People should not be arrogant, for pride will blossom and bear the fruit of destruction; During the harvest season, you will get uncontrollable tears. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

- Aeschylus (ancient Greek tragic poet, father of tragedy)

Oscar's plan for the attack of the Augustan Empire would be carried out one month before the date of attack agreed upon by the four empires, seven days after the arrival of the ten legions of the Augustan Empire in Macedonia; Seven days was enough time for the ten legions of the Augustan Empire to prepare for war with the six legions of the Sulla and Pompey families, and enough for the arrival of the fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt.

In order to ensure that there would be no surprises in this great battle, the fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt was also divided into two parts; The Commander of the Egyptian Navy, Oles, will continue to command the sixty warships and fifty transports of the Egyptian navy to remain in the Egyptian kingdom, responsible for ensuring the absolute security of the Egyptian kingdom's coast, and also responsible for completely destroying the Seleucid Empire's naval fleet after the outbreak of war.

The naval strength of the Seleucid Empire, which consisted of less than fifty ships and transports, was simply not enough to pose a sufficient threat to the fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt commanded by Oles; The other more than 100 warships and 60 transports of the Kingdom of Egypt were all requisitioned by the Augustan Empire for the blockade of the Roman mainland and the Aegean Sea.

Before receiving the support of the fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt, the navy of the Augustan Empire had more than 400 warships and more than 300 transports; After obtaining this huge fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt, there will be more than 500 warships under the command of Naams, and more than 400 transport ships under the command of the General Staff and Naams respectively, which is enough to dominate the world's oceans.

All the warships of the Augustan Empire were gathered together and then divided into eight squadrons, each of which would have fifty warships and twenty transports; These eight detachments will be deployed in five places, including the Aegean Sea, the east coast of Rome, the west coast of Rome, the coast of Rome, and the coast of Julius Empire, to tightly control all the coastlines of the three major Roman empires.

In addition to these eight detachments, Nams himself would personally command the remaining hundred or so warships to form a large fleet; Oscar gave this Namus, the commander of the navy, only one order, that is, once the war started, no ship of the three Roman empires was allowed to appear in the Mediterranean, which was Oscar's death order to Namus.

After the deployment of the navy was also taken care of, all the armies of the Augustan Empire quietly waited for the time to go to war; At this time, the three major Roman empires and the Seleucid Empire were also waiting for the time to attack, and they thought that everything was under control.

Time passed day by day, and the day of the official start of war was also approaching day by day; The main direction of the Augustan Empire's attack was the attack on the Seleucid Empire on the eastern continent and the attack on the Brutus Empire on the Greek Peninsula.

Compared with the situation on the Greek peninsula, Oscar was still more worried about the situation on the eastern continent; Now the garrison of the Brutus Empire on the Greek Peninsula is nothing more than six regular legions, a cavalry legion and a royal legion, while the combined army of the Augustan Empire with the Sulla family and the Pompey family has 160,000 legions, which is completely an attack with absolute superiority.

The situation on the eastern continent was completely different, the Brutus Empire reinforced the strength of the entire ten legions of the Seleucid Empire, and Seleucus VII himself gathered 150,000 of the most elite troops of the Seleucid Empire, including 40,000 strong ironclad cavalry; Spartak and Posinius, on the other hand, had only 300,000 troops under their command, and their slight numerical superiority could not completely offset their qualitative inferiority.

It was fanciful for the 150,000 army under the command of Pohynius to defeat the ten legions of the Brutus Empire, the 50,000 silver shield legions and the 20,000 Cappadocian cavalry under the command of Seleucus VII himself; Oscar doubted whether Posinius' army would be able to hold the Phoeniche area, after all, the difference in strength between the two sides was too great.

Of the ten legions under Spartacus, there were eight infantry legions and two cavalry legions, plus the Nubian legions of the Kingdom of Egypt; Although the total number of troops was as high as 150,000, but the enemy they faced was the Seleucid Empire's Koro Syrian garrison with a full 40,000 ironclad cavalry, could Spartak really win this hard-fought battle?

The real taboo of soldiers is that the front-line commander will always be interfered with from the rear, so after Oscar made up his mind to hand over the war on the Eastern Continent to Spartacus, even if he was worried in his heart, he would not interfere with Spartak's command and operation.

Even if Spartak loses, Oscar will not interfere with Spartak's command in any way; Because Oscar knew that no matter how wise he was, the information he obtained was nearly ten days ago, and Spartak was at the forefront of the war, so he must be able to know everything that happened on the battlefield and make better judgments and choices.

