"Chapter 59: Expedition Strategy"

Maturity has nothing to do with your outer life experience, it has to do with your inner journey, it has to do with your inner experience.

- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)

"Luquis, the Eastern Alliance's sphere of influence now spans the main stream of the Cangluo River, covering the area east of the Luxi tribe and north of our Roman city, if we use the fleet to block the main stream of the Cangluo River, will their army be split in two?"

"Governor, the main forces of the Eastern Alliance are concentrated on the west bank of the main stream of the Cangluo River, and there are only an army of no more than 100,000 old and weak women and children on the east bank. Luquis replied without hesitation: "The blockade of the main stream of the Cangluo River will not have much impact on them. ”

"That's not without effect, isn't it?" Bai Feng, who was chuckling, changed his words and said, "If the Eastern Alliance's food really comes from the Orc Empire, then what does the blockade of the main stream of the Cangluo River mean to the Eastern Alliance?"

"That means that it will only take three months at most for the Eastern Union to die on its own. "The 600,000 troops and 500,000 people of the Eastern Alliance are on the west bank of the Cangluo River;

"With the size of our current fleet, it is almost impossible to completely block the main stream of the Cangluo River. Luquis, who was familiar with the military strength of the city of Rome, said truthfully: "Our limited warships cannot meet the needs of completely blocking the main stream of the Cangluo River. ”

"Even if we quickly expand the size of our fleet in a short period of time to reach the number of warships needed to completely block the main stream of the Cangluo River, it will not help, and the way the Eastern Alliance uses the Space Ring to transport food determines that it will not be difficult for them to sneak across the Cangluo River at night. ”

"The Cangluo River is not so easy to dive across at night. Bai Feng's attitude to Luquis's objection was: "I believe that it is impossible for people in the Eastern League not to understand the truth that eggs cannot be put in one basket, this is their weakness, and it is also our opportunity." ”

"The storage space of ordinary space rings is limited, and the food that hundreds of thousands or millions of people need for a month also needs to be filled with at least dozens of space rings;

"Even if one person carries five spatial rings, it will take a dozen or so people, and as long as one or two of these ten or so people are discovered and killed by our warship, there will be an immediate shortage of food that the Eastern Alliance is barely able to maintain. ”

"For the Eastern Alliance, which is desperate to the extreme, once there is a shortage of food, their already extremely fragile operating system will collapse in an instant, and in this way, the seemingly powerful Eastern Alliance will be on the brink of life and death in an instant. ”

"Food is always a fatal knot that makes it difficult for barbarian forces to become truly strong. Hearing what Bai Feng had said, Vipsani opened his mouth and concluded: "If there is enough food, why is it the turn of today's Eastern Alliance to rise in the huge eastern region?"

"Has the Eastern Alliance risen?" Lu Quis, who smiled disdainfully, said confidently: "The reason why the Eastern Alliance was able to become strong quickly was nothing more than the strength of the overall strength, and as they expanded, destruction was their inevitable end. ”

"Why did the once-powerful kingdom of Estheni, the Lussi tribe that has dominated the city to this day, and the Wetus tribe, which has become part of the city of Rome, continue to expand in the end? ”

"As you say, this is the value of food. Seeing that Vipsani and Luquis had figured out the importance of food, Bai Feng, who had roughly formed a strategic plan in his heart, shifted the topic to the law of development of the barbarian tribes:

"The cycle of barbarian tribes is that in order to conquer other tribes, they must have more armies, and more armies mean fewer young people, and fewer young people will lead to less cultivated area and lower food production, which in turn will hinder the development of the tribes. ”

"When powerful tribes face an unsolvable food crisis, their only two options are to either break apart or continue their invasions, the former is to lose all their efforts, and the latter is to continue the cycle and eventually fall apart. ”

Speaking of this, Bai Feng asked Vipsani and Lucis with a smile: "You say, when the food gap in the Eastern Alliance is getting bigger and bigger, and there is a crisis of falling apart at any time, which path will they choose to continue?"

"The ambitious Eastern Alliance will naturally choose to continue its expansion by invading other tribes, otherwise, they will destroy themselves immediately if they stop because their army is too large due to the blind expansion goal in the early stage. ”

Luquis's answer was consistent with Bai Feng's thoughts, and Vipsani nodded with approval on his face, and added: "Now on the north bank of the Cangluo River, the only remaining tribe that has not been invaded by the Eastern Alliance is the Luxi tribe. ”

"Before our army officially sets out, it will be the most perfect result for us to start a major battle between the Eastern Alliance and the Luxi tribe in advance, and wait until both of them are defeated, and then we will send our troops to sweep the north bank of the Cangluo River, isn't it?"

Facing Bai Feng's fierce gaze, Luquis once again made a suggestion: "If the fleet blockade alone takes too long, if it is supplemented by the arson of shadow killers and battlefield ghosts, the food shortage plan may be implemented more smoothly." ”

"Yes, it's not worth wasting too much time on the Eastern League and the Lucian Fall. Bai Feng, who agreed with Luquis's statement, immediately nodded in agreement: "Tomorrow I will transfer Adrien and Ivan back and let them go to the Eastern Alliance to set fire to food." ”

"Governor, attacking only the Eastern Alliance side may cause an imbalance of power between the Eastern Alliance and the Luxi tribe. At the same time, Vipsani proposed: "In order to avoid this situation, should we put some restraint on the Lusi tribe?"

"Governor, Vipsani has a point. Before Bai Feng could give an answer, Lu Quis echoed: "The overall strength of the Luxi tribe is already superior to that of the Eastern Alliance, and only attacking the Eastern Alliance will give the Luxi tribe an opportunity." ”

"The Eastern Alliance is too big, and Ardrien's battlefield ghost and Ivan's shadow killer are all invested in it, and they may not be busy. To this, Bai Feng's reply was: "Lu Xi's broken plan, let it be handed over to the ninjas and spies of the shogunate palace system to carry it out." ”

"The governor is wise!" seems to be a well-timed sycophant that is also a major feature of the generals of the Roman city system.

After agreeing on the established strategy of first weakening the Eastern Alliance and the Luxi tribe, then taking the opportunity to trigger a major war between these two forces, and finally sending their own troops, Bai Feng and Luquis discussed the route and scale of the expedition of the Roman city army in detail.

As the person in charge of all the affairs of the Roman city, Vipsani's task was to prepare the food and supplies needed for the march of the army, and other military deployments did not need to be Vipsani's involvement.