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After the basic premise of the alliance of the four empires has been determined, the next step is naturally for everyone to discuss the specific plan for attacking the Augustan Empire; Even if this war had to wait a year before it could be launched, the obligations of each empire had to be agreed upon as soon as possible, and the following year was just the right time for the four empires to prepare for war.

The main direction of attack of the Julius Empire and the Roman Empire was naturally the Iberian Peninsula of the Augustan Empire, while the targets of the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire were the Kingdom of Egypt and the North African continent, which were vassals of the Augustan Empire; As for the island territory of the Augustan Empire in the Mediterranean, as long as the land power of the Augustan Empire is successfully cut off, the decline of the maritime power will be inevitable.

However, this is only a general framework, and the specific offensive arrangements still need to be decided in the meeting; Emperor Flavius of the Julius Empire expressed his willingness to organize fifteen legions of the Ulius Empire to launch an attack on the Iberian Peninsula, and Emperor Marius of the Roman Empire also expressed his willingness to provide reinforcements to the Ulius Empire with five legions.

Compared to the twenty legions that the Julius Empire and the Roman Empire had assembled together, the Augustan Empire's garrison on the Iberian Peninsula consisted of only four legions; Even if the Augustan Empire had a powerful navy capable of sending reinforcements to the Iberian Peninsula, they would not be able to assemble enough troops to withstand an attack of twenty legions in a short period of time.

Because once the war broke out, the Augustan Empire needed to deal with not only the attacks of the Julius Empire and the Roman Empire on the Iberian Peninsula, but also the attacks of the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire in the Kingdom of Egypt; Judging from the current distribution of forces in the Augustan Empire, the only ones who could reinforce the Iberian Peninsula were their eight legions in Sicily.

The current Augustan Empire has a total of twenty-eight legions, of which ten legions are stationed in the Kingdom of Egypt, four in the North African continent, four in the Iberian Peninsula, and two in the Aegean islands; The vast territory of the Augustan Empire also made their armies completely scattered all over the world.

The Julius Empire and the Roman Empire used twenty legions to attack the Iberian Peninsula, where the Augustan Empire had only four legions, and this difference in strength was enough for the coalition to occupy the Iberian Peninsula of the Augustan Empire; However, the attack of the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire still needs to be carefully arranged.

After all, the Augustan Empire has a full ten legions stationed in the Kingdom of Egypt, plus the 300,000 troops that the Kingdom of Egypt is about to complete, the army of the Augustan Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt on the Eastern Continent will be as high as 400,000; Judging from the results of the current coalition discussions, the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire could only use the army for the attack to be 250,000.

Even if the army of the Seleucid Empire is superior to the army of the Kingdom of Egypt in terms of combat effectiveness, it may not be able to defeat the army of the Kingdom of Egypt with the army of the 150,000 Seleucid Empire. And the ten legions of the Brutus Empire assisting the Seleucid Empire will definitely not surpass the ten legions of the Augustan Empire in terms of combat effectiveness, and it will definitely be the Augustan Empire that has the advantage in this regard.

It was not that Flavis and Marius were so ambitious that they destroyed their prestige, but that the legions of the Augustan Empire were indeed the strongest among the four Roman empires; Just from the performance of the army of the Augustan Empire that year could defeat Hannibal and his army head-on in a decisive battle, it is enough to prove the combat effectiveness of the army of the Augustan Empire.

More importantly, the army of the Augustan Empire did not rely on one or two excellent generals to ensure their combat effectiveness at all, they relied on a large number of excellent centurions and captains, as well as the military system of the Augustan Empire to ensure their combat effectiveness; The ten legions of the Brutus Empire could not defeat the ten legions of the Augustan Empire in a head-on battle, and they might even be defeated.

On the premise that the Brutus Empire would not continue to increase its troops, Marius and others could only focus on the army of the Seleucid Empire; With the combat effectiveness of the Seleucid Empire's army, what kind of army they decided to send to attack the combined forces of the Kingdom of Egypt and the Augustan Empire would directly affect the outcome of this war.

If the 150,000 troops sent by the Seleucid Empire were composed of the most ordinary phalanx pikemen and other infantry, then the combined forces of the Seleucid Empire and the Brutus Empire would not have been able to attack the Kingdom of Egypt at all; If the 150,000 troops sent by the Seleucid Empire were composed of the formidable Silver Shield Legion and the Iron Cavalry, the Kingdom of Egypt would have been defeated.

The emperors of the three major Roman empires were not fools, and before the representatives of the Seleucid Empire came to Tarentum, they had already made a detailed understanding of the existing strength of the Seleucid Empire; In particular, the great war that the Seleucid Empire once fought on the Eastern Continent shocked the emperors of the three major empires.

