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- Niccolò Machiavelli (Italian political thinker and historian)

Since the city of Rome cannot enter the city stage for the time being, then Bai Feng can't waste time in the governor's palace, and soon the army of the city of Rome will take the initiative to attack the Acenian Kingdom, and at this time Bai Feng must be busy with various preparations for war.

The sentence that the three armies did not move the grain and grass first had no meaning to Bai Feng, with the Bai Ling Ring, he could carry the grain and grass needed by the 100,000 army with him, and he didn't need to spend a trace of time and energy on the matter of grain and grass at all.

Before the reinforcements of the five Tuntian legions arrived in Rome, what Bai Feng needed to do was to send the weapons and equipment produced by the blacksmith shop last month to the military camp on the east bank, and replace the elite soldiers with excellent weapons and equipment.

Joshuel's Essini Legion also needs to complete the replenishment of troops within this month, and Bai Feng can't interfere in this matter, after all, it is the internal affairs of the Essini tribe, and Queen Boudicca is in charge.

Of course, in order to compensate for the heavy price paid by the Aceni Legion in the previous battles, Bai Feng had already given an order to Perris, who remained in the barracks, and half of all the weapons and equipment captured from the battlefield were given to Queen Boudicca's Aceni tribe.

Although the Essini tribe has enough youth and strength to supplement the losses of the Essini Legion, the shortage of weapons and equipment is an unavoidable reality for the Essini tribe, and the current Essini tribe is not the Aceni tribe before the westward migration.

The Aceni tribe was able to rearm the Aceni Legion within a month, and the presence of the Aceni Legion provided the city of Rome with 20,000 subordinate troops, which was a force enough to influence the tide of battle.

It took Bai Feng three days to send weapons and equipment and food and grass to the military camp on the east bank, and just as Bai Feng returned from the east bank to the governor's palace, 15,000 reinforcements from the three Tuntian legions on the west bank of the Cangluo River had already arrived in Rome.

The 15,000 soldiers from the Tuntian Legion were still a little worse than the soldiers of other regular legions in terms of combat effectiveness; otherwise, they would be the soldiers of the regular legion and would not have been sent to serve in the Tuntian legion.

However, the soldiers of the First Tuntian Legion are still relatively elite, especially the 2,000 soldiers who were originally transferred out under the command of Bronno, their combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of any other main army!

As the governor of Rome City, Bai Feng naturally could not have any bias when deploying reinforcements; for Bai Feng, every legion in Rome City was his legion, and the palms and backs of his hands were all meat, and there was no difference between distance and proximity.

As a result, the two thousand most elite soldiers were evenly divided into five parts by Bai Feng, and each part was supplemented by a large number of other ordinary Tuntian Legion soldiers, which were supplemented to the five legions in urgent need of reinforcements, and each legion received exactly the same supplement.

After the first batch of 15,000 reinforcements was sent to the east bank, it would take about four days for the 10,000 reinforcements of the other two Tuntian legions to arrive in Rome, and at that time, Bai Feng could continue to send 5,000 reinforcements and form a new 5,000 longbowmen.

Gamilios's Tasia Legion and Gatus's Cheetah Legion, both of which have longbowmen, so Bai Feng does not plan to strengthen the longbowmen of these two legions this time, and the newly formed five thousand longbowmen will all be assigned to the other three legions.

It is not easy to divide the three legions into five thousand longbowmen, and if each legion is only equipped with a thousand longbowmen, the effect is too small, and if it is equipped with two thousand longbowmen, the five thousand longbowmen to be formed will be less than a thousand longbowmen.

It would be a stress-free task for the city of Rome to draw another 1,000 young men to assemble longbowmen, but whether there are enough longbows to use is the key to whether or not to assemble 6,000 longbowmen.

In the past few days, Wendell's soldiers have also pulled the carriage out to cut down trees every day, but the cold locust trees near the city of Rome have long been cut down, and they can only run back and forth every day when they are too far away, and the number of cold locust trees cut back is quite limited.

The bow makers of Rome were able to make more than 100 longbows a day under the premise that it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and at this rate, they could make about 3,000 longbows at most in this critical month.

Bai Feng, who was already deeply worried about the future war, encountered such a bad thing when he was preparing for the war, and he was so distraught that he had to turn his eyes to the east bank of the Cangluo River, which was close to the Aceni camp, and there was only a cold locust forest on the east bank of the Cangluo River.

It was not an easy task to cut down trees from the locust grove near Aceni's camp and transport them back to Rome, even with Allen's fleet, it was extremely time-consuming and laborious, and it was difficult to transport a large number of locust trees at one time.

Since it is difficult to transport the locust trees on the east bank of the Cangluo River to the city of Rome, it is better to let the craftsmen of the city of Rome go to the east bank of the Cangluo River.

The existence of the Leng Huai Longbow is not a secret, and the method of making it is not complicated, but it is one of the most important secrets of the city of Rome, and it is also a military secret that Bai Feng will never allow any outsiders to know, so he specially sent Antio to lead an army to escort these craftsmen.

Three hundred selected bow-makers were escorted by five Roman youth armies led by Antio to the barracks on the east bank of the Cangluo River, where Peris's longbowmen would bring back a large number of locust trees to the barracks.

The bow makers would hurry up with the cold locust longbow under the tight 'protection' of the five Roman youth armies, and in order to ensure that the method of making the cold locust longbow was not leaked, Bai Feng did not even allow these craftsmen to return to their homes.

In a way, Bai Feng's behavior was very unreasonable, but the craftsmen did not complain about it, because Bai Feng gave them excellent conditions that they really could not refuse, and their families would live a comfortable and comfortable life as a result.

The only thing they can do after they have no worries is to devote themselves wholeheartedly to the great cause of bow making in Rome, which is exactly what Bai Feng wants, he needs a bow making team that is loyal to Rome.

With enough Leng Huai Longbow, Bai Feng naturally would not be stingy with the recruitment of a thousand young people, and the high salary of the army recruited by the Roman City allowed the three towns on the west bank of the Cangluo River to provide the Roman City with another thousand strong young men within three days.

With the arrival of the second batch of reinforcements and the recruitment of 1,000 young men, the five legions that had not yet been replenished could finally be fully restored to full strength, and the newly formed longbowmen force also had a size of 6,000 men, and the real preparations for war had just begun at this time.

After the commanders of the five legions returned to full strength of their legions, their task was to quickly train the recruits and improve the combat effectiveness of their legions as much as possible, and the newly formed 6,000 longbowmen, Bai Feng was first handed over to Peris for training.