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After this day of bloody fighting, only about 45,000 soldiers remained of the eight legions under the command of Ganeus; The 80,000 allied troops of the Kingdom of Alexander and the Kingdom of Pontus fled the battlefield with less than 20,000 routs, including more than 4,000 ironclad cavalry led by Alexander himself.

After this battle, Gnaeus did not rush to lead a large army to pursue the rout of the kingdoms of Alexander and Pontus, but after taking command of the six legions of Helenius, he took the lead in sending two legions to reinforce the army of Rex, which was fighting in the northern border area of Phrygia.

After that, Ganeus led a fully armed army of 50,000 men and ironclad cavalry to attack the rest of Alexander's kingdom, and six days later, Ganeus's army captured the province of Galatia in Alexander; On the border between Galatia and Cappadocia, Gnaeus learned that the forces of the Seleucid Empire had succeeded in annihilating the border armies of the kingdoms of Pontus and Alexander.

This was the best news for Gnaeus, and after the kingdom of Alexander's kingdom lost its 40,000-strong army in its frontier area, the only army that could be used for battle was Alexander's less than 20,000 defeated troops.

If Alexander had enough time to recruit and train new troops in the Ionian region, then Alexander's kingdom would certainly be able to devote more troops to fend off the attacks of the Brutus Empire; It is obvious that Gnaeus will not give Alexander such a chance, and he will not give Alexander's kingdom a chance to continue to be the enemy of the Brutus Empire!

On the third day after Alexander returned to Sardis with a rout of about 16,000 troops, the ironclad cavalry under the command of Gnaeus surrounded Sardis with all his regiments; Immediately after the ironclad cavalry, arrived under the city of Sardis, an army of 50,000 led by Ganeus himself.

Alexander simply could not have enough recruits in the city of Sardis, because the weapons and equipment in the city of Sardis were extremely limited, and it was not enough to even rearm the defeated troops who had lost their armor, so how could there be surplus weapons and equipment to arm the newly recruited army?

On the first day of Alexander's return to Sardis, he learned that his kingdom's 40,000-strong army in the frontier region had been annihilated by the forces of the Seleucid Empire; What is a house leak that happened to rain overnight, this is the best interpretation, the Kingdom of Alexander has also come to the point of exhaustion at this moment, if there is no intervention from outside forces, it is almost impossible for the Kingdom of Alexander to continue to exist.

The Kingdom of Pontus, the only kingdom that has the strength and the possibility to aid Alexander, is already too busy to take care of itself, and the kingdoms of Armenia and Parthia, which are in the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of the Kingdom of Alexander, are still separated by a kingdom of Pontus; In other words, Alexander's kingdom could not receive external assistance at all, and Alexander could only maintain his kingdom on his own.

Alexander did not think of his own defeat, and when he decided to rebel against the Seleucid Empire, he was ready to be defeated and killed; It's just that he never thought that it was not the Seleucid Empire he imagined that would really destroy him, but the Brutus Empire from outside the Eastern Continent.

When Alexander's kingdom was just beginning to rise, the Brutus Empire also cooperated closely with Alexander's kingdom against the Greek city-state alliance; The most elite infantry of the Kingdom of Alexandria used Roman weapons and equipment provided by the Brutus Empire, and the ironclad cavalry of the Brutus Empire was also trained by the methods provided by the Kingdom of Alexander.

Years later, the former allies have become enemies of life and death, and the kingdom of Alexander, which once rose with the help of the Brutus Empire, is about to fall under the butcher's knife of the Brutus Empire; Perhaps, this is the impermanence of fate.

Sardis, the most fortified city in the Ionian region, fell after only three days of siege under the attack of Gnaeus's 50,000-strong army; Alexander, the king of Alexander, also died on the walls of Sardis, and became the funeral companion of Alexander, along with more than 10,000 soldiers of Alexander.

As for the soldiers who originally belonged to the kingdom of Pontus, they all chose to surrender in the final battle rather than live and die with the kingdom of Alexander; After capturing the capital of Alexander, Gnaeus sent 20,000 troops south to attack the region of Lysia, and ten days later all four provinces of Alexander's kingdom were captured by the forces of the Brutus Empire.

With the fall of Alexander's kingdom, Rex also made a breakthrough in the battle with the garrison of the Pontic kingdom in Bithynia, after receiving reinforcements from the follow-up army of 20,000 troops; At the same time that Gnaeus captured Sardis, the capital of Alexander, Rex also completely annihilated the Bithynian garrison of the Kingdom of Pontus and completed the occupation of the Bithynia region.

