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- Aesop (Greek fabler, Phrygian)

After the Augustan Empire had completed all the preparations for war, Oscar himself personally led the army to begin an expedition to the Kingdom of Egypt; With the size of the Egyptian fleet under the command of Oles, the number of transport ships it had was simply not enough to transport the soldiers of the ten legions and their food, grass and logistics supplies at one time.

In order to be able to transport all the food and grass needed for these soldiers and their battles at one time, Oscar drew a huge fleet of ten triremes and twenty twin warships and one hundred transports from the naval fleet of the Augustan Empire to participate in the expedition to the Kingdom of Egypt; This fleet of the Augustan Empire was commanded by Shi Xiu.

Thirty warships is nothing more than a small squadron for the current Augustan Imperial Navy; As for a hundred transports, this is only about a quarter of all the transports in the Augustan Empire.

During the five or six years when the Augustan Empire was fully engaged in the development of its internal economy, Oscar wanted to strengthen the ties between the various regions within the Augustan Empire and expand the scale of the Empire's maritime trade; In addition to encouraging private commercial capital to buy merchant ships to participate in maritime trade, the Augustan Imperial Navy was also actively building more transport ships in order to better participate in it.

After so many years of accumulation, the number of transports that the Augustan Imperial Navy now has is terrifying; It is no exaggeration to say that even the combined number of transports of all other powers in the entire Mediterranean cannot be compared with the number of transports of the Augustan Empire, which was before the Augustan Empire unified North Africa.

When the Augustan Empire unified North Africa, the entire naval fleet of the Kingdom of Carthage and the entire naval fleet of the Kingdom of Numidia became prisoners of the naval forces of the Augustan Empire; Although the navies of these two kingdoms did not have many warships, they did have a large number of transports in their fleets, which were the product of peacetime maritime trade with the Augustan Empire.

In addition, the fleet of the Augustan Empire captured a large number of civilian merchant ships in the ports of the Numidian and Carthaginian kingdoms; Naturally, these civilian merchant ships, whose structure was far inferior to transport ships, could not have been taken over by the Augustan Imperial Navy, and in the end, all of them were cheapened by the Merchant House of Nat, who made the Merchant House of Nate itself have the largest maritime merchant fleet in the Augustan Empire.

In fact, the current Augustan Empire already has a complete set of development distribution models; Each department of the Augustan Empire will have its own advantages, and the spoils of war obtained by the army of the Augustan Empire in the war will eventually be digested by these departments, all of which will become the strength of the Augustan Empire itself, and finally become the support for strengthening the power of the Augustan Empire again.

Just like this battle for the unification of the North African continent by the Augustan Empire, the navy of the Augustan Empire strengthened itself by capturing enemy warships in the war, and handed over those captured merchant ships to the merchant court of Nat to strengthen the strength of the Augustan Empire; In addition, the army of the Augustan Empire adopted the same model in this regard.

The kingdoms of Carthage and Numidia on the North African continent provided the Augustan Empire with a total of nine legions after the war; This alone gave the Augustan Empire's army strength a leap forward. In the process of conquering the kingdoms of Numidia and Carthage, the armies of the Augustan Empire also captured numerous weapons and equipment from these two kingdoms.

Although these weapons and equipment could not be used by the Augustan Empire, the Augustan Empire could completely smelt the iron weapons and equipment in these weapons and equipment into materials for forging the weapons and equipment of the Augustan Empire; In addition, the capture of a large number of North African war horses can also raise the land transportation capacity within the Augustan Empire to another level, which is the benefit of the war to the Augustan Empire.

Of course, the price paid by the Augustan Empire for this war was not small; In addition to the direct casualties paid on the battlefield, the Augustan Empire began to arrange the chess pieces on the North African continent seven or eight years ago, and the price paid during this period was simply terrifying, otherwise there would be no smooth unification of the North African continent by the Augustan Empire.

In short, for the Augustan Empire, war has become the best way to increase the strength of the Augustan Empire; Even if it is nothing more than to increase the strength of the Augustan Empire through capture, the soldiers of the Augustan Empire will actively fight for their military exploits and titles, and the lands they conquer will become the foundation of the Augustan Empire again!

The largest fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt had a full one hundred and ten warships and sixty transports, plus thirty warships and a hundred transports of the Augustan Empire; The magnificence of up to 300 ships sailing on the surface of the sea is a testament to the shock of a merchant ship whose fleet has almost forgotten to avoid it.

