ebookland Chapter 565 Yingzheng's doubts
Chapter 565 Yingzheng's doubts
"It's fine if Hannibal's Carthaginian army doesn't move. After all, they just won a big victory. They need to be familiar with strengthening the defense line of the fortress. It's understandable to repair it."
"But why is there no movement in Rome? The border fortress is one of Rome's most important lines of defense. Now it is occupied by the Carthaginian army, which means that a large area of Rome's land is directly exposed to the front of the Carthaginian army. Below, even pointing directly at the capital of Rome."
"Scipio should also be very clear that it is absolutely impossible to stop Hannibal's attack only by relying on his remaining main Roman army."
"Since Rome has fallen into such a dangerous situation, it stands to reason that he should have asked our Great Qin for help a long time ago. How could it have been delayed until now without any movement?"
How powerful the Roman army is, Yingzheng also knows a little bit about it. After all, the Qin army once fought against hundreds of thousands of Roman troops to help the Seleucid Kingdom.
Due to their poor domestic steel forging technology, the weapons and armor of Roman soldiers can only be regarded as average in the countries of the world.
Not to mention comparing with the Qin army, it is even slightly inferior to the Carthage army.
Moreover, Rome's military strategy is also extremely superficial. Their command and operations are like elementary school students playing games in front of famous generals such as Meng Tian and Wang Jian.
As long as there is a slight change of formation, the Roman army will be dizzy and unable to find the north.
The reason why Rome was able to fight on multiple fronts before, even earned the false reputation of being invincible in Roman cavalry.
One is that the Roman state at that time was financially rich, and the battle was basically crushed by the superiority of numbers.
The second is because the countries in the Western Regions around Rome are too weak, there are two or three big cats and kittens, only Seleucus and Carthage can still be seen.
And this is still Rome in its heyday. Today's Rome has internal and external troubles. Due to the internal reasons of the New Deal, coupled with the nobles' changing methods to squeeze wealth, the country's finances are almost on the verge of collapse, and the external Roman army also lacks a lot of supplies and military expenses. , there is no Roman line of defense that can be defended.
It can be explained that the current Roman army is completely a dish, but any army with the same number as them can basically squeeze them wantonly.
But in this situation, Scipio seemed so calm.
More than ten days have passed, not only did not ask Daqin for assistance, but also just led the main force of Rome to do it. It couldn't be easier.
The most interesting thing is that in the face of such a dangerous situation, the consul in Rome still carefully celebrated Ying Yu and Sophie's marriage.
This is obviously too unreasonable.
"Your Majesty, I believe that the reason why Scipio has not asked for help from Daqin so far is very likely that other changes have occurred. For example, it is possible that the nobles of Rome began to lend a helping hand to Scipio. "
"After all, Rome's situation is extremely bad now. After the Roman defense line is occupied, not only a large area of land is about to fall, but even the capital of Rome will be threatened."
"Although it is rumored that those Roman nobles are selfish and greedy, if Rome is on the verge of life and death, even if they are based on the principle of cold lips and teeth, they should take action."
"As long as we have the assistance of this group of Roman nobles, the number of private troops of the nobles, large and small, will probably be larger than the regular Roman army."
"In this way, the number of soldiers in the Roman army that Sidia can control now will directly increase by two times."
"Although it is said that the personal combat effectiveness of Roman soldiers is not strong enough, relying on their absolute superiority in numbers, I think it should not be a problem to repel Hannibal's Carthaginian army. This can also be explained. Scipio did not tell me The reason why Daqin asked for help."
Nestern opened his mouth and offered his guess.
"It's a big mistake if you think so. The ignorance and shallowness of the Roman nobles are far more exaggerated than you imagined."
"After the line of defense was broken, the situation in Rome is indeed very critical. A large area of Rome's territory is directly exposed to the Carthaginian army. However, unless Hannibal's Carthaginian army has already reached the capital of Rome, otherwise It is absolutely impossible for those Roman nobles to make a move."
"Because for them, the large piece of Roman territory that is facing the threat of invasion, although there are Roman residents, but the land is barren, and various mineral resources are extremely scarce, and it does not have the value for them to sell. In other words, In the eyes of that group of Roman nobles, this piece of land is gone.”
"In addition, the Roman nobles have long been dissatisfied with Scipio, especially since Scipio abolished the tax exemption rights of all nobles, which has caused great damage to the interests of all nobles, which made all nobles hate Scipio. Ah almost hates it to the bone."
"If it weren't for the fact that Scipio has become my Qin's in-laws, the group of Roman nobles would not dare to do anything because of the strength of our Qin."
"Otherwise, with their usual methods, Scipio would have been pulled down from the position of supreme consul long ago, and even Scipio's life would be difficult to save."
"Now the group of Roman nobles saw that the Roman regular army belonging to Scipio had suffered a huge blow. Those Roman nobles were very good at not getting into trouble. They hoped that Scipio's regular army could be defeated by Carthage. The entire army was wiped out, how could it be possible to send out your own private army to help Scipio?"
Shaking his head weakly, he retorted.
Unlike Nesten and other ministers who have lived in the court for a long time, Dunwei, who is in charge of intelligence work, knows far more about the political situation in other countries than Nesten and the others.
Not to mention anything else, it was only the group of Roman nobles who sold the top-secret strategies of their own country's army at a clearly marked price in order to obtain high profits, and even sold them to enemy countries.
Such unconscionable things can be done, and it is undoubtedly a fantasy to let those selfish and greedy guys dispatch their own private army to help Scipio for the so-called patriotic belief of defending Rome.
And hearing the discussion between Dunwei and Nei Shiteng, other ministers in the court also began to speculate enthusiastically.
However, after a lot of talking, the final result of the discussion was very unsatisfactory.
Either it is too absurd and does not conform to reality, or it is just empty talk and speculation without any basis.
In short, the ministers in the DPRK basically held their own opinions, and no one could convince anyone.