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- Socrates (famous ancient Greek thinker, philosopher, and educator)

After the landing of Luquis's First Legion, all the Augustus reinforcements landed in the port of Betica; The follow-up food and grass supplies were still in the process of unloading the ship, and Oscar let Luquis send the auxiliary legion of the First Legion to be responsible.

After arranging trivial matters related to food and supplies, Oscar informed Luquis and Antio of his military plan against the Kingdom of Spain; According to Oscar's plan, after the army landed in the province of Betica, Oscar himself immediately rushed to the east of the province of Betica with Mary and the family guards, joined the Fifth Army of Longkina, and tried to persuade the Exaca Army of the Kingdom of Spain to surrender.

Luquis and Antio led the legions to immediately reinforce the Fourth Army, which was facing off against the Spanish army in the border area, and the entire northern army was to be placed under the command of Luquis upon his arrival.

Of course, Oscar also clearly gave Lucquis an order not to launch an active attack on the Spanish army in the border area as much as possible; In Oscar's opinion, as long as the Spanish army did not take the initiative to provoke the battle, there was no need for the Augustus army to fight to the death with the Spanish army, because Oscar had a better way to deal with these large Spanish troops.

Oscar's so-called better way is naturally to rely on Mary's personal prestige to solve the problem; Oscar believed that Mary's presence would allow the Augustus family to persuade Exsaka and his legions to surrender. When the time comes, the army of the House of Augustus will be able to cross the border and take the province of Iberia, which belongs to the Kingdom of Spain.

After taking the province of Iberia, Oscar could leave the main force of Longina's Fifth Army in New Carthage to ensure the Augustan occupation of the province of Iberia; Oscar would then take Mary and the newly surrendered Exaca Legion from the interior of the Kingdom of Spain to the rear of the armies of the Dukes of Botrecott and Denois, and surround the Spanish army with the army of Luquis.

After completing the encirclement, Oscar decided that there was no need to continue the fighting; With Mary's high prestige in the Kingdom of Spain, her presence, combined with the shock of the surrender of the Exaca Legion, would definitely make more than half of the besieged Spanish army lay down their arms.

As for the remaining stubborn resistance, when their morale is low and their fighting spirit is completely lost, the combat effectiveness they can break out is also extremely limited; At that time, victory was nothing more than a low-hanging fruit for the Augustus.

Oscar's overall plan seems to be unassailable, but there is one biggest variable, that is, whether Mary's prestige will be enough to persuade Exsaca and the large number of Spanish troops to surrender; If it could, then the plan would be effortless to implement, but what if it couldn't? Could Oscar still be able to fight all the way to the rear of the Spanish army with a Fifth Army?

In order to ensure the absolute safety of Oscar himself, Luquis was adamantly opposed to Oscar and Mary taking only a thousand family guards to the eastern part of the province of Betica; He states that he can approve of Oscar's plan, but that he must have Antio's Samonai legion with him.

Luquis also had good reasons, the fully equipped First Legion already had a strong fighting force, plus the Fourth Legion, which was already in the northern part of the province of Betica; The 20,000-strong army of the Augustan family was enough to withstand all kinds of attacks by the Spanish army.

More importantly, the reinforcements led by Lucis also included 7,000 recruits to supplement the Third Army; Although these recruits are nominally newly recruited, they are all fully armed and intensively trained, not to mention how powerful they are, at least they will not be worse than those recruits from the Kingdom of Spain.

In this way, even without Antio's Samonai legion, Luquis's command could gather an army of nearly 30,000 men; Such a strong army is not at all comparable to those armies of the Kingdom of Spain. Therefore, instead of going north to the icing on the cake, Antio's Samonai army should follow Oscar to play a bigger role!

Oscar thought about it carefully, and Luquis's words were not unreasonable; With two full legions and seven thousand recruits in the northern part of the province of Betica, such a large army was enough for the opposing army of the Kingdom of Spain not to dare to act rashly; Coupled with Oscar's own involuntary offensive mission to Luquis, it really doesn't matter if there is Antio's Samonai Legion or not.

In view of this, Oscar agreed to Luquis's suggestion and let Luquis lead the First Army and the seven thousand recruits to replenish the Third Army north; Oscar himself went east with the thousand family guards of Mary and Nussis, as well as the Samonai Legion of Antio.

