"Chapter 7: A New Battlestyle"
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With the permission of the commander of the army, Duke Gna, and the support of the corps commander Giscar, Bai Feng's plan was carried out smoothly, and the Eighth Wing, which followed behind the Seventh Wing, filled the vacancy of the Seventh Wing, and Evans's Tenth Wing was followed by the Seventh Wing.
The Seventh Wing, which has a full strength of 2,700 men, is actually the largest wing of the 40th Army Corps, and the full strength of the other wings is generally about 2,000 men, and the number of people fluctuating up and down will not exceed 100.
The First Wing, which was the most valued and strongest in each regiment, was only slightly better in terms of the quality of its officers and equipment; for example, the First Wing of the 40th Army Corps did not have more personnel than the other regiments, and they all had the same number of about 2,000 men.
After bringing his Seventh Wing to the rear of the army, Bai Feng immediately ordered the soldiers of the Seventh Wing to stop marching and set up camp on the spot; Bonella and the others, who did not know why, did not dare to disobey Bai Feng's order, so they immediately arranged for the soldiers to build a camp.
The simple makeshift barracks, which only required a few wooden fences and canvas tents to set up, were the most convenient and quickest option for the march, and it took only twenty minutes or so for the makeshift barracks to appear in the open space near the gallop.
Today was the first day of the new battle formation, and Bai Feng did not intend to make high demands on these soldiers who had just become the regular army of the Empire, and their first task was to learn how to advance in the standard marching formation of the Roman Youth Army.
Each group of 160 Roman youth troops marched side by side, with a distance of 50 centimeters between the two soldiers and 80 centimeters between the front and rear, forming a long rectangular formation.
The two rows of eighty young soldiers walking on the left and right flanks must always have their shields facing outward, as a precautionary measure to avoid the enemy's bow and arrow attacks as much as possible, and the two rows of young soldiers in the middle only need to hold their shields normally.
As soon as the Roman youth army was attacked by the enemy on the march, the young soldiers on both flanks would immediately build two shield walls to protect the middle robe, and the young soldiers at the front and rear ends would also build shield walls, forming a super defensive shield array in an instant.
The young soldiers in the center of the shield array will quickly prepare for battle, if the enemy army is too strong, they will raise their shields to help the outer robes maintain the shield wall, if the enemy army is not strong, they will become a shock force to counterattack the enemy army.
The marching formation of the Roman Youth Army is both solid and defensive, and it is indeed the best formation for the most suitable army march, so Bai Feng now wants the soldiers of the Seventh Wing to learn the marching formation of the Roman Youth Army.
The four captains, Bonella, Carol, Darren, and Lennon, were all veterans who had fought the enemy on the battlefield, and even if they were not able to improve the original marching formation of the Imperial army, it did not prevent them from understanding the marching formation of the Roman Youth Army.
Especially on the premise of Bai Feng's personal explanation and the on-site demonstration of the Roman Youth Army, the bright-eyed Bonella and others naturally made every effort to assist the soldiers of the Roman Youth Army in training the soldiers under their command;
In order to learn the marching formation of the Roman Youth Army, the first thing the soldiers of the 7th Wing had to do was to stand in a military position, and without strict military posture training as a foundation, no strong battle formation could be effective, even if it was the result of centuries of Roman numbers.
In the war of the Cold Weapon Age, the uniform formation was definitely an epoch-making product, and the strictly trained battle formation army quickly eliminated the scattered free army.
In the past, the reserve troops of the Imperial Military Department had to go through almost strict military posture training and formation training before they could be transformed into the Imperial Standing Army, but this time it was a critical situation, which made the Imperial Military Department relax its standards and send soldiers who had not undergone military posture and formation training to the battlefield.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the newly formed eight legions are basically the cannon fodder troops sent by the empire to Sunset Fortress, and the elite divisions of the empire that really determine the key to victory or defeat are the four royal legions under the command of Duke Kleist, and they are the ace troops of the empire!
And everything Bai Feng did was to change the fate of these cannon fodder, so that the cannon fodder troops in the eyes of the superior could survive on the battlefield, as long as they could survive a few fierce battles, then they would grow into an elite division with combat power exceeding that of the ordinary reserve legion!
The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is often cruel; Bai Feng originally wanted to use three days to teach the soldiers of the Seventh Wing to use a new marching formation, but the training progress of the soldiers made Bai Feng feel disappointed.
Looking at the soldiers who had never been able to keep up with the rhythm of the Roman Youth Army, Bai Feng, who was frowning, decided to use a more radical method to urge the soldiers of the Seventh Wing.
On the second night of the military posture training, Bai Feng gathered all the officers and men of the 7th Wing in the center of the barracks, and then announced a new order to them:
In the future training, the whole squadron will conduct a competition with the squadron as a unit, and the military salary of the officers and men of the best performing squadron will be raised to three gold coins per month, and the second and third will be two gold coins and one gold coin respectively, and the military salaries of the other squadrons will remain unchanged; among them, the three squadrons with the worst performance must also undertake the task of building temporary barracks on the premise that the military salary remains unchanged.
Bai Feng has always firmly believed that only when there is competition can there be pressure, and pressure is the driving force for people to progress.
On the third day of military posture training, the squadrons, which had previously performed mediocre, became active under the stimulus of heavy rewards, and the training atmosphere in the barracks suddenly became enthusiastic, and the passionate training slogans of the officers and men resounded throughout the barracks.
Because Duke Gna's recognition was conditional, Bai Feng had to lead the soldiers of the Seventh Wing to dismantle the temporary barracks after the third day of training, and chased after the army dozens of miles ahead.
During the march to catch up with the main army, Bai Feng began to have the soldiers of the 7th Wing try to imitate the standard formation of the Roman youth army in squadrons;
After twelve days of this cycle, the officers and men of the 7th Wing, who had successfully completed their training in military posture, were able to skillfully use the standard formation of the Roman youth army, and it was difficult to distinguish them from the Roman youth army in terms of marching formation alone.
However, the study time was still short, and the officers and men of the wing could not compare with the Roman youth army, or even the same; according to Bai Feng's exercise experiment, the officers and men of the wing who had only learned the external appearance of the marching formation were still panicked in the face of danger.
But the tight time forced Bai Feng to continue to strengthen his training at the same time, and began to let the Roman youth army teach the soldiers of the wing the three-column battle formation of the Roman legion; compared to the former, the latter is the most powerful, most flexible, and most important battle formation of the Roman army in the field!