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- Epicurus (representative of the hedonism of Arestepus)

The anti-Augustan military alliance initiated by Marius's Roman Empire was officially established in Tarentum, and the Roman Empire would join forces with Julius, Brutus, and Seleucid against the Augustan Empire; How could such a big event be hidden from the Augustan Empire?

Even if Oscar takes it lightly, it is impossible for the tragic dead and brocade guards of the Augustan Empire to relax their surveillance of these four empires; Especially Marius and the others, they are all emperors of various empires, how can their every move be low-key?

Although the Tragic Dead and the Brocade Guard had no way of knowing what the three emperors and one heir to the throne of the four empires had secretly discussed in Tarentum City, the four empires suddenly came together closely; What else could be done but to unite against the Augustan Empire?

With the current strength of the Augustan Empire, do you need to worry about these four empires uniting together? Nonsense, of course there is something to worry about! After obtaining the war horse resources of North Africa and the food resources of the Kingdom of Egypt, it only took five years at most for the Augustan Empire to double the overall strength of the entire Augustan Empire; But did the Augustan Empire have five years to develop?

In all fairness, if Oscar himself was an enemy of the Augustan Empire, he would not have given the Augustan Empire a chance to develop; Thinking about it from another perspective, it is not impossible for the four major empires, led by the Roman Empire, to unite against the Augustan Empire, but it is the most normal thing.

Since these four empires all want to make a move against the Augustan Empire, it is naturally impossible for Oscar to still sit and wait for Syracuse; Even if the Augustan Empire has not yet digested the increase in power brought about by the annexation of the North African continent and the vassal kingdom of Egypt, the strength of the Augustan Empire is not as simple as the four empires imagined.

Previously, when Calis and Lucas returned to the Augustan Empire, Oscar directly disbanded the legions that originally belonged to Lucas's command on the spot, and the fleet under the command of Calis was also incorporated into the naval fleet of the Augustan Empire; In order to maintain the stability of Crete and Rhodes after the disbandment of the Cretan Legions, Oscar also sent two legions to these two islands.

At present, the military strength of the Augustan Empire is not only strong, but also scattered; Four legions under the command of Luquis were stationed on the Iberian Peninsula, four legions under the command of Quintus were stationed on the North African continent, ten legions under the command of Spartak were stationed in the Kingdom of Egypt, one legion each on the island of Crete and the mountains of Rhodes, and only eight legions in Sicily.

This alliance against the Augustan Empire actually has the existence of the Seleucid Empire, which means that once the war breaks out, the army of the Seleucid Empire will directly attack the Kingdom of Egypt to restrain the strength of the Augustan Empire; In this way, the ten legions of the Augustan Empire stationed in the Kingdom of Egypt could not be moved, and the absolute security of the Kingdom of Egypt must be guaranteed.

As long as the Kingdom of Egypt remained firmly in the hands of the Augustan Empire, the Augustan Empire, with its almost endless supply of food from the Kingdom of Egypt, could raise more armies and even suppress the alliance of the four empires.

Therefore, Oscar should not only change his previous plan to withdraw the five legions and return to the Augustan Empire, but should also continue to send additional garrisons of the Augustan Empire in the Kingdom of Egypt; With the strength of the Seleucid Empire alone, ten legions of the Augustan Empire and 300,000 troops of the Kingdom of Egypt are naturally more than enough to deal with, but what if you add the participation of the Brutus Empire in the war?

Preparedness is the only way to be safe, this simple truth Oscar still understands; On the night of receiving this information, Oscar convened a military council of the Augustan Empire in the royal palace of Syracuse, and discussed with the Empire's important officials what to do.

Under the premise that the naval strength of the Augustan Empire remains absolutely superior, the alliance of the four empires can really threaten the Augustan Empire, that is, the Iberian Peninsula and the Kingdom of Egypt; The Iberian Peninsula of the Augustan Empire was closely connected to the Gallic Lands of the Ulius Empire.

Not to mention the Kingdom of Egypt, which had been in a state of hostility since the birth of the Kingdom of Egypt and the Seleucid Empire; Even without the intervention of the Augustan Empire and the other three Roman empires, a life-and-death battle would have broken out between these two countries sooner or later, and now it is just a matter of bringing this battle forward.

