The second heir is always suspicious and resentful.

- Tacitus (the greatest historian of ancient Rome)

the army of thirty-four thousand led by Tiberius himself, plus the army of Gnaeus of 14,000 on the left and Nero of 14,000 on the right; What kind of majesty will the mighty army of 62,000 walk on the road? Those who have not seen this scene will not understand, the combination of the flags covering the sky and the crashing sound of the battle armor gives people an extremely shocking feeling!

The endless army, the unhurried march on the road, makes those who see it feel as if they are watching a brave and invincible ironclad army! In fact, as early as after Gnaeus and Nero led the army to the border, Pyrus received information on the movements of the Brutus family army in the city of Semon.

However, Pyrrhus did not think that the army of the Brutus would easily start a war against the city-state of Semon; After all, the city-state of Semon is still a member of the Greek city-state alliance after all, and the Brutus family should not go to war with the entire Greek city-state alliance. At this time, Pyrus ignored a crucial issue, that is, the city-state of Semon was no longer an independent city-state of Semon, but was occupied by a large army led by him, Pyrus!

Perhaps, in the eyes of Pyrrhus, he himself was a member of the Greek nation, a great hero of the Greeks; However, he did not represent the Greeks, but the kingdom of Epirus! Since ancient times, the kingdom of Epirus has existed as an independent kingdom; There is no doubt that the Greek city-states never considered the kingdom of Epirus to be part of their own!

If it is said that different nations established by the same nation can attack each other without any reason, then there will be no war in the world for a long time; Because the wars have long been fought in the ancestral period of various countries, where will they be left to future generations. Therefore, the reasons that Pyrrhus thought would work would not be recognized by anyone at all; It will not be recognized by the other city-states of the Greek city-state alliance!

That is to say, Pyrrhus and his army of the kingdom of Epirus, in the eyes of the Greek city-state alliance headed by the Spartan city-state, were real war starters, and provocateurs of war against the Greek city-state alliance; Of course, as the city-state of Semon occupied by Pyrus, the people of Semon regard Pyrus as the biggest aggressor!

These things were not for Pyrrhus, who was blinded by power, to understand, and he didn't even know that the Spartan city-state, the leader of the League of Greek city-states, had summoned the Greek states in Sparta to discuss the crusade against him; If it weren't for the separate city-state of Athens and the Peloponnesian province of the Macedonian kingdom between the city-states of Semon and Sparta, the city-states of Sparta would have gone to war long ago!

With the strength of the Spartan city-state, Pyrrhus and his 30,000 hoplites were nothing at all, and the brave and fearless Spartan warriors would have taught Pyrus to recognize whose fist was bigger. Perhaps, the city-state of Semon, far from the city-state of Sparta, was targeted by Pyrrhus for this reason; After all, the city-state of Semon was too far away from the other Greek city-states!

Even without the timely lessons of the Spartan city-states, the brazen march of the Brutus family was enough to make Pyrrhus's scalp tingle; Pyrrhus was not afraid of the Brutus army, nor was he worried about what the Brutus family had to compete with their generals. However, the number of Brutus family's army is too toothache, it is an army of more than 60,000 people! That's twice the size of Pyrrhus's army!

The two-fold difference in strength gave Pyrus a deep headache, but what made Pyrrhus even more helpless; Of the more than 60,000 troops of the Brutus family, more than 10,000 were Greek legionaries trained by himself, and more than 10,000 were enemy soldiers captured in the last Battle of Turbo. Combined, these two make an army of nearly 30,000; That's what really makes Pyrus angry!

For in Pirus's opinion, if he had not been so soft-hearted and did not kill the fourteen thousand surrenderers, they would not have been his enemies again; If it weren't for the fact that they had accepted the allegiance of the capricious Semeng, they would not have been trained into an army by their own hands and jumped out to fight against them! Pirus could only blame himself for his momentary negligence, adding 30,000 enemy troops to himself with his own hands.

Of course, with Pyrrhus's current stubbornness, he would not feel that he paid attention to the 14,000 troops in order to be slaves to mine iron ore for the kingdom of Epirus, and he would not feel that the reason why he trained the Greek legions so hard was to add chips to his ambitions; He just regretted that he had added enemies to himself!

Pyrrhus didn't want to think about it, if it wasn't for his own inflated ambition and his own hands to orchestrate the conflict with the city-state of Semon on the border, how could he have all this now? With the command of Pyrrhus, plus the cooperation of 30,000 hoplites and 20,000 pikemen, as well as a number of other elite troops; How easy is it for the Brutus family to win now?

