"Chapter 3: The Pursuit Controversy"
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With Bai Feng's personal promise, the legion commanders led by Bronno naturally didn't say anything more; as for the issue of the reorganization and reform of the legion structure mentioned by Bai Feng's words, only Bronno and Eggers looked at each other with understanding.
"We will mention the formation of the longbowmen after the war, and now the top priority is how to deal with Francis of the Acenian Kingdom, even if he lost more than 100,000 troops in this battle, he still fled back with nearly 50,000 troops, and most of them were cavalry.
What's more, Francis still has 100,000 elite soldiers in his rear, which means that he still has 150,000 elite troops at his disposal, and there are not many troops that we can fight for.
In terms of numbers, we are still at a disadvantage, so should we take advantage of the victory and attack Francis's rear camp?
The focus of tonight's military meeting was not on the longbowmen, let alone on the day's battles, but after a little praise for the generals and a slight mention of the longbowmen, Bai Feng shifted the focus of the meeting to the real key.
After hearing Bai Feng turn the topic to the question of how to deal with Francis, the generals in the military tent all restrained the smiles on their faces and began to think about Bai Feng's question with a solemn expression, which was a tricky problem.
Although the combined forces of Rome and the Esini tribe annihilated more than 100,000 troops under Francis's command at the cost of 30,000 soldiers, this could not completely change the balance of power between the enemy and the enemy, and Francis still had a strong strength.
Whether it was Francis's 30,000 elite cavalry intact in this battle, or the 100,000 elite infantry he left behind, they could pose a mortal threat to the Roman army that had lost its position, and the situation did not really turn to the side of Rome.
"Governor, I think that in a short period of time, the army of our Roman city should focus on accumulating strength, and should not continue to pursue blindly. After a little silence, the old and serious Eggers took the lead in giving his advice and explained in detail:
"In this battle during the day to-day, our army in Rome won the victory with relatively small casualties, but in reality our casualties were not light compared to our total strength, for we lost a quarter of our available forces.
This is still the result of the premise that the losses of the soldiers under the command of General Joshuel are not included, and if we count the more than 10,000 soldiers lost by the Esini Legion, then our actual losses are as high as one-third of the total number of troops.
And the more than 100,000 troops lost by the enemy army are not the elite divisions under Francis, not even the elite divisions of the Essini Kingdom, and from what I know about the situation in the Essini Kingdom, the composition of their army should be quite divided.
Among all the armies of the Aesini Kingdom, the army that was truly loyal to Francis was the 30,000 elite cavalry under the command of the other and the 100,000 elite infantry left behind in the rear, and the other 120,000 infantry were all directly subordinate troops of Assam and other three generals.
There is no doubt that the more than 100,000 troops we annihilated in this battle were all the troops of Assam, Atabaaz, and Nabazani, and their main forces have been completely annihilated by us, but Francis's main army has not been damaged at all.
This means that if we pursue Francis at this time, then we may need to face a more united kingdom of Esini, after all, Nabazani and others, who have lost their army, can only submit to Francis loyally.
Once our army has penetrated into the mansion of the Kingdom of Aceni, we will only have to deal with the best of the 150,000 Francis troops, and without this quagmire as a geographical advantage, do we really have the strength to defeat Francis's army head-on?"
"General Eggers, I don't agree with your idea!" As soon as Eggers, who had carefully explained, finished speaking, Bronno, who was on the other side, directly refuted Eggers's suggestion, and walked out of his position, came to the center of the military tent, bowed to Bai Feng and explained:
"Governor, I think that having won today's battle, what we need to do is to pursue Francis's rout as quickly as possible, and not give Francis any chance to regroup his army against ours.
As General Eggers said just now, today's battle has completely deprived the three people in the Iceni Kingdom who had the strength to compete with Francis, and this also means that Francis is about to have a more unified kingdom.
Without the hindrance of Assam and others, Francis can unimpeded the integration of all the forces of the Acenian Kingdom, and if we give Francis the most precious time, we may need to deal with more than 150,000 troops in the future. ”
"Governor, I agree with General Bronno's suggestion, after all, with the background of the Iceni Kingdom, if Francis is given time to completely control the Aceni Kingdom, I am afraid that Francis in the future will be even more difficult to deal with than now!"
"Yes, Governor, I also agree with General Brono's suggestion, our army in Rome should take advantage of the victory to pursue and seize this great opportunity to completely destroy Francis's forces, so that Queen Boudicca can truly become the queen of the Acenian Kingdom!"
No sooner had Bronno finished his opinion than Gamilios and Licini came out in support of Bronno's proposal, but their opinion did not necessarily mean that the opinion of others was the same, and the generals who were soon in favor of Eggers' proposal also stood up.
"Governor, I think General Brono's suggestion is too risky, and it is General Eggers's suggestion that is more realistic. ”
"What is more realistic than General Eggers' suggestion? I also think that General Eggers's suggestion is too conservative! I agree with General Brono's suggestion, and I am convinced that our army in Rome will be able to defeat Francis's army!"
"Hmph, you're just pure speculation, do you really think Francis's army is vulnerable?"
"What?!I'm wondering? It's because you don't believe in the strength of your army!"
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"Bang!" The generals in the military tent were divided into two factions to support Eggers and Bronno, and the heated argument quickly turned into a fierce quarrel, and seeing that the situation was about to get further out of control, Bai Feng slammed his own handsome case.
The generals who were shocked by this loud noise immediately stopped their quarrel, and the few generals who rushed to the center of the military tent with excitement and almost fought quickly retreated to their original positions; it was not until the quiet and order in the military tent were restored that Bai Feng said coldly with sharp eyes:
"Why? This has not yet fought against Francis's main army, are you generals going to fight each other first? If even you generals can't unite as one, can your soldiers join hands on the battlefield to meet the enemy?"