Chapter 444: The First Face (7)

"What are you?" Hannibal used a non-human term.

In terms of heat output, the 1-pounder gun also had the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, but it was only heat, and the explosion caused the combustion and impact of the gas, which was easily blocked on the perimeter of the Carthage camp.

Huang Xuan couldn't choose farther away, because he wanted Hannibal to see such an effect, so he wasted some energy to fend off the storm he had created.

The soldiers were dumbfounded.

Huang Xuan likes such moments the most.

Raising his chin very proudly, of course, it was a single chin, Huang Xuan said in a very unbeaten voice: "Now you can't kill me, and I can do what I want, unless you give me 1000 tarrants."

One of the generals next to Hannibal immediately shouted: "Who knew that you didn't do it?" Maybe you caused this plague, catch him. ”

"So what." Huang Xuan shrugged his shoulders and fired another 1-pounder cannon, this time next to Hannibal's cavalry battalion, the horses exploded in an instant and ran like crazy and neighed, and nearly a thousand horses washed the camp into a mess.

Several heavily armored soldiers rushed forward fearlessly with their long swords, and then their limbs twitched, and perhaps their sphincter muscles were inadequate......

"1000 tarrants." Huang Xuan repeated.

"I only have 500 talantes that I can raise. If you could heal everybody. Hannibal stared at Huang Xuan, looking at him carefully, from top to bottom.

Huang Xuan's eyelids rolled and he smiled: "If this is your bargaining method, it's not bad, from the Confucius Temple?" Just 500 tarrants. ”

The Carthaginians didn't understand the first half of the sentence, but they understood the second half, Huang Xuan didn't wait to say more, handed the branch in his hand to a guy next to Hannibal, and said, "Go and drag some corpses over, I need corpses." Horses, don't mess with people, it's disgusting. ”

There are soldiers who naturally do it.

Mr. Commas laughed and jumped off his horse, pouting, "Give us a tent, bigger one, clean up." ”

After he finished speaking, he turned to Huang Xuan in normal language: "Confucius Temple is where you go to school?" It seems that your teacher has given you unusual skills. ”

"The Confucius Temple is just a small place." Huang Xuan shrugged, also gave up caring about Hannibal, and looked back: "I went to school in a private school since I was a child, and I was tutored by a special teacher, and the teacher I invited studied for a few years and never went to the college. ”

Mr. Comas smiled and nodded, and Hannibal rode over gently, leaning over and asking between the two of them, "How did you take 500 tarrants?" ”

"It's an old problem."

"It's important for both of us." Hannibal speaks quickly, and at the end there are always two tongue-biting sounds, and the words are clear, just like his thinking.

Huang Xuan grimaced and said, "I think we can try to establish a relationship of trust, I heard that Carthage uses mercenaries. ”

"That's right."

"How about I be a mercenary for you, like the energy cannon just now, called the energy cannon, 500 tarrants at a time, where you let me 'shoot', I will 'shoot' where, how about sending it once in 10 times?"

Hannibal was really interested and said, "How many times can you use it?" ”

"More than you think."

"200 Tarrants."

"Deal." Huang Xuan stretched out his hand, and Hannibal tried to shake it with him.

The first batch of antibiotics were ordinary soldiers, they probably wanted to see the effect, as Huang Xuan supplied more and more yellow "color" powder, countless soldiers stood up, and after a while, a group of southern Europeans came over and said to Huang Xuan: "We are General Hannibal who asks for your protection. ”

"Go over there and report, that one named Cyrus." The Persians had already been called, and Huang Xuan had always been accustomed to summoning people, no matter where - cleaning the camp, clean drinking and washing water, food, etc., some were jobs.

In the evening, Hannibal rode to Huang Xuan's tent, he was a little lacking in energy, but when he saw Huang Xuan, he immediately became energetic again, this is a guy who can keep his spirits up without taking "medicine".

"What do you want to do?" Huang Xuan pointed to the people around him, many soldiers were carrying the corpses, but it was obviously not the appearance of burying them.

"I'd like to see if the Romans have such a 'medicine'." Hannibal shook the packet in his hand, which contained anti-sinusin.

"So?"

"Put the corpse in their river, or find a way to bring it into the city of Rome......"

Huang Xuan was dumbfounded when he heard this, this guy actually wanted to use biological weapons in the era of BC, and it was the corpse of his own person, although it was useless...... Of course, Huang Xuan will not express any opinion.

