Stay in Sicily and develop first, and don't attack the Roman mainland for the time being?
Hearing such a strange suggestion, everyone showed confusion on their faces, except Alexander, who smiled.
"It's true that great minds think alike! Hannibal, you are not a liar with a false reputation, you have real talent and knowledge!" Alexander said sincerely.
Then, under everyone's questioning, Alexander revealed his thoughts, which were exactly the same as Hannibal's.
Both strategic talents felt that Caesar's plan to lead the main force of Rome south to Egypt and then turn east to attack Persia was not a wise strategy.
He should have simply sent troops to land on the west coast of Greece and directly attacked the Greek mainland.
No one could figure out what the special reason was for this.
However, since I can't figure it out, there's no need to think too much about it.
Just know how to cope!
In fact, Caesar's supply line was even longer when Xerxes invaded Greece.
Although most places use sea transportation, which is much more efficient than land transportation, it will still be very uncomfortable if it is interrupted.
Coincidentally, the Sicily continent where the Greek fleet is now docked is the only way for Roman mainland supplies to go south to Egypt and then supply the Eastern Front!
Since the Romans were already prepared, occupying this node and holding back would actually make the Romans more uncomfortable than raiding the city of Rome.
As long as we hold on for three months, Caesar's main force far away in the East will be forced to return!
"That's right! You have to know that Rome expanded too fast. The indigenous peoples of Gaul, Spain, Britain and other places have not really surrendered completely! As long as they know that a crisis has occurred in Rome, those places will most likely rebel! In this way, it is impossible for Rome to organize a large army and have the strength to open up this material turnover node!" Hannibal added.
"Don't even mention those marginal areas. If they find an opportunity, the slaves inside Rome will probably stand up again to resist oppression! We three brothers are very sure of this!" Spartacus also agreed.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's quickly manage Sicily and turn it into a big castle!" Archimedes said excitedly.
"Good! This idea is very interesting!" Themistocles also agreed.
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Seeing that everyone was quickly convinced by Hannibal and supported the plan to hold on to Sicily, Xia Zhe immediately approved it.
Soon, more than 10 million Greek expeditionary forces landed at the port of Syracuse, and then divided into several groups and began to advance on the continent of Sicily.
Although Sicily is called a continent, it is still relatively small compared to the real continent.
It is three points smaller than Crete and can only be considered a relatively large island.
Except for the slightly larger Kingdoms of Syracuse and Syracuse, each had an army of over 100,000.
The other city-states only had one city and a standing army of 20,000 to 30,000.
Seeing the astonishing number of the Greek coalition army and the over ten thousand naval ships, the various forces on Sicily had no intention of resisting at all and immediately recognized King Stobi as their overlord.
This is what the Romans did when they expanded here.
As a result, the Greek army made rapid progress and completed the integration of resources across the entire island of Sicily in just five days.
Soon, each city-state reported the intelligence they had to Xia Zhe truthfully.
Exactly as Hannibal had guessed.
While the Greek expeditionary force was still in the Ionian Sea, the Romans judged that the Greek fleet wanted to attack the city of Rome.
Therefore, they recalled all the caravans in advance and bought out all the supplies in the port of Syracuse before leaving.
If the Greek fleet had not become suspicious and had continued to march north to attack Rome as planned, it would have been forced to retreat soon due to lack of supplies.
By then, if the Romans sent their troops to pursue them, the consequences would be disastrous.
In view of this, everyone looked at Hannibal with admiration, which made Hannibal feel quite proud.
However, no matter how proud he was, deep down, Hannibal was still feeling more emotional.
He had experienced the bitterness of failure when he led his army to attack Rome, and knew that true victory was a strategic success, and could not be achieved by relying solely on a general's extraordinary performance in a particular battle.
The reason why Carthage failed to successfully suppress the rise of Rome was that the Carthaginian king was too mediocre and unable to provide itself with truly strong support.
But King Stobbi was completely different.
King Stobi had just met me for the first time and hadn't exchanged many words, yet he trusted me, a stranger, immediately.
He was also very receptive and immediately implemented the strategic suggestions put forward by this outsider without any compromise.
The credit for your own success is only 30% yours.
Seventy percent of them are actually with King Stoby.
Archimedes really followed a wise master!
After this battle is over, if possible, Hannibal hopes to follow King Stobi forever.
The Greek expeditionary force was busy preparing for war in Sicily, which made Caesar, who was far away in Egypt, very annoyed.
As a truly first-class strategist, when Pompey and Crassus retreated to Serendipity, Caesar had a premonition that Strobe would rise to become a powerful rival of Rome.
It was just because he was still on an expedition to Gaul and Spain at that time that he put the matter aside for the time being.
After Gaul and Spain were taken over, Caesar led his army back to Rome and wanted to launch a war against Greece immediately.
But unexpectedly, the Senate was unanimously opposed.
It turned out that after Pompey and Crassus returned to Rome, they were worried that they would be held accountable for the failure of the expedition, so they kept bragging about the power of King Stobi on various occasions, both openly and covertly.
The two felt that the more magical they described King Stoby, the less pressure they would feel.
Over time, the Romans knew that in eastern Greece, a powerful country called Stobi was rising.
Especially that King Stobi, he is as terrifying as a god descending to earth!
By the time Caesar returned to Rome and proposed an expedition to Greece, the senators had already been brainwashed and no one supported Caesar's attack on Greece.
In desperation, Caesar could only take a roundabout way to save his country and proposed to march south to attack Egypt. The reason was that he had a close relationship with Cleopatra, one of the two heirs to the Egyptian throne.
This time, the elders expressed their support.
That's why Cleopatra defeated Ptolemy and seized power in Egypt.
In fact, without Caesar's behind-the-scenes support, Cleopatra would have been no match for Ptolemy.
After conquering Egypt for Cleopatra, Caesar immediately married the woman, thereby gaining greater control over the Egyptian army.
By this time, everything was ready. The next step, of course, was to launch a war against Greece.
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