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It's not because things are difficult that we don't dare to do it; It's because we don't dare to do it that things get difficult.

- Seneca (famous Stoic philosopher of ancient Roman times)

The battle of Betica of Luquis ended with the escape of Theophanes, and only 12,000 remnants of Hannibal's 28,000 troops in the province of Betica were withdrawn from Betica; Hannibal's second brother, Margo, and 16,000 mercenaries remained in Betica, becoming witnesses to the Augustus' acquisition of Betica.

Luquis's task as commander this time was also completed, and the next administrative work of Betica had nothing to do with Luquis and the tens of thousands of Roman troops; Luquis also needed to return to Sardinia with the First Legion and the Guards Cavalry. However, the Third Legion of Segudus and the Fifth Legion of Longkina were left behind to garrison Betika; Prepare for the future strategy of the House of Augustus.

Although the possibility of the Spanish lord Dòng attacking the Augustus family is almost non-existent, this does not mean that the Spanish kingdom is not a threat to Betica; Moreover, the Kingdom of Spain itself was also the stated goal of the Augustan family, and it was the most important direction of expansion in the future. Therefore, even if the Kingdom of Spain does not provoke the House of Augustus, sooner or later the House of Augustus will have to take action against the Kingdom of Spain.

However, the premise of this action must be after the Augustus family has completely eliminated the threat of Hannibal; Otherwise, it would have been impossible for the Augustians to have any other ideas about the Kingdom of Spain. While the Third and Fifth Legions were stationed in Betica, Luquis gave them two missions.

The first task is to suppress any person or force that dares to resist the rule of the House of Augustus, and to ensure the absolute dominance of the House of Augustus in Betica; The second task is to collect a large number of battles about the Spanish King's ** team, and conduct relative combat training, so as to ensure that the Augustus family's legions can form an absolute advantage over the Spanish King's ** team on the battlefield.

In addition to these two tasks. Luquis also had Segudus and Ronkina replenish their legionnaires in the province of Betika; However, this supplement could only be made after the family's political officials took over Betica, and it could only be carried out with the support of the family's basic officials, which was also to implement Oscar's policy of complete separation of military and government.

The last thing that needed to be arranged was General Anten and his 100-man cavalry, and the reason why Luquis was able to discover Margo's ambush four times in a row in the Battle of Betica and dealt a major blow to Margo's troops. All thanks to Antan and his cavalry; Therefore, after Luquis led his army into Córdoba, he generously gave him the ancestral home of the Anteng family.

Anten was just a simple soldier, and of course he did not understand Luquis's deep intentions, but he accepted Luquis's gift with gratitude, and then Hòu returned to the Iberian province with the cavalry; As everyone knows, this mansion is enough to make Matuginus completely lose trust in him, and it is enough to make him have new bonds on the battlefield in the future.

After arranging everything for Betica, Luquis left Córdoba for the port with his First Legion and Licinius' Guards Cavalry; The fleet led by Shi Xiu himself had already received the order conveyed by Luquis after Luquis annihilated Margo's troops. From the port of Iberia to the port of Betica.

As for why Shixiu's fleet arrived at the port of Betica ahead of schedule and did not intercept Theophanes' retreating fleet, it was the potential tacit understanding between the Augustus family and Hannibal's forces; The naval strength of the two sides was roughly equal, and neither wanted to risk defeat to attack the other. Therefore, no matter how fierce the war broke out between the infantry on both sides, the naval fleet maintained considerable restraint; Even if the fleets of both sides met at sea, they would leave as if they were blind to each other.

It was nearly a month's voyage from the port of Betica to the port of Sardinia, and the Augustan family now assembled all the transports only barely enough to transport the First Legion and the Cavalry Corps; Because the soldiers of these two legions, which are nearly fifteen thousand men, need to consume too much fresh water and food at sea. There must be enough transport ships to keep them supplied.

A month is not a long time, and it is not a short time. But it was enough for Luquis to think about the next move of the Augustus family during the voyage; Coincidentally, Oscar was also in Callaris at this time discussing the next strategic plan of the Augustan family with Mary. Marco's information about the large-scale expansion of his army in Betica had long been known to Oscar, but Oscar was adamant that Luquis would definitely win the war with the dual advantages of quantity and quality.

If there was to be any accident, it would be nothing more than the greater casualties of Luquis's army; The final victory must have been the army of Augustus led by Luquis, and Mary was sure of it. The problem lies in the fact that after the Augustus family took Betica. What should be the next strategy? Is it to take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Sicily directly? Or wait for the results of the war in North Africa to come out and then attack Sicily?

Oscar's troubles made Mary feel funny, and Mary analyzed to Oscar with a smile on her face: "I don't think you need to worry about this at all." In fact, the essence of these two issues is not the choice of attack timing at all, but what your goal is. Although the dust has not yet settled on the war situation in North Africa, doesn't our latest intelligence say that Hannibal completely annihilated tens of thousands of Numidian troops on the Western Front?

Not to mention the fact that the armies that suddenly appeared under Hannibal's command were all about to happen, after the Kingdom of Numidia lost tens of thousands of troops on the Western Front, the province of Numidia, where its capital was located, would certainly not be able to be saved; Sooner or later, the army of Thapsus, who could not take Vimyna's defense, would be wiped out by Hannibal's attack.

