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Chapter 538 Forming a force
Seeing the rebels, Richard immediately ordered the reorganized young and strong men to follow and rush to the battlefield quickly.

Richard was ready to subdue this rebel army.

After Richard gave the order, three teams of slaves immediately followed. The weapons in the hands of these slaves were only wooden sticks, wooden forks, and the better ones even had wooden bows, but their lethality was low.

However, after this period of training and food supply, these people are still physically strong and can perform simple formations.

By the time Richard and his men arrived, there were already hundreds of corpses on the battlefield, basically all of them were from the rebels. Without armor or weapons, they were no match for the Roman soldiers who formed a chariot formation.

After several attacks, the rebels could only surround the convoy in the center, but unfortunately their approach was useless.

There are sufficient supplies in the convoy. As long as a few more people are killed and the number gap between the two sides is no longer so large, the convoy will take the initiative to attack and completely defeat the rebels.

At this time, the soldiers in the convoy had begun to take turns to replenish food and restore their strength, while the rebels could only surround the convoy and could not break through the convoy formation at all.

There were even some soldiers in the convoy who took up bows and arrows and shot anyone who was too close.

At this point, the rebels had basically lost their morale. As long as the soldiers were well fed and watered, a charge would be enough to defeat the rebels.

Seeing this scene, Richard didn't wait any longer and rushed forward on his horse.

Hearing the sound of horse hooves, the two sides in confrontation turned their heads to look. The rebels had despair on their faces. They knew very well that they had no reinforcements, let alone cavalry.

The Roman army on the other side was full of expectations. They thought that the most likely army that came would be the Roman army. As long as the two cooperated, they could directly defeat the rebels.

But when they saw that there was only one cavalryman, everyone was disappointed.

After seeing the convoy, Richard jumped up, stood on the horse's back, drew his bow and shot an arrow at the convoy ahead.

The arrow flew over the chariot formation and directly hit the soldier who looked like an officer in the chariot formation. The officer fell down holding his neck, and the Roman soldiers who had been relaxed immediately panicked.

This is the reinforcement from the other side! And they shot and killed their commander with one arrow.

This was a major blow to an army. The remaining Roman soldiers took up their shields and stood in front. The rebels surrounding the chariot formation were stunned for a moment, and then immediately cheered.

Although they don’t know why the other party helped them, they now know that they will win this time!

Richard shot quickly, arrows flying like meteors, one after another.

In just a moment, five or six soldiers in the chariot formation were shot dead by him. Seeing this, the Roman soldiers in the chariot formation picked up bows and arrows and wanted to fight back, but before they could aim, an arrow pierced their eyes and nailed them to the ground.

Seeing the Roman soldiers in the chariot formation being shot and killed one after another, the rebels cheered loudly, and some even took the opportunity to launch an attack.

With Richard's powerful mental strength, he could clearly sense the movements of everyone on the battlefield. His arrows were like they had eyes, and any enemy who dared to show their heads were shot dead.

He alone suppressed the Roman soldiers in the chariot formation. After seeing that the Roman soldiers in the chariot formation did not dare to show their heads to fight back, the rebels immediately rushed forward.

The Roman soldiers did not dare to fight back, and the rebels quickly rushed forward and forced their way into the army. At this time, the Roman soldiers had to fight back. But Richard was watching them from outside, and as soon as they showed their heads, he would shoot an arrow at them.

After seeing this situation, the Roman soldiers collapsed immediately.

Many people shouted for surrender, and finally the remaining Roman soldiers dropped their weapons and surrendered under Richard's intimidation.

After the rebels saw the chariot formation surrender, they all rushed forward to search for spoils. At this time, the three teams of slaves behind Richard also rushed over.
Richard directly ordered the three teams of slaves to take over the spoils. Two of the insurgents who dared to snatch the spoils were shot dead by Richard.

"I will distribute all the spoils!" Richard rode forward and said to the rebels.

"Who agrees and who opposes?"

After seeing how majestic Richard was just now, the rebels did not dare to object at all and all agreed to let Richard distribute the spoils.

Then Richard selected a few smart people from the rebels and asked them to count the convoys, and then Richard came to the surrendered Roman soldiers.

"Are you willing to follow me?" Richard said.

These Roman soldiers were basically mercenaries, most of whom were naturalized barbarians. In fact, they were mercenaries under the nobility and had no loyalty at all.

