In love, emotionally, when you want to conquer the other person, you have actually been conquered by the other person to a certain extent. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info is first the other person's attraction to you, and then your desire to conquer the other person.

- Plato (one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of Western culture)

Since both Adheba and Juguda had temporarily set the target of their attack on each other, a war between the kingdoms of Numidian and the Sahara was inevitable; Whoever is the final victor on both sides can muster the forces of the entire western part of North Africa to compete with Carthage.

Of course, the choice of who to fight was only the first step in the beginning of the war, and the war between Adheba and Djugurdah was far from really beginning; Before the start of a formal war, both sides still need to accumulate strength and formulate a detailed operational policy.

Compared with these necessary preparations for war, Adheba and Juguda have another thing that should not be overlooked, that is, while conducting a war with each other, they must also guard against the Carthaginian kingdom, so that the Carthaginian kingdom will not pick peaches at a critical moment.

In fact, whether it is the Adekhba forces or the Juguda forces; Before the situation was reversed, they all set their first war goal as the Carthaginian kingdom, which was also the undoubted first enemy of both sides.

It's just that now the Kingdom of Carthage has completed rigorous preparations for war in advance; Neither side had the strength to forcibly attack the Carthaginian kingdom itself, let alone the confidence to ensure their own victory, coupled with the existence of the other side, the two sides temporarily shifted the goal of the war to the other side.

Frankly speaking, if it weren't for the fact that Jugurdah's forces were too much of a twilight, Adheba would not have had to settle Jugurdah and then launch an all-out war against the Kingdom of Carthage; For Adheba and Djugudah, the alliance is far more advantageous than the battle.

The existence of war is inherently risky; Although the strength of the Adheba forces is far superior to that of the Djugurdah forces, there is no guarantee that they can easily defeat the Djugurdah forces, and it is almost certain that they will pay a certain price.

Before the decisive battle with the Kingdom of Carthage, there is still the strength of self-inflicted damage, which is a situation that everyone in the Adheba forces does not want to see, and it is also a situation that everyone cannot avoid; Therefore, the people of the Adheba forces can only go all out.

As for the Juguda forces, they have always belonged to the weaker side, and they simply do not have the power to actively choose the object of war; Compared with the Adheba forces, which can choose their opponents independently, the Juguda forces can only passively accept them.

In fact, all discerning people know that after the Kingdom of Carthage and the Kingdom of Libya formed an alliance to jointly build a defensive line, the best choice between the Adheba forces and the Juguda forces was to unite against the alliance between the Kingdom of Carthage and the Kingdom of Libya.

It is a pity that the relationship between the Adheba forces and the Djuguda forces did not give the two sides a chance to unite at all; Even before the Carthaginian kingdom had completed its preparations for war, a military confrontation between the two sides had already begun.

When Salah personally led his army to recapture the province of Gaturia of the Kingdom of Numidia, Juguda decisively and quickly took the initiative to attack, and forcibly occupied the province of Gaturia belonging to the Kingdom of Numidia before Salah's army.

Such a move would be an absolutely wordless provocation and an undoubted challenge for Adheba's Numidian kingdom; Helplessly, due to the existence of the Carthaginian kingdom, Adheba only confronted the Salah army against the army of Juguda, instead of going to war.

The core conflict of interest in reality is the irreconcilable contradiction between Adheba's Numidian kingdom and Jucguda's Saharan kingdom; But the main factor affecting the relationship between the two sides is far more than that.

During the reign of Thuguta, the Old Numidian Kingdom was clearly a wrong decision to launch an impatient invasion of the Carthaginian kingdom; However, Juguda's voluntary surrender was the most direct factor contributing to the expansion of Thuguta's ambitions.

Of course, the surrender of Juguda and the annexation of the Sahara Kingdom cannot be considered Jugudah's fault, nor can it be an excuse for Tulguta to wage the wrong war; However, the specific performance of Jugurdah in the war was unacceptable to the entire Numidian nation.

Even in the latter stages of the war between Numidia and Carthage, the aggressive army of Hannibal did not have the absolute strength to completely annihilate the retreating army of Tulguta; A decisive battle between the two sides may not necessarily lead to the annihilation of Tulguta's army.

Coupled with the continuous attacks launched by the Augustus family against the Hannibal family, as long as Zuguta persists in the Tripoli region for more than a month, maybe Hannibal will take the initiative to negotiate peace with the Kingdom of Numidia.

However, all these possibilities that would have been more favorable to the kingdom of Numidia were destroyed in the hands of Jugudah; It was precisely because of Zhuguda's voluntary surrender and counterattack that it directly caused the defeat and death of Tulguta and the defeat and capture of Ahmed.

