If you don't pay attention to what others are thinking, one is rarely seen as unhappy, and those who don't pay attention to their own inner activities are bound to be unhappy.

- Marcus Aurelius (the only philosopher-emperor in Western history)

Caesar's analysis was like pouring a scoop of water into a boiling oil pot, and immediately caused the other legion commanders to explode; Only Octavian, who had not spoken, glanced at Caesar in shock. Looking at the generals with red faces and Vibius who couldn't hold their faces, Flavis had to smile and reassure the generals: "Don't be excited, Caesar is only a ten-year-old child after all; His words are inevitably exaggerated, and those of us who are adults always have to bear some of them. The battle on Calabes's side will be reported soon, so let's concentrate on training the army; Caesar I will educate him personally. ”

Flavies's leniency made the generals quiet down, and only after the generals had walked out of the tent did Flavies say to Caesar: "Caesar, tell Grandpa how you came up with this; Also, what do you think of the generals in the military tent today? Don't be burdened by what you just did, and tell grandpa everything, including what you think of your father; Grandpa won't blame you. Grandpa just broke up the generals just now, just so that you can rest assured and boldly tell grandpa what you think. ”

Flavies' attitude towards Caesar was always gentle, which is the key to Caesar's dislike of his father and his grandfather; Caesar did not know that Flavies's gentleness and kindness belonged to him alone, and that no one else had enjoyed such treatment. Flavies' words gave Caesar the confidence to continue, and Caesar looked at his grandfather calmly and said, "Grandpa, I can't tell you what I thought of; It was after learning about the life of General Calabes that I naturally thought of it.

And those generals today, I think they are not as good as General Calabes; If General Carabes had been in the tent today, he would not have blushed or been so excited. For I know that General Carabes is a great general with a certain amount of people, and that the generals in the military tent are ordinary ordinary generals; My father, in particular, was not really fit to be the commander of a legion. He couldn't even tolerate his own son, let alone anyone else.

However, today I also found a very powerful general, the Octavian commander of the Ninth Legion, who always did not speak. He had a shocked look in his eyes as I spoke. I know he must have thought the same way I did; I don't think General Octavian is as good as General Carabes, but he's already much better than these generals in my family. These are my own opinions, please ask grandpa to teach. ”

Listening to Caesar's evaluation of the generals of the Julius family, Flavis sighed helplessly and said, "Caesar, you must remember that you must never say these words to anyone other than your grandfather!" Do you know why Grandpa recruited General Karabes in the first place? It's because our family of Julius lacks such good generals; The family of Augustus had Luquis. The Scipio family had Quintus, the Brutus family also had excellent generals like Gnaeus, and the Maxentius family had Marius, Antony, and Octavian.

Only our Julius family lacks such excellent generals! Your father, Vibius, though he was a great military talent, was, as you say, embarrassed by the fact that he had no room for people; If it weren't for the fact that the family army really needed a family member to be the commander of the army, I wouldn't have appointed him as the commander of the legion. Caesar, you will be a great commander in the future, but your mission is to be the leader of the family, not a general who commands legions in battle; So, I have to keep enough generals for my family.

The generals who are in the military tent today have their own shortcomings and shortcomings. But at least they are loyal to our family; Be merciful to them in the future. Even if they aren't good enough to satisfy you, you'll still need them to command your forces. As for General Calabes, he was a rare genius commander, and his youth and ability meant that his life would be extraordinary; More importantly, I could see that he was a man without ambition.

Caesar, you have to keep in mind; You must not treat General Carabes like a normal general, an ordinary army commander. You are to think of him as the commander of your humerus, as the superintendent of our family Julius; As long as he doesn't have the intention of betraying our House Julius, you must remember that you must not take anyone's word for it. With Calabess's abilities, he is enough to break away from our family Julius and lay a sky of his own; So. We cannot afford to lose him. ”

Flavies's assessment of Calabes can be described as high; However, this caused Caesar to wonder. Caesar asked puzzledly, "Grandpa, what can our family do to tie General Calabes to our chariot?" The generals of the family must have hated General Carabes because of his outstanding talent; How can we appease the generals within the family and ensure the loyalty of General Calabeth? ”

Caesar's question is the key to the question. Flavies was also pleased with Caesar's keen sense of smell; Flavies explained to Caesar with relief: "You are right, and this is the most important thing I want to teach you; In order to prevent a gap between the generals of the family and Karabes, and to give greater play to the role of Karabes. Grandpa's solution was to exclude Calabes and his army from our family's system, and make him a force that was outside of our family's military system.

