Cika wannan jumla: Domin hanzarta kawo karshen yakin, consuls don 256 yanke shawarar gudanar da ayyukan zuwa Afirka, a kan Carthage ta mahaifarsa. Dan kwangila Marcus Atilius Regulus ya sauka a tsibirin Cap Bon tare da sojoji 18,000. Ya kama garin Aspis, sannan ya kori harin da Carthage ya kai a Adys, kuma ya kama Tunis. An yi imanin cewa Carthaginians sun yi masa shari'a don zaman lafiya, amma yanayinsa ya kasance mai tsanani cewa sun ci gaba da yakin maimakon. Sun yi hayar Spartan mercenaries, jagorancin Xanthippus, don umurnin sojojin su. A cikin 255, janar na Spartan ya yi tafiya a kan Regulus, har yanzu yana sansanin a Tunis, wanda ya yarda da yaƙin don kauce wa raba ɗaukaka tare da magajinsa. Koyaya, filayen kusa da Tunis sun fifita giwayen Punic,
wanda ya murkushe sojojin Romawa a filin Bagradas; sojoji 2,000 ne kawai suka tsere, kuma an kama Regulus. Duk da haka, 'yan majalisa na 255 sun sami sabon nasara a cikin jirgin ruwa a Cape Hermaeum, inda suka kama jiragen ruwa 114. Wannan nasarar ta lalace ta guguwar da ta hallaka rundunar sojan ruwa mai nasara: Jirgin ruwa 184 na 264 ya nutse, sojoji 25,000 da masu jirgin ruwa 75,000 sun nitse. "Corvus" ya hana jirgin ruwa kewayawa sosai, kuma ya sa su zama masu rauni yayin hadari. An watsar da shi bayan wani irin wannan bala'i ya faru a 253 (jiragen ruwa 150 sun nutse tare da ma'aikatan su). Wadannan bala'o'i sun hana kowane yakin basasa tsakanin 254 da 252.