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Adheba, the newly formed Guards Legion, was naturally his own legion, and it was also the legion of the Kingdom of Numidia stationed in the capital; The commander of the corps was none other than General Alaiamas who had been sent by Adheba to Ahmed as his deputy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After this round of expansion, the Numidian kingdom of Adheba can be regarded as having a strong military strength of five legions; The Salah Legion and the Ahmet Legion each had 30,000 troops, the Guards Legion also had 20,000 troops, and together with the Desert Legion and the Cavalry Legion under the Combined Legion, the total strength of the Numidian Kingdom was also as high as 100,000.

Even the alliance between the House of Augustus and the Kingdom of Numidia existed in name only; However, Adheba still had no intention of disbanding the Combined Legion, and even boldly handed over the Combined Legion to the commander of Spartac.

This is not to say that Adheba absolutely believed in Spartak, after all, Spartak was a general of the House of Augustus, how could he be so desperate for the benefit of the Kingdom of Numidia? It's just that Adheba's move has another deep meaning.

In Adheba's view, as long as the Augustus family did not completely turn against the kingdom of Numidia, then the alliance between the two sides still existed; As long as this relationship is still there, then many things will be much easier to say, and many things will be done naturally.

The House of Augustus could take advantage of this alliance and send armies of two legions into the kingdom of Numidia; Why can't the Kingdom of Numidia take advantage of this alliance and do something more beneficial to itself?

In fact, the kingdom of Numidia is not only doing it, but it is doing it with relish; Although the Combined Legion is led by the generals of the Augustan family, it is an indisputable fact that the strength of the Numidian army has been improved, and Adheba has no reason to disband the Combined Legion, let alone affect the improvement of his own strength for the sake of the so-called face problem!

This is also the reason why Adheba will not forget to expand the desert legion and cavalry legion in this army expansion; Regardless of the relationship between the Augustan family and the Kingdom of Numidia, the strong combat effectiveness of the desert legion and the cavalry legion is the best proof, could it be that the Augustus family can still take these two legions with them when they evacuate North Africa?

You must know that the soldiers of the Desert Legion and the Cavalry Legion are all natives of Numidia, and they are also those who voluntarily follow Adheba to serve the Numidian Kingdom; Adheba, of course, believed them and would not have thought that they would defect.

Perhaps, so-called loyalty is not guaranteed in the face of wealth and status; However, Adheba believed that those Numidian soldiers, even if they were willing to betray themselves and the Numidian Kingdom, could not betray their families and people, and this was where Adheba's confidence lies, and it is also the key to Adheba's expansion of the United Legion again!

In addition to expanding the size of the Desert Legion and the Cavalry Corps, Adheba also handed over the newly formed Guards Regiment to Spartak for training; The commander of the Guards, Alaiamas, was a loyal general to Adheba, otherwise Adheba would not have been able to appoint him as the commander of the Guards.

Unfortunately, loyalty is often not directly proportional to ability; This General Aleyamas obviously does not have the ability to command an army of 20,000, let alone train an army of 20,000 into an elite division.

Adheba was not very worried about commanding the Guards Corps, after all, the Guards Corps generally did not need to go to the front to participate in the battle; Even if it really came time to participate in the war, it would be under the personal leadership of Adheba, and the lack of commanding ability of Alemas would be compensated for by Adheba's intervention.

As for the training of the Guards Corps, then Adheba really can't do anything; General Salah and General Ahmet, who have the ability to train large armies, are both confronting the army of the Kingdom of Carthage in the border area at this time, and it is impossible to easily transfer back.

And Adheba himself is also busy with the governance of the great kingdom all day long, where does he have time to manage the Guards Legion; As a result, Adheba simply handed over the training of the Guards Legion to Spartak, and asked Spartak to train the Guards Legion in the same way as the Combined Legion.

After all, the achievements of the Combined Legion are also obvious to all, a group of two legions composed of an outright rabble, after the training of Spartacus, became a bloodthirsty and warlike elite division; Adheba had reason to believe in Spartak's ability to train troops, and was willing to rest assured that the Guards Corps would be handed over to Spartak for drills.

Faced with this task given to him by Adheba, Spartak did not refuse; Although it is impossible to train this Guards Legion to make the entire Legion Augustus Family as before, but training this Legion, that is, the Augustus Family knows this legion well, is still extremely useful for the Augustus Family's future North African strategy.

While the Kingdom of Numidia and the Kingdom of Carthage were busy expanding their armaments, the Kingdom of Libya did not settle down because of its own weakness, but was stimulated by the expansion of the armaments of these two kingdoms and began a new round of military expansion.

