"Chapter 11: Preparing for the Barbarians: VII"
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- Menander (Greek New Comedy Poet)
This is also one of the rules of survival of various tribes in the wild land, whether one tribe conquers another tribe, or one tribe is conquered by another tribe, the druids with special status and respect will always be treated preferentially.
For every tribe in the wilderness, the druids are the place of their survival and the key link between them and the gods in the sky, and their respect for the druids transcends tribes.
It is only natural that Gatus has great respect for the druids of this tribe, but the statues of the gods and goddesses of this tribe belong to the city of Rome, which is also something that Bai Feng specially told before Licinius led the army to leave the city of Rome.
This special request of Bai Feng was also known to Gatus and the Tasia tribe behind him, and they did not raise any objection to Bai Feng's special request, after all, they only cared about the druids of the conquered tribes.
There are many factors that can be used to measure the strength of a tribe in the wilderness, but the most important factors are three: first, the size of the tribe's population, second, the number of warriors the tribe, and third, how many druids the tribe has.
After the Tassia tribe got the population of the conquered tribes, the warriors, the druids, they didn't have any need for anything else, and why did the city of Rome get the statues of the gods in those temples, and what did it have to do with the Tasya?
After each had obtained what they wanted, Gatus and Licinius continued to march with their army to the northeast, and all the people of the conquered tribe were temporarily left in their original camps, while the captured warriors joined Gatus's army, which directly increased the number of warriors under Gatus' command to more than 4,000.
This is the most simple point of the barbarians, in their own internal battles, the victorious side will not use cruel means against the people of the losing side, and the warriors of the losing side will join the army of the victorious side as a matter of course.
The coalition army, which had been joined by a large number of warriors, immediately had a more powerful combat power, and the soldiers of Rome City also directly removed the gray cloak, and Gatus and Licinius decided to use their powerful army to directly crush the next tribe to be conquered.
Three days later, Gatus and Licinius appeared on the outskirts of the camp of the tribe with a population of 30,000 and 8,000 soldiers, and this time the leader of the tribe did not blindly show hostility to the army of Gatus and Licinius, but he had no intention of giving up his freedom for the sake of gold.
While the two sides were at a stalemate, the irascible and impulsive Licinius challenged the leader of the tribe directly, claiming that as long as the most powerful hundred warriors of their tribe could withstand the charge of his forty-four cavalry, then his army could abandon the conquest of their tribe, and four chests of gold would be given to their tribe for nothing.
Where did the barbarian warriors, who had also a fiery personality, endure such humiliation, they immediately accepted Licinius's challenge with great emotion, and threatened to let the arrogant Licinius see the power of their tribe well!
After that, this tribe gathered a hundred of the strongest warriors in just a few minutes, and these warriors all had the strength of intermediate swordsmen at the lowest, and the highest had the strength of high-level swordsmen, which was already the strongest combat power that this tribe could come up with!
And the leader of these hundred warriors was the leader of their tribe, and he was also a strong man at the level of a mid-level great swordsman, and his strength was even stronger than that of the Garmilios leader of the Tasya tribe, but the enemy he faced was the fierce and powerful Licinius.
The battle was never a fair one from the start, and it took only one charge for Licinius to knock out the tribe's strongest warriors, but Licinius knew how important it was to control his attack, so he didn't kill them on the spot.
The struggle to be unwilling to defeat was meaningless under Licinius's strong onslaught, and when all the warriors, including their leader, were knocked to the ground, the warriors of this tribe had to accept the bitter defeat in silence.
Although this was a victory won by Licinius with strong force, Gatus still gave four boxes of gold coins to the leader of this tribe, which can be regarded as buying the hearts of this tribe, after all, golden gold coins can always make people forget hatred.
After conquering this tribe, with the addition of 8,000 warriors of this tribe, the army under the command of Gatus had more than 12,000 people, so Gatus and Licinius led the army to move all the people of these two tribes to the camp of the Tasya.
When they arrived at the camp of the Tasya tribe, they were caught off guard by the problem that the camp of the Tasya tribe was too small to accommodate such a large population, and the food of the Tasya tribe was also seriously insufficient!
Originally, the food of the Tasia tribe had to be supported by the relief and trade of the Roman city, but now there are suddenly more than 35,000 ordinary people and more than 10,000 warriors, and the strength of the Tasia tribe is simply unable to feed so many people!
The problem of the camp being too small can be solved, as long as everyone works together, the camp of the Tassia tribe can be expanded soon, but the food problem is not something that the Tassia tribe can solve by themselves, they must rely on the help of the city of Rome.
In desperation, Licinius led his general's guard to Rome to ask for help on the day he returned to the Tasya tribal camp with his army, and in fact, it was also Licinius' mission to return the eight captured idols to Rome.
For some reason, the temples of the gods in the Tasya tribal camp had four large idols and eight minor idols, while the two tribes conquered by the coalition had only four small idols in their temples.
Anyway, Licinius's task was to capture all the idols of the conquering tribes and send them to the city of Rome, and as for how many idols there were in the temples of these tribes, it was not Licinius's business, and Licinius would not think about these questions that had nothing to do with the battle.
When Bai Feng learned from Licinius about the great victory of the coalition forces, his heart was also extremely happy, especially after seeing the eight statues, the smile on his face could not be suppressed, and he was completely excited.
However, the food crisis that the Tasya tribe is now facing must also be solved, and it just so happens that the store in Rome City can solve this problem, Bai Feng took out 1,000 gold treasury funds on the spot and bought enough food from the store for 100,000 people to eat for a month.