Spain, the new city of Carthage. It is rare for Li Wei not to get drunk. But the climate here is also enough to make it difficult for him to get drunk. It's very cold here. Even the new Carthage city of the Carthages can't make their rooms warm as spring, which made them just get used to North Africa and came here all of a sudden, it was cold and humid. This makes it difficult for him to adapt to such a situation.

"Ache." Li Wei was sitting on the edge of the brazier wrapped in a blanket. He felt that he was about to catch a cold. This is not good news for him. He can only complain about the terrible conditions here. Then he felt that he should write something, so he found his notebook and pen and started to record everything here.

"New Carthage, a very important stronghold for the Carthaginians in Spain. This is an important stronghold for controlling the Spanish colony. There are a large number of supplementary soldiers and weapons stored here. If they are lost here, they will I will lose everything." Li Wei wrote. He seems to have not entered the writing state at once, but he is slowly adjusting his writing state in order to write a better report.

"The commander here is called Hamill. It's a very long Carthage name. That's all I know. Or there is a problem with my translation. Anyway, this is their highest commander here. There are very few Carthage soldiers here. There are less than 7,000 people, but there are many mercenaries. Most of them come from the surrounding small tribes and city-states. They have a very strong nature of employment. It seems that most of them are formed temporarily by militias, not standing troops. Spain. There are too many such tribes around. I know there are Celts, Vasa people, etc. They all have no good feelings for Carthage. I heard that there have been many conflicts between the two sides. I hope such conflicts. Solve it through diplomacy." Li Wei moved his shoulders. He felt that writing was also a good thing, and he began to become stable.

"Those mercenaries use backward cold weapons. They are equipped with short swords, shields, bows and arrows. The cavalry units do not have stirrups. Even in the Carthage's cavalry units, there is no comprehensive popularization of stirrups, only commanders. , The communicators would use such things, but some cavalry have begun to accept the stirrups. Because they found that with the stirrups, they can wield their short swords freely. Some wealthy cavalry will use long swords or sabers, These weapons come from the State of Zhao. This is already the standard equipment of the State of Zhao's cavalry. They are equipped. However, the number of muskets equipped by the cavalry is very limited, or the old-fashioned flintlock. If it is not properly maintained, it is difficult to fire. But these are enough for these cavalry units. Because their opponents lack enough cavalry units to deal with the highly mobile cavalry units." Li Wei wrote.

"The Carthage army is equipped with a large number of flintlocks and a certain number of rear-mounted rifles, which only the commander’s guards can have, and most of the pistols are concentrated in the elite troops. It seems that their equipment The situation has not improved much. The heavy artillery is regarded as a defensive weapon, but it is extremely unrealistic for offense. Because the artillery they imported are extremely heavy smoothbore guns, that is, there is a light bronze five-inch smoothbore gun. In our opinion, this kind of artillery has already entered the museum. But they are still in use. The worst is the road conditions in Carthage. They don’t have more developed roads, and artillery maneuvering becomes difficult. This It takes a lot of strength to pull them out of the bumpy road. Soldiers usually expend a lot of their energy to do such things, which is not a good thing." Li Wei said. The Carthage army, especially the army, is still in a state of transition between cold weapons and hot weapons. The Carthage army cannot achieve large-scale serial muskets. The muskets are only sound and are more powerful than traditional cold weapons. , They have a great advantage against those tribal armed forces that are not well equipped, but even so, the Carthage army still has a big problem.

They are still in a mixed state of spearmen and musketeers. Musketeers generally do not equip bayonet. They think that this thing is not very useful. Remove the money from the bayonet and buy a lot of bullets. This causes the musketeers to only go far. Shooting at a distance, and if the distance is too close, they will completely collapse. Because they can't fight at all, or they can use their short swords, but most of the battles here are equipped with shields, which makes them very disadvantaged if they only use short swords. In battle, the short sword cannot form an absolutely effective damage to the shield. Except for the musket, but the fire speed of the musket is too slow.

