Then when the Roman Navy learned the news, it immediately turned to the war site and began to clean up the mess! It cruelly drove out all the remaining soldiers on the Punic battlefield! Then the Roman fleet began to return. Unfortunately, on the way back, the Roman fleet encountered a very violent sea storm attack, and the losses were extremely heavy! It can be said that the Romans' plan to attack Africa failed, but the Romans annihilated the powerful Punic navy, which gained control of the Mediterranean in the central region.

The Romans who gained control of the Mediterranean in the central region had developed rapidly for more than ten years. In 242 BC, the Roman commander Catoras commanded 200 warships and then launched a sudden attack on Lilibeo and Deripana in Sicily. The Punics were shocked when they learned about it and immediately sent more than 400 warships to sea to fight, trying to retake these ports.

The Roman fleet and the Punic fleet launched a fierce battle near the Igates Island. Although the Punic warships were obviously dominant, the Roman Corvus warships took a short time to sink fifty Punic warships and subdue seventy! The result was that the Romans won a great victory! The Punics were forced to seek peace.

According to the peace requested this time, the Punics gave all Sicily and its islands between Italy to Rome and compensated 3,200 tarantes. This was the first Punic War, which ended with the failure of the Carthaginians!

After the First Punic War ended with the failure of the Carthaginians, the Punics were forced to ced Sicily and paid a large amount of compensation to the Romans. This made the Romans develop even faster, but the Punics were very unwilling to accept it! Because they were all descendants of the Phoenicians, they could not win this naval battle. Is this reasonable? So while the Punics were unwilling to accept it, they were also very angry!

At this point, the Puniers slept on firewood and tasted gall, and decided to compete with the Romans again. So in 237 BC, the Puniers commander Hamilka took his own son Hannibal and came to Spain to establish the new city of Carthage, using it as a base for counterattacking Rome.

In order to avenge the Carthaginians, Hamilka trained his son very rigorously. When Hannibal was nine years old, his father ordered him to kneel in front of the altar and swear: Never be friends with the Romans, but must avenge Carthage. Moreover, under the guidance of his father and his brother-in-law, Hannibal eventually grew into a very excellent commander. Hannibal was extremely courageous, resourceful, and good at using troops, and was deeply loved by his subordinates. Some people once described Hannibal as this: no kind of labor can make him tired and depressed, and he can tolerate the scorching heat and winter. In the middle of the night, he often slept with ordinary soldiers in a thin blanket. Whether in cavalry or infantry, he was always in front of him. During the battle, he was always the first to enter the battle. After the battle, he was always the last to leave the battlefield.

Later, Hannibal's father died in battle, and at this time, the twenty-five-year-old Hannibal became the supreme commander of Carthage's city in Spain. Now Hannibal is preparing for revenge! So after making very sufficient military preparations, Hannibal began to attack the Roman Empire's ally in Spain, the city of Sargon.

After the Romans learned of this situation, they warned Hannibal, making Hannibal take care of himself! But Hannibal was completely disdainful and soon launched a very bloody attack on Sakum City, and then launched a large-scale massacre, which occupied Sakum City like lightning.

But Sargonum was an ally of the Romans, so the Romans were very annoyed by Hannibal's arrogant arrogance! It was obvious that Hannibal's arrogance was not taking their powerful Romans seriously. So after negotiations between the Roman high-level officials, in 218 BC, the Roman Empire officially declared war on the Carthaginians! At this point, the Second Punic War began.

Hannibal first defeated the Romans stationed in Spain with lightning speed. The Roman army was originally only stationed here, so there were not many. Under an absolute number of disadvantages, Hannibal drove the Roman army to kill them! Then Hannibal did not stop, but reorganized the army at a very fast speed, leading 50,000 infantry, 12,000 cavalry and thirty-seven armored war elephants! Departing from the city of New Carthage, an expedition began. When Hannibal led his army to northern Italy, there were only 20,000 infantry left in the entire army, more than 6,000 cavalry and a war elephant without horses. It can be seen that Hannibal was not easy to walk along the way, which also reflects that the Roman army stationed outside was still very powerful!

But at this time, the Gauls, who had always had a grudge against the Romans, began to join Hannibal's team, and then re-entered a large amount of fresh blood for Hannibal's team.

