"The Roman oligarchy after the failure of the Gragu brothers' reform only thought about how to make a fortune, and its policies were also unprincipled." - "The Juguda War"

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This is natural. There are always many nobles in the city of Rome. Whether it is speculation or persistence, they have private contact with the Pompei Party. Sometimes they will provide some plausible information, and sometimes they will express some whining feelings. However, Etius's letter is something that cannot be ignored by both "little Pompei", because his ideas and intelligence are accurate and concise, and can also put forward corresponding plans. He opposed Crassus' expedition to Parthia, but the other party failed to defeat the entire army in Kale, which greatly boosted the reputation of this civilian protection official. Later, he fought to the death in front of the Holy Cuba (of course, he failed in the end), which was also considered eye-catching. Now the nobles regard him as a new star, raised a lot of money, said a lot of good words, and promoted him to the capital official very smoothly.

As a result, Caesar made a plan last year to expand the officials who had only two posts to 16, which immediately made Etius feel so angry that he had secretly colluded with the Pompeii Party and kept sending new strategies.

This time, Etius carefully observed the situation after Pompei's death, and then drafted a detailed document for the two Pompei:

In order to consolidate his dictatorship, Caesar will launch an expedition against Dacia or Parthia. So you don’t need to be too domineering now. Caesar thinks that you can be pacified by the three Spanish legions, so just engage in some piracy in the Balearic Islands, and don’t attract Caesar’s attention. That will not be a good thing for you;

Your combat power is mainly to preserve about a hundred ships. It is more appropriate to scatter the garrisons, mainly threatening the Marcella and Ligurian waters to confuse Caesar's camp's judgment;

Caesar's fleet would escort about 4,000 prisoners of war, most of which were alien soldiers recruited by His Excellency's father, including Iberians and Numidians. After passing through the Balearic Islands, you can grasp the intelligence and attack the fleet. Capture as many prisoners of war as possible to serve as the army to strengthen training;

The target is the far Spanish province, which is adjacent to Lusitania, and is a certain distance from Gaul and Italy. Many of them are the Crien disciples of your father, and some veterans who were dismissed after being captured by Caesar last time. As long as they act decisively and quickly, they should be able to control these two provinces in a short period of time and continue to fight with Caesar, but before this, they must not expose their purpose.

Finally, Etius said this suggestion in a mysterious tone. "Now is a time when the enemy and I are not very clear. For Caesar, the dictator, he is actually a lonely man. He has no power except the army and a few stubborn people. Therefore, we have to use political means, whether it is the Spanish local disciples, chiefs, or many nobles in the city, they are actually dissatisfied with Caesar. Even people like Telureas or Casio, some things can be done without using swords."

After browsing the letter, Rolls immediately divided the work with Syketus: the former commanded the army, the latter was responsible for the navy, and Syketus's father-in-law Libo was in charge of the camp dispatch. The entire army must persist first and then find the opportunity to make a comeback.

At this time, the two brothers walked out of the low tent, surrounded by camp fences supported by short spears and wooden sticks. Many military slaves and soldiers were holding axes to cut down forests. This island group on the Spanish sea was actually not scattered. There were several large islands that were enough to farm and station to build camps and docks. The only disadvantage was the lack of rain, but this may not be a disadvantage for the little Pompei brothers who were good at fleets. Under the blue sky and white sand, many crew members were dragging the light Librna attack ship to dry on the beach, and then sat down in groups of three to three to make fire and apply oil. Otherwise, in such weather, their skin would soon crack.

Syketus also took off his sweatshirt. When a slave handed over the ointment, he looked at it and saw that the label on the bottle was "Ophelenu, Rome was founded for 684 years, dedicated to serving you", "This is a mixture of pea powder and olive oil, which is very effective and very easy to sell. It took us a lot of effort to buy it from Sardinia." The military slave smiled flatteringly, and Syketus nodded and returned the ointment bottle to him, asking him to wipe his upper body.

Before he could wipe his arms, a small boat came to the sea. Many resting crew members started to roar and took weapons to watch. But after a few people on the boat came down, everyone cheered again. It turned out that it was Rabinus, Rilias, Machius and others, all the great backbone generals of Pompei. Although it was hot, Rabinus was still covered in his cloak. It seemed that he was suffering from malaria. He trembled and took everyone to the water and hugged Syketus, "How did you escape?"

"Don't worry, we did not escape by humiliating and pretending to be a disguise - we are all veterans on the battlefield. After understanding the rules of the encirclement of Caesar's army, they took advantage of their slackness and spent a lot of money to hire a few desperate fishermen to send us from Utica. I heard that Scipio was not so lucky, he was too eye-catching." Rabinus said with a blue face, "But since we all survived, Caesar would be beautiful."

"Aren't you afraid of the death penalty?" asked Syketus, who was deeply moved.

"Unless Mount Surat moved to Bye Beach, unless the crows will announce the good news, we will follow Pompei's son and fight to the end with bloody battle with Caesar." Rileyas replied in the place of everyone.

Very good! So everyone gathered together soon. Although there were only a few lime-topped houses on the island, no one said anything about it. Rabinus was still wearing a blanket and trembling on the marching bed while discussing the plan. After obtaining the exact information, Libo opened the deputy chart and said, "This was drawn by General Pompey when he surrounded and suppressed pirates. I was one of his twenty-four deputy generals at that time. Now there are also traitor Maximus in Caesar's camp. The most extraordinary thing about this drawing is to subdivide the large area of ​​sea areas into blocks to facilitate encirclement and suppression, and now it is conducive to our raid."

"Repair all useful ships, unify the signal and work together, and distinguish the war zone and the interception zone." Then Rabinus drew several strokes on the map with his fingers. "This is the location of Syketus' raid. Both sides are dominated by Lipo and Machius to cut off the remaining ships of the Caesar fleet. Lelias and I were in the camp, because we were army talents, so we would not cause trouble."

As a result, when Caesar took a boat to Port Cararis in Sardinia, he received the message that the prisoners of war fleet in the rear were "intercepted". Hundreds of guards were killed on the deck, and most of the prisoners and transport ships were taken away. Then Caesar suddenly stood up and said that he would not care about the prisoners of war. The number of enemy ships is unknown. Let's talk about it first. (To be continued, please search for Piaotianyi, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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