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Compared to the prosperity of the House of Augustus and the chaos of North Africa, the recent development of the Roman powers can be regarded as impressive; After the Augustan family defeated Hannibal, the Roman forces, which were still hostile to each other, began to abandon their old grievances, put aside their past grievances, and reunited towards unity.

The alliance of the four powers to help the Kingdom of Spain deal with the House of Augustus was nothing more than an external measure taken by the four powers; The real internal measure is that the four families communicate with each other and develop hand in hand, and jointly cope with the strong pressure of the Augustan family.

A large amount of money held by the Marius forces continued to flow to the Brutus family in the Greek Peninsula and the Julius family in the northern region, and the Brutus family and the Julius family also provided a large number of various resources to the Marius forces; As for the Scipio family, the alliance between them and Marius is getting closer and closer, and both sides have even developed to the point of being like a family!

The flow of these resources and money is only a complementarity of each other's strength, and the real development of the major families is the expansion and enhancement of their respective forces; This time, the four major forces are no longer fighting separately, but are closely united.

Marius and Scipio occupied the most populous and economically rich Roman mainland, but the geographical location of Rome itself limited their territorial expansion and forced them to abandon their ambitions.

Under the premise that there is no enemy force to directly threaten Rome proper, the nine legions of Marius and Scipio are enough for them to defend Rome proper, while the strength of the Augustus family is more manifested in the naval strength.

In order to cope with the pressure of the Augustan family, and in order to better defend the Roman mainland, the Marius forces and the Scipio family devoted all their attention to the development of the navy; Rome itself was the origin of the powerful navy of the Augustan family, and it was also the foundation of the development of the navy of all powers in the entire Roman Republic.

In addition to the large number of shipyards, Rome had more skilled craftsmen who built warships; Oscar burned down only a port in the Latin province, and it was unlikely to affect the development of the entire Roman shipbuilding industry.

With the support of Julius and Brutus, Marius and Scipio quickly resumed the construction of warships in the Latin and Campanian provinces; The provinces of Apria and Brution, which were newly incorporated into these two forces, already had a complete warship building system, and only needed Marius and Julianus to announce the start of construction.

Through the efforts of the four great families, the production of warships in Rome quickly increased from ten triremes and twenty twinships, as well as twenty transports; As for the five-column battleship with huge size and amazing combat effectiveness, it is not something that ordinary shipyards can build, and it will take at least three years to build such a giant battleship.

After stabilizing production, the four major forces divided these warships that would be produced in the future; Both the Brutus and Julius demanded at least 20% of all the ships, and Marius did not refute the demands of the two families.

In Marius's view, although these ships were produced in Rome itself, a large amount of the materials required for their production were provided by the Julius and Brutus families; Coupled with the fact that the two families also provided a large number of skilled craftsmen, the twenty percent of the warships they asked for were not too much of an excesse.

As for the remaining sixty percent of the warships, the Scipio family made it clear that they did not want to separate their fleets from the Marius forces; In other words, Marius and Scipio will form a fleet under the joint command of both sides, and will no longer fight on their own.

Such a thing is naturally a good thing that Marius could not ask for, where does he have any reason to disagree; As a result, the division of warships has also been successfully solved, and the next step is to build warships with all our might, which is the most important thing.

In contrast to the divergence of the Marius forces and Scipio, the Julius family in the north focused all their attention on territorial expansion; Since the last war, the House of Julius has had eight provinces and fourteen legions, which is quite a formidable force.

But stagnation was never the style of the Julius family, much less what the ambitious Flavis was willing to do; With the easing of relations between the Julius family and other Roman powers, Flavies' war ambitions flares up again.

This time, Flavies no longer aimed at the Gallic barbarians in the west, but saw the Germanic barbarians in the north as a new target; The two successive wars against the Gallic barbarians had made Flavies no longer take the Gallic barbarians seriously, especially the outstanding performance of Calabes, which made Flavis feel at ease to hand over all the affairs of the Gallic side to him.

After Calabes had stabilized the situation in Gallic beyond the mountains, Flavies gave Calabes a new appointment; In addition to the Governor of Gallic Mountain, Flavies also appointed Calabes as the Governor of Gaul of the House of Julius, managing the affairs of all the Gallic barbarians!

