Caesar's conquest of ItalyA few miles ahead they arrived at Ascoli Piceno, where finally some of Pompey's legionaries confronted Caesar.
However, the few centurions of men Pompey's soldiers had sent to stop him were not sufficient to hold him up for long.
And Pompey, instead of sending reinforcements to Ascoli, incredibly continued to flee south towards Brindisi, instead of making his large army rise in aid of Lucera.
Pompey preferred to flee and stall to wait for a more propitious period and set sail for the east, where many more friendly legions under Consul Lentulus were awaiting him.
And you could write at length about what happened between the two armies, including other mysteries and further interesting stories that actually happened but this book, at least for now, is only going
