"Chapter 700: The Final Battle of Rome"

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This time, Cleopatra VII did not hesitate or dissatisfied, she willingly sent all the 50,000 Pharaonic Praetorian Guards to the front and handed them over to Spartacus for command; Spartak wouldn't mind that he had 10,000 more elite soldiers under his command, he would only give better play to the role of these 50,000 soldiers and let them make their own contributions to this war.

The army under Spartacus and the army of Bohynius were also combined, and the combined army of the Augustan Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt, which had an army of 350,000 at its peak, now has only 120,000 soldiers left; Even if the 10,000 soldiers stationed in the Pamela region and the Arab region are included, the losses of the two coalition forces are as high as 220,000.

All the price paid for the final victory was worth it, and Spartak never cared about the casualties of his soldiers; As long as the death of every soldier is valuable, then there is nothing to regret such casualties, and the phrase "a great success" is not just a talk, as a general, everyone will get used to these fresh lives turning into cold casualty figures.

After receiving reinforcements from 50,000 Pharaoh's Praetorian Guards, the total strength of Spartacus once again exceeded 170,000; However, the army of the Brutus Empire defending the city of Sidon was only 65,000, and it was only a matter of time before the Brutus Empire's army was destroyed.

Even if it was only a matter of time, Spartak was not willing to waste too much time under the city of Sidon; The day after the arrival of the Pharaoh's Praetorian Guard, Spartak led his army to launch an attack on the city of Sidon, which was an all-out attack from the beginning.

The infantry under the command of 40,000 Spartacus, under the cover of 30,000 pharaoh's chosen archers, launched a fierce attack on the city of Sidon; The well-prepared defenders of Sidon suffered heavy casualties under the rain of arrows from Pharaoh's chosen archers, and the infantry took the opportunity to climb the walls.

The 170,000 combined forces of the Augustan Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt annihilated all the 65,000 Brutus Empire troops in the city of Sidon in four days; The price Spartak paid for this was only 20,000 soldiers killed, and the pharaoh chosen archers of the Kingdom of Egypt played an important role in this siege battle, and the people of Sidon who launched a riot at a critical moment to open the city gate played a great role.

After Spartacus completely annihilated the remaining army of the ten legions of the Brutus Empire, he marched non-stop to the Syrian region of the Seleucid Empire; Seleucus VII's defeat and death plunged the Seleucid Empire into a state of leaderless chaos, and Seleucus VIII, who hastily ascended to the throne of emperor, had not had time to recruit an army before the army of Spartacus had already arrived in the city of Antioch.

At this time, there were still 50,000 infantry in the city of Antioch, which was not weak; Unfortunately, the newly enthroned Seleucus VIII did not have the ability or courage of Seleucus VII, and his time was wasted on the aristocrats.

When Spartacus's army surrounded the city of Antiochus, it did not wait for Spartacus's army to attack the city of Antiochus; Seleucus VIII, who had only been emperor for less than 20 days, opened the gates of Antioch to the Spartacian army at the request of an absolute number of peacekeeping nobles, and the Seleucid Empire, which had once dominated the eastern continent, came to an end.

Although the Seleucid Empire no longer exists, the war on the Eastern Continent has not ended, the Brutus Empire still has two legions and five provinces in the westernmost part of the Eastern Continent, and many provinces of the Seleucid Empire have not been occupied by the Augustan Empire; Spartak himself led the main army to march on the territory of the Brutus Empire on the eastern continent, while the other troops occupied other regions separately.

As for the kingdoms of Armenia and Parthia, there was only one rule of Spartacus; As long as they do not have delusional hopes of getting what is not rightfully theirs, what to do with these two perfidious kingdoms will be left to His Majesty the Emperor Oscar to decide.

If they still want to get anything that does not belong to them and act on it in such a situation; Then there will no longer be the so-called kingdoms of Armenia and Parthia on the eastern continent, and the armies of the Augustan Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt will not mind destroying the two kingdoms that once belonged to the Seleucid Empire after the destruction of the Seleucid Empire.

