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Germanic Total War 5200 Eastern War 077 Establishment of the Thracian Kingdom

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    Although he had absolutely no faith in the ideals of Lucullus the Younger, Vannius sent another envoy to respond to the Roman proposal.

    The victory of Thrace is imperative.  ([] ) Even, Vannius is still planning to overthrow Spain by the way - therefore, regarding the status of Thrace, Vannius's proposal is to "wait until other matters related to peace negotiations are roughly  Let¡¯s talk about it after reaching an agreement.¡±

    As for the garrison, Vannius agreed that both sides had the right to garrison anywhere in their territory.

    However, regarding Caesar¡¯s assassins, Vannius solemnly warned the Romans while agreeing not to force the Romans to hand them over.

    According to Germanic rules, when a member of a family is killed, unless the murderer can come up with a compensation that satisfies all the main family members, everyone in the family will naturally inherit this hatred.  , and will avenge those who were killed.

    Therefore, after Caesar was assassinated, as Caesar's son-in-law, Vanius naturally and legally inherited this hatred and inherited the obligation to avenge his father-in-law.

    This warning was given in front of Poppaea in the camp of Vannius - no doubt it made Poppaea feel better.

    At the same time, Vannius also wrote a reply to Lucullus, telling him that he could summon as many kings as possible to come to a meeting to discuss matters about peaceful coexistence and common prosperity of all countries. At the same time, Vannius  Us also made it clear in his reply that he had no confidence in the Romans who were accustomed to using slave labor and squandering taxes collected from vassal states.

    After sending this envoy, Vanius sent three more envoys, one back to the German Youth Commune, one to Thrace, and one to Spain.

    The envoys returning to the German Youth Commune need to mobilize four more reorganized field legions from the four provinces of Kadi, Badawi, Dunkerderi and Usi Peters to go south - Vannius means only to intimidate, but in reality  He will probably use these warriors.

    The envoys to Thrace brought orders to the three field legions - they needed to look for opportunities.  Completely destroy the resistance of the Romans in the Thracian region and let the Thracians become an independent country as soon as possible, rather than a province of Rome.

    The mission of the envoys to Spain was similar.  However, Vannius was more conservative in comparison - the Aquitdanians and Cretans could act according to the situation.  But there is no need to do anything forcefully - if the locals have indeed decided to rise up against the Romans, then the Aquitaine and Cretans will send troops into Spain to help the locals deal with the Romans; and conversely if the locals  There was no need for the Aquitdanians and Cretans to force the people before they were ready.

    at last.  What Vanius did was send Pluto and his army out.

    This time, Pluto's army received help from the Germanic Guards - they received sharper weapons, stronger leather armor, robes and shields, and even long ladders.  and a battering ram that could be carried by twenty men for ramming the gate.

    Vanius did not give them any special tasks. He only asked them to attack manors, rescue slaves, and arm soldiers as before.

    According to Vannius, how powerful the Kingdom of Geneva can become in the future is likely to depend on their efforts - of course, they must first ensure that they survive.

    After arranging all this.  Vanius asked the warriors to expand their fortress.  After trying to turn the fortress into a fortress - which would later become the dividing line between the Kingdom of Geneva and Rome - to the east of the fortress, on the land of the Romans, there would be ruins destroyed by Pluto.

    Because he wanted to build this place into a permanent large fortress, Vanius had an additional fortress built behind the current fortress.

    Both of these forts were protected by wide trenches one person deep and earth ramparts one person high.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Outside the trenches are cut tree crowns - the branches and leaves of these crowns were buried in the soil and compacted.  The exposed trunk parts were cut back and grilled with a flame.  Make it a sharp and hard thorn.

    Outside the tall and thick earthen fortress, the soldiers cut willow branches at Vanius's request.  The wicker fences were woven into dense layers and draped over the earthen ramparts - in this way, if the enemy tried to destroy the earthen ramparts with stone bullets, the wicker fences could effectively weaken the power of the stone bullets.

    On top of the earthen barrier, there is a protective wall that is one person high and two people wide.  The foundations of these parapets were fired mud bricks, and the outside was criss-crossed with wooden beams that connected the mud bricks and wood into a whole - something the Gauls were experts at.

    Although Vanius prefers to pour cement directly.?However, after taking into account the fact that the cement construction technology should not be leaked too early, this idea was abandoned.

