Hasdrubal's army surrounded Carthage and launched its assault. Hasdrubal understands that it can take a long time to break through the most powerful fortifications. Fyodor Chaika, driven by the desire to free his wife and child from captivity, offers to secretly sneak into the city and prepare an uprising that will help capture the city. In Carthage, there are many dissatisfied with the Senate, which agreed to an alliance with Rome, and its power now rests only on military force. In the event of the victory of the uprising in Africa, nothing can prevent Hannibal's army from starting the last campaign against Rome. In the distant Crimea, the Sarmatians, incited by Rome, inflicted a treacherous stab in the back of their former allies to the Scythians. Their king Illur orders Larin to return and take part in a new war. On the steppe expanses of the Black Sea steppes, Larin will have to meet again with the Amazons, for whom he is now an enemy.