You don't have the time or the ability to read, but you have the time or the ability to prevent arrogance, you have the time to go beyond pleasure and pain, you have the time to go beyond the love of fame, don't bother with stupid and ungrateful people, don't even bother with them.

- Marcus Aurelius (the only philosopher-emperor in Western history)

Flavies, the leader of the House of Julius, was the youngest of the four Roman families, and the most aggressive and ambitious; If it weren't for the limitations of the policies of the Roman Republic and the limitations of its own military strength, Gaul would have become the domain of the Julius family. Even because of these considerable factors, Flavies never gave up his ambitions for the northern provinces of Gaul and the kingdom of Regulia; Now that Flavies has gathered enough troops in his hands, he can finally make his dream come true!

Of course, in the process of realizing his dreams, Flavies never gave up his efforts; He personally created the Julius family's intelligence organization in Gaul, the Heavenly Dream. Although this intelligence organization has not been established for a long time without the tragedy of the Augustus family, and it does not have the planned development of the Jinyi Guard; But it still grew tenaciously thanks to Flavis's efforts. At the same time, Flavis also actively cultivated the private army of the Julius family and developed a new force belonging to the Julius family.

In the face of the alliance of Daniel and Lugotorix this time, the reason why Flavis is still confident that the Julius family will win the final victory is that he has long considered the alliance between the Kingdom of Regulia and the Gallic barbarians; And all the countermeasures were properly arranged, just waiting for the enemy to attack. Why would Flavis consider the kingdom of Regulia, which had always remained neutral, to throw itself into the arms of the Gallic barbarians? The reason is simple, after all, both are Gauls of the same roots; The move towards union was nothing more than to be expected.

The only thing that Flavis did not expect was that he did not expect that the Kingdom of Regulia would actually defect to the camp of the Gallic barbarians because of civil strife; In a way, this outcome was beneficial to the Julius family. First of all, the previous civil strife had seriously depleted the strength of the Kingdom of Regulia; Moreover, the royal family member Cadoradu, who was very popular in the Kingdom of Regulia, also became the general of his own family, which laid a solid foundation for the future annexation of the Kingdom of Regulia by the Julius family.

And this time, Kadoradu, who led the remnants of the army of 3,000 to surrender, was also arranged by Flavis to the best of his ability in the Calabess Legion, which was originally prepared to deal with the Regulian Kingdom, and accepted the unified command of the Calabesian Legion; That's right, this Calabess Legion is the Legion led by Calabes the Younger. Calabes, the Younger, who had quietly led thousands of slaves out of House Augustus, had grown into the captain of House Julius in nearly a year. The army under his command has reached 9,000 people!

The origin of all this still starts with Oscar's secret arrangement back then, originally Oscar was just to develop little Carabes into a hidden pawn of the Augustus family; So a group of slaves and gladiators with strong fighting power were arranged to follow Carabes the Younger out of the Latin province and go to other parts of the Roman Republic to settle in the grass. From the day he officially left Rome, Carabes the Younger became a general in command of an army of thousands of slaves; For the first time, fate was also in the hands of Karabes himself.

At first, Calabes was also preparing to occupy a hill honestly. and then live a period of grassy life; It's a pity that the heavens didn't acquiesce to Karabes's mundane mission. The first enemy Calabes encounters is a group of powerful bandits, who have thousands of well-armed bandits, and even a leader of the Hundred Guards, who are equipped with Roman equipment; Tragically, it was the resourceful Karabes who robbed the target.

Carabis simply led his army into a night raid and wiped out this supposedly powerful bandit; But. The bandits' nest was still a good base, and Karabes made the newly occupied bandits' den his own. What Karabes didn't expect was that the bandit leader of the bandit he had exterminated in one fell swoop was the younger brother of the leader of an even more powerful bandit gang; And that robber is none other than Edam, the most powerful bandit leader in the Etruscan province, and now Karabes is in big trouble.

Itami himself was a native Gaul, and the number of Gauls in the entire Etruscan province was not a minority; They were generally oppressed by the local Romans, but there was nowhere to redress their grievances, so many Etruscan Gauls chose to fall into the grass. One of the best of these was Itami, who was dissatisfied with the Romans for bullying his younger brother as an adult, and killed a Roman official with his own hands that year. Then he took his younger brother Allah and a group of Gallic fatals who were willing to follow him and set out on the path of bandits.

Itami has been fierce and brave since he was a child, and after becoming a robber, he has become even more careless; Soon, he used his bravery to build a robber paradise for his brother and brothers to survive. Because Itami himself was not a careerist or a hero, after laying this land that was enough to survive; Itami never continued to expand his territory. Of course, it is undeniable that Itami also understands that if he continues to expand; Then the result is bound to attract the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Julius family.

