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- Plato (one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of Western culture)

Although Oscar's ideas are slightly different from those of both Lucis and Quintus, they are not very different overall; Overall, Oscar's idea is a compromise between Luquis and Quintus's ideas.

It's just that Oscar was a little too cautious about the garrison in Sicily; Considering the special status of Sicily, as well as the peculiarities of Syracuse after the capital was moved, Oscar's idea is also understandable.

After all, the existence of Hannibal's legion can be regarded as a sharp double-edged sword; If anything really happens, two Guards Corps alone will not be enough to ensure the safety of the whole of Sicily.

In view of this, Oscar made up his mind to leave the Seventh Army in Sicily; In this great war, the Seventh Army Corps, as the corps with the weakest weaponry and personnel quality, showed extremely strong combat effectiveness.

In the brutal battle, the officers and men of the Seventh Army not only did not take a step back, but assisted the Second Army to stabilize the formation of the Chinese army at all costs; Even, at the height of the battle, even Cassio, the commander of the Seventh Legion, was almost killed on the battlefield.

Such a contribution is obvious to all, and it is also extremely touched by Oscar himself; Therefore, Oscar wanted to leave the Seventh Legion in Sicily to be used as an ace legion, and give them better weapons and better treatment.

After much thought, Oscar decided to stick to his idea; After all, the situation on the North African continent is doomed to be chaotic and limited in scale, and it is simply impossible for a large-scale decisive war to occur again.

Originally, the forces on the North African continent, their strength was still good, especially the war potential of the Carthaginian Kingdom and the strength of the unified Numidian Kingdom, which were very strong; At the very least, it will not be much worse than the Roman powers.

However, the outbreak of the war on the North African continent completely changed the strength of the powers on the North African continent; In that war, the war potential of the Carthaginian kingdom was almost exhausted, and with Hannibal losing a large number of troops in Sicily, the existing army of the Carthaginian kingdom was almost the limit of what the Carthaginian kingdom could recruit in its own territory.

On the other hand, the kingdom of Numidia, after suffering a complete defeat in the war, nearly 100,000 troops were wiped out, and the entire kingdom was divided into four small kingdoms, and its war potential was completely insignificant.

As for the ambitious Juguda, it is even more of a tragedy; The elite army of the Sahara Kingdom was wiped out by the First World War, and the war potential of the Saharan Kingdom was almost exhausted.

The other small post-war kingdoms simply did not have the strength to start a large-scale war, nor did they have the war potential to fight for a long time; This greatly limited the scale of the North African melee, and did not require the Augustans to send more troops.

When Oscar informed Luquis and Quintus of his idea, they immediately agreed with Oscar's idea; After all, Oscar is the leader of the Augustus family, and both Luquis and Quintus are just suggestions, and it is Oscar who really decides.

Once the distribution of the legions was determined, Oscar returned the topic to the specific issue of the legions; In fact, the current legion of the Augustus family is far from being as perfect as it seems on the surface, and there are still many shortcomings.

Especially in this decisive battle, even the army of the Augustus family had already adopted a targeted formation to deal with the war elephant troops under Hannibal's command; However, in the actual battle, Hannibal's war elephant troops still inflicted heavy casualties on their own army.

Although not every enemy army has a strong army of war elephants, the enemy will always have cavalry; You must know that the Augustus family has some potential enemies and possible enemies in the future, and it still has quite strong cavalry troops.

Needless to say, the armies of the House of Augustus were extremely weak in this respect; The conniving Augustus family has now assembled a considerable cavalry force, but this still does not make up for the fact that the Augustus army lacks the ability to fight the cavalry.

In fact, the lack of sufficient cavalry strength and the inability to resist the enemy's cavalry assault were also common defects of the entire Roman Republic; Everyone's clan establishment is similar, and the composition of the troops is also the same, so the shortcomings are naturally similar.

Relatively speaking, the Augustan family is not bad; After all, the Augustus family obtained a large number of Numidian horses and Numidian cavalry through trade with Adheba, which could be regarded as making up for the shortcomings as much as possible.

