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- Michelangelo (sculptor, architect, painter and poet)

In any case, it was impossible for Bai Feng to lead his army to the east this September, not only because the various legions in Rome City were not ready for war, but also because Bai Feng did not have the slightest understanding of his enemies.

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will win all battles is the sentence that Bai Feng believes in the most when he marches and fights, and it is also the principle that he attaches importance to intelligence work; without a deep understanding of the enemy, Bai Feng will not blindly launch a war that seems to be won.

War has never been a sure thing, and there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there are too many classic examples of winning more with less in ancient and modern times, which makes Bai Feng deeply aware that only after all the enemies are annihilated can it be regarded as a real victory.

Otherwise, the side that occupies all the advantages is not necessarily the winning side, and any small link may become a key factor affecting the outcome of the war; and Bai Feng, who has many unfulfilled ambitions, does not intend to become a typical example of dying before he can make a breakthrough.

The three battlefield ghosts led by Adrien were not only an important shock force of the Roman army on the battlefield, but also a scout force used by the city to reconnoiter the enemy, and played an important role in the intelligence reconnaissance of the battlefield ghosts in the conquest of the nine provinces on the east bank of the Roman city.

This time, Bai Feng decided to let Adrian's battlefield ghost troops play a greater role, and the reconnaissance of the other six forces of the Essini tribe was handed over to Adrien by Bai Feng, and Queen Boudicca sent a small force to cooperate with them.

In the hinterland on the east bank of the Cangluo River, where the ghosts of the battlefield had never set foot before, even few people in the army of the city of Rome knew the area belonging to the Acenian kingdom, and the only people who could lead the way were the Acenian tribesmen.

Both Eggers and Nelson had their own legions to command, and with their status, they could not really lead the way, and the Eagle Legion and the Roman Spear Legion also had a heavy task, and the most appropriate way was for Queen Boudicca to send a team of cavalry to lead the way.

Although the regular legions of the Esceni tribe were all assembled in the city of Rome, the number of young and strong people in their tribe was not small, and it was still easy to find a small group of cavalry who were familiar with the eastern terrain, and with their guide, the ghosts of the battlefield set off smoothly.

Before receiving the information sent back by the battlefield ghosts, Bai Feng was not reckless in launching an attack on the hinterland of the Aceni Kingdom on the east bank of the Cangluo River;

What made Bai Feng most taboo was that if the invasion of the Roman army united the other six forces of the Aceni tribe, wouldn't that be lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot? The situation that Bai Feng hoped for the most was that the Roman army would destroy the other forces of the Aceni tribe one by one.

Unfortunately, good dreams are always defeated by the harsh reality, and on the twenty-sixth day of September, the ninth day of the war ghost sent by White Peak to reconnoiter to the east, Adrien returned to Rome with bad news on his tired face.

Bai Feng, who was originally cultivating spiritual power in the room, was alarmed by a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside the Governor's Palace, and when he walked down from the upper floor, Adrien, who still had blood stains on his body, happened to rush into the Governor's Palace;

"Adrien, why did you come back so soon?Did something happen to the Acenian Kingdom?!"

"Governor, we have not gone to the hinterland of the Essini Kingdom at all! Now Francis of the Essini Kingdom has led an army of 150,000 to the east bank of the Cangluo River, and there are three days left at most, and they will be in the camp of Queen Boudicca!"

"What?!" Bai Feng, who was shocked, didn't expect that Queen Boudicca's eldest brother would send troops to attack first, could it be that the other five forces had joined forces with Francis? The horror in his heart was hidden by Bai Feng's best efforts, and he continued to pretend to be calm and asked:

"Don't be in a hurry, Ardrien, tell me from beginning to end about your advance into the eastern hinterland of the kingdom of Aceni, and I want to know what the composition of Francis' army is about to arrive at Queen Boudicca's camp!"

"Governor, after Queen Boudicca had sent that troop of cavalry to show us the way, I went deep into the eastern kingdom of Iceni, with the other battlefield ghosts, and we had only been on our way for six days before we were met by the vanguard of Francis's army.

At least 5,000 cavalry spotted us and launched a relentless assault on us, while the limited cavalry under the command of Queen Boudicca was soon slaughtered by the enemy, except for the four of us, who fought and retreated.

Instead of immediately returning to Rome, we went to Francis's barracks at night, and this time they marched east with a total of 150,000 troops, of which about 30,000 were cavalry, and the rest of the infantry was composed of elite soldiers.

More crucially, we learn about the recent changes in the kingdom of Esine through the capture of a noble captive of no low status, who has successfully annexed the forces of his two younger brothers, and then subjugated the forces of three other independent generals.

Now Francis's command is not an independent force of the Aceni Kingdom, but the reunited Aceni Kingdom, and the 150,000 troops on this expedition are also the entire strength of Francis, and he still has 100,000 elite troops in the rear!"

When Adrien told Bai Feng all the information he knew, Bai Feng's heart could no longer be described as shock, and even horror was not enough to express Bai Feng's mood at the moment, he just waved his hand weakly to let Adrien go down first.

Bai Feng had always believed that the attack of his Roman army on the fragmented Essini tribe would definitely be a devastating war, and it would be absolutely impossible for the forces of the Essini Kingdom, which were not strong and fought on their own, to support three months.

Helplessly, the reality played a big joke on Bai Feng, Queen Boudicca's eldest brother Francis turned out to be a strong figure who was not inferior to his father in the slightest, and the Aceni tribes, who had been fighting separately in the past few months, were unexpectedly unified by him.

Compared to the disbelief in his heart, Bai Feng's heart was more of a fear, if he hadn't sent Adrion to the east bank of the Cangluo River nine days ago, no one would have known that Queen Boudicca's camp had fallen!

Since the battlefield has come unexpectedly, then there is no need for Bai Feng to waste time in the governor's palace; anyway, sooner or later, this battle is inevitable, it is better to finish it on the east bank of the Cangluo River now.

Even if he couldn't defeat the tribes of the Acenian Kingdom one by one in an easy manner, Bai Feng was confident that he could annihilate Francis's 150,000 army in one fell swoop in a frontal field battle; it was time for the barbarians on the barbarian land to see the power of the Macedonian phalanx, and they would experience the taste of despair, and at this time Bai Feng was still full of strong self-confidence in his army!