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- Aesop (Greek fabler, Phrygian)

After five years of recuperation, the Augustan Empire had a stable rear and strong strength, and now the Augustan Empire has enough time and energy to annex the North African continent and make the whole of North Africa the territory of the Augustan Empire.

Of course, the Augustan Empire could not only rely on the two legions of Quintus stationed in the Kingdom of Numidia and the combined legions commanded by Spartacus in order to complete the annexation of the entire North African continent; Not to mention whether the cavalry legions of the Combined Legion and the Desert Legion are willing to launch an attack on the Numidian Kingdom, even if they are willing to attack the Numidian Kingdom, they are not necessarily the opponents of the Numidian Kingdom.

During the five years of the rapid growth of the Augustan Empire, neither the Kingdom of Numidia nor the Kingdom of Carthage wasted these five years in vain; The army of the Kingdom of Numidia expanded to 120,000 men, and the combat effectiveness of the army also made great progress.

The army of the Kingdom of Carthage in the province of Baisasian has almost become the army of the Augustan Empire, but are those ordinary soldiers willing to fight for the Augustan Empire? Did they really willingly declare war on their fellow citizens, led by their respective centurions and captains, and aim their weapons at their former robes?

Even the 80,000 troops in the province of Baissasien were willing to fight for the Augustan Empire, and the more than 70,000 elite troops of Vimini in Africa were not vegetarians; If the Augustan Empire really sent troops to interfere in the affairs of the North African continent, wouldn't the Kingdom of Carthage and the Kingdom of Numidia really unite against the Augustan Empire?

There were too many unknowns for the Augustan Empire to dare not easily launch a war against the North African continent, nor did it want the Augustan Empire to fall into the quagmire of the North African war; Therefore, until the Kingdom of Carthage and the Kingdom of Numidia were defeated, the Augustan Empire would not easily participate in the affairs of the North African continent.

After the Kingdom of Numidia and the Kingdom of Carthage suffered heavy casualties and were both defeated, the powerful army of the Augustan Empire would naturally appear on the North African continent and become the only victor in the final unification of the North African continent; Oscar believed that without the intervention of the Augustan Empire, the Kingdom of Carthage and the Kingdom of Numidia would still fight to the death for the hegemony of North Africa.

As it turned out, Oscar's predictions about the kingdoms of Carthage and Numidia were correct; The immovable Augustus Emperor** team became a furnishing existence on the North African continent, and the sharply contradictory kingdoms of Carthage and Numidia finally went to war.

After five years of recovery and development, both the Carthaginian and Numidian kingdoms had once again the strength to fight an all-out war; Add to this the presence of the Kingdom of Libya and Jugudah, how could a war between the two kingdoms be avoided?

Now that the real war had just begun, the Augustan Empire would naturally not be immediately involved; The seven legions that were being assembled in Sicily had all become reserve forces ready to participate in the war in North Africa, but until the situation became clear, not a single soldier of Augustus's ** army could be sent to the North African continent.

Even the two corps of Quintus and the army of Spartacus, which were stationed on the North African continent all the year round, were strictly ordered by Oscar not to participate in the war between the Kingdom of Numidia and the Kingdom of Carthage, and the first premise of this prohibition was that the Kingdom of Numidia and the Kingdom of Carthage must be inseparable; If the kingdom of Numidia showed its decline, then Spartak's army would be in for war.

The Augustan Empire would never allow the Kingdom of Carthage to win the war at a small cost, once there was a situation in which the army of the Kingdom of Carthage suffered light casualties and the army of the Kingdom of Numidia could no longer support it; The cavalry legion and desert legion of Spartacus's combined legion must immediately reinforce the Kingdom of Numidia and help the Kingdom of Numidia fight back against the army of the Kingdom of Carthage.

However, in any case, the chengguan corps belonging to the Augustan Empire are not allowed to fight, which is the bottom line of the Augustan Empire; Because if the Chengguan Legion directly participated in the war between the Kingdom of Carthage and the Kingdom of Numidia, it would inflict an unimaginable blow on the Kingdom of Carthage, and it would be really difficult to say whether the Kingdom of Carthage would have the courage to fight at that time.

What the Augustan Empire wanted was not for the kingdom of Numidia to win the war, nor for the kingdom of Carthage to win the war, but for both kingdoms to lose; When the kingdoms of Numidia and Carthage had shed their last drop of blood, it was time for the mighty Augustan Empire to send troops to deal with these two enemies, who had no power to resist.

Under this established policy, the Augustan Empire chose to remain unmoved on the situation on the North African continent; However, in order to ensure that the armies of the Augustan Empire could quickly intervene in the North African continent after the situation in North Africa stabilized, Oscar also issued an order to Namus, who led the main fleet to patrol the Aegean Sea, to return to Sicily as soon as possible.

