"Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Only Choice"

Alone is your truth, alone is your divinity, and on the spiritual path, alone should be your only pursuit.

- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)

The situation of the Eastern Alliance was undoubtedly much worse than that of the chaos in the southwestern part of Luxi, and the blockade fleet from the city of Rome not only completely cut off the east and west banks of the Eastern Alliance, but also made it difficult for them to transport the grain they obtained from outside to the other side of the Cangluo River.

The actions of the battlefield ghosts and shadow killers on the east and west sides of the Eastern Alliance directly destroyed all the food stocks of fourteen of the eighteen tribes of the Eastern Alliance, and the other four strongest tribes only barely kept their last month's food stockpile.

Three of the fourteen tribes that had lost all their grain were so unlucky that even the tribal leaders were killed on the spot by Adrien and Ivan, who had gone out of their own way, and the sudden loss of their monopoly was a greater event for these tribes than the loss of their grain reserves.

The barbarians are not good at intrigue and power struggle, which is only a concept relative to the human race, and does not mean that the barbarians are all moral saints who have no desires;

In the barbarian world where the strong are respected, the position of leader of any tribe is not inherited by brother and brother, father and son, but by the strongest noble warrior after defeating one competitor after another, with their own strength to win the trophy.

Therefore, the three tribes that have lost their leader and most of the powerful noble warriors, after chasing the battlefield ghosts and shadow killers to no avail, are caught in the struggle for the position of leader;

Aside from the three tribes that were engaged in fighting for the position of leader, the other eleven tribes whose leaders did not die but lost all their grain reserves, seeing that their tribes were about to run out of food, naturally hurried to the four strongest tribes for help, hoping to get food reinforcements as soon as possible.

It is a pity that the four major tribes, which barely kept their last month's grain stockpile, have no extra food to help them, because after another month, even the four strongest tribes in the Eastern Alliance will be cut off from food.

Since the entire Eastern Alliance is in an extremely severe food shortage crisis, they can only turn to the people who secretly provide them with food for help, and at this time, the mysterious cavalry of the Eastern Alliance will inevitably appear and play the role of transporting food.

As it turned out, Adrien and Ivan, who were waiting for the rabbit, only waited for ten days for the battlefield ghosts and shadow killers who were responsible for carrying out the sabotage plan on the eastern bank of the Eastern Alliance, and discovered the traces of the mysterious cavalry of the Eastern Alliance.

It's just that the mysterious cavalry found in the eastern bank of the Eastern Alliance is not as large as 5,000 people, and it is only about 3,000 when it is fully counted, and the reduction of cavalry can be linked to the blockade of the Cangluo River by the Roman City fleet.

After the relentless pursuit of the ghosts of the battlefield, the force that was secretly providing a steady stream of food to the Eastern Alliance was finally discovered, and there was no doubt that this force was the Orc Empire that Bai Feng had guessed before!

The Orc Empire, which is separated from the eastern part of the Barren Land by the Sunset Mountains, has really found a way to avoid the demonic beasts from crossing the Sunset Mountains, otherwise, how could they have passed through the Sunset Mountains again and again, extending their tentacles to the west of the Sunset Mountains?

Whether it is Adrien and Ivan, as well as Bai Feng himself, is troubled by the fact that the Orc Empire has the ability to cross the Sunset Mountains at will, which is a more troublesome thing than unifying the eastern regions, after all, no one wants to face the threat of the Orc Empire.

But the reality in front of him forced Bai Feng to settle the matter in the eastern region as soon as possible, and then find a way to cut off the threat of the Orc Empire; otherwise, the eastern provinces of the Heavenly Dragon Empire and the unified eastern region would be mortally threatened by the Orc Empire.

The Eastern Alliance cavalry, who went to the outskirts of the Sunset Mountains to seek aid from the Orc Empire, were ambushed by battlefield ghosts and shadow killers several times on the way back to the Eastern Alliance.

Of the thirty space rings filled with food, only sixteen were actually brought back to the Eastern Alliance by the remnants of the cavalry, and only five of the sixteen spatial rings were left on the east bank, and the other eleven were sent to the west bank of the Eastern Alliance.

On the way from the east bank to the west bank, the Roman city blockade fleet, which had strengthened its guard, successfully sent hundreds of cavalry and the five rings they escorted to the bottom of the Cangluo River, so that only a pitiful six space rings were left to reach the west bank!

In fact, Adrien and Ivan had several opportunities to annihilate the Eastern Alliance grain cavalry as battlefield ghosts and shadow killers ambushed the grain cavalry, and the reason they didn't do so was to use the grain to continue to cause conflict.

Is the grain of just five spatial rings enough for the tribes on the east bank of the Eastern Alliance that have lost their grain stocks to survive for a month? The answer is very obvious, it must not be enough! Then the question arises, how can the tribes on the east bank of the Eastern Alliance distribute this batch of grain?

The situation in the west coast, which is much larger than that of the eastern coast, is naturally even more miserable; more than a dozen tribes that have run out of food have finally received only as much food as the eastern coast, and they cannot even solve their urgent needs.

Seeing that in half a month, the entire West Bank region will run out of food, the four strongest tribes of the Eastern Alliance have to launch a series of discussions on this, and launching a decisive attack on the Luxi tribe, which has enough food, has almost become the only choice for the Eastern Alliance.

Because of the blockade of the Roman City fleet, the 100,000-strong army in the eastern bank region was temporarily excluded by the four leaders of the Eastern Alliance, and the 300,000 soldiers and 300,000 special warriors in the western bank region were the military forces that the four leaders intended to use to attack the Luxi tribe.

Considering the existence of the city of Rome and the strength of the fleet of the city of Rome, the four leaders who were not carried away by the current food crisis decided to leave 50,000 soldiers and 100,000 special warriors and disperse them to be stationed near the shoreline to prevent a possible surprise attack on the city of Rome.

The remaining 450,000 troops, consisting of 250,000 soldiers and 200,000 special soldiers, were the main army of the Eastern Alliance that had gone all out to attack the western Luxi tribe, while the corresponding garrison in the border areas of the western Luxi tribe was only 300,000.

With 450,000 of their own army to attack the 300,000 Lucy border garrison, the four leaders of the Eastern Alliance are still confident; Viriacius sent 100,000 troops south to quell the rebellion, which is an opportunity for Bai Feng, and even more for the Eastern Alliance!

The Eastern Alliance, which did not intend to miss this great opportunity, happened to have an extremely severe food crisis within itself; on the one hand, it was to seize the rare opportunity, and on the other hand, to solve the crisis that was about to erupt, the four leaders decisively chose to launch an attack immediately!

Knowing that this was a disastrous victory, the four leaders unanimously agreed to launch an attack on the Luxi tribe in addition to the above two reasons, there was a third absolutely unspeakable reason.

That is, a brutal war will inevitably consume a large number of special armies that are not even equipped with weapons and equipment, and this is not only a good way for the Eastern Alliance to get out of the predicament of food shortage, but also a way out of the problem of prisoners once and for all.