If you want to get the attention of others, you have to pay a price, it is a bondage, and the more you ask others to pay attention to you, the more you become a thing and a commodity - you are selling yourself, hoping that others will buy you.

- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)

Through the questioning of Adrien and Ivan, Bai Feng determined that the time to assemble all the battlefield ghosts and shadow killers scattered in the six eastern provinces and the six northern provinces was ten days;

After leaving Adrien and Ivan to continue to wait in the barracks for the battlefield ghosts and shadow killers, Bai Feng hurried back to Rome City, and since the battlefield ghosts and shadow killers still need ten days to assemble, the ninjas and spies must act in advance.

Bai Feng, who could not waste ten days of precious time in vain, first sent four hundred spies and two hundred meters of ninjas to the port of Rome, and then arranged a fleet of five three-column battleships and ten double-lined battleships to escort them along the course of the Cangluo River to the Luxi Tribe.

The Roman port was located on the main stream of the Cangluo River, while the southern part of the Lusi tribe across the river from the Roman city sphere of influence was at the end of the left flank tributary of the Cangluo River, a modest stretch of distance that required the fleet to sail at full speed for four days to reach its destination.

When the fleet arrives at its destination, the ninjas and spies on the battleship will choose a dark and windy night to quietly land, and then how to infiltrate the dense settlements in the south of the Luxi tribe to wreak havoc is a matter for the spies and ninjas.

Bai Feng, who remained in the city of Rome, had already begun to shift his attention to the development of the fleet in the city of Rome, and there was no doubt that with the imminent recruitment of thirty triremes, the already powerful surface fleet of the city of Rome would usher in a new peak of development.

The huge fleet of 60 double warships and 130 triremes was invincible in the eastern region, and the longbowmen attached to these warships in particular significantly increased the overall combat effectiveness of the fleet.

Each two-column battleship was equipped with 100 longbowmen, and each three-column battleship was equipped with 150 longbowmen, which was an order that Bai Feng personally issued in order to improve the long-range combat power of the battleship; this order was naturally implemented in the most efficient manner.

However, another order, also given by Bai Feng, was not followed, and that was to assign one to three spellcasters to each warship, and that spellcasters similar to mages were far more lethal than longbowmen's arrows.

On a bumpy battleship, whether the arrows fired by a longbowman can hit the enemy with one arrow depends on luck, and even if it hits the enemy, it is almost impossible to kill with one arrow;

The crux of the matter is that a salvo of longbowmen alone can at best kill and wound the personnel of the enemy ships, and will not cause damage to the enemy ships, unless the longbowmen shoot arrows that are not ordinary iron arrows, but rockets stained with fire oil!

The use of rockets in naval warfare is a very reliable and universal method of attack, and all warships involved in naval warfare do so, because in the vast expanse of the sea, the burning enemy ships can be easily evaded.

If the place of engagement is changed from the vast expanse of the sea to the surface of the river with a limited width, the rocket attack will become a double-edged sword that will hurt the enemy and himself, because no one knows whether the enemy ship that is blazing with fire will hit the battleship that is too much for them to dodge in a second.

The warships of this era were all wooden warships, and they would quickly burn when they encountered fire, and unless a water or ice magician unleashed magic, it was very difficult to extinguish the rockets that possessed the fire oil.

The width of the main stream of the Cangluo River was more than 500 meters at its narrowest point, and the range of the longbowmen was 400 meters, which was a great advantage for the Roman fleet, but this advantage was immediately evaporated as soon as it entered the tributary of the Cangluo River, which had a limited width.

The two flanks of the Cangluo River, which is no more than 200 meters wide at its widest, is even only 350 meters at its narrowest point, barely enough to accommodate two twin warships in parallel, and such a width means that the side that attacks with rockets will most likely shoot itself in the foot.

Since rocket attacks are not feasible in the tributaries of the Kura River and in some main stream areas, the value of the caster is revealed, and the caster who is good at spell attacks can easily destroy wooden warships with the powerful Spirit Gathering Blade unleashed.

In Bai Feng's opinion, as long as each battleship in Rome City can be equipped with one to three spellcasters, the overall combat effectiveness of the Roman City fleet will be greatly improved;

Imagine that the enemy fleet of Rome would be subjected to a rain of arrows from the Roman fleet at a distance of 400 meters.

The interweaving of iron arrows and incendiary rockets can not only make the enemy soldiers who walk out of the cabin be shot on the spot, but also burn the enemy's ship, and even give the enemy a chance to get water to save the ship, because all the enemy soldiers who leave the cabin will be shot and killed, and there is no chance to get water!

Even if there are occasional enemy ships with sturdy hulls or better luck that manage to close the distance to the Roman City fleet with their blazing fire, what awaits them is not the panicked Roman battleship, but the Soul Gathering Blade that the caster is ready to release!

With the Soul Gathering Blade, which can easily shatter even stones, it is not difficult to destroy an extremely strong warship, let alone a long-burning warship, and the Soul Gathering Blades of the casters will provide an impeccable protective film for the ships of the Roman City fleet!

Unfortunately, when the number of warships in the city of Rome was about to rise to 190, the number of spellcasters was still only a hundred, and a part of these 100 spellcasters had to be left on standby in the Roman army in case of emergencies on the battlefield.

In fact, the number of spellcasters left by Bai Feng in the Roman army was as high as fifty, which meant that even if the standard of one caster per ship was implemented, only a quarter of the 190 warships in Rome could be distributed.

Of course, when calculating the overall strength of the Roman City navy, it is necessary to count not only the one hundred and ninety warships, but also the trading fleets of Allen, Ike, and Aite, and you must know that the actual value of these three trading fleets is not much worse than one hundred and ninety warships.

With the continuous upgrading of the scale of the city of Rome, the city of Rome now has three trading fleets, each of which consists of 16 merchant ships and 48 transport ships, which are the main force of the city's water trade and the main force of the city's military transportation on the water.

With the addition of these three trading fleets, the main strength of the Roman city navy has been fully demonstrated, mainly composed of sixty double ships, one hundred and thirty three-column warships, forty-eight merchant ships, and one hundred and forty-four transport ships, for a total of three hundred and eighty-two ships!