"Chapter 47: The Concept of the Alliance"
Which is more lonely: is it living in your own world and not loving anyone, or is it loving someone in your heart but never being able to get close to love?
- Paolo Giordano (famous Italian writer)
The Legion Commander of Eggers is not only the commander of the Eagle Legion, but also the head of the four generals of the Aceni Kingdom, except for Atabaz, who has died on the battlefield, only Nabazani and Assam are left in the entire Aceni Kingdom, which can be compared with Eggers in terms of prestige. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Even so, Nabazani and Assam could not have the same influence as Eggers, who made Queen Boudicca, whom Eggers had always supported and protected, the queen of the kingdom of Aceni?
Considering the master-slave relationship between the city of Rome and the kingdom of Aceni, as well as the status of Eggers in the city of Rome, his family's influence was recognized by many commoners.
A family that can influence both nobles and commoners is very powerful in the Aceni Kingdom, and as the well-deserved leader of the family, Eggers' own prestige in the Aceni Kingdom can be imagined.
After all, for the barbarians accustomed to obeying the strong, the mighty city of Rome had enough qualifications to look up to, and it was not a shame to be conquered by such a strong man and submit to such a strong man.
The barbarians who believed in the law of the jungle gave the city more opportunities to increase its influence with their inherent thinking patterns, and the results of their efforts through these opportunities were the basis for Bai Feng to form an alliance with the army of the Aceni Kingdom.
Among the 50,000 troops of the four legions existing in the Essini Kingdom, the armies that Bai Feng intends to mobilize are the First Legion of Nabazani and the Second Legion of Assam, as well as the Third Legion of Joshuaer;
Not only did he unintentionally transfer, but Bai Feng also planned to reinforce a batch of weapons and equipment from the Roman City army to the Aceni Kingdom after transferring the three main legions of the Essini Kingdom, and help Queen Boudicca double the size of her personal guard legion!
Although General Joshuaer's Third Legion was the army of the Acenian Kingdom that was very close to the city of Rome, Bai Feng himself believed in Queen Boudicca's loyalty to the city of Rome.
Unless General Josius can completely become the general of Rome City in the future, it is impossible for Bai Feng's trust in him to be above Queen Boudicca, which is a change in trust brought about by emotional relationships, which is a natural advantage that Queen Boudicca has.
Of course, whether Nabazani and Assam were willing to join the army of Rome to attack the Witt tribe was the reason why Bai Feng needed Eggers to lead the army to the kingdom of Aceni, and among all the generals in Rome, he was the only one who could hold Nabazani and Assam in control.
If you consider it from the perspective of combat effectiveness alone, Eggers' Eagle Legion and Bronnor's Dragon Legion, as long as they have undergone special training in the urban military camp and shooting range, can defeat the 80,000-foot cavalry army of the Werther tribe in the east of the river with their own strength.
But the crux of the matter is that what Baifeng and Rome need is not to defeat the army of the Werther tribe, but to quickly annihilate the Hedong army of the Werther tribe in one fell swoop;
In order to accomplish the strategic goal of annihilating the Hexi army of the Werther tribe, the assistance of the 40,000 troops of the Essini Kingdom was very necessary, even if their actual combat effectiveness was not very strong, at least they could use their numerical superiority to help the Roman army pursue the enemy.
Therefore, Bai Feng had to let Eggers be the supreme commander of the combined forces of the Roman army and the Acenian army, and he was the only one who could command the army of the city of Rome and the army of the Acenian Kingdom at the same time.
After determining the deployment of troops in the city of Rome and fully communicating with Eggers, Bai Feng was about to start running for the troops of the Aceni Kingdom, which he could not pretend to anyone.
The last time Bai Feng went to the hinterland of the Aceni Kingdom, he brought with him the funds needed for the road construction plan and the gifts to buy people's hearts, but this time he brought weapons and equipment that could arm 10,000 soldiers and enough food and grass for an army of 40,000 for half a year.
Since the purpose of forming a coalition army is to help Rome City attack the Witte tribe, then Rome City naturally has to bear all the food and grass consumption of the army of the Aceni Kingdom; this is only the most basic condition for the two sides to form an alliance, as for what conditions are needed for the Aceni Kingdom, it can only be known when Bai Feng arrives in the Aceni Kingdom.
The guards escorting Bai Feng to the Acenian Kingdom were still served by the cavalry of the personal guard battalion, and the four teams of the Seleucid ironclad cavalry with extraordinary momentum, plus four teams of richly equipped Macedonian royal cavalry, this was the entire escort force of Bai Feng.
The Parthian archers, who had been traveling with Bai Feng almost all the time, were not taken by Bai Feng this time, for the following reason: from the beginning of the Supreme Military Council, the extremely mobile Parthian archers were sent to the border area between the forces of Rome and the Vitus tribe.
The information of the Werther tribe discovered by the ghosts of the battlefield needs to be continuously transmitted back to Rome as quickly as possible, and the only one who can take on the task of secrecy and speed is the Parthian archers who are in the form of a systematic army.
In fact, the performance of the Parthian archers did not disappoint Bai Feng, and all the information about the Viter tribe that was brought out at the Supreme Military Council was sent back from the border area by the Parthian archers.
In this way, when Bai Feng set off to prepare to go to the Essini Kingdom, the Parthian archers who could play a greater role were naturally not brought by Bai Feng, not to mention, Bai Feng did not feel that he lacked that team of Parthian archers by his side.
If there were any unexpected dangers encountered along the way, what could a mere team of Parthian archers do, when four teams of Seleucid ironclad cavalry and four teams of companion cavalry could not cope with them?
The greatest value of the Parthian archers was not their attack power and combat effectiveness, but their unusually fast mobility, which was nothing if this mobility were not taken into account.
Escorted by nearly a thousand cavalry guards, Bai Feng and his three retinues set off at a gallop towards the hinterland of the Aceni Kingdom;
In the past, the war horses that Bai Feng, Maxi and Darnell rode were all ordinary war horses, and Bai Sheng, the giant of the iron tower, could not find a war horse that could hold him up;
These high-quality Maxima horses are not only incomparably good-looking, but also the best of the high-quality war horses in terms of weight-bearing ability and running ability.
In this way, all the generals of the rank of legion commander in Rome City were given a high-quality Maxima as a mount, and the three Maxi who were the attendants of the White Peak naturally obtained their own high-quality Maxima horses close to the water.