This upheaval in Phoenicia City not only made Eridoan stunned, but also didn't understand why the Tang army, which had always kept its promise, went against the norm and led the army to attack him more than 100 miles ahead, uprooting the most important stronghold of Great Qin in Egypt overnight, and completely breaking the situation in Egypt, which had already gained the upper hand. And the big cannibals who inexplicably got Phoenicia City at their fingertips were also scratching their heads, especially the Great Cannibal Cavalry Corps, which was at the forefront, and even almost brushed shoulders with the last Tang army to withdraw. They didn't know why the Tang army, which had been neutral, suddenly attacked Phoenicia City, and withdrew all of them before they arrived, which was tantamount to handing over the Phoenician City that had already arrived to them. Could it be that Baghdad has already negotiated with Datang, and Datang has promised to join the war to help him? It was early the next morning, that is, the sixteenth day of the first month of the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse, and the Great Food Army, which occupied the Phoenician city, not only did not take advantage of the victory to pursue the Great Qin army that was still hovering near the docks and ports outside the city, but hurried towards Baghdad, wanting to get instructions from the rear, and at the same time, there were envoys galloping towards the Tang army garrison in the south, asking what was going on.

The movements of the great cannibals continued, and Eridogan, who had already reached the sea but still occupied the dock with the remaining army, also sent people to the rear of Byzantium in anxiety, wanting to ask the royal court if there was something wrong with the Tang Dynasty. Elidoan even thought that Datang was taking revenge for his previous rash attack on the other party, and if so, he wouldn't suddenly attack him, right? And even so, the Tang Dynasty would not take the initiative to withdraw after taking the Phoenician City and hand over the city to the Great Cannibal, although Eridoan's hesitation made him lose the opportunity to continue to conquer Egypt forever, but he also completed another plan from the royal court in time, and made this plan completely hide from the eyes of the Great Cannibal.

At this time, Pang Lingming and Li Shaozhou, the initiators, hummed a small tune and rushed back with the army unhurriedly, and a large number of military supplies and about 1,000 prisoners of war also made the two feel that this raid was still worth it. These materials can free up more transportation capacity for the rear to transport more troops to Egypt, so that they can have more strength to deal with the next big change in the situation of Great Qin and Great Food. More than 1,000 prisoners of war were able to directly support the canal project on the spot. You must know that at this time, Lin Yuantu had less than 50,000 people in his hands. The big cannibals have been continuously reducing the number of people in the canal excavation project due to the shortage of troops, resulting in the speed of canal digging much slower than before, which almost made Lin Yuantu sad, and even made several motions asking the two to send troops to other regions to capture the young and strong labor force of the local tribe on the spot, and he brought more than 1,000 prisoners of war in the next few days, which can probably reduce the pressure on the other party a little, right?

When Li Shaozhou and Pang Lingming were thinking about these things, Elidogan also received an order from the royal court, and the reason why it was so fast was that the messenger he had sent to the rear did not go back at all, but met the royal court's messenger on the way, and then directly took the order and brought it back. But it was this order that put him in a dilemma, and he even had no intention of arranging a counteroffensive in the next few days.

The Byzantines demanded that Eridogan find a way to secretly transport part of the main force from Central Asia to Nice and other places south of Gaul, and then cover the landing of the army on the spot and participate in the task of besieging the Great Eclipse Expeditionary Corps from the flank and rear. If it was before, it would not be a problem, he occupied Phoenicia, had an advantage in Egypt, and it was not difficult to send part of the fleet north to join the logistics ships and secretly transport the army west to Nice. But now the fatal thing is that he has just been defeated, and he needs logistics ships to transport reinforcements from the rear to strengthen his forces to counterattack Phoenicia and other places, and re-implement the strategic concept of a central breakthrough. At this time, if the transfer of logistics ships can affect the forces occupied in Gaul, wouldn't it be necessary to transfer all the logistics fleets under his control? With such a huge fleet of ships, it is necessary to dispatch enough naval warships to carry out escort missions, otherwise, if the logistics ships do not have command and navigation, unless they are old sea wolves who have been running all their lives, they will not be able to find their direction and destination at sea. You must know that at this time, except for Datang, Daqin and Da Cannibal don't know about the equipment that indicates the direction at all, and all sea voyages need the old navy who is most familiar with the sea conditions and sea areas to be able to barely distinguish. Such a large-scale voyage means that he has to draw most of his naval forces to complete it. In that case, there is no way for Egypt to complete its own strategy.