It's a pity that things don't go according to people's wishes; Itami's caution did not reduce the number of robbers under his command, but attracted more Gauls who could not survive. And just like that, over time; In ten years, the number of bandits under Itami exceeded 8,000. At this time, not to mention the ordinary garrison army, even the regular army of the Julius family did not dare to provoke Itami easily; This result not only made life comfortable for Itami's bandits. It also made his younger brother have undeserved ambitions.

When Itami discovers that his younger brother Allah has the ambition to continue to expand, he harshly criticizes Allah; But this did not change Allah's ambitions, but only aroused Allah's competitive spirit. Allah decided to go out on her own and venture into her own business, instead of living in the shadow of her big brother all the time; There is never a shortage of militants and war maniacs among the bandits. They are also unwilling to continue to live this kind of peaceful life. After learning that Allah had decided to go out on a rampage, nearly a thousand warlike bandits followed Allah out of this comfortable bandit stronghold.

Allah had just found a new place to settle with the nearly a thousand robbers, and after setting up camp, Karabeth appeared with an army of slaves; Originally, Allah still wanted to make a big deal, but he didn't expect that his thousands of robber brothers would be beaten and disappeared, and all of them became prisoners of others. When Itami learned the news. Naturally, he would not watch his younger brother fall into the hands of the enemy and leave it alone; So Itami led all the 7,000 bandits under his command and began to march in the direction of Calabes.

Carabis is indeed a natural handsome talent. After he had completed the complete elimination of the bandits; Instead of generating any post-victory excitement, the captured robbers were thoroughly investigated and interrogated, and the relationship between their leader, Allah, and Etruscan's strongest bandit leader, Itami, was learned. At this time, Calabes knew that Itami would personally lead the main force of bandits to save his brother Allah; In order to be able to eliminate the threat posed by Itami. Karabes decided to strike first.

The route of the Itami army had already been clear to the scouts sent out by Calabes, who had also led the army to ambush on the road; A very classic ambush battle began. The robbers, who had never seen an ambush before, scattered in panic under the sudden attack of Calabes, and even Itami himself became a prisoner of Calabis under the siege of countless slaves; In order to capture this fierce bandit leader, Karabeth lost at least a hundred elite slave warriors.

However, for Carabes. The sacrifice of these hundred warriors was worth it; Because in the eyes of Karabes, the value of a fierce general like Itami is far greater than that of a hundred elite warriors. In order to completely absorb the bandit group under Itami, but also to expand his own strength and solve the problem of generals he urgently needs; Karabeth decided to persuade Itami and Allah to surrender. At first, this was not accepted by Itami and Allah, especially Allah, who stated that he would not pledge allegiance to Karabes even if he chose to die; But their minds soon changed when something else happened.

The war between Itami and Calabes had already been fought by tens of thousands of people, and it was simply unthinkable for the Etruscan family of Julius; In order to solve this scourge and train the new Third Legion, Flavies decided to personally lead the Third Legion to attack the emerging bandit force. The new army of more than 4,000 Romans still had a very big advantage over the roughly equal number of slave warriors, but the commander of the slave warriors was Carabes; This is already the end of this battle.

When Flavis led the Third Legion less than five miles from the bandit stronghold of Calabes, Flavis decided to rest for the night before launching an attack on the bandits; This was originally a cautious way of fighting. It is also a fairly safe way of fighting, which is enough for ordinary bandits. But is Carabes an ordinary opponent? The next morning, the trumpet that woke up the Third Legion was not the Romans, but the trumpeters of Calabes; At this time, the large camp of the Third Legion had been surrounded by the army under the command of Calabes, and the Roman legionaries who were in charge of the guard were also tied to Carabes's side.

The recruits of the Third Legion were frightened like headless flies in the face of such a situation, but Flavis, the leader of the Julius family, was not in a hurry at all; He knew that since the bandits on the periphery did not take the opportunity to attack, but chose to use the horn to "wake up" the Third Legion, it meant that the other party did not want to fight with the Julius family. If everyone understands people, then the solution to the problem will be simpler; Flavies immediately negotiated with Carabis about getting dressed up.

Calabes's purpose was not to go to war with the Julius family, and naturally he would not refuse Flavies' suggestion; The two were soon escorted by several guards to the center of the two armies. Conduct negotiations. For such a thing as negotiation, young Calabis was no match for the cunning Flavies; Flavies did not talk too much about the current war, but openly expressed the Julius family's desire to solicit Carabis himself and his army, and promised that the Julius family would give Carabes' army the same treatment as a regular Roman legion.

Flavies' proposal opened a window for Calabes. Carabes suddenly thought of another way to accomplish the task given to him by Oscar; As a result, Carabis accepted Flavies' offer and agreed to lead his army to join the House of Julius. But he also made it clear that his army must obey his command, and that his army was in urgent need of weapons and equipment, and needed the Julius family to provide 2,000 sets of heavy weapons and equipment and 7,000 sets of light weapons and equipment; All of this was agreed to by Flavis. (To be continued.) )