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- Solon (ancient Athenian statesman, legislator, poet, one of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece)

Carabes's plan was unprecedentedly successful, and all five legions sent by the Roman Empire became prisoners of Carabes, who handed over all 50,000 captives to General Luquis three days later.

As for the generals such as Aulus, neither Calabes nor Luquis disposed of them without permission, after all, Aulus's elder brother Quintus is now also the commander of the North African garrison of the Augustan Empire; The two of them still had to give this thin face, so these generals were sent to the transport ship of the General Staff of the Augustan Empire and sent directly to Syracuse.

After the annihilation of these five legions, Calabes was to return to Gaul with his army to complete the established battle plan; This time, Calabis returned to Gaul with Luquis and his two legions, only the Twelfth Legion and the Second Cavalry Legion would remain on the Iberian Peninsula, and their main task was to guard the 50,000 Roman prisoners.

After Carabes and Luquis left the Iberian Peninsula with their combined army, Luques's brother Lucas welcomed Calis, who was not supposed to be on the Iberian Peninsula at all, near the port where the army was gathered; In the minds of all the people of the Augustan Empire, when Calis was trying to gain independence from Crete, Lucas was forced by Calis to serve under his command.

But is this impression of all people a fact, or is it an illusion that has been invented intentionally or unintentionally? If Lucas was really forced to obey Calis, why did Calis appear in the Iberian Peninsula at this time, and what is the conspiracy in this?

In fact, Lucas's connection with Calis is by no means as simple as it appears on the surface, and all the images of Lucas who are forced to submit to Calis are also false images spread by Calis himself; Lucas is definitely the most loyal general under Calis, just as Lucas is loyal to Oscar, and Lucas remains loyal to Calis.

The reason why Calis has been painstakingly creating the illusion that Lucas is forced to obey himself is that if an accident happens one day, Lucas can use this illusion to be reused after returning to the Augustan Empire; I have to admit that Calis's precaution did play a huge role, and Lucas was indeed saved from being idle by the Oscars because of this image.

Even though Lucas did not receive the real power to command the army, he still became Luques's deputy to the commander of the garrison in the Iberian Peninsula; This also gave Lucas considerable real power to some extent, for example, after Lucas led his army out of the Iberian Peninsula.

In fact, what really determined Lucas's fate was not Calis's arrangement and publicity, but his brother Luquis's hard work in the Augustan Empire; Oscar, out of consideration of the balance of factional power within the Augustus Empire, it is impossible to give Luquis too high status and too much power, but Oscar's trust and reliance on Luquis in his heart is incomparable.

That's why both Calis and Lucas have a track record that is not enough for Oscar to trust, but Lucas can become the deputy commander of the garrison of the Iberian Peninsula of the Augustan Empire, while Calis can only be sent to the Balearic Islands to eat and die.

Oscar made such an arrangement, completely out of compensation for Luques, and opened up to Lucas; Otherwise, do you think Oscar will appoint a general with a criminal record as this deputy commander-in-chief? The Augustan Empire was not short of a general or two!

Unfortunately, Oscar's good intentions were not rewarded by Lucas, who was deceived by his brother's superficial appearance; When Lucas welcomed Calis to the barracks, Calis used his best demagoguery to buy the leaderless 50,000 captives in the barracks, and then Lucas sent a false order for the garrison to return all the weapons and equipment to the 50,000 captives.

Immediately after possessing these 50,000 troops, Calis and Lucas led the 50,000 troops to surround the officers and men of the Twelfth Legion and the Second Cavalry Legion, forcing them to swear allegiance to Calis; How could the soldiers of the Twelfth Legion and the Second Cavalry Legion turn their backs on their faith and pledge allegiance to Calis, so a large-scale civil war was inevitable.

Carabes bloodlessly turned the 50,000 Roman army into prisoners of the Augustan Empire, and Calis, with the cooperation of Lucas, easily turned the 50,000 captives into his own army and launched an attack on the two legions of the Augustan Empire.

The Twelfth Legion and the Second Cavalry Legion fought desperately, and in the end only more than 3,000 soldiers escaped from the encirclement of 50,000 troops under Calis; Nearly 17,000 of the most loyal and fearless warriors of the Augustan Empire did not die in the attack on the enemy, but instead died in the rebellion of Calis, which is nothing short of a tragedy.

