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After the three Roman empires formally concluded an alliance with the Seleucid Empire, the three emperors returned to their own imperial capitals to begin preparations for war a year later; Marius's Roman Empire needed to send five legions to the Ulius Empire at the outbreak of war to assist the Ulius Empire in its attack on the Iberian Peninsula, while the total strength of the Roman Empire was only twelve legions.

The main enemy that the Roman Empire had to face was not the Augustan Empire's army on the Iberian Peninsula, but the landing army that the Augustan Empire could transport with its naval fleet at any time, and that was the most threatening existence to the Roman Empire.

In the current area of the Roman Empire, at least eight legions of troops are needed to ensure that the Roman Empire itself has the power to fight back when it is attacked by the landing of the Augustan Empire; Coupled with the fact that the Latin province where the city of Rome was located needed to be heavily defended, Marius decided to expand the total strength of the Roman Empire to fifteen legions after consulting with Antony and Octavian.

In other words, the Roman Empire had to ensure that after sending five legions to cooperate with the Julius Empire in launching an attack on the Iberian Peninsula of the Augustan Empire, it would have ten legions stationed on its own territory; As a result, the Roman Empire would need to form three new legions in the following year, and it would not be difficult for the Roman Empire to form an army of this size.

Marius's Roman Empire never lacked enough troops or weapons and equipment, and the only thing they lacked was food to feed their army; The food from the Empire of Julius and Brutus was not free, and every year the Roman Empire had to pay a huge amount of money to buy food, but it managed to maintain the stability of the Roman Empire.

After the alliance between the four empires, the Julius Empire and the Brutus Empire also made concessions on the food issue, and were willing to jointly provide the Roman Empire with enough food for 150,000 troops for a year. In particular, the five legions that the Roman Empire was about to send to the Ulius Empire, and their food consumption was borne by the Ulius Empire.

With the compromise between the Empire of Julius and the Empire of Brutus in terms of food, the external environment of the Roman Empire was obviously much better than before; The matter of forming three legions was easily solved, and after Marius convened a meeting of important ministers of the empire, Antony and Octavian were put in charge of the specific formation of the three legions.

After Flavis returned to Aretion, he also informed the important ministers of the Ulius Empire about the alliance of the four empires against the Augustan Empire, and the responsibility of the Ulius Empire to gather fifteen legions to attack the Iberian Peninsula; For the Ulius Empire, such an alliance was still very helpful to the development of the Ulius Empire.

The Iberian Peninsula of the Augustan Empire was geographically connected to the Gallic land of the Ulius Empire, and the army that attacked the Iberian Peninsula was the fifteen legions of the Ulius Empire; After the Iberian Peninsula was occupied by the army of the Julius Empire, the Iberian Peninsula, which originally belonged to the Augustan Empire, naturally became the Iberian Peninsula of the Ulius Empire.

Although the Iberian Peninsula was also a region ruled by the Spanish barbarians, it was far more developed than the Gallic barbarians and the Germanic lands of the Germanic barbarians. Later, after six or seven years of development of the Augustan Empire, the current Iberian Peninsula can be regarded as a new and prosperous place, and it is also a region that is very worthy of the Ulius Empire.

Since the Ulius Empire has already made a commitment in this matter, the Ulius Empire must actively prepare for this; The ten legions of the Julius Empire in the Germanic lands, which had been restricted from replenishing before, naturally had to be replenished, but the real main force used to attack the Iberian Peninsula was the Gallic army under the command of Calabes.

According to Flavis' conception, the fifteen legions of the Ulius Empire to conquer the Iberian Peninsula should be the main force of the ten legions under the command of Carabis, and the Ulius Empire sent five more legions as auxiliaries; As for the garrisons that were necessary in Gaul, they could also be drawn directly from within the Ulius Empire.

From the time Carabes' army launched an attack on the Marseille tribes of the Gallic barbarians, Calabes had ruled the land of Gaul for more than eight years for the Julius Empire; At this time, it was time for the Ulius Empire to send troops to garrison the land of Gaul.

And the Iberian Peninsula, which belonged to the Augustan Empire, could become a new battlefield for Calabes; Of course, Flavies could not have sent Calabes to the border of Gaul and the Iberian Peninsula with an army of ten legions with a single order, and Fravis had to make sufficient preparations to make Carabes accept the order willingly.

With the current size of the army of the Julius Empire, under the premise that the Germanic barbarians cannot be completely wiped out for a while, the thirteen legions of the Julius Empire plus the ten legions of Carabis are not enough to cope with the next war.

