Poverty does not wear out a person's noble qualities, but wealth makes people lose their ambition. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

- Giovanni Boccaccio (a prominent representative of the Italian Renaissance movement, a humanist)

If it weren't for the fact that the last nearly 10,000 wounded were too difficult to get to the battlefield, Nabazani and Assam would have sent them to the battlefield with all their might, and the upcoming decisive battle would have been a real battle of life and death.

If Francis wins, then the rebellious Nabazani and Assam will not escape death, and if the coalition of Rome wins, then Nabazani and Assam will become the humerus of Queen Boudicca's Aceni Kingdom.

Of course, they could also surrender to the Roman city of White Peaks like Upton, but with White Peak's knowledge of these Acenian Princes' generals from the era of Plasus, it was almost impossible for them to surrender to Rome on their own initiative.

If Upton's father, Atabaz, were still alive, he would eventually stand behind Queen Boudicca and become the general of the new Essini Kingdom, which is their insistence and unwavering affection for the Aceni Kingdom.

Whether they chose to betray Plasus back then, or choose to betray Francis now, their fundamental purpose is for the survival of the Acenian Kingdom and their own survival;

Even a veteran like Eggers, who is dedicated to giving everything to Queen Boudicca, is based on his deep affection for Queen Boudicca, not just for the so-called loyalty, otherwise how could Queen Boudicca be willing to surrender to the city of Rome.

The young Upton's choice to surrender to the city of Rome was not unexpected by Bai Feng, and as for Nabazani and Assam, they had already been assigned to Queen Boudicca's command in Bai Feng's heart, and it was impossible for the city of Rome to accommodate them.

This is not only because Nabazani and Assam themselves cannot defect to Rome City, in fact, it is impossible for Rome City to accept it at this stage, such as Nabazani and Assam, who were born in the Aceni Kingdom.

The Acenian faction with Eggers as the core is already one of the two major factions in the city of Rome, and its strength is still the dominant side over the Tasya faction; if Nabazani and Assam join again, then whose city of Rome is it?

Upton's surrender made Bai Feng have no such concerns, Eggers' dislike for Upton can be seen by everyone, with Upton's young and vigorous personality, how could he use his hot face to stick to Eggers's cold ass?

Needless to say, Upton, the new addition to Rome, would have become a staunch supporter of White Peak, and what was wrong with that? That's why White Summit easily accepted Upton's offer, even if it was against public opinion.

While Nabazani and Assam were actively preparing for battle, the Roman army led by Bai Feng also advanced rapidly towards the position of Francis's army, and the Parthian archers, who were extremely mobile, were also scattered in all directions to reconnoiter the terrain.

Adrien led his battlefield ghosts to inspect the terrain and mountainous jungles five miles in front of the army, and unlike the Parthian archers, the task of the battlefield ghosts was to prevent any possible enemy ambushes.

In any case, this was in the hinterland of the Acenian kingdom, which was unfamiliar to the army of Rome, and even Eggers, who had lived here for thirty or forty years, had not returned here for more than thirteen years, and the places that were once familiar had become strange.

For the sake of the safety of the army, Bai Feng still sent a flexible and suitable battlefield ghost as the main scout, if Francis had any other channels to obtain information and make an ambush in advance, the army of Rome could also detect and deal with it in time.

The cautious army of Rome continued to march at a fast pace, but the tired Parthian archers and battlefield ghosts were out of breath, and during the day they were desperately scouting and tired, and at night Bai Feng added food to them and arranged a very quiet resting environment.

Two days after such a swift and cautious march, Francis, who felt that the armies of Nabazani and Assam were becoming more and more exhausted, was already preparing to gather a heavy army to crush the rebels of Nabazani and Assam tomorrow.

The 10,000 elite cavalry, who had been roaming the rear of Francis's army, found the soldiers who had withdrawn from outside Camp Upton, and the cavalrymen, realizing that something was wrong, did not take them back to the barracks, but sent someone to report the situation to Francis first.

Francis, who learned of this, immediately led his guards to the patrol area where the cavalry was, and Francis, who was expressionless, listened to several generals of this army and told him everything they had experienced.

None of these generals were fools, and they would not tell the story of the general's attempt to surrender and be killed, and on the way back, they had negotiated the wording of Francis's explanation, and had the officers under his command unify their voices.

In their explanation, they were attacked by a surprise attack by 150,000 troops from Rome, and then they fought bravely under the leadership of the general, and finally managed to break out of the siege of the Roman army, and rushed all the way to report this important news to Francis.

Although Francis did not fully believe the generals' explanations, the information about the army in Rome made Francis grim-faced.

100,000 troops in Rome, this is not something that Francis can deal with now, and the generals just said that they had desperately wiped out the 50,000 troops in Rome, and Francis really wanted to rush up and give him two slaps.

If they could kill and wound a third of the 150,000 Roman army with their tens of thousands of troops, then they would be able to wipe out the remaining Roman army by directly leading their own army, and Francis felt that they were simply insulting their own intelligence!

Even so, Francis believed that they would not dare to lie to themselves about the existing numbers of the Roman army, because once the Roman army arrived, the question of numbers was a matter of superficial and could not be hidden.

After confirming the identities of these people, Francis did not say anything, and let all the soldiers controlled by the cavalry return to the barracks, and the next thing Francis had to think about was not how to defeat the armies of Nabazani and Assam in one fell swoop.

The unexpected appearance of the Roman army completely disrupted all of Francis's counterinsurgency deployments, and the remnants of Nabazani and Assam's remnants of the defeated army were no longer in Francis's eyes, and more importantly, the army of Rome.

Francis, who had focused his main attention on the Roman army, returned to the barracks and began to reorient the deployment of his troops, the front army that had faced the mountain road became the rear army, and the elite cavalry cruising in the rear became the vanguard of the army.