current situation is that our camp has been successfully built and can accommodate four legions to advance and fight. However, a considerable number of German cavalry has also passed through and is stationed at Dukes Mountain to continuously plunder the grain road. , attacking the supplies and soldiers sent by the Gallic tribe, but our army was helpless." At the joint meeting of the four legions, without Caesar and Labienus present, it was presided over by Apis, even among Caesar's most trusted ten. The commander of the legions, Sercydelius, was also willing to give up the joint command to this man.

"At this moment, the soldiers were intimidated by the enemy's cavalry again. Many centurions anxiously hope to fight the Sewefer people as soon as possible. This is a dangerous idea." Apis continued, "So I I request all commanders and tribunes to restrain their camps, stick to the fences and trenches, wait patiently for the next instructions from His Excellency the Governor, and ignore the enemy's provocations, leaving the hard work of fortification to the new soldiers. Doing it can wear down their spirit, but let the veterans do it.”

As a result, small-scale cavalry battles without decisive significance continued continuously for the next three days. Most of the results were still that the Sewefu people won and the Aedui people lost. There were shouts all day long around the camp. When the killing sound came, Lepidus took Sabo and others to stand behind the wooden fence and carefully observed the German cavalry battle. Sabo often bit his lip, wiped the dust and sweat from his face, and kept writing on the papyrus. Drawing the lines carefully, he was statistically summarizing the patterns of German cavalry offensive operations.

When the German cavalry charged, they were in a phalanx formation. They were not good at fighting alone on the saddle, but gathered together to use spears and swords to carve out a bloody path. And Areovistus was right in his defense during the previous peace talks. Each Sever noble cavalryman was indeed followed by a servant. Sometimes the servant walked with a flying spear to cover the master on the horse, and sometimes he could grab the master's mane or tail and gallop or raid with his master with his feet.

It seems that this servant is the multiplier of the German cavalry's combat effectiveness.

And Lepidus was silent, staring at the twinkling torches of Mount Dux in the evening mist on the side.

At night, a group of rough Sewefer cavalrymen at the foot of Dukes Mountain stopped the unlucky Roman messenger with laughter and shouts. One cavalryman first raised his spear above his head and stabbed the messenger's back diagonally. The messenger screamed and fell off his horse. Then another Sewefer nobleman jumped down and stabbed the messenger's neck with his sword. The blood was spread all over the grass. The nobleman took out a stack of tablets from the dead man's box and found it boring. Anyway, he couldn't read Latin, so he threw the tablets on the ground, got on his horse, and shouted with his companions to sweep away other prey.

The dead messenger's men also put a bloody tablet on it, which was engraved with "Carabis. Aemilius. Cornelius. Marcus f. Lipidus, to my dear Boti and children..." The blood gradually penetrated the texture of the words, and slowly turned into a dark color that merged with the night, and it was unclear. (To be continued.)