When the sun rose from the east again, shining on the Dahracles stone pillars and the straits below the stone pillars, there were no ships on the sea surface, only the wreckage and corpses of warships pouring into the Mediterranean under the tide. Several galleys sailed on the north coast of the Mediterranean. When Lu Li saw the wreckage and corpses of warships on the distant sea surface in Lu Li's mirror, Hasdruba sighed secretly.

After confirming that he could not inform the guards of Hera's stone pillars in front of the Chuni fleet, the Romans did not detain him anymore. Day and night, Hasdruba rushed to New Carthage in just three days and came to the Strait with Hamilka Baka early this morning. Hamilka thought the Strait fleet could intercept several Chuni ships, but unfortunately he only harvested one wreckage and corpses on the sea.

The lightning emblem of the Baka family fluttered in the Mediterranean Sea. As soon as the flag entered the sight of the guards on the top of the mountain, the sound of flutes sounded in the strait. Soon the three-oared warship came out and escorted the sailboat into the harbor.

"Father, the Chuni people passed through the strait." Hannibal confessed his failure as soon as he saw his father. The young man who grew up in the barracks had wide shoulders, straight backs, dark face and powerful jaws.

"Father..." Hannibal's younger brother Hasdruba also shouted, and was stopped by Hamilka.

"The Thunder weapon has no effect?" Hamilka cares about the Chuni fleet and the Chuni weapons.

"There are more of these weapons on the Chuni warship." New Carthage sent two gunboats, while the Chuni warship had dozens of such weapons on the Chuni warship. "One warship has been sunk by the Chuni."

"What?!" Hamilka looked at his son in surprise, and Hasdruba also looked at Hannibal in surprise. The two Chuni warships sunk on Trick Island had a total of twelve thunder weapons, four of which were given to the Egyptians in exchange for the secret of gunpowder. Two of the remaining eight were installed on the warships. Unexpectedly, the warships were sunk by the Chuni and one was lost.

"If the Chuni warship wasn't too hard, we'd already..." Brother Hasdruba defended. The Chuni warship was too strong, and another reason was that our warship did not dare to go deep into the sea.

It’s not that they lack courage, but that they don’t have enough food and fresh water. The original plan was to intercept the strait, but they didn’t expect to go deep into the sea. But the Chuni fleet took advantage of the night to cross the strait and had to chase into the deep sea. During the battle, each oarist needed a lot of fresh water (as is 7.6 liters/person/day). However, because of the haste, the warship did not carry much fresh water. After chasing until dawn, the warship could no longer pursue and had to return to Gangyi.

Hannibal remained silent as his younger brother shirked responsibility and explained the difficulties of the battle. Hamilka looked at his son-in-law, "How long will it take them to come back here?"

"I..." Hasdruba was the one who knew Chuni the best among all of them because he had accompanied Chuni's fleet to Egypt. "I don't know. I remember Chuni's people were developing routes. They knew how to enter our sea, but they didn't know how to go back."

The Chuni appeared on the sea west of the Hera Stone Pillar, but they said they were from the East. When they came, they drove on the sea for two years, and after reaching our sea, they looked for the way back, these were all things that Hasdruba knew before. Just when everyone thought that the Chuni wanted to let go of this worry because they could not find the route to go back, Hasdruba said again.

"Thuni has two types of warships, one is the kind we have seen, sinking in the harbor of Festos on Crete, and the other is the kind of warships that fight us, huge, strong, and countless thunder weapons. The former can travel in any ocean, ignoring the wind direction, and the latter is different, and must have a suitable wind direction to sail.

The Chuni people would rush out of the stone pillars, probably because they found the right wind direction. According to the former voyage, it would take at least two years for them to return to Chuni, and then..."

It will take two years to return to Chuni, and it will take two years to return to our sea from Chuni. There may be one or two years of preparation time in the middle, which will add up to six years. The young Hasdruba said, "We have changed the corners of the collision, but we still have no way to hit the Chuni warships. If they come again, we cannot block them out of the strait."

"There are Roman envoys on the Chuni ship. They may know the secret of the thunder weapon and must start a war with the Romans immediately." Hannibal expressed his concerns. The decaying Carthage Senate was unable to fight against Rome, and the Baccar family took on this important task and opened up the Iberian Peninsula to attack Rome. The Chuni visits both have both a favorable and a disadvantageous side. The disadvantage is that the Chuni fleet will definitely come back to take revenge, which is something that no one wants to see.

