"What. Caesar is coming! This was the first reaction of Byblos, who was on the sickbed in the city of Apollonia, when he heard about the battle, and instead of cursing anyone, he climbed out of bed with his cheeks as deep as rouge, took his dagger and dagger from his servants, and shouted, "What about our fleet, what about our ships?" Where was Caesar's goal, Dikhachan or Olicum, or Apollonia, where we were? Several slaves tried to stop the overheated fleet commander, but when he heard the disappointing news: Caesar's main attack direction was unknown, because in the days when he fell to recuperate, both Lipo and Maximus had slackened, and the sailors did not want to drift on the sea any longer, so they chose to go ashore to rest, and did not intercept the cruising team, so Caesar's action was too late to intercept it.

Byblos roared, angrily striking the sculpture with his sword, slashing the mouth and nose on it to pieces, "Set sail for me, and Vispyro and Mirocius of Olicum, hurriedly send ships to attack and capture the ships carrying Caesar's soldiers, and sink them one by one, this is a golden opportunity, even if it can't stop Caesar's first wave of troops from coming ashore, they can destroy his second wave of men, and then they are trapped in Epirus, with no way out, Then the three legions of Gabinus and Sextus of Delphi rushed in, and Caesar was finished. "Byblos, who was in a deep fever, was like a happy devil, dancing with his hands.

Caesar's fleet sailed extremely fast on the comfortable sea, and set out that night, arriving at the landing site before noon the next day, although Caesar had not calculated it precisely in advance, and the technical limitations of the era could not have done this. Every qiē has to look at the face of the goddess of fate - the lucky Caesar. Spearheaded with the ninth, tenth and eleventh legions. A force of about 12,000 men, and 2,000 Germanic Weaver cavalry, disembarked farther south at a narrow rocky beach called Paraste, sandwiched between Corfu and Apollonia, a prominent headland that would be more conducive to Caesar's fortification of a possible counterattack by Pompey's army.

"Blessed by the gods." These words came after Caesar jumped on land. The first words he said were also an expression of his true feelings, and then he asked his subordinate Swephore cavalry to march along the Egnatia Highway from the port of Dixhajn and across the whole of Greece to occupy the main point, because in Palest, dozens of Roman miles to the south, there were many anchorages of the Byblos fleet, and Corfu in particular was the main stronghold, and Caesar did not dare to slack off. He told the soldiers to take off their wet clothes as soon as they climbed onto land. After wiping his body with olive oil, he changed into "a dry suit of armor" and immediately headed north towards the city of Apollonia where Byblos was located.

As long as Apollonia is captured, there will be a solid bridgehead, so that he will have a foothold and will not be annihilated by Pompey's army on the shore.

Caesar then ordered the fleet to hurry back to pick up the rest of Antony's legions, which were still on standby in the port of Brindisi.

Over there, on the island of Corfu, from Apollonia to Dixachan, on the towers of various cities, beacons were lit everywhere, and Byblos's fleet also took action, and he personally took twenty ships to anchor from Apollonia despite his illness, and nearly a hundred raiding ships on Corfu should also be in place, "like sharks, devour Caesar's ships, catch them, capture them!" ”

Soon after, a ship with a small conspicuous flag, after inspecting the password and code, arrived at Olicum a little north, when the two commanders were about to respond to Byblos's order, and led all the fleets to the sea to search for attacks, but Principia's "information" also arrived at this moment, and the messenger made it very clear: the southern coast of Italy was very tightly sealed by Caesar, so the mistress sent me to send information from the slightly neglected north.

"Immediately, Caesar's chief lieutenant, Liberdaus, will raid our port city with three or four legions." After opening this information, Vespielo was shocked, could it be that Caesar's crossing of the sea over there was only a feint, and Libidaeus was the main attack, and the city they were stationed in was so unlucky that it happened to bear the brunt.

Mirochius, on the other deck, was also silent, three legions must have been equipped with a strong fleet, and they had only ten ships at hand, with the pitiful strength of three garrison groups, and he had repeatedly reported to Byblos and Gabinus to strengthen the defense of the place, but they were ignored, and now that the matter had come to this, they could not help it.

"Let's ignore the intelligence and set sail directly with the fleet and soldiers!" Mirokius said boldly.

"But if you abandon the city's defenses, won't you be punished?" Vespillo said worriedly.

Still Mirochius, an old soldier and experienced, he said to Vespillo: "Immediately the whole army will be up and down, with one voice, and say that when the information is sent, we have obeyed Byblos's military order to go to sea, so that even if Lybidaeus comes, and Olicum is captured, we will not be held responsible—and call the clerk to transcribe three copies of the information, one for Byblos, one for Lylias, who is besieging the city of Isa in the north, and the last one directly to Gabinus and General Marcellas, They presided over a confederation of the all-Greek city-states in Delphi! ”

The two of them had already made up their minds, so they jumped directly into the ship and set sail towards the southern seas, for a very good reason, "to assist in capturing Caesar's main fleet." ”

On the other side, Lybida and the chief brigade of the Sixteenth Army, with a thousand Mattias, had set sail in the northern Adriatic Sea, and the target was Olicum, "If the enemy abandons the city, we will quickly occupy this harbor; If they still dare to resist, use bellows fire and Marcelian noblewoman cannons to storm it, no matter how big the sacrifice, they will succeed, we are running out of time! ”

But it was clear that the false information he had spread had served in success, and that Olikum had no garrison at all, and that by the time Lybida's fleet sailed into the harbor, the Council of Elders was already standing on the pier with flower children shouting in the early morning of the next day. Then the group was surprised to see that this was only a very small fleet, and the number of soldiers who came down was only about 2,000.

But with the fall of the city of Olicum, the message was rapidly spreading like an arrow into the interior of Greece along all routes.

Under the city of Issa, in the siege position, General Lelias, bare-chested and smeared with olive oil, was shaking his scarred left eye (he had been hit in the left eye when he had fought against Mithridates VI in the East), and struggled to read the information from the herald, "What, three or four legions have landed at Olicum, which means that the southwestern flank of my legion is threatened?" (To be continued......)