In addition to the weakness of this legion against the cavalry, the javelinmen in the auxiliary legion of the House of Augustus also performed extremely poorly in the decisive battle; Because of the range, the javelinmen were no longer able to adapt to the current large-scale war, and their role in the war was simply not comparable to that of the archers.

Of course, this is not to say that the javelinmen could not compete with the volleys of Cretan archers, they were not even comparable to ordinary archers, let alone the absolute elite Cretan archers among the archers.

Therefore, the abolition of the Javelinmen in the auxiliary regiment of the Augustus family was also considered imperative by Oscar; As an addition, the Augustus family could quite well increase the size of the archer unit in the auxiliary legions to a thousand people.

The last problem is the problem of cavalry; Through the decisive battle, Oscar reluctantly discovered that the javelin cavalry in the auxiliary legion of the Augustus family was not suitable for scattered use at all, and they were more suitable for centralized use.

In the real decisive battle, Oscar did not let the javelinmen of the auxiliary legions belong to their respective legions, but concentrated them all under his own command; Facts have proved that this can indeed give greater play to the role of cavalry.

Then the question arises, the system of use of cavalry now practiced by the Augustan family is divided into two types; The first is to disperse the cavalry to various legions, and the second is to form a special cavalry corps and concentrate on the use of cavalry clusters.

Through the actual combat test, the former method of using cavalry is simply not feasible and does not have the basis for playing the role of cavalry; The latter method of using cavalry is more in line with practical needs, and it is also more able to play the role of cavalry in assault.

With such actual combat results as evidence, the Augustan family's method of dispersed use of cavalry was naturally about to be abolished; However, it was too expensive to form a single cavalry corps.

In addition, the existing cavalry strength of the Augustus family had suffered heavy losses, and it was impossible to form a large-scale cavalry corps for a while; Therefore, there is a question about the formation of the cavalry corps, which can only be postponed.

These problems in the Augustus family legion are known not only to Oscar, but also to Lucis and Quintus; After all, they were in the war as the commander of the army, and these problems were happening right now, so how could they not know about it?

However, solving these problems is not an easy task; Because these problems are all problems with the establishment of the Augustan family legion, once you want to really solve these problems, you must change the existing establishment of the Augustus family legion, which is a huge project, and it is not something that can be solved overnight.

Of course, being difficult to solve doesn't mean leaving it alone; In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Augustus legions, Oscar will work hard to solve these problems, no matter how long it takes.

However, before solving these problems specifically, Oscar still has to discuss with the two military commanders how to solve these problems; The elimination of javelinmen and their replenishment with archers was a solution that Oscar could determine.

As for improving the ability of the Augustan legion against cavalry, Luquis suggested that the Augustan auxiliary legion be added to the formation of pikemen to counter the enemy's cavalry units.

The pikeman concept proposed by Luquis was not a Roman pikeman in the traditional sense, but a typical Greek pikeman, that is, a super-pikeman in the eyes of the Romans; That's really the best class to deal with cavalry troops.

It's just that such pikemen units are not so easy to assemble; Not to mention the difficulty of building weapons and equipment, even the only nations that can skillfully use spears are the Macedonian nation and the Greek nation.

Now that the Augustians have successfully unified Sicily, and with the Greeks of the ancient city of Syractica as the foundation, it is not impossible for the Augustians to create their own pikemen; But it takes a lot of time and energy.

The solution to the cavalry problem was based on Quintus's suggestion; Quintus believed that with the existing cavalry strength of the Augustus family, it was only necessary to replenish the Guards cavalry corps, and then gather the remaining cavalry to form a cavalry cluster for use.

For the deployment of this cavalry group, Quintus directly proposed that this cavalry group be placed in the province of Betica and placed under the command of Luquis; The reason is also very simple, Sicily has a cavalry corps in charge, and there is no need for too much cavalry force at all.

On the North African continent, there is no need for Quintus to personally lead the cavalry into battle; After all, Spartacus had a sufficient number of cavalry troops under his command, and there were many high-quality war horses in North Africa, so it was convenient to form cavalry, and there was no need to carry cavalry to go there at all. (To be continued.) )