    Every fifty steps on the protective wall, there is a high tower from which warriors can shoot arrows and throw javelins at the enemy.

    These high towers are all square in size and made of mud bricks, and are protected with wicker fences on the outside, and large shields are hung to protect the towers from damage by ballistae.

    Behind the protective wall, in addition to the barracks built with mud bricks, Vanius also asked the soldiers to dig wells and build cisterns, granaries, stables and weapons depots.

    Under the protection of these defense facilities, just a fortress is enough to become a large and sturdy fortress, enough to support many people defending it for a long time.

    However, Vanius also dug two more shallow trenches outside the camp, and also buried spikes in the trenches - in this way, there was enough buffer distance outside the camp to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of it.  At night or when the sight range is short due to bad weather, you can move to a place very close to the camp and launch an assault.

    After completing all this work, Vanius asked the soldiers to connect the two forts with additional trenches and earthen ramparts.

    Between the two forts, there are many fast passages that allow soldiers to quickly transfer between the two forts.

    This way, if the enemy attempts to encircle it, both forts must be encircled at the same time.  The defenders only need half the strength to defend two forts at the same time - even if the enemy has enough troops to surround two forts at the same time and launch attacks from different directions at the same time, the defenders only need to defend one fort.  and cut off the passage between the two forts.

    Because there are two fortresses to be built that can accommodate 50,000 soldiers each, the amount of work is extremely large.

    Even though the Germans were accustomed to civil work, even though the Gauls were good at building city walls, and even though the division of labor and cooperation adopted by Vannius greatly improved their efficiency, this work still consumed a whole  Fifteen days.

    At this time, the warriors in the Germanic Kingdom had already moved south in accordance with Vannius's request, and good news came from Thrace.

    On the fifth day after Vannius's envoy arrived in Thrace, Brebista led his Thracian army to surround the fortress of the Pesci - in the Thracian War, this army was regarded as the most important force.  Very close to the power of Rome.

    Just as Brebista thought, after the Thracian rebels surrounded the Persi fortress and were "accidentally" broken out by the Persi cavalry and asked for help from the Romans, in Thrace  The Roman legions and auxiliary legions in the area immediately rushed to help.

    What the Romans, who were eager to rescue their allies and stabilize the situation, didn't know was that their actions were completely under the control of the Thracians.

    When they were still one day away from the Pesci fortress, the Romans who were preparing to camp were attacked by the Thracians.

    At the beginning, only a few Thracian spear throwers came to harass, and they were quickly beaten back by Roman archers.

    But soon, thousands of Thracian cavalry, accompanied by several times more infantry, attacked the Roman array.

    At this time, the Romans had already set up a battle formation, preparing to set up camp after repelling the Thracians - therefore, in the view of the Roman commander, the Thracian obstruction was impossible to achieve any results.  .

    The actual situation is indeed the case - the Thracians are at a disadvantage in terms of military strength. Although they seem to be menacing, they actually have no courage to launch an attack.

    Seeing this situation, the Roman commander ordered the Thracian cavalry and Roman cavalry in the army to attack together to drive away these annoying harassers so that the army could camp and rest as soon as possible.

    However, this was the first and last mistake made by the Roman commander.

    When the cavalry in the Roman legion queues became entangled with the Thracian raiding party, the trumpet sounded and the Thracians launched a general attack.

    Including the three German field legions, a total of 50,000 warriors appeared from three directions at the same time, roaring and killing the Romans directly from their hiding places.

    Before the expedition, the Romans received news that the Germans wanted to negotiate peace, and the Senate had asked the Germans to withdraw their troops from Thrace.  Moreover, from the reports of the Pesci, the Romans received the news that less than 20,000 Thracian troops surrounded the fortress. The Roman commander only left after confirming that his troops were superior to the Thracians.  They left their camp and went to rescue the Pesi people.

    But now

    Facing twice as many enemies as planned, we didn¡¯t have the support of a firm will to fight.Legion was the first to collapse.

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    And those who fled for their lives were chased by tens of thousands of German cavalry on the Great Plains

    In the end, Brebista asked his spear throwers to each insert a Roman head on the javelin, and threw thousands of javelins into the Pesi fortress.

    So, the Thracian Kingdom was also established.  (To be continued)

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