Confidants, see each other late.

Although the language of the two sides is different, and they still need to rely on the translator to express their respective meanings, every word and every look of each other can make the other party understand the meaning, and this kind of strategist's vision is incomprehensible to people below this level.

For a long time, Li Yuan has been like a lonely leader, leading a group of hairy boys in the Qin State to fight fearlessly, his decisiveness and ability have made the enemy fight and the soldiers cheer, but behind the glory and victory, Li Yuan has to experience the loneliness of the high place.

Exchange of ideas.

is not a fusion of emotions or flesh, a young, beautiful and lovely woman, what Li Yuan gives is physical enjoyment, and at the spiritual level, it lacks some resonance.

Hannibal served as the administrator of Carthage, this kind of comprehensive ability to manage a country, which is not experienced by people who have not been the head of a country, and the collision of ideas made the communication between the two sides very smooth, and when it came to the conversation, even Li Zhongxiang, who had been listening to the lecture, also joined the ranks of the discussion.

After the exercise of balancing the thirty-six oasis countries in the Western Regions, Li Zhongxiang gradually got rid of the narrow view of only being a general in the army, and began to focus more on politics, economy and other levels, and Li Yuan's decision to let Li Zhongxiang accompany him to Egypt this time also saved the meaning of handing over North Africa and the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea to this famous general of the Qin army in the future.

For the first time, the collision between the East and the West on military operational ideas has been face-to-face. The direct communication between people made Li Yuan and Hannibal pleasantly surprised, and they talked until late at night.

The next day, it was dawn.

The lights in Li Yuan's house began to go out, and Hannibal, who let go of his scruples, then gave Li Yuan a detailed introduction to the customs and customs of the countries bordering the Mediterranean, and the situation of those in power.

The time, the place, the people.

This is the whole of the war, for the Qin State that came from afar, these three aspects are not available at present, if you only rely on the strength of the strength and the Romans to fight hard. Even if Zuihou wins. It is also a castle built on a sand dune, and one day the vast empire will be blown down by a gust of wind.

In this regard, Alexander's Macedonian Empire already had an example in front of it, and Li Yuan did not want to end the good situation created because of quick success. Moreover. Unlike Alexander. Li Yuan is still young. He is only thirty years old, and he has a lot of time to run the territory of the West.

He is familiar with the situation of the Mediterranean countries and is willing to provide intelligence to the Qin State. In addition, Hannibal, who has no real power, is undoubtedly an ideal partner to work with, as for whether Carthage will be revived under Hannibal's leadership in the future, Li Yuan did not consider that the rise and fall of a slave country cannot be controlled by a single person.

No matter how good Hannibal was, he could not stop the decay of Carthage, a kingdom in decline, if its roots were already rotten, then no amount of fertilization could bring it back to life.

In the next few days, Hannibal was placed in the barracks as an important guest by Li Yuan, and as the conversation deepened, the relationship between Hannibal and Li Yuan became more and more harmonious.

"Dear Bixia, it will be very difficult for your army to capture Alexandria from the current situation, unless the Great Qin army can block the port and cut off the supply routes of the Egyptians first." Standing in front of the restored sand table, Hannibal pointed to the distribution of forces on both sides.

Li Yuan smiled and nodded, and asked, "My Qin State's navy, can't do this, I don't know what help General Hannibal can provide?" ”

Hannibal's analysis is good, there is a port passage, Ptolemy V can attack and retreat, it can be said to be invincible, don't look at the Qin army now occupies almost all of Egypt, but as long as Alexander does not fall, the banner of the Ptolemaic kingdom has not fallen.

Hannibal's eyes lit up when he saw Li Yuan's question, and he smiled: "Dear Bixia, you are a smart man, you know who is the enemy and who is a reliable friend, although Carthage is now defeated by the Romans, but in our hands, there are still a fleet of merchant ships across the sea, if we are dispatched, we can block the port, so that in less than ten days, Ptolemy V has no supplies, and can only be trapped in the city." Therefore, in the name of the Administrator of Carthage, I ask Bixia to agree to a strategic alliance between our two countries against our common enemy. ”

Li Yuan haha, Hannibal's suggestion was already expected by him: "The matter of the alliance, you can discuss it in detail, why don't you talk about it first, how many warships can be dispatched on the Carthage side, and how sure are you to blockade the port?" ”

"Bixia, on the Carthage side, more than 150 warships can be dispatched to triangular collision, as for the time, it depends on the situation after I return to Carthage?" Hannibal let out a sigh of relief.

