Caesar also nodded and said, "We must seize the flat field camp with the Renus River in the back, and prepare to engage the Xwephetes, and now deal with it according to the advice of Lypidaus, the tenth and seventh legions will immediately advance three romans, and form a defensive front, the eleventh and twelfth legions will dig trenches behind them, and the eighth and ninth legions will remain in the city of Besançon to keep an eye on them, and ensure that the military rations and funds are paid as soon as possible." ”

About the afternoon, the four legions, separated by three Roman miles, began to operate according to Caesar's instructions, and as soon as they crossed the Renus River, the Germanic cavalry was dispatched, a situation that was simply terrifying, and the contempt of the Roman generals for them was suddenly shattered, and the tall Germans, riding on slightly dwarfed native horses, waded through a shallow river like a swarm of ants, and suddenly launched a surprise attack on the two regular legions that had not yet gained a firm foothold.

As Lybida had predicted, Ariovistus was a very cunning man, and he understood that Caesar was absolutely wholeheartedly trying to make trouble for himself, and it was completely useless to give bribes, so he sent envoys to implement a delaying tactic to paralyze the Romans, and then the 120,000 men of the Sewefer clan took advantage of the advantage of the chariot battalion and cavalry, and advanced rapidly, determined not to let the Romans set up camp in the flat riverplain, so that Ariovistus was confident that in the following battle, he would use the advantage of cavalry to defeat the short Romans, He had absolute confidence in the cavalry of Severfher, and Caesar could only rely on the Gallic cavalry, which for the past fourteen years had been synonymous with weak chickens.

The assault of the Germanic cavalry, was dense and forgetful. It's also extremely tough. They are well trained on horseback. Thousands of cavalry ran like a big iron barrel rolling and crushing, implicated in each other, invulnerable, and all of them were shattered in front of them, and the Edoui and Secongoni cavalry at the outpost collapsed almost at once, and the 7th and 10th legions could only form a large phalanx, and these barbaric cavalry were hard to shake, and the front was a battle that shook the sky. The two auxiliaries of Lybida and Appis, although they were very worried about the situation of the brothers' troops, could only now follow the governor's request and begin to encircle the field fortifications with wood and trenches.

Then, as many people stood on the edge of the trench with pickaxes on their shoulders, the dust rose like clouds, and some 2,000 Germanic horsemen, dressed in long chain mail, changed their shields to their right hands, and the splendor of Spata's slashing sword under the saddle shone brightly. The column came out of nowhere, with mocking laughter. Swaggering past the wooden fence erected by the Eleventh and Twelfth Legions, "What are these bastards going to do!" Milu, who hurriedly put on his helmet, ran to the edge of the trench and shouted.

Riding the white owl, he calmly walked through the trench, trotted at them, then turned back, and called out to the somewhat alarmed centurions, "It is all right, they have passed through our junction and are going to the opposite Dukes Hill, about to cut off the grain route between Besançon and our camp." ”

All the centurions were silent all at once, and it didn't matter?

So in the next three days, the supplies of Besançon City could only be transported by boat, across the Renus River, and from time to time by a small group of Colored Weaver cavalry attacked by the side of the camp, and many military slaves were killed, panic and fear of war began to spread in the newly built barracks, provoking Li Bida to set up a lot of scorpion crossbows behind the wooden fence, and ordered the soldiers to see the figure of the colored Weaver, and shoot indiscriminately, although this trick is easy to injure oneself by mistake, but it is really effective, At least not later, the waterway between the camp and Besançon was much more peaceful, and there were many corpses of Germanic and Roman slaves lying outside, and a few ownerless mules and horses wandering around in between.

"The current situation is that our camp has been successfully built to accommodate four legions to advance and fight, but a considerable number of Germanic cavalry has also penetrated it, stationed in the Dukes Mountains to constantly plunder the grain routes, and attack the supplies and soldiers sent by the Gallic tribes, but our army is helpless." The joint meeting of the four legions, without the presence of Caesar and Rabinus, was presided over by Appis, and even César's most trusted commander of the Tenth Legion, Sectilius, willingly relinquished joint command to him.

"At this time, the soldiers were again intimidated by the enemy's cavalry, and many centurions anxiously hoped for a decisive battle with the Severians as soon as possible, which was a dangerous thought." Appis continued, "Therefore I ask the commanders and tribunes to restrain their camps, to hold on to the fences and trenches, and to wait quietly for the next instructions of His Excellency the Governor, and to ignore the provocations of the enemy, and let the new soldiers do the hard work of fortification, which may wear down their spirits, and let the veterans do the defense. ”

As a result, the indecisive small-scale cavalry battles, in the next three days, continued to be carried out, most of the results were still the victory of the Sewefers, and the defeat of the Aeduis, and the camp was surrounded by shouts of killing, Li Bida took Sabo and others, stood behind the wooden fence and carefully observed the Germanic cavalry battle, Sabo often bit his lip, while wiping dust and sweat on his face, he continued to carefully draw the Tao on the papyrus, and he was statistically summarizing the laws of the Germanic cavalry offensive operations.

When the Germanic cavalry charged, it was in a phalanx nature, they were not really good at fighting in the saddle alone, but gathered together, using spears and swords to highlight a bloody path, and in the previous peace talks, Aliovistus was right, each of the Swefer noble cavalry was indeed accompanied by a squire, who sometimes walked with a flying spear to cover the master of the horse, and sometimes could also grasp the master's mane or tail, and gallop or raid with his feet with the master.

It seems that this squire is a multiplier of the combat effectiveness of the Germanic cavalry.

And Li Bida was silent, looking at the dotted torches of Dukes Mountain in the evening mist on the side.

In the evening, a group of rough Sweever cavalry under Dukes Hill stopped the unlucky Roman herald with a laugh and scream, one of the horsemen first raised his spear above his head and plunged diagonally into the back of the herald, and the other man fell off his horse with a scream, and then another nobleman of Sewver jumped down and stabbed his sword into the back of the neck of the herald who was still writhing, and the blood was spread all over the grass, and the nobleman took out a stack of wordboards from the deceased's box, and felt that it was not interesting, anyway, he couldn't read Latin, so he threw the wordboards everywhere, He got on his horse, shouted with his companions, and swept away other prey.

The dead herald's men still had a blood-stained tablet with the inscription "Calabis. Aemilius. Gao Nerlius. Marcos F. Lypidaus, to dear Poti and his children, "The blood gradually penetrated the texture of the words, and slowly turned into a dark color that became one with the night, and was blurred. (To be continued......)