While Antony's main force was fighting with DJ Brutus' mercenaries, the elite infantry of the Thirteenth Legion led by Agrippa and about 2,000 Roman legionnaires entered the battlefield from outside the city......

The battle went as promised, Antony was flanked in front and back, the original advantage over DJ Brutus was about to be crushed in an instant, many Allied troops lost their fighting spirit under the slaughter of the veterans of Agrippa's 13th Legion, in addition, the 2,000 legionary cavalry was undoubtedly a devastating blow to Antony's infantry brigade, due to the stalemate of the battle, many people remained outside the city, giving Agrippa's cavalry a good impact on the terrain. The plain outside the city of Aletine www.biquge.info like a carpet for the cavalry, and even the most experienced Gallic veterans could not resist a perfect charge.

What's more, Anthony had already entered the city and could not see the situation outside the city in time, and the Allied army and heavy infantry could only rely on their own experience to give orders from the centurion on the spot, but many soldiers still did not assemble a dense formation in time to resist the cavalry as requested by the centurion, but lost their fighting spirit under the trampling of the terrifying horses' hooves.

Agrippa dismounted after riding into a Confederate Latin soldier and made his way to the front of the battlefield.

After stabbing a mercenary to death with a short sword, Anthony snatched the sharp axe from his hand and slaughtered the surrounding Brutus soldiers in a frenzy. The rushing soldier was struck in the neck by Anthony with an axe, and then fell to the ground in blood, and Anthony stepped on his chest and pulled the tomahawk out of the dead soldier's neck with one hand. When another mercenary came up with a large shield and short sword, he was frightened by a feint attack by Antony and hurriedly raised his shield to protect it, while the experienced Roman general slashed the soles of his feet with a battle axe, which almost cut off the entire soles of the soldiers in front of him, and the bones were split in two. The soldier screamed in pain, and Anthony kicked the disabled mercenary, who was stabbed in the cheek with the handle of an axe under a groan of pain.

Under the bloodthirsty battle, beside the strong Anthony, there were even a dozen corpses of Brutus mercenaries.

However, the heroism of the commander did not pay off the stubborn fighting spirit of the soldiers, and even the most experienced regimental infantry began to flee under the combined attack of the front and rear.

"Anthony, the one who finds him and kills him, a reward of one thousand dinars!"

Agrippa shouted on the battlefield as many soldiers surrounded him to protect the young cavalry commander, his short sword stabbed at an Antonine infantryman who had been brutally pierced through the abdomen, Agrippa's dagger sinking straight into his body, and then the tip of the sword stabbed out of the soldier's back with blood.

I have to admit that war is the stupidest way to settle disputes, but it is also the simplest and most brutal way, and Antony, who has always been arrogant, has to withdraw his forces in the face of defeat.

Blood, violence and luster were constant themes in the ancient Romans, and even the young Agrippa, who was bloodthirsty like a wild beast in the excitement of the slaughter, pulled his dagger out of a dying Gallic soldier, licked the blood stains on it, and slit the throat of the Gallic soldier who was convulsing and bleeding with a single sword.

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When the news of Agrippa's victory at Aretine reached Rome, the entire Senate panicked, because Octavian had taken the same route as Caesar. All the senators of the Senate knew that once Octavian came to power, Rome would return to the dictatorship of the past, but Octavian was nothing more than a young and ignorant child in their eyes before, but in a few months, what this child did surprised them, Octavian not only obtained Caesar's inheritance and army, but also successfully defeated Antony's vanguard, such a feat has made the whole of Rome dare not underestimate him.

"Appis, Octavian wrote back and asked me to give him a triumphal ......"

On the night after receiving Octavian's letter, Cicero summoned Appis out to discuss his next steps. In fact, as the backbone of the Senate, even if Cicero and Apis have no alliance, with Cicero's current situation, he doesn't know which side to ally with, if he chooses the right position, there is still hope for survival, if he chooses the wrong camp, when the civil war ends, he will not have such good luck, after all, Antony and Octavian are not the Caesar of the year, they are not so broad-minded.

"Octavian is testing you, my friend, rest assured, as he asks, this triumphal ceremony will be held for him, Octavian just wants to use this time to catch DJ Brutus to please the civilians of Rome, and at the same time, he wants to test your attitude towards him. We can meet all his post-war requirements, and I've already figured out what to do next. Rome is bound to roll up a bloody storm. ”

Appis said, a look of determination on his face.

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"It's a threat! Naked threat! Octavian didn't achieve anything, the battle ended with Agrippa, and it was Agrippa who entered the city and captured DJ Brutus, Octavian didn't have any glory at all, but he asked us to give him a triumphal ceremony? This is a threat, does he want to be like Caesar now? Don't forget, he's not really a Caesar yet! ”

When Cicero proposed to hold a triumphal ceremony for Octavian, who was not yet nineteen years old, the Senate was furious and ridiculed, with senators from all over Rome accusing Octavian of his despicable deeds and mocking Cicero for being so frightened by such a small army that he would do as a minor would say.

"Even Agrippa, in my opinion, should not have had a triumph for him, he was just a kid in his early twenties. Moreover, the defeat of an Antony legion of only a few thousand men was not a major event worthy of national praise, and Antony was defeated by the mercenaries of DJ Brutus, without which Agrippa's army of less than 5,000 men could not have defeated Antony. So for all sorts of reasons, we can't hold a triumphal ceremony for that barbarian! ”

Before Cicero could speak, many senators of the Senate were accused, they knew in their hearts that Octavian was demonstrating against them, and that the Senate, although it no longer had any real power, was unwilling to be trampled on and enslaved at will, as the last symbol of the republic.