Augustus Road

After careful study, this is probably a reasonable thing. Caesar is a great Romanist. The premise of "Great Rome" determines that in his mind, the Romans should be the rulers of the world, the setters of civilized norms, and the etiquette of all peoples. Legislators of laws, on the other hand, like Cato the Younger, believed that Rome was a "small country with few people" on the Tiber River. This view was by no means what Caesar had in mind. This was also the biggest difference between his ideas and those of Cato the Younger. .

So when Caesar presided over and granted citizenship to the Gaul region he conquered, he immediately appointed Antony and Gaius to recruit regular legions in this region to make up for the number of "one to five" legions in his sequence; and when it came to Greece and Xiaoya, he began to recruit more auxiliary legions, and the scale of the war in the Roman world seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.

So Lepidus reorganized the newly surrendered Macedonian Sixth and Ninth Legions into the Thirty-One and Thirty-Second Legions; the 5,000 troops sent by Adiana to assist Caesar were divided into the Thirty-three and Thirty-fourth Legions , namely the "Pontic Legion" and the "Black Navy Legion"; Diotarus also provided Caesar with two legions, which were originally the elite of the Kingdom of Galaxia, uniformly imitating the tactics and equipment of the Roman legions, namely thirty-five [Top] [Point] The novel and the Thirty-six Legions, commanded by the old king’s son and son-in-law, are ready to serve the Roman dictator at any time; in the end, Deximus of Syria never said any more words about "strict neutrality", He immediately returned the original fifteenth legion of the Gallic province and swore allegiance to Caesar. This legion was also reorganized into the thirty-seventh legion by Lepidus.

In fact, each legion only has about 3,000 people, which is also a drawback of large-scale expansion of numbers. It's more of a bluff. Some kind of coercive psychological warfare against the enemy.

then. Lepidus sent the Thirty-three and Thirty-fourth legions to Ephesus to be on standby, while the Thirty-one and Thirty-two legions stayed in their winter camp for training. The two auxiliary legions provided by the Kingdom of Galaxia swept away Pompey's remnants and maintained law and order in Cilicia and Little Armenia. As for the thirty-seventh legion, Lepidus did not let it come to Asimanus to assemble and collect them all. Instead, he sent it directly south from Syria to force King Herod of Judea to hand over hostages and fines.

soon. With the support of Achilles' fleet, the Twelve Legions completely conquered and surrendered all areas of the Bosporus Kingdom and returned in triumph. The Sixth Army and the Thirteenth Army who stayed at Fort Lepidus also completed the construction of the barriers on both sides of the strait and went to Mount Asimanus to participate in the winter camp.

After entering April, all the snow melted, and there were seven legions in Lepidus' camp, which was a strong force. The winter camp stretched for several Roman miles, allowing the streets built by the soldiers to connect in all directions. There is a constant flow of dealers from all over Asia Minor every day, and the loot has not been sold or discounted until April. Today in front of the camp gate, the centurions and soldiers on duty blew malicious whistles, "Look, the most beautiful stallion in Asia is coming!"

Adiana was wearing a Persian embroidered shirt and a Damascus blanket, sitting on a sedan chair under a huge parasol. Behind her were servants holding sticks and flags. A team of hundreds of people entered the camp, but this pair It is also commonplace for soldiers. The Queen of Eubotia comes about two or three times a month to meet with the cavalry commander. So many soldiers who were unable to see her beauty would specially form a team to request to go on duty on the date of Adiana's arrival.

At the temporary wooden amphitheater next to the camp, Adiana once again invited Lepidus to watch a Greek drama. The queen was in a particularly good mood today, although this simple theater was simply incomparable to the performance she once had with Lepidus in Tegreseta. Compared with the ones that Lepidus watched together, the troupe was more different, but she still ordered the eunuch to send generous gifts to all the actors in advance, and she held the arm of the cavalry commander under the parasol and asked enthusiastically Bet with him.

"How about a five-thousand-dinar bet? Two troupes are performing a play. If the former wins, I win, and if the latter wins, you win."

Lepidus agreed, but when the two troupes came on stage to perform hard, he kept yawning, as if he had no interest in the theatrical performance. This made Adiana, who finally won the bet, quite unhappy, but when the next When the program - a team of gladiators from Thrace and Gaul - entered the amphitheater, Lepidus immediately stood up and, together with other spectators, applauded enthusiastically and shouted slogans. This reaction made Adiana very angry, "Amphora, you have lived in the countryside of Rome for a long time. Sure enough, you have abandoned your noble tastes and only care about the bloody performances of harpoons and swords!"

As a result, the other party handed over a fruit plate, "Dear Her Majesty the Queen, I invite you to participate in the God of War Tournament in three days."

well? Adiana had heard about this competition a month ago. Lepidus announced at the foot of Mount Asimanus that this peak was one of the towering peaks in Asia Minor. He wanted to imitate the Roman Republic's "liberation" of Greece. As a result, a grand athletics meeting was held in all the states of Asia Minor, namely the "Areses Games". Because the meeting took place on April 2nd, the "Festival of Mars", so it got the name. Lepidus asked the entire Asia Minor to All the countries in the surrounding oceans will send athletic representatives to participate. Of course, his legion will also send athletes, and then everyone will pay respect and sacrifices to the God of War.

So, today when Adiana arrived, the whole camp was particularly lively. There were not only vendors, but also people wearing various ethnic costumes. They all seemed to be representatives of the competition from afar. "This, this is of course. Let me accompany you through your first Ares Games. It sounds a little interesting."

On April 3, the weather was good. The large parade ground in the center of Asimanus' camp was surrounded by colorful tents and crowds. Many vendors shuttled between them. "Umbrellas for rent, parasols for rent! Nuts and Sumerian malt beer for sale, cool and thirst-quenching, cool and thirst-quenching." "Small commemorative statues of the Asimanus Games, carved in wood, bronze, and iron, the price is fair and reasonable!" "Hey, sir, you have come from afar, it must be lonely alone Mo, the women here are all from Miletus and Chios, and their reputations are known all over the ocean. The service standards are uniform, and you will never regret it! "

A melodious military call sounded, and nearly 100,000 people around the entire parade ground fell silent. Amid the cheers of soldiers and spectators, the cavalry commander and the kings of various states walked to the stands at the core of the parade ground, surrounded by the guard of honor. Libida looked around with satisfaction, then waved his hand, and the whole crowd burst into cheers again. A carefully selected Matian archer stood on the wooden tower on the stands and "whooshed" a rocket with a chirping sound into the sky of Mount Asimanus. Like a rising star, it attracted everyone's attention and flew to the other side of the mountain. (To be continued...)