Because there was still an imperial fleet of Brutus in the Aegean Sea, Oscar just let Nams return to Sicily alone; As for the main fleet under his command, it was handed over to the joint command of Gatsea and Shi Xiu.

Although the Augustan Empire had less than fifty warships left in Sicily proper, the fleet was more than enough to deal with the kingdoms of Carthage and Numidia; In addition, the Egyptian fleet loyal to Cleopatra was already stationed in the port of Lower Sicilia of the Augustan Empire, and it was only right to serve the Augustan Empire if necessary.

Just when the Augustan Empire was preparing for a war on the North African continent, the situation on the North African continent was also undergoing new changes; The Morpheus rebels, who had been guarding the south of the Cyrenaica Kingdom, suddenly gathered an army of 30,000 and launched an attack on the northern royal territory, which was the first time that Morpheus rebelled to lead an army to the north.

Of the 30,000 troops that Morpheus assembled, only 15,000 were the real main battle troops, and the rest were all auxiliary armies that Morpheus used to occupy the northern towns; Even so, the well-trained southern rebels were not something that the decaying royal army in the north of the Cyrenaica Kingdom could contend with, and Morpheus wiped out all the northern royal army.

Even the army that survived was wiped out, and the king of the Kingdom of Cyrenaica naturally wanted to hurry up and prepare to flee in a hurry with the members of the royal family; It's a pity that Morpheus won't give them a chance to escape, not even a chance to live.

After bringing the whole of the North under his rule, Morpheus did not take any retaliatory measures against the people of the North, and did not even mention the former contradictions between the North and the South; After the execution of the kingdom of the Cyrenaica, Morpheus did not sit on the throne himself, but turned the kingdom of Cyrenaica into the Cyrenacan Republic, and Morpheus himself became the first consul of the republic.

After unifying the Cyrenacan Republic, Morpheus expanded his elite army to 20,000 men; The original auxiliary armies were all turned into garrisons in various towns in the Cyrenaica Republic.

Immediately after the Kingdom of Libya lost the Tripoli region, it sent emissaries to sue for peace with the Kingdom of Numidia; Adheba was also unwilling to be distracted by the Libyan kingdom when the kingdom of Numidia and the kingdom of Carthage fought to the death, so he very arrogantly agreed to the Libyan kingdom's request for peace, and kicked the Libyan kingdom out of the war without even asking for anything.

The Kingdom of Libya, which had successfully broken away from the war between the kingdoms of Numidia and Carthage, focused all of its kingdom's attention on how to restore its strength; Reduced to a small kingdom with only one province again, Mutius, the kingdom of the Kingdom of Libya, is naturally unwilling, but what can he do if he is unwilling?

The strength of the Kingdom of Numidia is not something that can be provoked by the Kingdom of Libya, except for the Kingdom of Numidia that occupies the Tripoli region, the only neighbors of the Kingdom of Libya are the Kingdom of Cyrenaica and the Kingdom of Egypt; Is the Kingdom of Egypt an existence that the Kingdom of Libya can provoke? That's something that all the forces in North Africa combined can't afford to provoke!

The Kingdom of Egypt to the east and the Kingdom of Numidia to the west were not the existence that the Kingdom of Libya could provoke, and the only object that the Kingdom of Libya could expand was the Kingdom of Cyrenaica in the northwest; At this time, the Kingdom of Cyrenaica was still in a state of division between the north and the south, which was really an excellent opportunity for the Kingdom of Libya to expand into the Cyrenaica region in Mutius's opinion!

Mutius then ordered the last remaining 20,000 troops of the Kingdom of Libya to launch an attack on the Kingdom of Cyrenaica; At this time, the Kingdom of Cyrenaica had become the new Cyrenacan Republic under the rule of Morpheus.

The 20,000 troops of the Kingdom of Libya were not elite troops, but they encountered the 20,000 elite divisions led by Morpheus himself, and the result of the war was that Morpheus launched a counteroffensive against the Kingdom of Libya after destroying the invading army of the Kingdom of Libya.

How did the Kingdom of Libya, which had only 5,000 capital guards left, resist the army of the 15,000 Cyrenaic Republic, only half a month later, Mutius, the king of the Kingdom of Libya, became the second king to die at the hands of Morpheus; The Kingdom of Libya also became the Libyan province of the Cyrenaica Republic, which was beyond anyone's imagination.

In the blink of an eye, the Cyrenaica Republic under Morpheus became the third power on the North African continent, and it was also a completely new force; However, Morpheus did not intend to get involved in the war between the kingdoms of Numidia and Carthage, and on the day he captured the Libyan capital, Morpheus declared that the Cyrenacan Republic would remain neutral in the war for supremacy on the North African continent. (To be continued.) )