To put it bluntly, Jugurdah was the culprit who caused the kingdom of Numidia to completely lose the war and be dismembered by Hannibal; How could the entire Numidian nation forgive such a man?

The former national hatred and family hatred, coupled with the reality of the core conflict of interests, the war between the Kingdom of Numidia and the Kingdom of the Sahara has long been doomed and inevitable; It's just that the advance preparations of the Carthaginian kingdom made the war between the two sides come in advance.

After Adheba and Djuguda determined that the other was their target for war, the two sides began to prepare for war in full swing; Before the outbreak of the official war, Adheba first took the initiative to withdraw the Salah legion to the kingdom of Numidia.

When the Carthaginian Kingdom was preparing for domestic war, the original three-legged confrontation point was no longer the presence of the Carthaginian Kingdom's army; As Salah's corps slowly retreated, Juguda also led his two legions to retreat to Dimidi.

Immediately after Salah withdrew his army to his homeland, Adheba convened a meeting of the supreme military commanders of the Kingdom of Numidia; The generals who attended the meeting included all the legion commanders of the Kingdom of Numidia so far.

It is said that all the legions of the Numidian Kingdom are the main generals, but in fact there are only seven people; In addition to Ahmet and Salah, only the four generals of the Combined Legion, led by Spartak, remained.

The military councils of the kingdom of Numidia, Spartak and Tuca, and Lirias, never expressed any opinion; Sinrida and Bashirek, who belong to the Combined Legion, generally do not take the initiative to speak, and only Adheba and the two generals Ahmed and Salah discuss.

In this military meeting, the two famous generals of Adheba and the Numidian Kingdom compared in detail the actual combat strength between their own army and the Jugurdah army; Considering the defense of the Carthaginian kingdom, a new battle plan was formulated.

According to the intelligence analysis of Adheba and others, the total strength of the Juguda forces was about 25,000; The real army of the First World War is only 5,000, and the remaining 20,000 are newly recruited rabble.

What's more critical is that neither the so-called 5,000 elites under the command of Zhu Guda nor the 20,000 rabble with poor combat effectiveness have sophisticated weapons and equipment, and they only use the most rudimentary and common weapons and equipment on the North African continent.

In comparison, Adheba's army of 50,000 is a real elite; Whether it is the Combined Legion and the Salah Legion, which are all equipped with the weapons of the Augustan family, or the newly joined Ahmet Legion, they are all well-armed and well-equipped armies.

In this respect, Adheba's Numidian kingdom did leave Jugurda's Saharan kingdom far behind; The gap between the two sides is not a star and a half, but a real world of difference.

In view of this, the arrangement of this battle plan was to take the initiative to attack the Saharan kingdom of Jugurdah with a Numidian army of more than 20,000; Try to complete the occupation of the entire Sahara Kingdom within three months.

The specific corps distribution plan is as follows: Ahmad's Legion and the Combined Legion's Desert Legion and Cavalry Legion are responsible for continuing to stay in the Numidian Kingdom proper; With the main army of 28,000 in three legions, prevent a possible surprise attack by the Carthaginian kingdom.

The remaining Salah Corps and the Combined Corps' Chengguan Corps formed an offensive corps with Salah as the commander and Tuka as the deputy commander to jointly launch an attack on the Sahara Kingdom.

Spartak did not have any opinion on such a military arrangement, and the other generals also expressed their approval of this relatively safe military plan; In this way, the plan for the military offensive of the Kingdom of Numidia against the Kingdom of the Sahara was determined.

After this military council, the kingdom of Numidia began to actively prepare for war; Just as the Salah Legion and the Chengguan Legion were about to start, Spartak handed over the most combat-ready Centurion Guard under his command to Tuka.

As early as after Salah's army withdrew to Numidia proper, Jugurdah also began his own rearmament war; Although Juguda did not know that Adheba's army was so well armed, he still understood the huge disparity in strength between the enemy and us.

Therefore, Jugurdah never intended a dignified head-on battle with the kingdom of Numidia; According to Juguda's idea, the best way for the Saharan army under his command to deal with the Numidian army was to adopt the mobile mode of attack.

In order to implement his own battle strategy, Jugurdah personally divided his army into four cavalry battle groups and a main battle group under his own command to deal with the superior army of the Numidian Kingdom.

After the preparations for war were made on both sides, a new great war broke out; When Salah led his legions and Tuka's Chengguan corps into the province of Gaturia, Djuguda's army began to move! (To be continued.) )