Ankara City. The Liangluo coalition forces, who were unable to see the beginning and end, were entering the city. In addition to the fact that many camps were built around the city, Ankara City alone could not accommodate more than 10,000 troops.

Alexander and Ma Chao were also riding their horses side by side in the middle of the team. Alexander sighed repeatedly: "I didn't expect that General Zhao Yun from Daliang is so brave. He ran a long distance of thousands of miles, and along the way he was like entering a no-man's land, defeating the enemy and capturing the city and sieging the land. We couldn't catch up with him even though we were moving fast."

Then he changed his subject and asked Ma Chao: "How many good generals are there in your country like you and General Zhao Yun?" Ma Chao smiled and bragged: "In fact, the last general is also at the upper level of our Liang Kingdom, and the Zhao Yun brothers are only one of the top ones. There is no one thousand in the entire Liang Kingdom like us, and there are eight hundred."

After hearing this, Alexander took a deep breath and said in his heart: "Fortunately, Liang State is not my enemy, otherwise, the entire Roman Fight will face a huge crisis."

At this time, a general under Alexander said jokingly: "General Zhao Yun is the vanguard who is the main force. If this continues, we are afraid that there is no war to fight."

Alexander pondered for a while and said, "This is impossible, at least one place. It is impossible to cross the past with his troops alone."

Ma Chao also continued on the side: "What your Majesty can talk about is Byzantine City."

Alexander nodded and said, "Not bad. It's Byzantium, but it's not a city, but a fortress fortress. There are no civilians in it, but all soldiers."

Just as they were talking, eight hundred miles away, Zhao Yun's army was already at the city of Byzantine. As Alexander said, this time, Zhao Yun could not have captured this strong fortress with his own strength by relying on his own strength.

Zhao Yun was immediately rushing to his feet. In front of him was this huge castle called Byzantine, and beside him was a cliff that had dozens of battles. Under the cliff were black and blue sea water and rolling white waves hitting the coast of the cliff.

Byzantium is located on the cape in the northwest corner of Asia Minor, guarding the Black Sea estuary, crossing the strait behind it to reach the Europa region of the Roman Empire. Without the Mediterranean sea control, this is the throat of the Roman Empire.

Zhao Yun looked up and saw that the outer walls of Byzantine city walls were made of hard stones and hard bricks. Like the Hatai Fortress, the outer walls of this Byzantine Fortress were also staircase-shaped, divided into three layers, each of which was as high as three or four battles. Obviously, its second and third-level city walls could also hide soldiers like the Hatai Fortress. The Liang army could not use traditional siege methods to attack this fortress.

Zhao Yun rode his horse back and forth to observe the fortress for half an hour, but did not find any flaws. He thought to himself that there was no other way, so he could only attack. Thinking of this, he ordered: "Tap a few stone bullets on the city wall with a few crossbows to see what the effect is."

Soon, his soldiers set up the largest crossbow in the legion. When they were asleep, they called a command, and a rock bullet flew towards the city wall. After a crisp loud bang, there was only a pit on the stone wall of the city wall. From a distance, there was only a white dot. After more than a dozen stone bullets were shot out, there was no effect. It attracted many Roman soldiers on the city wall to look around. The sniper of the Liang army's long archer made them quickly retract their heads.

When Zhao Yun saw this, he thought to himself that there was nothing he could do. As a vanguard, he did not carry heavy siege equipment such as counterweight catapults. Moreover, the strength of the city was unknown. Maybe there were more than three thousand people than his, and even if he could enter the city, he might not be able to defeat the defenders in the city. In this way, he could only wait for the central and rear troops to arrive. Thinking of this, he ordered the soldiers of the Liang army to find a place with abundant water in front of the west gate of Byzantine, and wait for the main force to come while monitoring the movements of the enemy in the city.

...

In the Apennines province, the new palace in the city of Rome. Macrinus was drinking and having fun with dozens of concubines of all colors, playing and laughing, completely leaving behind the unfavorable battle situation ahead.

Originally, the Roman emperor had different meanings from the emperors of Persia and even Middle-earth. Literally speaking, it means supreme commander in Latin. It also contains the title of first citizen, which is a kind of honorific title, and it also limits that the emperor does not leave the category of citizens.

So in a sense, the Roman emperor was just an official position. But Macrinus wanted to be an emperor like the East, not to hold great power, but to be the supreme position, not to be the first citizen, but to have a status similar to God.

In order to achieve this goal, after he stole the position of the Roman emperor, he used the little thing under his crotch as a breakthrough. Rome generally practiced monogamy, and even the emperor could only have one queen. But he used the excuse of being an African wooltalian and having his own tribal tradition to ask for unlimited concubines. This was to satisfy his personal standards and a temptation to break through the Roman law.

In order to accommodate these concubines in the harem, he requisitioned a public building facility in the city of Rome and expanded it as his new palace.

After this goal succeeded, he tried to make the justice declare that he was not bound by any human law and had unlimited power. However, this attempt was strongly opposed by the Senate, and Alexander had openly proclaimed himself emperor and competed with him. He was temporarily restrained. However, his actions had quietly cultivated a large number of opponents in the Roman political circle, but it was not publicly expressed by his force.

However, Macrinus knew this, so when the coalition forces of Liang and Alexander approached him step by step, he did not dare to take the two legions he trusted most to leave Rome, but just drank and had fun in the palace with many concubines all day long.

At this time, a Roman messenger broke into the hall and reported: "Report to your Majesty, there have been continuous emergency military information in front of you. The enemy conquered Ankara and the troops were at the city of Byzantine."

Macrinus's face suddenly turned pale and he said in surprise: "What? They conquered Ankara and were still at the city of Byzantine. Didn't they capture the Hatai Fortress a few days ago? In just a few days, they could advance thousands of miles and capture Ankara, which had a whole army guarding? This is impossible."

"Back to your Majesty, this is all true news. The commander of the Ankara Legion has been killed."

Macrinus waved his hand and asked the messenger to retreat, then leaned on the back of the chair with a pale face. He thought to himself that this time he had to take action, otherwise the enemy would capture Byzantium and cross the Black Sea Strait. Then from that to the city of Rome, everyone would follow the trend toward Alexander. He could only lead two legions to guard an isolated city, and it would be a matter of time before he could defeat him.
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