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- Aristotle (one of the great philosophers, scientists, and educators in the ancient history of the world)

After obtaining 2,000 ironclad cavalry from Alexander's kingdom, Tiberius had Harold's cavalry corps receive these 2,000 ironclad cavalry, and the size of the cavalry legion was increased to 3,500; In addition, the Greek cavalry and javelin cavalry of the cavalry corps were also expanded, and the total number of cavalry in the entire cavalry corps had reached the scale of 10,000 cavalry.

In addition to the cavalry legions, the other six legions that had been battered by the plague also quickly regained their strength with the strong support of the Sulla and Pompey families; It only took a month for the Brutus family to return to the heyday of the army in numbers.

In addition, Tiberius's trading methods for ironclad cavalry training and a full set of armor forging techniques were also put to good use; In order to ensure that these things would not be circulated, Tiberius built a new Ironclad Cavalry Training Camp near the Royal Legion Training Camp, and put all the weapons and equipment forged for the Royal Cavalry, Royal Lancers, and Ironclad Cavalry nearby.

The location of the Royal Legion Training Camp was so hidden that the troops of the Brutus family would not even know about the existence of the Royal Legion Training Camp after they occupied the province of Thessaly, unless the governor of Thessaly of Macedonia had taken the initiative to explain to Tiberius.

In fact, Tiberius had no intention of telling anyone other than the Brutus family about the location of the Royal Legion training camp; The four legions of leaders on the surface are just regular legions in the name of the leader of the Brutus family, and they are not really loyal to the leader of the Brutus family.

And the soldiers trained in this royal legion training camp were the secret army that Tiberius had prepared for his Brutus family; The army here will not become an army within the Brutus family's establishment system, or even unknown to outsiders at all, they will become the secret army of every Brutus family leader, and they will also be the last resort to protect the Brutus family!

After obtaining the training method of the ironclad cavalry and the forging technique of a full set of armor equipment, the Brutus family will have the ironclad cavalry trained by their own family in a year; This will be important for the growth of the Brutus family's strength, but the scarcity of high-quality horses will greatly limit the number of ironclad cavalry.

Therefore, it did not make much sense to add these trained ironclad cavalry to the regular army sequence of the Brutus family; Their sparse numbers are not enough to play a vital role, and in a battlefield where there are often more than 50,000 people, what can the presence of hundreds of ironclad cavalry change?

Rather than wasting the value of the Ironclad Cavalry in this way, it is better to keep the existence of the Ironclad Cavalry a secret, and let the Ironclad Cavalry trained by the Brutus family become a secret weapon in the hands of the leaders of the Brutus family; In order to ensure that these things would not be known to outsiders, the governor of the Macedonian kingdom of Thessaly, who voluntarily surrendered, and the envoy to the kingdom of Alexander, both died in an accident.

In view of their contribution to the Brutus family, Tiberius not only presided over their funerals himself, but also provided their families with a thousand gold coins for their maintenance; In the face of these two men's gratitude to Dade's family, Tiberius couldn't help but show a sentimental look and said some words of relief to comfort their family.

No matter what Tiberius did behind his back, at least on the surface, he still showed affection and righteousness, and the example of buying a horse's bones may be really cliché, but the effect is never small; Just after Tiberius sent out such two thousand gold coins, there were obviously more people serving the Brutus family, and the members of the Brutus family were also more active.

After taking care of these matters of secrecy, Tiberius took his son Aulus to the site of the training camp; As the heir to the family leader of the Brutus family, Aulus is also the person who Tiberius needs to inherit the Brutus family a hundred years later, and Tiberius naturally let him take over these things early.

After explaining in detail the origins of the Royal Legion Training Camp and the Iron Cavalry Training Camp, Tiberius left everything here to Aulus to take care of; From now on, the Royal Legion soldiers and ironclad cavalry trained here will also be under the command of Aulus, but Aulus is not unable to take the army out of here.

Tiberius told Aulus all the reasons why he wanted to keep everything here secret, and even Tiberius did not hide his fear of the Sulla family and the Pompey family in his heart, and he did not hide it from his heirs; In order to prepare for any unexpected accidents that might arise in the future, Tiberius warned Aulus not to take the things out of the place easily.

