Tiberius's letter once again aroused the patriotic fervor of the Romans. Even the Northern Alliance couldn't find a reason to refuse, so they had to help their allies again. However, the unity evoked for a moment did not last, and instead of cementing the alliance, General Brutus's letter became the trigger for a political split in Rome.

Tiberius's letter is impassioned and tinged with a bit of tragedy.

The general content of the letter is to say:

The Brutus family was the oldest family in Rome and had driven out the Roman kings and contributed to the republican freedom of the Romans.

Now far away, he still thinks of the honor of Rome, and sheds blood and tears to open up the borders of the Republic. Although there was a little trouble at the front, he was already under siege in Apollonia, and he could withdraw. But he chose to hold on to the territory that had already belonged to Rome.

It was there, he insisted, as the starting point for the Roman invasion of the Greek peninsula. Therefore, for the sake of strategic points, even at the expense of him personally, without complaint. He hoped that after he had died for his country, the Romans would treat his family fairly and continue to maintain their position.

General Brutus has a deep writing skills, and his use of words and sentences is also very sensational. His letter spread throughout Rome. Praised and supported by the Romans.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the magnates organized groups of recruits and formed new troops. Then send them to the battlefield and fight to the death on the other side of the coast. Some of the troops were sent to the bottom of the sea by the Macedonian Navy before they even landed on the shore.

During the years of fighting against the Roman invasion, the Macedonian front-line soldiers were accustomed to the tense rhythm of almost every day, almost every three to five days.

Often, the wounded were transported to the rear cities for treatment, and some were sick who could not bear the pressure and had a nervous breakdown. Some are crazy, some are depressed and don't say a word, these poor people have to change their environment, recuperate and rest, maybe they can recover.

Sometimes, in time for several large-scale battles and large-scale battles in succession, the Macedonian generals would withdraw the badly damaged and inadequately formed troops to the rear cities for reorganization. Then the new regiment or phalanx sent directly to the legion will be added to the next battle.

Participating in successive large-scale wars of attrition will exhaust the entire legion. At this time, the king would order the First and Fourth Legions to swap garrison posts, one to fight on top and the other to replenish the much-needed fresh blood. This kind of grinding disc method was exactly what Aloyos had come up with before, and now it is very useful.

The persistence of the Romans met the tenacity of the Macedonians, and the two sides continued to fight and consume.

The battle at sea also gradually intensified. The Roman fleet suffered heavy losses, but they also replenished it with an astonishing rate. In the later period, converted merchant ships and fishing vessels were often found in the Roman transport fleet. The Macedonian Navy was stronger, and the proportion of losses was relatively small. But as blockade tactics intensified, the Roman anti-blockade battle was fierce, and the losses increased.

Objectively speaking, it was the continuous efforts of the Roman navy that maintained the lifeline of Tiberius' army. Whenever the Macedonian army stepped up its siege, Roman reinforcements were bound to arrive in time to relieve General Brutus. This is definitely due to the Navy.

The Macedonian Navy has also slowly gained experience, and once it encounters troop carriers, it will inevitably attack with all its might, thus relieving the pressure on the army.

Since the reinforcements sent by the Senate were wiped out, Tiberius's reinforcements have basically come from the Brutus family or Scipio.

After receiving a letter from the Senate, the Julius family sent one and a half legions, one of which was the independent Eurius Legion, and also sent a joint legion with the Scipio family. But all were exterminated by the Macedonians on the beachhead or driven back to the ship.

These were the only two alliance operations they had participated in, and after their failure, they became indifferent to the Brutus expeditions.

This policy was widely criticized, condemned, denounced, and continued verbal attacks on the Julius family.

In order to gain the initiative, the people of Julius began to attack the Scipio family in turn, especially against their policy of sending troops to the Greek peninsula.

The two factions quarreled again, and Tiberius could not have imagined that his passionate patriotism would lead to a more serious difference of opinion in Roman politics.

First of all, in the Roman Senate and the Parliament, the gentlemen who were usually personable and well-behaved could no longer suppress the resentment that had accumulated in their hearts for many days, and fought each other, and even beat the guards who maintained order to the ground.

Immediately afterward, a family feud broke out among the nobles of the Roman city.

Eventually, there were occasional group fights in the streets of Rome, and some slaves took advantage of the chaos. The riots spread to the north and south.

The main forces of the northern faction remained the Conservatives of the House of Julius and the Senate. They advocated retreating to Rome to defend their homeland.

At this time, the Julius family, who were busy fighting in the north, did not have any extra strength to turn to Greece, and they were fighting the Gauls. To their annoyance, the Dacians were also sideways, and there were some more troublesome creatures in the Germanic Forest.

They themselves wanted the help of their allies, but now they were pestered by the southerners to go south. Originally, they wanted to open up the northern land supply line to provide stable support to Brutus, but now the plan is advancing slowly, and the threat from other directions is too great, so they are tied to their hands and feet.

The Senate, on the other hand, insisted that the defense of Rome always came first, and did not want to see more Roman warriors die elsewhere.

The backbone of the southern faction was the Brutus and Scipio families, and later the small and medium-sized nobles in the Senate, most of whom were unwilling, and these guys were often more radical. It is in line with the idea of the southern faction to attack with all its might and open up new landing points.

The Scipio and Brutus families were located by the sea, and their first goal was to conquer the Greek peninsula and gain trade in the Aegean Sea. Now the war with Macedonia is getting deeper and deeper, and the consumption is too great, and I really want to get the help of my allies.

The Northerners accused the Southerners of sending many of Rome's best warriors to death in vain, and of emptying the southern Roman defenses.

"The Southerners were the scum who led the Roman Republic to its debilitation."

The southern faction even wants to accuse the northern camp of being a traitor and a master of separatism.

There is no doubt that the division of Rome was a fact, and although it did not reach the point of civil war, and there was no such thing as a civil war, two different policies were pursued between the north and the south.

The senior senators tried several times to pinch everyone together, but the real power faction was not interested in his ideas and suggestions at all.

Such a situation will certainly make the Macedonians happy. Although they did not know what was happening in Rome at that time, it was clear from the reinforcements in Rome that the enemy was beginning to weaken. The once mighty Roman Confederate forces were now limited to dwindling blue and green legions. The once powerful Roman Senate army and the red-marked army of Julius never came to battle again.

The amount of supplies brought in is also decreasing, presumably due to a shortage of internal sources. If you can still see a certain size of Blue Scipio's army occasionally, Brutus's Green Army has only a small reinforcement.

The enemy weakened in advance, and it was too timely for the Macedonian kingdom.

Because since the war with the Romans, Macedonia has suffered huge casualties. You must know that Macedonia is also engaged in a war on the Eastern Front. Antigone felt the loss of national strength, and if it dragged on like this for another year, I am afraid that the kingdom would be deeply injured and difficult to recover. Fortunately, they have survived now.

On this day, Antigone and Aloyos sat in their tent and chatted, and they both felt that the balance of victory in the war had begun to favor their side.

Well, the day is not far off for a counter-attack on Rome. However, on the combat map in front of them, what are their grandparents talking about?

Ah, the word that appears most frequently is the conquest of Apollonia.