As soon as man has the opportunity to relieve himself of his responsibilities, his humanity wants to take a vacation, and the animals that have always existed in him burst out.

- Osho (Founder of Rajnesh Ashram)

On October 7, the first day that the army landed on the north bank, Bai Feng did not immediately lead the army that had not rested all night to the north, but ordered the army to rest in place for a day, and the officers and men of the First Roman Legion, who had landed first, took on the important task of patrolling the perimeter after resting for the night.

In the temporary barracks built by the soldiers of the First Roman Legion, Bai Feng, who was thinking about the route of the march against the map, sat on either side of the head of the four generals Licinius, Vermina, Luculus, and Leonidas, and they also looked at the map.

This map, which details the distribution of settlements in the southwest of Lu, the location of the 'rebels', and the route of Gregory's army, was sent to Hakumine by Yoshikawa Naoki's spies, and is also the result of the efforts of the spies and ninjas in the previous month.

According to this map, the number of settlements in southwestern Lunan has been sharply reduced from 27 to 14, and the 13 settlements that have disappeared from the map have naturally become part of the so-called 'rebel army'.

After staring at the map and looking at the good salary, Bai Feng, who had a plan in his heart, raised his head and asked the four army commanders in the military tent in a tone with the meaning of an examination: "What do you think of the current situation in southwest Luxi?"

In the face of the question raised by his governor, the four generals who looked at each other did not immediately stand up and answer, and Bai Feng, who was sitting in a precarious position, did not rush to get an answer, but calmly flipped through the information on the handsome case, giving the four generals enough time to think.

Time passed little by little, and after about five minutes, Vermyna, known as the 'Iron Wall General' among the four generals, took the initiative to stand up and replied: "Governor, I think that the current situation in the southwest of Lunan seems to be favorable to our army, but in fact we need to be cautious. ”

"Oh?" Bai Feng, who couldn't be denied, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "Specifically, why should we be cautious, and how to be cautious." ”

"No!" Vimina walked to the map in the center of the tent, pointed to the map on the map, and said: "In the southwestern part of Luxi today, the black sign representing our city of Rome has taken up half of it, and it is even stronger than the yellow sign representing the Luxi tribe. ”

"Because the special army that Yoshikawa Naoki led them brought out had more than 30,000 combatable soldiers, and their combat power far exceeded that of the other fourteen settlements in southwestern Lu, and more importantly, the remaining fourteen settlements in southwestern Lunan were not hostile to this special army. ”

"General Vermyna, what a subtle way you call this army. Without waiting for Victoria Secreta to finish speaking, Licinius on the side interjected with a smile: "Anyway, we haven't incorporated them now, so we just call them Lucy rebels." ”

This Licinius, who is sometimes extremely intelligent and sometimes vulgar, has not changed at all from the Roman world to the Tianlong Continent;

Bai Feng, who shook his head helplessly, had to turn his head and signal Vitana to continue after glaring at Licinius, not to be interrupted by Licinius's casual words;

"If it weren't for the 100,000-strong army sent by Viriacius, the leader of the Luxi tribe, to suppress it, perhaps the rebels under the command of Naoki Yoshikawa would have been able to complete the unification of southwestern Luxi without exposing our Roman city. ”

"Although the 100,000 counterinsurgency troops of the Luxi tribe are about to arrive in the southwest of Luxi, we still have to try to avoid revealing our identities, otherwise we will not only find it difficult to quickly control the southwestern part of the country, but will attract more troops from the Luxi tribe. ”

"General Vermyna, do you mean that we can't go to war for the time being?" Hearing Vimyna's words, Luculus, who couldn't sit still, objected: "But if we don't join the war, I'm afraid the Lucy rebels won't be able to stop the suppression of the 100,000 Lucy army!"

"I don't think so. Vimil pointed to the map of western Lu, saying: "The western part of Luxi is divided into two parts, the south is originally 27 settlements with a population of 900,000, and the north has 36 settlements with a population of 1.5 million, and the population ratio between north and south is about 3 to 5. ”

"The ratio of the population to 5 means that the composition of the army of the Luxi tribe is also roughly maintained at this ratio, and the number of troops from the south should be about 150,000 based on the 400,000 troops of the Luxi tribe, and the number of troops from the south should not exceed 20,000. ”

"Does the proportion of the population and the proportion of the army in the western tribe of Luxi have any effect on the situation in southwestern Lu?" Licini wondered.

"Of course there is an impact, and it is a vital one!" said Vimyna, confidently, "There are 150,000 soldiers from the south in the Luxi tribe, and their families are all in the south.

"Obviously, it is impossible for all the Lusi warriors from the southwest of Luxi to exterminate the rebels, and the only ones who will really be ruthless against the rebels will be those who are born in the north of Luxi, which is a good opportunity for Commander Naoki Yoshikawa to sow discord. ”

"With the abilities of spies and ninjas, they can definitely easily find out which fighters in the counterinsurgency army are southern fighters, and when the time comes, they only need to have the northern fighters in the counterinsurgency army kill some of the southern warriors' families in a single encounter, and the situation will be reversed in an instant. ”

"I believe that the southern fighters, who value their families above their lives, will become dissatisfied with the northern fighters who slaughtered their families, even if they do not immediately defect on the battlefield, and that this resentment, if slightly intensified, can lead to the disintegration of the counterinsurgency forces in the western Luxi tribe. ”

"General Vermyna, your strategy against the enemy is clever, but it is a little too idealistic. Leonidas frowned and retorted, "What if these 100,000 counterinsurgency troops are all composed of northern warriors, and what can the rebels rely on to save themselves?"

In response to the war-ferving Leonidas's rebuttal, Vimyna only smiled and explained: "General Leonidas, I admit that this is indeed the most ideal way to deal with it, but it is not the only way we can deal with it, is it?"

"If the 100,000 counterinsurgency army in the Luxi tribe is really composed entirely of northern warriors, then it will definitely be impossible to resist the rebel army of more than 30,000 rebels alone, so the top priority for Yoshikawa Naoki to lead them is to avoid confrontation with the counterinsurgency army as much as possible and accelerate the expansion of military strength. ”

"If war is inevitable, our army in Rome can fight in moderation to help the rebels resist the attack of the counterinsurgency army, but we must not defeat their counterinsurgency army until the great war between the Eastern Alliance and the Lucian tribe breaks out!"

Licinius and Luculus were both veterans in the army, and it goes without saying that Leonidas's talent was so high, how could they not understand the meaning of Vimyna's words?

Otherwise, once the 100,000 counterinsurgency army commanded by Gregory was defeated or completely annihilated by the army of the city of Rome, after getting the news, as long as the leader of the Luxi tribe, Viriacius, was not a fool, he would definitely be able to guess that the army of the city of Rome was invading the southwestern part of Luxi.