"Chapter Ninety-Five: Winning the Victory"
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- Cesare Beccaria (Italian economist, jurist and penal reformer)
Whether it was Bai Feng, who commanded the assassination order, or Ivan, who carried out the assassination order, they all underestimated the strength of the leader of the Werther tribe;
The remaining sixteen shadow killers were unable to kill him, but he easily avoided the assassination, and seeing that the enemy's main general's guards were desperately rushing back, Ivan himself intervened.
Ivan, who was slightly stronger than the average Shadow Slayer, did not have the ability to kill the leader of the Werther tribe at all, but with him rushed forward a full twenty Shadow Slayers who were ready to die.
The other four Shadow Killers are meeting the guards who want to rush back to protect their leader, and the mission of these four Shadow Killers is to buy as much time for Ivan as possible, even if it costs them their own lives!
Unable to stop them from their guards, the rout fled even more uncontrollably, and Licinius and Antio, who were in pursuit, quickly turned their attack to the enemy forces who were fighting Bazel's army, and abandoned the pursuit of the rout.
The ironclad cavalry and the cavalry of their allies, whose casualty numbers were rising, withdrew from the battle after the armies of Licinius and Antio joined the attack on the main enemy army, and then continued their attack on the scattered enemy forces.
Just when the tide of the battle was gradually developing in the direction of the Roman army, the assassination of the main general of the Werther tribe by the shadow killer also entered a crucial moment, and at this time, the shadow killer who was killed by the enemy's main general had reached as many as sixteen!
Ivan, who personally participated in the assassination, was also seriously injured, but their assassination continued with difficulty, because Bai Feng's order was at all costs, so Ivan had to fight until the last moment until he was killed!
Bai Feng, who didn't know the identity of the leader of the Werther tribe, originally only thought that the other party was the main general of the Werther tribe's army, and more and more shadow killers were killed in battle, so that Bai Feng had to pay attention to the other party, and he even had to admit that he had indeed made the mistake of belittling the opponent just now.
In order to prevent the shadow killer troops slowly summoned by Rome City from being wiped out, realizing the powerful Bai Feng of the other party, he immediately took out the Starfall Divine Bow and Starfall Wind Chasing Arrow, which he hadn't used for a long time, from the White Spirit Ring, and quickly opened his bow and aimed at the enemy's main general.
The first lightning-fast Starfall Wind Chasing Arrow shot at the enemy general who was fighting against the Shadow Killer, followed by the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh Starfall Wind Chasing Arrows, all of which were shot out by Bai Feng in one go.
Sensing the danger, the leader of the Werther tribe quickly broke away from the entanglement of the shadow killers and focused all his attention on the seven silver rays of light that galloped towards him, but the seven starfall wind-chasing arrows did not kill the powerful leader of the Werther tribe, but they also left him scrambling.
Before he could breathe a sigh of relief after dodging the seventh Starfall Chasing Wind Arrow, Ivan, who had been quietly hiding by the side, took the opportunity to plunge his soul blade into his chest, and the leader of the Werther tribe, who was in pain in his chest, opened his eyes wide and did not bat at death!
The power of the Soul Blade is that as soon as you are stabbed by it, your soul will slowly lose its vitality, and if it is Ivan's straight through the chest, it will be death on the spot, and there is no room for return.
The death of the leader of the Werther tribe suffered a devastating blow to the morale of the Werther tribesmen's army, which was getting lower and lower, and they lost their allegiance, and there was no unified commander, and defeat was inevitable.
The assassination at the expense of twenty shadow killers won the Roman army victory over the Werther tribe, and with the surrender of the last main force of the Werther tribe and the capture of the core camp, the mighty Werther tribe finally became a part of history.
All the soldiers of the Werther tribe who participated in this decisive battle, except for the soldiers who died on the battlefield, the other soldiers became prisoners of the Roman army, and the capture of more than 30,000 warriors brought the total number of prisoners of the Roman army in the Hexi region to a staggering 140,000!
The price paid by the Roman army was that almost every legion that participated in the battle suffered heavy casualties, and the four legions under Bazel's command, which had 50,000 troops before the outbreak of the war, had less than 15,000 soldiers after the decisive battle.
Among the 15,000 soldiers of this poor Baba, there are also more than 5,000 soldiers of the Lion Legion who suffered heavy losses at the beginning of the war and have remained in the barracks to guard the prisoners since then, and the number of dead soldiers in Bazel's army alone is as high as 30,000!
Only more than 100 soldiers were killed in the personal guard battalion under Bai Feng's command, while Licinius's First Army and Antio's Second Army lost nearly 8,000 soldiers.
Combined with the casualties paid by Eggers' army in the conquest of Hedong, the city of Rome lost more than 50,000 soldiers in battle to conquer the mighty Vitus tribe, not counting the allied armies of Nabazani and Assam.
The heavy casualties brought an unusually rich harvest to the city of Rome, nearly 200,000 captives from the Vitus tribe, enough to replenish all the legions of Rome with heavy casualties, and this was only the smallest part of all the gains of Rome!
Before the conquest of the Vitus tribe, the barbarian population under the rule of the city of Rome was only a little more than 650,000, and with the addition of the more than 1.5 million people of the Vitus tribe, the barbarian population under the rule of the city of Rome will exceed 2 million!
The city of Rome, with its two million barbarian people, will become the most populous force in the entire eastern region, and the increase in population will inevitably promote the further development and expansion of the Roman city, laying the foundation for the next step of unifying the eastern region.
Before the ambitious Bai Feng completely annexed the Werther tribe, the first thing to deal with was the nearly 200,000 Vitte tribal prisoners of war, who were scattered in the east and west regions of the river, and were to be taken to the city of Rome for imprisonment.
The army of Eggers and the army of Bazel, as well as the landing army led by Bai Feng himself, were also to be withdrawn to the city of Rome to replenish their troops and weapons, and the plan to annex the Vitus tribe would not be initiated until the 200,000 prisoners of war had been properly disposed of.
At that time, the people of the original Werther tribe will quickly be transformed into the urban population of the city of Rome, and the new Tuntian legion will be formed, and the field legions of the city of Rome will be fully replenished, and the area east of the river and west of the river will also be garrisoned.
In addition to the arrangements for the Roman army and the Vitus tribes, the legions of Nabazani and Assam were sent back to the kingdom of Essini by White Peak, but the thousands of cavalry that once belonged to them were now part of the Roman army.
Of course, the army of the Aceni Kingdom paid such a heavy price for the war provoked by the city of Rome, and it is unreasonable to say that there is no certain return, but the rich return paid by the city of Rome was handed over to Queen Boudicca.