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- Aristotle (one of the great philosophers, scientists, and educators in the ancient history of the world)

The Royal Legion of the Kingdom of Macedonia is a legion composed of elite Macedonian royal pikemen and royal cavalry, and it is also the main military force of Alexander the Great in the past to conquer the world; But the cruel time has destroyed this army that once roamed the world, and they are now reduced to a second-rate army, unable to protect even their homeland.

After the loss of Alexander the Great, this once invincible elite army has lost its soul; Although they are still nominally a royal legion, their actual combat effectiveness is declining, and they can only rely on their former glory to deter the enemy.

An army of twenty or thirty thousand Thracian barbarians, in the heyday of the Royal Legion, would have been nothing more than an opponent that could be solved by a charge; Even if the warriors of the Thracian barbarians put up a desperate resistance, it was only to add glory to the soldiers of the royal legion.

And now, the royal legion, which has a full 10,000 royal cavalry and 20,000 royal pikemen, has paid the price of more than 10,000 soldiers killed and more than 15,000 wounded in order to defeat the Thracian barbarian army, which is less than 30,000.

What is even more tragic is that after the powerful appearance of the royal legion is completely broken, can the Macedonian kingdom still have an unparalleled deterrent power in the Greek peninsula? Will the Brutus family still be afraid of the Macedonian kingdom? Is the Greek Peninsula as stable as ever?

These questions were no longer the turn of the king of the Macedonian kingdom to ponder, and the invasion of the Thracian barbarians caused the Macedonian kingdom to face another great crisis after the death of Alexander the Great; The potential enemy that was about to move made it necessary for the Macedonian kingdom to defeat the Thracian barbarian army by thunder in order to restore the majesty of the Macedonian kingdom.

The Macedonian kingdom, which was overstretched, could only withdraw all the main forces stationed in the border area with the Brutus family back to the capital area of the Macedonian kingdom; After all, the Thracian barbarians were the first enemies of the Macedonian kingdom.

The question is, will the Brutus family let go of such a good opportunity to expand? Ever since the astonishing defeat of Hannibal and his army by the House of Augustus in Sicily, every Roman family has had a serious sense of crisis; The Julius family was preparing to march into the Germanic lands, and the Marius forces and Scipio were focusing on the development of the navy, and the Brutus family naturally could not be idle.

However, the intricate situation on the Greek peninsula seriously constrained the development of the Brutus family; With the large army of the Brutus family and the status of outsiders, the slightest mistake could provoke a joint attack by other Greek Peninsula powers.

Although the probability of such a thing happening is very low, the Brutus family cannot but be wary; In the absence of a suitable opportunity to expand, the Brutus family would not expand easily, lest they attract the common hostility of the other powers of the Greek peninsula.

While the Brutus family was sharpening their knives and looking for an opportunity, the Macedonian kingdom was invaded by Thracian barbarians; This is a great opportunity for the Brutus family to expand.

After the main army of the Macedonian kingdom was withdrawn from the border areas, the province of Thessaly naturally became a hardly defended province; Could it be that just relying on the thousands of garrisons in the province of Thessaly could withstand the tens of thousands of elite troops of the Brutus family?

More importantly, after the change in the Macedonian kingdom, it was not only the Brutus family who wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob them; Tiberius did not believe that the city-states of Athens and Sparta had no unusual thoughts about the Peloponnesian province of Macedonia, which was the most prosperous and rich region in the entire Greek peninsula!

Even if the city-states of Athens and Sparta were unwilling to upset the balance on the Greek peninsula, the Brutus family could not sit idly by and watch such a great opportunity slip away from their own family; In fact, on the day the main army of the Kingdom of Macedonia withdrew from the border area, the legions of the Brutus family began to actively prepare for war.

The Leader Legion, which had 14,000 hoplites, and the Greek Legion, which had 14,000 Greek pikemen, were split into four legions of 7,000 soldiers in the preparation of the Brutus family; They are the First Leader Legion, the Second Leader Legion, the Third Leader Legion, and the Fourth Leader Legion, and the number of the Greek Legion has been completely canceled.

These four legions were actually the disrupted reorganization of the leader legion and the Greek legion, but at the same time as the organization was disrupted, Tiberius also completely disrupted the division of the four legions; Each of the four new legions of leaders would have half Greek pikemen and half Roman hoplites, in order to balance the strength of these legions.

In addition, the commanders of the four legions have also been reorganized; Rex, the commander of the former Leader Legion, will serve as the supreme commander of the four Leader Corps, Myers, the former commander of the Greek Legion, will serve as the commander of the First Leader Legion, and the other three Legion Commanders are General Eden, General Norman, and General Max.

