Humans are more willing to take revenge for harm than to repay kindness. Because gratitude is a heavy burden, and revenge is a pleasure.

- Tacitus (the greatest historian of ancient Rome)

After leaving the place where Pylos was imprisoned, Tiberius was not in a very good mood, or it could be described as very bad; Tiberius could understand Pylos's loyalty to his country, but he couldn't accept that such a talent was killed by someone like Pyrrhus, who was Pyrrhus's own brother!

Perhaps, the impact of power on a person is unparalleled and subversive; If Pyrrhus hadn't experienced the great victory at the Battle of Turbo and hadn't been hailed as a national hero by the Greeks, perhaps he would still be the same person he once was. However, there is no possibility in life, let alone if; Pyrrhus has been through all this, and he has become who he is now!

For Tiberius, the fact that Pyrus led his army to capture the city-state of Semon would not only give the future Brutus family a reason to attack the city-state of Semon; It can also help the Brutus family to completely subdue the 13,000 surrendered Greek legion soldiers. Although the soldiers had surrendered to the Brutus family, and had promised to serve the Brutus family for five years; But that's not allegiance.

And did the Brutus family lack enough troops? In fact, if the Brutus family needed more troops, they could have recruited them again from the mainland, or hired a more professional army, and there was no need to waste their minds on these thirteen thousand people; However, the significance of these 13,000 people is not only this, they have a higher value.

The greatest value of this surrender army was, of course, that it became a model for the Brutus family to reuse the Greeks; Although the Kingdom of Macedonia was not an offshoot of the Greeks, it was already Hellenistic by the time of Alexander the Great. In other words, whether it is a Greek city-state or a Macedonian kingdom, it can be understood as one of the countries descended from Alexander's empire.

Of course, strictly speaking, the Seleucid Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt in the East were also descendants of Alexander's Empire; With the exception of Egypt, the cultures of these countries are very Hellenistic, and even the divisions of the armies of these countries are very similar. This meant that if the Brutus family wanted to gain a foothold in the Greek peninsula, they had to gain the approval of the Greeks.

As long as it is recognized by the Greeks, it will not only gain the opportunity to conquer the Greek city-states in the future, but also an important foundation for the Brutus family to include the Macedonian kingdom in their sphere of influence in the future! If the Brutus family could not gain the approval of the Greeks, then even if the Brutus family conquered these regions by force, they would not be able to truly bring them under their rule.

There are already two of the most classic examples of this in history; Everyone knows what the price of the Persian Empire, which tried to conquer the Greek Peninsula by force, and the Greek Peninsula has not been conquered by the mighty Persian Empire. The other man did a different approach, but he was approved by the Greeks; Not only conquered the Greek peninsula, but also became the hegemon of the world!

The latter is naturally the legendary Alexander the Great, who was originally the king of the Macedonian kingdom, but he admired the culture of the Greeks in his own kingdom, and did not hesitate to reuse the Greeks, and finally won the recognition and respect of all Greeks; With the Greek peninsula as a foundation, Alexander the Great was able to wage war against the Persian Empire, and finally built an empire that was unprecedented in history!

Although Tiberius did not dare to say that he could reach the height of Alexander the Great, he could at least imitate some of the practices of Alexander the Great; Tiberius believed that as long as his Brutus family could gain the approval of the Greeks, he could become the undisputed overlord of Greece, if not the empire of Alexander the Great!

However, it was not so easy for the Brutus family to emulate the success of Alexander the Great; After all, the method used by Alexander the Great was to adopt the culture of the Greeks in its entirety, and completely abolish the culture of his own kingdom. This was not possible for Tiberius, because his family's Roman culture had completely surpassed the Greeks in many ways!

In fact, it cannot be said that the culture of the Romans is better than that of the Greeks, but the culture of the Romans is more suitable for the Brutus family who want to expand; As for the culture of the Greeks, Tiberius felt that it was only suitable for literati and writers to express their feelings and understand life, but it was completely unsuitable for the rise of a hegemon.

Since the Brutus family could not copy the methods of Alexander the Great, Tiberius naturally had to find another way for this; What is the way to gain the approval of a nation? This was not a trivial subject, at least for Tiberius it was a subject worthy of his own consideration; In fact, Tiberius had no clue about the subject.

