"Chapter Twenty-Six: The General's Guard"
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One group of Parthian archers, two teams of Seleucid ironclad cavalry, and four teams of Macedonian royal cavalry, these seven groups of cavalry soldiers, led by Maxi and Darnell, escorted the White Peak from the city of Rome all the way to the port of Rome.
Since the construction of the Governor's Residence, Bai Feng can actually summon his own general guards, and compared to ordinary generals with twenty-four heavy cavalry or forty-four heavy cavalry guards, Bai Feng's own general guards have more heavy cavalry.
However, how many heavy cavalry this more heavy cavalry has, it is not known to Bai Feng himself, because when Bai Feng wanted to summon his general guard, Yue'er, who was familiar with everything in the Roman city system, stood up to stop Bai Feng.
Maxi the sword-wielding squire and Darnell, the shield-wielding squire, both have the attribute of the rank of the general guard plus one in their attribute lists, and in Yue'er's words, the value of this attribute is to increase the strength of Bai Feng's own heavy cavalry of the general guard.
Normally, the general guards summoned by Bai Feng would have the same strength as Bai Feng himself, that is, they would have the combat power of a low-level and high-level swordsman, but after the bonus of these two attendants, the strength of Bai Feng's general guards would increase by two levels.
Of course, these two levels are not from a low-level high-level swordsman to a low-level great swordsman, and then to a low-level swordmaster, but from the original low-level high-level swordsman, to a middle-level high-level swordsman, and then to a high-level high-level swordsman.
A group of general guards composed of high-level and high-level swordsmen must have extremely strong combat effectiveness, but Bai Feng's own strength should be improved a little further to reach the fourth-level high-level swordsman, then the general-led guards summoned by Bai Feng will have the strength of middle-level and high-level swordsmen.
When the time comes, with the bonus of the two attendants, it will be a group of general guards composed of top senior swordsmen, and the difference between the two can be imagined, so Bai Feng agreed to Yue'er's suggestion to postpone the summoning without hesitation.
In fact, Bai Feng's ambition is far greater than Yue'er imagined, in Bai Feng's opinion, the two staples Maxi and Darnell can bring the attribute of the general guard plus one, can't the other squires bring such attributes?
Even if there are no other attendants who can bring about an increase in the strength of the General's Guard, Bai Feng's own strength is also a key factor affecting the strength of the General's Guard; in view of this, Bai Feng has decided not to summon his own General's Guard for the time being.
Of course, no matter how ambitious Bai Feng was, he couldn't change the supreme law of the Roman City system: that is, he couldn't summon a general guard whose strength had reached the holy level. This point was also added to Bai Feng by Yue'er.
This means that even if Bai Feng reached the realm of a high-level great sword master in his own strength, it would be impossible for him to summon a low-level Sword Saint-level general guard with the attribute bonus of two attendants, unless, Bai Feng's own strength reached the level of a Sword Saint.
With Yue'er's kind reminder, Bai Feng's dream of summoning a team of general guards composed of all Sword Saints was almost shattered, and as for when he would summon his own general guards, it depended on Bai Feng's own thoughts.
From the city of Rome to the port of Rome, the straight and flat paved stone road made Bai Feng and his party advance extremely fast, and in just over two hours, Bai Feng came to the port of Rome under the escort of the cavalry soldiers of the personal guard battalion.
At this time, the Roman port was not a quiet port with only warships and trading fleets, but with the completion of the construction of the port of Essini on the east bank of the Cangluo River, the Roman port on the west bank of the Cangluo River also became lively.
The fishermen of the small town of Esceni would send all kinds of fish they caught in the Cangluo River to the port of Rome to sell, and the residents of small towns such as Tasia, not far from the port of Rome, would also come to the port of Rome to buy the fish sold by the fishermen of the town of Esini.
In addition to buying and selling these fish, the inhabitants of the town of Esine would also come to the port of Rome from the port of Aceni to buy various goods sold by the merchants of the city of Rome and other towns, and this benign private trade greatly contributed to the prosperity of the two ports.
However, this kind of private trade was still too small compared to the official Roman trading fleet that traveled between the two ports, and the Roman trading fleet always had to be busy at the beginning of the month in order to support the daily attrition of the 6th Tuntian Legion.
In addition, the town of Esine has missed the tuntian in the second half of last year, so their lack of food is extremely serious, and the only thing that can help the town of Esine to survive the difficult time is naturally the food from the city of Rome.
The constant flow of grain from the storehouses of Rome to the town of Essini kept both trading fleets busy, and the low convoys and tall merchant ships became the busiest means of transportation between the two ports.
From last month's visit to various towns to the increasing prosperity of the two ports, the entire Roman city was thriving, and Bai Feng, as the governor of Rome, was also very emotional.
Ike, who was directing the merchant ships to load the grain and grass of the Sixth Tuntian Regiment at the port, immediately greeted Bai Feng and his party enthusiastically after discovering the arrival;
Time was pressing, and Bai Feng had to try to rush to the Aceni Kingdom before the end of March, and negotiate with Queen Boudicca and her subordinate ruling class about road repairs; anything that might delay the trip was left behind by Bai Feng.
Under Ike's arrangement, Bai Feng and his party took the transport ship first to the port of Aceni on the east bank of the Cangluo River, and at this time it was almost time for lunch, so Bai Feng took the soldiers to have an extremely simple lunch at the port of Aceni.
For the next ten days, Bai Feng rushed to the Aceni Kingdom with the cavalry soldiers of the personal guard battalion non-stop, and while Bai Feng was hurrying, the armor shop of the Roman city under construction was also built before the end of the first half of March.
After the armor was laid, Bai Feng, who could build and recruit at any time, began to think about the buildings to continue to build, and now there are seven remaining unbuilt buildings, each of which is of great significance to the development of the city of Rome.
But in fact, Bai Feng really included the three main buildings of Sifang Avenue, the market, and the crop rotation, and the others were not considered by Bai Feng for the time being, and after careful consideration, Bai Feng finally chose the market as the next building to be built.
The reason why the market was chosen to be built by Bai Feng was mainly due to the population growth bonus brought by its construction, although the population growth bonus of 0.5% is not much, but considering the current total population of the city of Rome, it is not a small number.