With Oscar's full support, Spartak was given command of ten Augustan legions, as well as an army of 250,000 Egyptians; Even the armies of the future Kingdom of Parthia and the Kingdom of Armenia were under the unified command of Spartak, and all the wars on the entire Eastern continent were entrusted to Spartakus.

Spartak also understood the weight of the burden on his shoulders, and the reason why he put all the 150,000 Egyptian troops in the Phoenician region under the command of Bosinus; On the one hand, it was out of trust in Bosinus, and on the other hand, it was his own lack of skill.

Bosinus was able to be trusted by three generations of Egyptian pharaohs (Ptolemy XII, Ptolemy XIII, and Oscar), not only by relying on the power of his family, but also by his own ability; It is no exaggeration to say that Posinius must have been the best general of the Egyptian kingdom, as Spartak had confirmed with his own eyes in the previous days.

Bohynius led an army of 150,000 troops in the Phoenician region, and Spartak believed that he would be able to lead the 150,000 Egyptian army to defend the Phoenician region to the death; After all, the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire only had 150,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry in the Syrian border area, and such an army was too weak to break through the defense of Bosinus in a short time.

Spartak himself led an army of 150,000 troops stationed in the border area between Judea and Corosy, in order to annihilate all the 40,000 ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire stationed in Corosya as much as possible at the beginning of the war; To accomplish this, Spartak had already trained the 40,000 Nubian pikemen of the Nubian Legion for ten months.

The day of the battle finally came in Spartak's anticipation, and as soon as it was dawn that morning, Spartak led his 150,000-strong army, which had already eaten breakfast, across the border and advanced towards the Syrian region of Koro; Forty thousand Nubian pikemen lined up in a neat formation walked to the front of the army, followed by forty-eight thousand hoplites from eight infantry regiments.

The eight infantry regiments and the 24,000 light infantry were all placed on the left and right flanks of the hoplites by Spartak, who were also in the rear of the Nubian pikemen, but could move quickly from both flanks to the flanks of the pikemen at any time; The last two remaining cavalry legions and 10,000 Nubian cavalry were deployed on both flanks of the army for cruising patrols.

The Seleucid garrison in Coro Syria soon discovered that the armies of the Kingdom of Egypt and the Empire of Augustus had crossed the border, and they hurried to report the news to Seleucus VII in Syria, while immediately organizing 40,000 infantry and 40,000 ironclad cavalry in Coro Syria to meet the enemy who had crossed the border.

The action of 40,000 infantry is naturally impossible to compare with 40,000 ironclad cavalry, and when Spartak's army advanced forward for an hour, the Seleucid Empire's 40,000 ironclad cavalry was already close to Spartak's army; After receiving the report from the scout cavalry in front, Spartak immediately ordered the army to stop advancing and let all the soldiers prepare to meet the enemy according to the predetermined formation!

Spartacus's 40,000 Nubian pikemen were arranged in two huge rectangular phalanxes, with the Nubian pikemen at the front half-crouching with the tail end of their spears on the ground, and the pikemen behind them holding their pikemen in their hands flat; The 20,000 pikemen were arranged in eight columns, and five meters behind the pikemen phalanx lined up in a row was a phalanx of 20,000 pikemen in the same row.

Behind this phalanx of 40,000 Nubian pikemen were 48,000 hoplites in neat battle formations of hundreds; These hoplites are all in fixed positions, and once the Seleucid Empire's ironclad cavalry breaks through the two pikemen phalanx in front, they will quickly form a tortoiseshell formation to face the enemy!

At the very front of the pikemen phalanx was the vanguard of the eight infantry regiments; Spartak didn't even have enough troops to protect the soldiers of these armour brigades, only the pikemen of the auxiliary legions were protecting them.

In fact, before the battle began, Spartak had already decided to destroy the Seleucid Empire's ironclad cavalry at all costs; These equipment brigades that were directly pushed to the forefront of the war, with the impact speed of the ironclad cavalry, they almost only had one chance to shoot, and then they were overwhelmed by the ironclad cavalry who came to the attack.

How long the pikemen of the auxiliary legion can resist is a matter of luck; In order to reduce the impact of the ironclad cavalry as much as possible before they rushed into the pikemen phalanx, Spartak had no choice but to sacrifice the equipment brigade of these eight legions.

War is like that, cruel and merciless; When Spartak could feel the ground shaking beneath his feet, the ironclad cavalry in the distance was already galloping towards him, and the soldiers of the equipment brigade also pressed the ballista launcher tightly with their hands! (To be continued.) )