Unlike other generals, Elidoan was a rare general with his own strategic considerations, and he could naturally see from this order that the strategic arrangements of the royal court had changed drastically. In the midst of the ongoing stalemate and attrition, the royal court no longer considered how to completely break the attack of the Great Cannibals, but began to think about how to end the war in the Taixi headquarters area as soon as possible. Once the army was transported from the Eastern Front to the Western Front to flank the expeditionary corps of the Great Eclipse, it meant that the Great Qin Empire had to give priority to ending the war from Gaul, completely destroying the army of the Great Cannibal in Taixi Headquarters, and if possible, crossing the Pyrenees into the Iberian Peninsula to completely drive the Great Cannibal forces back to Africa.

In essence, Eridoan didn't have much of a problem with this kind of tactical arrangement, after all, he also knew the current national strength and situation of Great Qin. But for a famous admiral who wanted to forge ahead, this arrangement was clearly at the expense of giving up the territory of Africa, that is, Egypt and other places. Once the Great Eclipse Expeditionary Legion is wiped out, it will certainly hurt the Great Cannibal, but at the same time, it also allows the other party to concentrate on dealing with the threat from the east, and the frontal battlefield where most of the main forces have been mobilized is naturally impossible to do, and it is unknown whether it can hold the current position, and the most important thing is that Byzantium is not far from the battlefield. Once the big cannibals go crazy and decide to exchange the destruction of the expeditionary corps on the Western Front for a breakthrough on the frontal battlefield, then relying on the opponent's non-stop fighting style, I am afraid that Byzantium will be in danger. This is the seat of the royal capital! Elidoan's face turned unusually ugly. In order for this tactical arrangement to be successful, it is necessary to do enough tactical feints, not only when transporting troops, but also to cover this purpose during the transportation process, so as not to be detected by the opponent's spies. Moreover, when attacking the Great Qin Expeditionary Army, it is necessary to blockade the entire territory of Gaul, as much as possible to delay the speed of news transmission, so that when the Baghdad side learns the news, its side will take as much territory as possible, and it is best to take the Iberian Peninsula directly, if not, then it is also necessary to buy time for the royal court to relocate. The time control and the tightness of the news lockdown in the middle of this period simply made Elidoan shudder.

This tactical arrangement is tantamount to allowing Elidoan to bury all his previous efforts, including all the Great Qin troops in Egypt and the Phoenician city in front of him. If he wanted to hide his eyes and bring the fleet back to escort the army, then it was impossible to bring all these land forces back, and the only feasible way was to let all the land forces hold on to the spot, and declare that he would return to Cyprus to remobilize reinforcements. But in this way, his whereabouts can be covered up, but what should the nearly 50,000 Great Qin troops in Egypt do? After losing foreign aid, even if there are still a lot of them, they still can't escape the fate of being annihilated by the big cannibals. And according to the Byzantine arrangement, I am afraid that these people are destined to become victims, sacrifices for the sake of the country.

