"Chapter Twenty-Seven: Halfway Encounter"
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- Democritus (the great materialist philosopher of ancient Greece, one of the founders of the doctrine of atomic materialism)
In the face of the barbarians' active attack, Bai Feng felt that it was absolutely necessary for him to give a thunderous blow to the invading barbarian army, only in this way could he defend the safety of Rome City, but when he took the initiative to attack, Bai Feng hoped that he could use softer means to solve the war between Rome City and the barbarian tribes.
After all, the city of Rome is an isolated city that exists in the hinterland of the barbarian land, and if Bai Feng wants to truly develop the city of Rome into an independent and powerful force, it is not enough to rely on the power of the system, and the barbarians living in the barbarian land must become the allies of the city of Rome.
Perhaps Bai Feng will not be able to make the barbarians who are full of hatred for all the forces in the civilized world accept the city of Rome in a short period of time, but the most powerful effect of time is change, and Bai Feng believes that the barbarians will eventually accept the city of Rome as a friend with good intentions.
In fact, the strength of the barbarians themselves is not weak, the vast barbarian land is at least as huge as the three Heavenly Dragon Empires, and the so-called five southern provinces of the Heavenly Dragon Empire are only about one-twentieth of the land of the barbarian land.
As one of the most powerful human countries in the civilized world, the Celestial Dragon Empire has the full support of the Holy See with its influence all over the continent, and the powerful combination of the two has only occupied the land of the five provinces in a few decades, and the strength of the barbarians can be imagined.
For such an extremely powerful force, as long as Bai Feng can firmly tie the barbarians to the chariot of Roman City, will Bai Feng still worry that he has no strength to be the enemy of the world?
Of course, this is a huge project in itself, the Tasia tribe is just a medium tribe that is not strong in the barbarian land, and the Roman city has almost no impact on the conquest of the Tasia tribe and even the overall strength of the entire barbarian, but it is of great significance in the eyes of Bai Feng.
In Bai Feng's opinion, as long as he can win over the barbarians of the Tasia tribe to become a firm ally of the city of Rome, then the barbarians of the tribe of Tasia will become the best propaganda of the city of Rome in the land of barbarians.
The first barbarian tribe to be conquered by the city of Rome not only lived a stable life, but also reaped many benefits that had never been seen before, and the role models of such a city were endless, and the city of Rome would have done twice as much with half the effort when conquering other barbarian tribes!
Therefore, Bai Feng did not want his Roman army to continue to fight to the death with the remnants of the Tasya tribe, and what the city of Rome needed was an obedient vassal tribe, not a barbarian camp that had been trampled by iron hooves.
Compared with the huge benefits brought by 12,000 barbarian slaves, Bai Feng is still more concerned about the far-reaching impact of having 12,000 barbarian allies, but if the barbarians of the Tasia tribe are really stubborn, then Bai Feng can only use violent means to solve the problem in the end, and when the Tasia tribe is forced to become a vassal tribe of Rome City, Bai Feng will naturally use facts to prove everything.
The Roman army, which numbered only more than 700 people, continued to march to the camp of the Tassia tribe under the leadership of Bai Feng, and the leader of the Tasya tribe, Gamilios, made a resolute decision to lead the last 1,500 warriors of his tribe to take the initiative to meet the enemy who came in to retaliate.
It was not that Gamilios was so stupid that he wanted to defeat a powerful enemy with 1,500 warriors of his tribe, but that he did not want to see the old and young women and children of his tribe killed by the enemy, so he could only choose to fight to the death tragically.
When the Tasya tribe was at its strongest, it only had a total population of less than 20,000, and yesterday's 5,000 troops were not the military strength of the Tasya tribe at all, it was the total combat strength of all the young and strong people of the Tasya tribe!
The barbarians have always far surpassed the countries of the civilized world in terms of mobilization, and the ratio of soldiers to peasants in the civilized world to 1 to 10 is already an extremely terrifying number, which is a stupid thing that the poorest militaristic countries can only do under the most extreme circumstances.
Under normal circumstances, a country with a population of 5 million would only have about 50,000 standing troops and about 150,000 conscripts at most, and this is an appropriate ratio that can ensure the stability and prosperity of the country.
But this is not the case with the barbarians, who not only live in a barbarian land with extremely low food production, but also face the attacks of countless beasts and monsters, and even minor diseases that can be solved by the wave of a priest in the civilized world can also bring a deadly threat to the barbarians, which directly leads to the current situation that all the barbarian tribes are soldiers.
Whether it is a strong barbarian tribe or a weak barbarian tribe, almost all the young and strong of the barbarian tribe are qualified warriors; whenever a crisis comes or a war breaks out, all the young and strong of the barbarian tribe are in charge.
The Tasya tribe, which is not very strong, has only about 16,000 total population and about 5,000 young people, and the 5,000 barbarian army that attacked Rome yesterday is all the young and strong people of the Tasya tribe, and the death of nearly 3,500 young people is also quite fatal to the Tassia tribe, which is also the tragic result of the warriors of the Tasya tribe who would rather die than surrender.
If they were willing to surrender to the Roman army after the defeat, how could they have suffered such heavy casualties? The Tassia tribe, which had lost 70 percent of its young and strong people, had no strength to sustain the survival of their own tribe, and even if Bai Feng did not lead a large army to attack them, they would sooner or later have to merge themselves into other barbarian tribes in order to survive.
Otherwise, without any hostile forces attacking them, they themselves would be devoured by a large number of wild beasts and demonic beasts scattered everywhere on the wild land, and fifteen hundred young and strong people could not protect more than ten thousand old and young women and children!
Licinius led his general guard and the seven hundred soldiers of the city of Rome still advanced unhurriedly, and Bai Feng also rode his horse and walked on the left side of the army with Yue'er and several retinues, and at this moment, a puff of smoke and dust suddenly appeared in front of him.
This puff of smoke and dust was naturally brought up by the 1,500 warriors of the Tasia tribe led by Gamilios during the march, and after discovering this puff of smoke and dust that was obviously brought up by the march, Bai Feng immediately ordered Licinius to lead the army to line up in place!
When Licinius commanded five large groups of Roman troops in a neat battle formation, the smoke and dust in the distance were getting closer and closer, until the tribal army led by Gamilios himself appeared in front of Bai Feng.
Seeing that the enemy army that had been defeated yesterday appeared in front of him again, Bai Feng's face also showed a solemn look; the army of the Tasia tribe actually took the initiative to attack under such circumstances, such courage and fearlessness of death were indeed beyond Bai Feng's expectations.