The less fortunate will console themselves with the greater misfortune of others. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

- Aesop (Greek fabler, Phrygian)

Cleopatra's incident proves that Oscar is still too impulsive, and after learning that the fourth daughter is pregnant, Oscar will inevitably feel a little ashamed and guilty in addition to excitement; After both Mary and Prisca were gone, Oscar cheekily went in to comfort Cleopatra.

Looking at Cleopatra, who was still eating fruit casually, Oscar smiled with embarrassment:

"Well, Cleopatra, I was impulsive about what happened just now, I'm really sorry, I ......"

Before Oscar could say what he had been brewing for a long time, Cleopatra waved her hand indifferently and said:

"Your Majesty, you don't have to pay attention to these little things, and I won't care about them; Even if the baby in my womb is yours, that doesn't prove anything. I have no real relationship with you until you have helped me regain the position of pharaoh of the kingdom of Egypt; Only if you put me in the seat of the pharaoh of the kingdom of Egypt will we become a true husband and wife.

In addition, the child in my womb is the pharaoh of the future kingdom of Egypt, not the prince of the Augustan Empire; Whether or not he had the right to the throne of the Augustan Empire, he would be the undisputed sole heir to the pharaoh of the Kingdom of Egypt. ”

Compared to Prisca and Mary, who really like Oscar, Cleopatra is simply a woman who is only interested in power; From the bottom of her heart, she had no guilt about Oscar's excesses just now, because all she cared about was the position of pharaoh of the Kingdom of Egypt, and the so-called children were just one of her capitals.

For a woman like Cleopatra, Oscar doesn't like it from the bottom of his heart; However, for the sake of the child in her belly, Oscar could only smile and nod yes, and then after a few casual words, Oscar left Cleopatra's room and went to the room of Prisca and others.

Since Cleopatra's pregnancy was a misunderstanding, Oscar, who was in a good mood, naturally didn't care about Cleopatra's greed for power; After all, Cleopatra is only Oscar's partner after all, and Prisca and the other three daughters are Oscar's real wives, so Oscar naturally cares about his pregnant wives.

While Oscar was excited about becoming his father, the situation on the North African continent changed dramatically, and the war between the kingdoms of Numidia and Carthage and Libya in Adheba finally began; This time, it was the Kingdom of Numidia, which was at an absolute disadvantage in military strength, that brazenly launched a full-scale attack.

In fact, the outbreak of the war in North Africa was purely an accident, an accident caused by Juguda; On the North African continent, the border military confrontation between the Kingdom of Numidia and the Kingdom of Carthage and the Kingdom of Libya is not a matter of a day or two, after all, the three countries have always been at war, but they have not made a big move in the border area when they have regained their strength.

In particular, the Libyan kingdom, which took in Juguda, often clashed with its garrison in the Tripoli region and the Salah regiment of the Numidian kingdom; These military clashes, under the restraint of the commanders of the armies of both sides, almost always ended in skirmishes, and the scale of the battles never exceeded 300 men.

The border clashes between the Salah legion and the border garrison of the Kingdom of Libya, which had been quiet for three months, broke out again two days ago, and more than 500 soldiers of the Kingdom of Numidia were slaughtered in this border clashes; What's more critical is that the Kingdom of Libya actually sent 5,000 troops to attack the 500 soldiers of the Numidian Kingdom, and its commander was Jugudah!

With the enmity of the Numidian Kingdom against Jugudah, coupled with the great losses suffered by the Salah army this time, the war between the Numidian Kingdom and the Libyan Kingdom was simply inevitable; When Salah learned of the outcome of the conflict, the 50,000 Numidian troops stationed in the Gaturia region were all assembled under Salah's orders.

Salah did not have the impulse to lead his entire army to attack the Libyan garrison in Tripoli, and after leaving 20,000 soldiers to continue to defend the defense line of the Kingdom of Numidia and the Carthaginian Kingdom of Baisasion, he led the remaining 30,000 troops to attack the Tripoli region of the Kingdom of Libya.

Neither Jugurdah nor the commander of the garrison in Tripoli of the Kingdom of Libya could have imagined that the army of the Kingdom of Numidia would fight for such a conflict; In fact, the commander of the army of the Kingdom of Libya only wanted to use Juguda to recover the losses suffered in the last border conflict, and he did not expect to anger General Salah of the Kingdom of Numidia.

The Kingdom of Libya, which has a barren land and weak national strength, has not achieved much development at all in five years, and even the army of their own kingdom is supported by the help of the Kingdom of Carthage, let alone improve the combat effectiveness of their kingdom's army, and the Kingdom of Libya does not have the strength to improve the combat effectiveness of its own kingdom's army.

