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By the time the city of Sidon was captured, the 80,000 Egyptian defenders in the city had been almost dead and wounded; The few thousand soldiers who remained were still engaged in fierce street battles with the enemy troops entering the city after the Brutus Empire's army marched into the city, and it was not until two days later that the entire army was wiped out.

It turns out that the army of the Kingdom of Egypt was not an inherently cowardly army, let alone a waste army destined to be scum in combat, but only good officers and outstanding commanders; Under the command of Bohynius, and under the command of the centurions and captains of the Augustan Empire, the fighting power of the Egyptian army was definitely no worse than that of any enemy.

Seleucus VII's 20,000 Cappadocian cavalry did not participate in the attack on Sidon, while the 50,000 Silver Shield Legions, which had previously served as the main attack, had more than 20,000 dead and wounded; After that, the 100,000 troops of the Brutus Empire actually captured the city of Sidon, and they paid a very heavy price for it.

Although the Brutus Empire's armaments could play a huge role in siege warfare, it was the infantry of both sides that finally settled the battle; The desert axes and Nile pikemen in Sidon fought to the death until the entire army was destroyed, and the 20,000 light infantry and 15,000 hoplites of the Brutus Empire fell forever in Sidon.

In this battle, the 80,000 Sidon garrisons of the Kingdom of Egypt ended the battle with the result of the total annihilation, and the combined forces of the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire also won the battle at the cost of 55,000 casualties; Such a record was still fought in siege battles, and it was undoubtedly extremely beneficial to the armies of the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire.

However, the army of the Kingdom of Egypt in the past did not have such a strong combat effectiveness, and if the 300,000 troops of the Kingdom of Egypt had such a strong battle, then it would be impossible for the ten legions of the Brutus Empire to continue to go south.

Whether or not the remaining 65,000 troops of the Brutus Empire could advance forward or not, this had nothing to do with the Seleucid Empire of Seleucus VII; After taking Sidon with all his might, Seleucus VII handed over everything about Sidon to the Brutus Empire's generals Rex and Helenius, and he himself quickly led his army back to the Seleucid Empire proper.

As for whether the Brutus Empire, after obtaining the city of Sidon, temporarily entrenched in the city of Sidon and waited for the Seleucid Empire to calm down the rear before advancing southward, or relying on the strength of his own empire to advance alone; These Seleucus VII will no longer worry about it, and they will not ask more, and now for Seleucus VII, the most important thing is the smoke within the Seleucid Empire.

After the army of the Brutus Empire entered the city of Sidon, it was still very far from the entire Phoenicia region being controlled by the Brutus Empire; Sidon City is only the capital located in the northern part of the Phoenician region, and the Brutus Empire that took Sidon City can at best take the northern part of Phoenicia, and if you want to capture the southern part of Phoenicia, the 70,000 troops of Bosinus are still blocking the fortress.

The fortress garrisoned by Bosinus with 50,000 chariot troops and 20,000 cavalry was the dividing line between the north and south of the Phoenician region, and it was also a strong war fortress built by the Kingdom of Egypt to prevent the Seleucid Empire from moving south. With the remaining 45,000 hoplites and 20,000 light infantry of the Brutus Empire, it was simply impossible to compete with the 70,000 mobile troops of Bosinius.

As long as the 65,000 infantry of the Brutus Empire drove out of Sidon and advanced south, the 50,000 chariot army of Bosinus could completely encircle and kill the infantry of the Brutus Empire in the plains of the Phoenician region; Coupled with the assistance of 20,000 cavalry, the army of the Brutus Empire did not even have the slightest chance of victory.

Rex and Helenius were also the commanders of the Brutus Empire, how could they not even understand such a simple truth; Therefore, they had no intention of continuing to lead their army to the south, and the army of the Brutus Empire was stationed in the city of Sidon, waiting for the arrival of the Seleucid Empire's army again.

After Seleucus VII returned to Syria with 20,000 cavalry and nearly 30,000 infantry under his command, he did not immediately attack the Spartacist army in the Syrian region of Koro, but first replenished the number of ironclad cavalry in the city of Antioch to 10,000, and then brought 20,000 chariot troops with him, and gathered these 80,000 troops before starting to march to Koro Syria.

At this time, Spartacus not only had 70,000 troops under his command, but also the two Egyptian legions that had attacked the Seleucid Empire's Pamela Province and the Arab Province under Spartak's orders also came to the Coro Syrian region; Although each of these two legions left 5,000 soldiers stationed in the two provinces they had just occupied, they still had 40,000 troops in the Syrian area of Koro.

