"Five hundred dinars." When Octavian casually said this number, he instantly regretted that it was a huge sum, but he was still restrained by the imperative of buying the soldiers, so after a pause, he went on to continue, "Five hundred dinars of silver, this is only for each ordinary soldier, and it will be cashed after victory, and then each centurion and military tribune will be rewarded with five thousand dinars." ”

He could feel that in the wind, Agrippa next to him was trembling, and sometimes politicians and generals were dying, knowing that this was feeding wolves and tigers with their own flesh, but they still had to continue gambling, and the final result was to see whether they were themselves, their political enemies, or they would die together, and become the bait of this group.

At this time, the guard commanded by Avenus, composed of Caesar's oldest veterans, was the first to raise their weapons and praise the generosity of their masters. Then, at the behest of Karenus and Angandinus, the soldiers of the two legions also shouted in unison, "We are not for the Senate, not for the Republic, but for Caesar and Lybidaius." ”

Subsequently, in order to intimidate the Senate, all the armies began to be lined up in two divisions on the colonel's field, each holding a dazzling banner, and the infantry and cavalry were in full armor, shields and weapons, shouting and intertwining and stabbing each other, constantly changing formations and commands, like a vigorous and fierce dance, their light chariots, cavalry and archers also galloped around the colonel, showing their martial might.

"Now, the Senate has temporarily handed over the command of these two legions to us, but theoretically the supreme command still belongs to the two consuls, Pansa and Hejus. And you're just acting counsellor now. The rank is not as high as theirs. "Mecenas on the high platform. As he watched, he whispered to Octavian.

"Speak out about your concerns, Mecenas."

"There's nothing to say, just one, beware of the Senate. Now Pansa and Hezius had gone out to recruit troops, and the Senate had asked them to recruit two new legions, the forty-second and forty-third legions. ”

Octavian thought for a moment and answered. "On the march, I camped only with my own guards, and the six and twelfth legions, mainly through a joint meeting to control them, and to establish a good relationship with the two commanders."

"Won't it be bad for Leo if Anthony learns that we're attacking him from behind?" Agrippa asked, worried.

"That's exactly what I'm worried about, but now it's on the line, one step at a time, and I'm sure Anthony won't hurt Leo for the time being, and at the end of the day. If our army and Anthony are both defeated and lost, they will laugh the most. I'm afraid it's still the Senate. ”

A few days later, from the southern city of Lubi, Fonteus brought three hundred Talentes of silver (most of them were raised) and eight hundred Caesar veterans who had been left behind in the city, and then Octavian alone gathered all the veterans of the guard together and organized them into five brigades, and Octavian was ingenious, the original number of all the veterans was about four thousand, that is, the establishment of each individual brigade was eight hundred, "This kind of formation, against the enemy's ordinary brigade, our brigade can easily kill the other party; When encountering the enemy's chief brigade, it can also completely resist alone, so that there will be no flaws in the array. This was Octavian's opinion, and he completely regarded these five guards brigades as killer weapons.

Then, during the month of recruitment, Octavian was stationed outside the city as acting archcounsel, waiting for the rendezvous of the two new legions of Panza and Hzyus.

At this time, in a high slope camp in five Rome outside the city of Mutina, the soldiers of the lark legion, who were feathered highly, and the soldiers of the tenth legion, who had always appeared as Caesar's strongest subordinate, were divided into three sides, and took turns approaching the fence outside the camp, they folded into a shield wall, the front crouched, and the back raised their shields alternately, and the lightly armed infantry mixed with the side and the middle continued to smash stones and bows and arrows into the camp, and the defenders inside kept wailing, some people were smashed and fell down the wall, and some began to flee over the wall.

This is the eighteenth legion ordered by Dehemos to garrison here, most of them are new soldiers, mixed with some sword fighting slaves who only have the courage of a horseman, in the face of the suppression of Anthony's two elite legions, there is not much power to fight back, and soon the vanguard of the tenth legion took the lead in using a hook to pull down the wooden fence and fill the trench, and then the new army rushed in from the gap, drawing swords and sweeping away the remnants of the enemy.

"See! Now is the time for the cavalry to come into play. Anthony, who was standing on the opposite slope to supervise the battle, triumphantly said to Leo, who was also riding a horse beside him, "In the battlefield shape of offensive and defensive warfare, it is necessary to limit the range of maneuver of the defending side, so you must constantly use elite infantry to capture the support points of their cities, seize their hoarded supplies, reduce their grazing and cavalry activities, and finally kill the siege network." Of course, whenever there is a victory, cavalry must be sent to pursue and expand the results of the battle. "It seems that Anthony has now completely treated Leo as half a student.

When the trumpets sounded, the Lark Legion and the Tarraco and Dalmatian cavalry of the Neptune (Eleventh Legion) roared in long columns, winding from the roads on both sides of the two hills, chasing in the direction of the chaotic flight of the defeated enemy, raising dust that obscured the sky.

"But, my honorable father, Lord Anthony, the area between the camp and the city, we can see very clearly here, is full of small fragmented torrents and bushes, and I fear that the cavalry will go too deep and will be ambushed by the enemy." Leo leaned forward and suddenly asked.

"Haha, how is that possible? Just that fellow Dehemoth—" Before Antony could finish speaking, in the long grass along the coast, a Roman inside and outside the camp, suddenly a number of soldiers rose up, and they shouted and threw pikes and stones at Antony's cavalry, and the Antoninous cavalry, who was caught off guard, fell off their horses one after another, and hurriedly turned around and fled in all directions, and many of the wounded men and horses who fell to the ground were soon dragged away by the other party with hooks.

It seems that this was indeed an ambush set up by Dehemoth in advance, because he had no hope of his new army against Antony, so he set up this lightly armed ambush in advance, and on the way it must go, not only hindered Antony's in-depth pursuit, but also killed and wounded many of his soldiers and horses.

At this moment, Antony's face turned blue with anger, and he bent the horsewhip, and then he looked directly at Leo with an innocent face, and said, "Son of the Libidaeus family, now I have appointed you to make a draft, just like that Saboquemus served you, and made a siege plan for me." ”

A herald, riding on horseback, told Antony the news from Rome, "What, that boy Octavian is really going to attack my back?" Do you really think that my legion can't defeat a hairy boy like him! (To be continued......)