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The Augustan Empire had only speculated about the purpose of the alliance of the four empires, but with the top-secret information sent back by Carabes, Oscar had already seen everything about the alliance formed by the four empires; When the detailed offensive plan and the scale of the troops of this anti-Augustus imperial alliance were known to Oscar, Oscar naturally had to take targeted measures.

However, the Augustan Empire still paid attention to secrecy as much as possible when taking targeted measures, otherwise it would be easy for the Seleucid Empire and the Roman Empire to detect the abnormality; After all, the people of these four empires are not stupid, and if the measures taken by the Augustan Empire were all taken against their offensive plans, wouldn't that directly mean that their plans were leaked?

Oscar simply browsed the information sent back by Calabes among the important ministers of the Augustan Empire, and made the important ministers of the Augustan Empire prepare for war in all aspects; As for the reinforcement of troops to the Kingdom of Egypt and the Iberian Peninsula, Oscar was not in the slightest hurry, or Oscar was not ready to send reinforcements to these two regions in the short term.

On the Iberian Peninsula, as long as Karabes and his fifteen legions existed, plus the support of the Tragic Dead behind the scenes against the Germanic barbarians; The attack of the Empire of Julius and the Roman Empire could not have endangered the stability of the Iberian Peninsula at all, which is why Oscar gave Calabes a task of asking for eleven eagle flags, because Oscar knew that Carabes could complete this task, and he had absolute confidence in Carabes.

The affairs of the Iberian Peninsula and the land of Gaul, Oscar is relieved and bold to hand over to Carabes; As soon as Carabes sent the eleven eagle banners to Syracuse, Oscar would immediately order Luquis to lead the garrison of the Augustan Empire on the Iberian Peninsula and join Carabes in launching an attack on the Empire of Julius and the Roman Empire.

As for the affairs of the Kingdom of Egypt, with the current military strength of the Kingdom of Egypt and the garrison of the Augustan Empire in the Kingdom of Egypt, there was no need for Oscar to immediately send additional troops to the Kingdom of Egypt; Even at the outbreak of war, the naval superiority of the Augustan Empire and the powerful fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt were enough for the army of the Augustan Empire to reinforce the Kingdom of Egypt at any time.

Moreover, the way to send troops to reinforce the Kingdom of Egypt was not only to send troops to the Kingdom of Egypt itself; After the 150,000 troops of the Seleucid Empire and the 10 legions of the Brutus Empire all invaded the Kingdom of Egypt, the army of the Augustan Empire landed directly in the Syrian region of the Seleucid Empire through the naval fleet, which was an excellent way to reinforce the Kingdom of Egypt.

The military strength of the Seleucid Empire was only as strong as the Silver Shield Legion and the Iron Cavalry; After these two elite divisions of the Seleucid Empire moved south, as long as the five legions of the Augustan Empire landed in Syria, the capital of the Seleucid Empire, Antiochus, was almost certain to fall.

At that time, should the Seleucid Empire's army continue to move south, or should it immediately abandon the war with the Kingdom of Egypt and turn north to aid the capital? If they chose to continue south, the armies of the Augustan Empire would be turned upside down within the Seleucid Empire; At that time, it will be questionable whether the southward army of the Seleucid Empire will be able to have logistical supplies.

If the Seleucid Empire's army chose to immediately turn around and gallop north to the capital, what would the ten legions of the Brutus Empire choose? No matter what choice the army of the Brutus Empire makes, and no matter what choice the army of the Seleucid Empire makes, the initiative of this war will be completely in the hands of the Augustan Empire at this moment.

Even if all the southbound armies of the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire returned to Syria, the landing army of the Augustan Empire could have held the city in the north; The army of the Augustan Empire and the army of the Kingdom of Egypt in the south can also advance northward and flank the combined forces of the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire with the stubbornly defending Augustan Empire's landing army.

Before that, all the Augustan Empire needed to do was move the army of at least five legions to the island of Cyprus before the outbreak of war; The entire Mediterranean Sea was the Mediterranean of the Augustan Empire, and nothing that happened in the Mediterranean could be known to any other power, which could not be noticed by the Seleucid Empire and the Roman Empire.

Compared to passive defense, Oscar still prefers to take the initiative to attack; If the Augustan Empire could now take the initiative to start a war against the Seleucid Empire on the Eastern Continent, the Augustan Empire would have full control of the battle.

Needless to say, the Augustan Empire still did not possess such strength now; If the Augustan Empire launched an active attack on the Seleucid Empire on the Eastern Continent now, not to mention that the army of the Kingdom of Egypt had not yet formed a combat effectiveness, the Seleucid Empire would also receive great assistance from the three major Roman empires, and it would be the Augustan Empire that would fall into passivity at that time.

