"Chapter Twenty-Four: The Expedition to the North and the West"
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The formation of the 3,000 Leng Locust Longbowmen greatly improved the military strength directly under Bai Feng, but Bai Feng did not officially attribute these 3,000 Leng Locust Longbowmen to the Doge's Guard, but let them form an independent force together with the Cretan archers.
The range of the Cretan archers, who were previously superior to ordinary archers, has now become far inferior to the Leng Locust longbowmen, which greatly weakens their value, but their bow and arrow skills are worthy of Bai Feng's recognition.
After all, the Leng Locust Longbowmen were a new army of archers, and their archery accuracy was more than a cut short of that of the Cretan archers, and in this respect, the Cretan archers were more than enough to act as instructors for the Leacia longbowmen.
Although the number of generals in Rome City is not small, but there are indeed no generals who are proficient in bows and arrows, in order to let these Leng Huai longbowmen have qualified professional generals to lead them, Bai Feng temporarily appointed the centurion Peris of the Cretan archers as the commander of the longbowmen.
After the port and the twin battleships were sorted out, Bai Feng began to even think about what Rome City should do next, and the information sent back by Nelson just now made Bai Feng once again feel the threat from the Eastern Alliance on the north bank of the Cangluo River.
The fleet and Nelson's 6,000 cavalry, which could not be formed in a short period of time, could not stop the possible large-scale attack of the Eastern Alliance, so Bai Feng began to prepare to mobilize the two main field corps to go north.
At this time, Gatus's Cheetah Legion was still training, and Bai Feng did not plan to send them out of Rome until the Macedonian phalanx was trained; Licinius's First Legion needed to sit in Rome, and Bronno's Dragon's Legion was formed by the Eastern Alliance's surrendered army after all.
In addition to these three main field legions, Bai Feng can also send the main field army north, that is, Bazel's Tiger Legion and Eggers' Eagle Legion; without the slightest hesitation, the soldiers of these two legions were sent north by Bai Feng to the south bank area.
After the formation of the three new towns and the formation of the Tuntian Legion entered the role, completely liberating the entire army of the Roman city, and successively sending the Tiger Legion and the Eagle Legion north to prevent the Eastern Alliance, Bai Feng officially decided to launch an operation against the tribes on the east bank of the Cangluo River.
In this area with the city of Rome as the core, all the tribes near the west bank of the main stream of the Cangluo River have been directly or indirectly conquered by the Roman city, and the tribes near the south bank of the left tributary of the Cangluo River have also become part of the city of Rome by chance.
The only tribes that remained independent were scattered on the east bank of the left flank tributary of the Cangluo River, and their details had already been detected by the battlefield ghosts sent out by Bai Feng in the past ten days, and now it was time to act.
By the time these last nine remaining tribes were conquered by Rome, the entire region would be under the rule of Rome's civilization, and the city would be able to focus all its efforts on developing and desiring the enemies on the other side of the Cangluo River.
Five days ago, Adrion had returned with three of his battlefield ghosts with detailed information, and after that, Bai Feng began to consider a specific plan for conquest and a plan for disposing of the population after the conquest.
The total population of these nine tribes, which were close to the east bank of the left tributary of the Cangluo River, was about 200,000, and all of them had no more than 30,000 warriors, and according to Bai Feng's plan, these people would be relocated together and then divided into two new towns.
In order to take full advantage of the geographical location of the Cangluo River, these two new towns will be built next to the left flank tributary of the Cangluo River, and two new tuntian districts will also be opened up near them, and two legions of the Roman city will be stationed before they are stabilized.
Bazel's Tigers and Eggers' Eagle Legion were sent to the south bank of the Cangluo River, and the war in the east bank of the Cangluo River was naturally left to Gamilios' Tasya Legion and Bronno's Dragons.
The combat effectiveness of the Tasya Legion has not been fully improved, but with the help of the two teams of Roman youth troops, the current soldiers of the Tasia Legion can finally list a neat formation, which can be regarded as a good progress.
Every powerful army is tempered in actual combat, and the soldiers of the Tasia Legion are more inferior to their own combat effectiveness, which made Bai Feng decide to send the Tasia Legion and the Tenglong Legion to jointly carry out the mission, hoping that the Tasia Legion can be improved.
The combat effectiveness of the Dragon Legion is recognized as strong in the city of Rome, and the soldiers of its legion can fight inextricably with the Tiger Legion and the Eagle Legion without knowing any formation, and it is conceivable how strong their combat effectiveness is.
Bai Feng believed that with the support of the Dragon Legion, the Tasia Legion would definitely be able to gain enough combat experience in this attack, and after making the decision, Bai Feng quickly issued an order for Gamilios and Bronno to jointly send troops.
Along with this expedition order, there were also specific arrangements after the conquest of these nine tribes; the location of the two newly built towns, Bai Feng, had already been chosen, and the commanders of the two Tuntian Legions were also concurrently served by the corps commanders who led the troops stationed in these two towns.
Once they successfully completed this task, Bai Feng would send follow-up tuntian experts from Rome to teach the two newly formed tuntian legions how to reclaim grain fields and grow crops, and Gamilios and Bronno quickly led their troops to set off after receiving the order.
It would take six days for the two legions to go north from Rome to reach the south bank of the left tributary of the Cangluo River, and nine days for the two legions to go west to reach the east bank of the left tributary of the Cangluo River, which must have taken longer to complete the task.
After the soldiers of the four legions were sent out of Rome by Bai Feng, the remaining troops in Rome were Licinius's First Legion and Gatus's Cheetah Legion, and the Doge's Guard of Antio was still resuming training, and Peris's longbowmen were about to leave Rome.
Because this new Roman port was too important for the city of Rome, Bai Feng planned to keep all the longbowmen in the Roman port and build a new military camp for them to guard the port.
This arrangement is still very necessary to protect the safety of the port, and in addition, on each double-column battleship in Rome City, Bai Feng will be equipped with an additional hundred Leng Huai longbowmen, these longbowmen always have to get off the ship and take turns to renovate, it is still necessary to build such a military camp, at least it can solve this rotation and renovation problem that may occur at any time.
With the construction of the port and the imminent formation of the naval fleet, Bai Feng suddenly found that the number of longbowmen under his command was still too small, and the longbowmen of 3,000 were enough to cope with a big battle, but they could not take into account the needs of the naval fleet, which was also a problem.