Three months later, there was no longer the sphere of influence of the Brutus Empire on the entire Eastern Continent, and all the lands on the Eastern Continent, except for the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Egypt, had become the new provinces of the Augustan Empire; The kings of the kingdoms of Armenia and Parthia were also hanged in their royal palaces, and all the royal family members were slaughtered!

Compared to Spartak's difficult battles on the eastern continent, Tuka's battles on the Greek peninsula were unusually easy; After successfully eliminating all the regular legions of the Brutus Empire, his ten legions marched into the region of Attica, and completed the occupation of Attica, and the city of Athens became the city of the Augustan Empire.

The Royal Legion and the Cavalry Legion of the Brutus Empire, which had been urgently assembled, met the ten legions under Tuca's command at the border between the Peloponnese and Attica; The ironclad cavalry of the Royal Legion and the Cavalry Legion are indeed extraordinary, but so what, can they still compete with the ten legions of the Augustan Empire?

No matter how strong the fighting power of the royal cavalry and ironclad cavalry was, it was impossible to have the slightest chance of victory under the siege of the hoplites of the ten legions; As for the royal pikemen, no matter how powerful they are in the pike phalanx, it is impossible to stop the attack from all directions, not to mention that there are Cretan archers in the auxiliary legions of the Augustan Empire, and their spear phalanx is just a live target.

The army of the Augustan Empire, which originally had 90,000 soldiers, paid the price of 40,000 casualties after destroying the royal legions and cavalry legions of the Brutus Empire in World War I; I have to admit that these two elite legions of the Brutus Empire are really the world's first-class troops, but their existence cannot change the fate of the Brutus Empire's eventual destruction.

Tiberius, the emperor of the Brutus Empire, who was nearly seventy years old, gave the order to surrender after the army of the Augustan Empire besieged the city of Corinth, and he himself chose to end his life on the emperor's throne; With the fall of Corinth and the self-determination of Tiberius, the Roman empire of Brutus was the first to fall.

The succession of good news from the Eastern continent and the Greek peninsula did not make Oscar's mood better, and Oscar, who hated traitors the most in his life, could not have been in a good mood without seeing the bodies of the two traitors, Calis and Lucas, appear in front of him.

Luquis did not let Oscar wait long in Syracuse, and after the arrival of Spartak and Tuca's succession in Syracuse, Luquis's counterinsurgency in the Iberian Peninsula went very smoothly; The people of the Iberian Peninsula were staunch supporters of the Augustan Empire, and the two men of Calis and Lucas were nothing more than two self-righteous clowns.

When Luquis's army defeated the 100,000 rebels of Lucas and Calis, Lucas was defeated and captured, and Calis was captured by the Spaniards who had organized themselves in the process of escaping; As for Calis, Lucas simply sent him back to Syracuse to be placed at Oscar's disposal, while Lucas was hanged by Lucques himself in the place where he was captured.

After Calis was sent back to Syracuse, he crawled at Oscar's feet and wept bitterly to seek Oscar's forgiveness, and put all the blame on Lucas, hoping that Oscar would spare his life for the sake of the scarcity of the Augustan family; Looking at the ugly Calis, Oscar just smiled coldly, and then made Calis the first person in history to be executed by Ling Chi.

After the wars in Gaul, the Eastern Continent, the Greek Peninsula, and the Iberian Peninsula were all over, the Germanic barbarians also annihilated all the four legions of the Julius Empire in the Germanic land; Rabinus, who commanded the four legions of the Julius Empire in the Germanic lands, was killed on the battlefield in the frenzied attack of the Germanic barbarian alliance.

After the siege of Aretion by Calabis was completed, Flavies wanted to confront Carabis in front of him on the city wall, but Carabis gave the order to attack directly; The First Legion in the city of Arettion was quite good, but the newly formed five legions were simply more than successful, and their defense on the city walls was simply full of holes.

