Hope is bound to be dashed, because hope is the pursuit of despair, and desire is pregnant with frustration.

- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)

In the last three days of September, the actions of 400 spies and 200 ninjas in the Luxi tribe, and the actions of 180 battlefield ghosts and 120 shadow killers in the Eastern Alliance, the results of the battles were counted one after another and summarized into the hands of Hakuho.

Among them, 400 spies and two-thirds of the 200 ninjas have been assembled under the command of Naoki Yoshikawa, and only about one-third of the spies and ninjas are still carrying out their sabotage missions in the southwest of Lunan as independent squads.

Naoki Yoshikawa, who almost became the commander of the ninjas, and Yoki Yamashita, who was the commander of the spies, the 'vengeful' army under their control reached an astonishing number of more than 30,000 people after successively breaking through several small and medium-sized distances in the southwest of Lu.

In stark contrast, the suppressive army of the leader of the Luxi tribe, Viriacius, commanded by the famous Luxi general Gregory, had a total strength of 100,000 troops, consisting of 40,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, and 50,000 second-line infantry.

Even in the Luxi tribe, which has an army of 550,000 troops, its standing infantry and standing cavalry combined are only 250,000.

Bai Feng, who learned of this situation, understood in his heart that the reason why Viriasius sent a whole 100,000 troops to suppress the rebellion was not because he was making a big fuss, but because he sensed the abnormality, otherwise, how could he send 100,000 troops from the border to the south?

The most direct impact of the continued expansion and reckless use of military force by the Eastern Alliance was that the border areas between the Western Luxi tribe and the Eastern Alliance had an additional 200,000 or 300,000 Eastern Alliance troops.

Because 150,000 of the 550,000 troops of the Luxi tribe came from dozens of vassal tribes in the border areas, the 150,000 second-line infantry, together with the 150,000 standing infantry and 50,000 standing cavalry of the Luxi tribe, constituted the border garrison of the Luxi tribe.

In addition to the 200,000 standing elite and 150,000 second-line vassal infantry in the border areas, there are 50,000 standing infantry and 150,000 second-line infantry available in the Luxi tribe.

50,000 from the internal second-line infantry, and 50,000 from the standing elite on the border, together constitute the suppression army under the command of Gregory;

Why did Viriacius, the leader of the Luxi tribe, risk the emptiness of the border army and send 50,000 elite cavalry from the border garrison to the south? There is only one answer, that is, he realized that the rebellion in the southwest of Luxi must involve the intervention of external forces!

At present, there are only four remaining forces in the eastern region: the Eastern Alliance and the Luxi tribe on the north bank of the Cangluo River, and the Roman City and the Aceni Kingdom on the south bank of the Cangluo River.

Among these four forces, if the Eastern Alliance wants to attack the Luxi tribe, where does it need to be so complicated, they will directly attack the Luxi tribe, and the relationship between the city of Rome and the Acenian kingdom has not yet been known by the two major powers on the north bank of the Cangluo River.

Otherwise, Viriacius of the Luxi tribe didn't have to think about it, and the external forces that secretly mixed up with their rebellion in southwestern Luxi must be the city of Rome; unfortunately, Veriacius, who was closed to information, didn't even know the name of the city of Rome.

Whether it was the Eastern Alliance, which was united by eighteen tribes, or the Luxi tribe, which had dominated the eastern region for hundreds of years, they all knew that a powerful new force had risen on the south bank of the Cangluo River, but they did not know what this new rising force was.

The Roman fleet on the surface of the Cangluo River, the cavalry corps patrolling day and night in the south bank, and the ghosts of the battlefield all over the north bank, sealed the news of the city of Rome impenetrable.

So much so that years have passed, and the Eastern Alliance and the Luxi tribes on the north bank of the Cangluo River still have a vague understanding of the city of Rome, and the unknown enemy is often the most terrible enemy, which no one can deny.

If it weren't for the aggressiveness of the Eastern Alliance, and the rather discordant past enmity between the Eastern Alliance and the Luxi tribe, perhaps the two forces on the north bank of the Cangluo River would have joined forces to test the reality of the city of Rome first.

Of course, judging from the current overall strength of Roman City, even if the Eastern Alliance, the Luxi Tribe, and the Essini Kingdom join forces, they cannot be the opponents of Roman City;

The inevitable damage to the development of the city of Rome itself, once it was put into practice, was usually permanent and required a long period of recuperation to recover from it.

This is why Bai Feng has not taken action against the Luxi tribe and the Eastern Alliance, before his own strength is not enough to crush the Eastern Alliance and the Luxi tribe, starting a war with money and money will only seriously slow down the development of the city of Rome.

Now, the strength of the city of Rome itself has developed to a stage similar to a bottleneck, and the overall military strength is enough to crush the Eastern Alliance and the Luxi tribe, and Bai Feng returned to the city of Rome and really started this war to unify the eastern region.

The excellent results of the spy and ninja forces in southwestern Luxi had actually forced Bai Feng to the point where he had to make a new choice, and he had to make his own choice between watching Gregory suppress the army and annihilate the 'vengeful' army he supported, and immediately sending troops to attack the western Lu tribe.

In fact, at this time, even if Bai Feng chose to sit back and watch the destruction of the 'revenge' army, his set strategic goal was still achieved, and in the previous month, the destruction of southwest Lu by spies and ninjas was far more than tossing a rebel army of more than 30,000 people.

First of all, almost all the large and small settlements in the southwest of Lunan have been secretly destroyed by spies and ninjas, and these attacked settlements have lost some of their food and ended up unsustainable, and at worst, they have not even kept their homes, and the entire settlement has been held hostage by the rebels.

Second, of the 550,000 troops in the western Luxi tribe, a full 100,000 troops were drawn to the southwestern part of the country, creating a military void in the northern part of the country and the border areas, and giving the Eastern Alliance, which was on the verge of an existential situation, an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Last but not least, the formation of the rebel forces in the southwestern part of the country, which was led by Naoki Yoshikawa secretly controlling the surface of Yoshiki Yamashita represented not only more than 30,000 revenge fighters, but also more than 300,000 people in the southwestern part of the country.

If these more than 30,000 vengeful warriors and more than 300,000 rebellious civilians were all absorbed by the city of Rome, then the city of Rome would have the opportunity to divide the Luxi tribe from within. In Bai Feng's eyes, this is an excellent opportunity to naturally assimilate the Luxi tribe!