My XX deal with Sister Nero

"By the way, have you figured out where the other side's lair is?" After looking at the map carefully, Nero suddenly looked up at the chief executive and asked.

"Your Majesty, at present... we have not found anything." Next to the Chief Executive, a middle-aged man in armor smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Nero frowned.

The war has been going on for so long, and the Roman Empire hasn't even discovered the rebel base camp?

If it wasn't that his men were too useless, then it was that the enemy was indeed very cunning.

……

Almost at the same time, on the other side.

Salome, who had just seen off the generals, had not yet laid down to catch her breath when she heard a soldier standing at the door reporting, "Your Highness, there is... a guest looking for you."

"Guests?" Salome was stunned when she heard the word. What guests? Where did the guests come from? She...shouldn't have any guests?

"...Let him in." After thinking for a while, Salome finally nodded.

Soon, Salome met this so-called guest.

The man was not very old, probably in his twenties or thirty, and was wearing a plain white toga. From his appearance, he looked like an ordinary Roman youth.

"Raum, one of the demon pillars under King Solomon, meets Her Royal Highness the Princess." The young man bowed slightly to Salome and spoke slowly with a gentle smile on his face.

King Solomon's Demon Pillar? !

Upon hearing this identity, Salome was so frightened that she almost stood up.

King Solomon! The most famous monarch of the ancient Jewish kingdom, known as the King of Magic!

To some extent, for the Jews, the status of the Magic King is no less than that of a god, and the Demon Pillar under his command is also a legendary existence. And one more thing, as a heroic spirit, Salome certainly knows that King Solomon has been resurrected, and she even knows that King Solomon built the Temple of Time with the intention of destroying human reason.

It can be said that King Solomon should be the enemy of the heroic spirits at present, but why would this Demon Pillar come to him?

"Don't be nervous, Princess Salome." Raum waved his hand at her in a gentle tone and said, "I am here on behalf of my king to reach a cooperation with Princess Salome. That is, we should jointly make the Jewish province independent. What do you think?"

Work together to make the Jewish province independent?

Salome was slightly stunned.

Solomon...Theoretically, this idea is not wrong.

After all, Solomon was the monarch of the ancient Jewish Kingdom, and the descendants of his people were being oppressed and exploited by another country. He wanted to join forces with the rebels to help the descendants of his people regain their homeland. This... seemed like a natural thing to do?

If that's true, then I'll have a new trump card, right?

However, if possible, I'd better get a few more cards. After all, His Royal Highness Prince Odney is a man who currently maintains an undefeated record!

ps: I need to deal with some personal matters tomorrow, so I may not update for a day, sorry

Chapter 620: “That” World

From his debut in Thessalonica to the second expedition to Parthia, Tony could be said to have never lost a battle. Although this undefeated myth seemed to be exaggerated in the eyes of the imperial high-ranking officials, at least in the eyes of the lower-class people and the rebels, Tony... was the guardian of the empire!

Now King Solomon also has the idea of ​​reviving the Jewish Kingdom, so... it would be a good choice for me to cooperate with them, right?

"Cooperating with you is indeed a good choice." After thinking for a while, Salome nodded and said with a serious look: "However, I have hundreds of thousands of troops under my command. I wonder...what kind of capital do you have to cooperate with us?"

"Capital?" Raum smiled indifferently and said, "Indeed, if both parties want to cooperate on an equal footing, they must provide sufficient capital. In this case... within three days, I will bring back the head of a Roman Empire legion commander for you. What do you think?"

The head of the legion commander?

Hearing these words, Salome's heart was moved.

The composition of the Roman Empire's army is currently mainly divided into the field army and the national army. The field army is mainly responsible for external warfare, while the national army is responsible for maintaining domestic security.

Therefore, depending on the size of the city and the number of people under its jurisdiction, the number of national soldiers in each place varies. For example, the city of Rome may have tens of thousands of national soldiers, while a city on the edge of the desert in North Africa may only have hundreds of national soldiers.

These national army troops are usually stationed in scattered locations, but if a national war breaks out and there are insufficient troops on the front lines, the imperial high-ranking officials will also dispatch additional national army troops to the front lines to assist the field army in fighting the enemy.

The most typical example is the Roman Empire's second expedition to Parthia.

In order to ensure that there were sufficient troops on the front line, the Roman Empire would even recruit a large number of young people for training, so that they could have a certain level of combat effectiveness as much as possible and be able to be added to the front line at any time.

But if the war was over, would it be necessary for the Roman Empire to retain such a large army?

Of course not!

Therefore, after the war, all temporarily formed legions will be disbanded, and the temporarily recruited soldiers will either be added to the legions or disbanded directly.

Therefore, the legion commander mentioned by the Demon Pillar is probably one of the twenty-four legion commanders of the field army!

……

After saying goodbye to Salome, Raum quickly determined his goal.

The rebellion in the province of Judea would certainly prompt some movement from the Roman Empire. In addition to dispatching His Royal Highness Prince Odenis, the more important thing was to assemble an army to assist His Royal Highness in suppressing the rebellion.

