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German Total War 5200 Eastern War 056 A bloody plan to lure the enemy deeper

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    Originally, Vanius wanted to spend a little more time to repair the city of Nice before entering Italy.  ([] .)

    But now, since Caesar and the main legions under his command have arrived in Rome, the day of decisive battle is not far away.

    And this means that there is not much time left for Vannius to hone and expand his army.

    Now, what Vannius has to do is to attack quickly and destroy as many Italian manors as possible before the army led by Caesar meets him head-on.

    This is not because Vannius was greedy for the wealth of the Romans, or wanted to take revenge on the Romans, although there was indeed a lot of wealth in those Roman estates.

    In fact, this is a strategic necessity.

    The legion led by Caesar has a very strong lineup, and even Vannius cannot guarantee victory.

    Therefore, in order to increase his chances of winning, Vannius needs to bring Caesar and his legions to a home field that is favorable enough for the Germans to fight.

    And that home field is the Gaul region.

    Not long ago, the Northern Gallic Tribal Alliance, under the guidance of Vannius, created a wide no-man's belt in central Gaul.  In this no-man's land, the Gauls not only burned down all the villages, leveled all the fields, and even destroyed the roads.  As a result, any army that wants to pass through this area must prepare its own dry food and face poor road conditions.

    After Vannius's army withdrew to the north of Gaul, if Caesar followed Vannius's army to kill him, he would be cut off by no one. Although it was not completely impossible, he wanted to gain access from the rear.  It will become very difficult to replenish food supplies and soldiers.

    Later, under the control and command of Vannius, the northern Gallic tribes would also adopt a policy of fortifying the walls and clearing the country, completely cutting off Caesar's source of food and fodder. According to Caesar's style of fighting to support war and feeding on the enemy, soon  They will become weak and exhausted due to the shortage of food.

    And when Caesar became weak enough, that is when Vanius defeated Caesar.

    However, this strategy obviously has a huge loophole - Caesar does not have to pursue Vannius's main force at all.

    after all.  Mainz is also quite close to Rome, and the German Youth Commune is on the border of Mainz and Trier - in the German Youth Commune, there are all the family members of the entire Guards Corps - Vannius thinks.  If he were Caesar, he would choose to march directly into the German Youth Commune instead of chasing the German Guards around.

    Therefore, Vanius must give Caesar a reason to pursue the German Guards.

    And this reason.  That is the lives of Roman citizens and the dignity of Rome - Vannius will attack, plunder and slaughter the Romans, making the Romans regard him as a mortal enemy and must kill him.

    To this end, Vanius must attack quickly.  Go as deep into the hinterland of Italy as possible, attack and plunder those real large estates - this behavior is undoubtedly like a slap in the face of the Roman dignitaries - and, the closer you get to Rome, the status of the owners of those estates  The higher it is, the better the tactical effect will be on Vanius.

    In addition, in order to further anger the Romans, Vannius also planned to follow Pompey's example.  From the place where one withdraws his troops.  Go to the place of his decisive battle with Caesar and build a bloody road filled with crosses - of course, this time, the ones who will be crucified will not be those who followed Spartacus' rebellion, but the Romans.

    It is conceivable that when facing such a bloody road.  No matter how rational and wise Caesar is, he may not be able to suppress the desire for revenge of the Roman legionnaires - and.  He couldn't suppress this anger, otherwise it would turn him into ashes first.

    By the time.  Caesar could only follow this bloody road and come to pursue him.

    There is no doubt that this method is obviously cruel, despicable and inhumane.

    But if Vannius was defeated, there was no doubt that the Romans would use similar methods to deal with the Germans, so in the spirit of a dead friend but a poor friend, Vannius started planning without any pressure.

    It didn¡¯t take long before all the troops that Vannius wanted to take away were assembled - the Guards Corps, the Gallic Allied Army, the Northern Gallic Tribe Alliance, Bill and the United King**.

    Taking into account the fact that Italy's traffic conditions are very good and the army's marching speed is comparable to that of Gaul, Vannius mobilized all the cavalry from the three allied armies to form a cavalry brigade, and then divided it into groups of one hundred men each.  The small team was scattered around the main army, acting as scouts to avoid colliding head-on with Caesar's main army without their knowledge.

    While the army was leaving, VaniusAlso ask the British to immediately send troops to send women, children and slaves to the rear to prevent them from suffering unnecessary losses.

