"Chapter 111: Lucy's Vision"
Because a smile is the beginning of love, once we start loving each other naturally, we will think about doing something for each other.
- Mother Teresa (world-renowned Catholic charity worker, founder of the Missionary Society of Charity)
The Spartan Legion, the First Roman Legion, and the Second Roman Legion, the three great armies, surrounded and annihilated a remnant army of less than 30,000 men and fought hard for four or five hours.
Gregory's breakthrough remnants were completely annihilated, which was really expected by Bai Feng, and to Bai Feng's surprise, François, who was brave and fearless on the battlefield, would choose to lead his nearly 10,000 soldiers to lay down their arms at the end of the battle.
Under the starry night, nearly 70,000 soldiers under the command of Xia Chuan Heigong and Nishimura Jun dragged their tired bodies and the corpses of more than 30,000 robes back to the camp.
More than 30,000 soldiers were killed, which meant that nearly 100,000 people in the camp had lost their loved ones today, and in such an atmosphere of mourning, everyone's joy of victory in the battle was diluted and finally turned into a helpless sigh.
The First and Second Roman legions, which entered the camp in turn, joined forces with the Seventh Roman legion, which had entered the camp last night, and the Spartan legion, which was holding nearly 10,000 prisoners, set up a temporary barracks in the camp and did not camp there.
The reason why the Spartan Legion set up a temporary barracks outside the camp was not because there was no space for the Spartan Legion to be stationed in the camp, but because Bai Feng was worried that the families of the fallen soldiers who were out of control would do something drastic to the nearly 10,000 Lucy soldiers who were captured.
The particularity of the Roman city determined that Bai Feng actually had no special hostility towards the barbarian forces in the eastern region; in other words, all the warriors of the barbarian forces in the eastern region were all objects that could be turned into their own strength in Bai Feng's eyes.
From the initial annexation of the Tassia tribe, to the later vassalization of the Acenian Kingdom, and then to the conquest of the Vitus tribe, the size of the Roman army continued to expand, and the soldiers required were basically all from various barbarian forces, and the current Luxi tribe and the Eastern Alliance were naturally no exception.
The newly established Lucy Kingdom in the southern region of the Luxi tribe is already a vassal force of the Roman city, and its army will be used by Bai Feng, and as for the northern area of the Luxi tribe and the sphere of influence of the Eastern Alliance, they will all be divided into the areas directly under the rule of the Roman city in the future.
The former Luxi tribe warriors and the former Eastern Alliance warriors living in this vast land should be potential soldiers of the Roman City army, and even if the Roman city army will not be expanded for the time being, as the number of towns directly under the city increases, the Tuntian army will also need to recruit warriors.
Therefore, Bai Feng planned to put the captured warriors in the northwestern part of Wanlu into custody first, and then consider how to settle these Luci captives according to the specific situation after the battle of the Roman city to conquer the Lucian tribe and the Eastern Alliance was over.
After all, he was the rightful king of the newly born Lucy Kingdom, and it was most reasonable for him to come forward to deal with these matters.
For this, Bai Feng paid a full 3 million gold coins and 10 million silver glittering silver coins, 3 million gold coins were pensions for the families of the fallen soldiers, and 10 million silver coins were rewards for today's soldiers, all of which were issued in the name of the city of Rome.
It is undoubtedly very worthwhile to exchange a mere four million gold coins for the goodwill of the 700,000 soldiers and civilians of the entire Lucy Kingdom towards the city of Rome; looking at the loyalty of the Lucy Kingdom that has risen by ten points in the attribute table of the vassal forces of the city of Rome, Bai Feng thought.
François and Gregory, who voluntarily ordered the remnants of the army to lay down their arms, were kept under the close watch of Leonidas, who prevented them from escaping and suicide.
Famous generals have the pride of famous generals, and no one knows what radical actions Gregory will make when he comes to his senses; in order to avoid some things that everyone does not want to see, Leonidas's approach has been recognized by Bai Feng, and even Bai Feng has sent more people.
François and Gregory were guarded by the Flame Sword Saint White Five with dozens of elite soldiers of the Spartan Legion, even if they wanted to commit suicide, it was impossible, and in front of the powerful Flame Swordmaster, François and Gregory were not much stronger than ordinary warriors.
After everything was arranged, Bai Feng was in the temporary headquarters of the camp and discussed the next development of the battle situation with the generals under his command, and this time, Xia Chuan Heigong and Nishimura Jun, who had made great achievements again today, were also called in by Bai Feng to observe.
Busy pacifying the families of the fallen soldiers, Yamashita did not participate in the meeting because the number of people who needed to be pacified was too large, and in fact, as the king of Lucy, who had to stay and sit in the kingdom of Lucy, there was no need for Yamashita Yoki to attend the military meeting.
At the meeting, Bai Feng decided to stay in the Kirkwall camp for another day, and then lead the Roman army north the day after tomorrow, when the Lucy Kingdom, which had just experienced a bloody battle, would be led by Nishimura Jun with 15,000 soldiers to follow Bai Feng north.
Of the remaining 50,000 warriors of the Lucy Kingdom, only 30,000 warriors will remain in the Kirkwall camp, and the remaining 20,000 warriors will launch a war of conquest against several settlements in the southwestern part of Luxi that have not yet been incorporated into the Lucy Kingdom.
This matter has been decided a long time ago, half of the Luxi tribe is the sphere of influence that Bai Feng has assigned to the Luxi Kingdom; Xia Chuan Pinggong will lead the army to battle next, but the soldiers and civilians who should have belonged to the Luxi Kingdom will be officially included in the rule of the Luxi Kingdom.
When all the soldiers and civilians of the Lucy Kingdom are concentrated in the Kirkwall camp, Yamashita Yangxi will start to promote the civilization process of the Lucy Kingdom with the full support of the Roman City, that is, to build towns in the territory of the Lucy Kingdom and disperse the people of the Kingdom in the towns.
The urbanization and civilization process of the Essini Kingdom is not advancing rapidly, which is caused by the historical reasons of Queen Boudicca's difficult accession to the throne, while the newly born Lucy Kingdom is different, like a blank sheet of paper, the Lusie Kingdom has more opportunities to be directly in one step.
According to Bai Feng's concept, the Luxi Kingdom, with a total population of about 850,000, would ideally build three riverside port towns and nine inland towns with an evenly distributed population, and in this way, the overall development speed of the Luxi Kingdom would inevitably be greatly accelerated.
All kinds of resources and many caravans from the city of Rome will enter the Luci Kingdom along the riverside port towns, injecting a strong impetus into the economic development of the Luci Kingdom, and the inland towns dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry will completely solve the food shortage problem of the Luci Kingdom.
With the support of the advanced and mature farming technology and the developed irrigation technology of the Roman city, the grain output of the Lucy Kingdom will soon increase by leaps and bounds, and when the time comes, the Lucy Kingdom, which has solved its own food and clothing problems, will naturally have more spare power to develop its economy.
The economic foundation determines the superstructure, as long as the economic level of the Lucy Kingdom rises, the strength of other aspects will also be stronger; Bai Feng believes that sooner or later, the Lucy Kingdom and the Essini Kingdom will become vassals of the Roman City!