The more than 3,000 soldiers who broke through the siege marched all the way south to the city of New Carthage, where Marcus was at this time, and they forcibly withdrew with Marcus to Cordoba in Betica, where they rebuilt the defense line and recruited young men to defend the city; Calis, on the other hand, led an army of less than 40,000 under his command to quickly sweep through the entire Iberian Peninsula and expand his army to a full 100,000.

In any country of any era, there will be no shortage of restless people with ambitions; These restless elements in the Iberian Peninsula actively joined the rebel army of Calis after the arrival of the rebel army of Calis, and coupled with some young men forcibly recruited by Calis, the army under his command naturally expanded rapidly like a snowball.

The information that Calis and Lucas had joined hands to mutiny was soon sent to Syracuse, and Oscar had the heart to kill; The situation of the Augustan Empire is now in an unprecedented advantage, and if everything goes well, the Augustan Empire can even destroy the other three major Roman empires and the Seleucid Empire in one fell swoop, and then the Augustan Empire will reach the top of the world.

But at such a critical moment, such a large-scale rebellion broke out within the Augustan Empire, and the entire Iberian Peninsula was about to become the territory of the rebels, and the two legions of the Augustan Empire were almost completely annihilated; Such a loss was too great for the Augustan Empire, and it was too big for Oscar to accept.

More importantly, the Augustan Empire simply did not have the means to send enough troops to the Iberian Peninsula to quell the rebellion, which may be the reason why Calis chose to launch a rebellion at this time; Carlis was an ambitious guy, and his rebellion Oscar was acceptable, but Lucas's rebellion made Oscar, who chose to forgive him, unbearable.

Enraged, Oscar ignored the fierce opposition of Vipsani and other important ministers, and directly sent the Eleventh Legion and the Samonai Legion stationed in Sicily, as well as the Guards Infantry Legion and the Guards Cavalry Legion, to expedition to the Iberian Peninsula; Luquis, who had led two legions into Gaul, was also ordered to return to the Iberian Peninsula with his army.

Oscar Jean Namus's fleet transported the four legions to the Tarragonannis area to land, and Luquis was ordered to return to the Tarragonannis area within half a month; The transport fleet of the General Staff would pick up Luquis and his two legions at the port of Narpung Gaul and transport them by sea to the area of Tarragonanis.

The armies of these six legions were all of Luquis's counterinsurgency army, and all the armies that the Augustan Empire could now take out; The remnants of the Twelfth Army and the Second Cavalry Legion, which had been going to hold Córdoba, were also withdrawn to Sicily with the transport fleet of the General Staff under Oscar's orders, along with Marcus, an important minister of the Empire.

For Luquis, Oscar only gave him an order, and within half a year, Oscar must see the heads of Calis and Lucas cut off to pay tribute to the soldiers who died in the civil war; If Lucis can't do it, then Oscar will change the command!

It was the harshest order Oscar had ever given to Luquis, and the first time Oscar had been so eager to kill two people; In fact, the person who was most shocked and angry about this rebellion was not Oscar but Luquis.

Lucquis had always thought that his brother had been dragged into the water by Calis, but he still could not forgive his brother for betraying the House of Augustus; Whether it was the Augustan family in the past or the current Augustan Empire, Luquis's allegiance will always be to the Augustan family, and this is the mission of Luquis's family for generations.

Although Luquis is unwilling to forgive his brother, he still can't give up the blood connection in his heart; So Oscar's treatment of Lucas made Lucques grateful, how could he not know what Oscar was for.

But Luquis never dreamed that everything that his most trusted brother showed was all an illusion, and he actually followed Calis to launch a rebellion within the Augustan Empire; Needless to say, this was the first rebellion since the founding of the Augustan Empire, and it was also an absolutely impossible rebellion for the entire Augustan Empire to endure.

Even if there was no Oscar's order, Luquis would have taken the initiative to ask Oscar for his life; Because Lucis wants to personally break the bones of Lucas who started the rebellion in order to wash away his sins from his ancestors, he is the only traitor in the history of Luques's family!

A sudden rebellion brought all six provinces of the Iberian Peninsula to the fall of the Augustan Empire; To add insult to injury, the rebellion disrupted the Augustan Empire's plans, and Luquis and his army, who cooperated with Calabes' attack on Rome proper, were withdrawn to the Iberian Peninsula, and the defense of Sicily was reduced to an all-time low. (To be continued.) )