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- Aesop (Greek fabler, Phrygian)

Oscar was not interested in the Pirate King's life experience, and after answering the doubts in his heart, Oscar did not continue to look at the description of the Pirate King's life, but turned his attention to what was still on the Raven battleship.

After a careful search by the soldiers of the Samonai Legion led by Antio, they found a total of four cabins full of gold, silver and jewels on the Raven battleship; Among them, there are three cabins that are pure gold coins from various countries back then, and even if they are all smelted and reminted now, it will be enough to mint 30 million gold coins.

As for the other cabin, there are all kinds of fine jewelry, worth no less than 10 million, and may even far exceed this number; Of course, for Oscar, the biggest gain is the value contained in this Raven battleship.

Not to mention the almost invincible combat power of this Raven warship, even its hull made of pure gold is enough to benefit the Augustan Empire a lot; If it really comes to the time when the Augustan Empire has no money, the gold used to build this Raven Warship is estimated to be enough to alleviate the crisis encountered by the Augustan Empire, which is a real hard currency!

With the existence of this Raven battleship, there was no need for Oscar to let the soldiers of the Samonai Legion transport the gold and silver treasures in the small square outside the stone gate back to the port, just transport them directly from this passage to the Raven battleship; After a full day, the soldiers of the Sammonay Legion transported all the gold, silver and jewels in the cave onto the Raven battleship.

Afterward, Oscar left a large group of Samonay Legion soldiers stationed on the Raven, and he returned to Salamis with the others; After returning to Salamis, Oscar began to make arrangements for an attack on the Egyptian kingdom proper.

Regarding the Raven Battleship, Oscar did not plan to include the Raven Battleship in the battle sequence of the Augustan Imperial Navy right now; In addition to the 1,000 soldiers who protected the Raven Battleship, Oscar would also send 1,000 crew members from the fleet led by Shi Xiu to board the Raven Battleship to be responsible for running the Raven Battleship, and when the affairs of the Egyptian Kingdom were over, Oscar would return to Sicily with the Raven Battleship.

Before that, Oscar was reluctant to expose the Raven Battleship too early; After all, the army of the Augustan Empire did not stay in the Kingdom of Egypt for a day or two, and it was easy to attract too many people's attention if they carried the Raven Warship.

In addition, from the time the Emperor Augustus ** occupied the island of Cyprus, the island of Cyprus was already a territory belonging to the Augustan Empire; The Raven battleship remained within the territory of the Augustan Empire, and Oscar was still relieved.

This time, with the 25,000 Egyptian kings** on the island of Cyprus joining Cleopatra's command, Cleopatra can be regarded as having its own Egyptian army that can be mobilized; It was impossible for Oscar to leave these troops on the island when he went out on the expedition, let alone to defend the island without leaving a single soldier.

After some deliberation with Cleopatra, Cleopatra agreed that Oscar would leave two of the ten legions on the island of Cyprus, while the remaining eight Augustus the Great** regiment would continue to march on the Egyptian kingdom proper.

Among the ten legions of the Augustan Empire this time, Oscar's most trusted was naturally the Samonai Legion led by Antio; As for the nine newly formed legions by North African soldiers, Oscar trusted Lilias's Fourth Cavalry Regiment and Hartmann's Fourteenth Legion, as well as Asini's Fifteenth Legion and Aurelius's Eighteenth Legion.

In addition to these four legions, the other five legions, Oscar, can be sure that they will not defect easily, but they cannot give them full trust; After careful consideration by Oscar himself, he decided to leave Antio's Samonai Legion and Hartmann's Fourteenth Legion on the island to garrison them.

Among them, Hartmann's 14th Legion will be divided into two parts to garrison the port of Cyprus and Salamis, while Antio's Samonai Legion will be stationed in the city of Paphos to ensure the absolute safety of the Raven warship.

After arranging the affairs of the island of Cyprus, Oscar once again boarded the huge fleet with the army of eight legions and 25,000 Egyptian troops, and began to set out in the direction of the Egyptian kingdom itself.

In this conquest of the island of Cyprus, Oscar turned the island of Cyprus in the Kingdom of Egypt into a province of Cyprus in the Augustan Empire without paying a single soldier; Although the occupation of the island of Cyprus also necessitated Oscar to detach the forces of two legions to remain on the island, the surrender of the 25,000 Egyptian troops under Cleopatra made up for the shortfall of these two legions.

However, the total number of armies of the Kingdom of Egypt is limited, and the current army of the Kingdom of Egypt is nothing more than scattered in five places; Twenty-five thousand troops on the island of Cyprus, seventy thousand in Phoenicia, forty thousand in Judea, twenty thousand in the Nile Delta, and seventy thousand in Central Egypt, where the capital Memphis is located.

