I was a priest in the city-state era

Chapter 390 Give Caesar a chance to do meritorious service

Recruited 5000 soldiers from the [-] Latins in the Lazio area, bringing the number of Lowe's soldiers in the Lazio area to [-].

But Roy did not use this huge force to launch a war against the Etruscans in the north.

Because Roy knew very well that the Latins in Lazio did not resist the rule of the Athenian Empire because the rule of the Athenian Empire did not harm their interests, and the rule of the Athenians was better than that of the Latin leaders.

Latin soldiers would enthusiastically join the Athenian Empire, not that they really supported the Athenian Empire.

They just wanted to avoid the revenge of the Sikurs, so they allowed themselves to have the status of soldiers of the Athenian Empire as a talisman to protect themselves and their families.

If the Etruscans invaded south, Roy could lead Latin soldiers against the Etruscans and protect their families.

Roy wanted to lead the Latin soldiers to attack the Etruscans and let the Latin soldiers fight with the Etruscans with their lives. The Latin soldiers would definitely not obey Roy's orders.

Since it is impossible to start a war with Latin soldiers, it is obviously a waste of precious time for Roy to stay in the Lazio area.

After handing over the city of Rome and the Lazio region to the joint management of fifteen thousand leaders, Roy left the Lazio region alone and came to the Basilicata region.

The area of ​​the Basilicata region is 40.00 square kilometers, of which the area of ​​mountains is 40.00%, the area of ​​hills is [-]%[-], and the area of ​​plains is only [-]%.

Because of its small size and too many mountains, the Basilicata region has been economically backward for a long time, and is regarded as the least developed and slowest economically developed region in the Apennine Peninsula.

After Caesar led the Athenian soldiers to conquer the Basilicata region, the main reason why the Sabine leader Metius was willing to give up taking back the Basilicata region was that the Basilicata region was too barren to be worth following by the Sabines. War broke out in the mighty Athenian Empire.

If the Basilicata region was a fertile plain, Metius would never voluntarily give up taking back the Basilicata region.

Sirius.

In the history of another world, when the Greeks colonized the Apennine Peninsula, they established a city-state in Siris in the Basilicata region.

After Caesar led the Athenian soldiers to conquer the Basilicata region, they also stationed in Siris.

When Roy came to Siris, Caesar not only completed the distribution of fields in the Basilicata area, but also recruited 5000 soldiers from the local area, bringing the number of soldiers under his command to [-].

Barracks of Athenian soldiers.

Roy entered the barracks and saw Caesar training the newly recruited soldiers.

Seeing Roy who suddenly appeared in the barracks, Caesar hurriedly came to Roy and asked.

"Your Majesty, why did you come here suddenly? If there is any task you want to entrust to me, you can ask the messenger to tell me."

"I'm here to fight."

Roy explained with a smile.

"Although the Sabines do not want to start a war with our Athenian Empire over the barren Basilicata region, I want to retake the fertile Puglia and Abruzzo regions for the Sikurs."

After listening to Roy's words, Caesar said with a complex expression.

"Although the Sabines in Puglia and Abruzzo have a population of 20 and can muster at least [-] troops, they are now defenseless against us. If you take the people who conquered Puglia and Abruzzo The task is entrusted to me, and I am confident that I will conquer the Puglia and Abruzzo regions with [-] soldiers in my hands. Now that you come to fight this battle yourself, I will lose a chance to make meritorious service."

"I want to fight this battle myself just to let you have no chance to make meritorious deeds!"

Since Roy established the Kingdom of Athens, no Athenian soldier has become a military noble by accumulating military exploits.

It's not that Athenian soldiers don't want to be promoted, but because all Athenian soldiers don't have enough credit to be promoted to military nobility.

Every city-state in the Athens Empire was defeated by Roy himself, and every war in the Athens Empire was won by Roy himself.

Even Aries and others who followed Roy the first time did not have the chance to make meritorious service and become military nobles.

Roy did not give the generals and soldiers under his command the opportunity to make meritorious service, because Roy did not want the Athens Empire to give birth to military aristocrats.

Now Roy's thinking has changed a bit.

As long as Roy entrusts the military nobles to overseas areas far away from the Athenian Empire, it can also achieve the effect that the Athenian Empire only has royal families and civilians.

Seeing the hesitant expression on Caesar's face, Roy joked.

"Caesar, I was joking just now. If you are really eager to make achievements on the battlefield, I can give you the command of the war to conquer Puglia and Abruzzo. You win this war and serve the Athenian Empire Conquer a territory of [-] square kilometers, and I will make you the governor of South Africa."

Although Caesar didn't know where South Africa was, he had the same ambition as Caesar's name, eager to prove his ability in the war, and at the same time gain a higher status and greater power.

Hearing that Roy agreed to let him lead the Athenian soldiers to conquer Puglia and Abruzzo, Caesar immediately said excitedly.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely dedicate the victory to Your Majesty. If I lose the war, Your Majesty can chop off my head as punishment."

Seeing Caesar's confident look, Roy said with a smile.

"Then let me see your performance!"

Now the sons or nephews of the Sikur patriarchs have taken over as village chiefs all the Sabine villages in the Basilicata region.

Even if Caesar takes away all the five thousand soldiers in the Basilicata area, there will be no problems here in a short time.

So under the watchful eye of Roy, Caesar gathered [-] soldiers in two days, and then launched a war on Puglia without hesitation.

After entering the Puglia region from the Basilicata region, Caesar did not divide his troops to occupy the tribe village of the Sabines, but led an army of [-] in a straight line to Bari, where Metius' tribe was located.

On the way to Bari, Roy couldn't help asking Caesar.

"Caesar, do you want to defeat Metius' tribe first, and then conquer other Sabine tribes?"

"That's right!"

Caesar said excitedly.

"Metius' tribe is the most powerful Sabine tribe. As long as I defeat Metius' tribe, other Sabine tribes will lose their confidence in resisting us."

"But if you lose to Metius, you and your five thousand soldiers will fall into the siege of the Sabines."

"I won't lose."

Caesar said confidently.

"Now we are going to Bari with a hasty march. Metius can only gather [-] soldiers at most in a hurry. Although my soldiers have no advantage in numbers, and the soldiers will become exhausted due to the hasty march, my soldiers have the advantage of weapons. I lead a group of soldiers with black iron spears, there is no reason to lose to soldiers with wooden spears and stone spears. Your Majesty! I will defeat the enemy as easily as you, and then present Metius' wife and daughter as spoils of war to you .”

(End of this chapter)