The reason why these generals under Hannibal reacted so much is that Hannibal used to go straight to fight alone and move around. Apart from this Palermo city, he had never occupied any city for a long time, nor had he ever divided his troops. But why did he suddenly remember that he wanted to divide his troops and occupy land today?

After Hannibal made a gesture to everyone to be quiet, he continued: "You may have questions, why did we capture a city and a place before, and why did we have to go back and capture it again? Actually, this is because..., because before, what we had to do was to concentrate our troops to completely defeat the Roman army on Sicily. Now we have basically achieved this goal. Although there are a small number of Liang troops who have crossed the Strait of Messina, they are not enough to pose a threat to us. As long as we show the momentum and morale of the initial uprising, we will definitely drive them out of Sicily!"

Although Hannibal concealed his words with words, most of the officers and soldiers present knew that things would not be that simple. They were not blind, deaf, and fools. It was well known that Spartacus had defeated the Messina Strait earlier.

Later, Hannibal gathered troops to cross the sea, saying that he was going to Afrika. Although Hannibal did not clearly inform the details of the matter at that time, many people had found out from the news that the entire army was to be transferred to Afrika in batches. Now Hannibal suddenly said that it was only those troops who opened the second battlefield in Afrika alone. Hannibal did not say what the purpose and significance of opening the second battlefield was, which was very confusing and suspicious.

Another thing has the greatest impact on the morale of the military. It is that everyone has known or speculated from various channels that there is not much military ration in the army. Since the previous two days, the food and grass distributed to each department every week has been reduced by 20% or 30%.

In fact, Hannibal did this because of food and grass. His so-called division of troops was actually to divide the troops and seize food. He knew very well that it would be difficult to separate the temporary pieces of the scattered troops and let the scattered troops obey his orders or piece them together again. But now he could not take these into consideration because he urgently needed to solve the food and grass problem.

Divide the troops into several groups to attack the fortresses and cities occupied by the Roman army, and to break through the opponent's strongholds, you can grab some food. After each unit occupied each city, you can use the stolen grain as a transition, and then open up the land and farm to get the food. As for where the manpower for farming comes from and how to organize it, it depends on the generals and officials of each unit guarding the strongholds of each city and then cross the sea with the Eight Immortals, and each shows his magical powers.

At the meeting, Hannibal began to deploy his plan one by one. He divided the remaining 30,000 troops in Palermo into three strands. One strand led by Starbachs and advanced towards the southern end of Sicily. One strand led by himself to attack the city of Nicosia in the center of Sicily, and the last strand was dangerous, along the north coast and the Strait of Messina, where there was a crucial pontoon bridge.

Of course, Hannibal did not expect to take down the pontoon bridge, but he was confident that he could destroy the pontoon bridge between the Messina Strait. If he took down the pontoon bridge, it would be his chance to turn over.

The three routes of troops he deployed were like a divergent fan starting from Palermo. Including the attack range of the troops of various military branches, it almost covered the entire Sicily.

When Hannibal finished the meeting and people withdrew from the garden one after another, Mosolis stood up and asked Hannibal with a loss, "General, you forgot me. Why didn't you arrange an errand for me?"

Before Hannibal could answer, Spartacus next to him sneered: "Mosolis, you still have the face to ask. Do you think the general may hand over the troops to the hands of you, the man who just lost 15,000 troops and 200 warships?"

Mosolis's face turned red and white. When he was about to argue with Spartacus, Hannibal made a gesture to stop him. Then, Hannibal said to Spartacus again: "Brother, didn't you say it? Now we need our unity in times of crisis. You should stop saying such sad words in the future."

Then he said to Mosolis: "General Mosolis, it's not that I don't believe you. But you have just suffered a great defeat and have not recovered. It's not suitable for leading troops to fight one after another. Please don't think too much. You, just follow me along the way and give me advice."

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Late at night, Palermo Pier was covered with a layer of silver moonlight. A black shadow suddenly flashed on the boat where Mosolis came back. He unconsciously followed the springboard to the pier, and then ran along the coast to the south west. He ran nearly ten miles along the coast and came to the mouth of a small river that poured into the sea.

The man took out a fire note and lit a torch. Then he waved the torch and shook it regularly to the opposite side of the river for a few seconds. After a while, a sheepskin raft that accommodated only one person appeared from the reeds on the opposite side of the river estuary. After the person on the sheepskin raft took a sealed bamboo tube from the people on the shore, he hurriedly rowed the sheepskin raft. He did not row to the opposite side of the river estuary, but to the sea outside the river estuary. There was a semi-submersible boat waiting under the sea there. A few quarters of an hour later, a gray carrier pigeon flew out of the hatch exposed outside the water and disappeared into the night sky.

...

Feng Yu sent Fei Ge to the hinterland castle of Nicosia, a Roman army occupied by the Roman army. After carefully reading the information, he handed it over to the generals under his command for reference. Dian Qing asked worriedly: "This information is very valuable, but the premise is true. Can we really believe in Mosolis?"

Feng Yu smiled and said, "What is the benefit of our assumption that the information is false and it will be for Mosolis. If not, then the information is mostly true. And even if the information is false, as long as we deal with it in this way, we will not lose much. After a long time, we will know whether it is true or false." After that, Feng Yu began to arrange his strategy.

A few days later, Hannibal's army, who had not yet been fully prepared, could not wait to set out in three groups. Except for five thousand soldiers left in Palermo, the rest of the soldiers were divided into three groups and fought in all directions of Sicily according to Hannibal's plan.

This great march made Hannibal feel the pleasure of the wind storm in Sicily. The 10,000 troops he personally led had almost no resistance and occupied seven or eight cities or fortresses occupied by the Roman army in one breath. The Roman army stationed even fled before his troops could even come to the city.

But the difference between this time and last time was that the places he captured were empty cities. Not to mention gold, silver, treasures and food and grass he urgently needed, even the common people did not see one.
Chapter completed!