Behind beauty is the origin of beauty.

- Plotin (Greek idealist philosopher in ancient Rome, founder of Neo-Platonism)

After these 1,800 cavalry rushed into the city of Semon, the first thing they encountered was the javelinmen of the Semon city-state who had hurried to fight with the 500 heavy infantry; Without the slightest hesitation, the cavalry commander directly charged these Semeng javelinmen. Without armor protection and spear attacks, how could they withstand the strong charge of the ironclad cavalry?

With only 1,800 ironclad cavalry and 500 heavy infantry, Pyrrhus easily took Semon, the capital of the city-state of Semon; With a class of this size, it is not a glorious achievement to win against 4,000 javelinmen, but it is not something that ordinary people can imagine to be able to take a city with high walls in this way.

When Pyrus slowly came to the outside of Semon with his heavily armed army, he couldn't help but sigh at what he saw! Although Pyrrhus had lost the kingdom of Epirus, he looked at the city of Semon, which was more than twice as majestic as the city of Apollonia, and his heart was full of excitement; Perhaps, this is where he rises again! Pyrrhus couldn't help but think.

After entering Semon, five hundred heavy infantry were already patrolling the city walls; Pyrus was greeted by the ironclad cavalry, as well as the high-ranking men of the Semon city-state they had captured. Pyrrhus looked at the gray-faced high-ranking members of the Semon City-State, just shook his head arrogantly, and then made a gesture to drag down the guards behind him.

Except for those high-ranking people of the Semeng city-state who were forcibly captured, it was difficult to see a single figure in Semeng City; Looking at the citizens who were quietly hiding in their windows to spy on them, Pyrus confidently gave them a smile back, and the frightened citizens quickly closed the windows and hid.

Pyrrhus, however, did not care about the fearful eyes of these obscured citizens; Because Pirus has always believed that as long as he can lead Semon to strength and rise, sooner or later, the citizens of Semon will still look at him with awe like the people of the kingdom of Epirus. At this time, Pyrrhus completely forgot the fact that he had abandoned the people of the kingdom of Epirus, who feared him!

Tiberius and his army celebrated in the city of Tulbo, and the next day, they received information that Pyrus had launched an attack on the city-state of Semon and had captured it in one fell swoop; This information is not bad news for Tiberius and the Brutus family, after all, the Brutus family has taken Turbo, and Pyrus's behavior is not necessarily a bad thing.

It is precisely because Pyrus has led his army to take the city-state of Semon, which is enough to show that he has completely abandoned the kingdom of Epirus; This is certainly not a bad thing for the Brutus family. In this way, the Brutus family could avoid engaging the main army of Pyrus in the conquest of the east of Tulbo; Thus successfully conquering the entire kingdom of Epirus!

This is only one of the benefits, and the other even greater benefit is that the worries of the Brutus family are also solved; You must know that before the attack on Tulbo, there was an agreement between the Brutus family and the city-state of Semon. The army of the Semon city-state helped the Brutus family to hold back the army of Pyrus, and the Semon city-state was able to gain half of the kingdom of Epirus.

This agreement is a complete helpless move for the Brutus family, and it can be regarded as a method adopted by the Brutus family in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the last Battle of Tulbo; If it hadn't been for Pyrus's occupation of the Semon city-state, Tiberius would not have known how to deal with the Semon city-state in the future!

In Tiberius's view, if the situation had developed as the agreement had said; He and the Brutus family could only hand over half of the kingdom of Epirus that the family had fought with countless blood to the city-state of Semon after the war. Of course, in the future, the Brutus family will still do everything possible to get this half of the kingdom back; It's always uncomfortable to give it away.

It just so happened that Pyrrhus staged such a great drama, which made the situation of Tiberius and the Brutus family suddenly better; In order to repay Pyrus for this kindness, Tiberius of course had to take the entire kingdom of Epirus as soon as possible, and then march to the city-state of Semon!

Why did Tiberius march on the city-state of Semon? Wasn't the Brutus family aiming for the kingdom of Epirus? Yes, the Brutus family's first target was indeed the kingdom of Epirus; According to the plan that Tiberius had discussed with the family members, even after taking the kingdom of Epirus, the next target of the Brutus family would be the kingdom of Dalmatia in the west.

It's just that Pyrrhus himself sent this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to the Brutus family, how could the Brutus family not take advantage of it? The city-state of Semon was not very powerful, but it was one of the main members of the alliance of Greek city-states; The Spartan city-state of Greece is not a little strong, and even the Brutus family is not willing to provoke such a strong enemy too early.

