Don't be slow in doing things, don't be chaotic in your speech, don't wander your thoughts, don't be completely absorbed in yourself, or be overly restless, and don't be busy all the time in life.

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

On the left side of the northern border of the Roman Republic, directly in front of the Gallic province of the Gallic barbarian mountain of Gaul, there was a small state called Regulia; The country was also founded by the Gauls, but it was always isolated from the Gallic barbarians. neither had too much contact with the Gallic barbarians, nor was it friendly enough with the Roman Republic; Because of its special geographical location and national identity, the Roman Republic did not dare to launch a war to annex Regulia, and the Gallic barbarians would not attack their own compatriots.

Why is the geographical location of this kingdom of Regulia special? This is because the country is also on the south bank of the Rubicon, and it is tightly connected to a vital road. Intramontane Gaul and extramontane Gaul are divided by the entire Alps, and in order to connect Intramontane Gaul and extramontane Gaul, it is necessary to pass through two roads; The road in the north is a long way, and it has to pass through the territory of the Germanic barbarians, and is in danger of being attacked by the Germanic barbarians at any time.

In this way, the road to the west becomes the safest and most convenient road; However, due to its geographical location, the road had to pass through the northwestern part of the Kingdom of Regulia before it could cross the Rubicon River and enter Mount Gaul. After all, the Gallic barbarians and Regulia were of Gallic descent, although the two were not very closely related; However, the use of this road by the Gallic barbarians was completely unaffected, and even the kingdom of Regulia never managed this road at all, and has always allowed the Gallic and the Gallic outside the mountains to communicate through this road.

However, this situation changed until May of this year; The old king of Regulia, Morgan, personally caused a rebellion in the kingdom of Regulia. It turned out that Morgan, King of Regulia, was a very good king, and he loved not only beautiful women, but also mature married young women; Ten years ago, he had fallen in love with a widow with a son. In order to gain the widow's love, he took not only the widow into his palace, but also her six-year-old son, whom he adopted.

If that alone wasn't enough to cause unrest in the kingdom. But in mid-May; The adopted son of Daniel, whose name is called, was actually appointed by King Morgan as the heir of the Kingdom of Regulia at his own coming-of-age ceremony! How embarrassing is this for Morgan's own sons?! Naturally, the dignitaries of the kingdom also launched a fierce opposition to this; However, no one expected that Morgan would have handed over the most elite king's guard of the Regulian Kingdom to this ambitious Daniel a long time ago.

This Daniel is not a simple character, after taking command of the King's Guard; He spent his days in the barracks of the King's Guard under the pretext that he loved the military. Ostensibly, he was learning various military skills and sharing the ups and downs with the officers and men of the Guard. In fact, he is buying people's hearts and installing henchmen in the guard; Soon, the 5,000-scale King's Guard of the Kingdom of Regulia became Daniel's hall. All die-hard loyalists loyal to King Morgan and the royal family of Regulia were cleared, and all that remained were Daniel's own talon lackeys.

The young but intriguing Daniel was ostensibly modest to Morgan's sons and the dignitaries of the kingdom, and even repeatedly stated that he would not accept such an appointment; Secretly, he had already prepared everything and wanted to solve all these opponents of him. At a banquet hosted by Daniel. In the name of officially resigning as heir, Daniel invited King Morgan, his sons, and all the dignitaries of the kingdom to his mansion.

That night, Daniel's mansion was surrounded by five thousand Regurian Kingdom Guards; All those who opposed Daniel were slaughtered in one night. That night, Daniel began a purge of these families; Countless noble mansions were pried open, and then the nobles inside were slaughtered by Daniel's guards one by one. Not even the royal palace was spared this catastrophe, as King Morgan's queen and the royal family in the palace were slaughtered by Daniel; Not even Morgen himself escaped Daniel's clutches.

At this point, Daniel completely controlled the entire kingdom of Regulia; This was originally an internal affair of the Kingdom of Regulia, and it had nothing to do with the Roman Republic and the Gallic barbarians. As long as this Daniel did not have a hot brain and took the initiative to trouble the Julius family or the Gallic barbarians, in such a tense situation, neither side would bother with the affairs of the Regulian Kingdom; Of course, the premise of this is that the Regulian Kingdom has not officially fallen to either side, otherwise the other side will definitely destroy the Regulian Kingdom first and then start a war with the other party.

Because for the Julius family. If the kingdom of Regulia became the territory of the Gallic barbarians, then the family of Julius would be attacked on three sides; The fronts of the Etruscan and Ubrian provinces, as well as the left side of the Etruscan provinces, were attacked by the Gallic barbarians. For the Gallic barbarians, once the Kingdom of Regulia became the territory of the Romans, the connection between Gaul in the mountains and Gaul outside the mountains would be broken; At that point, Gallic would be left alone, and defeat would only be a matter of time.

In such a grim situation, the position of the Kingdom of Regulia is particularly important; No one will take the initiative to attack the Regulian Kingdom, but they will definitely not allow the Regulian Kingdom to fall to the other side. Then the accident happened, Daniel's massacre only cleaned up Sagesta, the capital of the Kingdom of Regulia; Far away on the border, the general of the King of Regulia's ** team, Kadoradu, was not killed, but led the 5,000 border troops of the Regulian Kingdom under his command in the border area to raise the banner against Daniel.

