"Chapter 2: Looking Forward to the Longbow"

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The soldiers of the various legions had been cleaning the muddy ground for a whole afternoon, but they had not been able to clean up the battlefield, and countless seriously wounded enemy soldiers who were still wailing in pain in the mud were all stabbed by their own soldiers who had cleaned the battlefield.

This was not an order given by Bai Feng or other legion commanders, but a habitual method adopted by barbarian warriors to deal with the enemy's failure to save possible warriors, and the barbarian warriors of Rome City habitually used this method to deal with seriously injured enemy soldiers.

Of the more than 13,000 enemy soldiers left on the battlefield, less than 6,000 were able to be brought back to the barracks by their own soldiers, and the other nearly 8,000 enemy soldiers who were seriously injured and refractory were all dealt with by the mending knife.

The bodies of more than 30,000 soldiers killed in the battle were all properly transported back to the barracks, and the bodies of the enemy soldiers killed in the battle were cremated and buried by the soldiers of the Roman city to avoid the outbreak of plague.

The affairs of cleaning up the battlefield were busy until after nightfall, Bai Feng ordered all the soldiers to go back to the camp to rest, and if they haven't finished cleaning up, they will wait for tomorrow to clean up, and today's battle will be considered exhausting for the soldiers of Rome.

The soldiers who returned to the barracks hurriedly ate dinner and then went back to the camp to rest; for these ordinary soldiers, if they won today's cruel battle, their mission would be accomplished, and they could sleep boldly and with peace of mind tonight.

Compared to the ordinary soldiers who had relaxed, the busyness of the commanders of the various legions was far from over, and while Bai Feng was thinking about the next strategy of the march in his military tent, these generals were busy patrolling the garrison areas of their respective legions.

This is also the death order given by Bai Feng to every general in Rome City, no matter where the army under their command is, patrolling the camp every night is a task that every general must complete, which is the basic principle of being a general in Rome.

After thinking alone for about half an hour, Antio and Licinius were the first to finish their tour and arrive at the tent at White Peak, followed by several other generals, and finally General Joshuaer, the commander of the Aceni Legion, who had suffered the heaviest casualties of the day.

In fact, the main reason why the Acenian legions suffered so many casualties was that their legions were only allies of the Roman army, not directly under the Roman city, so that the Roman field doctors could not use them effectively.

The value of the war doctor does not need Bai Feng to say anything more, it is definitely the best weapon for the Roman city army to reduce casualties, if there is no war doctor Hua Mu, the number of casualties of the Roman city army in this battle will increase by more than 20,000 people!

"Commanders" waited until all the commanders of each legion had arrived, Bai Feng raised his head and looked around at the legion commanders in the military tent, and then stretched lazily, smiled at the generals present and praised them one by one:

"In this great battle with Francis during the day today, we have achieved an unprecedented victory, with a total strength of less than 100,000, we not only repelled the attack of 150,000 enemy troops, but also left them with more than 100,000 corpses and prisoners!

This is not only the credit of our brave and fearless soldiers, but also the credit of each and every one of your generals, especially General Gamerios and General Gatus, who resisted the enemy's attack head-on, and your desperate fighting is the key to our victory!

And General Joshuaer, if it weren't for your Essini Legion to reinforce the Cheetah Legion and the Tassia Legion in the middle of the army, they would not have been able to withstand the enemy's crazy attack head-on, and you are also a great contributor to this battle!

General Eggers, General Bazel, General Bronno, the merits of your three generals cannot be ignored either, and if you had not defeated the enemy's 40,000 troops on the left flank on the right flank, we would not have ended the war so quickly!

Of course, the greatest contribution to this battle was made by the longbowmen under the command of our Perris, and among the 100,000 enemy troops we annihilated, nearly 35,000 enemy troops were directly shot by the longbowmen, and they were the greatest heroes of this battle!"

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Bai Feng's praise for the generals and their legions was still within the normal range, and it didn't attract the attention of others, but the evaluation of Peris and the longbowmen under his command directly made all the other generals gasp.

"What's the matter, don't you generals who have seen it with your own eyes still believe in the achievements of our longbowmen?" Seeing that the atmosphere in the entire military tent changed from the original relaxed to serious, Bai Feng smiled and quipped to the shocked generals.

"Well, Governor, it's not that we don't believe in the longbowmen's feats, it's just that we are unbelievable of the longbowmen's feats!

In the face of Bai Feng's jokes, Bazel, who had always been silent, was the first to stand up and respond; as soon as his words fell, Bronno on the side looked in the direction of Bai Feng with an extremely serious attitude and said earnestly:

"Governor, since the longbowmen are so powerful, why don't we equip each legion with a certain number of longbows on a large scale? as long as each of our legions can have five thousand longbowmen, no matter how powerful the enemy army is, it will not be our opponent!"

As Bronno said this, the other generals resisted the urge to speak, and looked at Bai Feng expectantly, even if they didn't know the specific results of the longbowmen before, they were shocked enough by the performance of the longbowmen.

Being able to destroy the 30,000 soldiers on the right flank of the enemy army with his own strength is a fatal temptation that no legion commander can refuse;

"O generals, don't you see the actual value of the longbowmen, who are not as powerful as they are today?

Although the longbowmen's combat power was indeed strong, their actual combat power was far less than that of today's performance, and after getting out of this quagmire, the distance of 400 meters could only allow them to shoot a pot of arrows at most, and their lethality was limited.

Otherwise, if all the soldiers of our Roman city are equipped with a cold locust longbow, then wouldn't the army of our Roman city be invincible in the world? However, even so, their combat effectiveness is very strong, and their value on the battlefield is also worthy of recognition.

When this war with Francis is over, I intend to carry out a reorganization of the existing legions of our Roman city, and at that time each of you will be accompanied by a certain number of longbowmen, which is my promise to each of you!"