Carabes's army on the Iberian Peninsula would have required fifteen legions, and Caesar would have needed at least ten legions to garrison the Germanic lands; After the transfer of Calabes's army, the land of Gaul needed at least six legions to defend the western border of the Germanic barbarians, and the mainland of the Julius Empire also needed several legions to garrison it.

Although Caesar was demoted after Varus lost the Eagle Banner of the Sixth and Eleventh Legions, it was simply a delaying tactic by Flavies; Taking advantage of the imminent war of the Ulius Empire against the Augustan Empire, Caesar was once again appointed by Flavies as Emperor of the Julius Empire as the commander of the Julius Empire's army in Germany.

The Quintus supporters, who desperately wanted to pull Caesar off his horse, could only acquiesce to Flavies' appointment at the critical juncture when the Ulius Empire was about to break out into a major war with the Augustan Empire; However, the matter of Caesar is far from being the most important thing in the Ulius Empire, and how to expand the military war to deal with the next war is the top priority of the Ulius Empire.

Quintus, who had not usually participated in the military affairs of the Ulius Empire before, also put forward his own suggestions on the expansion of the Ulius Empire in this meeting; Quintus believed that the Empire of Julius should add eleven legions of troops in the coming year.

Six of the legions were formed by the Empire of Julius itself, and the other five were formed by Calabes in Gaul; After these eleven legions were formed, the Empire of Julius could leave two legions to defend the mainland with the three legions that had previously been stationed on the mainland, and the remaining four legions would be supplemented by two legions drawn from the Germanic army to garrison the land of Gaul.

The five new legions recruited by Calabes, plus the ten legions under his command, were all used to launch an attack on the Iberian Peninsula; In this way, even if the Julius Empire needed fifteen legions to attack the Iberian Peninsula, six legions in Gaul and eight legions in Germanic land would be enough to suppress the Germanic barbarians from both east and west.

It is undeniable that there is an implicit suspicion of reducing Caesar's military power in Quintus's proposal, but Flavies also has to admit that Quintus's proposal is still very in line with the actual situation of Julius's empire, and it is indeed highly feasible.

After the discussion of the important ministers of the Julius Empire, everyone agreed with the proposal put forward by Quintus, and Flavis naturally did not have any objections to it; As a result, the Ulius Empire immediately formed the Sixteenth to Twenty-first Legions in the six provinces of the mainland, of which the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Legions would remain in the native area, and the other four legions would sail to the land of Gaul.

Regarding the transfer of two legions from Caesar's command, Flavies directly ordered the transfer of the fourteenth and fifteenth legions under Caesar's command to the land of Gaul; Quintus originally wanted to transfer Caesar's henchmen from the Fourth and Seventh Legions, but under Flavies' direct orders, he had no choice but to obey.

After the affairs of the Empire of Julius were arranged, it was natural to deal with the affairs of Calabes; Now that Calabis is still leading his army against the British island where the British barbarians are, there should be no way to withdraw from the British island for a while, but the attack on the Iberian Peninsula and the expansion of the five legions cannot be delayed.

Flavies had no choice but to send officials to the Belgian region and then sail to the British Isles to deliver orders to Calabes; At the same time, Flavis also prepared all the military supplies and weapons needed to form the five legions in the Empire of Julius, which would also be shipped to Alesia when the officials departed.

Compared with the active expansion of armaments between the Roman Empire and the Julius Empire, the Brutus Empire was much more relaxed in this regard; With the current strength of the Brutus Empire's eighteen regular legions, six leader legions and two special legions, plus the Brutus Empire only needs to send ten legions to assist the Seleucid Empire in its southward movement, the Brutus Empire does not need to expand its army again.

But the crux of the matter is that although the Brutus Empire did not have much pressure on land, its pressure at sea was extraordinary; Now the area ruled by the Brutus Empire is divided into two by the Aegean Sea, there are five provinces of the Brutus Empire on the eastern continent east of the Aegean Sea, and there are also seven provinces of the Brutus Empire on the Greek Peninsula west of the Aegean Sea.

Once the war between the four great empires and the Augustan Empire officially broke out, it was very likely that the Aegean Sea would face a blockade by the Augustan Empire's navy; In order not to be directly cut off by the Augustan Empire, the Brutus Empire could only step up the development of naval strength and cooperate with the Sulla forces and the Pompey forces again. (To be continued.) )

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