Even, it is very likely that the Brutus family will be wiped out by Pyrrhus again, and will be completely reduced to a third-rate small force; However, the truth is so impermanent, and Pyrrhus's ambitions ruined himself and the kingdom of Epirus. Their only value now is to contribute to the rise of the Brutus family; Other than that, it's worthless!

Pyrrhus immediately responded to the march of Tiberius with an army of more than 60,000 men across the border to Semon; The ironclad cavalry troops, which had less than 1,800 men left, were once again sent out by Pyrrhus, and Pyrrhus gave them the order to harass the Brutus army along the way as much as possible, and to launch several assault charges at the appropriate time, regardless of casualties.

After the ironclad cavalry left Semon, Pyrrhus began to recruit new troops in Semon; It is almost impossible to rely on the 30,000 hoplites under the command of Pyrus himself to engage and win against the 60,000 troops of the Brutus family. Pyrrhus had to ask for help from the people of the city-state of Semon, but the people of Semon who were willing to help Pyrus as an invader were not at all!

However, Pyrrhus was not a good man or woman; Since you Semengs don't know the times, don't blame him for being unsympathetic. In just three days, Pyrus forcibly recruited 20,000 light infantry in and outside the city; In order to make these people fight for themselves willingly, Pyrus recruits them and controls all their families!

In addition to these forcibly recruited temporary light infantry with no combat effectiveness to speak of, Pyrus would not spare the more than 5,000 captured soldiers of the former Semon city-state who were still in prison; They are the Semon soldiers captured by Pyrus during the border battle and the attack on Semon, and they are also soldiers with combat experience and sufficient training, so Pyrus naturally wants to make good use of them!

In the same way, after Pyrus controlled the family of more than 5,000 people, they officially became the soldiers under Pyrrhus; Pyrrhus mixed the more than 5,000 experienced soldiers with the 20,000 newly recruited soldiers to form a new Sermon Legion, and had them patrol the city walls every day.

It is said that after the eighteen hundred ironclad cavalry left Semon, they went straight to the army of the Brutus family; From the kingdom of Epirus to the city-state of Semon, the terrain is a plain terrain with flat horses, which is very suitable for cavalry combat. However, being suitable for cavalry combat does not mean that it is the world of cavalry; At least the commander of the ironclad cavalry did not feel that his cavalry could attack the army of the Brutus family.

With less than 2,000 ironclad cavalry, attacking more than 10,000 infantry is basically a brain-dead act; If the enemy army is 10,000 light infantry with very weak willpower and poor combat effectiveness, then there is still a glimmer of hope for the ironclad cavalry. If the enemy army is 10,000 strong-willed, well-trained, and combat-ready hoplites, then the ironclad cavalry is killing themselves.

Well, the army of the Brutus family is not a great army of ten thousand, but a huge army of more than sixty thousand; Crucially, there were no light infantry in the Brutus army. Whether it is the Sixth Legion, or the two leading legions, they are all hoplites composed of hoplites; As for the Greek legions, they were all made up of heavy pikemen, the natural enemy units of the cavalry!

In the eyes of the cavalry commander, the army of the Brutus family is simply an opponent covered with iron thorns for the cavalry under his command, and there is nowhere to start! In fact, when Pirus sent out these 1,800 ironclad cavalry, his intentions were good, and his approach was also correct; The problem, however, is that Pyrrhus has forgotten another thing.

Over time, and the obedience of the ironclad cavalry to Pyrrhus, Pyrrhus has gradually forgotten a fact; That is, this group of ironclad cavalry was hired by Pylos from the Ionian general, and it was not a permanent one. Pyrrhus did not hesitate to abandon the kingdom of Epirus, which made the commander of the ironclad cavalry feel very chilled, this is Pyrus's homeland!

A person who can even give up his motherland and his own brother cares about the life and death of others? However, the cavalry commander did not dare to show this idea; After all, the 30,000 hoplites under the command of Pyrus are not vegetarians, and if he angers the stubborn Pyrrhus, he and his ironclad cavalry may suffer.

However, this is not the reason why the cavalry commander is willing to die for Pyrrhus! You must know that it was not King Pyrus who recruited these mercenaries in the first place, but Lord Pyrrhus; Now that His Excellency Pyrrhus has been killed in battle, do he and the others still need to remain loyal to King Pyrrhus? This is a question worth pondering!

It is human nature to find a way out, and it is not an exaggeration for a cavalry commander to have such an idea; Moreover, this idea of his has also won the support of the ironclad cavalry under his command. Everyone came for the gold, and there was really no need to die for the already insane Pyrrhus; The moment he saw the overshadowing army of the Brutus family, the cavalry commander decided to surrender to the Brutus family! (To be continued.) )