Aulus has also been the heir to the Brutus family for nearly thirty years, from the intrigues in Rome to the difficult development of the Greek peninsula, from the forced abandonment of the local inheritance to the almost unification of the Greek peninsula; In the past few years of the changes in the Brutus family, Aulus has been with Tiberius through it, and he naturally understands all of Tiberius's good intentions.

After spending a whole day in this secret training camp, the father and son returned to Larissa and went about their own business; Since the last time he handed over the power to manage the family's affairs to Aulus due to the plague, Tiberius did not take back his power when he returned to the Brutus family, but continued to hand over the power to Aulus.

Sulla and Pompey are definitely not the existence that ordinary people can deal with, Tiberius is confident that he will not let Sulla and Pompey take advantage of the Brutus family in his own hands, but he does not dare to guarantee that his heir Aulus can also do it; After all, Aulus is still too young, and the gap with Sulla and Pompey is still too great.

More importantly, Tiberius was not sure that he would be able to completely eliminate the threat of the Sulla and Pompey families in his lifetime, which was the last thing Tiberius could let go of; In order to ensure that the future of the Brutus family is not affected by the Sulla and Pompey families, Tiberius must start raising his heir now to take over the Brutus family.

Tiberius believed that as long as he lived in this world for one day, Aulus would be able to inherit the Brutus family smoothly under his own protection, and the Sulla family and the Pompey family would not be able to interfere with it at all; That's why Tiberius didn't take back his power, he wanted to give his heir enough time to grow.

As for military matters, Tiberius did not pretend to be a man anymore, but solved them all himself; Even if the Sulla and Pompey families provided funds and weapons to help the Brutus legions regain their strength, Tiberius would not let these two families interfere in the affairs of the Brutus legions, and these things had to be done by Tiberius himself.

The four legions of leaders of the Brutus family, commanded by Rex, were the most suitable army for Tiberius to be loyal to Aulus; Because these four legions are the only legions among all the legions of the Brutus family that have nothing to do with the Sulla family and the Pompey family, they are the most trustworthy army of the Brutus family.

In order to bring Aulus closer to the four Legions of Leaders, Tiberius had Rex, the commander of the Legions, swear allegiance to Aulus the day after his arrival in Larissa, along with the four Legion Commanders and all the captains and above officers of each Legion.

In the next battle for the unification of the Greek peninsula by the Brutus family, Tiberius would not let the four leading legions participate in the war; At that time, Tiberius would personally lead the army in an attack on the city-states of Athens and Sparta, and Aulus would be the head of Larissa with the Brutus family, and the four leading legions would be stationed in Thessaly.

It would only take a year or two at most, and Tiberius was confident that the four leading legions would become the henchmen of Aulus; The other eleven regular legions of the Brutus family, Tiberius will slowly make them all loyal to Aulus, as long as the time comes, Tiberius has absolute confidence that Aulus will smoothly take over the position of family leader of the Brutus family.

Time flies quickly after returning to the barracks, and the legions that have been battered by the plague quickly regain their original strength in the barracks; Except for the fact that the combat effectiveness of the legion is difficult to recover for a while, the replenishment and rest in other aspects have been completed.

As time passed, the alliance between the city-states of Athens and Sparta became closer and closer, and even the city-states of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea and the city-states of Pergamon in Phrygia had the intention of joining this alliance; More crucially, the Greeks on the Greek peninsula increasingly supported and actively promoted the alliance between the city-states of Athens and Sparta.

When a large-scale Greek migration broke out in the area of the primordial city-state ruled by the Brutus family, and the slogan 'The Greek peninsula is the peninsula of the Greeks' became more and more accepted throughout the Greek peninsula, the Brutus family finally couldn't resist the Athenian and Spartan city-states.

It was impossible for the Brutus family to sit idly by and watch the alliance between the Athenian and Spartan city-states grow in influence, and they could not tolerate the fact that this alliance threatened the stability of the Brutus' rule; So, after the six wounded legions were replenished and their combat effectiveness was well restored, Tiberius immediately decided to go to war against the city-states of Athens and Sparta! (To be continued.) )