In this way, it can avoid conflicts between the family generals and Karabes, and affect the harmony within the family; It can also give full play to Carabess's ability. The idea of a war genius like Carabis is not something that ordinary people can speculate. Not even I myself can fully understand Calabes' ideas; So, we can use Calabes and his army as if they were an independent army. We provide him with weapons and equipment and everything he needs, but we do not interfere with his command of the army or affect his operations.

For example, I didn't give Calabes a specific order this time; Nor did I let him defend himself anywhere and in any form against the attack of Daniel's legions, I only ordered him not to allow Daniel to attack our Roman mainland. I don't care about all other specific battle plans, and leave them all to General Carabes's own hands; For the average general, this can be a dilemma. But for his part, he will give us a big enough surprise; If you don't have any other way to deal with Karabeth in the future. You might as well use this old method of grandpa. ”

"But what if General Carabes has the idea of self-respecting in the future, and no longer obeys our orders?"

"Caesar, don't limit your gaze to this little world; You try to think about it from a different perspective. This time in the Gallic Wars. All we have to give Calabis is thousands of obsolete Roman weaponry; But what do we take? The 10,000-strong army of Daniel's Legion will be kept out of the family territory by Calabes; It is even possible that he will help us conquer the entire kingdom of Regulia, as you said. We only gave some weapons and equipment, but how much we gained; Our use of Calabes is itself an investment, or an investment that returns far more than it invests. ”

Flavies's words woke up Caesar, and also raised Caesar's vision from the gains and losses that were previously limited to immediate interests to the level of the overall strategic situation; Meantime. These words also laid the foundation for the future Calabes's special position in the Julius family and the unparalleled power of others. While Flavis was educating his grandson Caesar in his tent, Lugotorius had already led the Gallic army to the north bank of the Rubicon, across the river from the Julius family camp.

Seeing the Roman army on the other side of the river stationed in the barracks, Lugotorius did not dare to launch a battle to cross the river easily; As a result, Lugotorix also set up camp on the north bank of the Rubicon. Don't think that Daniel will send a few emissaries to say that they want to fight together, and Lugotorius will foolishly gather his army and fight the Roman army on the opposite side; Lugotorix will not act rashly until he has enough information.

War is not life, and there are too many examples of losing a wrong step; The Gallic barbarians were just less developed than the civilizations of Rome and Greece. This does not mean that all Gauls are fools, Lugotorix is one of the few famous generals among the Gauls; Its ability to command war is also good, at least stronger than the ordinary legionnaires in the Roman army. The Gallic army and the Roman army entered into a vigilant confrontation under the command of their own commanders.

Just two days later, Carabis annihilated Daniel's 10,000-man army. The report of the battle of killing more than 5,000 enemies and capturing 5,000 was sent to Flavies's military tent; Looking at the cavalry that came to report the victory, Flavis began to ask the cavalry about the losses of the cavalry Calabes's regiment and how Carabes launched an active attack in front of the generals. When Flavis learned that Calabis had completely annihilated Daniel's legion in a head-to-head battle with less than a thousand casualties, he inevitably sighed in his heart that Calabes's soldiers were like a god and his army was strong.

As for the faces of the generals, they were colorful and wonderful; Two days ago, everyone had accused Karabes of being reckless, and two days later he had taught the generals a memorable lesson. Fortunately, Flavies did not mention the same two days ago; Instead, he properly arranged for the cavalryman to go down to rest, and then directly discussed the new battle plan with the generals. Since Calabes had settled the worries of the Julius family, the real decisive battle would soon begin.

At this time, there was no need for the army of the House of Julius to hide; Immediately, Flavies ordered the five legions crowded in the three barracks to build two more barracks at once, and the Julius family was about to set up a real battle with the Gallic army. After the generals were ordered to leave, the great Roman military camp began to operate; Under the leadership of their respective commanders, brigades and hundred-man teams walked out of the barracks and began to drill and build new barracks in the open.

Look at the five Roman legions that popped up from the three Roman barracks on the other side of the river. Lugotorix was both surprised and puzzled; Judging from this change in the Roman legions, the Roman army was hiding its own strength before, why did it suddenly stop hiding at this time and pull out all the armies? Could it be that Daniel's army had already captured Etrusa in Rome? But. It's also unrealistic; If that's the case, the Roman army should rush back to help!

If Daniel's legions had not captured Etrusia, the main battle legions of the Roman family of Julius would have been concentrated here; And what did they use to stop the attack of Daniel's army? Just by that so-called Five Thousand Auxiliary Corps? Could it be that Daniel's agreement with himself was a complete hoax? It's impossible! The changes in the current situation in the Kingdom of Regulia are impossible to disguise, so what is the problem? What happened to Daniel's legions, and why hasn't there been any movement in the Roman barracks until now? (To be continued.) )