June, early summer.
Summer is just around the corner and the weather is a bit muggy.
In a tent of the Wu Army, there was silence.
The civil and military staff officers on the left and right sides of the tent were walking back and forth, they were constantly flipping through the documents one by one, checking each of the recitals sent to them, and they didn't dare to speak at all, for fear of angering Sheng Yan.
In the center of the tent, there is a newly completed giant terrain sand table.
Sun Quan's tall body stood beside him, his eyes were like rainbows, staring at the giant sand table depicting a three-hundred-mile terrain dominated by the Alps: "It really seems that something is wrong."
"Your Majesty, what's wrong" Zhuge Jin walked up and asked in a low voice.
Although he belongs to the political affairs staff officer, as Sun Quan's second general, he and Pang Tong will exchange information, familiarize themselves with every information that Sun Quan needs, and as long as Sun Quan needs it, he can say it immediately.
"Our position is very wrong" Sun Quan's face became more and more gloomy at this moment, and he muttered to himself in a low voice: "It's really too anxious, I didn't feel it before, but after entering here, I realized that we have been surrounded by the entire Roman territory."
After all, it was a great victory that overwhelmed his head.
The temptation of the First World War provoked his impatience.
It is too disadvantageous for the Wu army to go deep alone, everything is going well, if something suddenly happens at this time, not to mention whether he can conquer Rome, even if it is the millions of soldiers and horses under his command, it is difficult to say how many can go back.
"There may be worries about this, but Your Majesty, are you too nervous, and the situation is still with us" Zhuge Jin said enlightenedly.
"You're right, even if we go deep alone, with the strength of our troops, what will Rome do to fight against me" When Sun Quan heard this, he thought about it and felt a lot relieved.
At this time, Pang Tong had already summoned all the generals to enter the account saint.
"The last general, Lu Bu, meet Your Majesty" Lu Bulong walked in a tiger step, and after walking in, he took the lead in saluting Sun Quan.
"The Last General Pan Feng" "The Last General Zhuge Liang" "The Last General Guo Jia" “” The United Front Work Group of the Military Aircraft Department, the First Theater of Operations, the Division of the Central Army Corps, and the high-level generals at the level of Chief of Staff of the Corps all gathered together, and they even rushed in behind Lu Bu and saluted one after another.
"Now is the time of great war, and the generals need no courtesy" Sun Quan waved his hand, his eyes still fell on the terrain sand table, and while watching, he said to Pang Tong over and over again: "Shiyuan, you hand them the news of the second war zone" "No" Pang Tong compiled the news from the Second War Zone into a dossier, and then passed them on one by one, so that all of them could read it.
"The Second Theater of Operations is in Trouble" Lu Bu looked at it and frowned slightly.
"I'm afraid it's not as simple as trouble" Guo Jia pondered for a while, and a trace of worry flashed in his eyes: "Even if the Gallic Legion suddenly appears in Milan, it can't stop us, they only have one legion, but we have a strong force in a war zone, and it is only a matter of time before Milan is conquered, but the sudden appearance of the Gallic Legion has broken many expectations in our hearts, which also proves that the Roman Empire has hidden some forces from us that we don't know at all" "The Gallic Legion was not just an accident" Zhuge Liang also spoke, his voice was very solemn: "This incident reminds us that the Roman Empire is not yesterday's yellow flower, it still has a lot of strength, it seems that we urgently need to take a good inventory of the Roman Empire's troops" "Hmm" Hearing this, everyone nodded one after another.
"Shiyuan" Sun Quan also nodded, and he gestured to Pang Tong.
"In" Pang Tong quickly stood up at this time, as the right staff officer of the imperial study and also the military staff officer of Sun Quan, he was already familiar with these materials, and he could blurt out: "The Roman Empire in the era of Severus inheriting the throne, there were a total of seven standing legions, the Augustan legion, the Gallic legion, the Italian legion, the Iron Legion, the Crusader legion, the Germanic legion, the Apollo legion, of course, this is not the most powerful guard legion in the Roman Empire, because the Guards legion belongs to the Praetorian Guard of the Roman city, Many people think that the Guards Legion belongs to the ranks of the Seven Legions of Rome, but in fact, the Guards Legion is a powerful legion in addition to the seven standing legions of the Roman Empire, the so-called standing army, is just the soldiers and horses of the Roman Empire guarding the four directions, and the legions that are not in the capital of the Roman Empire, and later the Roman Empire seized Armenia and Mesopotamia, established the province of Mesopotamia and the province of Armenia, and took advantage of the time when we seized the Sabbath Empire, gathered a large number of Sabbath generals, and established the Eighth Legion, Parthian Legion" "Augustus' legion was crippled by the Fourth Theater of Operations in the Egyptian campaign, and almost all the four legions under his command were wiped out, and in the end only some troops escaped with some warships, but less than one-tenth of the entire legion" "The Germanic legions were wiped out by our army in the Battle of Antioch, and none of them survived, including the commander of the Roman Empire, Olvili."