After Hannibal got the Gaul warriors, he led the army to take the initiative to attack! Because the army led by Hannibal this time was too large, the Romans were also a little scared, and they panicked and fought in a hurry! As a result, it is conceivable that the Roman legion was a little scared, which led to a change in the nature of the army. Then the Roman legion was defeated! He was killed by Hannibal's army in a terrible way! Even the Roman consuls were killed!

But after the Roman executives learned about this, they were even more angry! When did the Romans have such a mess? So they were ready to fight back on a large scale!

So in 216 BC, more than 80,000 Roman troops and more than 60,000 Hannibal's army met in Canny, which is near the sea in the Aufento River in Italy today. No matter how we analyze it, it is a completely inevitable war!

However, before the war, Hannibal was scheming and sent more than 500 soldiers to surrender. The Romans were originally an empire that people wanted, so this led to a relatively low vigilance. Then, after disarming the more than 500 soldiers, they arranged them at the end of their army.

At this time, Hannibal placed all the infantry in the army with weak combat power in the army, and the two wings were equipped with cavalry with very strong combat power. The entire Hannibal's army was distributed in a crescent shape, and suddenly it was facing the Romans and lined up against the sea. After the battle began, the Romans first launched an attack. They launched a very fierce attack on Hannibal's army, and Hannibal's army could not stop it at all and gradually retreated, but Hannibal's cavalry held their positions. The protruding part of the crescent shape slowly contracted at this time, and the Romans entered the pocket formation at this time.

At this moment, Hannibal suddenly ordered the most elite cavalry on both wings to quickly encircle the Romans' rear, and the infantry also stopped retreating and began to counterattack. More than 500 Hannibal soldiers who had previously surrendered suddenly took out daggers from their arms and killed the Romans, blocking the Romans' retreat.

The Hannibal cavalry, who were even more overwhelming, defeated the Roman cavalry at a very fast speed, and began to attack the Roman central infantry fiercely. This led to the Romans being surrounded in a heavy siege at this time. At this moment, a strong sea breeze blew over, raising the dust in the sky, which caught the Romans' eyes. This led to tens of thousands of Romans suddenly becoming a mess, without a formation, and there was no way to exert their Roman combat power. The Romans would be blocked by the strong wind and counterattacked by the Hannibal infantry. The two wings were also attacked by the Hannibal army cavalry, and the latter was attacked by the Hannibal army, and the Roman army was suddenly defeated.

But the Romans were quite powerful after all, but they were powerful. At present, we can say that the Romans had reached the point of being in a good position and being in a good position. At this point, the battle lasted for twelve hours and was not completely over until dusk. The Roman legion suffered heavy losses, with about 54,000 people killed on the spot. The battlefield was full of blood flowing, and corpses were everywhere on the ground. Then more than 18,000 Roman warriors were captured, and more than 14,000 Roman warriors broke through the siege and fled.

It is precisely because of the Romans' right time, place, and people and the three things that Hannibal lost more than 6,000 people. How terrifying is this? It seems that Hannibal is indeed a war genius, but my personal opinion is that Hannibal has a relatively high luck. If it weren't for the strong sea breeze, the Romans would probably not have lost. Even if they lose, they would not have been so miserable.

But no matter how we analyze it, the Roman Legion was defeated this time! At this point, the Battle of Canny has become the most famous glorious battle in our human history, where the few win more.

Later, although the Romans suffered heavy losses, the current Roman Empire was still very powerful, and the warriors were still quite easy to supplement, so this changed the strategy and began to attack the land of Carthage. Hannibal belonged to Carthage. We have talked about it before, and at this point Hannibal was forced to return to rescue the city of Carthage.

But we must understand that Hannibal had absolute luck in the Battle of Canny, and the Roman legion was completely suppressed by strength, and often there was no need for luck. Another thing is that the land combat power of the Roman legion was definitely not blown up. This was trained after countless years of crazy burning, killing, looting, so even if Hannibal returned to Carthage, it still did not change the fate of the Carthages' defeat! Because the gods did not help Hannibal again this time, we can say that the joint army between Hannibal and Carthage was simply defeated! And in addition, the Romans were quite angry, so it was really tragic on the battlefield where the casualties caused deaths and injuries were really!
Chapter completed!