"Good. The king was in Cairo waiting for the good news from the general. Li Yuan nodded and said.

Alexandria.

It is a half-crescent-shaped harbor, and at its exit, as long as there are large warships blocking the passage, it is impossible for the ships inside to break through.

The fleet of the Egyptians was much smaller than Carthage, and in terms of naval warfare, the Romans ranked first, Carthage second, and the Egyptians could only rank fourth, fifth, and sixth.

The weak kingdom of Ptolemaic had been left far behind by the Mediterranean countries in terms of military strength, and the only thing they could hope for now was that Empress Cleopatra would be able to summon reinforcements from Rome. Therefore, the Carthaginians had to block the Ptolemaic fleet before the Romans.

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War in the Mediterranean.

As the Qin army opened up new battlefields in Egypt, it fell into a wider and wider range. Whether it was the powerful Qin and Romans, or the weak Greeks, Thracians, or the Macedonians and Egyptians who were immersed in the glory of the past, they all had their ups and downs in this battle for supremacy that affected the entire sea.

Philip IV's two ends of the head rat made him eventually lose the support of the Qin people, and Li Yuan did not have the slightest favor for this so-called ally who was bent on taking advantage and unwilling to pay.

Macedonia has sunset.

The Qin state had now found new partners in the Balkans and the Greek peninsula, and due to its own weakness and weak internal cohesion, the Greeks were more dependent on the powerful Qin state.

At the call of Dikar and Gemetius, the students of the Lycion Academy are crossing the Aegean Sea in batches to the place where they yearn for the existence of Eastern civilization. Unlike the ordinary Greeks, who were ignorant of the affairs of the outside world, the children of the nobility were the children of the nobility who could be sent to the academy in this era.

Their arrival not only gave the Qin State a group of available talents, but also won the support of the Greek upper-class nobles behind it.

For the Greeks, the glory of their ancestors was deposited in their hearts, they wanted to restore its glory, but they could not find a way out, although the Macedonians inherited the Greek culture, but Alexander's successors, obviously did not even have the ability to hold the territory, and it was impossible to expect them to revive Greece.

The threat of the Romans was at hand.

The flames of war under the city of Pera could reach the Peloponnese at any time, and the Greeks' fear of Rome as a close neighbor lasted for centuries.

The knot is weak and resists the strong.

Unite the majority and isolate the few. This is the law between nations throughout the ages.

For Qin, the Jews, Greeks, and Carthaginians, who were once powerful and now declining, were natural allies, and supporting them was tantamount to giving Qin a pair of eyes of its own in the unfamiliar West.

The strong will eventually take the initiative in this competition.

In the northern Balkans, the siege of the city of Pera by the Roman army became clear as the weather warmed, and the Alps could not stop Scipio's enthusiasm for the frontier, as he said at the time of his oath: the future of Rome was to own the entire Mediterranean, not just the western half of it.

The old consul Fabian compromised.

The young generals in the Roman army and a considerable number of generals in the army supported Scipio, which made Fabian very helpless, a generation of new people replaced the old, for the Romans, Scipio, the battlefield hero, brought a breath of fresh air to Rome, and suddenly blew open the door of the old arena.

When Cleopatra arrived on the Macedonian coast, Scipio's siege of Pella was coming to an end, and at Scipio's insistence, Fabian agreed to send reinforcements, and the Roman naval fleet blocked Pella's exit to the Mediterranean Sea in late March, leaving Philip IV in despair.

By April, the inhabitants of Perra, short of food, began to surrender to the Romans en masse, and most chose the former for survival and honor.

The army that Philip IV hastily organized to defend the city gradually disappeared in this wave of fear, at first only a small group disappeared, and then the entire group disappeared with a few hundred men, and not only that, but these soldiers also took the weapons he carried.

April 20.

The outer city of Pera was captured by the Romans, while Philip IV hid in the city's tall castle and tried to trap the beasts. The days that belonged to this doomsday king were numbered, and he never imagined that Alexander, the greatest emperor of Macedonia, would one day end up in this world.

Who is to blame?

Is the Romans to blame?

No matter how much Philip IV cried and grabbed the heavens and the earth, it was impossible to shake Scipio's determination to destroy Macedonia.

Blame the Qin people for not saving them when they see death?

Li Yuan did not have any friendship with him Philip IV, and Ptolemy V and Antiochus III, who had friendship and relationship with him, one was trapped in a lonely city, and the other had already died in the hands of the Qin army. (To be continued......)

PS: I asked for a day of votes, but I didn't see anyone who voted, and sure enough, ...... Tears run.