"Chapter 10: Preparing for the Barbarians, VI"
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In the list of attributes of the city of Rome, the division of the army has changed again, the special army summoned by the temple and the army of the city of Rome belong to the same existing army, and now it has been divided into two completely different systems.
The temple warriors and mercenary warriors who did not appear in the attribute table of Rome City before, now appear in the attribute table of Rome City, and the existing army, special army, and mercenary army, these three army systems constitute the military strength of Rome City.
Bai Feng didn't know why the military attributes of Rome City had changed like this, but he was able to find a favorable side to himself from this new change, and the new military attributes could indeed reflect the military strength of Rome City more intuitively.
The blacksmith shop under construction still has half a month to be built, and Bai Feng has 5,345 gold treasury funds in his hand but he doesn't know where to spend it; there is no place to spend money in Rome for the time being, and the cooldown time for the summoning of the Temple of Apollo is still early.
It seems that the only place where Bai Feng can spend money is to buy food from the store, with the current grain reserves in Rome City, Bai Feng is not in a hurry to buy food from the store, but the good news from Gatus makes Bai Feng have to start buying food on a large scale immediately.
After Gatus and Licinius left Rome with their army, they hurried back to the camp of the Tasia tribe, where they received five hundred soldiers from the Tasia tribe and three groups of town militia, after which they officially led the army.
Directly north of the five-day radius centered on the Tasya tribe is a tribe with a population of about 20,000 and a five-day journey from the camp of the Tasya tribe, and to the northeast is a tribe with a population of about 30,000 and a four-day journey from the camp of the Tasia tribe, but the distance between the two tribes is only about three days.
In addition to these two tribes, the other four tribes are scattered to the west of the Tasya tribe, and the distance between them is mostly about five days' distance, which can be regarded as a safe distance for the barbarian tribes to guard against each other.
In order to complete the conquest of these six tribes as quickly as possible, Gatus and Licinius chose the tribe due north and the tribe to the northeast as the first to attack, and the two of them set out with a thousand Tasyan warriors and seven troops of soldiers from the city of Rome, with four thousand gold coins.
Because this war of conquest was fought in the name of the Tasia tribe, and Gatus was also the de facto supreme commander of the coalition forces, the seven teams of Roman soldiers under the command of Licinius all disguised themselves as gray cloaks and disguised as warriors of the Tasia tribe.
However, only God knows how effective this disguise will be, anyway, Gatus and Licinius did not intend to conquer these two tribes under the guise of the Tasya tribe, they were already ready for battle when they set out on the expedition.
Whether it is Gatus from the Tasia tribe or Licinius from Rome, these two people are not brave and resourceful generals, they are at best brave and fearless generals on the battlefield; the reason why Bai Feng sent the two of them to the battle is because there is really no one available in Rome City, and on the other hand, the barbarian tribe is suitable for such a fierce general to deal with.
It took only four days for the two men to lead their army to the tribe directly north of the Tasya tribe, and when more than 2,000 allied soldiers arrived at the tribe's camp, Gatus brought out four chests of gold coins to persuade the tribe's leader to surrender.
The four chests full of gold coins glowed with dazzling golden light in the sun, and everyone who saw these four boxes of gold coins inevitably showed greed, and even Gatus, who was carrying these gold coins, couldn't help but look at it a few more times, not to mention the leader of the tribe.
But between the freedom of the tribe and the gold coins, the leader of this tribe still resolutely chose freedom, and at the same time, he did not think that the two thousand warriors from the Tasya tribe could make any waves, and he still wanted to leave the four boxes of gold coins!
This tribe with a population of more than 20,000 people was not inferior in strength to the Tasya tribe in its former heyday, and after at least 5,000 warriors of this tribe surrounded the coalition army, the grumpy Licinius led his general's guard to attack.
Licinius, as the main general, brazenly attacked, and the soldiers of the seven teams of Rome City naturally did not delay, they pulled off their gray cloaks, shouted the slogan of attack, and launched a charge against the warriors surrounded by this tribe.
The army of the city of Rome had already taken the initiative to attack, what could Gatus say? With the order of Gatus, a thousand warriors from the tribe of Tasia also followed behind the soldiers of the city of Rome and launched the most fierce attack on their former compatriots.
Licinius and his generals' guards took the initiative to attack beyond the imagination of the tribal leader, and he could not believe that the army of the Tasia tribe, which was completely inferior in numbers, would take the initiative to attack his own army, and he immediately gave the order to attack on all fronts.
Unfortunately, before his order could be conveyed, Licinius had already been killed by his side, and Licinius, who had the strength of a high-level swordsman, was not a match for the leader of this tribe, and it was a common tradition of the barbarian tribe to meet the enemy.
So the most tragic scene on the battlefield appeared, at the beginning of the battle, the leader of the tribe and the tribal nobles behind him were all killed by a round of charge of the general guard led by Licinius.
When the Roman army fought fiercely against the leaderless barbarian warriors, there was no doubt about the outcome of the battle, and the warriors of the Tasia tribe were inspired by the frenzied Roman soldiers to fight the enemy, and built up the victory of the war.
In just two hours, all the warriors of this tribe surrendered to the slogan of Gatus, 'Surrender or death', and the conquest and subjugation between tribes was a daily occurrence in the wilderness, and it was not a big deal.
After a brief count, Gatus and Licinius found that they had captured more than 3,000 warriors of this tribe at the cost of just over a hundred casualties, and that the entire population of this tribe was now part of the tribe of Tasya!
However, the three druids of this tribe were treated well by Gatus and his warriors, and in addition to arranging for dozens of warriors to escort the three druids to the temple of the gods in the Tasya tribe camp, Gatus also allowed them to take everything that belonged to them from the tribe, even their minions and followers.