The Seleucid Empire, which was troubled internally and externally, was able to rely on tens of thousands of ironclad cavalry to defeat four kingdoms that wanted to destroy the Seleucid Empire, including the Kingdom of Egypt, which was second only to the Seleucid Empire in strength at that time; There was even a battle in which the 20,000 ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire defeated the elite of the Kingdom of Egypt head-on, which is simply incredible.

If the Seleucid Empire is willing to invest a large number of ironclad cavalry in the war against the Kingdom of Egypt and the Augustan Empire, then will the 400,000 troops of the Kingdom of Egypt and the Augustan Empire still be daunting?

What was the reason why Julius and the Roman Empire persuaded the Brutus Empire to agree to the Seleucid Empire's demands, and didn't they hope that the Seleucid Empire would play a more important role in the next war?

Since the Brutus Empire is willing to make concessions to the Seleucid Empire's demands, it is impossible for the Seleucid Empire to fail to work after taking advantage of it; Marius also made specific requirements for the Seleucid Empire's troops, that is, the 150,000 troops dispatched by the Seleucid Empire must have more than 50,000 elite Silver Shield Legions and more than 30,000 ironclad cavalry troops.

Such a requirement was not too harsh for the Seleucid Empire, not even difficult; But the representative of the Seleucid Empire, the eldest son of Seleucus VII, did not dare to make any promises in this matter, and who made his father Seleucus VII strictly order him not to make any promises before he left.

The Seleucid Empire's willingness to make demands but not to assume any obligations also angered the three Roman empires, which repeatedly backed down, and at the suggestion of Tiberius, the three Roman empires unanimously decided to take Marius's demands as the most basic demand; If the Seleucid Empire was unwilling to accept such a military plan, the Seleucid Empire would be rejected by the Alliance.

Just after Seleucus VII's eldest son was forced to return to the Seleucid Empire for instructions, Marius and the other three also began to deal with the situation that the Seleucid Empire would not join the alliance; After careful consultation, Marius and Flavis agreed to Tiberius' suggestion that if the Seleucid Empire really gave up joining the Alliance, the Alliance would destroy the Seleucid Empire before attacking the Augustan Empire!

The existence of a Seleucid empire that was ignorant of the times was not in the interests of the three Roman empires; Because the existence of this empire not only added a potential enemy to the three Roman empires, but also added too many variables to the next war between the three Roman empires against the Augustan Empire, which was unacceptable to the three Roman empires.

In order to deal with possible changes in the Seleucid Empire, Tiberius said that the Brutus Empire was willing to send twenty legions to launch a war against the Seleucid Empire, and Marius and Flavius were also willing to send five legions to reinforce the Brutus Empire on behalf of their respective legions; The strength of thirty legions is enough to completely wipe out the Seleucid Empire, which has not yet completed the expansion of the army.

Seleucus VII's eldest son, after hurriing back to Antiochus, immediately informed his father Seleucus VII of the demands and attitudes of the three Roman empires; Seleucus VII's experience is not comparable to that of his son, Seleucus VII was keenly aware of the killing opportunity in the tough attitude of the three Roman empires, and if the Seleucid Empire did not agree to this request, I am afraid that war would come.

There is no doubt that the current Seleucid Empire simply does not have the capital to turn against the three major Roman empires; Even the Brutus Empire was not an existence that the Seleucid Empire, which had just gone through a bitter battle, could easily deal with.

More importantly, after rejecting this alliance between the three Roman empires, the Seleucid Empire could not find a better alliance; Although the Augustan Empire was powerful, how could the relationship between the Seleucid Empire and the Augustan Empire be good after the Kingdom of Egypt served as a vassal state of the Augustan Empire?

Maybe the army of the Augustan Empire helped the Seleucid Empire repel the attack of the Brutus Empire, and the Augustan Empire helped the Kingdom of Egypt to destroy the Seleucid Empire; Therefore, Seleucus VII still decided to agree to the request of the three major Roman empires, after all, attacking the Kingdom of Egypt with elite divisions, it was the Seleucid Empire that benefited in the end, not the other Brutus Empire.

When Seleucus VII's eldest son came to Tarentum again with Seleucus VII's affirmative answer, Marius and the others were also relieved; After all, now everyone is uniting to deal with the Augustan Empire, if there is a Seleucid Empire in the middle, it will not only affect the suppression plan of the Augustan Empire, but also lose the strength of the three Roman empires, which no one wants to happen. (To be continued.) )

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