"Chapter 12: Return to Rome"
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After Queen Boudicca and Eggers left the tent at White Peak, Queen Boudicca herself and the more than 8,000 captives remained in the barracks prepared for her by Bazel, while Eggers returned to the east coast with hundreds of warriors in hundreds of wooden boats.
After returning to the east bank to settle the nearly 30,000 troops of the Acenian tribe that were still left on the east bank, Eggers once again returned to the west bank with more than 1,000 elite soldiers;
The soldiers of Rome were still busy with their business, and did not interfere too much with the actions of Queen Boudicca and General Eggers, but the field doctor Warme succeeded in rescuing Nelson from his dying medicine and waking him up for about ten minutes.
This ten minutes was deliberately stimulated by Bai Feng by Hua Mu with fierce medicine, otherwise with Nelson's injury and too much blood loss, it would be impossible for him to wake up in the past two days, which is also an arrangement made by Bai Feng for Nelson to understand the overall situation.
Queen Boudicca, who understood what Bai Feng meant, did let Nelson know the cause and effect of everything in these ten minutes, and successfully persuaded Nelson to play for the city of Rome, and Bai Feng watched with satisfaction as Nelson passed out again.
That night, Bai Feng, who had nothing to do, held a grand bonfire party for his soldiers in the barracks, and delicious barbecued meat and fish, as well as cheerful tribal folk songs, became the main content of the party.
After the bonfire began, Bai Feng also specially invited Queen Boudicca and General Eggers to participate in the party with their soldiers, and they did not refuse Bai Feng's invitation, and immediately let more than 16,000 warriors of the Acenian tribe join the party.
No one would have thought that the two armies that fought to the death during the day would sit together and enjoy a meal after nightfall, and although it was a pity that there was no wine, it was a kind of happiness to be able to live for the rest of the war after the war, and all the soldiers ate happily.
The climax of the party is when the warriors sing the folk songs of their respective tribes, and the barbarian warriors who can sing and dance are from different tribes, and they all have different tunes of folk songs.
Being able to see the soldiers of Rome City and the warriors of the Aceni tribe accepting each other, a big stone in Bai Feng's heart can be regarded as falling, in fact, Bai Feng is too worried about this, the living habits of the barbarian tribes are like this, and the key to conquering them is only respect.
As long as Bai Feng and the city of Rome have enough respect for the conquered barbarian tribes, the barbarian warriors from this tribe will not resist the rule of the city of Rome;
The bonfire party lasted until late at night, and Bai Feng took his generals and soldiers to enjoy the party until the end of the party, and then he made sure that every army in the barracks was calm before returning to the military tent to rest.
There was no word all night, and early the next morning, a passionate military horn sounded in Bai Feng's military camp, including the army of the Aceni tribe, all the soldiers in the military camp began to assemble their entire army in this military trumpet, preparing to return to Rome City!
The soldiers of the First Legion, with the help of the other two legions, quickly dismantled the entire barracks into stacks of wood and folded cloth, and then the mighty army set out on the road back to Rome.
In order to avoid that there would not be enough military camps to garrison after the army returned to Rome City, Bai Feng sent the Parthian archers back to Rome last night, and asked them to send orders to the two commanders Leng Gaoda and Leng Gaofei to quickly build a new military camp.
It was almost impossible to build a new military camp overnight with the three hundred temple warriors in Rome City, so Bai Feng also asked three teams of town militia to participate in this project in the order, so that nearly eight hundred soldiers could build a new military camp.
When Bai Feng returned to Rome with the soldiers of the three legions and the more than 16,000 troops of the Aceni tribe, he found that the prototype of a brand-new military camp had appeared next to the camp of the Tiger Legion, but the specific construction was still continuing.
After ordering the Roman youth army soldiers under the command of Licinius to hurry forward to help, Bai Feng first asked Yue'er to take Queen Boudicca to the Doge's Palace for a short rest, and General Eggers was responsible for leading the soldiers of the Aceni tribe to prepare for the new military camp, and Nelson, who was still in a coma, was also personally sent by Antio to the small attic in the backyard of the Doge's Palace for recuperation.
After making these arrangements simply, Bai Feng took his three entourages and went straight to the direction of the market; Yue'er naturally knew what Bai Feng was going to do, so if he didn't hurry up to buy 1,000 gold of grain now, how could he take out so much grain and hand it over to Boudicca!
After spending 1,000 gold for the purchase of grain again, Bai Feng had spent a full 2,000 gold of treasury funds for the purchase of grain this month, and Bai Feng felt the need to find a way to open up a new source of food for the city of Rome for the first time, otherwise the treasury funds of the city of Rome would not be enough at all!
At this time, the Aceni tribe was just a tribe with a population of more than 100,000 people, and after Queen Boudicca reunited the Aceni tribe, the Aceni tribe at that time had a population of at least five or six hundred thousand, which was still Bai Feng's most conservative estimate.
If we want to feed the five or six hundred thousand people who are sitting on the empty side, then I am afraid that the treasury of Rome will not have to do anything else at all, and it seems that the food problem will soon become a serious problem that the city of Rome must solve again, and I hope the situation is not too bad.
Bai Feng, who had been thinking wildly all the way, quickly rushed back to the Governor's Mansion from the market, and at this time, Bazel, Eggers and others also waited for their respective armies to come to the Governor's Palace, and after signaling everyone present to find their own seats and sit down, Bai Feng said to everyone:
"Last night's bonfire was just a prelude, and tonight I will have an even greater victory party for all the soldiers of Rome, with not only delicious food and pleasant folk songs, but also the wine of our city of Rome!
Of course, we have some other things to do before that: Licinius, Bazel, and Gatus, the three commanders of your regiments will immediately go and count the merits of the officers and men of your respective regiments, and I will personally award awards to each and every one of them at noon today!
Queen Boudicca, General Eggers, I promise you that the grain will be in the warehouse of the city of Rome, and after we have discussed some specific matters later, you will be ready to move all this grain back to the east bank of the Cangluo River!"