You know, this Kadoradu is not an ordinary general. He is the youngest brother of Morgan, the former king of the Kingdom of Regulia, and the last remaining member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Regulia; His presence seemed to bring hope to the confused people of Regulia, and countless persecuted and oppressed people flocked to the border to join the army of Kadoradu. Daniel faced such a situation. And didn't panic; Instead, they stepped up their recruitment and expanded the King's Guard, forming a new Daniel Legion to defeat the rebellious army of Kadoradhu.

The 10,000-strong Daniel Legion has defeated the rebel army with nearly 20,000 people, and it is the brutal Daniel who crusads against the righteous Kadoradu; This was originally a war that was not favored by the world. But it was surprising that the adjutant general of Kadoradu's army actually defected on the battlefield; What was supposed to be a safe war became a one-sided massacre by Daniel's legion. The more than 20,000 rebels did not leave a single prisoner behind, except for Kadoradu who fled from the battlefield with less than 3,000 men; The other nearly 20,000 rebels chose to surrender. He was also slaughtered by order of the cruel Daniel.

The situation within the Kingdom of Regulia has developed to this point. No one dared to stand up against Daniel's rule; But Kadoradu's escape has always kept Daniel in his throat. Therefore, he ordered his men to find out the whereabouts of Kadoradu and eliminate Kadoradu completely; After some painstaking pursuit, Daniel learned that the remnants of the army led by Cadoradu had surrendered to the Julius family. In order to completely solve this worry of Kadoradu. Daniel issued a statement to the Julius family; Ask the Julius family to hand over the traitor Cadoradu to the realm of Regulia.

Will the proud Julius family have the tiny kingdom of Regulia in mind? Naturally, not. The Julius family's lack of time to annex the Kingdom of Regulia was only forced by the threat of war from the Gallic barbarians, who would really care about this small Kingdom of Regulia? Faced with the arrogance and disdain of the Julius family, Daniel's tyrannical temper broke out again; He immediately tortured and killed the poor messenger, and then personally led Daniel's legions to the Roman border, and contacted the Gallic barbarians to join forces to attack the House of Julius!

Daniel's sudden move. shocked the House of Julius, but also the Gallic barbarian General Lugotorix; However, the Julius family is helpless by Daniel's stupidity, while Lugotorius is ecstatic about Daniel's brainlessness. Originally, the Gallic army under the command of General Lugotorius was nearly half smaller than the Roman army in number, but with the addition of this 10,000 Leguria kings' ** army; The numerical gap between the two sides was immediately erased, and from a strategic point of view, the Gallic coalition even had the upper hand.

As long as Daniel led his Daniel army from the Etruscan flank into the home territory of the House of Julius, Lugotorius would immediately lead his army to attack the Roman army from Etruscan; As for the Roman army in the province of Umbria, only one cavalry was needed to contain it. Although the cavalry could not attack the army in Ubraea, it could also ensure that the Roman army in Ubria could not organize reinforcements to the main Roman forces in Etruscan; Otherwise they would have fallen prey to the Gallic cavalry in the wild.

Lugotorius himself personally led the main army and the forest hunters who came from secret reinforcements, and was responsible for joining forces with Daniel's legion to annihilate the main army of the Roman army; Of course, the premise of all this is that Daniel's 10,000-strong army can successfully tear through the border defenses of the Etruscan Roman army. In this way, Lugotorix can fight the war he wants. Even if Daniel's army could not tear through the Roman defenses, it would be no problem until Lugotorix led the main army of Gaul to catch up; The combined attack of the two sides was enough to make the army of the Julius family unable to follow each other.

Thus, Daniel's decision immediately changed the situation between Gaul and Rome; The Julius family, which had an absolute strategic advantage, became the disadvantaged side, while the Gallic side, which was strategically disadvantaged, reversed itself into the superior side. In order to be able to cooperate with the battle in time, and to prevent Daniel from squandering such an advantage at will under impulse; Immediately after receiving Daniel's letter of alliance, Lugotorix led his Gallic army in the direction of the Rubicon.

At this time, what is the Julius family doing? Could it be that the Julius family just let Daniel lead the kingdom of Regulia and the Gallic barbarians to unite and attack themselves? Of course not, just after Cadoradu led 3,000 remnants into the Etruscan province and surrendered to the House of Julius; The leader of the House of Julius anticipated that Daniel might unite with the Gallic barbarians, and arranged for a response.

Some of the generals of the Julius family objected to this. It is impossible for Daniel and the Kingdom of Regulia to be so stupid as to change their neutral posture all along; Because as soon as they changed their position, then whether the Gauls won the war, or the Romans won the coveted victory, the fate that awaited the Kingdom of Regulia and Daniel was nothing but destruction. The reason is simple. A small state like the Kingdom of Regulia could only survive through neutrality between Rome and Gaul; Otherwise, no one would have spared this small, ambitious country.

Ambition must be supported by one's own strength, otherwise it will only bring destruction to oneself; What did Daniel's impulsiveness and tyranny bring to the Kingdom of Regulia? Will it be reborn like the kingdom of Epirus, or will it be lost to history like countless small nations? What does the future hold for Daniel and the Kingdom of Regulia? What will the Julius family do in response to Daniel's nationwide attack? (To be continued.) )