The capture of the city of Pera and the end of Macedonia, a military power to the east, grew in support at home, and the Roman nobles, who hoped to benefit from the expansion, began to call on the old consul Fabian to give up his position, and Cleopatra's daily entanglement made Scipio's self-confidence swell.

The threat of the Qin people was gradually forgotten by Scipio, and an outsider from the far east could not gain a long-term foothold in the Mediterranean.

The sights return to Egypt.

Hannibal, after asking Li Yuan for an alliance, immediately set out for Carthage without delay, and for him, the time had come to regain power. The surveillance of the Romans, the re-endowment of the Romans, humiliated the Carthaginians, and Hannibal, who was welcomed by the common people, did not lack supporters.

North Africa.

A large group of black slaves began to concentrate on the city of Carthage from all directions, and it was an expected and unexpected popular awakening movement.

And its origins.

It was because Hannibal's cronies and others deliberately spread the news that Rome was going to increase taxes, and the humiliation of the second defeat, the glory of the past, and the plundering of a great deal of wealth made the Carthaginians explode after silence.

April 24th.

The carthaginian people marched into the capital, and along the way, the various estates responded in droves, especially in the handicraft workshops of Carthage, where a large number of young craftsmen took to the streets, shouting Hannibal's name and welcoming their heroes back.

The overseers in Rome were horrified.

Most of the people Fabian trusted were old and experienced bureaucrats who were adept at dealing with power schemes, but they often had little to do and lacked the courage to stand up for emergencies such as popular riots.

It's only two days.

The consuls and tax collectors sent by the Romans were all driven away, and Carthage returned to the bosom of freedom, when Hannibal returned to the city. Standing in front of the temple again, tens of thousands of Tyrs raised their arms and cheered.

"The people of Carthage, and the brothers who fought side by side with me and never forsaken me, I, Hannibal Baka, have returned, and the Romans cannot defeat us, because we have a reliable and powerful ally, the Great Qin from the East." Hannibal raised his right hand, clenched his fists and shouted.

"Great Qin, Great Qin!" The Carthaginians shouted repeatedly, though many of them were among them. I don't know what the word Daqin means.

"You know what? Great Qin's army has conquered Egypt, and, in the Balkans, they have also allowed the Roman Gallic legions to flee in disarray, and we Carthaginians will no longer fight alone, no longer without reinforcements, and no longer have to worry about retaliation, because. The Roman dynasty is precarious, and they are already too busy to take care of themselves under the attack of the Great Qin army, so. We're going to take action and rebuild a Carthaginian army, are you willing to join it? Hannibal's words of agitation were like a storm. Let the hearts of the Carthaginians, who have been cooled for a long time, warm up again.

Public opinion is boiling.

The strength of the Motherland.

It is the foundation of tranquility and wealth, and the Carthaginians look back on the past and sigh that the time is gone. Now that the opportunity for revival is in front of them, how can they not be excited.

In just ten days.

Hannibal formed an army of 20,000 people, of which about 100 merchant ships joined, although the turning, tonnage and collision ability of merchant ships are not as good as those with ramming angles, but the naval warfare of this era is basically still in the range of continuous warfare, for the Carthaginian navy with only ten coastal boats, as long as it is a ship, they are not waiting to be requisitioned.

April 30.

At the same time as the Roman fleet sailed out of the Adriatic Bay, Hannibal, who officially took over as the administrator of Carthage, ordered the newly formed Carthaginian navy to be dispatched, with more than 150 large and small ships and about 3,000 sailors, pulling anchor and setting sail, and sailing along the Atlantic Ocean from the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea with a hurricane, heading straight for Egypt.

Wind.

It's in the hand of God.

Surrounded by people with their own thoughts, the Carthaginian fleet sailed smoothly on the road to revival. When they reached the sea not far from Alexandria, the Roman fleet was blocked by a headwind, and the commander of the fleet, Crassus, decided to temporarily turn east and sail to Crete in the Aegean Sea of the Mediterranean Sea to rest for the sake of safety.

This decision prevented the entire fleet from being swept away by a storm, but Crassus was soon removed from his position as admiral because of this seemingly correct decision.

Carthage and Rome.

In order to blockade or support the Egyptians, if the two sides arrived at the same time, the Carthaginians blockaded the port Jihua would be destroyed by the Romans, and the heavy merchant ships would fight against the elite Roman fleet, needless to say, the Carthaginians would not have a chance to win.

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Alexandria.

