The choice of emperor of the Roman Empire also surprised Qin Hao. It was neither Caesar nor Octavian, but a name that was very unfamiliar to him, Severus.
What Qin Hao didn't know was that compared to Caesar and Octavian, Severus was indeed not as famous as them, but he was also an outstanding person.
From 180 AD to 193 AD, in these 13 years, three emperors died in Rome, including these two emperors, who died in 193 AD.
In 193 AD, Rome fell into civil strife and was torn apart. It was Severus who turned the tide and reunited the divided Roman Empire.
Afterwards, Severus defeated the Parthian Kingdom and turned Mesopotamia into a province, which continued the national destiny of Rome for more than a hundred years.
Severus was the first Roman emperor from Africa. If history had followed the normal course, his life would have been bright and glorious. Unfortunately, in this life he encountered a great enemy, Alexander.
The contradictions within the Roman Empire were already acute and abnormal, but it was precisely because Alexander saw this that he dared to allow Macedonia to become independent and took the initiative to act as the fire that ignited this bundle of dry wood.
Under Alexander's promotion, the civil strife in the Roman Empire broke out in advance, and the internal strife that would have ended in one year was delayed for three years, and these five years were the golden years for Alexander to accumulate strength.
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Three years of civil strife caused Rome, which originally had a population of 50 million, to lose more than 10 million people in three years, and this was just the beginning.
Although Severus was later proclaimed emperor and became the nominal emperor of Rome, the major princes in Rome who concentrated military power and political power, not to mention the emperor, even the Senate could not control them. They had already become completely invincible.
The largest prince among them was Alexander, the governor of Macedonia.
Alexander's experience was very similar to Qin Hao's. He was also a subject of the Roman Empire at the beginning, but as a Macedonian royal bloodline, his purpose from the beginning was to overthrow Rome and restore the glory of the Macedonian Empire.
Alexander concealed his identity and joined the Roman army when he was sixteen years old. Later, with his outstanding military ability, he continued to build meritorious deeds and became the youngest general in Rome.
Later, because there were too many rebels in Rome, even the official army could not suppress them. Alexander seized this opportunity and became the Roman emperor's firefighter, leading the army to extinguish the rebels in various places.
Because of Alexander's existence, the Roman Empire, which was already in turmoil, was still immersed in singing and dancing, and Alexander accumulated his own strength by absorbing the blood of Rome.
Therefore, Alexander and Qin Hao are really similar. Both of them founded their families by suppressing peasant uprisings and absorbing the blood of the previous dynasty.
Alexander fought for Rome in the north and south without losing a single victory, so he was known as the first general of Rome. Until when his army invaded Britain, he encountered the British prince Arthur, and his undefeated record was ended.
At that time, Alexander was still in his teenage years, and neither his military command nor his personal prowess had reached its peak, so he suffered a slight defeat when facing Arthur.
The undefeated Alexander was defeated by the unknown Arthur. This incident caused a sensation throughout Europe.
It was by virtue of his victory over Alexander that Arthur surpassed his brother and was positioned as a candidate for the king of Britain.
The two men fought against each other several times after that, and it can be said that they were matched against each other and met with good talents. However, generally speaking, Alexander was stronger in terms of commanding the army, while Arthur was stronger in terms of military prowess.
Arthur also knew that his ability to command troops was not as good as Alexander's, so he found another way and used clever tactics to alienate the Roman emperor in order to change his generals before the battle.
Although Alexander saw Arthur's plan to alienate him, he had the idea of supporting the enemy's self-respect. If the general who replaced him lost to Arthur, the Roman emperor would rely more on himself, so he cooperated with Arthur instead.
With Alexander's intentional cooperation, Arthur's plan to alienate him was very successful, and Alexander's replacement was a fool, so he could not be Arthur's opponent.
This battle was fought in darkness. The 80,000 British troops commanded by Arthur faced off against 170,000 elite Roman troops. In the end, the British won and Rome retreated with a loss of more than 100,000.
After this battle, Arthur became famous on the European continent and ascended the throne of Britain, becoming the legendary King Arthur of his generation.
Arthur defeated Rome, but Alexander benefited. The Roman emperor therefore relied more heavily on him, and later sent Alexander as a general to conquer Britain.
After the last fight with Arthur, Alexander has grown a lot. This time he knows himself and his enemy, so he will not be careless like last time, and he also holds Arthur's fate in his hands.
In the last battle with Arthur, Alexander teamed up with several generals to fight against Arthur and accidentally cut off Arthur's hair crown. Only then did he discover that Arthur was disguised as a man.
Alexander didn't believe it at first, but after much inquiring and various details, he was able to confirm the fact that Arthur was a woman.
After learning this, Alexander felt a little complicated. After all, it was a shame that he had lost to a woman, so this time he had to avenge his shame.
Before the war even started, Alexander publicly exposed the fact that Arthur was a woman through the traitors he bribed, saying that she had deceived the whole of Britain.
Although this incident shocked the whole of Britain, after all, Arthur was still needed to fight against Alexander. Therefore, although the senior officials and the people were extremely dissatisfied with Arthur's deception, they did not immediately turn against Arthur.
But as Arthur remained on the front line for a long time and was unable to win, her brother behind the scenes was unwilling to have his throne hidden, and kept jumping up and down to win over everyone, constantly causing trouble.
At this moment, Alexander gave Arthur a fatal blow. He sent an envoy and proposed that as long as Arthur was handed over, he would retreat and Rome and Britain could return to peace.
In this way, Arthur, who fought bloody battles on the front line, was betrayed by his own people. He had no choice but to escape from Britain. But after setting foot on the European continent, what awaited her was an endless pursuit, so she
Escape all the way to the East.
Although Alexander failed to get rid of Arthur, a serious problem, Arthur alone could no longer pose a threat to him, and Britain, which had lost Arthur, naturally had no one who could be his opponent.
Britain failed to hand over Arthur, so Alexander did not have to abide by the agreement. Of course, even if Britain handed over Arthur, Alexander would find other reasons. In short, it was absolutely impossible for him to withdraw.
Taking advantage of Arthur's absence and the turmoil in the British army's morale, Alexander sent out a general army to annihilate them all in one fell swoop, and then captured England among the British Isles, while the remaining British forces retreated into Scotland and Ireland to survive.