Celtic Gauls have been enemies of the Romans since the foundation of Rome, and the Romans have been trying to get rid of them. Gaul is by no means the barbarian we imagined. They are good at agriculture and handicrafts, and have a huge population and wealth. And these wealth also made Caesar, who was profligate and heavily in debt at that time, salivate.
In 58 BC, Caesar first became governor of Gaul. At that time, the south of Gaul was basically romanized, while the north was still in the so-called wild state. Local tribes only recognize the suzerainty of Rome. With the deepening of Roman aggression, the resistance forces are ready to move, vowing to drive away the Roman colonists and lose their ancestral land. However, Gaul was no match for Caesar, and every rebellion was defeated by his invincible army.
At this time, Gaul and later French national hero Weijingge Torikos stepped forward. Vigo Torricos is the leader of Alvini, the strongest tribe in Gaul. If he swore to obey Rome, he would enjoy endless prosperity. But full of chivalrous spirit, he was furious when he saw the Romans extorting money and bullying men and women in Gaul, and decided to unite with other Gaul tribes to hold a super-large-scale national uprising.
In 52 BC, almost all Gauls revolted. At that time, there were about 60 thousand Roman soldiers in Gaul, scattered all over Gaul. They were almost soon swallowed up by angry Gauls. Fortunately, the Romans built strong camps everywhere, so they avoided being wiped out.
Seeing that the situation in Gaul was extremely critical, Caesar urgently assembled all his troops and tried to suppress the resistance of Gauls as before. However, Caesar miscalculated, and Wei Jingo Torikos was good at fighting. He tried his best to avoid confrontation with the powerful Roman legion. Gauls escaped from reality, ignored them, destroyed Roman colonies and slaughtered Roman colonists everywhere. Caesar, who was invincible in those days, lost several times in a row.
But Caesar is Caesar, and he saw the winning point at a glance. As long as Wei Jingo Torikos is defeated, the Gauls will be scattered. So he gathered 30 thousand troops and pounced on Alesia, where Torikos was stationed in Weijingge. Vigo Torricos is going to defeat them at the gates of Rome. After all, he has 80,000 troops under his command. However, he is no match for Caesar in positional warfare. Instead, he was defeated by the other side, forced to lead troops to Alicia, and urgently sent messengers to the Gaul tribe to ask other chiefs for help.
In order to trap Wei Jingo Toricos, the Romans gave full play to their engineering expertise and built a circle of walls around the city to cut off traffic with the outside world. In order to stop the reinforcements, Caesar built a circle of outer walls to surround people and prevent being besieged.
Because alesia City only prepared a small amount of food, only one month later, the food in the city was eaten up, and 80,000 troops and residents in the city fell into famine. Fortunately, Gaul's reinforcements have arrived. According to Caesar himself, Gaul has at least 250,000 reinforcements, and troops are everywhere. Caesar was in a desperate situation. After all, he only has 30 thousand people in his hand.
Gaul reinforcements attacked the Roman outer wall from all directions, focusing on the weaknesses of the outer wall; When the Gauls in alesia saw the arrival of reinforcements, their morale was greatly boosted and they began to storm the interior walls of the Romans. No matter which wall is broken, Caesar and his Roman legion will be wiped out.
But the Romans broke out in the last position with great fighting power. They kept repelling the enemy's attack, and the bodies of Gauls piled up like mountains. Just then, a Gaul cavalry rushed into a gap in the outer wall, and the Roman defense line was about to be broken. I didn't expect Caesar to put all his eggs in one basket and lead 6 thousand Germanic cavalry against Gaul. After a fierce battle, the Gauls were defeated. Then the four legions of Rome all took part in the big counterattack, and 230,000 Gaul reinforcements lost their morale and fled in succession.
Gervais Torikos saw that the tide had run out and decided to surrender to Caesar. In fact, this Gaul hero, as a free man, has the ability to escape or seek remedy. But he was prepared to sacrifice himself, willing to exchange his life for the lives of alesia and many Gauls. Vigo Torricos rode into the Roman camp, took off his armor along the way, and then sat quietly on the steps under Caesar's throne. Six years later, the Gaul hero was hanged by the Romans in prison.
After Gaul surrendered, Caesar killed 6.5438+million Gauls, and another 6.5438+million people were sold as slaves. Countless treasures entered the pockets of Caesar and his men. In order to reward his soldiers, he pointed to as many as 100 thousand female prisoners on the mountain and said, "Warriors, each of you can choose two female slaves, and you can dispose of them at will in the future!" "
Roman soldiers cheered and fought for a long time, and finally it was time to harvest. They rushed into the women's prison camp and picked up the women they liked. They were crying at the scene. Today, Gaul finally tasted the bitterness of the conquered nation. From then on, they never grasped their own destiny, and finally they were assimilated by the Romans and Franks and became the French today.
Caesar made great contributions to Rome. He wrote a book called The Battle of Gaul, which has been handed down to this day.