With the strength of the Kingdom of Libya, even the region of Tripoli, which it had acquired through an alliance with the Kingdom of Carthage; The Kingdom of Libya was not at all capable of confronting the Kingdom of Carthage or the Kingdom of Numidia, but fortunately they had formed an alliance with the Kingdom of Carthage.

But the crux of the matter is that Mutinis, the king of the Kingdom of Libya, was not a fool, and he naturally could not really think that the alliance between the Kingdom of Libya and the Kingdom of Carthage could be solid; Whether it was the Kingdom of Numidia or Carthage that would eventually claim the hegemony of North Africa, the Kingdom of Libya would be their next target.

Therefore, how to improve its own strength is what the Kingdom of Libya should do; How could Mutinis be able to go from a governor to a powerful king, how could he not even have this vision?

Compared with the Kingdom of Carthage and the Kingdom of Numidia that chose to buy weapons and equipment from the House of Augustus, the Kingdom of Libya put the object of purchasing weapons and equipment on the equally powerful Kingdom of Egypt; From the geographical location of the Kingdom of Libya, it is indeed more convenient to purchase weapons and equipment from the Kingdom of Egypt.

But the crux of the matter is that the world is as black as a crow! The Kingdom of Egypt was on the eastern edge of the North African continent, how could they not be aware of the changing situation on the North African continent? Thus, the poor kingdom of Libya became a lamb to the slaughter in the eyes of the kingdom of Egypt; The price of weapons and equipment they prescribe is even more expensive than that of the Augustus!

The Kingdom of Libya only purchased 20,000 weapons and equipment from the Kingdom of Egypt, and they were all Egyptian infantry weapons and equipment of a quality far inferior to the weapons and equipment of the Augustan family; As a result, the Kingdom of Egypt demanded a sky-high price of 300,000 gold coins!

Well, although the asking price of the Augustans is also dark to death; However, the weapons and equipment of the Augustus family are guaranteed by quality! And the weapons and equipment of the Kingdom of Egypt have no quality assurance and are expensive, so that is the real pit!

Helplessly, even if he knew that this was a huge pit, Mutinis could only grit his teeth and take out the money; There is no way, who let the Kingdom of Libya not have the strength to build a large number of weapons and equipment on its own.

After acquiring these weapons and equipment from the Kingdom of Egypt, Mutinis expanded the size of the Libyan Kingdom's army again; The Kingdom of Libya, which originally had only 20,000 troops, has become a military power with 40,000 troops in the blink of an eye!

The 40,000-strong army of the Kingdom of Libya was divided into three legions; The legion, commanded by Anton Bas, had a full 20,000 infantry and was stationed on the border between the province of Tripoli and the Kingdom of Carthage and Numidia.

The Chillasber Legion, which had 10,000 cavalry, was also sent to Tripoli Province to garrison the border with the Anton Bass Legion; The last Podsimite legion naturally continued to stay in the Libyan province and defend the capital of the Kingdom of Libya.

Of the four great kingdoms of North Africa, three are already mired in an arms race; The only one who remains out of the equation is the Kingdom of Cyrenaica. In fact, the situation in the Kingdom of Cyrenaica is not as good as that of these three kingdoms that are bent on preparing for war!

Until now, the territory of the Kingdom of Cyrenaica is still in a state of confrontation between the north and the south; The royal army, which controlled the northern part of the kingdom, was never able to gain the initiative on the battlefield, and the Moffitt rebels, who controlled the southern part of the kingdom, had no intention of marching into the north.

Although the royal army of the Kingdom of Cyrenaica has an absolute advantage in the number of troops; However, the Moffett army in the south has a much stronger fighting force. Those soldiers who fought for freedom and the tribe were always able to win more with less under the leadership of Moffett, and repeatedly won great victories on the battlefield.

If it weren't for Moffett's lack of intention to march into the north, how could the royal family of the Cyrenaica Kingdom control the rich northern region of the Cyrenaica Kingdom with their poorly fought and weak-willed army?

Without the interference of external forces, the situation in the Kingdom of Cyrenaica remains eerily stable; The Moffett rebels, who were in a safe corner, were only blindly defending the south, and were unwilling to march into the north to complete the final blow to the kingdom of Cyrenaica.

The royal army of the Cyrenaica Kingdom was also unable to move south at all, but was only discouraged in the north-south border area; In this way, the kingdom of Cyrenaica was essentially divided into two parts, the north and the south living their own lives, and neither interfered with the other.

The entire North African region has now entered a period of high stability; The kingdoms are actively preparing for the next war, and war will not come until this arms race has exhausted the last vestiges of the kingdoms' strength! (To be continued.) )