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

From before the Augustus family fought Hannibal, that is, when the Augustus family had just stabilized the situation in Sardinia, Oscar began to lay out the Augustusian family's North African strategy.

If Adheba hadn't caught up with Oscar's strategic opportunity to lay out North Africa, would Oscar really ally with Adheba for the so-called friendship and war horse? That's simply not possible!

At that time, it was not now; Adheba did not have the power he has now, let alone the tens of thousands of troops at this time, and he must also deal with the possible attack of Zuguta at any time, and he has no right to talk to the Augustus family on an equal footing.

If the House of Augustus only needed war horses, they only needed to carry out military trade with Adheba that complemented each other; The Augustan family can use their own weapons and equipment in exchange for a large number of Numidian horses, and there is no need to form an alliance with Adeheba at all, let alone send a city corps led by Spartak.

In fact, the fundamental purpose of the Oscars is to pave the way for the Augustus family's future North African strategy; It's just that at that time, the Augustan family did not have such a great strategic advantage as it does now, nor did they think about their own family mixing in the affairs of the North African continent.

You know, Oscar's purpose in the first place was just to leave a wedge on the North African continent; The biggest purpose was to deal with the Kingdom of Carthage and Hannibal, not to help the Augustan family expand their influence in North Africa.

The reason why Oscar secretly asked Spartak to take those Augustan centurions to control the other two legions of the Combined Legion was to stab the Carthaginian Kingdom at a critical time to ensure that the Carthaginian Kingdom could not support Hannibal.

No one could have imagined that the situation would change dramatically later; Zuguta of the Numidian Kingdom took the initiative to attack the Kingdom of Carthage and was easily defeated by Hannibal, and the Senate of Carthage actually took the initiative to contact the Augustan family and wanted to deal with Hannibal together.

The occurrence of these changes completely disrupted the North African layout of the Augustan family, but also gave the Augustan family more advantageous opportunities; In such a situation, the Augustus family completed the task of defeating Hannibal step by step.

Now, Hannibal has been completely defeated; According to the secret agreement between the House of Augustus and the Carthaginian Senate, soon a formal armistice would be signed between the two sides and the resumption of long-stagnant maritime trade would begin.

In addition, the large army of the Augustus family has caused great pressure on the family's logistics system, and the newly occupied land also needs to be slowly digested by the family; Therefore, in the next few years, it is impossible for the Augustan family to expand outward.

Although the Augustus family has the Augustus Academy and the Augustus Military Academy to continuously train a large number of professionals for the Augustan family, it can't meet the needs of the Augustan family at all!

To this day, Augustus Academy has only graduated two batches of students, the first of which is still an accelerated student; However, the scope of the Augustan family's rule has changed from one province at the beginning to six provinces now.

The six-fold change in the ruling area brought to the Augustan family a massive demand for grassroots officials; It is no exaggeration to say that even the graduates of the Augustan family for five consecutive years of the academy are unable to meet the current demand for the basic officials of the Augustan family!

In this way, the Augustan family had to use a large number of non-academy graduates when governing the newly occupied provinces; Regardless of the abilities of those people, even their loyalty to the House of Augustus is also uneasy for Oscar.

Therefore, in order to ensure the stability of the Augustan family's rule, Oscar had to make the cadets who graduated from the academy act as more senior officials to manage those who were not graduates of the academy; When there are enough students graduating from the academy, we will slowly replace them, so that all the officials under the rule of the Augustus family will become graduates of the academy.

Of course, Oscar does not deny that there are also a large number of talented people among non-college graduates, who may not have been systematically studied, but also have enough ability to govern one side, or other outstanding skills.

For these talents, Oscar's reuse measure is to arrange them for further study in the Augustan Academy; After ensuring their loyalty to themselves and the House of Augustus, they are reused and let them fight for the House of Augustus.

Relatively speaking, the situation of the Augustus Family Military Academy is slightly better, after all, the proportion of centurions and captains among the soldiers killed by the Augustus family in this decisive battle is not very high, and it will not affect the normal operation of the Augustus family legion at all.

