What do you think after watching Rome?

Before and between watching this drama, HT MM repeatedly said that the strategic struggle here is incomparable with China. I will analyze this later, starting with the image of Caesar. In fact, it can be seen that the director still wants to show Caesar's tactics, but the initial plot development really can't be shown.

For example, at first Caesar deliberately pretended to be worried about the loss of Golden Eagle, saying that his morale was also very low. But later, through Octavian's analysis, in fact, he didn't care about this, just to paralyze Pompeii. But Caesar was able to take Rome without bloodshed, which made Pompeii think that his soldiers were strong and came quickly, so he abandoned the city and fled. Then the intention of pretending to be demoralized in front is exactly the opposite of this effect.

For example, in order to ensure his interests in the Senate, he spent a lot of money to ensure that Anthony became a tribune. Later, because Anthony was mistakenly attacked, it became the fuse that triggered his open confrontation with Pompeii and the Senate. Although this is a "non-war crime", it seems that his strategy cannot completely control the development of the situation.

What's more, he sent scouts to advance Rome, and he could not go to war unless he met resistance. However, in the scout team, Piro was high-spirited and won. As soon as he saw the military power of Rome, he would kill them all regardless of the willy-nilly, and beat these recruits to flee, which became the key for Pompey to judge the rapid arrival of Caesar's army. If the scouts had acted strictly according to Caesar's will, would Pompeii have left Rome so easily if this inexplicable encounter had not happened? Will Caesar's success be so easy to achieve? This is really questionable. I especially noticed a scene in the play in which an officer reported to Caesar the loss of soldiers of various legions due to illness or escape. I felt that Caesar's army was indeed demoralized at that time. However, the main force of Gaul is still far behind, and Chun Xue must be opened to help. Therefore, the quantitative comparison should actually be that Caesar's troops are less than those of the Roman defenders, but he has rich combat experience.

In fact, in the whole passage from Caesar and Pompeii turning against each other to Pompeii abandoning the city and letting Caesar take Rome lightly, the arrangement of the plot makes people feel that the change of the situation is completely influenced by some very accidental factors, rather than the result of the real strategy or strength contest between them. The title of the second episode is "Piro Messed up Rome". In fact, this topic applies to the whole paragraph above, not just the second episode. It seems that the strength between Caesar and Pompeii is determined by the occasional behavior of the junior officer Piro. For example, Pompey hoped that the Senate would pass a motion to belittle Caesar, but he didn't really hope that the motion would be passed, because it would force Caesar to have no choice but to attack Rome directly. He deliberately wanted Anthony to use the privilege of tribune to veto this motion, so that on the one hand, he showed his power to Caesar, on the other hand, he lost face and had to embark on the road of complete confrontation. However, on Anthony's way to the Senate to propose a veto bill, a thief hiding in the crowd just pretended to attack and prevent Anthony from entering the Senate. He saw Piro, one of the guards who escorted Anthony, and gambled with him before, so he attacked him, but everyone except him and Piro misunderstood that he was attacking Anthony, which led Anthony to enter the Senate to veto the bill. Pompeii and Caesar had to break up openly. For another example, Caesar's original intention was to try to avoid going to war with the Roman defenders, so he told the scouts not to go to war unless they met resistance. Piro was also a boy scout. When he saw the defenders in Rome, he became cruel. On the one hand, it completely violated Caesar's original intention, on the other hand, it also made Pompeii make a wrong judgment and gave up Rome in a hurry, but Caesar unexpectedly won Rome.

What's more, Piro accidentally and coincidentally intercepted the gold smuggled out of Rome by Pompeii, and even more unintentionally and coincidentally caught Pompeii's son who sneaked into Rome to find the whereabouts of the gold. He not only solved Caesar's dilemma of lack of money in Rome, but also seized an excellent opportunity to alienate Pompeii from the Senate.

In a word, I feel that in this series of events, it is Piro, who is actually an insignificant soldier. Pompey and Caesar's "coup" either failed or could not have succeeded if it had not been for Piro's mistake.