"Chapter 6: The Upcoming Expedition: I"

You see, out of personal needs and expectations, the human mind often distorts everything, and there is always such a danger, and such temptations are always beckoning to you.

- Sadhguru (Enlightened Being, Enlightened Yogi, Mystic, Visionary Humanitarian, Outstanding Spiritual Teacher)

According to Bai Feng and Luquis's assumptions, the optimal establishment of the Tuntian Corps should be composed of three infantry wings and one longbow wing; however, the Tuntian Corps had half the number of soldiers less than the regular field corps, and the full strength was only 1,000 soldiers.

Taking into account the factors of weaponry and equipment and the factor of rapidly replenishing the front-line field corps, the three infantry wings of the Tuntian Corps were divided into two elite wings and one regular wing; the difference between them was special training and weaponry.

The 2,000 specially trained soldiers of each Tuntian regiment will be uniformly equipped with the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army and organized into two elite wings, while the remaining soldiers will be grouped into a longbow wing with a longbow as a weapon, and 1,000 will be organized into a regular wing with sword and shield suits.

In this way, the Tuntian Legion, which has a full strength of 4,000 soldiers, has actually become a multi-arm composite corps with independent combat capability after being organized into four wings; if it engages head-on, it can definitely suppress three or four times the size of its own barbarian youth.

If the front-line field legion in the city of Rome urgently needs to be replenished, the soldiers of the elite two teams of the specially trained Tuntian Legion, with their experience of skillfully using the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army, can form combat effectiveness with a little running-in, and even the process of replacing weapons and equipment can be saved.

Although the standard weaponry of the Roman heavy infantry was much better than that of the Roman youth army, there was no essential difference between the two standard weapons and equipment;

The optimal formation of the town guard correspondingly set up two standard brigades of 500 men, one using the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman youth army, and the other using sword and shield suits;

The town guards, like the Tuntian legions, belonged to the reserve army of the Roman city, but the nature of the two was still different; the soldiers of the Tuntian legion could be replenished into the field legion at any time, while the soldiers of the town guard could hardly be withdrawn.

If there had been a day when the soldiers of the town guards had been transferred, I am afraid that the city of Rome would have reached the point of exhaustion, and at that time, what could the tens of thousands of town guards soldiers scattered all over the towns recover?

In today's Roman city, without counting the shogunate army, there are more than 115,000 Roman soldiers and soldiers, plus more than 300,000 troops of various field legions, and the number of front-line field troops alone is as much as 434,000!

The 235,000 men of the 45 Tuntian Legions and the 45 Town Guards were not so much the reserves of the front-line field legions as the native garrisons of the city of Rome, and their main function was to maintain the stability of the towns directly under the rule of the city of Rome.

This is like the city defense army of the Celestial Dragon Empire scattered throughout the provinces and counties, which is a necessary garrison to maintain the rule and internal stability of the empire, unless it is to the point of life and death of the empire, it is impossible for the city defense army to go to the front line to fight.

The city of Rome, which was in the stage of vigorous development, was certainly much stronger than the declining Celestial Dragon Empire, and it would only take a year or two at most, and when the barbarian people who had newly incorporated the rule of Rome were brought to heart, the Tuntian army would be able to use it.

Aside from the 230,000 Tuntian soldiers and guards who cannot be used for the time being, the 280,000 soldiers of the Lucy Kingdom and the Essini Kingdom are the forces that Rome can call upon at any time, and the 280,000 barbarian vassal army is not the 280,000 Tianlong City defense army!

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as these 280,000 barbarian warriors have sufficient weapons and equipment, their combat strength will never be worse than that of the army of millions of Heavenly Dragons!

However, whether it is Queen Boudicca, who has become a woman of the White Peak, or Yoki Yamashita who is a member of the city of Rome herself, the status of the king determines that it is impossible for them to hand over all the troops to the city of Rome for mobilization, after all, there is still a difference between a vassal state and a puppet.

In this way, the actual number of troops that Rome can use, in addition to its own army of 430,000, the two vassal kingdoms can probably provide about 150,000 servant troops, plus nearly 80,000 shogunate troops, the total strength is about 660,000!

Among them, it includes not only the legions that must be stationed in the city of Rome, but also the standing armies of the Yanhuang family in the Mutsu Kingdom;

After successive battles with the Orc Empire and the Three Grasslands, the Celestial Dragon Empire, which was already in decline, exhausted almost all of its elite troops, and even the royal legions defending the imperial capital were brought to the front line to change their blood.

The current Celestial Dragon Empire has a large number of troops, but there are no more legions with strong combat strength, and there are only twenty or thirty elite legions, either directly under Bai Feng's orders, or indirectly obey Bai Feng's orders (for example, the army under the command of Long Desteider).

The 1,800,000 soldiers of the other 90 legions, all of whom had not been in battle, and whose weapons and equipment were even more incomparably poor, were the 1,800,000 troops of the Roman army, which was armed to the teeth.

With the passage of time, the combat effectiveness of the various legions of the Celestial Dragon Empire will definitely be improved to a certain extent, but at the same time as their combat effectiveness is improved, the city of Rome, which is actively expanding outward, will inevitably become stronger at a faster speed!

As long as the Roman army on the imminent expedition landed on the land of the Yamato Empire, the Date family and the Uesugi family, who were enemies of the Yanhuang family, would be defeated and retreat.

The three kingdoms of Higashiyama Province, Dewa Province, Ueno Province, and Shimono Province, which are adjacent to the Mutsu Province, will inevitably become part of the Yanhuang family under the strong force of the Yanhuang family, and it is unknown whether the Echigo Province of Hokuriku Province and the Hitachi Province of Tokaido will be able to hold back the Yanhuang family's troops.

In fact, Bai Feng himself knew in his heart that Hitachi Province, which was still in the radiation range of the Hojo family's influence, and Echigo Province, one of the core territories of the Uesugi family, would definitely not be able to stop the powerful army of the Yanhuang family, but whether to attack these two places was not a simple military issue.

Military means are often a concrete extension of political issues, and it is impossible for Bai Feng to rely on the strength of the Yanhuang family to fight to the end with the three families of Uesugi, Date, and Hojo at the same time; eliminating the relatively weakest Date family in one fell swoop is the most prudent expansion strategy of the Yanhuang family.

As for the Uesugi family in Hokuriku Province and the Hojo family in Tokaido, as long as these two families are willing to give something, Hakumine doesn't mind keeping the peace they deserve;