Augustus Road

"Rimini was only the first stop. Curio and Antony led seven brigades and immediately went south to sweep various towns. Lepidus led the rest of the cavalry through the Apennines and joined the Thirteenth Legion of Etrunia who went south at the same time to capture Alizzo City; in addition, urge the two successor legions of the 15th and 16th to rush to Rimini as soon as possible to meet with me who is stationed here! Our goal is to control Appian, Emilie and Flami within three days! Three avenues of Nia, then besiege Rome!"

At this moment, Igurus, the clerk riding beside Caesar, pointed to the other side of the avenue and whispered: "Look, the envoys of the Senate are here."

Yes, a legal officer dressed as a law officer, with a staff and a staff, walked slowly and hesitantly from the avenue. Caesar laughed, jumped off the horse, lifted up his short skirt in front of the big tree, and began to face The trunk peed.

"I am Law Officer Lorgas, yes." The envoy looked around with some fear at the generals and centurions with swords and spears, and said to Caesar who was still spraying the tree trunks, " He came to read out the Senate's 'ultimatum'."

Finally, in a ball of hot air, Caesar trembled, and after busying for a while, he turned to Lorgas and said, "Dear envoy, where did you originally plan to submit this ultimatum?"

Lorgas was a little embarrassed and murmured, I was planning to hand over this ultimatum to you in Alimiron City.

"But I didn't expect that I would eventually meet me in this place! Yes, I, Julius Caesar, have crossed the Rubicon River. Now I don't even bother to give you an ultimatum. I tell Pompey and Cato the Younger—— Come here and fight me to the death." Caesar said. Laughed loudly. The envoy on the opposite side did not have the momentum to issue an ultimatum at all. It was Caesar's clerk who stepped forward and took the letter arrogantly, without even reading it, and threw it into the saddlebags under the saddle.

Seeing that Lorgas still hadn't left, Caesar raised his hand and asked, "What else is there for you?"

So the other party took out a smaller letter. Say this is what Dictado Pompey has asked me to deliver to you in a private capacity.

"I have no personal relationship with him now, so I'd better ask Ijurus to read it in front of everyone!"

The content of Pompey's letter is very ridiculous: he emphasized that he had now become Dicttus, so the entire army of the Roman Republic should be under his jurisdiction and dispatch, and Caesar's legions were no exception. But even so, in private terms Pompey still He was willing to treat Caesar as a friend and former relative. The reason why he wanted to become dictator was out of national justice. Because Pompey has always been a person who distinguishes between public and private matters, at this point he hopes that Caesar can be on the same page. Do not put private impulses ahead of national interests.

What follows is all nonsense, nothing more than listing all aspects of power, fame, and qualifications, and comparing them endlessly. Lepidus on the side even sneered, a powerful man like Pompeo should hire some decent ghostwriters!

"Excuse me, can I lead the cavalry now? I think it is a waste of time here. During this time, maybe the great Dictator Pompey has recruited three to five more soldiers!" Lepidus said The sentence was teasing and made the people around laugh.

But Caesar personally took the hook pen and writing tablet from Igurus, took off the horn saddle, sat down on it as a small chair, made a stroke on the spot, and read aloud. Perhaps in his heart, he had already Wanting to have a chance to completely humiliate Pompey: "I, Julius Caesar, should follow the example of the great Pompey, forget personal interests before justice, and save the country from its miserable situation, so I decided that the following should be done What to do? First, send Dictado Pompey to the province of Spain where he belongs; then I will enter the city of Rome and restore the freedom of assembly of the Tribune and the power of the tribunes. ;This is what I want to say to the great Pompey. If he is willing to accept it, he and I will immediately disband all the armies, and the civil war will not break out. At least the fighting has not started yet. I am in Rimini. Wait for him, yes - Pompey should come to me personally and negotiate peace!"

After writing and reading in one breath, Caesar stood up, thrust the writing board into Lorgas's arms, waved his hands behind him, and shouted, "Cavalry, use your momentum to charge in Gaul!"

Amidst the deafening sound of horse hooves, Lepidus took the lead and rushed towards the mountainous area on the west side of the avenue. Behind him, the powerful effect of the galloping of three thousand elite cavalry scared the Senate envoys to the point where they could not move. These cavalrymen were wearing chains. There are Vipicinas wearing silk armor and pointed conical helmets, carrying bows and arrows; there are Mattias wearing ribbons and holding spears, and the newly joined Alvini cavalry wearing animal hair cloaks and naked bodies .

They ran directly towards the city of Alizzo, which connected Etrunia and Rome, and guarded the Via Cassia, which was the best shortcut to capture the city of Rome.

As a result, about three days later, the galloping cavalry occupied a high tower beside an unknown tributary of the Rubicon River like a whirlwind and stopped, because the Mattian scout told Lepidus, " There is an enemy situation ahead.”

Lepidus, together with his subordinates such as Saab Kemus, Dusonville, Vercingetorius, and Mindaz, all came out. Looking at the Pompeian army who were still making fire for cooking at the foot of the mountain, Lepidus was the first to sneer, "What kind of group is this?" Enemy? Look out, everyone, these are the soldiers of the invincible Pompey. When they were camping and resting, there were no guards or sentries, so we came to them like we were on vacation in Naples! "

These were indeed the three armies of the City Legion. Even before Lorgas reported back, Pompey had vaguely felt that Caesar had sent his troops south, so he sent out the City Legion and the two consuls. They also divided the troops into three groups and continued to force conquests along the way. They tried to deploy a long arc-shaped defense circle around Rome to contain Caesar's troops.

The news that reached Pompey's ears at that time was terrifying: "All ten of Caesar's legions went south."

Perhaps the envoy Lorgas would tell him the true military strength of his opponent after returning, but by that time, the city of Rome might have been surrounded, and Pompey would never want to lead the most elite First Legion in such a confused manner. At the beginning of the war, they were surrounded and annihilated by Caesar with absolutely superior military power.

So when he sent out the various brigades of the city legions, Pompey had already made a plan to escape in time. The second position he envisioned was the line between Capua and Corfinium, and the final position was the Tower. Lanto and Brindisi, where he would await reinforcements from Greece and the East.

But Caesar came faster than expected. When Pompey planned this, Lepidus' cavalry had already launched a brave assault on this detachment with only three large infantry groups in the hilly area twenty miles outside the city of Arizzo! (To be continued...)