And this army should preferably be the troops retreating from the front line.

With this idea in mind, the Roman Empire sent 50,000 troops, led by Vespasian and Lius, to the border of the Jewish province.

"Vespasianus, a famous general of the Roman Empire." Lying on a small hill, Raum looked at the brightly lit military camp not far away, with a smile on his lips.

This Vespasian has had many achievements since he joined the army, with more victories than defeats, especially the battles he personally commanded in the Second Parthian War. Which one was not a great victory?

And the most important thing is that he was the commander-in-chief in the war to quell the rebellion in the Jewish province!

"Just choose him!"

After identifying the target, Raum jumped lightly and followed the cliff to the grass in front of the military camp.

"Who!" Almost at the moment when Raum landed, a young man wearing light leather armor fell from a big tree not far away, holding a dagger and asked vigilantly.

"Secret sentry?" Raum shrugged, gave the soldier an extremely elegant smile, and said slowly, "My name is Raum, I'm from Rome, and I'm going to the military camp on the orders of His Majesty to deliver an important secret order."

"A man from Rome?" Hearing what Raum said, the soldier was slightly stunned, and subconsciously relaxed his tense body and asked, "Do you have anything to prove your identity?"

"Of course." Raum nodded, took two steps forward to the soldier and reached into his arms as if preparing to take something out.

However, Raum did not take out any proof from his body. When he pulled his right hand out of his toga, it suddenly turned into a tentacle-like existence and pierced the soldier's heart before he could react!

The tentacle easily pierced through the soldier's body at a speed invisible to the naked eye, then suddenly twisted its shape in mid-air and rushed into the treetops above the soldier's head.

"thump".

With a dull thud, a corpse fell from a branch in the tree canopy and fell to the ground.

"Next..." After taking a look at the corpse on the ground, Raum turned his head and looked at a patch of grass not far away.

"Damn... Damn it..." A soldier lying in the haystack turned pale when he saw the man in the toga looking at him. He gritted his teeth and finally, with some trembling, he took out a small whistle from the lining of his armor.

With a shrill whistle, the soldier finally blew the whistle in his hand.

……

Just as Raum was preparing to hunt down Vespasianus, on the other side.

"Your Majesty, Prince Cangdu sent a report yesterday, saying...the killer who attempted to assassinate him seemed a little strange according to the investigation." A young man beside Rosa bowed his head and said.

"Killer? Oh, I remember now." Rosa was stunned at first, then he suddenly realized.

Two days ago, he received news that someone intended to ambush and assassinate Prince Cangdu in "that" world. When Rosa received the news, he was really shocked. After all, Prince Cangdu was very powerful. Among the nearly thirty princes, his personal combat power could rank among the top five.

If they want to assassinate him, then those hostile organizations must at least send out their top fighters.

So Rosa is quite concerned about this matter. Although several large-scale superpower organizations seem to be safe on the surface, they are basically having frictions with each other in secret. If someone really dares to assassinate Prince Cangdu, then Rosa will have enough reasons to kill this organization!

"Your Majesty, according to the photos sent back from the scene, the murderer who intended to assassinate Prince Cangdu was this person." As the young man spoke, he stretched out his hand and handed a photo to Rosa.

"This is... Tony?!" Rosa was stunned when he saw the boy in the photo. He said in disbelief, "How could it be him? How could he appear in that world?!"

Chapter 621: The Purpose of the Rebels

"Interesting, so interesting!" After an unknown amount of time, Rosa suddenly laughed out loud as if he had seen some great joke in the photo. He threw the photo aside and said, "This world is not accessible to ordinary people. Tony doesn't have the means we have, but he can enter this world. It seems that he must have some secrets that I don't know." Having said that, Rosa paused for a moment before continuing, "Pass the order, the army retreats to the anchor point. It seems that I need to go meet Tony in person."

……

Tony, for his part, had no idea that Rosa was coming to see him.

After a long and unspeakable sleep next to his sister, Tony got up from the bed at dawn the next day with a tired look on his face. He quietly got out of bed, put on his clothes, and went to the restaurant.

"Your Highness." Tony had just arrived at the restaurant and hadn't even sat down on a chair when he saw Mary push open the door of the restaurant with a panicked look on her face and come to Tony's side. She quickly glanced at the servants around her and lowered her voice and said, "Your Highness, General Vespasianus has sent a message that General Leus... died in battle."

"...What did you say?" Tony was stunned when he heard Mary's news. Then he scratched his ears in disbelief and said, "No, wait a minute. I just got up and my mind is not fully clear yet. Tell me again, what's the news?"

"General Lius died in battle." Mary leaned close to Tony's ear and lowered her voice again.

"..."

After thinking for about a minute, Tony suddenly stood up and said to the servants standing in the restaurant: "You go down first, and tell the kitchen that without my order, the kitchen will stop preparing breakfast today."

"Yes, Your Highness." Although they didn't understand why His Highness gave such an order, the servants still nodded and left the restaurant.

