"You traitor! Stupid, childish! You let Apis and Rabbi Ainus go, and now Antony and Octavian can besiege our camp with impunity. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Is one Apis worth 300,000 Sesters? I held Apis hostage not just for money, but also to contain Octavian. Octavian had to come to the rescue of Appis, otherwise the people of Rome would call him an ungrateful thing, who had helped Octavian maintain his role as heir and help him obtain Caesar's inheritance. So, Appis is worth more than just the 300,000 Sestles! You idiot! 300,000 Sestles can temporarily alleviate your financial deficit, but by letting Apis, we lose the initiative! ”

It had been three days since Cventus learned that Brutus had secretly let Apis go, and by this time, outside the camp where Cventus and Brutus were stationed, the combined forces of Antony and Octavian had begun to build a siege network at a rapid pace. From the tower above the camp, you can see the giant Roman catapult that is taking shape on the horizon. Obviously, Octavian and Antony did not want to wait any longer. They want to end this war as soon as possible.

"Damn, if you have the ability, take your men and go out of the camp to defeat Anthony! Instead of accusing me of all sorts of wrongs, 300,000 Sesters, it doesn't matter to you, it doesn't matter, but for me, it's life-saving money, and my 20,000 soldiers need to eat and drink every day, and they need to be paid once a week. For this, I owe millions to loan sharks, you know? Ever since I couldn't pay my debts, I lived every day in depression and fear, sleepless days and nights. You don't understand my situation at all, you only care about the enemy you want to catch! ”

Brutus didn't want Cventus to step on his feet, so he returned the favor with an imposing gesture. The two commanders even fought each other in the camp, and soon both sides were bruised and bleeding. The disagreement of the commanders led to a lack of confidence and demoralization among the soldiers.

Eventually, Kventus compromised, and the unease could not spread in the barracks. Especially this legion, many of them were recruits, from different tribes and city-states, peoples. People are different, and if there are signs of rout, it will affect the whole group. It's just that Kventus sighed from his heart depressed to how he could have met such a stupid and stubborn noble child. And for a moment, Cventus suddenly felt Caesar's hardship very much, and perhaps it was precisely because of the many people who chose Caesar that Caesar chose Octavian over Antony and Brutus.

After making all these decisions, Cventus sent people to the barracks of Antony and Octavian, and issued a battle for the decisive battle. In the early morning of three days later, a decisive battle was fought in the open space between the two barracks.

On the eve of the decisive battle, Appis lay in a hospital bed sadly, unable to move. Many of the wounds on his body have even been infected, bleeding pus, and he can't sleep at night. The pain can wake you up in your sleep. Fortunately, with the careful care of Tertila, he sat at the head of the bed every day and told what was happening at the front, and took care of the living and life for Appis, for which Tertila also became a unique woman in the barracks, and Antony and Octavian temporarily allowed a noble woman to stay in the barracks. The army that Apis had formed before was also wiped out in the breakout battle at Kventus, and when Crane returned, he became the commander of the light pole, and Apis told him that if he wanted to participate in the decisive battle in three days, he should go.

Sekras and Rabbi Ainus were also devastated during their captivity, and Appis felt a deep remorse for seeing the suffering of those who had followed him for many years. And not allowing Brutus to fight head-on again seems to be a glimmer of reward and comfort to Tyrtila, after all, Tertilla cannot make Brutus give up and return to China, nor can he let this war completely subside, and it is a blessing to be able to prevent his husband and his brother from killing each other.

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Three days later, Antony and Octavian, Brutus and Kventus, met in the plains of Philippi, Macedonia.

The battlefield was flatter than the terrain of Caesar's decisive battle with Pompey, an endless wilderness plain, no rivers and woods, only the sun of late autumn soaked the earth. The legions on both sides lined up in long black queues.

The decisive battle between Caesar and Pompey was full of commanding wisdom and the art of war, and this time, the war between Antony, Octavian and Brutus was purely a contest of numbers and quality.

As Antony said before the war, although the coalition forces appeared to be a unit, they were actually scattered, with Brutus' legion to meet Octavian's phalanx, and Antony's main army to meet the large army of Cventus.

Both sides even omitted throwing long-range weapons before the battle, and directly launched a large-scale frontal hand-to-hand encounter.

The desolate land of Greece was covered with sand, and all the soldiers who fought in the battle wore almost identical armor and carried identical weapons. The only thing that distinguishes the factions is the color of their shields.

Anthony painted the shields of his troops white, while Brutus painted the shields of his own legion's infantry with green paint. Cventus used black, while Octavian used the same red pigment that Caesar used in his conquest of Gaul.

Large-scale plain warfare, the battlefield is densely covered with warring soldiers, their weapons are staggered together, shields emit sonorous and powerful blocking sounds, fighting, screams, and the horn of war rings in every corner of the battlefield.

The soldiers on the front line fought the enemy side by side, using shields to form a shield wall, and the opponent's tactics were the same, due to the limited range of the Roman dagger, the infantry of the two armies had to stick close to each other to assassinate each other.

The shield wall effectively protected the soldiers from mortal damage, they were only stabbed in unimportant parts and kept bleeding, and each fallen soldier was not killed by heavy blows, but was stabbed to death by sword and sword in the crowd, and the cruelty of the civil war was far greater than the scene when the Romans fought against the barbarians.

Antony led his small elite cavalry around the flanks to fight the cavalry of Cventus. Both sides knew that they had to make a breakthrough on the flanks first, and there was no elaborate arrangement, so the cavalry battle became so bloody, and the two thousand five hundred legionary cavalry led by Cventus fiercely attacked Antony's three thousand legionary cavalry.

As the horses staggered, the spears pierced the bodies of the knights in the first row. But at the same time, due to the effect of the recoil force, many cavalry were also shaken off the horses. And the cavalry who fell off the horse was undoubtedly tragic, even if they did not fall to their death, when they got up, the cavalry in the back row had already rushed up, and the high-speed charging war horses had a terrifying impact force, and any human being in front of them was a gravel-like existence. Their bodies were knocked away by the cavalry, and blood splattered on the battlefield.