The Augustan Empire did not know when and in what form the enemy alliance intended to wage war, but the Augustan Empire could know exactly where the war would take place; In this way, the Augustan Empire could also prepare for this war accordingly.

With the current overall strength of the Augustan Empire, twenty-eight legions are far from the limit of the Augustan Empire, and the Augustan Empire is fully capable of forming twelve more recruit legions; As long as the Augustan Empire could have a huge force of forty legions, supplemented by hundreds of thousands of troops from the Kingdom of Egypt, this so-called alliance of four empires had absolutely no chance of winning the war.

These are just judgments made by the important ministers of the Augustan Empire without knowing more, but Oscar has another judgment in his heart; As long as Calabess's identity in the Julius Empire has not been revealed, then the Augustan Empire has every chance to take advantage of the opportunity for the other party to launch a war to complete the unification of the Augustan Empire!

Of course, Oscar wouldn't tell anyone about Carabess's existence; Except for the tragic dead who was known by coincidence, the other people of the Augustan Empire did not know about the existence of Calabes, which was the root of Oscar's belief in victory.

Just imagine, when Flavis organized a large army to start a war against the Augustan Empire, Calabes, who opened up the territory for the Julius Empire, actually led an army of ten legions to break through and launch a rebellion; Oscar is excited when he thinks about such a scene, this is the biggest foreshadowing planted by the Augustan Empire!

However, Oscar's younger brother Tuka raised an extremely serious issue in the conference room, that is, the issue of the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire; How powerful the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire was, as the Augustan Empire, which also had an ironclad cavalry of thousands in size, was naturally clear.

It is conceivable that once the tens of thousands of ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire are put into battle, it will definitely be a desperate ironclad torrent on the battlefield; With such a strong enemy, the former kingdom of Egypt could not stop it, and the army of the Augustan Empire could stop it?

Tuka's question is both frustrating and realistic, and so far the Augustan Empire has no way to deal with a massive charge of ironclad cavalry; Even the phalanx of pikemen, which was specially used to deal with cavalry, was completely unable to stop the onslaught of the ironclad cavalry when dealing with the ironclad cavalry, not to mention the Augustan Imperial army, which had few pikemen.

You must know that the Seleucid Empire does not have two thousand or three thousand ironclad cavalry, but at least twenty or thirty thousand ironclad cavalry; Could it be that the army of the Augustan Empire wanted to use the flesh and blood of the soldiers to stop the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire?

I have to admit that the large-scale ironclad cavalry possessed by the Seleucid Empire was indeed a problem for the Augustan Empire; The Augustan Empire could raise more armies to engage the three Roman empires at the same time, but there was no better way to meet the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire, and the only one in the world who could go head-to-head with the ironclad cavalry was the ironclad cavalry.

If the Augustan Empire really had no better way to deal with the ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire, then the Augustan Empire would have no choice but to continue to send additional troops to the Kingdom of Egypt; In order to win the war, it is always necessary to sacrifice some soldiers.

In addition, the two legions of the Augustan Empire stationed on the islands of Crete and Rhodes could be redeployed back to Sicily; Now that the Provincial Guard and the County Guard have been formed on these two islands, there is no longer a need for the Third and Fourth Legions to be stationed on the two islands to maintain stability, and it is the value of these two legions to return to Sicily to play a greater role.

As for the formation of new legions, Oscar felt that there was no need for the Augustan Empire to form more new legions for the time being; However, the Augustan Empire could have strengthened its military strength in another way, that is, to form a large-scale reserve force within the territory of the Augustan Empire, which replaced military pay with food on weekdays and carried out military training of appropriate intensity.

By the time war broke out, the Augustan Empire could use these reserves to quickly form new legions; This would not increase the economic pressure on the Augustan Empire in peacetime, and it would allow it to quickly have enough troops in time of war.

According to Oscar's conception, such a reserve force was to be formed in the provinces throughout the Augustan Empire; Each province had one or three reserve brigades depending on the size of its population, and the Augustan Empire could have about three or four legions of reserve troops, which was also a very powerful force.

The formation of the reserve army was entrusted to the joint responsibility of the Government Council of Vipsani and the General Staff of Mary; The rest of the Augustan Empire's ministers had to get busy in their respective areas of duty, and Oscar was racking his brains about how to deal with the threat posed by the Seleucid Empire's ironclad cavalry. (To be continued.) )

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