It is a close friend who wishes to meet too late.

The meeting between Li Yuan and Hannibal was really timely. Although the language of both parties was not clear and they still had to rely on the translator to express their respective meanings, every word and look of each other could allow the other party to understand the meaning. This kind of vision that belongs to strategists is beyond the reach of this level.

For a long time, Li Yuan was like a lonely leader, leading a group of young boys from Qin to fight fearlessly. His decisiveness and ability made the enemy timid and the soldiers cheered. But behind the glory and victory again and again, Li Yuan had to experience the loneliness that was so cold that it was too cold at a high place.

Communication in thought.

It is not an emotional or physical fusion. The young and beautiful woman gives Li Yuan a physical enjoyment, but at the spiritual level, there is some resonance.

Hannibal was an administrator of Carthage. This comprehensive ability to manage a country is something that people who have never been the leader of a country cannot understand. The collision of ideas made the exchanges between the two sides very smooth. At the end of the conversation, even Li Zhongxiang, who had been listening to the lecture, joined the discussion.

After training in the balance of thirty-six oasis countries in the Western Regions, Li Zhongxiang gradually got rid of the narrow view of being a general in the army and began to look more at the political and economic levels. This time, Li Yuan decided to let Li Zhongxiang send troops to Egypt with him, which also preserved the intention of handing over the northern Africa and the eastern coast of the Mediterranean to this famous Qin army general to manage.

The collision of East and West on military combat ideas achieved the first time face-to-face and direct communication between people and people was achieved, which surprised Li Yuan and Hannibal and talked until late at night.

The next day it will be dawn.

The lights in Li Yuan's house were just turned off. Hannibal, who had put down his concerns, then gave Li Yuan a detailed introduction to the customs and conditions of the countries along the Mediterranean coast and the situation of those in power. These details are impossible to record in history books. Even if there are any records in museums in any Western city, Li Yuan, an oriental, could not know these.

Time, place, and people.

This is the whole of the war. For Qin, who came from afar, these three aspects are not available at present. If we fight the Romans with their strength only by relying on their strength, even if we win in the end, we will be a castle built on the sand dunes. One day, the huge empire will be blown down by a gust of wind.

In this regard, Alexander's Macedonian Empire had examples ahead. The good situation that Li Yuan did not want to create ended because of his eagerness for quick success and instant benefits. Moreover, unlike Alexander, Li Yuan was still young, but he was only at the age of thirty and had plenty of time to manage Western territory.

Familiar with the situation of various countries in the Mediterranean and willing to provide information for the Qin State. In addition, Hannibal, who had no real power, is undoubtedly an ideal partner. As for whether Carthage will revive under Hannibal's leadership in the future, Li Yuan did not consider that the rise and fall of a slave country cannot be controlled by a single person.

No matter how powerful Hannibal was, he could not stop the decay within Carthage, a declining kingdom. If its roots were already rotten, then even if the thin soil was fertilized, it would not be able to bring it back to life.

In the next few days, Hannibal was regarded as an important distinguished guest by Li Yuan and placed in the military camp. As the conversation deepened, Hannibal's relationship with Li Yuan became more and more harmonious.

"Dear Your Majesty, your army will capture Alexandria. From the current situation, it is very difficult, unless the Qin army can take the lead in blocking the port and cutting off the Egyptian supply route." Hannibal stood in front of the restored sand table, pointing at the distribution of troops from both sides and said.

Li Yuan nodded with a smile and asked, "My Qin navy cannot do this. I wonder what kind of help General Hannibal can provide?"

Hannibal's analysis was good. There was a port channel. Ptolemy V could attack and retreat. It can be said that he was invincible. Although the Qin army now occupied almost the entire Egypt, as long as Alexander did not fall, the flag of the Ptolemy Kingdom would not fall.

When Hannibal saw Li Yuan asking, his eyes lit up and said with a smile: "Dear Your Majesty, you are a smart man. You know who the enemy is and who is a reliable friend. Although Carthage has been defeated by the Romans now, we still have a team of merchant ships across the sea. If we set out, we can block the port. In this way, Ptolemy V has no supplies and can only be trapped in the city without ten days. Therefore, in the name of the Administrator of Carthage, I ask Your Majesty to agree to our two countries to reach a strategic alliance to fight our common enemy together."

Li Yuan laughed and Hannibal's suggestion was as expected: "We can discuss the alliance more carefully. Why not talk about it first? How many warships can Carthage be dispatched and how confident are you to block the port?"

"Your Majesty, Carthage can dispatch more than 150 triangular collision warships. As for the time, it depends on the situation after I return to Carthage?" Hannibal breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay. That king is waiting for the general's good news in Cairo." Li Yuan nodded and said.