If your goal is simply to reclaim Sicily and confine the Carthaginians to North Africa, then we can now launch an attack on Sicily; The 4,000 elite cavalry of Hannibal and the insignificant legions of Greek city-states on Sicily could not withstand a large-scale attack by the family army, and it only took two months for the family to occupy the whole of Sicily.

If your goal is not just Sicily, nor the Kingdom of Carthage, but Hannibal himself. Then we cannot launch an attack on Sicily now; We must wait for Hannibal's invasion of the Kingdom of Numidia in North Africa to be annihilated before launching an attack on Sicily, so that we can have the opportunity to accomplish our objectives. ”

Mary's analysis, though straightforward, did not satisfy Oscar; Oscar explained helplessly: "Mary, I naturally understand what you said; That's where I struggled. On the premise that Hannibal cannot be eliminated, even if we occupy the whole of Sicily, it does not mean much; Under Hannibal. The kingdom of Carthage will slowly become strong again.

Once we have completely occupied Sicily, it is impossible for Hannibal to launch a counterattack easily without absolute naval superiority; Coupled with the loss of the Balearic Islands and Betica, all the bonds that could have been attached to Hannibal were severed. Hannibal could concentrate on leading the Carthage Kingdom in North Africa, and he could rely on the elite army cultivated in this war to completely annex the entire Numidian Kingdom and expand Carthage's influence in North Africa all the way to the borders of the Kingdom of Egypt.

If such a situation had arisen, not to mention whether the Kingdom of Egypt would have survived Hannibal's attack; Hannibal, who controls the whole of North Africa, is strong enough to wage an all-out war with Rome, and it is impossible for us in the Augustus family to resist Hannibal's attack on our own. ”

Oscar's fears were not unreasonable, and if Hannibal did become powerful in North Africa, who could stop him in North Africa? Come to think of it. Mary's brows furrowed tightly, and then Hòu said, "Do you want to start a war when Hannibal has just defeated the kingdom of Numidia?" However, Hannibal at that time was not easy to deal with. ”

"Of course, I know that Hannibal was not easy to deal with at that time, and now Hannibal has 40,000 troops with good combat effectiveness, of which the number of cavalry is as high as 25,000; By the end of the war, his army would have improved by leaps and bounds, not only in terms of quantity but also in quality. At that time, our attack on Sicily will not necessarily be victorious! ”

Mary found Oscar's negativity too serious. So he comforted him: "Oscar, you don't have to be too anxious about this; Although Hannibal now had an army of 40,000 under his command. But in the ensuing battle with the main Numidian army, there were certainly casualties. Moreover, it was unlikely that Vimina's army on the southern front would have preserved much strength under the siege of Turguta; After the war, the total strength of the entire Carthaginian kingdom did not necessarily exceed 50,000.

Even if their total strength could reach 50,000 men, it would be impossible for them to continue to expand their army; The total population of the Carthaginian kingdom itself is less than one million, and excluding the number of casualties, 50,000 troops is already their limit. It is impossible for all of these 50,000 troops to be brought back to Sicily by Hannibal, at least the Kingdom of Carthage must leave tens of thousands of troops to garrison the mainland. Newly occupied areas also need to be garrisoned by troops.

Among other things, the province of Numidia and Tripoli needed no less than 10,000 garrisons to guard them; And that's not even counting the Carthaginian Senate's drag on Hannibal, who was able to bring back to Sicily with less than 30,000 troops at most. And our Augustus family can dispatch more than 50,000 troops for a decisive battle at one time!

The combat effectiveness of the 10,000 elite divisions of the two Guards Corps will definitely not be inferior to the elite under Hannibal, and the First Legion brought back by General Lucis after completing the conquest of Betica is also a battlefield veteran, and the combat effectiveness of the Samonai Legion is even better; These four legions alone can gather 28,000 elites. In addition to arranging for a legion to remain in Sardinia. Two main battle legions can also be dispatched.

When it comes to the decisive battle, we can dispatch a full 50,000 troops to fight Hannibal in a life-and-death duel; This is still the total strength of our troops under the premise that we have left one legion in Sardinia, one legion in the Balearics, and two legions in Betica. If we really do our best, this 90,000-strong army will be our most confident, and it is also a huge army that Hannibal cannot reach! ”

Admittedly, Mary's words sounded very incendiary to Oscar; At least after listening to it, Oscar felt that it seemed reasonable for the Augustus family to win the final decisive battle. However, compared to this simple calculation and comparison of troops; Oscar had another secret plan in his mind that he had never told Mary.

This secret plan had been carried out by Oscar's intelligence services for several months, and the specific effect could not be seen until the war in North Africa was over and the Augustus family launched an attack on Sicily; Therefore, Oscar has been hiding this secret plan and not telling anyone, but today Oscar decided to tell Mary about this secret plan.

This is not to say that Oscar does not trust the generals of the Augustus family, others do not say it, that is, Luquis and Mary, Oscar maintains absolute trust in them; However, it is very difficult to determine whether this plan will succeed or not. Moreover, too many people know about this secret plan, which only increases the likelihood of this plan being leaked; Therefore, Oscar never said it.

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