"The Crusaders and Parthian legions retreated from the Byzantine city-states, but they were defeated by us in the siege just now, and the strength of three or four hundred thousand is now only about 200,000 remnants, and now they should have retreated to the city of Bologna, which is only about a hundred miles away from us, a city that stands on the plain of the Po River, a little defensive, but far from enough to stop us" "The Legion of the Guards has always defended the city of Rome, the only time it was to go to the city of Milan, but after the death of Albenus, the legion has lost its allegiance to the king and is now retreating to the city of Rome, and the Predator and the Apollo Legion are now in the city of Rome, supporting their respective Roman princes, and are vying for the throne."
"As a regular navy of the Roman Empire, the Italian legion should currently be the navy guarding the Greek waters and defending our attack, after all, Greece is also a gap in Italy, once Greece is breached, our navy can go straight to Sicily from the sea and enter the Italian peninsula."
"And the Gallic Legion, according to our information, this legion should now be in the northwestern province of Gaul to resist the attack of our forces in the third theater, but now it is clear that the presence of this main army in the city of Milan means that he has been transferred to the Italian province."
Pang Tong said very carefully.
This is all the information he extracted from the battle reports that have been submitted one after another recently.
"Not right" Zhuge Liang suddenly spoke.
"Kong Ming, what's wrong" Pang Tong looked at Zhuge Liang and asked.
"The Roman Empire had not only nine legions, but three more" Zhuge Liang said.
"And three legions" Everyone was stunned.
Something strange.
After all, with the establishment of the Roman legions, the three large legions had at least five or six hundred thousand troops, which they had never encountered before.
The first to react was Chen Gong, he had a flash of inspiration, and quickly said: "What the Chief of the General Staff said should be that none of us have seen before, the three recruit corps formed by Severus" "There is such a thing" Zhuge Jin flipped through some of the files sent by the Jinyi Guard, and said: "But the news of the Jinyi Guard's supervision, since Severus was killed in the coup, the three legions have been disbanded on the spot, on the grounds that the treasury cannot afford to support so many troops."
"Disbanded" Hearing this, Sun Quan squinted slightly: "Hehe, I haven't paid attention to this news yet, but" The generals hurriedly stared at Sun Quan with a pair of eyes, waiting for his next sentence.
"Even if Severus is dead, the Roman Empire will not be invincible, no matter who is in charge, I don't believe that at such a juncture they will disband hundreds of thousands of troops," Sun Quan said quietly.
"It's a bit weird about this" The generals nodded.
"But Your Majesty, in fact, this matter is not impossible, after all, this is the army formed by Severus himself, it must be controlled by Severus's descendants, and now the Senate is in charge, in the hearts of these senators and nobles, why should the Roman Empire raise a group of soldiers with different intentions" It was Zhang He of the Guanzhong Legion who spoke, his voice was deep and reasonable.
"Yes, if it were me, hundreds of thousands of uncontrolled soldiers and horses, and a waste of finances, I would also disband" "Not necessarily, after all, Severus is dead, and Robert may not have the ability to regain the loyalty of these soldiers, so why bother disbanding this force that can fight for Rome when Rome is in danger" “” The generals spoke, and their opinions were divided.
"I'll leave this matter to Jinyiwei to investigate."
Sun Quan also somewhat agreed with Zhang He's statement in his heart, if this matter was put on him, he should not raise a group of soldiers and horses who were not loyal to him, but he was still a little worried, so he added.
"Yes" Pang Tong nodded, summoned a Jinyi Guard captain, and asked him to pass this order out of the Jinyi Guard's channels.
"Back to the question of the Gallic Legion" Sun Quan said: "What do you think the Gallic Legion is doing in Milan, what is the idea of the Roman Empire?"
"This" The generals were silent.