Tiberius, however, had an understanding of human nature; Tiberius knew that the greatest weakness of human nature was the pursuit of profit. If the Brutus family could give those Greeks enough benefits; Tiberius was absolutely confident that the Greeks would follow behind the Brutus family and be willing to give everything for the Brutus family.

This humanity is unavoidable for every people, especially the Greeks; The mercantile atmosphere of the Greeks since ancient times has led to the fact that the Greeks attach great importance to profit, and they can sell their souls for profit! And the solution that Tiberius came up with was to use the surrender of 13,000 men to give the Greeks enough benefits to make the Greeks willing to recognize the Brutus family.

Tiberius's idea was very simple, that is, to completely turn these thirteen thousand troops into the regular army of the Brutus family, and then give them preferential treatment, so that the Greeks who served as the soldiers of the Brutus family became the envy of other Greeks; In addition to this, the Brutus family had to ensure a certain percentage of Greek soldiers in their own army for other Greeks to compete.

Of course, this is not just for the sake of buying the Greeks, the formation of the Greek legion of the Brutus family is also very important to increase the military power of the Brutus family. Alexander the Great was able to sweep the world with the Greeks' spear phalanx, which was naturally not by luck, and many of the Greeks' troops could still play a huge role in the war.

If nothing else, pikemen in the Greek army were a very useful class; At least when it comes to dealing with cavalry, there are no other classes that are as effective as pikemen. The strength of the Roman legions lies in their efficiency and coordination, as well as in the excellence of their weapons and equipment; The advantage of the Greek legion is that the troops under its command are very distinctive, and the advantages and disadvantages are equally obvious.

If the hoplites of the Greek legion were really so invincible, weren't the Greek city-states invincible? This is not the case, the advantages of the pikemen are very obvious, and the disadvantages are equally obvious; In a head-to-head battle, there is hardly any army that can defeat a phalanx of heavily armed pikemen in a disorganized formation, but what about not engaging them head-on?

The biggest disadvantage of the heavy pikemen was that they were defenseless on the flanks and rear; As soon as an enemy cavalry or chariot unit assaults the pikemen phalanx from these two directions, the powerful pikemen phalanx will collapse in an instant. The value of such a class with obvious advantages and disadvantages lies in the user's play; Tiberius felt that the Brutus family needed to reload the pikemen!

This is not to say that Tiberius was confident enough to think that the Brutus family would be able to use the heavy pikemen, but the weakness of the Roman army was the weakness of the cavalry; Hannibal has proven everything with his own cavalry units. The point is that the Roman army was not only weak in cavalry, but also lacked infantry units to fight cavalry.

No matter which Roman family it is, no matter which enemy it is facing, as long as this enemy has a large cavalry force; Then there was only one way for the Roman army to deal with such an enemy, and that was to pile it up with the lives of its soldiers. However, such methods often sacrifice the lives of a large number of soldiers and soldiers, but cannot obtain the results they deserve; In the end, he was beaten by the enemy's cavalry!

With the addition of this hoplite, the Brutus family also has a class that can deal with enemy cavalry; From this point of view, the formation of the Greek legions was crucial for the Brutus family itself. Don't think that whoever picks up a spear can become a pikeman, the Greeks are definitely the ancestors of the Romans in this regard.

Do you think the Romans did not try to form their own pikemen? The Romans once tried to form their own pikemen, but the results were not ideal; The spear was a weapon that was too foreign to the Romans. So, the whimsical Romans decided to transform this spear and turn the spear into a short spear; This resulted in the elite spearmen peculiar to the Romans, who used short spears.

It turns out that the combat effectiveness of such so-called elite spearmen is simply incomparable to that of scum; When it comes to dealing with infantry, they don't play as well as the youth army they once had! When dealing with the Gallic cavalry, their performance was even more humiliating; Can the spearmen who can be tortured and killed by the Gallic light cavalry still be considered elite? Of course, the establishment of this gunman was completely canceled!

What Tiberius wanted was an authentic hoplite, and a hoplite who was loyal to himself and the Brutus family; Therefore, Tiberius did not hesitate to tell the Greek soldiers who had surrendered the news of Pyrus's invasion of the city-state of Semon today. Needless to say, after receiving this news, the excited Greek legionnaires immediately asked to go to battle! (To be continued.) )