Elidoan let out a long sigh, repeated a few words in his mouth, and finally gave up the last struggle weakly, and pulled himself together to make the final arrangements. Order all the remaining supplies on the fleet to be removed from the shore, and all the fleets must be fully assembled and ready to set sail at any time. At the same time, he ordered all the army units holding on to the port to hurry up and dig fortifications, and put on the appearance of holding on to the spot and waiting for support, and at the same time convened a meeting of the whole army, so that Josel led the guerrilla fleet to Cyprus immediately north to join the convoy, and he himself took the main fleet north to the royal court later to prepare for more reinforcements to come to Egypt. As for the army generals, Elidogan, who had regained his composure, asked all the army forces to move to the spot before their reinforcements arrived, pledging to ensure that the port terminal was in their own hands, so that the Empire's reinforcements could rely on naval transportation to continuously come to them. Although Elidoan's order to return the entire naval fleet seemed a little incredible, no one raised any objections, after all, at this time, there was no naval force in Dashi, and the entire Mediterranean Sea was a paradise for the Great Qin people, and the Great Qin Army defended the port and dock more so that the reinforcements could go ashore faster. In addition, Eridogan brought all the remaining supplies and artillery ashore, so that the entire holding army not only replenished the equipment lost last night, but also obtained nearly sixty artillery pieces and a large number of artillery shells, enough for these 30,000 people. According to the speed and time of Daqin's troop transportation, the first batch of reinforcements will be able to be sent from the north in half a month at most. With 30,000 people guarding these ports in half a month, the generals of the Great Qin Army were confident that they could still do it.

After arranging all this, Elidoan ordered the main force of the fleet to bombard the city of Phoenicia in the distance with all its might, and the rumbling cannons thought about it all morning, and countless shells even directly blew up all the peripheral fortifications of the northern city of Phoenicia near the sea, and even the city walls were blown down in several places, and the almost retaliatory shelling made the big food defenders in the city dare not fight at all, and hid in all kinds of bunkers in the city to prevent the big cannibals from counterattacking. But when the cannon stopped, the Great Qin people did not send the army to attack for the whole afternoon, and this abnormal scene also made the Great Cannibal realize that maybe the number of the opponent's army was no longer enough to launch a siege campaign, so he would launch a naval artillery attack to retaliate, and at the same time clear the obstacles for the next reinforcements to be able to quickly attack the city after the arrival of reinforcements. After getting this guess, the Great Food defenders in the city sent people to the east to urgently ask for help on the one hand, and on the other hand, they competed with the other party, and in the following days, Eridogan took advantage of the fact that the fleet had not yet fully withdrawn and continued to carry out shelling almost every day, and the Great Food Army in the city almost repaired while the enemy bombarded and blew up the fortifications of Phoenicia City. In this way, Elidoan used continuous pressure to make the defenders in the city realize the shortage of the opponent's army, so when the Great Cannibal trembled and climbed to the top and found that the Great Qin Naval Fleet had left, not only did he not have doubts, but instead seized the time to repair the destroyed fortifications in the city on the one hand, and on the other hand, let his main army rush over as soon as possible, so as to take the dock and port outside the city when the opponent's naval fleet returned to transport reinforcements and prevent the other party's follow-up landing. Even the Great Cannibal thought that once the port dock was taken, the port of Phoenicia must be completely destroyed, so as not to be used by the other party again. Anyway, there is no navy on my side, and occasionally some small boats can dock in other places, and the big food does not need a port dock.

On the one hand, they hurriedly sent people to repair the bombed-out city walls and fortifications outside the city, and on the other hand, they began to send troops to attack the Great Qin Army entrenched near the port, there were frontal army units that had been withdrawn under various guises and under various disguises, and these were the soldiers that Elidoan needed to transport. It's just that these people were not destined for Egypt, but westward to Nice, the largest port in Gaul.

After convincing his henchmen and generals, Eridogan had already understood everything at this time, but he was afraid that this strategic change of his royal court did not hide the eyes of the Eastern Empire, otherwise the other party would not have performed that part in Phoenicia Harbor. This is to remind himself that he must act according to the orders of the royal court, but he is afraid that a sneak attack on Phoenicia will also cut off his back way to fight the royal court for the sake of Egypt. The other party really counts his own personality. Thinking of this, Eridoan suddenly felt an unprecedented chill hit, if the other party could really calculate the situation to this extent, block all his back roads in advance, and force himself to carry out the orders of the royal court, then what was the other party trying to plot? The two empires of Great Food and Great Qin are inseparable in Taixi, but there is a more powerful empire entrenched next to them. What does it mean that the empire suddenly shows its fangs at this time? Does it mean that the Eastern Empire has begun to fight the idea of the land of Tessie? If so, will Da Shi and Da Qin really be able to deal with it?