More importantly, the Augustan Empire still had no good way to deal with the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire; In the event of a war, would the Augustan Empire be able to use the flesh and blood of its own imperial soldiers to defend itself against the enemy's ironclad cavalry?

After the last Imperial Council, Oscar asked the Mourners and the Jinyi Guard to focus on the strength of the Parthian and Armenian kingdoms that were still the only remaining kingdoms of the alliance of kingdoms that had flourished in the Eastern Continent; However, the results of the investigation surprised Oscar that the Parthian kingdom and the Armenian kingdom still had extremely good military strength.

In particular, the strength of these two kingdoms in terms of cavalry and ironclad cavalry is only stronger than that of the Seleucid Empire; Regardless of how much the previous alliance of kingdoms suffered in front of the Seleucid Empire's army, the current Parthian Kingdom and the Armenian Kingdom have formed an extremely close alliance, and even began a large-scale military expansion war against the Seleucid Empire.

The Tragic Dead were worthy of being the most powerful intelligence organization in the Augustan Empire, and they also obtained detailed plans for the expansion of the Parthian and Armenian kingdoms; When Oscar found out that the two kingdoms were preparing to expand their armies to 75,000 cavalry and 80,000 infantry, he was shocked and even his jaw dropped.

The current Augustan Empire is definitely the most powerful empire in the Mediterranean, and the strength of the Augustan Empire is only 60,000 cavalry; These two small kingdoms, which add up to only five provinces, want to expand the scale of cavalry to 75,000, including 25,000 ironclad cavalry with strong combat effectiveness, Oscar believes that it is incredible.

What made Oscar even more unbelievable was that the Tragic Dead Man actually confirmed the correctness of this expansion plan in the intelligence, and noted that the Parthian Kingdom and the Armenian Kingdom had completed eighty percent of the expansion; In another half year or so, the expansion plans of the Parthian and Armenian kingdoms will be completed.

Well, Oscar, who never doubted the correctness of the intelligence of the tragic dead, could only define this fact that made him feel incredible: the richness of the Eastern Continent was indeed worthy of its name; Since the Parthian and Armenian kingdoms had such great strength, Oscar naturally wouldn't mind sending emissaries to form an alliance with them.

As long as the Augustan Empire could ally with the Parthian and Armenian kingdoms, and agree to launch an attack on the Seleucid Empire together; At that time, the Augustan Empire will have a real ironclad torrent to deal with the ironclad torrent of the Seleucid Empire.

Regardless of who would win the final victory between the cavalry, the Augustan Empire would not be the one to pay; The enemy of the enemy is the friend, and Oscar is confident that the Parthian and Armenian kingdoms will make a wise choice.

After determining the kingdom of Parthia and Armenia in the east of the alliance, Oscar asked Nepos of the Foreign Affairs Yuan to carefully select several diplomats with outstanding ability, and let them send them to the Parthian and Armenian kingdoms on the eastern continent under the secret escort of the tragic dead; Before the mission, Oscar also gave them the bottom line of the Augustan Empire.

The demands made by the kingdoms of Parthia and Armenia could accede to the demands of the Augustan Empire for the sake of an alliance as long as they were within this boundary; But one thing must be guaranteed, and that is that unless the Seleucid Empire initiates a war on its own initiative, the Augustan Empire must have the power to wage war at any time.

In other words, after this military alliance was concluded, the Augustan Empire would have the right to decide when to go to war against the Seleucid Empire; As soon as the Augustan Empire went to war against the Seleucid Empire, the Parthian and Armenian kingdoms had to join the battle immediately.

If the Seleucid Empire was the first to start a war against the Empire of Augustus or the Kingdom of Parthia or Armenia, the other countries would need to join the war against the Seleucid Empire unconditionally; This is the scope of the obligation of the military alliance, so naturally there is no need to say more.

The bottom line of the Augustan Empire given by Oscar is that after the Seleucid Empire is destroyed, the Parthian Kingdom can obtain the provinces of Elemes that originally belonged to them, as well as the Arab provinces and Babylon provinces of the Seleucid Empire; The Kingdom of Armenia was given access to the provinces of Pontus and Cappadocia, which were formerly part of the Kingdom of Pontus, and the rest of the Seleucid provinces were all owned by the Augustan Empire.

Although the Parthian kingdom will receive three provinces, while the Armenian kingdom will receive only two, the Armenian kingdom will receive more provinces than the Parthian kingdom will receive three provinces; More importantly, this arrangement of occupied areas also takes into account the location of these two kingdoms, and Oscar has done his best. (To be continued.) )