"Chapter 68: Eliminating the Threat"
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- Tasso (Italian poet, representative of the late Renaissance)
In July, the city of Rome is a busy time after the harvest, the first half of the crops have been harvested, the second half of the crops have just begun to be planted, and the inhabitants of the six towns have put all their energy into the new round of crop planting.
The city of Rome had a systematic rotation of crops to produce food, and only a few farmers were required to participate in the work, and the rest of the citizens of Rome still lived an ordinary life in the city, and the huge city of Rome showed peace and tranquility.
At the beginning of the month, Bazel, who was appointed by Bai Feng as the commander of the frontal army, had already led the soldiers of the four legions of the Tiger, the Lion, the Tasia, and the Cheetah into the permanent military camp on the border between the city of Rome and the Hexi region of the Vitte tribe.
There, as the commander of the army, Bazel will strictly train the soldiers of the three legions of the Tigers, Tasia, and Cheetahs, and cultivate a tacit understanding between the three legions within a month, so that they can cooperate on the battlefield.
Upton's Lion Legion was personally appointed by Bai Feng as the vanguard of the frontal army before he set off, so not only did the soldiers of the Lion Legion not need to participate in Bazel's training, but even the normal training of the field legion was exempted by Bai Feng.
In this way, Upton would only have to accept Bazel's command after the war began, and he would have great autonomy before the war began, and his Lion Legion would not have to fully obey Bazel's orders.
Such special treatment was the first time among the many legions in the city of Rome, and Upton, who thought highly of himself, was both shocked and ecstatic when he accepted Bai Feng's order. After all, this is a privilege that no other Legion Commander has!
Upton, who didn't know anything, thought that the reason why Bai Feng would give him such special treatment was purely because of his loyalty that he had been talking about in the past, but as everyone knows, just when he was in excitement and ecstasy, Bai Feng's face also showed a meaningful smile.
Bazel did not raise any objection to the matter of Upton and his legion of lions, not only not only as the commander of the army, but also as the other captains of Rome.
In fact, it was not that the generals were willing to see the Epton villain succeed, but that all of them knew the intention of Bai Feng's move, and even Nabazani and Assam, who were allowed by Bai Feng to participate in the military meeting, saw the murderous intent contained in Bai Feng's order.
It's a pity that Upton, as the person concerned, didn't notice it at all, but thought that he had won Bai Feng's trust by virtue of his apparent loyalty, and he was complacent and became a pitiful worm in the eyes of all the participating generals.
This battle between the city of Rome and the tribe of Vitus will be the last active attack of the city of Rome in the next few years, and it will also be the last battle for Bai Feng to completely eliminate the internal instability of the city of Rome;
Once the war began, Upton's lion army would inevitably suffer heavy losses in the war, and it would be impossible for all the soldiers loyal to Upton to return to Rome alive, and whether Upton himself could return to Rome alive was up to his luck.
If he dies on the battlefield, then Bai Feng will give him a grand funeral for the sake of stabilizing the army, and his family will also be treated favorably by the city of Rome, which is the best ending for everyone.
Because in this way, after the war, Bai Feng does not need to waste time and energy to deal with the problem of Upton, he only needs to arrange suitable generals to take over the Lion Legion, and the Lion Legion that loses Upton will really become the field legion of Roman City.
If he survives on the battlefield, then Bai Feng will have to spend some energy to deal with him, and Upton, who is doomed to defeat, will be transferred by Bai Feng out of the Lion Legion and take over as the commander of the Tuntian Legion, and then slowly discarded.
This kind of result is what Bai Feng doesn't want to see, and it is also the cost that Upton's family needs to bear; the legion commander who died in battle is a hero, and his family is naturally a hero's family, and the defeated legion leader is not a hero, and his family will inevitably be punished.
In the end, what kind of outcome Upton and his family will face in the end, Bai Feng, who made the plan himself, doesn't care, as long as Upton, the unstable factor within the city of Rome, is removed, and the other aftermath problems are not a big problem.
In addition to the instability within the Roman city of Upton, the existence of Nabazani and Assam is also an unavoidable instability factor for Bai Feng, especially under the premise that these two men still have tens of thousands of troops under their command, this instability is even more dangerous.
The commander of the Eagle Legion, Eggers, was appointed by Bai Feng as the supreme commander of the allied forces between the city of Rome and the Kingdom of Aceni, and his mission was to lead more than 70,000 allied troops to completely annihilate the 80,000 troops of the Werther tribe in the east of the river.
With the combat strength of the Eagle Legion and the Dragon Legion, coupled with the cooperation of 45,000 Essini Kingdom allies, it seems that it will not be difficult for a famous general like Eggers to annihilate the 80,000 Hedong army of the Werther tribe.
But the crux of the matter is that Bai Feng's task to Eggers is not only to annihilate the 80,000 Hedong army of the Witte tribe, but also to consume at least 25,000 Essini Kingdom troops, which is also an order that Bai Feng gave to Eggers that must be carried out.
The Acenian kingdom under Queen Boudicca's rule had a total population of just over 50,000 and only 70,000 young and strong people who could go into battle.
The barbarian warriors of the Esceni Kingdom did not belong to the young population in the statistics of the Roman city system, but their actual combat effectiveness was very good, and they had more combat experience than the younger warriors, and even had stronger combat effectiveness than the younger warriors.
Although Bai Feng forced Nabazani and Assam to temporarily abandon the alliance and army they formed through force and coercion, after the war was over, Bai Feng still had to release Nabazani and Assam and return to the Aceni Kingdom.
At that time, the over-armed Nabazani and Assam will inevitably become a threat to Queen Boudicca's rule over the Aceni Kingdom again, which is obviously not in the interests of the city of Rome, so Bai Feng must take measures to solve this problem.
As one of the four famous generals of the Aceni Kingdom, it is actually difficult for the warriors of the Essini Kingdom to die on the battlefield, but Bai Feng's purpose is not purely the future of Rome, but more to maintain the dominance of Queen Boudicca.
Such a reality made Eggers, who regarded Queen Boudicca as his own, struggled very much, but in the end, he still chose to obey Bai Feng's orders;