"Chapter 31: Prelude to the Decisive Battle"
In the past, women paid attention to self-cultivation, but now women only know how to pay attention to clothing. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info they thought that as long as they wore flowery clothes. Wearing a full head and face jewelry, they are more valuable than the woman next to them, and should be more respected than the woman next to them, but they forget to think that if they dress up a donkey, it can be stacked with more things, but people still think of it as just a donkey.
- Giovanni Boccaccio (a prominent representative of the Italian Renaissance movement, a humanist)
As a newcomer who wanted to join the city of Rome, Upton had no choice but to accept Bai Feng's arrangement, and from beginning to end, Bai Feng did not ask Upton about the means of collecting the 25,000 warriors, because there were some things that did not need to be said at all.
After the matter of Upton is settled, this is the end of tonight's military meeting, and the army will continue to march in the northeast direction early tomorrow morning, and Bai Feng will let the generals go back to patrol the camp and rest early.
For the soldiers of Rome this night, only the soldiers of the Essini Legion who will stay in the barracks tomorrow need to be responsible for patrolling the three barracks, and the soldiers of the other legions are rarely relaxed and enjoy a peaceful sleep for the whole army.
The three battlefield ghosts under Adrian's command were sent out by Bai Feng this evening, and their mission was to bypass Francis's army and go from the forests on both sides of the mountain road to the military camps of Nabazani and Assam.
On the one hand, Bai Feng needed to inform Nabazani and Assam of the news that the Roman city army had annihilated the main cavalry under Francis's command, and on the other hand, Bai Feng also needed Nabazani and Assam to cooperate with the Roman city army to flank Francis's army in front and rear.
Had it not been for the self-righteous uncontrolled aristocrats in the camp occupied by Upton, the army of Rome would have completely wiped out the army sent by Francis to attack Upton, in which case Francis would have less than 100,000 troops at his disposal.
What's more, without these soldiers running back to report to Francis, Bai Feng was confident that he would lead the army of Rome City to take Francis by surprise, but unfortunately, the good situation was ruined by the brain-dead nobles in this camp.
The more brain-dead thing they did was to use their unruliness and arrogance on Bai Feng's body, perhaps, from the moment Ya Heng, who represented them, entered Bai Feng's military tent, it doomed them to a tragic end.
After Wendell led a thousand soldiers of the Doge's Guard to escort Upton back to the camp, Upton quickly took control of the vast majority of the army with Wendell's assistance, and then the two joined forces to slaughter the recalcitrant nobles.
These families, who have been the ruling class as nobles since Plasus established the Aceni Kingdom, were not destroyed by the eight-year civil war of the Aceni Kingdom, but were destroyed by their own stupidity, and Bai Feng, as the governor of Rome, would not care about the identities of these people.
Similar to uncivilized behaviors such as massacres, Bai Feng generally does not do it himself, and the soldiers of Rome City will try to be as non-sticky as possible without touching their hands, which is why Bai Feng glanced at Upton deeply before.
Sometimes some things are like this, not everything needs to be done by Bai Feng himself, anyway, Roman City is not the original force of this barbarian world after all, and it is better for them to do many things by themselves.
That's the benefit of dealing with smart people, you can see them with a single look, and you can feel easy when dealing with such people, but you also need to be very careful, because such people are often a sharp double-edged sword.
Early the next morning, the three barracks of the Roman city army sounded one after another, and the soldiers of the various legions began to have breakfast and prepare for the next expedition, and Bai Feng also talked with Upton for a while before leaving.
For Upton, Bai Feng's heart is still more trusting, and the reason is very simple, that is, the good impression at first sight, so that Bai Feng has no rejection of Upton who was forced to rebel, even if Bai Feng himself hates traitors very much.
When the whole army was ready, the army of Rome was about to march northeast of Francis, and Bai Feng also smiled and patted Upton on the shoulder, and rode out of the barracks under the escort of his entourage.
The camp where Upton was stationed was only three days away from Francis's army of Nabazani and Assam, and according to Bai Feng's prediction, the army that had left the camp by yesterday evening would arrive at the location of Francis's army about a day earlier.
In one day, Francis could neither increase the strength of his army nor lead it away from the attack of the Roman army, and the only thing he could do was to prepare for the outbreak of war, which was almost insignificant.
Just as the 80,000-strong army of Rome was swaying to the rear of Francis's army, after a night of rapid horses and crossing mountains, the three battlefield ghosts sent by Bai Feng also rushed to the military camps of Nabazani and Assam.
The information brought to Nabazani and Assam by these three battlefield ghosts made Nabazani and Assam, who were already exhausted, instantly regain all their spirits, and they had full confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Roman City army.
They had personally led the army to attack the city of Rome before, and if it weren't for the tragic defeat of the Aceni Kingdom's army, perhaps the Aceni Kingdom would not have come to the current war-torn situation.
When the Roman army did not reach the heart of the Acenian kingdom, they were always worried that the Roman army would not be able to reach the battlefield in time, or that the Roman army would deliberately slow down and wait for their army to reappear after being killed and wounded.
Fortunately, neither of these worst predictions happened, and the army of Rome was as trustworthy as Queen Boudicca and Eggers had claimed, and to their excitement, the army of Rome had annihilated Francis's elite cavalry of 20,000 as soon as it arrived.
It was the most powerful army under Francis when the Essini Kingdom was divided, and it was also the key factor that Nabazani and others knew that Francis was the weakest, but they did not dare to attack Francis easily.
The date of the joint attack that Hakufeng brought to Nabazani and Assam was the fifth day of the departure of the battlefield ghosts, that is, the fourth day of the Roman army marching northeast from the barracks, and it was the time for the decisive battle between the three armies and Francis.
The Nabazani army and the Assam army, which had been on the defensive, immediately began a secret rearmament battle after receiving information from the ghost of the battlefield, and all the soldiers with intact combat strength were assembled to form an elite assault force.
In addition to the 20,000 assault force that Nabazani and Assam had put together with all their might, they also sent another 20,000 lightly wounded to the front line to continue to shoulder the heavy responsibility of confronting Francis's army, which was a deliberate means of weakness.