Caesar Ascending-The Han
By R.W. Peake
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In Caesar Ascending-The Han, the sixth installment of the bestselling alternate history series, Caesar’s ploy to keep his Legions under control and moving east from the Ganges by introducing his men to the riches of the Han Empire initially succeeds in ending what is now the second mutiny of his army. This success proves to be short-lived when, just a few months later, while cutting a path through the impenetrable jungle across the modern Indochinese Peninsula that the men have dubbed “The Green Hades,” there’s a third mutiny, the most violent to date that results in the slaying of several Centurions, including the Primus Pilus of the 8th Legion, and the men refusing to move another mile.
Faced with another existential threat to his dream, the greatest general of his age once again manages to avert disaster, although it’s at the cost of several months of progress as the army stays in place less than halfway across the peninsula. Nevertheless, they do manage to reunite with the fleet, which has traveled the waterborne route around both the Malay and Indochina Peninsula, meeting on the eastern coast of modern Vietnam.
The arrival of Caesar’s army and fleet in the southern reach of his Empire finally stirs Emperor Yuan of the Han, prompting him to send an emissary, Zhang Meng, in the first meeting between the two superpowers of the ancient world. Yuan already has his hands full, both with Zhizhi the leader of the Xiongnu, a nomadic tribe that is intent on wresting territory along the western edge of the Han Empire, factionalism within his own court, and a rebellious general, Xao, on the island of Zhuya, modern day Hainan. It is with this in mind that, from a proposal by young Zhang, the Han and Rome cooperate; in exchange for Caesar and his Legions invading Zhuya and defeating Xao’s army, the Han Emperor will provide enough food to feed their massive army for a year, and the Romans will be allowed to occupy the island.
As usually happens, it’s Sextus Scribonius who divines the truth, that the proposal that supposedly came from Emperor Yuan and the Han is actually Caesar’s own idea, having manipulated the talented but inexperienced Zhang into presenting it to his Emperor as his own idea. What will happen when Emperor Yuan discovers that he’s been manipulated?
R.W. Peake
I am a 63 year old retired Infantry Marine, born and raised in Texas and currently living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. I have been writing since my first novel, written at the age of 10, when my friends and yours truly fought off the Soviet hordes, who just happened to pick my block to launch their invasion. That was their big mistake.But like a lot of dreams, it got sidetracked until recently, when I decided to focus my passion on an era and subject that interested me a great deal. Like my characters in Ancient Rome, I have served as the pointy tip of the spear of our nation's policy, and it is with this perspective that I tell the story of Titus Pullus and his friends.Marching With Caesar-Birth of the 10th Legion was my first published novel, and is the first in a completed series that covers the career of Titus Pullus, his adopted son Gaius Porcinianus Pullus, grandson Titus Porcinianus Pullus, and his great-grandson Gnaeus Volusenianus Pullus. The most recent release is Volume XIX, Marching With Caesar-Catualda the Usurper.I also have a completed alternate history series, Caesar Ascending, that imagines a world in which Gaius Julius Caesar survives the Ides of March, embarks on his historical campaign against Parthian...then keeps going. Originally it's a bid to outstrip the Macedonian King Alexander by reaching the Ganges River, but evolves into a decade-long campaign that finds Caesar and his Legions marching to the end of the known world in the form of the mysterious Islands of Wa, modern-day Japan.Finally, in 2020, I began The Titus Chronicles, with Volume I titled Eagle and Wyvern, which tells the story of a descendant of Titus Pullus, (though he's unaware of any connection), named Titus of Cyssanbyrig, who at the age of fourteen answers the fyrd sounded by the Saxon King Alfred, marching with Alfred and his army to confront the Danish King Guthrum, culminating at the Battle of Edington. Blessed with the same prodigious size and strength as his ancestor, young Titus learns he is the recipient of a darker gift, and in his first battle earns the nickname The Berserker.The Titus Chronicles mark the first of an extended genealogy of the original Titus that will extend across the ages as the story of a line of men who have been born and bred for war, and are witnesses to some of the great historical events of the ages.
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