It is not objective things that disturb people, but people's opinions about objective things.

- Epictetus (famous Roman philosopher)

Even if the Brutus family temporarily abolished the establishment of auxiliary legions, the total strength of the ten legions was as high as 70,000 people; Of course, it is not only the Brutus family that has grown in strength, but also the 20,000 Greek legions that have rapidly expanded after the Battle of Turbo in the Kingdom of Epirus are also becoming more and more reliable in combat.

Together with the 30,000 heavily armed legions and other troops that have been re-replenished, the total strength of the Kingdom of Epirus is also as high as more than 50,000 people; If this number also includes some local troops of the Epirus Kingdom, then the total strength of the Epirus Kingdom will also be 60,000 people, including the 2,000 ironclad cavalry with extremely strong combat effectiveness and the invincible nine-headed war elephant!

Moreover, there is a huge gap between the local defense operation and the cross-sea invasion operation; In order to achieve absolute superiority, the Brutus family needs to make greater efforts! The six legions were replaced with better weaponry and equipment, and this was only the first step in the preparation of the Brutus family for the war.

In addition to replacing them with better weapons and equipment, Tiberius also had his family's generals, Gnaeus and Nero, work together to develop a new training plan for the legion; This new Legion training program includes not only offensive training for the Greek pike, but also a lot of training on how to defend against the attacks of the ironclad cavalry.

Such an obvious program of legional training was certainly directed against the states of the Greek peninsula and the kingdom of Epirus, but the effect was not very obvious; At least Tiberius didn't see that these methods could really resist the attacks of the ironclad cavalry, let alone the near-insoluble war elephants. However, the scarcity and small size of the war elephants were not taken seriously by Tiberius.

In the last Battle of Tulbo, the key to the victory or defeat of the real decisive battle was not the war elephants, but the ironclad cavalry under the command of Pyrus; Although the war elephant is powerful and terrifying, the war elephant is only an animal after all, and it is impossible to escape death in the end under the siege of humans. The ironclad cavalry, on the other hand, was unmatched by the power of their charge.

Of course, Tiberius was unwilling to admit that another important factor in the defeat at the Battle of Tulbo was his own arrogance and the negligence of the Brutus family; If the army of the Brutus family at that time could not have advanced so presumptuously, then even if they did not win the war in the end, they would not have paid the heavy price of total annihilation.

Even Tiberius never admitted his mistake head-on, nor did he mention it in the slightest; But he still understands these things and has some feelings. Otherwise, why do you think Tiberius was so important after the war, Gnaeus and Nero and others; Isn't it because Tiberius knew he was wrong?

The fact that the Brutus family was able to become one of the four great families that stood in the Roman Republic for hundreds of years should not be underestimated; Coupled with the assistance of a family leader who realized his mistakes and worked hard, as well as a group of shrewd and capable generals, it was a matter of course that the Brutus family would become strong again.

Just as the Brutus family was gradually regaining strength, Sulla and Pompey, who had huge financial resources, joined the Brutus family's camp; What they brought to the Brutus family was not only an increase in the number of legions and financial resources, but also an increase in all aspects of the Brutus family.

Regardless of the rest, only in the production of weapons and equipment and the construction of warships, the Brutus family, after receiving the support of Sulla and Pompey; The original production capacity of weapons and equipment and the scale of building warships have been at least more than doubled. This is only the change in the quantity of production, the change in the quality of production is also a real earth-shaking!

In addition, the interest in the war in North Africa is not limited to the family of Augustus, but also the other major families of Rome are also concerned about the changes in the war situation in North Africa. Whether it's Zuguta's leaps and bounds, triumphant recitals, or Vimyna's classic sneak attack, or Hannibal's turning the tide; All of them were closely watched by the major families of Rome.

Especially the classic sneak attack of Vermina, the great results achieved by Vimina by attacking war elephants also deeply attracted the generals of the Brutus family; Everyone is trying to find out what exactly Victoria's Secret uses to make the war elephants crazy. In that classic attack, one thing is undeniable; Then Victoria's Secret must have used fire attack.

However, the generals of the Brutus family also experimented with the method of fire attack; After the fire is fired on the arrow, the burning flame is not very large, and even ordinary war horses will not be frightened by this level of flame arrow attack, how can they frighten the war elephant that is even larger and more sluggish?

