If you really want to face yourself, you have to learn not to run away. Whatever comes at you, you have to look deeply into it, because that depth will become your self-knowledge.

- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)

Bai Feng stayed in the Aceni Kingdom for a full ten days, and ten days was enough time for what kind of changes in the situation in the eastern region? The high-profile expansion of the Eastern Alliance and the active preparations of the Luxi tribe seemed to be still ongoing, and there were no obvious changes.

The detachments sent by the city of Rome to blockade the tributaries of the left and right flanks of the Cangluo River were also firmly in control of the two flanks of the Cangluo River, and from Luxi, the westernmost part of the eastern region, to the eastern alliance on the eastern side, there was no act or action to provoke the Roman fleet.

On the other hand, on the part of the city of Rome, a huge fleet of twenty two-lined warships and forty three-lined warships slowly sailed to the eastern alliance basin of the main stream of the Cangluo River to stop, completely isolating the already fragile banks of the eastern alliance into two separate parts.

It was obviously unrealistic for sixty warships to completely blockade this section of the river basin that was tens of kilometers long, but fortunately, the Roman City fleet adopted a strategy of segmented isolation, which barely completed the task assigned to them by Bai Feng to divide the Eastern Alliance into two.

The so-called segmented isolation strategy, in which a detachment of two double ships and two triremes was formed to block a small section of the river basin that could be fully controlled, and the long Eastern Union basin was divided into ten such disconnected small basins.

In this way, although the Roman fleet formally achieved a blockade of the Eastern Alliance, in practice it did not completely cut off the connection between the two sides of the Eastern Alliance, and the gap between the small basins was the loophole of the blockade line.

The 20 triremes left behind by the Roman fleet were specially organized to block these loopholes, and every five triremes formed a mobile fleet, and four mobile fleets patrolled the gaps day and night to prevent the wooden ships of the Eastern Alliance from sneaking in.

As a direct result of the blockade for several days, more than 500 homemade wooden boats of the Eastern Coalition attempting to cross the river were sunk, and at least 5,000 men, women, and infirmities of the Eastern Coalition were killed.

The average number of night-time smuggling boats that were not sunk was no more than five per day, and the disproportionate losses were too much for even the expanding Eastern Coalition to bear, so much so that this large-scale smuggling soon died down.

The fact that the large-scale day and night smuggling has stopped does not mean that the Eastern Alliance has given up its smuggling plan; every day after nightfall, there are still wooden boats of the Eastern Alliance on the east and west sides of the strait that are not afraid of death, but the number is much smaller.

While the Roman City fleet and the Eastern Alliance were slowly playing the game of 'cat and mouse', the warships on which 400 spies and 200 ninjas were riding also successfully transported them to the end of the left tributary of the Kura River and escorted them to the land on the north bank.

The goal of the 400 spies and 200 ninjas gathered together was too big, so after the consultation of the spies and ninjas, they divided themselves into 40 independent teams with 10 spies and 5 ninjas as a team.

Among the ten spies and five ninjas of the seventh squad, Naoki Yoshikawa, who was obviously slightly stronger than the other ninjas, served as the captain who commanded the team's operations; once the identity of the captain was confirmed, the remaining four ninjas and ten spies were completely subject to his command.

Naoki Yoshikawa, who was not familiar with the shape of Luxi's land, finally chose the northeast direction as the direction of his team, and then the whole team rushed all the way to the northeast.

A ninja wearing a black tight-fitting night suit with short ribs around his waist and a black scarf on his face, and a spy in a black tight night suit and a black veil hat on his head, this kind of dress that obviously attracts the attention of others cannot be noticed by the people of the Luxi tribe during the day.

Naoki Yoshikawa had been wearing this suit until now because the black tights would not be detected when they were moving at night, but now that dawn was approaching, they quickly found a hidden place and began to change into what they had brought with them.

When the ninja and the spy set off, in order to ensure that they could change their identities at will during the operation, Bai Feng specially bought fifty spatial rings for them, and at this time, Naoki Yoshikawa, who was the captain, was hiding a spatial ring full of things in his arms.

After changing into the gray clothes of the barbarian Qingzhuang in the space ring, Yoshikawa Naoki and the other fifteen people, each with a worn-out long sword carried by the barbarian Qingzhuang, were also equipped with a worn-out long sword carried by the barbarian Qingzhuang, and the short ribs and hidden weapons that the ninjas were used to were all included in the space ring.

After simply eating and drinking some food and fresh water in the space ring, the group of fifteen people swaggered forward in the northeast direction in the posture of barbarians, and more than three hours later, near noon, their group finally found a small settlement.

"Yamashita Yangxi, you immediately take the four spies around you to investigate around this settlement and see how strong they are. As the captain, Naoki Yoshikawa ordered, "Nishimura Jun, you take four ninjas with you to protect them one-on-one." ”

"Hey!" Yoki Yamashita, the leader of the traitor subdivision, and Jun Nishimura, the leader of the ninja detachment, immediately took the order.

Looking at the backs of the five spies and the five ninjas who were far away, Yoshikawa Naoki ordered the other ninja squad leader: "Xia Chuan Kyohei, you take two ninjas to hunt a few beasts nearby, it is best to choose large beasts to attack, it is easier to gain the approval of the barbarians." ”

"Hey!" Kyohei Natsukawa then left with two ninjas to look for the large beast.

Naoki Yoshikawa, who was left with only one ninja on standby, told the ninja to stand guard by his side to prevent anyone from approaching suddenly, while he himself focused all his attention on Yoki Yamashita and Jun Nishimura, who were approaching the settlement.

It will not be too difficult for spies and ninjas who are extremely good at concealing their aura and are agile to scout a settlement in western Luxi, which is not heavily guarded and even a little scattered, and Yamashita Yoki sneaked into this settlement with four spies very smoothly.

After entering the settlement, the observant Yamashita Yoki chose a relatively remote family in the settlement as the breakthrough point, and asked Nishimura Jun to first take four ninjas to pretend to be visitors into the house, and then quickly controlled several members of the house.

He is proficient in all kinds of torture methods, but every ninja is born with skills, and no matter how fierce and fearless the barbarian young man with the blood of a warrior in his body is, it is impossible to be indifferent to his wife, children, and parents who are subject to others, and it is undoubtedly very simple to pry open the mouths of these people.

After ten minutes of interrogation, the seven members of the family were knocked unconscious, then dragged into the inner room and hidden, and the five ninjas and five spies who knew everything about the family became distant blood relatives of the family.

With such a layer of identity as a cover, Yamashita Yoki and Nishimura Jun's investigation mission was extremely convenient, and after another ten minutes, Yamashita Yoki left the settlement with four spies, while Nishimura Jun stayed behind with four ninjas.