As long as it can be guaranteed that the centurions and captains of each legion are still those officers who are experienced in battle, plus the presence of those legion veterans; It is relatively simple to restore the combat effectiveness of the corps, it is only necessary to replenish the troops and train diligently.

Of course, the restoration of combat effectiveness here is only a similar statement; After all, a recruit who has not experienced combat will never be able to compare his performance on the battlefield with a veteran, and it is impossible for training to really turn a recruit into a veteran.

In this regard, Oscar does not have time to operate specifically, and it is still up to Lucis and Quintus to be responsible; As for the issue of North Africa, Oscar also needs to be handed over to someone else to take charge of the overall situation again.

After careful consideration, Oscar said bluntly to the two:

"As Quintus said, it is impossible for us in the next few years to expand outward on a large scale; We must put all our focus on governance within our own family to ensure that we of Augustus can truly become stronger.

But we can't just let that give up on the opportunities on the North African continent; In order to prevent the emergence of a powerful hegemon on the continent again, we must keep the continent in chaos or have a place for our House Augustus.

In addition, the Iberian Peninsula will also be the object of further expansion of our House of Augustus in the future; We also need to reinforce some troops and send a general to take command.

Having said so much, I mean one; That is, in the future, you two commanders must lead the army to the North African region alone, and make your voice heard on the North African continent on behalf of our Augustus family, and coordinate with Spartacus.

the other is to go to the province of Betica, where we are the Augustus family, the bridgehead on the Iberian Peninsula; While ensuring the safety of our bridgehead, we actively made all preparations for war, and cooperated with our intelligence organization to carry out a planned infiltration of the Kingdom of Spain to prepare for our future war.

You two, what you think about these two tasks, you can say it directly; You can also tell me where you want to go.

Of course, there is one more thing I need to tell you in advance; In the next step to replenish the losses of each legion, I will also officially remove you from the position of clan commander, and let me know what you think of your successor. ”

Faced with Oscar's inquiry, Lucis and Quintus looked at each other but didn't know what to say; This kind of thing belongs to Oscar's power, how do you let the two of you speak?

There are many things, Oscar can justifiably let Luquis and Quintus express their opinions, that is Oscar's respect for the two; However, that doesn't mean that Luquis and Quintus can really express their opinions, otherwise, they would be pampered and arrogant.

Whether it is the loyal Lucquis or the long-trained Quintus, they are not bad at this aspect; Therefore, both of them directly refused Oscar's inquiry, and said that everything was subject to Oscar's arrangement.

Although the words of inquiry were spoken by Oscar himself, the attitude of Luquis and Quintus still satisfied Oscar; So, Oscar also said what he thought in his heart:

"Since you are not willing to take the initiative to speak, let me tell you what is in my heart; In my opinion, Luquis is more suitable for the task of preparing for the war in the province of Betica, while Quintus is more suitable for the expansion strategy of North Africa.

Therefore, I hope that Luquis will lead your army to the province of Betica, and serve as the commander of the garrison of our Augustus family in the province of Betica; I'm sure you can do a great job with Marcus in the province of Betica.

As for Quintus, I also hope that you can complete our family Augustus' North African strategy on the North African continent; I have only one request for you, and that is that no hegemonic power will appear on the North African continent!

If the situation really gets out of control, you can discuss with Spartak and make a decision according to your method; I believe that with the two of you under your control, you will be able to break new ground on the North African continent!

As for the successor commanders of the first and second legions, I mean that the lieutenants of these two legions will succeed the commanders; The new lieutenant general of the legion will be promoted to the chief captain of the two legions, which will also facilitate the recovery of the combat effectiveness of the two legions, what do you think? ”

Oscar has a special meaning for Luquis and Quintus's arrangement, and the two of them are also well aware of this; Therefore, they happily agreed to the Oscar row.

As for the matter of the two successor commanders, the two will not have an opinion; After all, the deputy general of the First Army is Oscar's younger brother, and Oscar's move is obviously to promote his own brother, so how can the two have an opinion? (To be continued.) )