"Milan is another way to attack the city of Rome, and the reason for our division of troops is that there is a joint resistance of the Crusaders and Parthian legions in front of us, which greatly delays the time for us to enter the army, so we must open a second road from Milan" Zhuge Liang analyzed: "If the Roman army is deployed in Milan, the only possibility is to delay the time for our troops to arrive in Rome."
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"Why not block, but procrastination" Sun Quan asked.
"Your Majesty, if the Roman Empire wants to stop us, just by virtue of the fact that there are three legions in front of us, it is not enough at all, we have millions of troops, two major theaters, two fronts of attack, no matter what, they can't stop it at all" It was Guo Jia who analyzed Zhuge Liang, and he said in a deep voice: "So they may be procrastinating" "Procrastination" Ju Yi came to his senses and said, "Isn't that delaying time, what's in it for them?"
"Yes" Zhuge Liang replied: "If you delay time, you can free up enough time for them to clean up the civil strife, there is a saying that if you want to fight with us, you must first settle inside, they want to fight us, they must stabilize the unity of the city of Rome" "Of course, the reason why they are delaying time is that they are confident enough to clean up the civil strife in the city of Rome" Pang Tong added a sentence with tacit understanding.
"Enough confidence to clean up the civil strife" The corners of Sun Quan's mouth raised a playful smile: "Whether it's Robert of the Senate, or Caracalla, or Geta, I don't think they have enough confidence to clean up the civil strife in the Roman Empire today."
The civil strife in the Roman Empire was real, otherwise Sun Quan would never have dared to go straight into it for so long.
After all, even if the Roman army is not strong enough, there are still tens of millions of people in the Roman Empire, once someone raises his arms and calls for the king, he will fall into a turbulent siege.
He's impatient, but he's not stupid.
The reason why he chose to lead his troops straight in was to take advantage of this opportunity of civil strife to quickly take the Roman Empire.
The snake has no head and does not walk.
As long as he can take this opportunity to lead the army to conquer the city of Rome, kill and exterminate the senators, defeat the main force of Rome, and then burn the city of Rome, it is enough to make the Roman Empire lose a core, and then the Roman provinces will lose their direction, so that the Wu army can be broken one by one, and in less than ten years, the emperor of Western Europe will completely become a battlefield for the princes of the Central Plains to compete for hegemony.
If you want to quickly clean up the civil strife in Rome, you need a person with fame, popular support, strong strength, and absolute courage.
In today's Roman Empire, there are no such people.
According to Sun Quan's sources, there are only two and a half of the Roman Empire who have such ability, one is Severus, the other is Olveli, and half is supposed to be Severus's henchman Friedrich.
Now that Severus is dead, Orvili is dead, and Friedrich is missing, even if he is alive, he has enough fame and popularity, but he lacks the courage to suppress the legions.
Therefore, Sun Quan believes that this civil strife is not so easy to use unless one of them is defeated.
If one of them is really defeated, then their strength will definitely be consumed, and this is a great opportunity for Wu Junbing to come to the city.
"Then where did they get the confidence to clean up the civil strife in Rome" Lu Bu squinted his eyes slightly, and asked a question that everyone wanted to ask.
"Newspaper" Outside the imperial tent, a loud voice sounded.
"Come in" Pang Tong let out a low snort.
"Report to Your Majesty, this is information sent by a Roman, and it has a unique code sign on it" "Jinyiwei" Sun Quan's eyes lit up: "Shiyuan, take it apart" "No" Pang Tong diverted the information, glanced at it, trembled all over, and his face became very pale.
"What's wrong?"
Sun Quan took it and looked at it, his brows furrowed quickly, and his pupils contracted a little.
The generals quickly spread out this piece of information and looked at it, and one by one they fell silent.
"Now do you know where the faith of the Roman Empire is?"
Sun Quan clenched his fists, opened his mouth a little hoarsely, and asked sarcastically.
"Severu" One by one, the generals gritted their teeth and spit out the name.
For this Roman emperor, they have some intuitive impressions, which are so impressive that they can't forget it.
This information was sent from the city of Rome, and it told me everything that had happened in the city in recent days, including the resurrection of Severus.
"We've Got It" In the silence, Pang Tong opened his mouth to break the silence: "Severus is obviously a fake death, the reason why he faked his death, the purpose is already obvious, one will be two eagles, one side can cut off the dissent within the Roman Empire, so that the whole empire can unite against us, on the other hand, and most importantly, he wants his own death to weaken our vigilance against the Roman Empire and lure us into going deep alone, so he must have set up a net here waiting for us to get into" t1706231537: