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- Socrates (famous ancient Greek thinker, philosopher, and educator)

As early as the situation on the Iberian Peninsula was changing, the army of two legions led by Quintus had already reached the port of Numidia controlled by Prince Adheba and successfully landed in the province of Numidia.

In fact, it is no longer possible to call Adheba His Royal Highness the Prince; Adheba, who controls the four provinces of Mauritania, Numidia, Gaturia, and Sahara, is already His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Numidia.

Both in terms of the region of domination and the size of the army, the kingdom of Numidia controlled by Adheba at this time was more powerful than the kingdom of Numidia controlled by Zuguta in the past.

More importantly, Tulguta had risen to the throne by enlisting the support of the governors of the provinces and the nobles of the kingdom; His position as king made it impossible to fully mobilize all the resources of the kingdom of Numidia.

However, Adheba is fundamentally different from Zuguta in this respect, except for the Mauritanian province that strongly supported him from the beginning, the other three provinces were all defeated by Adheba himself; This means that Adheba has full control over everything in these provinces, without the need to mobilize the resources of these provinces through a so-called governor.

Even the original province of Mauritania has long been under the control of Adheba; The province of Numidia, which voluntarily defected to Adheba, lost most of its nobility during the occupation of the Carthaginian kingdom, resulting in a great void of power.

On the whole, King Adheba's control of the Numidian Kingdom has reached a new high in the history of the Numidian Kingdom; Even the founding king of the kingdom of Numidia could not control the kingdom as much as Adheba wanted.

In this respect, Adheba is actually not much worse than Oscar; Oscar has the loyal Luquis and other pillar generals, and Adheba also has the existence of Optimus giants such as Salah and Ahmet; Oscar had an army of the House of Augustus who swore allegiance to the death, and Adheba had tens of thousands of Numidian troops to follow.

However, the overall strength gap between the Kingdom of Numidia and the House of Augustus is still very large; After all, the four provinces ruled by the Numidian Kingdom were still too barren, and the vast desert area greatly restricted the development of the Numidian Kingdom.

As for the gap between the two sides in terms of scientific and technological civilization, it is even more unreasonable; The Augustan family came from the Roman Republic, which was the most civilized, and the North African continent has always been synonymous with a low level of civilization.

Of course, this is not absolute; At least the Kingdom of Carthage, which is also a member of the North African continent, has created an extremely glorious civilization, and even now, the civilization of the Kingdom of Carthage is very high.

However, the development of the Carthaginian kingdom was based on two foundations; First, it once dominated the western Mediterranean with its powerful naval fleet, and second, the Kingdom of Carthage suppressed the forces of North Africa, making North Africa a base for the Carthaginian Kingdom's resource extraction.

Needless to say, both of these conditions were not possessed by the Kingdom of Numidia; The reason why Adheba was able to get to this point on his own has to admit that the strong support of the Augustus family still played a decisive role.

Without the Augustus family's support of the Chengguan Legion, without the Augustus family helping Adheba train the desert legion and cavalry legion, and without the Augustus family providing Adheba with countless weapons and equipment, Adheba would not have been able to rely on a Salah legion to achieve today's achievements.

Even if Ahmet still led his legion to join Adheba's forces, could Adheba still be able to compete with the 70,000 army of the Kingdom of Carthage with the 15,000 army of Salah and the 15,000 army of Ahmet?

In the competition between countries, comprehensive strength is the key to determining victory or defeat; Unless it is a peerless general like Hannibal, it is simply nonsense to want to win the war with a completely inferior country!

Even with a peerless general like Hannibal, it only changes the partial balance of power between the two countries; In the face of real strength, Hannibal's defeat was only a matter of time.

Do Adheba's Salah and Ahmed have the skills of Hannibal? The answer is necessarily no. And the Kingdom of Carthage is not only Hannibal, but the ironclad general Vimyna is not inferior to Salah and Ahmet.

Coupled with the absolute superiority of the Carthaginian kingdom in terms of overall national strength, once the Numidian kingdom of Adheba lost the support of the Augustan family; At best, the Kingdom of Numidia was evenly matched with the Kingdom of Carthage, and it was impossible to win.

This is why Adheba knew that the Augustus family had concealed the information about the decisive battle of Zama, and still treated the Augustus family as always; Even, after Tuka's chengguan army performed well on the battlefield, Adheba was still very bold and gave Tuka a large reward.

Could it be that Adheba really didn't know about the small movements of the Augustusian family? Of course not! Adheba was able to go from being a loser in the struggle for the throne to the kingdom of Numidia today; The boldness on the surface is just a cover for him, and his inner thoughts are definitely no less than anyone else's, and he sees everything very clearly.

It's just that the support of the Augustan family is too important for the current kingdom of Numidia, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as indispensable; Therefore, Adheba can only turn a blind eye to many things and do not care.

For Adheba, all these things are endurable and do not need to be made public; As long as the House of Augustus can help the Kingdom of Numidia unify the North African continent, there is nothing that Adheba can't bear!

Since ancient times, the saying that those who achieve great things are not informal, is not just talking; Those who can really make a career will show enough tolerance in these areas, not because they are really informal, but because they know how to gain and lose.

In view of this, Adeheba resisted the anger in his heart and allowed them to land in the port of Numidia in response to the sudden arrival of the two legions of the Augustus; In the final analysis, this matter is not done by the Augustan family.

From another point of view, the province of Numidia is the most important capital province of the Kingdom of Numidia and one of the core territories of the Kingdom of Numidia. And the fleet of the Augustus family drove outside the port of Numidia without even saying hello, and demanded the landing of the troops of the two legions!

Don't say that the House of Augustus and the Kingdom of Numidia are only allies, even if the legions within the same country are transferred, they need to be notified in advance; With the Augustan family's move, where did they also put the Numidian Kingdom in their eyes?

What annoyed Adheba even more was that with the landing of these two legions, plus the previously reinforced Chengguan legions; The House of Augustus had three legions and an army of 27,000 in the Kingdom of Numidia.

And the military strength of the Numidian Kingdom itself is only four legions, including the Salah Legion, the Ahmet Legion, the Desert Legion, and the Cavalry Legion, and the total strength is only 43,000 troops.

The combat effectiveness of the Augustus family legion, Adheba's heart is naturally clear; Even without the shocking battle of the Chengguan Legion, the Augustus family's record of completely annihilating Hannibal and his army is enough to be proud of the others!

With such a victory as the decisive battle of Zama, coupled with the amazing battle of the Chengguan Legion, Adheba would not think that the 43,000 troops of his kingdom could defeat the 27,000 troops of the Augustus family; Leaving aside the rest, the gap between the two armies in terms of weapons and equipment is too great, and it is not a level of battle at all.

Therefore, Adheba was very disgusted by the Augustus family for sending two legions to the interior of his kingdom again, and he dared to be angry but did not dare to speak; In fact, Adheba did not even have the power to refuse the landing of the troops of the House of Augustus.

The current kingdom of Numidia seems to be in the limelight, but in fact, there is still a very big gap between it and the real power; What is particularly fatal is that the Kingdom of Numidia has a long coastline, but it does not have a single warship that can handle it, and the only fleet is composed of some civilian merchant ships and transport ships, which has no combat effectiveness at all.

The Augustans had the largest naval fleet and the most powerful army corps in the entire Western Mediterranean, so what would Adheba do to deny the Augustus army a landing? Even if Adheba refuses at all costs, as long as the Augustus family is ruthless and goes to war directly, their army can still land smoothly, and the Kingdom of Numidia has nothing to do about it.

This kind of humiliation is something that Adheba cannot tolerate, and it is something that Adheba must endure; When Adheba went to the port with a smile on his face to welcome General Quintus of the Augustus family, those who were familiar with Adheba knew that behind Adheba's smile, there was enough anger to swallow everything!

As a military commander who grew up in the conspiracy circle of the Roman aristocracy, Quintus naturally knew what kind of impact the forced landing of the two legions led by the Numidian Kingdom would bring; Therefore, after a brief conversation with Adheba, Quintus used Oscar's order to join the Spartak army to avoid long nights.

In fact, the most shocking thing about the Augustan family's move to send two legions to land in North Africa was not the Kingdom of Numidia, but the Kingdom of Carthage, which was engaged in a military confrontation with the Kingdom of Numidia; Their fears were not unreasonable, after all, the House of Augustus was a nominal ally ally of the Kingdom of Numidia! (To be continued.) )