Scorching in the heat, the city is surrounded on three sides, only facing the port, which can give some comfort to this isolated city with a population of hundreds of thousands.

From March to April, a full month and a half, the blockade of the Qin army became more and more tight, and there were still a few places on the land route that could escape the search of the Qin army's scouts, and with the Qin army's conquest of all parts of the Nile, the banner of the Ptolemaic kingdom was already weakening in the eyes of ordinary Egyptians.

Ptolemy V waited.

However, the Roman reinforcements he hoped for were not visible for a long time, and not only that, but even the Empress Cleopatra seemed to have disappeared, and the reply to his urging was the same: the Roman fleet was already on its way.

"Slut, don't think that if you give up me, you can continue to be the queen, the Romans just treat you as a plaything." Ptolemy V hated in his heart.

Your own family knows your own affairs.

What kind of character is Cleopatra, he knows very well, this woman is just a political marriage with him, and she doesn't have any feelings, at most she is optimistic about the queen's position, and now the country will fall, this woman is afraid that she has already had the idea of hooking up with the Romans.

"Bixia, it's a big deal, the harbor, the harbor is blocked by the Carthaginian fleet, and our ships can't get out." Just when Ptolemy V was in a hurry, another piece of bad news came.

"What do you say? The Carthaginians, where did they get their fleet, wasn't their fleet taken by the Romans? Ptolemy V questioned in disbelief.

"Bixia, it's not a warship, it's a merchant ship, hundreds of merchant ships, blocked at the exit of the port, and the ships are all Carthaginians?" The Ptolemaic general who reported the news stammered.

"Carthage, don't they want to live? As soon as the Roman army arrived, their disobedient mongrels would be thrown into the sea one by one to feed the fish and shrimp. Ptolemy V was furious.

The news that Philip IV, an old friend, was killed by Scipio has reached Egypt, and the rabbit died and the fox was sad, and the two allied brothers of Antiochus III and Philip IV left one by one, which made Ptolemy V have a premonition of great disaster, is the huge empire created by Alexander the Great really not even Zuihou not even have any blood and bones?

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News of the blockade of the port.

Even the disaster quickly spread throughout the city.

The already restless city dwellers are even more emotionally unstable, they can endure the oppression of heavy taxes, they can live without dignity and freedom, but they can't bear to starve to death every day.

The small amount of food brought by the ships was almost left by the huge number of people in the city, plus a part of the royal family and a part of the army that had to be set aside in advance, and the rest of the common people could really not get much, and in Alexandria, the sale of children and daughters for a bite of food was everywhere in the streets.

Early May.

An expected popular riot came suddenly.

Nearly 30,000 hungry urban civilians spontaneously took to the streets and began a democratic awakening movement against hunger and privilege, the original intention of this urban uprising was only that the people would not starve to death in order to have a bite to eat, and then, Ptolemy V, in a fit of rage, made a stupid move and ordered the army to be dispatched to arrest and suppress the rioters.

On the 9th, a bloody clash broke out, nearly 1,000 unarmed Alexandrian civilians were killed by the army, and countless more were wounded, and on the 10th, the angry civilians organized an even larger contingent of nearly 60,000 people, this time, they were no longer bare-handed, the owners of the handicraft workshops opened their warehouses, the workers held in their hands the tools of their usual work, and the civilians held aloft the only thing in their homes that could smash people, shouting and running, and marched towards the palace of Ptolemy V.

All the way.

The ranks of the uprising snowballed in size, and the fact that the troops stationed in the barracks did not obey Ptolemy V's orders this time was not because of the disloyalty of the generals, but because he could not control a team that was already discouraged and had more and more deserters.

On the 12th, the city of Alexandria was occupied by the rebels, and Ptolemy V took refuge in the fortified pyramid of the city, closed the gates, and tried to resist stubbornly.

On the 13th, the Egyptian civilian uprising team elected two representatives and arrived at the Qin army station to negotiate, under the double pressure of the Qin army and the Carthaginian army, these Egyptians, who had little ambition, only demanded that the inhabitants of Alexandria be retained as free people, and at the same time, the Qin army had the obligation to help them resist the possible future retaliation of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and his allies, and the deep-rooted fear of the Ptolemaic Kingdom Egyptians was deeply experienced.

Li Yuan was naturally very happy to be able to subdue a great city without spending a single soldier, and this civilian uprising in Alexandria also gave him a further understanding of the Western concept of democracy and freedom. (To be continued......)