Never before in the Mediterranean has there been such a large gathering of ships in a row; Even when the Persian Empire invaded the Greek peninsula, it did not amass such a large fleet.

At this time, the garrison of the Kingdom of Egypt on the island of Cyprus consisted of only 20,000 infantry and 5,000 chariot troops; There was also a decent naval fleet of twelve trilinear and twenty double-lined battleships, as well as thirty transports.

I have to admit that the Kingdom of Egypt is indeed wealthy, and the chariot unit is the most expensive to build among all the arms; Even the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire, which was superior to the chariot troops in combat effectiveness, was inferior to the chariot troops of the Kingdom of Egypt in terms of formation costs.

Not to mention the difficulty of building a chariot and the price it needs to pay, even the war horse that drags the chariot forward is also an astronomical amount; The fact that the Kingdom of Egypt was able to raise a total of 45,000 chariot troops is enough to show how powerful the Kingdom of Egypt was.

However, Oscar had no intention of attacking the defenders of the island with his army, nor did he intend to force an attack on the island; Because Cleopatra made it clear to Oscar that the governor of the island of Cyprus was a governor who opposed Ptolemy XIII's succession to the throne of pharaoh, his idea was to support Cleopatra and Ptolemy XIII to inherit the throne of pharaoh together.

Thus, Cleopatra was confident enough to persuade the governor of the island of Cyprus to surrender to him; Oscar didn't have anything to do with Cleopatra's idea of absolute Cleopatra, and if people oppose Ptolemy XIII succeeding to the throne of Pharaoh alone, it means that he is also against you, Cleopatra inheriting the throne of Pharaoh alone, how can your persuasion be useful?

The reason why Oscar thought that the island could be taken without blood was because he had enough confidence in his army and fleet; The story of the mantis arm as a car will always exist only in the story, how many people dare to do the thing of the mantis arm as a car, Oscar does not think that the governor of the island of Cyprus will make an unwise choice.

Oscar's idea turned out to be more realistic, and when the veiled fleet appeared off the coast of the port of Cyprus, the Egyptian fleet cruising off the coast of the port of Cyprus fled back to the port of Cyprus without the slightest resistance; Even so, they did not escape the fate of being captured by the warships of Oles.

Cleopatra did not show up from beginning to end, and the naval fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt stationed on the island of Cyprus was declared to be a prisoner of the fleet of Oles; After that, the transport ships of the Augustan Empire began to slowly dock, and the soldiers on board also landed in the port one after another, and quickly controlled the entire port in the hands of the Augustan Emperor's ** team.

According to the previous agreement between Oscar and Cleopatra, the island of Cyprus of the Kingdom of Egypt will henceforth be the island of Cyprus of the Augustan Empire; Therefore, Oscar also strictly ordered the soldiers of the Augustan Empire not to destroy anything on the island at will, after all, this is all the Augustan Empire's things, and any damage is the loss of the Augustan Empire itself.

Except for the soldiers of the ten legions, after all the soldiers landed, the grain and grass materials on the transport ship were not all unloaded, but only about one-third; This one-third of the food and grass supplies were enough for the ten legions of the Augustan Empire to consume on the island of Cyprus for a month, and the rest of the supplies could not be unloaded until the Kingdom of Egypt proper.

After all the armies of the Augustan Empire landed in the ports of Cyprus, Oscar and Cleopatra led the army to Salamis, the capital of the island of Cyprus; The armies of the Augustan Empire were not quick to move, and the governor of the island of Cyprus had been informed of the arrival of the Augustan army long before the arrival of the Augustan army in Salamis.

The governor of the island of Cyprus did not know that the Augustan Empire had been recruited by Cleopatra, nor did he know the size of the invading army of the Augustan Empire; In his opinion, the invading Augustus Emperor's ** army was only tens of thousands at most, so he personally led the 20,000 infantry and 5,000 chariot troops in the city of Salamis to counterattack the port.

When the army of the Augustan Empire of ten legions met the army of 25,000 led by the governor of Cyprus, the dense army of the Augustan Empire made the governor of Cyprus of the Kingdom of Egypt directly confused; He had no idea that the army of the Augustan Empire would be of such a size, and it was not an enemy that the garrison on the island of Cyprus could deal with!

Before the Governor of Cyprus could react from his shock, Cleopatra rode before the Cypriot garrison and demanded that the Governor of Cyprus lead his army to surrender; The Governor of Cyprus would not refuse Cleopatra's offer at such a time, and he could even console himself with the fact that he had only surrendered to Cleopatra. (To be continued.) )