Alexandria.

It is a semi-curve harbor. At its exit, as long as there are large warships blocking the channel, the ships inside will not be able to break out.

Compared with Carthage, the Egyptian fleet was much smaller, while in terms of naval combat capabilities, the Romans ranked first and Carthage second, and the Egyptians could only ranked fourth, fifth and sixth.

The weak Ptolemaic Kingdom was far behind by the Mediterranean countries in terms of military strength. The only thing they hoped for now was that Queen Cleopatra could summon Roman reinforcements. Therefore, the Carthaginians had to block the Ptolemaic fleet before the Romans.

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The Mediterranean War.

As the Qin army opened up a new battlefield in Egypt, it fell into an increasingly broad range. Whether it was the powerful Qin people, Romans, weak Greeks, Thracians, or Macedonians and Egyptians who were immersed in the glory of the past, they all rose and fell in this battle of hegemony that affected the entire ocean.

Philip IV's first rat ended up losing the support of the Qin people. Li Yuan did not have any favors to such a so-called allies who were determined to gain benefits but refused to give.

Macedonia has sunset.

The Qin State has now found new partners on the Balkans and the Greek Peninsula. Due to its weak strength and weak internal cohesion, the Greeks are more dependent on the Qin State with strong strength.

At the call of Dikar and Gmetheus, the students of Luke'ang Academy were crossing the Aegean Sea in batches and coming to the place where the Eastern civilization they longed for. Unlike the ordinary Greeks who were not familiar with external affairs, the children of nobles who could be sent to the academy in this era were all the children of nobles.

Their arrival not only allowed Qin to have a group of available talents, but also won the support of the Greek upper nobles behind it.

For the Greeks, the glory of their ancestors was deposited in their hearts. They wanted to restore their glory, but they could not find a way out. Although the Macedonians inherited Greek culture, Alexander's successors obviously did not even have the ability to defend their territory. It would be a fantasy to expect them to revive Greece.

The threat from the Romans was right in front of us.

The war under Pera could burn on the Peloponnese Peninsula at any time, and as a close neighbor, the Greeks' fear of Rome lasted for centuries.

Fight against strong.

Unite the majority and isolate the very few. This is the law between countries throughout the ages.

This is the policy implemented by Qin in the Mediterranean area. For Qin, Jews, Greeks, Carthaginians, these once powerful and now declining nations are natural allies. Supporting them is equivalent to giving Qin a pair of their own eyes in the strange West.

The strong will eventually take the initiative in this competition.

In the Balkans in the north, the Roman army's siege of Pera gradually became clear as the weather warmed up. The Alps could not stop Scipio's enthusiasm for exploring territory, as he said during his oath: the future of Great Rome is to possess the entire Mediterranean, not just occupy its western half.

The old consul Fabian compromised.

The young and strong generals in the Roman army and a considerable number of generals in the army supported Scipio, which made Fabian very helpless. A new generation replaced the old ones. For the Romans, Scipio, the battlefield hero, brought a fresh air to Rome and suddenly opened the door to the old arena.

When Cleopatra arrived on the coast of Macedonia, the battle of Scipio's siege of Pera was approaching the end. At Scipio's insistence, Fabian agreed to send more reinforcements. In late March, the Roman naval fleet blocked the exit of Pera's seaway to the Mediterranean, and Philip IV fell into despair.

In April, the residents of Pera, who were short of food, began to surrender to the Romans in batches. In the face of survival and honor, most people chose the former.

The city-guarding army that Philip IV hastily organized gradually disappeared in this wave of fear. At the beginning, only a small group of people disappeared, and then hundreds of people in the entire team disappeared. Not only that, these soldiers also took away the weapons he carried.

April 20th.

The outer city of Pera was successfully captured by the Roman army, while Philip IV hid in the tall castle in the city, trying to trap beasts and fight. There were only a few days for this doomsday king, and he never expected that, as the descendant of Alexander, the greatest emperor of Macedonia, would one day fall into this world.

Who should I blame?

Do you blame the Romans?

No matter how Philip IV cried and robbed the earth, it would not be possible to shake Scipio's determination to destroy Macedonia.

Do you blame the Qin people for not saving them when they die?

Li Yuan had no friendship with him, Philip IV, but Ptolemy V, Antioch III, who had friendship and connections with him, were trapped in the lonely city, and the other had long died at the hands of the Qin army.

PS: I asked for a day of votes, but I didn’t see anyone who voted, and it turns out... I burst into tears.
Chapter completed!