Augustus Road

"What. Caesar is here!" This was the first reaction of Byblos on the hospital bed in the city of Apollonia after hearing about the war situation. He did not scold anyone, but with a smile as deep as rouge. Cheek, climbed out of bed, fetched daggers and daggers from his retinue, and shouted, "Where is our fleet, where are our ships? Where is Caesar's goal? Is it Dickhardian or Olicum? Apollonia where we are?" Several slaves tried to stop the over-emotional fleet commander, but when he heard the disappointing news: Caesar's main attack direction was unknown, because in the past few days when he fell to recuperate, no matter what Both Libo and Maximus were slacking off, and the sailors were unwilling to wander on the sea anymore. They chose to go ashore to rest and did not intercept the patrolling team. Therefore, it was too late to intercept Caesar's actions.

Byblos roared and struck the sculpture angrily with his sword, cutting the nose and mouth into pieces. "Send sail for me," Vespiro and Milochius of Olicum also hurriedly sent out ships. Attack, capture the ships carrying Caesar's soldiers, and sink them one by one without mercy. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Even if Caesar cannot stop the first wave of troops coming ashore, he can still destroy his second wave. Then they will Trapped in Epirus, with no way to advance or retreat, if he calls for the three legions of Gebinus and Sextus from Delphi to rush in, Caesar will be finished. "Byblos, who was under heavy fire, was like a happy man. Devil, dancing.

Caesar's fleet traveled very fast on the comfortable sea. They set off that night and arrived at the landing site before noon the next day. Of course, this was not Caesar's precise calculation in advance, and the technical limitations of that era could not achieve this. Everything depends on the face of the goddess of fate - the lucky Caesar. Take the lead with the 9th, 10th and 11th legions. A team of about 12,000 men and 2,000 German Weaver cavalry, contrary to Byblos's expectations, landed on a narrow rocky beach called Paleste further south, sandwiched between Corfu and Apo. There is a protruding promontory land between Luonia, which is more conducive to Caesar's consolidation of defense against possible counterattacks by Pompey's army.

"God bless you." These words were spoken by Caesar after he jumped onto the land. The first sentence he spoke was also a revelation of his true feelings. Then he asked his Servev cavalry to move along the Egnatia Avenue from the port of Dikhar, which traverses the entire Greece, occupying The key point is that within a few dozen miles of Palestine in the south, there are many anchorages of the Byblos fleet, especially Corfu, which is the main stronghold. Caesar did not dare to neglect it at all. He asked the soldiers to take off their wet clothes immediately after climbing onto the land. After wiping his body with olive oil, he put on the only salute for this voyage, "a set of dry clothes and armor", and then immediately headed north, heading towards the city of Apollonia where Byblos was located.

As long as he captures Apollonia, he will have a solid bridgehead, so that he can have a foothold and not be annihilated by Pompey's army on the shore.

Then, Caesar asked the fleet to return quickly to pick up the rest of the legions led by Antony, who were still waiting to set off at the port of Brindisi.

Over there, on the island of Corfu, from Apollonia to Dikha, beacon fires were lit everywhere on the towers of various cities, and Byblos' fleet also took action. Regardless of his illness, he personally led twenty ships Anchor has been lifted from Apollonia, and nearly a hundred raiding ships on Corfu Island should be in place soon. "Be like a shark, devour Caesar's ships, catch them, capture them!"

Soon, a ship flying a small eye-catching flag arrived at Olikum slightly north after checking the password and code. At that time, the two commanders were preparing to respond to Byblos' order and took all the fleets with them. We went to the sea to search for attacks, but Princia's "intelligence" was also sent at this moment. The messenger made it very clear: the southern coast of Italy was tightly blocked by Caesar, so the hostess sent me to send it from the slightly neglected north. Come for information.

"Immediately, Caesar's chief lieutenant Lepidus will lead three to four legions to raid our port city." After opening this information, Vespiro was shocked. Could it be that Caesar's crossing of the sea over there was just a feint attack? Lepidus was the main attack link, and the city they were stationed in was so unlucky that it happened to bear the brunt.

Milochius on the deck over there was also silent. The three legions must have been equipped with a powerful fleet, but they only had ten ships on hand, and the pitiful strength of three garrison brigades. Previously, he had many Reports were sent to Byblos and Gabinus several times, asking for the defense of the area to be strengthened, but they were ignored. Now that the matter has come to this, it is no longer up to them.

"Let's ignore the information and sail directly with the fleet and soldiers!" Milokius said boldly.

"But won't you be punished for abandoning the city's defense?" Vespiro said worriedly.

Milochius was still in the old army and had plenty of experience. He said to Vespiro: "Immediately, the whole army will unite the caliber and say that when the intelligence is sent, we have already obeyed Byblos's military order and went to sea. In this way, even if Lepidus Now that Si is here, we don’t have to bear the blame for the fall of Olicum - and we also ask the scribe to copy the information in three copies, one for Byblos, one for Lelias who is besieging the city of Isa in the north, and finally Give one directly to General Gebinus and Marcellus, who are presiding over the federation of all Greek city-states at Delphi!"

The two of them had decided on their plan, so they jumped on the boat and headed towards the southern seas. The reason was very good, "to help capture Caesar's main fleet."

Over there, Lepidus and the chief battalion of the 16th Legion, with a thousand Matias, have set sail and rushed to the northern Adriatic Sea, with the goal of Olikum. "If the enemy abandons the city, we will quickly occupy the port; if they still dare to resist, we will use bellows fire and Masseria's noblewoman cannons to attack. No matter how much sacrifice, we must succeed. We don't have much time!"

But it is obvious that the false information he spread in advance has worked. Olikum has no garrison soldiers at all. When Lepidus's fleet entered the water port, the elders were already standing on the dock with flower girls shouting welcome. It was the next morning. Then the group of people were surprised to see that this was just a very small fleet, and there were only about 2,000 soldiers coming down.

But the information was rapidly spreading along various channels like arrows towards the inland of Greece as the city of Olikum fell.

Under the city of Issa, in the siege position, General Laelius, shirtless and smeared with olive oil, was trembling his scarred left eye (his left eye was hit by a stray arrow when he fought Mithridates VI in the east), and was struggling to read the intelligence sent by the messenger, "What, there are actually three or four legions landing in Olikum, which means that the southwest flank of my legion is threatened?" (To be continued...)