The Battle of Akexing, TV dramas and documentaries always have various explanations for the queen to wash the ground and shirk responsibility. When I watched "Cleopatra" at station B last night, there were a lot of barrages calling Anthony a rubbish coward. Men can't match words like a queen, so I can't help but want to say something.
The following is based on historical material rather than plot. That's right, Anthony is indeed responsible for his stupidity, but can it be said that the queen was not responsible for the failure of this naval battle? If it weren't for the Queen's insistence on naval battles, bribing Anthony's men, forcing Anthony's friends away, and persuading Anthony to abandon his powerful army and use unsuitable warships in the seas where he is not good at, lacking skilled sailors and the hardware disadvantage of a regular navy Will Anthony be doomed to fail at the beginning of the battle against the naval genius Agrippa? Of course, since he will definitely fail, can he not be defeated in such a humiliating and humiliating way that ruins his reputation? When Antony was deploying his army before the war, a centurion shouted to him, "Why don't you trust the scars of our battles, and put your hopes on a pile of rotten wood?" The reaction after the words turned out to be speechless, he only used his eyes and gestures to signal the other party to obey his orders, and then left. Maybe before the war, he knew that he was wrong, but in order to please the queen, he had already given up his reason and started to let himself go by fate. The queen insisted on naval battles, nothing more than to show her sense of existence, to prove her worth, and to show off the majesty of Egypt, so as to hold Anthony firmly in the palm of her hand, so as to realize her son's succession to the throne and co-governance The ambitions of Egypt and Rome. She had asked Antony to give half of Rome to Egypt in her will, but she still felt insecure, so she wanted to control the decisive battle between Antony and Octavian. I won't go into the specific process, but I will talk about why the queen suddenly retreated. There are mainly two ways to wash the floor in film and television dramas and documentaries. The first is that the queen thought Anthony was dead so she had to go back to protect her Egypt. This statement is not found at all in the writings of historians. In historical data, the war was in the most brutal stalemate, and Anthony was only showing signs of decline. However, it was the first time that she witnessed a brutal battlefield where flesh and blood flew, thick smoke billowed, and screams shook the sky. As a woman who had never been on the battlefield, the queen was timid. She did not contact Anthony at all, nor did she retreat calmly and calmly, but recklessly rushed out of the array of Anthony's fleet with the Egyptian fleet, destroying the original Anthony's repeated orders to keep it and act only by obeying the command. The formation, which caused his fleet to be caught off guard, began to sink into the quagmire of defeat. The second type of washing is that Anthony decided to take advantage of the opportunity to engage the main force and Octavian's main force to cover the retreat of the Queen's fleet behind, and he was responsible for breaking the back and evacuating the battlefield one after the other. This statement is even more untenable. If it is a strategic retreat Retreat, then why did the Queen's fleet destroy the formation of Anthony's fleet? Why did Anthony suddenly lose his mind when he saw the Queen leaving, abandoned his army, gave up everything, and only followed the Queen's flagship? After Anthony boarded the Queen's flagship, he refused to say a word to the Queen. He sat alone in the stern of the boat with his face covered, and sat for three days and three nights without a grain of rice. He clearly knew that there were more than a dozen of his legions on land standing by, waiting for his command, and that was his last chance to make a comeback. However, he did not issue any orders from beginning to end, completely giving up the last chance. Even when the defeated soldiers at sea and his friends caught up with the Queen's flagship by boat, he distributed a boatload of gold and silver supplies to them and told them to disperse without following him. It can be said that in his eyes, the betrayal of his lover is something more terrible than failure or even death. In order to follow his love closely and not be left behind, he left everything of himself. Judging from his reactions, it is not worth refuting to say that the Queen's escape was a retreat agreed upon by the two in advance. Even with such anger and pain, he still refused to open his mouth to blame the Queen. After hiding from the Queen for three months, he was finally relieved. He lost everything, and he couldn't lose again. It would be better to spend the last warm time in his life in the Queen's arms. Love made him so stupid, so depraved, so decadent. However, when Octavian's army marched all the way to Alessandro, he still cherished his usual naivety and wrote to Octavian, wanting to use his own death to save the queen's life. Naturally, it was rejected by Octavian. Then the innocence continued, the people betrayed their relatives and separated, and when they were at the end of the road, Anthony was finally deceived by the queen, and was deceived to commit suicide. He said the Queen's death had taken away his last reason to live. Then he learned that the queen was not dead at all, and deliberately lied to him. At this time, he no longer even had a trace of anger and resentment, and he could only see the joy of seeing the queen still alive. He finally said to the Queen: "Please remember the happy days we spent together and rejoice in those good times. Don't take pity on the fate of my fate, after all I was brilliant. Even in the end it was a good death, as a Roman The man was finally defeated by another Roman." (from "Greek and Roman Biography 21") Anthony did not feel sorry for the queen, so the queen's fans, let's be a little more tolerant of him, after all, he is just a lover The queen who devastated everything and ruined the glory of the poor creature. Let’s swear less, after all, not everyone can be a Caesar, and can be an Augustus.
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