A virtuous person often acts for the benefit of his friends and country, even sacrificing his own life if necessary. www.biquge.info He would rather give up the money, honor and all the possessions that the world is vying for, and only seek his own nobility.

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

The League of Greek City-States was an organization united by a number of Greek city-states led by the Spartan city-state; Although the organization was only a loose organization in name, its members were all relatively powerful Greek city-states, which also strengthened the organization's deterrent power and position in the eyes of other powers to some extent.

However, with the demise of the city-states of Semon and Syra, the powerful image of the Greek city-state alliance was greatly diminished; Even so, the alliance of Greek city-states with the three major city-states of Sparta, Pergamon, and Rhodes is still a force that is not weak, and it is not an existence that ordinary small forces can provoke.

Even the Hellenic City-State Alliance, which had only three member city-states, was still strong, but there was one force that had irrepressible ambitions for the Rhodes city-state in the Hellenic City-State Alliance; This powerful force was the Cretan power, which once belonged to the House of Augustus.

Before Oscar inherited the position of family leader of the Augustan family, the secret military base established by the Augustan family on the island of Crete was the most important overseas strength of the Augustan family; Later, after Oscar succeeded to the position of family leader of the Augustan family in danger, the Augustus family military base on the island of Crete also gave Oscar great help.

The current commander of the Sixth Legion of the House of Augustus, Gumos, is the main general of the secret legion that the House of Augustus hid on the island of Crete; Later, after the Augustan family was defeated by Hannibal in Sicily, the army on Crete still gave the Augustan family a lot of assistance, which was the contribution of this force to the Augustan family.

It is a pity that just when the Augustan family was thriving under the leadership of Oscar, the force belonging to the Augustan family on Crete suddenly became an independent force outside the Augustan family; This turn of events caught Oscar off guard, and the Augustan family found it hard to believe that Cretan power existed.

Before the Augustan family experienced the Sardinian fiasco, Oscar was only the heir to the family, and at that time everything on Crete was in the hands of Camais, who was the head of the Augustan family; In particular, the commander of the Cretan Legion of the House of Augustus and the commander of the Black Reaper fleet were the most trusted people in Cames.

Among them, the Cretan Legion stationed at the secret military base of the Augustus family, the commander of the legion is Lucas, the younger brother of Luques, who is the deputy general of the Wolf Legion; The Black Reaper fleet is served by Calis, the half-brother of the leader of Cames, and these two people are also the core members of the Augustus family, and Camais naturally trusts them very much.

Cames's trust in Lucas is justified, but his trust in Carlis is too blind; Lucas, like his elder brother, was a loyal general to the House of Augustus, and whoever was the rightful leader of the House of Augustus would swear allegiance to whoever they were, without any complaints or resentment.

Calis, on the other hand, is the half-brother of Cames, and from the point of view of blood, Calis also has the inheritance of the Augustan family; Helplessly, his mother was just a mistress who was not recognized by the world, and he himself was an illegitimate child who was not recognized by the Augustan family, and even his father never recognized his existence.

If it weren't for the fact that Camaise had found him and entrusted him with the task, he would have been just a poor and ordinary man; When Camais was the head of the Augustus family, Calis was still loyal to Camais out of gratitude.

However, the sudden death of Camais made the unwilling Calis see the hope of inheriting the family leader of the Augustan family; In Calis's view, Cames's eldest son was only a twenty-year-old child, and he was not capable of inheriting the great Augustan family, and the most suitable heir to the position of head of this family should be himself.

Calis, who served as the commander of the Black Reaper fleet in the Aegean Sea, naturally could not run back to the Augustus family and Oscar to snatch the position of family leader after Cames's death, after all, his identity was an illegitimate child who could not be seen; Coupled with the fact that Oscar's identity is the recognized family heir of the Augustan family, Calis simply does not have the capital to compete with Oscar.

In fact, with the legitimacy of Oscar's identity, even if Calis is a member of the Augustan family recognized by the Roman nobles and the Augustan family, it is impossible to replace Oscar as the family leader of the Augustan family after the death of Cames; By the same token, this is why it was so difficult for Flavies to get Caesar to become the head of the family.