Therefore, the city-state of Semon has never been a target for the Brutus; The Brutus family's policy was to take the independent kingdoms of Epirus and Dalmatia first, and then go to war against the Macedonian kingdom. After the complete defeat of the Macedonian kingdom, the Brutus family, who annexed the Macedonian kingdom, will really begin to fight with the Greek city-states.

Although the Greek city-states have always been relatively fragmented internally, their overall strength should not be underestimated; Needless to say, the extremely powerful city-state of Sparta, the city-state of Rhodes is also not weak, plus the city-state of Pergamon and the city walls of Semon in the east. In the event of an all-out war between the Brutus family and the Greek city-states, it was no joke; This enemy is really not weak!

More crucially, the composition of the four major city-states of Greece was fragmented; There were only two major city-states on the Greek peninsula, and the city-state of Pergamon in the east and the city-state of Rhodes on the sea were far more powerful than the Brutus. After all, the Brutus family did not yet have the capital to wage an all-out war with the Greek city-states; You can only choose the relatively weak Macedonian kingdom first.

The Kingdom of Macedonia appears to have a vast territory of four provinces, all of which are joined together and under the command of the King of Macedonia; In this way, the Macedonian kingdom was much stronger than the fragmented Greek city-states. But this is not the case, the Macedonian kingdom has an empty foundation for hegemony but no strong enough king; Its internal corruption is rampant and corrupt!

There is even a story among the people of the Macedonian kingdom: the king of Macedonia gave 50,000 gold coins to the governor of Thessaly and asked him to raise an army of 5,000 men; Three months later, the Macedonian king went to inspect the legion and found only two thousand old and sick. Enraged, the king immediately asked the governor how he had recruited such a small number of people with 50,000 gold coins, and the governor reluctantly explained that he had only received 10,000 gold coins!

From the king to the governor, just one layer of relationship turned 50,000 gold coins into 10,000 gold coins, which shows how far corruption has reached within the Macedonian kingdom. Now, however, Pyrus had taken possession of the city-state of Semon without declaring a war; Then the Brutus family will have an excuse to give up the Macedonian kingdom first and take the more prosperous and wealthy Semon city-state!

Immediately after the Brutus family took over the entire kingdom of Epirus, Tiberius had two reasons to attack the army of Pyrus entrenched in the city-state of Semon. The first reason is that the Brutus family is at war with the kingdom of Epirus; Pyrrhus was the king of the kingdom of Epirus, and the Brutus family could certainly attack Pyrrhus and his army.

The second reason is that the Brutus family has just signed an alliance with the city-state of Semon, and they are solid and reliable allies with each other; You, Pyrus, are not only the enemies of our Brutus family, but also forcibly occupy the country of our allies, and our Brutus family naturally has enough righteousness to attack you Pyrus and avenge our allies.

In order not to lose time, Tiberius immediately ordered Ganeus to continue to send troops from the left flank with the First and Ninth Legions, which had already held a banquet yesterday; The mission is to start all the way from Turbo, take all the cities of the Kingdom of Epirus in the border area from Turbo to Semon, and finally stay in the border area to wait for the arrival of the follow-up army.

After sending out Gnaeus and his two legions, Tiberius called Nero again; Nero's Second and Tenth Legions are the two legions that hold the banquet today. Tiberius's order to Nero was that Nero would set out from the right flank with two legions early tomorrow morning to carry out the same task as Gnaeus; After arriving at the border area, the two men's armies joined forces.

After giving these two orders, Tiberius went to the place where Pylos was held with the original information; The captive Pylos was not mistreated by the Brutus, and Tiberius simply kept him in a vacant room in the Lord's Palace. As for Pylos, Tiberius felt that he was a rare talent, and still wanted to persuade him to surrender.

When Tiberius came to Pylos's room, he did not take the initiative to say anything to Pylos, but handed the parchment scroll in his hand to Pylos, and then only said: "This information is true, you can take a good look at it yourself; I hope that you can surrender to our Brutus family, and in the future you can become the governor of Epirus of our Brutus family, or you can be the commander of the army, you should think about it. ”

With that, Tiberius walked out of the room and instructed the soldiers guarding the room to take good care of General Pylos; Before Tiberius could go far, he heard a thud from inside the room. The guards rushed in, and then ran out and reported to Tiberius: "Your Excellency, Pylos has killed himself! "Thick burial!" Tiberius left without looking back. (To be continued.) )