In other words, the Carthaginians did not integrate muskets well in tactics. In other words, the Carthaginians did not even use their platoon tactics. In addition, the rifles lacked enough bayonets, which made them very disadvantaged in melee combat. The Musketeers lacked sufficient melee capabilities. What has failed is how can artillery and musketeers have no artillery, and musketeers without artillery support will be very bad. Li Wei looked at the Carthage army based on Zhao's development. He believed that there would be too many problems in the army.

"The logistics supply of the Carthage army is also very poor. Their supplies mainly come from their own robbery, but there is a huge problem in doing so, that is, the supply of the musketeers. Because food and clothes can be used. Supplemented from other places, they usually solve the problem of military pay in this way. However, how to solve ammunition and ammunition, modern warfare has fully demonstrated that without a developed supply system, everything will be difficult to unfold. In this situation It is very difficult for them to make supplements. Therefore, under such circumstances, the development path of Carthage, or in other words, this greatly limits the possibility of the development of the use of guns by the Carthaginians. Taiji people can completely improve their development potential only by changing these, so under such a situation, what they need to do is to change this style as much as possible." Li Wei wrote in his notebook. Tao. There are many problems in Carthage. In general, Carthage is far behind any Central Plains army in time, and they have to carry out too many military reforms. And Hannibal himself may be aware of this, but how to change, their current strength is still very weak. In short, this is a systematic engineering problem.

Moon border, Luca. This place originally belonged to Indy, but now it is occupied by the Yueshi people. The purpose of the Yueshi people is to extend their border protection, perhaps only more land can guarantee their safety.

Life here is very peaceful, and it makes people feel impatient. There are fifty sentries stationed in Yue's army, managed by a second lieutenant. The second lieutenant is over forty years old. It's an old ensign.

On this day, the weather was very good and it didn't seem to be special. It was dry and rainy, and few people valued the situation here. The situation here is dominated by Indians, who believe in various religions, and there is a big market for god-wife religion here. For this, the soldiers of the Yue family have become accustomed. If the locals do not believe in some religions, they think that something will happen instead. But soon I was wrong.

With a "boom", a huge explosion came, and billowing black smoke instantly rose into the air, forming a dark mushroom cloud. The Yue's outpost was attacked, and a huge explosion killed the outpost. The people inside, how many survivors are still alive, Yue’s Sentinels don’t know, but they must have been attacked. Because the mushroom cloud is still there, the Sentinels immediately entered a state of combat, and then some crazy cultists were spotted attacking them. They fought back. Why were they religious? Because they were holding torches, or during the day, some people were still wearing white robes with fire signs on them. Is this unclear? It may be Zoroastrianism, or a kind of Holy Fire religion, in short, they were attacked. Then they send telegrams to their superiors requesting support, and then telegrams are reported level by level. By the time the Yue's cabinet ministers' meeting, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

"Our recent troops have responded, but their rescue operations are very slow. They can only dispatch a platoon of troops, because our military strength in the border area is inherently weak, and our border is attacked. Excluding, we were attacked in other places. Therefore, I think that we strengthen the local defense, this approach is very worthwhile." The Minister of Defense said.

"The current problem is not the issue of attacks, but the border, the entire border is falling into a disaster. I think whether it is the Zoroastrianism of the Moon or the Holy Fire of Indy, they have targeted us. This It means that we have to pay a greater price to kill them. We must strengthen our army soldiers to interfere in this matter." The Secretary of the Army said worriedly.

"Well, both of them are anti-government elements. They both pose a great threat to us. This threat still exists. This is a very unfavorable situation for us. We cannot let this The situation continues. Our Yueshi is completely messed up." The Finance Minister said.

"Then we will send troops, but before that, we should have the support of the people of Qin. This is a diplomatic procedure. That's it." The Premier said in a summary. The cabinet has the right to formulate the issue of sending troops, but it is the people of Qin that make the final decision. If Qin people objected, they would have nothing to say.