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With a black cape, a black shield, a black leather helmet, black leather armor, and a straight spear, this is clearly the image of the standard Roman Republic infantry in TV series and movies!

If the uniforms and weapons of these soldiers were red, it would be exactly the same as the infantry of the Roman Republic that Bai Feng had seen in TV series and movies, and even if everything about them was red, Bai Feng was shocked by them.

You must know that Bai Feng never recruited the town militia when he was playing the game, and the image of the town militia in Bai Feng's mind has always been that the combat effectiveness is only better than that of the peasants; when Bai Feng played the game, the biggest regret was that the image of the Roman faction in the Roman all-out war was still very different from the image of the real Roman army.

In the later stages of the game, the Roman legionnaires in the game are still very similar to the actual image of the late Roman Empire army, but there are no classes in the game that can match the image of the Roman army in the Roman Republic era before the Marius reform.

Bai Feng really didn't expect that the town militia that he had always regarded as chicken ribs would actually appear in the image of the infantry of the Roman Republic, even if the actual combat effectiveness of these town militia was not as good as that of the youth army, Bai Feng already liked them just by their image.

After the first group of urban militia was recruited, Bai Feng, in order to verify the combat effectiveness of the urban militia, asked the youth army with the largest number of troops to conduct a competition with the urban militia, and 144 youth soldiers confronted 160 urban militia without javelins.

The Young Militia had a relatively fair fight against the Town Militia without using javelins, and although the Town Militia's shields were not as strong as the Young People's shields, their spears were much longer than the short swords of the Young People.

As a result of the competition, 144 youth soldiers were victorious, and 160 town militia were 'annihilated' in the battle, and the price paid by the youth army was that 74 youth soldiers were killed, and almost all of the remaining 70 youth soldiers were wounded.

Of course, this is only a conceptual test, and cannot be used to measure the real combat effectiveness of these two arms; if it were in a real battle, the javelin salvo before the attack of the youth army would definitely be effective in killing and injuring some of the urban militia, and in addition, the urban militia could not really fight to the last man, and the actual casualty figure of the youth army should be much smaller.

But no matter what, the combat effectiveness of the urban militia is still good, at least much stronger than Bai Feng imagined; after all, the recruitment cost of the urban militia is only 150 gold, while the recruitment cost of the youth army is as high as 440 gold, which is nearly three times the difference!

If three groups of urban militia were to be recruited with the funds of recruiting a youth army, then the role of the three groups of urban militia on the battlefield would certainly be stronger than that of a youth army, but if the maintenance costs were taken into account, the youth army would need 170 gold per year, and the urban militia would also need 100 gold, which would have a bad impact on the cost performance of the urban militia.

In addition, there is another factor that Bai Feng has to consider, that is, the size of the army in Rome City, the size of the army in Rome City must form a suitable proportion with the population size of Rome City, which means that before the population size of Rome City does not reach a certain level, Bai Feng must take the elite route, which is also a helpless choice determined by the actual situation.

Considering that it is impossible for the city of Rome to enter the stage of a large town for a while and a half, the town barracks that can only be built in large towns are naturally something that Bai Feng does not have to think about; since the Roman youth army that can only be recruited after the construction of the town barracks cannot be recruited in a short period of time, then the town militia that can be recruited is the type of troops that Bai Feng has to recruit.

The current population of Rome is still below 3,000, and by the end of this month, the temple of Apollo will be able to summon another 500 people, and the population of Rome will exceed 3,000, and the army that can be recruited will reach more than 450 men.

Each group of town militia has 160 people, and if there are three groups of town militia, it will be 480 people, which is still within the tolerance range of Rome City, and Bai Feng plans to wait until the end of this month to recruit two more groups of town militia to expand the military strength of Rome City.

As soon as the city of Rome had built the road, White Peak would join forces with the Tasia tribe to build a road between the Tasia tribe's camp and the city of Rome, and the trade between the two sides would be further expanded, but the risks would also follow.

After all, the location of Roman City is a barbarian land full of barbarian tribes, even if the Tasya tribe says that there are no other barbarian tribes in the nearby area, Bai Feng does not dare to guarantee that there will be no other tribes in this small area.

In order to ensure the safety of this trade route, Bai Feng planned to deploy three groups of town militia recruited on this trade route, and in the future, these three groups of town militia would go back and forth between the city of Rome and the camp of the Tasya tribe to patrol and protect this trade route.

While busy with these things every day, Bai Feng did not forget to work hard to cultivate spiritual power and sword skills, which was also the most advantageous guarantee for Bai Feng to survive in this world; in Bai Feng's opinion, the protection of any external force was not as safe as his own strong strength.

What's more, the task that Bai Feng needs to complete is not only to develop the city of Rome, but also to improve his own strength as soon as possible is also one of the tasks that Bai Feng needs to complete, and Bai Feng naturally has to focus on cultivation in this area.

With Yue'er's help and guidance, Bai Feng's cultivation speed is still very good, although Bai Feng's improvement in sword skills has not been very fast recently, but the speed of spiritual power realm improvement is still good, and when this month is about to end, he has already reached the realm of a first-level intermediate sword master!

With the end of the month, the road to the city of Rome has been officially completed, and before the next building can be built, Bai Feng clicks on the financial report that appears on the property panel of the city of Rome as usual.

February Financial Report (February 916 AH)

Agriculture: income 600 gold, expenditure 0

Mining: 0 revenue, 0 expenditure

Trade: Income 425, Expenditure 0

Taxes: Income 750, gold expenditure 0

Fortune: Spend 100 (100 gold per month for each general)

Army Maintenance Cost: Expenditure 0

Recruitment: Spend 3150 gold (Temple summoning generals also belong to recruitment)

Construction: Spend 1000 gold

Entertainment: 0 payouts

Diplomacy: 0 income, 0 expenditure

Corruption: Income 150 gold, 0 expenses

Last month's total: income 1,925 gold, expenditure 4,250 gold

Last month's surplus: 2,325 gold expenditures

Total amount of the treasury at the beginning of the month: 5020 gold

Current Treasury: 2,695 gold