If simply igniting the arrow doesn't work, then find another way to light the arrow; As a result, the generals of the Brutus family experimented for a month, but they did not come up with any good way to achieve the same effect as that of Victoria. During this time, there was a strange guy who proposed to use the flaming javelin to attack the war elephants; Gnaeus almost slapped the captain to death with this opinion.

What's the point of attacking war elephants with flaming javelins? The core tactics of using rockets to attack the war elephant and make it frightened and mad are: let the mad war elephant go crazy in the enemy's own formation and inflict great damage on the enemy; At the very least, it is necessary to completely disrupt the enemy's originally stable formation, so that the enemy's military formation is thrown into chaos, and then take the opportunity to attack the opponent.

If you want to attack those war elephants with a flaming javelin, you must wait until the war elephants are near your own battle array. At that time, it is still unknown whether there will be time to light the flame javelin. Even if you light the flaming javelin and successfully attack the war elephant; Who knows where the mad war elephants will go?

And, from the point of view of distance, nine times out of ten, the frightened and mad war elephants will continue to rush forward; At that time, the army of the Brutus family who launched the flaming javelin attack will be a complete tragedy, which is simply an act of digging one's own grave! Gnaeus kicked the captain in the ass on the spot, kicking him out of his tent.

Later, when Sulla and Pompey joined the Brutus family, they also learned about the Brutus family's research in this area; So, through their own connections, they spent a lot of money to find the detailed information of Vimyna's sneak attack on Zuguta's army from within the Carthaginian kingdom at that time, and even the information on how Zuguta made rockets was clearly written.

Sulla and Pompey obtained this information at the same time as a barrel of black oil that Vemini had used to make rockets at the time; With this black oil as a sample, Sulla and Pompey quickly collected a full fifty barrels of black oil through various means, which was enough to make 100,000 rockets, and enough for the archers of the Brutus family to play slowly.

When Sulla and Pompey handed over the information and fifty barrels of black oil to the Brutus family, they naturally won the gratitude of the entire Brutus family; In particular, the generals of the Brutus family, who were troubled by this, were very grateful to Sulla and Pompey for providing these things.

Then there is a very serious problem, how to make a rocket has been found, and the raw materials for making a rocket have been prepared; However, the Brutus family has no archers! Since the abolition of the auxiliary legion, the legion of the Brutus family is a pure heavy legion, and there is no light infantry and archers at all!

Well, in order to use this weapon of rocket attack war elephants, Tiberius began to form the auxiliary legions of the Brutus family legion again; However, this is not the time to form a large auxiliary legion like last time. This time, the auxiliary legions still have a fixed establishment, that is, each legion is equipped with a special auxiliary legion in principle.

It's just that the size of the auxiliary legion is only a thousand people, and it is all made up of archers; In other words, the Brutus family specially formed a 10,000-strong archer army in order for this rocket to attack the war elephant troops of the Epirus Kingdom. Although nominally an auxiliary legion under the Ten Legions, in reality all of them were under one command.

At this point, the ten legions of the Brutus family have achieved all the targets; With the replacement of the new weapons and equipment of the first four legions, the army of the Brutus family can participate in the war at any time, and only war can make these ten legions of the Brutus family evolve more elite and stronger.

Training is always training, whether it is the four legions that the Brutus family themselves have formed before, or the four newly formed legions, or the two legions provided by Sulla and Pompey; All are legions that have not experienced war. If they don't go through the war, then the perfectly trained legion will be just a vase, never too useful, and will never become a real elite.

Now that the Brutus family is ready for war, there is no point in delaying it any longer; Because the Brutus family continued to train their armies at home, it would not help much to improve their combat effectiveness, but would allow Pyrrhus and his Epirus kingdom to continue to expand their influence on the Greek peninsula and increase their strength.

However, whether or not an attack on the kingdom of Epirus should be launched at this time is not for Tiberius to decide alone; He already knew the consequences of his insistence last time, so this time he would discuss it with the generals of the cautious family. Moreover, the recent changes between the Maxentius family and Marius also require the Brutus family to make their voices heard! (To be continued.) )