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"How is this possible?!" Vipsani, who was wide-eyed, said with a face full of disbelief: "How can an army composed of old and weak women and children have a combat power comparable to that of barbarian warriors?

Although Bai Feng didn't show the same gaffe as Vipsani, the expression on his deeply disapproving face was enough to prove that his thoughts were the same as Wipsani's;

Looking at Vipsani's incredulous look, Luquis, whose face remained unchanged, stared at him motionlessly, and said to him word by word: "Vepsani, you have to remember that in this world, nothing is impossible. ”

In the Roman world, Vipsani, Licinius and others were all important ministers of the Augustan family cultivated by Luquis, and even after coming to this world, Luquis was no longer special, and he was still second only to Bai Feng in the minds of Vipsani and others.

In the face of Luquis's seriousness and solemnity, Vipsani, who had regained his composure, smiled bitterly: "General, it's not that I don't want to believe what you say, but I, who have seen the combat effectiveness of barbarian warriors, really can't believe that the old and weak women and children of the barbarians will have such a strong combat effectiveness. ”

"If we use the armies of the Tiger Legion and the Cheetah Legion in Rome as a yardstick, then the army of the old and weak women and children of the Eastern Alliance is indeed not comparable, but if you take the ordinary barbarian warriors as the standard, then they really have this fighting power. ”

Speaking of this, Luquis stood up again, pointed to a tribe on the map that was within the Eastern Alliance's sphere of influence, and explained to Bai Feng and Vipsani: "Here, half a year ago, it used to be an independent medium-sized tribe, and it did not belong to the Eastern Alliance's sphere of influence. ”

"The medium-sized tribes in the eastern region generally have a population of about forty or fifty thousand, and the number of warriors they can handle will not be less than eight thousand, and this tribe is naturally no exception; at that time, the Eastern Alliance was responsible for attacking this tribe only an army of 30,000 old and weak women and children. ”

"Thirty thousand old and weak women and children with inferior weapons against nearly 10,000 barbarian warriors, such a battle, no one would believe that the army of the Eastern Alliance could win, but the result is that they have won a hearty victory!"

More than half of the more than 9,000 soldiers of this tribe were killed on the spot, and the remaining 3,000 or so soldiers chose to surrender, while the price paid by the army of the Eastern Alliance was only more than 4,000 soldiers killed and more than 5,000 soldiers wounded. ”

"What's even more incredible is that this conquered tribe, except for the 3,000 captured warriors who were divided among the forces within the Eastern Alliance, all the other old and weak women and children were incorporated into the Eastern Alliance's army of old and weak women and children and became part of the Eastern Alliance's army. ”

Hearing this, Vipsani, who was full of horror, said in a terrifying tone: "This means that in this battle alone, the Eastern Alliance used the casualties of tens of thousands of old and weak women and children in exchange for more than 3,000 soldiers and more than 40,000 new old and weak women and children?"

"That's right!" Lu Quis, who also looked ugly, said with a solemn expression: "It was in this way that the Eastern Alliance, whose main force had been lost, quickly regained its original strength and had a stronger army than before. ”

"Luquis, I'm curious, where did the Eastern Alliance get enough food to feed so many troops?" Bai Feng, who had not spoken, asked, "The Eastern Alliance, where the army accounts for half of the population, cannot produce so much food on its own. ”

"Governor, this is also what I am curious about. Luquis shook his head and said helplessly: "No matter how the ghosts of the battlefield try, they can't find a way for the Eastern Alliance to obtain food, as if the food of the Eastern Alliance came out of thin air. ”

"Out of thin air?" Bai Feng and Vipsani, who looked at each other, looked at Lucis with puzzled eyes.

"According to the battlefield ghosts lurking in the Eastern Alliance, there is a special cavalry unit within the Eastern Alliance, the size of which is about 5,000 cavalry, and this erratic cavalry unit only appears once a month and brings back mountains of grain. ”

Bai Feng, who was frowning and thinking, was silent for a while, and then asked Luquis, "How is the Eastern Alliance's own grain production?"

"Of the more than 800,000 ordinary barbarian people in the Eastern Alliance, only 500,000 are actually engaged in farming; considering that the land in the north shore region is relatively barren, even if it is harvested twice a year, the grain output of the entire Eastern Alliance can only feed 700,000 people a year. ”

Hearing this, Bai Feng said thoughtfully: "The Eastern Alliance's annual grain output can only feed 700,000 people, which is exactly the number of their army, but it is impossible for their more than 800,000 people not to consume grain, which means that they have at least 800,000 food shortfalls. ”

"The food needs of 800,000 people for a year is definitely a very terrifying number. Referring to the issue of food, the more professional Vipsani added: "These grains are piled together, and they can even fill all the existing granaries of our Roman city!"

"Yes, this is a large quantity of grain that fills all the existing granaries of our city of Rome. Bai Feng, who nodded slightly, sighed to himself: "Grain of this scale, even if it is transported in twelve months, it is not something that can be transported by just five thousand cavalry, right?"

"Because the ghosts of the battlefield have no information on this, we don't know how they are transported at this time. After a slight pause, Luquis continued, "However, as far as I can guess, they must have used a large number of spatial rings to transport food. ”

"Yes, that's what I thought, too. Bai Feng's expression became more and more solemn and said: "The crux of the matter is that we all know that barbarians don't understand magic, let alone make spatial rings, so which force is involved in the disputes in the eastern region?"

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became solemn, and after a few eye contacts, Vipsani and Luquis, who felt the trickiness, said: "Governor, is it possible that the people of the Charming Horse Kingdom want to extend their tentacles into the eastern region?"

"Geographically, the Kingdom of Whitehorse is indeed the most likely object of suspicion. Speaking of this, Bai Feng changed his words and said, "But I don't think it's necessarily the White Horse Kingdom, or rather, it's not necessarily the Terran forces on the continent that are supporting the Eastern Alliance. ”

Facing the surprised eyes of Luquis and Vipsani, Bai Feng, whose brows were still furrowed, said his thoughts: "Among the human forces on the continent, the ones bordering the eastern region of the barren land are none other than the two major forces of the Heavenly Dragon Empire and the White Horse Kingdom. ”

"Needless to say, the Celestial Dragon Empire, which has been mired in a bitter war on two fronts before, has no surplus grain to send to the Eastern Alliance when it is difficult to protect itself, not to mention, the war between the Celestial Dragon Empire and the barbarian tribes was no smaller than the war on the eastern and northern fronts before. ”

"You must know that the five southern provinces of the Celestial Dragon Empire were still taken from the barbarian tribes in the eastern region, so it is impossible for the Celestial Dragon Empire to raise tigers. The rest of the White Horse Kingdom, if they want to aid the Eastern Alliance, there is still a Luxi tribe in between. ”