Seleucus VII, who was resting in Masaka, learned of the victory of the Brutus Empire, and once again gathered 20,000 soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion and 5,000 ironclad cavalry, as well as 10,000 newly recruited Cappadocian cavalry in the Cappadocia region, to launch an attack on the last capital area of the Pontus Kingdom.

After the defeat of the last decisive battle, the kingdom of Pontus will not be able to recruit more troops in a short period of time; Even the reluctant recruitment of the indiscriminate Eastern infantry and hill soldiers was of no practical value, after all, the performance of those armies on the battlefield could be described as vulnerable, and it would affect the morale of other soldiers who could have fought to the death.

Although the Pontus Kingdom was not strong enough to deal with the strong attack of the Seleucid Empire, a reinforcement from the Armenian Kingdom became a lifesaver for the Pontus Kingdom; This army, consisting of 10,000 pikemen and 10,000 archers, was the entire army sent by the Kingdom of Armenia to reinforce the Kingdom of Pontus.

At this time, the main army of the Kingdom of Armenia was still stationed on the border between the Kingdom of Armenia and the Assyrian region of the Seleucid Empire, and it was impossible to rush to Sinop to reinforce the Kingdom of Pontus for a while; In order to prevent the Pontus Kingdom from being destroyed by the Seleucid Empire, the Armenian Kingdom could only send 20,000 troops from its own territory to reinforce the Pontus Kingdom.

With the 20,000 troops of the Kingdom of Armenia stationed in Sinop, the capital of the Kingdom of Pontus, the defenders of Sinop had broken through 50,000 men; In addition to the 10,000 heavily armed pikemen of the Kingdom of Armenia, the 30,000 reorganized Eastern infantry of the Kingdom of Pontus also became an important military force to defend Sinop.

However, the 10,000 archers reinforced by the Kingdom of Armenia have indeed become the only mobile force that the Kingdom of Pontus can use now; Coupled with the fact that the mobility of the archers was far from being comparable to that of ordinary troops, these archers became the guard troops deployed in the border areas of the Pontus Kingdom to guard against the possible invasion of the Seleucid Empire at any time.

In fact, when Seleucus VII arrived at the border with a mighty army of 35,000, he was immediately attacked by this 10,000-strong cavalry; Whether it was the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire or the Cappadocian cavalry recruited from the Cappadocia region, they could not compare with the archers of the Armenian Kingdom in terms of mobility, so naturally they could not destroy these 10,000 archers.

Thankfully, the Iron Cavalry and Cappadocia Cavalry used by Seleucus VII to attack the capital of the Pontus Kingdom, as well as the soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion, were all heavily armed; With the accuracy of the archers on their horses, and the fact that their own army is all heavily armed, this 10,000 archers can pose little threat to Seleucus VII's army.

In the Cappadocia region, where the army was exhausted, Seleucus VII also kept 10,000 soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion to garrison the city of Masaka; The 10,000 cavalry of the Kingdom of Armenia could not inflict serious losses on Seleucus VII's army, nor could it pose a real threat to the Cappadocia region in the rear of Seleucus VII's army, so naturally Seleucus VII would not be in the eye.

No matter how the 10,000 archers of the Kingdom of Armenia harassed, Seleucus VII led a large army in the direction of the capital of the Kingdom of Pontus; In just six days, the 35,000 army under Seleucus VII was reduced by at least 2,000 soldiers, and Sinop, the capital of the Pontus Kingdom, appeared in front of the Seleucid Empire.

After the army arrived in Sinop, Seleucus VII led the ironclad cavalry and Cappadocian cavalry on the periphery to prevent harassment by enemy archers; The soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion in front of them carried the ladder and launched a fierce attack on Sinop City.

The 10,000 hoplites reinforced by the Kingdom of Armenia did have good combat effectiveness, but the Pontus Kingdom's own 30,000 Eastern infantry became a burden to the hoplites; The walls defended by the heavy pikemen were well controlled by the defenders, while the walls defended by the eastern infantry were always quickly occupied by the besieging Seleucid emperors during the battle.

After three days of tug-of-war siege, the hoplites of the defenders on the walls were exhausted by the eastern infantry; On the contrary, the losses of the Eastern infantry who were repeatedly defeated were not large, until the hoplites were almost consumed, and those Eastern infantry were naturally crushed in the battle, and they could not hold Sinop at all.

On the fourth day of the army's attack on Sinop, the capital of the Kingdom of Pontus was captured by the soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion; The king of the kingdom of Pontus committed suicide in his palace, and after the fall of the kingdom of Alexander, the kingdom of Pontus was also declared to be destroyed, and the kingdom alliance that was once composed of four kingdoms has lost two kingdoms! (To be continued.) )