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Just as the 50,000-strong army led by Alexander, the king of Alexander, arrived at the border between Galatia and Phrygia, 30,000 elite troops from the Pontus kingdom also arrived at the border. As a result, Alexander led an elite army of 80,000 troops into the Phrygian region and began the counterattack of the Kingdom of Alexander against the Brutus Empire.

Compared to Alexander's army, the 20,000-strong army of the Pontus kingdom attacking the Brutus Empire from the Bithynia region was more than a step ahead in terms of momentum; At this time, neither the armies of the Kingdom of Alexander nor the Kingdom of Pontus knew that the Brutus Empire had gathered a huge force of twelve legions in the Phrygian region, nor did they know that the army of the Brutus Empire had long been ready for war.

In Alexander's opinion, the Brutus Empire was able to send four legions and 40,000 troops to attack the Phrygian region, which was already a very strong force; However, given the overall strength of the Brutus Empire, the army that could be used in Phrygia should not exceed eight legions, which is why Alexander only asked for 30,000 reinforcements when he asked for help from the kingdom of Pontus.

Gathering 100,000 troops from two sides to counterattack and occupy the Brutus Empire in Phrygia, Alexander thought that this was already a sure battle; If you gather more troops, it will be completely unnecessary, after all, the enemy's strength is just like that.

It turns out that Alexander still underestimated the strength of the Brutus Empire, and even more underestimated the ambitions of the Brutus Empire for the Eastern Continent; The army that the Brutus Empire used to attack Alexander's kingdom was not just four legions, nor at most eight legions as Alexander expected, but a full twelve elite legions.

This is still the military force that the Brutus Empire expects to be sufficient, and if there are new changes in the war, the Brutus Empire will not mind expanding the number of troops in its empire again, and then sending more troops to land on the Eastern Continent; The Brutus Empire, which is determined to win the Eastern Continent, will not retreat at all, and both the Kingdom of Alexander and the Kingdom of Pontus underestimate the Brutus Empire!

After the next two batches of the Brutus Empire's army landed in Phrygia, Rex's command had already been taken over by Gnieus after he led the army to land in Phrygia; When Rex was still the captain, Gnaeus was already the commander of the Brutus family, and now Rex is also under the command of Gnaeus as a matter of course.

Once all twelve legions had landed, Gnaeus began to prepare for the next battle; Whether it is the Bithynia region belonging to the Pontus Kingdom, or the Galatia region and the Ionian region belonging to the Kingdom of Alexander, they are the objects that the Brutus Emperor's ** team is about to attack, and they are also the only way for the Brutus Empire to expand to the Eastern Continent.

Of course, according to the battle plan predetermined by the Brutus Empire, after occupying the Phrygian region, the army of the Brutus Empire should wait for the counterattack army of the Kingdom of Alexander in the Phrygian region; After the main force of Alexander's counter-offensive army was completely defeated, the army of the Brutus Empire could officially enter the rest of the Eastern Continent.

The battle plan set by Tiberius himself was not only proposed by Tiberius as the emperor, but also discussed by the senior generals of the Brutus Empire; As one of the formulators of this plan and the concrete implementer of this plan, it is naturally impossible for Gnaeus to act against this plan.

However, after arriving in Phrygia, Gnaeus made some minor adjustments to the arrangement of the army of the twelve legions according to the actual situation; The general battle plan did not change Gnaeus, but he did change the specific deployment of the army.

Rex's Leader Legion had better weapons and equipment and more powerful combat effectiveness than the regular Legions of the Brutus Empire, and Gnaeus asked Luquis to lead two Leader Legions and two regular legions north into the border between Phrygia and Pontic Kingdom Bithynia; He himself was to take the remaining two Legions of Leaders and six regular Legions to Pergamon.

Even while Pergamon waited for Alexander's counterattack, Gnaeus did not forget to recruit some local Greeks in Phrygia to serve as auxiliaries; After all, for the Greeks in Phrygia, the kingdom of Alexander, which once ruled them, was an invader who destroyed the city-state of Pergamon, while the army of the Brutus Empire had many Greek soldiers.

More importantly, since the rule of the Greek peninsula, the treatment of the Greeks by the Brutus Empire can be regarded as truly favorable, and the Greeks are also citizens of status within the Brutus Empire; In comparison, the Greeks in Phrygia were more suspicious of the Greeks under the rule of the Brutus Empire.

In view of this, when Gnieus recruited auxiliary army officers on a large scale in Phrygia on the condition of citizenship of the Brutus Empire; In just half a month, there were 5,000 pikemen and 5,000 heavily armed javelinmen under the command of Gnaeus.

