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At present, the naval strength of the city of Rome, in addition to the two trading fleets that are not in the naval battle sequence, also has a fleet of double and triple warships, which is not a strong fleet, but also the strongest fleet in the entire eastern region!

The main tributaries of the Cangluo River, which ran through the eastern part of the barbarian land, gave the Roman city the greatest use for its warships, and the backward shipbuilding strength and technological level of the barbarian tribes made the Cangluo River an insurmountable moat for them.

Even if there are some barbarian tribes near the river or overlord tribes with extremely strong strength, they can build a fleet to cross the Cangluo River, but that doesn't mean they have surface power, because the gap between ships and warships is still very large.

In particular, the wooden boats built by the barbarian tribes to cross the river, those boats that looked like small boats, were nothing more than toys in front of the real Roman city warships, and this point had been proved by the soldiers of the Eastern Alliance with bloody lessons.

At the beginning, when the fleet of the city of Rome was only double-lined warships, the patrol fleet composed of double-column battleships and cold locust longbowmen became the existence of the surface fleet of the crushing barbarians, not to mention, the city of Rome now has more powerful three-column warships.

With twenty twin ships and ten triremes, the Roman City fleet was definitely a formidable fleet capable of crushing all the barbarian surface forces in the entire eastern region, but this did not mean that the Roman city fleet could run rampant throughout the eastern region.

At the northeastern end of the eastern region is the junction between the barbarian tribes and the southern border of the Celestial Dragon Empire, and it is also the only way for the main stream of the Cangluo River to enter the eastern region from the Celestial Dragon Empire, which means that sooner or later the powerful surface fleet of the Celestial Dragon Empire will become a threat to the Roman city.

From a practical point of view, it was not difficult for Bai Feng to find an extremely serious situation: as the eastern region closest to the Heavenly Dragon Empire in the barbarian land, the barbarians living in the eastern region and the southern people of the Heavenly Dragon Empire had extremely fierce contradictions with each other.

However, the existence of contradictions between the two sides does not affect the smuggling of various commodities of the Celestial Dragon Empire into the lives of the barbarians in the eastern region, and even the treasures of many barbarian tribes will often appear in the mansions of the magnates of the Celestial Dragon Empire.

Due to the hatred of the barbarians in the southern region for the Celestial Dragon Empire, it was absolutely impossible for land smuggling to pass through the territory of these barbarians, and this reality made the merchants of the Celestial Dragon Empire, who could not bear the loneliness, successfully open up a waterway trade route into the eastern region.

Compared with the indelible hatred of the barbarians in the southern region towards the Heavenly Dragon Empire, the barbarian tribes in the hinterland of the eastern region, which are quite far away from the southern region of the Heavenly Dragon Empire, have less repulsion towards the Heavenly Dragon Empire.

As a result, the lukewarm attitude of these barbarian tribes became the best target for smuggling by the merchants of the Celestial Dragon Empire; after more than ten years of hard work, the naval fleet deployed by the Celestial Dragon Empire in the southern region became a force in the smuggling group of the Celestial Dragon Empire.

In order to ensure that their own interests are not harmed, the southern fleet of the Celestial Dragon Empire will generally escort the smuggling fleet of merchants along the main stream of the Cangluo River into the hinterland of the eastern region, and conduct smuggling transactions with the barbarian tribes in the eastern region.

Although Bai Feng himself didn't know the strength of the Southern Fleet of the Heavenly Dragon Empire, when he was in the Bai family, he still heard of the Andre family who controlled the Southern Fleet, after all, it was one of the five major families that controlled the Southern Territory.

As far as Bai Feng knew, the Southern Fleet controlled by the Andre family had at least hundreds of warships, and as for the combat effectiveness of this kind of Heavenly Dragon Empire warship, Bai Feng, who had never seen it with his own eyes, did not dare to make a comment.

In any case, the warships of the Heavenly Dragon Empire must have not been weak in combat power, coupled with their absolute superiority in numbers, and the cautious Bai Feng still felt that the fleet of Roman City was better off not coming into direct contact with the other party until it had absolute superiority.

Fortunately, the smuggling fleet of the Celestial Dragon Empire did not penetrate deep into the Cangluo River valley in Rome's sphere of influence, which also gave Rome enough time to develop its own fleet, so Bai Feng planned to recruit the warships needed to strengthen the fleet again.

After the ten strongest warships that can be recruited by Rome City at present are included in the recruitment sequence, the remaining twenty recruitment places are reserved for the spellcaster that Webster wants; it is not that Bai Feng does not want to recruit all the trilinear warships, but that Rome City does not have the conditions for large-scale recruitment of triremit warships for the time being.

The surface fleet of Rome City is not simply composed of systematically recruited warships, but a powerful battle combination of battleships and cold locust longbowmen, which means that the expansion of Rome's fleet requires not only warships, but also a large number of cold locust longbowmen.

Each two-lined battleship could carry a hundred Locust longbowmen, each triremit could carry more than one hundred and fifty Locust longbowmen, and the recruitment of ten trilinear warships would require fifteen hundred Locust longbowmen.

Since the bow-making workshops in Rome began to mass-produce crossbows, the original production of the Lenghuai longbow has been greatly affected, and the demand for the Lenghuai longbow from the newly expanded longbow wings of the other legions has reduced the number of longbowmen that can be allocated to the battleship in Rome.

In such a situation, Bai Feng's recruitment of ten new triremes of warships is already the limit, and if he wants to recruit more triremes, there will not be enough Leng Huai longbowmen; as for why other slots have to recruit spellcasters, it is Bai Feng's precautions.

In the wilderness where there are no magicians, the casters of Rome can play a far less role than the ghosts of the battlefield, and the harsh living environment and strong physical strength make the barbarian warriors quite resistant to magical attacks.

Coupled with the fact that the strength of the battlefield ghost is higher than that of the spellcaster, Bai Feng, who has abundant funds in the treasury, naturally prefers the battlefield ghost with more practical value in his previous recruitment, but the wild land is not the final destination of Rome after all.

In the battle of the civilized world, the existence of magicians cannot be ignored, and the city of Rome must also form its own elite long-range strike force, based on this consideration, it is only natural for Bai Feng to strengthen the strength of the spellcaster.

In general, Bai Feng's current strengthening of Rome's fleet strength and elite long-range strike force is all for the purpose of Rome City having enough strength to enter the system of the civilized world in the future, not entirely to enhance the existing military strength of Rome City.

The recruitment of the two batches consumed a total of 10,700 gold of Bai Feng's treasury funds, which was not enough to spend a fraction of more than 100,000 treasury funds;