Hannibal landed a tactical coup: he attacked the Romans with his huge army, which consisted of 40,000 soldiers, 15,000 horses and 40 elephants, not directly from the south, from North Africa, but from the north: he pulled the Spanish one Along the coast to France and from there over the western Alps to northern Italy. Hannibal was the man who came out of the cold. In the Punic Wars he first defeated the Romans thanks to his elephants, until his army was finally defeated by the enemy.