with his full army now joined caesar started to be more aggressive hearing that scipio was now in macedonia with his syrian legions caesar sent two legions under nais domitius to cut him off the thessalonians and italians had sent envoys saying they'd support caesar in return for garrisons and so caesar sent the rookie NUMBER_TOKENth legion under cassius longades to thessaly and g calvius sabinus with five cohorts to italia to acquire more grain scipio did march his force towards thessaly threatening longerness but calvinus and his legions were able to apply enough pressure to stop him uniting his force with pompey meanwhile one of pompey's sons neas attacked caesar's ships destroying his whole navy in the area leaving caesar stranded in greece and cut off from italy with his navy destroyed caesar knew he had to force an engagement with pompey soon he first attempted to do this at asparagus drawing up his army for battle but pompey on the high ground refused to commit in order to force pompey's hand caesar decided to march on dorechium by threatening this crucial supply center pompey would be forced to respond however he did not want to reveal his strategy to pompey and so planned on taking a circuitous route to hide his intentions he struck camp early in the morning in april the plan worked initially pompey thought caesar was withdrawing due to lack of supplies and it was only after his scouts reported caesar's movements that pompey realized what caesar was planning he then gave chase caesar marched through the night only giving his men a brief break and was able to reach the rakium first setting up his camp on high ground outside the city pompey arrived soon after and encamped his force on high ground just south of caesar's position pompey's army outnumbered caesars considerably having sent part of his force to stall scipio and part to southern greece caesar had just NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN men and NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN cavalry pompey on the other hand had around NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN infantry and NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN cavalry though caesar's men were more experienced pompey did have the crucial advantage of having a better supply line using his navy he could ship supplies from darakim to his camp whereas caesar would be forced to live off the land and requisition food from local tribes even this would be difficult as pompey's forces had already plundered the area in the previous months noting the particularly hilly topography of the area caesar decided to fall back on one of his most favored tactics and fortify the hills around pompey's position encircling his enemy and cutting off their supplies this would be a difficult task considering the size of the armies but the natural topography simplified the task when pompey realized what caesar was doing he countered by constructing his own defenses he ordered his men to fortify
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