This appointment was accompanied by a secret letter from Flavies to Calabes, in which Flavies granted Calabes a high degree of freedom of conduct and allowed him to continue to send troops into the Gallic barbarians at the appropriate time; The Julius family wanted not just a Gallic outside the mountains, but the whole of Gaul!

Karabes originally had five legions and an army of 35,000; Although these armies were relatively rudimentary in terms of weapons and equipment, and were far less sophisticated than the regular legions of the Julius family, their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, especially in the dense jungle and overlapping mountains of Gaul, and their combat effectiveness was much more powerful than that of the regular legions of the Julius family.

Flavies also knew that the regular legions of the House of Julius were not suitable to fight in the land of the Gallic barbarians, so he gave the Julius family full control of the war against the Gallic barbarians; In addition to official appointments, food, grass, weapons and equipment needed to wage war were also continuously transported to Gaul outside the mountains.

Even though the legions under the command of Calabes did not use the legion-standard weaponry of the Julius family, Flavis symbolically brought a complete legion's weaponry to Carabes; At the same time, the old Roman weaponry and equipment, enough to arm 20,000 men, and enough food and grass for an army of 50,000 for half a year, were also transported to Gaul outside the mountains for the use of Calabes.

After receiving orders and assistance from Flavies, Calabis did not blindly immediately send troops deep into the interior of the Gallic barbarians, nor did he expand his army; He just quietly trained the soldiers under his command, and sent more spies to go deep into the Gallic barbarians to reconnoiter all kinds of intelligence within the Gaul barbarians.

Carabis believed that in order to win a war, one must know oneself and one's enemy; Without knowing enough about the Gallic barbarians, he would not have started a war lightly. As for the army, he believed that the army was now large enough to deal with the war against the Gallic barbarians, and that there was no need for new legions.

Even if there was a shortage of troops after the outbreak of the war, the Gallic barbarians under Calabes were not the common people under the House of Julius; As long as there are enough weapons and equipment, food and grass supplies, Karabes can pull out enough troops!

Out of absolute trust in Calabes, after sending weapons and supplies, Flavis no longer paid attention to the situation in Gaul beyond the mountains, but turned all his attention to attacking the Germanic barbarians.

The Germanic barbarians were more powerful than the Gallic barbarians, and the fierce warriors were almost synonymous with the Germanic peoples; Faced with the unruly and savage Germanic barbarians, the Julius family had to work hard before they could start the war.

Aside from the five legions under the command of Calabess, the House of Julius still has nine legions at their disposal; Of these nine legions, at least two legions were needed to stay on the mainland, which naturally referred to the five provinces south of the Alps by the Julius family.

The newly occupied province of Illyria also needed at least one legion to garrison it, and in addition to stabilizing the situation in the province of Illyria, this legion had to deal with the threat of the Dacian barbarians in the east; These forces cannot be easily mobilized.

Eventually, Flavies made arrangements whereby the First and Second Legions remained in the Eulius family homeland, and the Third Legion in the province of Illyria; The remaining 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th legions were all involved in the preparation of the war against the Germanic barbarians!

While the Julius family was in full swing preparing to wage war against the Germanic barbarians, the Brutus family was not idle; After taking the three provinces on the Greek Peninsula, the Brutus family was also considered a great power on the Greek Peninsula.

In the whole Greek peninsula, there are so far only four forces left; The kingdom of Macedonia, which occupies four provinces, the alliance of Greek city-states that exist in name only, the Athenian city-state that pursues a policy of isolation and non-alignment, and the foreign Brutus family.

Among these four forces, only the Brutus family has strong military strength and great ambitions for hegemony; The existence of ten regular legions and three special legions is the greatest confidence of the Brutus family to dominate the entire Greek peninsula!

In order not to fall behind the House of Augustus and other Roman powers, Tiberius began preparations for war against the Macedonian kingdom after returning to the province of Epirus from Rome proper; The army of the Brutus family of thirteen legions is also ready to go! (To be continued.) )