"Chapter 21: Preparing for the Barbarians, XVII"

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While Bai Feng was busy with the affairs of Rome, the army of Gatus and Licinius also officially launched an attack on the fifth of the six tribes, and this time, this powerful tribe did not choose gold, but firmly chose to fight for freedom.

This tribe was the most powerful tribe within a five-day radius of the Tasya tribe, with a large population and warriors to fight, and even with the sheer numerical superiority of Gatus's forces, the war would not end so easily.

On the first day of the war, Gatus and Licinius led their troops to the tribe, and before Gatus could make a request to the tribe, the leader of the tribe led more than 7,000 soldiers from their tribe to launch an active attack on the coalition army.

With the successful conquest of the previous four tribes, Gatus and Licinius inevitably had a contempt for the last two tribes, especially this time when Gatus had tens of thousands of warriors under his command, and they did not take the enemy seriously.

The Roman army, which had been at the forefront of the coalition army, was all transferred to the center of the coalition army, and the soldiers under the command of Gatus were free and loose to take on the vanguard duty, which was a very dangerous marching arrangement.

Although the warriors of the Tasia tribe were not inferior to the soldiers of Rome in terms of combat effectiveness, the march and battle did not rely on individual bravery to solve the problem, and if it were not for this, Bai Feng would not have sent 3,000 warriors from the Tasia tribe for training in advance.

The seven teams of soldiers in the city of Rome, who were not very outstanding in terms of combat effectiveness, but their tacit cooperation definitely made them the undoubted main force of the coalition army, but this time they were deployed in the center of the army, not in the front of the front.

The leader of this tribe, which was about to be attacked by Gatus and Licinius, had already received news of the Tasya's attack on other tribes a few days earlier, and had made contact with the tribe closest to them.

The night before the combined forces of Gatus and Licinius arrived at this tribe, after careful consultation between the leaders of the two tribes, six thousand warriors of the other tribe had also arrived at the camp of this tribe the previous night.

That is to say, Gatus and Licinius had to deal not with the 7,000 warriors of this tribe at all, but with more than 13,000 warriors from the last two tribes combined, and unfortunately, none of them expected the danger to come.

However, the leader of this tribe is a well-known high-ranking swordsman in this small area, and his own bravery is not mentioned for the time being, even his prestige among the nearby tribes is not comparable to that of the Tasya tribe, he is the leader of Bazel!

Speaking of the leader of Bazel, he is a strong man that the Essini tribe must also recognize, otherwise, how can the westward expansion of the Essini tribe be stopped? The threat from the Werther tribe is important, but the role of Bazel cannot be ignored.

When the Aceni tribe wanted to continue to expand westward, Bazel, the son of the tribal leader, bravely and fearlessly led the 4,000 warriors of their tribe and the 3,000 warriors of other tribes who came spontaneously, and launched an active attack on the 30,000 army of the Aceni tribe with 7,000 people, and thus started the counterattack of these tribes against the Aceni tribe!

In that battle, Bazel's 7,000 defenders fought a bloody battle with 30,000 enemy troops on the banks of the Cangluo River for a whole day and a night, and finally the cost of more than 6,000 soldiers died in exchange for an unprecedented victory for their tribe, and the 30,000 troops of the Aceni tribe were completely annihilated.

Since then, more warriors have spontaneously gathered on the banks of the Cangluo River under the command of Bazel, who bravely fought to the death against the invading armies of the Aceni tribes, and after nearly five years of this war, Bazel's army was reduced to less than 3,000 men, while the Essini tribes left the corpses of more than 100,000 warriors on the banks of the Cangluo River.

Years of continuous wars and heavy casualties caused the originally united Essini tribe to gradually produce a serious split, which directly led to the later division of the Essini tribe, and indirectly made the once powerful Esini tribe begin to decline.

Having won the war, Bazel returned to the tribe he had left five years earlier with his mightiest 3,000 warriors, and the victorious warriors were naturally rewarded with flowers and sought after, especially in the barbarian world that believed in the strong, and Bazel achieved far more glory than he had imagined.

Countless barbarian warriors who admired Bazel had come to Bazel's tribe with their families to pay allegiance to him, and even his father had given up his position as leader to Bazel, and that was only eight years ago!

Eight years is not a short time, but it is definitely not a long time, and Bazel, who used to be in his twenties, is now only in his thirties, and with his great strength and high prestige, his tribe has rapidly grown into a new and powerful tribe.

From a tribe with a total population of just over 17,000 to a tribe with a total population of more than 35,000, it took Bazel only eight years to do this, and at the same time, his own strength did not stagnate, but became stronger and stronger.

In fact, after gathering more than 13,000 warriors from the two tribes, Bazel did not send all the warriors to attack the attacking enemy at once, but only used the warriors of his own tribe to attack.

The powerful Bazel, with more than 7,000 soldiers led by him, including 3,000 powerful soldiers, was killed from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain on the bank of the Cangluo River, and the combat effectiveness of this army can be imagined.

When Gatus and Licinius led their troops to the camp of the tribes of Bazel, the army of Bazel, which had long been ready, was the first to attack, and the troops at the forefront of the coalition were all barbarian warriors under the command of Gatus, and these warriors from the Tasia tribe and the other four tribes were no match for Bazel's army, and they quickly collapsed once they were engaged.

In fact, it is not surprising to think about it, these warriors under the command of Gatus are the other four tribal warriors who have recently been forcibly incorporated into the Tasya tribe, how can they fight to the death for the Tasya tribe on the battlefield?

After the collapse of the 3,000 vanguard soldiers under the command of Gatus, Licinius immediately commanded seven teams of Roman city soldiers under his command to form a strong defensive line, and Gatus also strictly ordered his 5,000 Chinese army and 2,000 rear army to fully cooperate with Licinius's main army; under the desperate resistance of the Roman army and the strong cooperation of Gatus's army, the coalition army finally stabilized the formation and did not collapse in a fight.