Rome must fall.

Chapter 430 Gaul's Rebellion
However, Vercingetorix would not do so. From a personal perspective, he would never allow the Romans who had burned, killed and looted in Gaul to leave unscathed. From the perspective of his goal, he needed to eliminate the Roman troops who were still stranded in Gaul one by one in order to arouse the bloodiness of the Gauls, restore their glory, and force the tribes to unite and continue to fight the Romans to the death. As the initiator of this war and the first to eliminate the Roman army, he will surely become a leader that all the Gallic tribes can believe in!
Of course, he did this to gain the trust of the Kingdom of the Nyx. After all, if he wanted to lead the Gaul people to defeat the Romans and gain true independence, he still needed the continued support of the Nyx.

Precisely because he had thought these things through clearly, Vercingetorix had already made preparations. After learning of the action taken by the Kingdom of the Nyx, he began to take action.

It was early September, the harvest season, and the Arverni tribe had finished the harvest early and, in accordance with Caesar's regulations, transported food to the Roman legion stationed not far from the Arverni tribe.

The transport team sent by Vercingetorix deliberately arrived at the Roman camp at dusk. Because the food they transported far exceeded the prescribed amount and also brought a lot of wine and meat, the legion commander and the grain collector were very happy.

You must know that after the civil war broke out, food and supplies had to be supplied to the army fighting Pompey first, which made the Roman army stationed in Gaul short of supplies.

The abundant food provided by the Arverni tribe this time was enough to improve their lives. Since Vercingetorix had been obeying the Roman army's orders for the past two years, the legion commander did not suspect that he had ulterior motives. Instead, he was grateful to him for his timely help at a critical moment. Therefore, he not only allowed the food transport team to stay overnight in the barracks, but also provided them with some food at the banquet in the evening.

When the officers and soldiers in the camp were full of food and drink and fell into a deep sleep, the grain-carrying members of the Arverni tribe took out the hidden weapons from the carts that had not yet been unloaded, set the carts on fire, and turned to attack the Roman soldiers guarding the camp gate.

At this time, Vercingetorix had led the army of the Arverni and reinforcements from neighboring tribes to the vicinity of the Roman camp and hid in the forest. When he saw the fire in the Roman camp in the dark, he knew that the transport team had already started in the camp and immediately blew the attack horn.

Thousands of Gallic warriors rushed towards the Roman camp like a tide, and captured the camp gate with the help of internal and external forces.

The Roman legion commander panicked when he learned of the enemy attack, but some centurions reacted quickly and urgently summoned soldiers to counterattack.

However, the Roman soldiers who had drunk too much and woke up from their sleep were not only exhausted, but many of them were not even wearing armor. They found it difficult to resist the Gallic warriors who poured into the camp, outnumbered them, and whose strength was doubled because they were bent on revenge.

The fighting in the camp lasted for several hours. At daybreak, the Roman legion was finally defeated. Except for some officers and soldiers who escaped from the camp and some who died in battle, the rest, including their legion commander, chose to surrender.

The Gallic warriors shouted victory excitedly.

Vercingetorix recounted in front of them all the crimes committed by the Romans on Gaulish soil, and then loudly declared: The Gauls must unite and avenge the Romans for their dead clansmen and compatriots, and they will not stop until they are all killed!
Amid the shouts of the Gallic warriors, he ordered all the Roman prisoners to be killed as sacrifices to show their determination for revenge!

Vercingetorix's night attack this time successfully wiped out more than half of the Roman legion.

The news spread quickly, greatly encouraging the starving Gaul people everywhere (because of the outbreak of the Roman Civil War, Caesar's army's exploitation of the Gaul region was increasing). They responded to Vercingetorix's call, lit beacons everywhere, attacked Roman caravans, killed Roman grain collectors, and even united to overthrow the leaders and nobles who had completely surrendered to Caesar... Within just half a month, the entire Gaul region was like a heated water pot, and it was completely boiling.

Countless Gallic warriors joined Vercingetorix's army from all directions, and his team was growing rapidly.

After defeating the Roman legions, Vercingetorix quickly headed north to attack Caesar's loyal lackeys in Gaul - the Aedui.

The Aedui were a powerful Gaulish tribe, and with Caesar's support, they became even stronger. However, the Aedui also had to pay tribute to Caesar and even provide him with a large number of warriors to serve as Rome's auxiliary forces. Therefore, the tribes had a hard time. Not only were the people angry, but even some leaders and nobles were dissatisfied.

When Vercingetorix led his army into the territory of the Aedui, some Aedui tribes directly defected to Vercingetorix's side, while some tribes refused to respond to the military mobilization of the chief.

The great leader of the Aedui, who was deserted by his friends and relatives, did not dare to fight against Vercingetorix, whose morale was high. He led his troops to flee and sent people to ask the Romans for help.

