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After watching the High Priest of Binglan sacrifice the three idols and cast a spell to start changing the weather, Bai Feng said goodbye to the High Priest of Binglan and prepared to prepare for the battle;

The matter of changing the weather was thus done, and the three gods were exchanged for three days of heavy rain in the Aceni tribe camp in an eastern radius of fifty miles, such a payment was worth it in Bai Feng's opinion, and it was also very valuable.

The three most important elements of a war are the right time, the right place, and the right people, and now the city of Rome has accounted for two of them; even the time and the right place are the best of the city of Rome, and the final people and people can really not be sure, after all, this is an inexplicable war.

As the king of the Acenian Kingdom, Francis's attack on Queen Boudicca's camp was barely a war of unification, and Queen Boudicca's struggle against Francis was, in a sense, a battle for freedom.

As for the intervention of the city of Rome, it was also for a deeper strategic purpose, so in Bai Feng's view, this was a war that had nothing to do with good and evil, but a war of interests for all three parties to fight for their own interests.

After all, the torrential rain was only an external factor made by Bai Feng, and it was the soldiers of the Roman City army who really decided the outcome of the war; Eggers and other legion commanders went to prepare for their legions' expeditions, but Licinius was still waiting for Bai Feng's personal arrangement.

The 8,000 barbarian warriors of the First Legion were about to become temporary longbowmen, which was the most important deployment of Bai Feng against Francis's 15th army, and it was also the greatest value of the First Legion's battle, and the other twelve Roman youth armies, they were the protection force of the longbowmen.

After returning to the Governor's Mansion from the temple, Bai Feng took Licinius who was waiting for him to the barracks of the First Legion, and the more than 8,000 Leng Huai longbows in the White Spirit Ring were the weapons that the soldiers of the First Legion were about to equip.

Because none of the arrows produced in the blacksmiths of Rome were used, and the hundreds of bow makers made arrows on weekdays, the average 10,000 longbowmen could use four pots of arrows, and each pot was a standard twenty-four arrows.

If they had had a chance to shoot all four pots of arrows, it would be a whole 960,000 arrows, and no matter how strong Francis's army of 150,000 was, they would have to pay a terrible price under the rain of nearly a million arrows!

The biggest disadvantage of the barbarian warriors is that there is no concept of coordination in their mindset, and it is not easy to train them to be soldiers with a good degree of advance and retreat, and the opposite is their ability to use bows and arrows.

As a barbarian warrior, hunting is a compulsory course for them from an early age, and it is also a necessary skill for their future survival, and the key to learning to hunt is the use of bows and arrows, which is also the status quo of poor and backward barbarian tribes.

The lack of iron weapons made the barbarian warriors have to use more wooden bows and arrows to hunt, and this habit of life has trained every barbarian warrior to become a qualified archer, they only need to pick up the longbow, they are qualified longbowmen.

Why did Bai Feng form an elite longbow with a scale of three thousand so easily before, it was not because the talent of the barbarian warriors made Bai Feng not need to worry about their shooting ability, but the problem of accuracy could only be taught by the Cretan archers.

Who made the longbow created by Bai Feng have such a long range, completely beyond the cognition of those barbarian warriors, and the range of four hundred meters has turned the original sharpshooters within a hundred meters into newcomers who shoot indiscriminately, which is also a helpless reality.

In fact, this reality does not affect the role of longbowmen in the war, because the accuracy of tens of thousands of longbowmen is no longer important, and the overwhelming rain of arrows will always cause heavy casualties to the dense enemy army.

After the eight thousand Leng Locust longbows were distributed, there were only a few hundred Leng Locust longbows left in Bai Feng's ring, and Bai Feng, who was short of time, didn't have time to let these warriors master the longbows, so they could only study how to use the longbows more on the way to the march.

The First Legion was the last of the six legions to complete the preparations, and when they were ready to leave the barracks and come to the east of the city of Rome, the other five legions had already been assembled, and then Bai Feng gave the order for the whole army to go out.

The real elite division does not need to be inspired by the main general before every expedition, Bai Feng is also consciously cultivating the soldiers of Rome City to develop into a more powerful elite division, and in the future, Rome City will rely on them to crisscross this barbarian land.

In addition to the soldiers of the six legions, General Joshuel under the command of Queen Boudicca also led the Aceni Legion with 20,000 soldiers to follow the rear of the army, and the Doge's Guard of Antio was always behind Bai Feng.

In order to appease the people of the Aceni tribe who are about to move across the river, Queen Boudicca is also on the list of this expedition, but Yue'er, who has always followed Bai Feng before, was left behind by Bai Feng; if the war is unfavorable, Bai Feng will have to rely on Yue'er to stabilize the defense line on the west bank.

Yue'er, who understood that the situation was severe, did not do much entanglement, and obediently obeyed Bai Feng's arrangement, and An An stayed in the city of Rome to sit in the rear; once the war on the east bank was unfavorable, she had to quickly deploy defenses on the west bank, ready to meet the defeated army.

Now the conventional forces that can still be used in Roman City are the three Tuntian legions north of Roman City, and the soldiers of those three legions are also young and strong barbarian warriors, Bai Feng has already issued an order to recruit them, but it will take a few days.

The army led by Bai Feng himself marched all the way to the port of Rome, where he added the 2,000 elite longbowmen stationed in the port to the longbowmen of the First Legion, and then used Allen's fleet to transport the soldiers across the river.

The twelve transports of the trading fleet and the four merchant ships were all used to transport the soldiers of the city of Rome, and almost one legion of soldiers could be transported to the east coast at a time, but disembarking on the east coast without a port would be troublesome and time-consuming.

Fortunately, Bai Feng had a white-collar ring in his hand this time, and the storage space of 800 cubic meters allowed Bai Feng to store a large amount of grain in the ring for the consumption of the soldiers on the expedition, so as to save the trouble of transporting food.

The crossing of the river by more than 100,000 troops wasted Bai Feng a whole day, which also included the non-stop crossing of the river at night and the suspension of the retreat of the Aceni tribesmen, and when all these soldiers came to the east bank, the Aceni tribes had only 20,000 people who had moved away.

At this time, it was only a little more than a day before Francis's army arrived at the camp of the Iceni tribe, and Adrien was once again sent out by Bai Feng with his battlefield ghosts to reconnoiter the traces of Francis's army and report back every three hours.