    At the same time, Vanius sent someone to inquire about the battle situation at Aquitaine - since Caesar has led the main legion back to Rome, there must be no large-scale legion from Spain. Maybe he sent a field army there.  The regiment can withdraw and prepare for the decisive battle with Caesar.

    On the morning of the third day, Vannius¡¯ army followed the Roman road and arrived outside Milan.

    This "ancient city" with a history of more than a hundred years has its gates tightly closed and its flags densely covered, as one faction tries its best to resist Vannius' invasion.

    However, Vanius no longer wanted to waste his precious troops on a fortified city - he personally led the Praetorian Guards to block the southern gate of Milan, and Vanius sent out three allied armies.  .

    After that, puffs of thick smoke rose up around the city of Milan.

    As the center of the Po River Plain, the wealthy city of Milan is surrounded by more and larger manors than Nice - and these manors have now become the targets of Vannius' attacks and plunders.

    Although it is not enough to attack strong city walls, when faced with the short and thin walls of ordinary farms, large shield carts and pedals are more than capable.

    Moreover, because all the garrison troops were defending the city of Milan, the attackers were able to besiege a manor with more than ten times the number of soldiers. In this way, many manors even saw the strength of the attackers and sent envoys crying for mercy.  Trying to get forgiveness, you can buy peace with money.

    However, what Vanius wanted from the beginning was not money.

    The surrenderers can put forward various conditions, but the attackers will not give any guarantee at all - under Vannius' explanation, all the attackers demand is "unconditional surrender."

    This sparked resistance on some estates.  But this resistance was quickly and easily strangled.

    After that, those who resisted were taken outside other manors to intimidate the guards of other manors.

    Facing the bloody facts, more manors chose to accept "unconditional surrender", opened their doors, and handed their lives and everything into the hands of the conquerors.

    In two full days, Vanius's army destroyed all the manors around the city of Milan, and obtained enough food to support the army for nearly two months, as well as a large amount of materials and weapons. At the same time, they obtained more than 30,000 slaves.  and more than two thousand Roman captives¡ªof course, not all of those two thousand or so were Romans.

    After selecting young men from the slaves to arm themselves and replenishing them into the Gallic Alliance Legion, Vannius gave the remaining people some weapons and armor and asked them to go west to Nice to seek refuge and training from the Macmanian Field Legion.

    After these slaves were gone, Vanius burned all the supplies that could not be taken away, took his army and more than 2,000 Roman prisoners, turned south, and marched towards Rome.

    In the next five days, Vanius traveled south, mercilessly destroying all the manors along the way, liberating and arming slaves, capturing Roman prisoners, looting and burning supplies.

    And, very fortunately, Vanius did catch a big fish - after attacking a not-so-inconspicuous manor, the Bilge captured a pair of very beautiful brothers and sisters.

    ?According to the confession of the guard, the brother and sister are the children of Cassius, the Roman senator.

    And this Cassius first followed Crassus, and after Crassus died, he supported Pompey.

    After the Battle of Pharsalus, Cassius was pardoned by Caesar and returned to Rome - there is no doubt that this senator was also very politically influential in Rome - and in history, this  A classmate named Cassius was one of the masterminds of Caesar's assassination.

    After getting the news, Vanius couldn't help but lament his luck - originally, he was worried that Caesar would be able to use his prestige to suppress the Roman legions and make them march directly to Germany instead of chasing him all the way, but now she doesn't.  Worried.

    With Cassius¡¯s children in his hands, when he crucified the Romans along the way, Cassius would inevitably urge and beg Caesar to rescue his children as soon as possible.

    At that time, even for the purpose of "not letting the Romans think that they still have a grudge against the Pompeii party", Caesar will also make an active rescue gesture - in this way, the final step in Vannius's plan  One link is considered complete - for this reason, Vanius specially ordered the soldiers to pretend to be careless and let a Roman soldier go so that he could report the news to Cassius.

    By the time the sun set on the fifth day and the cavalry scouts reported that they had discovered the Roman cavalry ahead, Vannius¡¯s army had swelled to 110,000 people.The crowd - of course, was filled with a large number of slaves of all races, as well as old, young, women and children.

    After learning that the Gallic cavalry scouts were defeated in the battle with the Roman cavalry, and that nearly a hundred cavalrymen were chased and beaten by more than twenty enemies, Vannius knew that this time, it was Caesar who was behind him.  Opposite.

    Therefore, even though he had not yet grabbed enough, Vannius immediately ordered the army to turn north - and the next step was to lure Caesar into pursuit.  (To be continued)

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