Chapter II: Battle of Lugdunum
The next morning, the Gallic Legion XVII began to get ready for the game, following the river that passes through Lugdunum, hoping to meet the enemies on the flat ground between the river and a segment of mountains before the Alps. Domitian was warned that the enemies are coming from the north by their scouts, and organizes their defense, the expected is that they would arrive before the day finishes.
It was late afternoon, about 5 pm, when the approaching enemies were seen, but they were reluctant, and then Domitian, commanding the cavalry on the left flank, ordered Livyus with the committees and the boundaries to advance slowly down the hill, but were attacked by the enemy archers, while the skirmishers went to the enemy line with the tactic to attack and to run in the enemy infantry, Aelio Pulcro was put to command the cavalry in the right flank, while Séxtio Nerva was next to Lívio in the center with the infantry.
As the enemy advanced at the same time as the intended tactics, the cavalry on the flanks had begun to attack the flanks of the infantry, taking advantage of the fact that some troops were behind being delayed by skirmishers, while on the right flank, enemy skirmishers were surprised by the archers and the light cavalry of Aelio Pulcro.
Domitian on the left flank begins to inflict a great deal of casualties on the enemy, while part of the center's troops begin to envelop the enemy on the left flank, and the other side to do the same, assisting Aelio's troops, where on this side the cavalry do not had been efficient enough, while some limitations began to retreat before the barbarians.
The attacks continue, the enemy's left flank breaks, Domitian is successful, the barbarian infantry fragments and begins to flee, leaving King Gundíoco lost behind the troops, on the other hand, Lívio continued to climb the hill, causing the archers to flee. The cavalry of Aelio managed to make some units of infantry give in, but the majority of them do not give, on the other hand, they make the Roman infantry begin to give way, while the constant charges of cavalry of Aelio are repelled, but now he has the chance to return the battle, and inflict from behind the enemy infantry that already begins to suffer with skirmishers by the rear.
At the end of the day, after a few hours without a fight on the left flank, Domitian and his men are already shouting victory, raising their weapons to the heavens, on the right flank, Roman troops can break the enemy line, infantry after suffering very much, can reverse the situation and put the enemy troops to escape. King Gundíoco flees with the rest of his troops, more than half had been destroyed in those hills.
With the night already fallen, with the troops counting the dead, plundering the fallen bodies of the enemies, taking their spoils.
"What a glorious Domitian victory, Egídio would have been glad to hear of his victory!" Said Aelio, arriving at Domitian's campfire.
Domitian turns and says, "Or ... he will send me to serve any senator."
Livio and Séxtio who were seated begin to laugh, Lívio says, "Of course not, he will probably want you closer to him than in Mediolanum!"
"May God hear you, I would have wanted a general's office, or perhaps a legion to my commanding officer in Gaul," said Domitian.
"With the Emperor coming to Gaul I think we will continue with muddy feet ..." said Lívio.
Aelio interrupts him, declaiming, "Or in our houses with our women-while they laugh with glasses of beer in their hands-Look, until I taste my muddy red cape."
Domitian almost smiling, looks at his glass and raises it, "Sirs! Today's glorious victory! "And they all raise their glasses to shouts and laughter.