Spartacus originally had 45,000 infantry and 25,000 cavalry, plus the reinforcements of these 15,000 cavalry and 25,000 cavalry; The total number of troops under his command directly exceeded 100,000, of which the army of the Augustan Empire was 60,000, and the army of the Kingdom of Egypt was also 50,000, and the only army that lagged behind on the battlefield was the combined army of the Kingdom of Armenia and the Kingdom of Parthia.

From the time the kingdoms of Armenia and Parthia launched an attack on the Pontus region of the Seleucid Empire with greed and devouring elephants, the end of the Armenian and Parthian kingdoms was doomed to tragedy; After defeating the combined forces of the two kingdoms, the six legions of the Brutus Empire counterattacked directly into the territory of the Kingdom of Armenia and endangered the Parthian Kingdom itself.

All the armies of the two kingdoms were integrated into the two armies, and now that the army was in the region of Elemes, the army had been routed, and they had no army to defend their homeland; In desperation, the kingdoms of Armenia and Parthia broke their alliance with the Augustan Empire and transferred back nearly 100,000 troops that had already occupied the region of Elemes.

After the armies of the kingdoms of Armenia and Parthia had all withdrawn from the region of Elemes, only a few thousand remnants of the army were left to retreat to the governor of the province of Elemis, who seized this wonderful opportunity that he found impossible to re-attack the region of Elemis; That is to say, the two kingdoms that the Augustan Empire tried to win over in every possible way did not play any role in the war at all.

The war between the Augustan Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt in the Seleucid Empire has all been pressed on the shoulders of Spartakus, and the battle between his 110,000 army and Seleucus VII's 80,000 army will directly determine how the situation of the war develops.

The situation on the eastern continent had become a mess, and the war on the Greek peninsula was one-sided in favor of the Augustan Empire; The three legions of the Sulla family led by Otis and the three legions of the Pompey family led by Amos quickly moved south to the province of Epirus of the Brutus Empire after the battle, and a legion stationed in the province of Epirus was quickly annihilated.

The legions of the Sulla family and the Pompey family are exactly the same as the regular legions of the Brutus Empire in terms of organization and weaponry, and the difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides is not very large; Under such circumstances, it was not difficult for the Sulla and Pompey armies, with absolute numerical superiority, to annihilate the Brutus Empire's legions stationed in the province of Epirus.

After that, the armies of these two families did not waste time, but quickly advanced to the Dalmatia region to the west, and launched an attack with an army of more than 50,000 people against the 20,000 troops of the Brutus Empire stationed in the Dalmatian region; By the time the battle on the Eastern Continent was in a scorching state, all three legions of the Brutus Empire had been annihilated by the armies of the Sulla and Pompey families.

In order to quickly annihilate the three legions of the Brutus Empire, Otis and Amos fought desperately regardless of casualties when they commanded the army; When they completed the task assigned by Tuka, there were only 30,000 of the 60,000 troops under their command.

Since even the armies of the Sulla family and the Pompey family could successfully complete their mission, how could the 100,000-strong army led by Tuka himself not be able to complete the battle plan that had been drawn up long ago; The three legions of the Brutus Empire stationed in the Thessaly region were not all stationed in one place, but were stationed in the eastern mountains of the Thessaly region, on the western border, and in the capital of Larissa.

Among them, the garrison in the western frontier region was the army used by the Brutus Empire to guard against the Sulla and Pompey families; After all, this is just a symbolic garrison, otherwise a legion garrison can be on guard against the Sulla and Pompey families?

This legion was also the first legion of the Brutus Empire to be annihilated in this war, and their fate was sealed when the 100,000 troops of the Augustan Empire surrounded this legion in their barracks at night; After the annihilation of this legion, Tuka divided his ten legions into a three-way army.

Tuka himself personally led the elite garrison and the Fourth Army, as well as the Tenth and Nineteenth Legions, from the central part of the Thessaly region to attack the Brutus Imperial Army stationed in Larissa, the capital of the Thessaly region.

Marcus, the deputy commander, led the 3rd and 20th Legions, as well as the 21st and 22nd Legions, from the northern part of the Thessaly region to attack the Brutus Imperial Army stationed in the eastern part of Thessaly; Another deputy commander, Mahabal, would also lead Hannibal's corps and the 23rd Army to attack the Aeturia region from the southeast of the Thessaly region.

The meeting point of these three armies is the border between the Thessaly region and the Attica region, and when the three armies have completed their tasks and converge here, Tuka will lead the entire army to attack the Attica region of the Brutus Empire; At that time, it was the real decisive moment between the Augustan Empire and the Brutus Empire! (To be continued.) )