Two days later, Aletion was defeated by the army of Calabes, and none of the royal family and important ministers of the Julius Empire, including Flavis, lived to see Calabis, and were all strangled by the army under the command of Carabis in the final street battle.

Caesar, who had just crossed the Rubicon, immediately abandoned his march to Aretion, and instead led his army directly through the province of Ubria into the Latin province of the Roman Empire. How could Marius's Roman Empire not know about this series of changes in Julius's Empire, and he also had no choice but to gather all ten legions of the Roman Empire in Rome to prevent accidents.

The 40,000 troops brought by Caesar were also accepted by Marius, and together they were stationed in Rome; At this time, the six legions of the Sulla and Pompey families were also rested, and under the command of the Augustan Empire, they launched an attack on the Illyrian region of the Julius Empire, along with the 40,000-strong army of the Germanic barbarians.

The Illyrian region was garrisoned only by four legions of the Augustan Empire, and after learning that the Empire of Julius no longer existed, the soldiers of these four legions chose to surrender without any resistance; In addition to leaving 20,000 soldiers to guard the 40,000 captives, the remaining 40,000 Germanic warriors and the 40,000 armies of the Sulla and Pompey families also rushed directly to the command of Calabes.

After a short rest in the city of Aletion, Calabis led his twelve legions to continue the advance towards the city of Rome, where the army was gathered; Later, the 40,000 troops from the Germanic barbarians and the 40,000 troops of the Sulla and Pompey families also joined the army of Calabes, and there were already nearly 200,000 troops under the command of Calabes.

The combined army of Caesar and Marius consisted of only fourteen legions, and Marius wanted to temporarily recruit a large number of young men to join the army in Rome, but the various recruitment points were not cared for at all; From the moment Marius and Caesar marched their armies into the city of Rome, the rules that the Romans had followed for thousands of years had been destroyed, and Carabes's army was simply not something that Marius and Caesar's 140,000 troops could stand alone.

Seven days later, an army of 200,000 under the command of Carabes surrounded the city of Rome; However, Oscar gave Calabes an order to postpone the attack through the Tragic Dead, and Carabis had no choice but to besiege the city of Rome without attacking it.

Twelve days later, Oscar himself was escorted by the Royal Guard to the outside of Rome; Thirteen days later, the Guards Infantry and Guards Cavalry, which had previously belonged to Luquis, arrived outside Rome; Sixteen days later, Tuka arrived outside Rome with six replenished legions, and the Augustan Empire had assembled an army of more than 300,000.

After Oscar personally persuaded Marius and Caesar to surrender to no avail, a coalition of 300,000 troops with the main force of Augustus' Empire launched a full-scale attack on the city of Rome; The city of Rome defended by 140,000 enemy troops could not hold the city of Rome at all, and the stubborn resistance of Marius and Caesar only brought more bloody casualties, and no one could change the situation of the Augustan Empire's domination!

After seven days of battle, the allied forces attacking Rome had lost nearly 100,000 troops, and the defenders of Rome were only 40,000 strong. The Augustan Empire's constant bombardment of ballistae and catapults finally destroyed one of the city's impregnable walls, and the allied soldiers attacked the city along the gap.

The fierce fighting continued until nightfall, and the allied soldiers finally captured the city of Rome today, and the army of Marius and Caesar had been completely annihilated, except for Marius and Caesar, who were still defending the palace under the leadership of some personal guards.

The battle at the palace did not last long, and Marius and Caesar, unwilling to be taken prisoner, ended their own lives in the royal palace of the city of Rome; When Oscar was escorted by the soldiers of the Royal Guard to the palace in Rome, Oscar had just stepped into the main hall of the palace when he was surrounded by a pillar of light falling from the sky, and then Oscar disappeared in place! (To be continued.) )