At this time, Trebonius in the province of Westphalia had already learned of the rebellion of the Arverni tribe, and he was deeply saddened by the destruction of the Roman legions in southern Gaul.

Just as he was gathering his troops and preparing to march north to quell the rebellion, he received two groups of messengers.

The news that the Kingdom of Nyx had invaded northern Italy and besieged Aquileia shocked him, while the news that Caesar's loyal vassal Aedui was about to be exterminated in the north made him nervous. Should he rescue Aedui first? Or Aquileia first? ... Trebonius made a decision without weighing the pros and cons for too long.

After all, both the Aedui and the Arverni were very close to him, and there was a legion in northern Gaul that needed him to rescue and stabilize the order in Gaul - this was the primary task given to him by Caesar.

As for the invading Nixes, he could only wait until he solved the problem in Gaul before turning back to deal with them. The walls of Aquileia were high and thick, and even if the troops were few, it was believed that the barbarians would not be able to conquer it in a short time.

After making the decision, Trebonius still had a question in his mind: Why did the Niccolò and the Arverni coincidentally start wars in the east and west at the same time when Caesar led the main force away, the Roman civil war broke out, and the northern provinces of Italy were short of troops?

Although he decided to go north to rescue, Trebonius now only had one legion with more than 6,000 soldiers and more than 3,000 auxiliary troops composed of Gallic warriors. In the past few days since the Gallic rebellion broke out, some people in the auxiliary troops had been secretly defecting, which made him not very confident about the auxiliary troops. So he forcibly conscripted the guard troops of Massilia and barely put together 12,000 people.

Trebonius had no confidence in defeating Vercingetorix, whose force was far superior to his own, so he wanted to use the strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao. Instead of fighting Vercingetorix head-on, he attacked Gogovia, the center of the Arverni tribe, in order to force Vercingetorix to return for support, thereby allowing the great leader of the Aedui to escape the danger of being pursued and destroyed, to regroup, and then reunite with him, strengthen his strength, and then look for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with Vercingetorix.

To travel from the province of West France to the territory of Arverni, one needs to pass through the Cevennes Pass. If Vercingetorix had sent troops to block the pass in advance, it would undoubtedly be very difficult for Trebonius to pass through there.

But according to the spies' report, there were no troops stationed at the pass.

Trebonius breathed a sigh of relief. He led his troops at a great speed, not only safely passing through the Cevennes Pass, but also smoothly arriving at the edge of the Arverni territory.

Just as the army was about to camp and rest, trumpets sounded from the surrounding mountains, and countless Gallic warriors roared like a tide and rushed towards the Roman army.

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Trebonius was shocked and realized that he had fallen into an ambush by Vercingetorix.

It turned out that the Roman army in the province of West France had been under the close surveillance of the Nix spies lurking in Massilia. When Trebonius was still planning to pass through the Seven Pass and raid the Arverni territory, the Nix spies had already judged Trebonius's intentions through various signs of the Roman army, and found a way to notify Vercingetorix in advance, so this ambush took place.

Trebonius wanted to lead his army to resist tenaciously, but the number of the attacking Gallic warriors was too large, and the army he had assembled was divided. Some auxiliary troops were the first to defect, and the city guards of Massilia saw that the situation was not good and fled before fighting... This greatly shook the morale of the army.

The Roman legions fought tenaciously, causing the Gallic army to suffer heavy casualties, but they were ultimately outnumbered, and except for Trebonius who escaped with a very small number of guards, the rest were all killed in the battle.

Vercingetorix's destruction of the Roman army won him more prestige and made those hesitant Gallic tribes finally make up their minds to join the rebel team led by him.

This was bad news for the great chieftain of the Aedui. Faced with the advance of Vercingetorix's army and the increasing hostility of the surrounding tribes, he had no external aid and was fighting alone, so he finally had to surrender to Vercingetorix.

Having conquered southern Gaul and having no worries, Vercingetorix immediately led his troops to the north, where there was a Roman legion.

Since northern Gaul was far from Roman civilization, when Caesar was about to conquer the entire Gaul, the resistance of the tribes there was the most intense. Of course, Caesar's revenge was also quite fierce. Many tribes' settlements were completely burned down, and the people of the entire tribe were either killed or sold into slavery, resulting in a large area of ​​no-man's land in the north...

Even though Caesar implemented these cruel policies in northern Gaul and intimidated the tribes there, he was still a little worried, so he arranged for a legion to garrison in the north.

The Gallic tribes in the north surrendered on the surface, but their deep hatred for the Romans grew day by day. When the news came that Vercingetorix had raised an army and destroyed the Roman legions in the south, they rose up and began to attack the Roman garrison.

(End of this chapter)