When the two sides were about to separate, Oscar also gave Luquis another task, that is, to relay an order from Oscar to Marcus, the deputy general of the Third Legion; He was the new commander of the Third Army from the time he received the 7,000 recruits replenished by the Third Legion, and as for the appointment of the Adjutant General of the Legion and the rebuilding of the auxiliary Corps, it would only have to wait until after the war.

After explaining the incident, Oscar took Mary and his army to the east; In order to prepare Longkina's Fifth Legion in advance, Oscar also sent several family guards to go to Longkina's military camp at the same time as he set off, so that Longkina could be ready to attack at any time!

Dragonkina's Fifth Legion now has only 7,000 men left in the main legion, and the 3,000 men of its auxiliary legion are still in the city of Córdoba and the combined legion led by Tetius; And these 7,000 people will also become the key force for the Augustus family to control the Iberian provinces.

If Exhaca really had the reluctance to surrender, as Lucis suggests; Then, it is definitely impossible for the Samonai Legion, which has just been replenished, to play the role of the main force, and the real main force of the battle is still the Fifth Legion of Longkina.

No matter what, this time Oscar is determined to win the Kingdom of Spain in World War I! Since the three garrison legions of the Augustus family in Betica Province can fight more and more bravely under the absolute disadvantage, they have stabilized the situation; Then, how could His Excellency Oscar, who personally led the absolute superiority of troops to reinforce the province of Betica, not take the opportunity to take the entire Kingdom of Spain?

The war, which the Kingdom of Spain took its own initiative, was both a challenge and an opportunity for the House of Augustus; Now, the most difficult crisis period has passed, and the remaining opportunities Oscar is naturally impossible to miss in vain!

As long as Oscar could succeed in turning the passive into the active, then the Kingdom of Spain could not escape the fate of being conquered; And the House of Augustus can completely bring the entire Iberian Peninsula under their own family's rule!

Once the Augustan family had the maritime supremacy of the entire Western Mediterranean, they could acquire the resource-rich and vast Iberian Peninsula as a new territory; Then, the rise of the House of Augustus will really be unstoppable!

Oscar took Mary and others all the way to the border area where the Dragonkina Legion and the Exsaka Legion confronted each other, and the Samonai Legion, which had always marched at an astonishing speed, was quickly left behind by Oscar this time, leaving only Antio leading his personal guards cavalry, and still closely following Oscar's side.

The original six-day journey was completed in only four days under the continuous acceleration of Oscar; Before noon on the fifth day, Oscar and his party rushed to the location of the Fifth Army camp in Longkina.

Longkina, who had already been informed by the guards, was also ready for all battles in the barracks; Even the Exarka Legion on the opposite side stepped up military preparations after discovering the changes in the Augustus family's military camp.

Just as the confrontation between the two sides deteriorated further, Oscar finally arrived at the Fifth Army camp in Longkina; When Oscar arrived at the barracks, Longkina immediately opened the camp gate with the personal guards and cavalry to greet Oscar, but Oscar did not have the slightest intention of entering the barracks.

Oscar really didn't want to delay another second, so he rejected Antio's suggestion to enter the barracks first and discuss it before persuading the enemy to surrender; Oscar directly gave the order to the entire Fifth Army to attack immediately.

Longkina didn't expect Oscar to give the battle order in such a hurry, but as a general of the Augustus family; The subconscious of unconditional obedience to the leader's orders made him not raise any objections, and ordered the officers and men of the Fifth Army to attack on all fronts immediately!

When the rousing trumpet sounded in the Augustus family barracks, a similar trumpet sounded in the Exarka barracks; Exarka also began to organize his soldiers to prepare for the arrival of the Augustus army.

The 2,000 soldiers of the old branch of the Iberian legion Joan of Arc, who had always had a grudge against Exsaka, also temporarily put aside their hatred for Exsaka at this moment and aimed their weapons at the Augustus army in front.

The commander of the Iberian Legion, Iker, also obeyed Exsaka's order without hesitation, and placed the 4,000 soldiers of his legion on the two flanks of Exarka's main corps to ensure the stability of the entire front.

No one thought that what they were about to face was not the fierce attack of the Augustus family, but the personal persuasion of Joan of Arc! Of course, Longkina didn't expect that Oscar was in such a hurry to let him gather troops to attack, not to attack the Spanish army on the opposite side, but just to attract all the Spanish troops on the opposite side. (To be continued.) )