"...Tell me in detail, what happened?" Tony took a deep breath, rubbed his face hard, and asked.

In terms of seniority, Levius was older than Vespasian. Born in the Augustus period and rising under the rule of Tiberius, this famous imperial general fought for the Roman Empire for decades and participated in countless battles, large and small. Unexpectedly, he died in this small Jewish rebellion. And from Mary's tone, Tiberius did not seem to die in the battle between the two armies. There seemed to be something else behind his death.

"Your Highness, someone raided the camp last night. It seems that the enemy wanted to kill General Vespasian, but...but General Vespasian was not in the central military tent at the time, so he escaped, while General Lius...died at the hands of the assassin."

"Assassination?" Tony rubbed his temple.

When two armies are fighting, it is normal to use the tactic of assassinating the enemy's main general. Tony himself has used it, but the problem is that the Roman Empire is full of elite troops, and they are field troops that have just evacuated from the front line. It is impossible for them to be completely unprepared.

"In other words, the enemy sneaked into the camp and assassinated General Leius?" Tony sighed. It seemed necessary to let Vespasian investigate thoroughly. What if there was more than one spy inside the army? Then... after the formal battle, there would be more and more trouble.

"No, the enemy was not hiding in the military camp beforehand." Mary shook her head and organized her words a little bit, saying, "In fact, there was only one enemy, and he entered the camp openly through the main gate."

……

It’s invincible, oh shit!

Originally Tony thought that the other party might have been lurking in the military camp beforehand and then launched a surprise assassination, but he didn't expect that he actually used his invincible power to kill his way in openly. If this was the case, then this so-called assassin must have combat power far beyond that of ordinary people!

"Heroic spirit..." Tony touched his chin.

Anyone who can openly and directly use his invincible power without fear of the elite infantry of the Roman Empire is either a top magician or... a heroic spirit!

There are three major camps of magicians now, the Wandering Sea, the Atlas Academy, and the Magic Association. The Magic Association is basically dependent on Rome, and the remaining two major camps have not appeared yet, so in comparison, the possibility that the enemy is a heroic spirit is higher.

"There are only a few famous heroes in the Jewish region. Salome, as the enemy's main general, will definitely not go into battle in person. King Solomon is in the Temple of Time. As for King David... According to intelligence, King David is currently on the island of Cyprus. So... who could this hero be?"

After two seconds, Tony suddenly tapped the table, turned his head to look at Mary, and asked seriously, "What do you think is the fundamental purpose of the other party's assassination of General Lius?"

Tony's mind is very active, especially when it comes to war.

In his previous life, he was a junior high school student and was a bit immature. In addition, he could not play computer anytime like he would do more than ten years later, so during self-study classes, Tony and his classmates would draw a map to be the king and attack each other.

It is for this reason that Tony has developed the habit of thinking three steps ahead before taking one step.

To some extent, Tony is indeed a talented player. If he can really concentrate on studying in the future, he can become a true Roman marshal in the future.

"Eh? The enemy assassinated General Lius... why?" Mary didn't react for a while and subconsciously acted as a parrot.

"The assassin's original intention was to assassinate General Vespasian, and General Vespasian was the supreme commander of the front-line army that was suppressing the rebellion. So the fundamental purpose of the other party's assassination of General Vespasian was to paralyze the command of this army and make them temporarily unable to move. The enemy can also take this opportunity to surround and eat up this army." Tony touched his chin and muttered to himself.

Although this analysis makes sense, deep down in Tony's heart, he himself doesn't quite believe the results of this analysis.

It's very simple. The troops retreating from the front line have extremely strong combat effectiveness. After all, they are the troops that have fought against the Parthian Empire. If their combat effectiveness was not strong, they would have died on the front battlefield long ago. Therefore, it is almost impossible for the enemy to wipe out this army.

Moreover, even if this army was defeated, the Roman Empire could still send more troops to suppress the rebellion. If their main force was worn down for these 50,000 troops, what would the rebels use to deal with the newly arrived Roman Empire army?

So they... must have other purposes.

"Could it be... that they want to take this opportunity to kill my sister and me?"

Chapter 622: Siege!

The more Tony thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

To annihilate Vespasian's 50,000-man army, not to mention the considerable loss of manpower, the very least, is only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution. After annihilating these 50,000 men, the Empire can dispatch another 100,000 or even 200,000 men to quell the rebellion. What then should they do?

In comparison, capturing Caesarea and killing His Majesty and His Highness is much more reliable.

Caesarea now has one legion and more than 600 ground monks, as well as 2,000 temporarily recruited local armed forces. These people add up to about 8,000 people. Compared with Vespasian's 50,000 troops, if they attack Caesarea, the rebels will pay a smaller price and gain more.

Thinking about it this way... the other party's target is really likely to be Caesarea!

"The purpose of assassinating General Vespasianus should be to paralyze the army's command and thus curb the 50,000 troops. In this way, the rebels can take advantage of this time difference to attack Caesarea."

After roughly guessing the rebels' thoughts, Tony did not dare to be careless. He quickly pulled out a chair and left the study with Mary.