After preliminary estimates, Sima Ji believed that Rome could use no more than 50,000 troops, which was already a lot of this number, so he still considered the result of the Mediterranean connection. In fact, under normal circumstances, the number of soldiers on both sides of the decisive battle was almost fought in the scale of 30,000 to 50,000.

One side gathered to fight with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and often did not use it in the same station. Sima Ji, who had just killed the Roman legion stationed in Egypt, only used half of the soldiers.

He often does not have the effect of the imagination. The last time he brought an army of more than 100,000 people was when the King of Yan was fighting a civil war. Whether it was the southern expedition of Linyi or the eastern expedition of Sanhan, he actually brought only 30,000 to 40,000 people, but he just went to the local area to recruit allied troops to add people.

This is not available in the Roman Empire now, because there are no allies of the Roman Empire around Egypt. Allies that often cooperate with the Roman Empire are in northern Persia, and Armenia and Iberia. Iberia is the ancestor of Georgia, and the two countries often join forces with Rome to deal with Persia together.

This battle envisioned by the King of Yan was enough to rely on the troops of the Jin army. In fact, it was enough to rely on the Jin army before. However, he had to share the casualties before he pulled the Xianbei Jurchens to fight. He summoned the minions along the way, which became a scale of nearly 150,000 troops, which was the limit of a long-distance battle.

Sima Ji was crazy about four mad operations in Egypt, calculating the scale of troops that Rome might draw and making corresponding arrangements. On the side of Rome, Marcus had arrived in the city of Rome. He met the four consuls gathered in Rome, Augustus Diocletian, Maximian, and their adopted sons Caesar Galerius and Constantius. The latter was actually not younger than the former.

"You still have the face to come back. The seven legions of troops will be defeated in one battle." Constantius snorted coldly, staring directly at the silk that Marcus brought back for a moment, and then stopped caring.

The Romans had a strong preference for silk, but they also had to tell when they came to the door. What are the uses of these external things?

"Did you let you back on purpose? Who is the other party?" Maximian was not as impatient as Constantius, and asked without moving his expression [Update Fast] in detail, how did he lose? Who is the enemy?

"The enemy claimed to be the Jin people, the current ruler of the country of origin of silk. Since last year, he traveled westward for tens of thousands of miles, defeated the Persians who blocked it, and now he has arrived in Egypt." Marcus dared not hide it, and explained all the situations revealed by Sima Ji one by one. "Each of them was equipped with war horses, driving the flock of sheep along the way, defeating the enemy blocked it and replenishing food. The Persians were also stopping them, but they were defeated, and finally bowed their heads to provide food. I don't know what methods were used to make this army come to Rome."

"These damn Persians cannot beat others, so they will lead us to Rome." Galerius cursed. As Diocletian's deputy, he had been fighting with the Persian Empire for a long time. The two previous emperors, dìdū, died indirectly in his hands. Now, when he heard the role of the Persians in it, he was even more angry.

"March on horseback, driving the flock of sheep along the way as a supply? Barbarians?" Constantius spoke in confusion, thinking of the enemy who had once been Rome.

Now there are still a hundred years before the emergence of Attila. The Romans have not seen enemies mainly cavalry. Parthia, who is known for cavalry shooting, and Persia, who is mainly rushing to attack. The establishment of the Sassanian Persian Empire became a nightmare for the Roman Empire on the eastern border. If the Parthian Empire in the past was just a dying strongman, then the Sassanians who have always taken the responsibility of rebuilding the world's No. 1 Empire in Xiri was a vicious wolf who could launch a pounce at any time.

The Persians could not forget the ancient Persia that destroyed Alexander, the world's first empire that was undisputed. They had been thinking about taking back the place that originally belonged to ancient Persia in Rome, but the two sides had fought countless times.

As soon as he heard that there was the role of the Persians, Diocletian's face turned gloomy. If the enemy had not been resolved and the Persians came to cause trouble again, it would definitely not be a happy thing for Rome.

During this period of discussion, Diocletian was still hesitating whether to transfer the Roman legion from the East, because he was afraid of being taken advantage of by the Persians and throwing away the land in Syria and other places, so he had not made up his mind for a long time.

