"Chapter 16: Preparatory Ceremony"
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Since the road between the city of Rome and the Tassia tribal confederation was repaired, the ties between the two places have become closer and more frequent, the scale of trade between the two places has increased, and the demand for each other has gradually increased.
For example, a hunter from the Tasya Tribal Alliance can send valuable items from the beast to Rome to sell on the day the beast is hunted, and then buy some daily necessities in the city and return to the camp of the Tasya Tribal Alliance before dark.
This is still a relatively common way to get around, if it is a warrior family with better conditions, then they can save some money to buy a small car, and it only takes half a day to make a round trip to the city of Rome, which is the most direct benefit of building roads.
Licinius led his troops to the camp of the Tasya Tribal Alliance to meet the families of the fallen soldiers, and naturally it was impossible for those old and weak women and children to go all the way from the camp of the Tasya Tribal Alliance to the city of Rome, and he took more than 200 carriages with him when he left the city of Rome.
The total number of mercenary soldiers killed in Rome in this battle was less than 3,000, and each soldier only needed one family member to come to the military camp in Rome to receive bounties and pensions, and more than 200 carriages were enough for nearly 3,000 people to squeeze into Rome.
While Licinius was rushing to the Tasya Tribal Alliance, Bai Feng was patrolling the city of Rome with his three retinues, and the loss of so many comrades made them sad, but the joy of victory and the coming reward made them even more happy.
Compared to the victorious Roman barracks, the new barracks of the Esthenic tribes seemed much calmer, and the soldiers in this barracks seemed to have no reason to be excited, either as losers in war or as new outsiders.
They were just doing their own things step by step, neither envious of the bustle of the military camp next door, nor did they feel that they were really losers; looking at the Esini tribe army with no waves, Bai Feng's thoughts changed again.
Originally, Bai Feng did not plan to let the army of the Essini tribe participate in the next award ceremony in the city of Rome, but now Bai Feng thought that he should let the soldiers in this military camp participate in the award ceremony of the city of Rome, only in this way can they integrate into the Roman army.
As for Eggers' promise, he only promised that he would lead the army of the Aceni tribe to fight for the city of Rome, but he did not promise that the generals of the city of Rome would command the warriors of their Aceni tribe, which was not the final result that Bai Feng wanted.
Let these warriors from the Aceni tribe fight for the city of Rome is just Bai Feng's way, and Bai Feng's purpose is to make them truly a member of the city of Rome, so Bai Feng needs these warriors to understand what is the spirit of the city of Rome!
Neither General Eggers nor Queen Boudicca objected to the fact that 10,000 soldiers and 6,000 cavalry of the Aesini tribe should be involved in the award ceremony in the city of Rome, and in fact the affairs of the Esine tribe were in charge of the army.
After receiving General Eggers' permission, Bai Feng asked General Eggers to lead all the soldiers in this barracks into the barracks next door, and waited for the beginning of the award ceremony with the soldiers of Rome.
After the soldiers in the barracks had had lunch, and the Parthian archers reported that it would take more than half an hour for Licinius and the others to arrive in Rome, Bai Feng let the 128 soldiers gathered in the barracks sound their trumpets at the same time.
When the loud trumpets sounded in the barracks, all the soldiers in the barracks gathered in front of the Dianjiangtai in their respective legions, among which the first legion lined up in a neat formation in front of the Dianjiangtai, with Bazel's Tiger Legion and Gatus's Cheetah Legion on the left flank, and 16,000 warriors from the Essini tribe on the right flank.
Regardless of the combat effectiveness of the army in the city of Rome, this military formation was more than a step stronger than the army of the Acenian tribe, which was also a barbarian warrior, and the horizontal and vertical alignment and neat array had become a necessary quality of the Roman army.
And the soldiers of the Aceni tribe, even if they were stimulated by the Roman army and barely arranged a good formation, they were still inferior to the strict organization of the Roman army, which made their main general Eggers feel helpless and ashamed.
Bai Feng, who was standing on the platform, condescendingly looked at the three distinct armies in the barracks, and couldn't help but show a wry smile; directly in front of him was the Black First Army, on the left hand was the Green Aceni Army, and on the right hand was the Gray Tiger Cheetah Legion.
This is not counting the Cretan archers, Parthian archers, and Germanic berserkers who are in charge of the arch on the left and right sides of the platform, and soon all the soldiers in this barracks will be the army of the Roman city, and it seems that the uniform color of the military uniform will indeed be on the agenda.
The different colors of military uniforms may seem pleasing to the eye, but they are of little practical significance, especially for a force like the city of Rome, where the army is made up of a variety of sources, and the difference in color of the uniforms is not conducive to the unity of the soldiers.
Such a difference is really a hundred disadvantages and no benefits for the city of Rome, and Bai Feng, who is standing tall on the platform, has made up his mind to completely change the current situation of the military uniforms of different colors in the city of Rome after the end of this award ceremony.
As time passed little by little, Bai Feng, who was wearing the Starfall Meteorite Iron Battle Armor, was already sweating under the scorching sun, and the soldiers who maintained the formation and stood under the Dianjiang platform were also sweating profusely, but before Licinius came back, everyone could only wait patiently!
"Uh......h Woo...... Woo......"
Suddenly, a low trumpet sound came from outside the city, and Bai Feng knew that Licinius and the others had finally returned! These muffled trumpets were also arranged by Bai Feng, the purpose of which was to let the living soldiers feel the kindness of the city of Rome to the dead in battle.
The sound of the bugles did not cease from the moment they sounded, until Licinius's carriage stopped outside the barracks, and the bugles in the barracks also blew low trumpets; listening to the sound of such low bugles, coupled with the continuous weeping of the families of the fallen soldiers, the joyful atmosphere in the whole barracks was swept away, and only solemnity and solemnity remained.
After the low sound of the military horn, the officers and men of the 1st Army Corps, which were in strict formation, consciously separated a wide road from the middle that was enough for 20 people to be parallel, and let General Licinius and the families of the fallen soldiers enter the barracks and walk along this wide road to the front of the point general's platform.