In fact, the fundamental purpose of the Brutus family's complete abolition of the Greek legion was to eliminate the Hellenistic factor in the Brutus family's army, and it was also an effective measure to make the soldiers composed of the Greeks better accept their new identity.

After the formation of the four leading legions was completed, the preparations for war of the Brutus family were almost complete; The army of the Brutus family of thirteen legions, except for the ninth legion of the bruce and the tenth legion of the ******, which will remain on the mainland, the other eleven legions will all participate in the upcoming war of the Brutus family against the Macedonian kingdom.

Among them, Tiberius himself will personally lead the Second and Fourth Legions, as well as the Cavalry Corps, supplemented by the cooperation of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Legions, to directly cross the northern part of the province of Thessaly of the Macedonian Kingdom and launch an attack on the capital region of the Macedonian Kingdom, with the aim of completely destroying the Macedonian Kingdom!

The remaining 1st and 3rd legions, as well as the four leading legions that had just been reorganized, were to launch an attack on the province of Thessaly, the kingdom of Macedonia, under the unified command of the commander of the 1st legion, Gnieus; In addition to the occupation of the province of Thessaly, another important task of Gnaeus was to prevent the Athenian city-state from entering the Thessaly region.

If the Athenian city-state did not have the Thessaly region, then the task of Gnaeus was to lead the entire army to the border with the Athenian city-state after occupying the province of Thessaly; Once the Athenian and Spartan city-states launched an attack on the Peloponnese region of the Macedonian kingdom, Gnaeus was going to stab the Athenian city-state in the back.

For the Brutus, all the powers on the Greek peninsula were enemies of the Brutus; It was only a matter of time before the Brutus family met these potential enemies, and the opportunity to eliminate these forces as soon as possible would be beneficial to the Brutus family.

Just as the Brutus family confidently began to prepare for war against the Macedonian kingdom, the Athenian and Spartan city-states were as impatient as the Brutus family had predicted; Now that the Macedonian kingdom was in the midst of a bitter war with the Thracian barbarians, the Peloponnese, surrounded by the city-states of Athens and Sparta, naturally attracted the attention of the two city-states.

Whether it was the Athenian city-state or the Spartan city-state, they were eager to acquire the extremely rich and prosperous Peloponnese region to strengthen their power and gain more say in the Greek peninsula; To this end, the city-state of Athens began to negotiate with the other city-states of Attica, while the city-state of Sparta began preparations for war directly.

While the Brutus family was still preparing, the Spartan city-states, which had taken the lead in completing preparations for war, sent their 20,000 Spartan troops to attack the Peloponnese region of the Macedonian kingdom; In just two days, all the southern cities of the Peloponnese were captured by the Spartan city-states, and even Corinth, the capital of the Peloponnese, was under the command of the Spartan city-states.

In contrast, the city-states of Athens were still grinding and negotiating with the other large and small city-states in the region of Attica about joining forces; After receiving the news that the Spartan city-state was the first to strike, the Athenian city-state could not care about any more slow discussions, and they quickly led the 25,000 troops of their city-state to attack from the north of the Peloponnese.

Geographically, Corinth, the capital of the Peloponnese, was closer to the region of Attica, where the city-state of Athens was located; Thus, it took only one day for the army of the Athenian city-state to quickly capture four cities north of the Peloponnese and advance the army to a distance of only thirty miles from Corinth.

The competition between the Athenian city-states and the Spartan city-states of the Peloponnese is not very related to the Brutus family, at least for the time being, it does not affect the Brutus family; On the fourth day of the Spartan city-state's attack on the Macedonian kingdom, the day after the Athenian city-state attacked the Macedonian kingdom, the two armies of the Brutus family, which were ready, also crossed the border area.

Ordered to command six legions to attack Geneus in the province of Thessaly, he led a large army across the southern border of the province of Thessaly, and quickly marched to Larissa, the capital of the province of Thessaly; The seven legions led by Tiberius himself crossed the northern border of the province of Thessaly and marched rapidly towards the province of Macedonia, where the capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia was located.

After the Macedonian kingdom was invaded by the Thracian barbarians, in less than half a month, the Spartan city-states, the Athenian city-states, and the Brutus family on the Greek peninsula started a war against the Macedonian kingdom one after another; The kingdom of Macedonia, which was attacked by four powerful enemies at the same time, suffered the biggest crisis in the hundreds of years since their founding! (To be continued.) )