After achieving certain success in recruiting soldiers, Caesar even moved to the military camp outside the city, and the citizens occasionally saw him in armor inspecting the recruits' training on the field…
The Roman citizens were eagerly anticipating Caesar leading the army northward to expel the Barbarians three months later, but Caesar himself did not wish to wait that long.
While the public thought Caesar was tirelessly training new recruits in the camp every day, he had already disguised himself, quietly sneaked out of Rome, and boarded a ship at Ostia Port, heading to Sardinia, across the sea from the mouth of the Tiber River.
Here, seven legions, totaling over forty thousand troops, including about three thousand cavalry (most of whom had surrendered from Pompey's forces), had gathered under Caesar's orders, along with more than 200 warships and numerous transport vessels.