Although the combat effectiveness of this extra 10,000 troops is not trustworthy, but the extra 10,000 troops for no reason are also a lot of force, so what is there to dissatisfaction with Gnieus? What's more, the existence of these 10,000 troops is more symbolic than practical, at least they prove the Phrygian region's recognition of the Brutus Empire.

While Gnaeus was rigorously training this 10,000-recruited army, the scout cavalry sent out by Gnaeus came back one after another with the news that the army of Alexander's kingdom had entered the Phrygian region; Compared with this information, Gnaeus was more concerned about the fact that there were 50,000 King Alexander** and 30,000 Pontus** in the counteroffensive army of the Kingdom of Alexander.

With the current national strength of the Kingdom of Alexander, it can be regarded as doing its best to mobilize 50,000 troops to counterattack the Phrygian region; And the 30,000 troops of the Pontus Kingdom to reinforce the Kingdom of Alexander were also expected by the Brutus Empire, as long as Ganeus could lead the army under his command to destroy the 80,000 troops, the Kingdom of Alexander would really exist in name only.

At that time, as long as the Seleucid Empire cooperates with the attack, the 40,000 troops of Alexander's kingdom stationed in the border areas of the Seleucid Empire will be wiped out; Isn't Alexander's kingdom, having lost its entire army, just lambs to be slaughtered?

As for the kingdom of Pontus, Gnaeus believed that the threat posed to the kingdom by the Seleucid Empire would cause the kingdom of Pontus to sit back and watch the kingdom of Alexander be completely annexed by his own army; In addition, the Pontus Kingdom was not without losses in this battle, as long as the counteroffensive army of the Kingdom of Alexander was completely destroyed, the elite army of the Pontus Kingdom was a full 30,000 people.

Before Ganelius could wake up from his eagerness, the latest report from Rex was sent to Ganeus; It turned out that at the same time that the 80,000 counter-offensive troops of the Kingdom of Alexandria marched into the Phrygian region, the 40,000 troops of the Pontus Kingdom in the Bithynia region also transferred 20,000 of them from north to south into the Phrygian region.

Rex, who was in charge of leading the army to garrison the border between the Phrygia region and the Bithynia region of the Pontus Kingdom, naturally would not allow the 20,000 troops of the Pontic Kingdom to enter the interior of the Phrygian region, and the armies of the two sides had already started a fierce battle in the border area.

Since the Pontic armies had not yet penetrated deep into the territory of Phrygia, the other 20,000 Pontic armies still stationed in the Bithynia region could quickly reinforce their own armies that were caught in battle; The current border between Phrygia and Bithynia is already a battlefield where the army of the Kingdom of Pontic and the army of the Empire of Brutus are fighting each other.

There was no significant difference in quality and quantity between the 40,000 army under Rex and the 40,000 army of the Pontus Kingdom; The armies of the Brutus Empire were better armed and equipped, while the armies of the Pontus Kingdom were more determined to fight.

The battle between the two was destined not to be won or lost in a short period of time, and Gnaeus had no spare strength to reinforce Rex's army after receiving Rex's report; He could only reply to Rex with a letter detailing the form of the Phrygia region at this time, and gave Rex an order that he must hold the border area and only win and not lose.

In addition, Gnaeus also gave up his original intention to lead the army to take the initiative and sent a request for help to the rear of the Brutus Empire; It was not that Gnaeus did not have confidence in the defeat of the 80,000 combined forces of the Kingdom of Alexander and the Kingdom of Pontus with his eight legions and 10,000 recruits, but that the 10,000 ironclad cavalry of the Kingdom of Alexander became a problem for Gnaeus.

Previously, when the Brutus Empire was collecting intelligence, it was believed that King Alexander had about 5,000 ironclad cavalry, and according to the accurate reports of the scout cavalry, the 50,000 army used by the Kingdom of Alexander to counterattack the Phrygia region had a full 10,000 ironclad cavalry; This is the information that has just been sent to Gnaeus, and it is also the information that shocked Gnaeus.

After learning that the Kingdom of Alexander had such a large battle group of ironclad cavalry, Gnaeus directly gave up his plan to fight with the Kingdom of Alexander's counteroffensive army; Instead, the battle plan of the initiative was changed to defend Pergamon, and he sent a request for help from the mainland of the Brutus Empire, hoping that Tiberius could send more troops to reinforce the Phrygian region.

Unfortunately, it took time for Gnaeus's request for help to be sent from Phrygia to the Brutus Empire, and before the Brutus Empire's reinforcements arrived in Pergamon, the army led by Alexander himself had already arrived in Pergamon; The fierce siege battle began, but the battle between the Brutus Empire and Alexander's kingdom had only just begun. (To be continued.) )