The total number of troops in the Kingdom of Egypt was only 225,000, and after the 25,000 Egyptian troops on the island of Cyprus were added to Cleopatra, the maximum number of troops available to the Kingdom of Egypt dropped to 200,000, while Cleopatra had 25,000 more troops at its disposal; This trade-off is still very beneficial for Cleopatra.

The current cavalry corps of the Augustan Empire is not the cavalry corps of only 7,000 in the past, and after the support of North Africa, the production area of war horses and the birthplace of excellent cavalry, as a base, the number and quality of the cavalry of the Augustan Empire have been improved by leaps and bounds; Now the standard cavalry legion of the Augustan Empire is already a 10,000-horse legion with 5,000 shield cavalry and 5,000 javelin cavalry.

Among them, the horses of the long shield cavalry were provided by the provinces of Africa and Baisasian, and the knights of the long shield cavalry were mainly Carthaginians, and the Numidians and Spaniards also played a part; The javelin cavalry, on the other hand, is all composed of Numidians who are very good at acting as javelin cavalry, and their combat effectiveness is also quite good.

The eight legions of the Augustan Empire had a full 50,000 infantry and 30,000 cavalry, plus 20,000 infantry and 5,000 charioteers of the Egyptian legions; The army that Cleopatra could use to attack the Nile Delta region would be more than 100,000, while the defending army in the Nile Delta region was only 20,000 Egyptian infantry, and it was impossible to withstand the attack of Cleopatra's army.

At that time, as long as the 20,000 garrisons in the Nile Delta region were annihilated, the only army that Ptolemy XIII could use to resist the army of Cleopatra was 70,000 troops in Central Egypt; However, the 40,000-strong army of the Augustan Empire, led by Spartacus, could launch a coordinated attack when Cleopatra's army attacked Central Egypt.

In this way, the combined army of the Augustan Empire and Cleopatra would be able to devote nearly 150,000 elite troops to the attack on Central Egypt; By that time, even if Ptolemy XIII had sent a plea for help to the garrison of the Kingdom of Egypt in the border area of the Seleucid Empire, it would be questionable whether he would be able to hold out until the reinforcements arrived in Memphis.

More importantly, even the garrisons of the Kingdom of Egypt in the Phoenician region and Judea could have reinforced Ptolemy XIII in time for the fall of Memphis; It is impossible for them to withdraw all the 110,000 troops from the border area, and at most they will only return 70,000 or 80,000 troops, and the combined forces of the Augustan Empire and Cleopatra will still be inferior in numbers.

The army of the Augustan Empire was far superior to the army of the Kingdom of Egypt in terms of quality, even though the legions that went out to the Kingdom of Egypt were all newly formed legions of the Augustan Empire, but their superiority in weapons and equipment and rich combat experience were enough to make them stronger than the army of the Kingdom of Egypt; Moreover, the four legions under the command of Spartacus are all veteran elite legions of the Augustan Empire.

Therefore, whether it is Oscar and Cleopatra, or the commanders of the various legions of the Augustan Empire, they all have absolute confidence in this attack on the Kingdom of Egypt; This is simply a crushing of the Kingdom of Egypt by the army of the Augustan Empire, and with the righteous name of Cleopatra, it is only a matter of time before the Augustan Empire and Cleopatra win.

After the combined fleet of the Augustan Empire and Cleopatra arrived off the coast of Alexandria, the reorganized native fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt consisted of less than ten double-lined ships; A few double-lined warships, under the persuasion of Oles, directly joined Oles's fleet and became the warships of Cleopatra's counterattack on the Kingdom of Egypt.

The reason why Oles was able to become the most powerful naval fleet commander during the reign of Ptolemy XII of the Kingdom of Egypt was that his prestige in the navy of the Kingdom of Egypt was naturally unparalleled; Otherwise, Ptolemy XII would not have put him in command of the largest fleet of the Kingdom of Egypt, the Cypriot fleet and the newly formed native fleet, and he would not have surrendered to Oles so easily.

After Oles' warships had taken full control of the waters off the port, the 25,000 Egyptian soldiers attached to Cleopatra bore the brunt of the landing; After all the 25,000 soldiers had landed and firmly controlled the entire port, the soldiers of the eight legions belonging to the Augustan Empire also began to land.

The landing of more than 100,000 troops and the unloading of countless grain and grass supplies took a considerable amount of time to complete, even for the largest port of Alexandria on the Eastern Continent; When night fell, Oscar and Cleopatra landed in the harbor, and the harbor was still filled with soldiers and unloading food and supplies, which was a huge project. (To be continued.) )