"The war must be started with the Romans immediately, before the Chunis come back." Hasdruba looked at his father-in-law and suggested this. "With the power of the thunder weapon, the Roman army will definitely be defeated."

"But those tribes did not really surrender." Hamilka said slowly after meditating, "Ptolemy told me that the Chunis might soon perish."

"Ptolemy..." Hasdruba was about to remind his father-in-law Ptolemy's words were unreliable, and Hamilka interrupted him: "Bomicar had gone to Qinni in the East last year." Among all the surprised people, he said: "Selinus has also gone."

Bomikar is Hamilka's eldest son-in-law. He has more roles in the Baccar family to assist rather than fight, assist Hamilka, assist Hasdruba, and assist Hannibal. His other identity is a judge and has a seat in the Carthage Senate.

Last year, the Baccar family originally wanted to transplant the monarchy implemented on the Iberian Peninsula to Carthage, but this matter was opposed by Bomikar. Hasdruba and Hannibal thought that Hamikar drove Bomikar back to the Carthage Senate, but he went to the far east.

Silenus (silenus.caleacte) is a Greek scholar from Galactate, Sicily. A profound man. Hamilka invited him and the famous Sparta scholar Sosylusof.sparta to the territory of the Illyria Baccar family to educate his sons.

"They will arrive at Qinni this year at the latest. Maybe Chuni has lost his country, maybe not." Hamilka wanted to smile with relief, but for some reason he couldn't laugh. He felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. It was not until he went to bed at night that he realized the reason.

The distant East is a barbarian land outside the known world, where there is no product worth seeing except silk. However, it is no longer like this. The distant East is increasingly affecting everything in the known world.

In order to take revenge, he wanted to send envoys to the East to understand the actions of the Chuni people; Ptolemy of Egypt also sent envoys to the East. It is said that with his help, the Chuni people defeated the Chuni people, so the Chuni fleet, which occupied the frankincense production area, had to withdraw from the Red Sea.

Carthage's fate was actually determined by the distant East, and Hamilka didn't like this feeling. After all, his time was not hundreds of years later, when the fate of the known world was completely determined by the Romans; nor was it more than a thousand years later, the fate of the entire world was determined by Westminster or an Oval Office on the North American continent.

This feeling is suffocating and worrying day and night. Hamilka, who cannot fall asleep, simply gets up and looks at the distant East on the map. Pomirka and Selinus should be at Qinni at this time.

*

The Green Ocean Fleet, which passed through the Hera stone pillar late at night, returned to Chu State at the fastest speed. Before they arrived at Zhufang Port, the Carthage envoy who had intercepted the fleet twice in the strait had arrived at Qin State one step ahead.

The hot summer has passed long ago. In September when autumn is in full swing, Pomirka and Selinus and his party came to Humdan, which was mentioned by the Sogdian merchants. This grand city is the capital of Qinni, but what is strange is that the palace in the south of the city is erected with statues of Greeks.

"Which country is from Xizhou?" In the prime minister's mansion, a young boy in black asked with a smile, in standard Greek.

During this trip, Pomirka brought a skillful and elegant knowledge from Bactrica, but he didn't expect that the boy who met him would speak Greek.

"We..." Bomikar's clothes were quite similar to those of the Egyptians. When he spoke, an official interrupted him with something. Sogdian bowed repeatedly when he heard this, and said, "The prince of Qinni is standing in front of you."

"Dear Prince, our envoys of Carthage, Pomirka, Selinus," Pomirka pointed at himself and Selinus. "...... After Egypt, Seleuc, Parthia, and Bactricia came to Qinni."

Pomirka heard on the road that meeting the kings of the East required a prostration ceremony. He and Selinus were not willing to perform a prostration ceremony to any king, even if the purpose of this trip was not achieved. Now the two met the prince of Qini, and no one asked them to prostrate, which was really a big surprise.

"Carthage?!" Fusu heard the excitement in the envoy's words, but he was surprised at the distance of Carthage. It was a country west of the Mediterranean, close to the Dahracles stone pillar. This was also a country that was good at sailing. "The ocean of the Qin Dynasty did not connect with our seas. Why did you come?"

"We are for friendship..." Pomirka made an excuse, and Selinus interrupted him, and he said bluntly: "Zone is the enemy of Carthage, and I heard that Zone is also the enemy of Chinny?"

The envoy was so direct, Fusu couldn't help but look at the two of them again. "Yes." He said. "Then what can you do?"
Chapter completed!