The Numidian Kingdom is different, the comprehensive national strength of the Numidian Kingdom has developed by leaps and bounds in five years, and Adheba is a king who pays great attention to the army; Under the vigorous promotion of Adheba, the size of the army of the Kingdom of Numidia continued to expand, the quality of the army also improved rapidly, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers became stronger and stronger.

If the army of the Kingdom of Numidia five years ago could defeat the 20,000 army of the Kingdom of Libya in a frontal battle with 10,000 men; Then the current army of the Kingdom of Numidia can already use 5,000 people to torture and kill the 20,000 troops of the Kingdom of Libya.

After Salah's 30,000-strong army crossed the border and marched into the Tripoli region, it was immediately met with desperate resistance from the army of the Kingdom of Libya; It is a pity that in the face of absolute strength, such a resistance is only an increase in casualties, and it cannot change the result at all.

The army of the Kingdom of Numidia annihilated all the garrisons of the Kingdom of Libya in Tripoli in half a month, but this time Jugurdah was not lucky enough to escape; Salah's long-shield cavalry spotted Jugurdah during a chase against the Libyan cavalry, and captured Jugurdah in that battle.

Zhu Guda naturally knew that with his grievances and grievances with the Numidian Kingdom, he would definitely die after falling into the hands of the Numidian Kingdom; So, as the shielded cavalry of the Numidian kingdom escorted him back to the barracks, he found an opportunity to commit suicide.

A generation of heroes who used to maneuver between the two major kingdoms of North Africa committed suicide in such a nest; Looking at Juguda's corpse, Salah suddenly sighed in his heart and was relieved, and then Salah sent hundreds of cavalry to send Juguda's corpse all the way to the capital of the Numidian Kingdom and handed it over to Adheba for disposal.

With the annihilation of the army of the Kingdom of Libya in the Tripoli region, the Kingdom of Libya, which had just risen for less than six years, was once again suppressed by the Kingdom of Numidia; Only the Libyan kingdom in the Libyan region remains, not to mention launching a counteroffensive against the Numidian kingdom, it would be good if they could keep their kingdom under the deterrence of the Numidian kingdom.

Sure enough, half a month after Salah's army occupied the Tripoli region, Mutinis, the king of the Kingdom of Libya, sent a delegation to Salah's army to sue for peace; Salah did not dare to dictate state-to-state diplomatic relations, and after sending the mission from the Kingdom of Libya to the city of Numidia, Salah began to prepare for the next battle.

Naturally, the Kingdom of Carthage could not sit idly by and watch the Kingdom of Libya be defeated by the Kingdom of Numidia like this, let alone the area of Tripoli, the southern barrier of its kingdom, to become the frontier of the Kingdom of Numidia attacking the Kingdom of Carthage; Just as Salah's army had invaded the Tripoli region, the Carthaginian army's army at Baisassion had already begun to assemble.

Although the Hannos had taken full control of the entire province of Baisassion, even all the Carthaginian garrisons in the province of Baisassion had become loyal armies to the House of Hanno; However, the Hanno family still did not invest their own private troops in such war preparations, and the first thing to be used was the garrison army that nominally belonged to the Kingdom of Carthage.

At this time, the ruler of the Hanno family was no longer the so-called little Hanno; All the people of Baisassion know that little Hanno, who can only eat, drink and have fun, is only the nominal ruler of the Hanno family, and it is the Lord Tahiti who is the most trusted of the little Hanno who is in charge of all the affairs of the Hanno family.

Three years ago, there was a saying within the Hanno family: As a member of the Hanno family, you can offend the little Hanno without scruples, because you can always use your sincerity to ask for the forgiveness of the little Hanno afterwards; However, you must not offend His Excellency Tahiti easily, because if you offend His Excellency Tahiti, you will offend the entire Hanno family!

Perhaps, such remarks are exaggerated, but they make people have to face up to the special status of Tahiti in the Hanno family; After little Hanno heard such words, he just laughed it off, in little Hanno's opinion, is there anyone in this world who is more worthy of his trust than Tahiti?

As the supreme leader of the Augustan Empire's Jinyi Guard, Tahiti naturally would not allow the Kingdom of Numidia to gain absolute strategic superiority on the North African continent; Immediately after Salah led his army to invade the Tripoli region of the Kingdom of Libya, Tahiti issued an order within the Hanno family to send all the Abydos and Gisken regiments south.

With the strength of the Abydos Legion and the Gisken Legion, it was a full 35,000 elite troops of the Carthaginian Kingdom, which were superior to the 30,000 Numidian troops under Salah in terms of quantity and quality; And Tahiti's order to Abydos and Gisken was that as soon as Salah captured the Tripoli region, the army of the Kingdom of Carthage would immediately go to war against Salah's legions! (To be continued.) )