However, these people have basically undergone some formal military training. Although the training effect is average, they are more than enough to serve as instructors to train the rebels.

Richard needed these mercenaries to help him train his army. After seeing Richard's amazing archery skills, these barbarian mercenaries finally decided to follow Richard. After all, those who chose not to follow him had been killed by him with one sword.
After successfully subduing these mercenaries, Richard immediately ordered the rebels to pull more than a dozen carts of supplies back to their base.

Deep in the forest, there was a dilapidated camp. The entire camp didn't even have a decent wall, only some wooden fences that couldn't even stop large beasts.

The houses are also very simple, many of them are shacks built against the rock walls, and there are also some tents.

In order to survive, the rebels suppressed by Aetius could only hide in the deep mountains and forests. Anyway, they were a group of people with nothing, so as long as they could survive, it didn't matter where they went.

In the history of Blue Star, these people eventually began to turn to the Franks, Germans and even the Huns in order to survive.

Eventually these people became the labor force of the barbarians, allowing the barbarians' strength to grow rapidly.

Richard led his men to the camp, and many women and children came to help carry supplies. These so-called rebels were actually made up of bankrupt farmers, slaves who couldn't survive, and escaped soldiers.

There were almost no elderly people in the camp, and not many children, but there were about a hundred women.

This ratio is very abnormal, but it is normal here. After all, when natural disasters or man-made disasters occur, the first to die are definitely the elderly and the weak, followed by children, then women, and finally the young and strong.

In order to survive, the young and strong would even deliberately abandon those people or eat them directly.

After all the food supplies were brought in, Richard announced in the center of the camp that he would distribute the food. Adult males were to receive three kilograms per day, women two kilograms, and children one and a half kilograms.

Then Richard asked people to light a fire and cook, and everyone lined up to get the food.

No one objected, and everyone agreed with Richard's distribution method.

There were originally six or seven hundred people in the entire camp. After the previous battle, there were more than five hundred people left, including nearly three hundred young and strong people, less than two hundred women, and only about thirty children.

In addition to the more than 100 people brought by Richard, there are now more than 600 people in the camp. At the same time, there are more than 20 horses and 16 barbarian mercenary warriors.

Richard then announced some simple rules and regulations for the camp. Starting from tomorrow, people would be organized to hunt, fish, and repair the village.

He had just scanned this camp with his mental power, and the location was pretty good. This was a valley, and some farmland could be opened up in the camp. There would be a stone wall at the camp exit.

Some land can be reclaimed in the surrounding mountains. Although it is very poor, some crops can be grown using farmyard manure.

After the scan, he has prepared a development plan.

In the following period of time, Richard prepared to recruit all other rebels or fugitives in this forest into his army.

Then they organized these people to cultivate land, fish and hunt in the mountains and forests to accumulate strength, and at the same time selected some of the young and strong to form an army to accumulate strength.

Next, this place will become even more chaotic. After the death of the Protector of the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire's rule over this place will basically be zero. He will lead these rebels to occupy the surrounding lands.

Now let the Roman legions and the barbarians continue to fight to the death.

The number of people that can be fed in the mountains and forests is very limited. Even if Richard has a lot of knowledge, it would be difficult to feed these people if he cannot use high-level spells.

After all, the mountains and forests are barren and produce very little food.

So Richard planned to mine the ore, then smelt it and sell it in exchange for food.

At the same time, they were also preparing to train an elite force for looting. The imperial army could loot, the barbarians could loot, so could the rebels not loot?
In fact, there is still a lot of food in Richard's private space. He will replenish it every time he travels through the planes. The food is enough to feed an army of 10,000 people for three years.

He didn't plan to take out all the food at once. After all, the world still needed to rely on itself for food production. The food in his hands was just for getting through the crisis.

Under Richard's management, the entire camp soon became well organized. With food available, Richard's plans began to be implemented.

At the same time, Richard asked Mia to start counting the faith issues among these people. Since they had decided to intervene in the pantheon war, they could no longer ignore the faith issues, but Richard had not yet decided what faith to use.

Richard conducted some tests on the people in the camp again, and then selected those with good physical fitness to prepare to form an army.

Finally, one hundred people were selected from the camp of more than six hundred people. Richard asked the barbarian mercenaries to assist in the training. At the same time, he selected some people from these people to teach them iron smelting and mining techniques.

(End of this chapter)