How could a careerist as cunning as Calis be stupid enough to do something out of the ordinary; His idea was for Oscar to succeed as the head of the Augustus family, and then when Oscar could not control the situation of the Augustus family, he Calis would return to Rome and take charge of the Augustus family as Oscar's second uncle.

Oscar's performance after succeeding to the position of leader of the House of Augustus did not matter much, it was a rapid rise that genius and miracle were not enough to describe; In this way, Calis's wishful thinking will naturally fail.

However, a careerist like Calis would not think that Oscar was a qualified family leader of the Augustan family because of Oscar's outstanding performance; Calis, who has never really understood the Augustan family, simply thinks that it is the profound strength of the Augustus family that has made the young and ignorant Oscar.

After that, Calis slowly began to shift his attention to how to control Crete; Now that the Augustans were firmly in Oscar's hands, Calis had no choice but to set his sights on the island of Crete.

Under the secret infiltration and co-optation of Calis, Lucas's Cretan legion gradually became a legion loyal to Calis, and even the Augustus family's military base on the island of Crete became a hall of words for Calis.

With a large fleet and a strong army, Calis turned against the original forces on Crete under the trend of his own ambitions; How could the unsuspecting city-state of Codonia be a match for the well-trained Cretan legion?

In just a few days, Crete became the Crete of Calis; After the matter developed to this point, Calis did not take the initiative to tear his face with the Augustan family, but willingly expressed his loyalty to Oscar, and hoped to become the governor of Crete of the Augustan family.

In the face of Calis's seemingly submissive but independent move, Oscar could only acquiesce to Calis as the so-called governor of Crete in order to maintain the unity within the Augustan family; After that, Calis became the de facto ruler of Crete, and Lucas became the titular commander of the Cretan Legion under Calis.

After the strength of the Greek city-state alliance was severely damaged, Calis wanted to use his fleet and legions to attack the city-state of Rhodes of the Greek city-state alliance; Just as Calis's expanding army was preparing to attack the city-state of Rhodes, the situation on the Greek peninsula was changing.

After the fall of the Macedonian kingdom, the Athenian city-state came together with the Spartan city-state under the expansion of the Brutus family; In this way, the city-state of Athens can also be regarded as a member of the alliance of Greek city-states, which greatly strengthens the alliance of Greek city-states.

You know, the city-state of Athens was a super-city-state with much more power than the city-states of Semon and the city-state of Syra; In particular, the special status of the Athenian city-state in the hearts of the Greeks gave the Greek city-state alliance a higher prestige among the Greeks.

The growing strength of the alliance of Greek city-states caused Calis's original plan to attack the city-state of Rhodes suffered a serious setback; With the strength of the city-state of Rhodes, Calis's fleet and army could naturally easily complete the occupation of Rhodes, but the powerful city-states such as the Spartan city-state behind the city-state of Rhodes were the existence that Calis had to scruple about.

As a result, Calis had no choice but to regain his impatience and continue to keep a close eye on the development of the situation on the Greek peninsula; It was not until the unification of the Greek peninsula by the Brutus family and the destruction of the city-state of Pergamon by the Kingdom of Alexandria that Calis immediately led the army of Crete to attack the city-state of Rhodes.

From the landing of the fleet of the Cretan Legion in Calis, to the capture of the city-state of Rhodes by the Cretan Legion, the occupation of the island of Rhodes; It was a war that took only six days for Calis, and after six days the city-state of Rhodes was history.

At this point, the power of the Greeks disappeared from the world, and all the Greek city-states became the territory of other rulers; However, Calis's expansion became a surprise in the eyes of other forces.

In the eyes of the Augustan family, Calis's behavior is simply a disregard for the Augustan family and countless Oscar leaders, which dooms Calis to never become a core member of the Augustan family again; In the eyes of the Brutus family and the Kingdom of Alexander, this expansion of Crete was simply an accident of fishing in troubled waters.

Regardless of what other outside powers may think, the occupation of Rhodes by Cretan forces is an established fact; Even the alliance of Greek city-states has become history, and naturally it is impossible for any force to stand up for the city-state of Rhodes, and the Cretan forces led by Calis have become a new power in the Aegean Sea. (To be continued.) )