On a cliff at the southeast end of the British Isle, a burly man with a typical Caucasian race stood on a huge and relatively flat rock. He looked down at the stormy black rock at the bottom of the cliff, and then turned his eyes to the distance, looking at the place where the sea and the sky were connected. Behind it was the Europa Continent.

This person was Theodosie, the governor of the Roman Empire's British Province, one of the few "local princes" that Alexander could trust. However, his current territory, the Province of Britain, was isolated from the Roman land many years ago. Because several provinces opposite the sea with the Province of Gaul as the core split the territory, established themselves as their country, and established the Gaul Empire. The king of the present is Perstumus. This person was just a small commander of the Gallic garrison, who was affiliated with the Augustus power.

The provinces such as Gaul and the surrounding Germanic seem to be connected to the Thrace and Asia Minor in the west. But in fact, the central areas they can completely control are far apart. They are also separated by vast forests that barbarian tribes enter and exit. Although these places are in the areas of these provinces on the map, the Romans actually have extremely weak control over these areas, even close to zero. The only safe area between the east and west areas is the northern foothills of the Alps, full of mountains and ridges.

In this way, some military commanders in the provinces such as Gallic and Germanic in the west made conditions free from Augustus' control. Shortly after the civil strife in Rome, Perstumus also led his army to escape from Augustus and conquered the remaining warlords of all sizes in the region with his own military talents and strength. In the end, he established his own kingdom, established his own administrative organs, and minted his own currency. After he surrendered the Proseus forces that had been entrenched in the mountains and mountains, the territory of the Gaul Kingdom expanded to the north to the North Sea coast that was across the sea from Britain, to the Atlantic coast in the west, to the west of the Rhine River, and to the Mediterranean coast in the south, and to the coast of Corsica, controlled by Feng Yu, which was only more than 200 miles away from the strait of Corsica.

At this time, Theodosie was worried about something. Half a month ago, Alexander sent people to send him a secret order to lead his troops across the strait, enter the territory of Gaul, and attack the Kingdom of Gaul with Alexander's "Central Army" from north to south.

However, although Britain was well-managed by Theodosi, the people on the island lived relatively rich, and the Scottish Celtic barbarians in the north were also firmly restricted to the north of Hadrian's Great Wall, their military strength was not enough to penetrate the entire Gaul area. This was not because Theodosi was not good at governing the military, but because of objective reasons. In fact, although his military talent could not be compared with Aurelian, he was also considered a good general.

These objective reasons are first of all, the issue of soldiers. If they were not counted as barbarian slaves, the men, women, young and old in Britain were only 30,000 to 40,000 people. Such a small population could not be drawn out to form a large army.

The second is the equipment issue. Even when the Roman Empire was not divided, Britain was located in the most remote province in the northwest corner of the empire. There was no population here, so there were very few merchant ships traveling to and from Britain. Like all the merchant ships in this historical period, these merchant ships left the Strait of Gibraltar and entered the windy and waved ocean, and could only sail closely against the coast. After Rome split, because of Gaul and Spain, they were divided by various rebel forces.

Such a route is even more difficult. There are even fewer merchant ships passing by. Moreover, these merchant ships have taken extremely high risks and paid extremely high passes to Britain, and the price of the cargo carried on the ship will naturally increase several times or even ten times. This has further caused the poverty of Britain's materials. Therefore, the current Roman army in Britain, like the various "princes" along the Mediterranean coast, has been updated and replaced, even the equipment of the original regular Roman army is not fully equipped.

Finally, there is the issue of supply. Under the governance of Theodossi, although Britain has abundant grain and animal husbandry, it is quite difficult to transport the materials needed by thousands of soldiers and horses from the British Islands to the European continent. Moreover, as the army advances forward, the supply line will grow longer and longer.

At this time, the trusted adjutant next to Theodossi looked at him with frown and said, "Governor, it's useless to worry about your daily worries now! I think we don't have to pay attention to the orders of His Majesty Alexander, because we can't do it at all. His Majesty Alexander has never been to Britain and cannot know the details here, so he issued this ridiculous order. I think you can reply to His Majesty a letter to explain our actual difficulties. At most, we can send troops across the sea and harass and restrain the army of Perstumus on the northwest coast of Gaul, but the troops led by His Majesty Alexander must be the troops led by His Majesty Alexander."

Theodosio sighed and shook his head, "We must abide by your Majesty's orders. No matter what we think of, we must cross the strait and go south to meet with your Majesty's troops." After that, he turned around and returned to the castle not far away. His deputy general sighed secretly: When is it time? Is it necessary to be so loyal to Alexander? Even if we do not rebel against the Roman Empire like those people, there is no need to do this. Since the history of Rome, there is no need for generals outside to obey the consul in everything.

How could this deputy general know that Theodosie insisted on following Alexander's orders was not for loyalty. Theodosie's real idea was to take this opportunity to expand his power to the Europa continent with justification. Otherwise, he would be so partial to the northwest corner, no matter how the situation on the continent changes in the future, he would be in an increasingly passive situation and would eventually be annexed.

Just as the deputy general was about to leave after Theodosie, several guards around him began to exclaim: "Ship! A fleet is coming! Still a large ship!" Because Britain had few merchant ships, the fleet came was enough to make people curious. But when the deputy general threw his eyes to the sea and the sky, his face suddenly changed. Because the ships coming were not merchant ships at all, nor were they even the Roman galley warships he had seen, but a fleet of huge sailing sailing ships. The deputy general, whose face was pale, ordered: "Go and send orders! Let all departments be alert! These ships are likely to be enemy ships."

Soon, Theodossi also received the news and came to the coast again. At this time, the beaches and docks that were easy to dock on the coast were filled with soldiers and horses. Several small boats rushed out of the port and welcomed the sailing boats...
Chapter completed!