Hannibal was pleased with his surprise, and waved two soldiers, who were dragging carts behind them, and said with a smile: "I have brought you 200 tarrants, and the remaining 300 tarrants will be given to you only when I return to Carthage." ”

Huang Xuan looked at Hannibal with inquiring eyes, and said for a long time: "You won't go back to Carthage, if you win, you can stay in Rome, if you lose, you won't have 300 tarrants, I'm going to let you give me gold here, maybe delay for a while, how about 15 days?" ”

"I remember your name is Huang Xuan......"

"So be it." Huang Xuan was proud that he had interrupted Hannibal's words, he stretched out his hand to make a gesture of invitation, and said, "I think you will make the right decision at some time and see you in a few days." ”

"Okay." Hannibal turned and walked out of the tent.

Huang Xuan shouted behind him: "You have to send some people to bring this gold." ”

Whether it is the gold of the present, or the gold that is ready to be paid in the future, Hannibal is not Carthaginian gold, they can't take so much gold so far, and it is not very normal as military expenses, most of the possibilities, or plundered along the way, this year, it is the time for Hannibal to attack the Roman alliance.

Huang Xuancai doesn't care where the money comes from, his purpose is not gold, although in the face of P001, he can neither take away the metal nor Hannibal, but he needs a big change in Nengton, in addition, according to Mr. Comas, he may also need to control this plane - how to control it He doesn't know, but more trust, more gold, and more force and commitment, probably can't be wrong.

The cool nights on the steppe passed quickly. 16,000 soldiers remained here forever, with no nameplates, no ceremonies, and the army fled as if it were far away.

Hannibal's army marched southeast, plundering all the way along the Aryrian coast. Without looking at the map, Huang Xuan knew that Canny was close at hand.

During this period, Hannibal had actually fallen into a strategic decline, due to the internal struggle of Carthage, Hannibal had almost no logistical support, and Fabian had just stepped down, and the effect of his policy was still - using troops to hold the inner line, consuming Carthage's money, food and men.

But, around the time Huang Xuan arrived, Fabian's dictatorship's term expired – the needs of Roman officials in terms of electoral system and electoral ecology were strikingly similar to those of American officials, they needed performance, they needed a place to be seen by the people, they had to represent the wishes of the people, and most importantly, they did not accept defeat, especially during elections.

The Fabian policy was a long-term policy, and only long-term use had its effect, and before it had an effect, people would not have seen his achievements, but only the Roman army that blindly retreated, countless small defeats, dead citizens, broken alliances, and all that. Even if it is a victory, people will give honor to the general who won the last victory, not to weaken the enemy's fabian.

So, the Roman Senate began to raise a large army to deliver a fatal blow to Hannibal. What Huang Xuan and Mr. Comas saw in the city of Rome were the two newly recruited legions.

It was indeed a good time, except for a little, Canny's munitions.

Hannibal's army was poorly supplied, and the Fabian policy left him with no spare resources to raid small towns. So this time, too, is wonderful for Hannibal.

The Fabian policy ended, and the Roman army began to assemble, allowing him to attack wherever he wanted without being disturbed by the "commotion" before a new major war began.

As Huang Xuan knew, he chose Cannae Castle in the Apulian Plain.

At this time, Hannibal still had less than 30,000 soldiers, but this was not the problem, the current Roman alliance was very centrifugal, he could get soldiers from many tribes, even city-states, and Cannae had Roman rations and countless supplies.

In addition, it is time for the grain to be harvested.

Huang Xuan did not follow his "golden car", but played with new bacteria with Mr. Comas, they sat in the cart, fiddling with new animals every day, these days, Huang Xuan's biological knowledge has improved by leaps and bounds, he knows the difference between viruses and bacteria, and also studied the Ruan virus, both of them like small microorganisms, the lighter the weight, the smaller the consumption when synthesizing with energy.

The soldiers of Carthage were far away from the wizard-like Huang Xuan and Comas, and the demands of the three men were better fulfilled.

The roads in Italy were in good condition, and the roads built by the Romans also gave convenience to the Carthaginians, and the Roman army, which had shrunk its forces to prepare for a big war, was not able to affect the speed of Hannibal's march, and they did not even know the location of Hannibal's main forces, so that after 10 days, Huang Xuan had already seen the legendary Cannae.

A small city, maybe 8,000 soldiers, maybe 5,000, but their resistance was so weak compared to Hannibal's army that most of them fled — not every Roman soldier was brave, just as not every American was a free and democratic citizen.

The next day, Hannibal, with the smile of a victor, walked into Cannae Castle.