"In fact, the Jin people will leave sooner or later, and it is not a bad thing to be able to live in peace. After all, the borders in the north are unstable. If the legions are drawn to Egypt on a large scale, the pressure will be great along the north." Maximian spoke and analyzed the situation. In fact, only he can speak at this time. The two Caesars still lack certain qualifications.

Diocletian didn't speak, obviously hesitating. It was precisely because of the unstable frontier and the threat of Persia that he established a system of co-governance of the four emperors, each in charge of one place and dealing with enemies in different directions.

If the rest of the world was safe and sound, only Persia was the enemy. How could Diocletian have to do this?

But even so, waiting for others to leave without saying a word to recover Egypt is a hit in reputation for them, especially at the critical moment of abdication. If we ignore the matters in Egypt, how can the new August convince the public? Diocletian sighed in his heart. Sometimes he actually envied the monarchs of the East. The decision-making power in such matters is much greater, and there is no need to worry about the views of all forces.

Not to mention the four consuls, there is still an existence called the Senate in the city of Rome. It is not impossible to incite negative attacks on them if the Senate seizes the handle and creates public opinion.

Sima Ji came from afar and found that Christians became helpers was already a surprise. How could he really know the situation within the Roman Empire?

After Diocletian's reform, don't look at Augustus becoming two Augustus emperors, two Caesars, and a total of four consuls. But each of them had more rights than Augustus. As for Diocletian himself, he always reformed Rome with reference to the rights of the Persian emperor.

This practice of concentrating power on oneself is to weaken the role of the Senate. Previously, the Senate was a state organ that had both legislative and administrative power. It was originally a meeting of clan elders, and other large slave owners such as former state officials also entered the Senate during the Republic. The Senate had the right to approve and recognize the law, and to control fiscal diplomacy through consuls, govern provinces and implement major religious measures. During the imperial period, the regime was increasingly concentrated in Augustus, and the Senate was gradually declining its real power, which had lost its original status, but was still the pillar of aristocratic rule.

After the Diocletian reform, the Senate really only had a symbolic role. The authority is currently limited to the city of Rome, including Diocletian himself, and all administrative agencies were placed in other cities.

But where is this place? The four of them are now in Rome, and the authority of the Senate in Rome still exists. Diocletian even had a feeling that the commander of the Jin army seemed to have seen the difficulties of the Roman Empire, and specifically took on pain points that he did not want to touch himself and started at the most appropriate time.

This must be Sima Ji's style, but Diocletian really misunderstood. Sima Ji did not expect the role of the Roman Senate. As for Diocletian's four people gathered in Roman city, you all came by yourself. The King of Yan really just came here by chance at this time, which was all misunderstanding.

"Maximian, my comrade-in-arms, I actually know you are right. If you can let go of your pride and wait for the Jin people to leave, we have a way. It is indeed wrong to think so." Diocletian looked at his comrade-in-arms whom he had always trusted and said with a puzzled look, "The four of us can manage our own affairs well, but what about the Senate? They have always been dissatisfied with our four rulers, but it is hard to say it out. If we sit and watch each other come and go freely in our Egyptian province, will the Senate incite dissatisfaction with us?"

"Where are Galerius and Constantius?" Diocletian pointed at his and Maximian's two adopted sons and said with a embarrassed expression, "Can they succeed in becoming Augustus?"

Diocletian explained the current situation one by one, and Maximian was also silent. He had to admit that his comrades were worried, and it made sense. Since Diocletian concentrated the reform of power and restricted the authority of the Roman Senate to the city of Rome, the structure of the four emperors' co-governance was only twenty years.

Now is another sensitive moment for the emergence of New Augustus. If they really ignore the Jin people's occupation of Egypt, they may really cause accusations from the Roman Senate as Diocletian said. They cannot ignore the existence of the Senate, especially because they are now in the city of Rome.

"Because of Persia's threat, I am actually unwilling to fight the Jin people under the conditions of unknown victory or defeat, but this is the situation in the city of Rome recently, and we cannot retreat." Diocletian was helpless in his words, and finally made up his mind to say, "I will mobilize Germania and Gaul's legions back, plus Afilica's legions."

Then he said to Galerius and Constantius, "You two personally commanded and divided into two routes from Afilica and the sea to attack Egypt. Don't be like Marcus, you must fight steadily."
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