"Chapter 16: Preparing for the Barbarians, XII"

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- Protagoras (Greek philosopher, leading exponent of the School of Sophists)

Leng Gundam and Leng Gaofei, the leaders of the two temple warriors, they don't know how to train soldiers, but they know how to make the soldiers under their command obey orders, which is enough for Bai Feng, he needs these three thousand barbarian warriors to know how to obey orders.

Under the full authority of Bai Feng, Leng Gundam and Leng Gaofei led the three hundred temple warriors into the military camp that originally belonged to the mercenary warriors of Gatus, and at this time, this military camp was stationed in the three thousand barbarian warriors who had recently joined the city of Rome.

Number of mercenaries: 3000 fighters

Mercenary Name: Tasya Warrior (3000)

Mercenary classes: 500 archers, 500 warriors, 2000 pikemen

Mercenary Leader: Gatus (Tasya Warrior, High High Swordsman)

Mercenary Sources: Vassal Tribes (Tasya Tribes)

Mercenary Loyalty: Tasya Warrior (80)

The attributes of this new mercenary army have changed greatly from the original 500 mercenaries, in addition to the most basic number changed from 500 to 3,000, there is also an additional attribute of 'mercenary class' in the mercenary attribute list.

Although Gatus was still the leader of this mercenary army, their loyalty was inevitably reduced to 80%, compared to the previous 100% loyalty, Bai Feng felt that he had to find a way to make these barbarian warriors loyal to Rome.

In fact, if Bai Feng hadn't announced the treatment of mercenary warriors before, I'm afraid that the loyalty of this mercenary force would be even lower, after all, there are only five hundred warriors among them who really belong to the Tasya tribe, and the remaining two thousand five hundred warriors are all warriors of the two tribes who have just been conquered by the combined forces of Gatus and Licinius, and they have no loyalty to the city of Rome at all.

The reason why their overall loyalty can reach 80% is because of the die-hard loyalty of the 500 warriors of the Tasya tribe on the one hand, and on the other hand, the military pay system announced by Bai Feng before, every mercenary soldier who served in the city of Rome can get three silver coins as a military salary every month, which is not a small number.

Three silver coins may not sound like a lot, but they are enough to buy a month's worth of food for a family of five from the city of Rome, which means that a barbarian warrior serving in Rome can rely on his own salary to support his family.

This is definitely a great temptation for the barbarian tribes who have been struggling for food and clothing all year round, which is the key to why they are willing to come to the city of Rome as mercenaries, and these barbarian warriors do not want their families to live a stable life?

Bai Feng believed that as long as he paid the mercenary soldiers no less, it would be impossible for them to leave Rome City because of high-intensity training;

As for the possible casualties in the battle for the city of Rome, Bai Feng also gave these barbarian warriors a clear answer, that is, as long as they die and die in battle for the city of Rome, the city of Rome will give their families five gold coins as a pension, and raise their children to adulthood, and raise their parents and wives over the age of fifty.

Five gold coins is a huge sum of money, which is equal to a full fifty silver coins, and with the maintenance system of the city of Rome, there is no reason why they should not be loyal to the city of Rome, let alone die for the city of Rome.

After solving the problem of these barbarian warriors, Bai Feng once again devoted himself to his own cultivation; after the four teams of young soldiers were recruited, Bai Feng let these four groups of young soldiers take on the task of patrolling the perimeter of the city of Rome, and the patrol range of the Parthian archers was further expanded to prevent the possible appearance of enemies of the Essini tribe.

While the city of Rome was in full swing, the combined forces of Gatus and Licinius continued to triumphantly, and the four tribes scattered to the west of the Tasia tribe were not a powerful tribe, or even inferior to the Tassia tribe before them.

The most powerful of the four tribes had a total population of about 25,000 and less than 7,000 warriors, and the weakest tribe had a total population of more than 15,000 and more than 3,000 warriors.

Since none of these four tribes were close to the Tasya tribe, and the distance between them was about five days' journey, Gatus and Licinius chose to conquer the two tribes in succession first, and then return to the Tasya tribe.

It's not that they don't want to deal with these four tribes at once, but they really don't have the logistical supplies to keep up, and the newly conquered tribes can't completely settle down, so Gatus and Licinius can only choose this relatively stable offensive plan.

When the combined forces of more than 6,000 of Gatus and Licinius appeared on the outskirts of the first tribal camp, the leader of the tribe wisely chose to accept the gold coins and lead the entire tribe to join the Tasya tribe in the face of aggressive enemy forces and glittering gold coins.

With the addition of more than 3,000 warriors from this tribe, the army under the command of Gatus and Licinius once again exceeded 10,000 people, and when the mighty army of 10,000 men reached the second tribe, which was slightly stronger than this tribe, the outcome was naturally peaceful annexation.

After annexing these two tribes one after another, the army under the command of Gatus and Licinius was approaching 15,000 people, and the total population of these two tribes was more than 25,000, so they immediately led everything of these two tribes back to the tribe of Tasya.

After returning to the Tasya, more than 25,000 civilians entered the expanding camp of the Tatsya, and Gatus and Licinius led the army again, this time with an army of 10,000 men.

This is also Gatus's helpless move, after all, the next two tribes to conquer are not weak tribes, in order to avoid the outbreak of war as much as possible, Gatus had to do his best to lead more troops to fight against these two last remaining tribes.

Just when Gatus and Licinius led a coalition of more than 10,000 troops to arrive at the camp of the third tribe, this May finally ended, and the arrival of the new month was of great significance to the city of Rome, and Bai Feng once again shifted all his energy from cultivating spiritual power to the affairs of the city of Rome.