"Chapter 15: Against the Cavalry"
The eyes are raining for her, but the heart is holding an umbrella for her, this is love.
– Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet, philosopher, and Indian nationalist)
Hades is both the supreme commander of the Tragic Dead and the name of each Supreme Commander of the Tragic Dead, and all commanders, including the Supreme Commander, who attach great importance to inheritance and secrecy, use the code name of the commander of the early days of the Tragic Dead as their name.
For example, Bai Feng's most familiar leader of the tragic dead is Ares, the commander of the War Department, his original name was not Ares, and it was not until the death of Ares, the previous leader of the War Department, that he inherited the legendary name of Ares while inheriting the position of commander.
There is no doubt that the Hades who can be summoned by Bai Feng is naturally the Hades who was once loyal to him, and Hades, who has always served as the supreme commander of the Tragic Dead Soldiers, is the core figure for Bai Feng, who is in dire need of intelligence talents, to reproduce the past glory of the Tragic Dead Soldiers.
The crux of the matter lies in the fact that at the present stage, the tragic dead are still just a small force that is suppressed everywhere; in the imperial capital, where the powerful and powerful are everywhere and the hidden guard forces are extremely large, there is absolutely no room for development for the tragic dead without the support of a strong background.
Even though the relationship between Ames, the leader of the Hidden Guard, and Bai Feng is quite close, and can even be described as an invisible ally, however, the special status of the imperial capital determines that Ames cannot sit idly by and ignore the Tragic Dead, let alone help the Tragic Dead.
Otherwise, Charlemagne, who knew the imperial capital well, would inevitably detect the abnormality of the Hidden Guard, and at that time, Ames's hidden connection with Bai Feng in the dark might be exposed, which was an unacceptable result for both Bai Feng and Ames.
Therefore, no matter how close the relationship between Ames and Bai Feng is, every move of the Tragic Dead in the imperial capital will be reported to Charlemagne by Ames 1510;
In contrast, the Luowang organization, with its peripheral members spread across the six eastern provinces, is an intelligence agency with unlimited potential, and the pattern of supporting the people and the Sophia Chamber of Commerce inside, and the cover of hidden guards outside, gives Luowang an unparalleled development advantage.
Adrian, who was not a professional intelligence officer, played a very limited role in the development of the net, and after Hades was summoned, he was appointed by Bai Feng as the new commander of the net, shouldering the heavy responsibility of controlling the net.
Adrian, who couldn't wait, after explaining all aspects of the net, led the battlefield ghosts under his command straight to Besançon Province, where Bai Feng was located;
With Hades, the tragic and dead warrior in the Roman world, in charge of the net, Bai Feng, who is very determined, no longer has to worry about the matter of the net; how to improve the combat effectiveness of the army as soon as possible and counterattack the Longxiang Province occupied by the Eight Banners cavalry is what Bai Feng needs to do urgently.
The 14th, 16th, 56th, 57th, and 58th standing regiments, no matter how much they changed their weapons and equipment and improved the combat effectiveness of their soldiers, they were still ordinary infantry regiments after all, and it was difficult to confront the Eight Banners cavalry of the Jurchen tribe head-on.
Montgomery's Swift Legion and Ranocchia's Predator Guards are indeed stronger than the Standing Legions, but they are still not enough to compete head-on with large-scale cavalry, and even the Feather Forest Legion and the Fire Legion may not be able to withstand the frontal impact of tens of thousands of Eight Banner Cavalry!
It is not for nothing that the cavalry has become the strongest branch of the army in the era of cold weapons, and the incomprehensible mobility and invincible impact of the infantry have made the cavalry its prestige as the 'infantry nemesis'.
Although Renard's 58th Army and the Luculus Division of the Pro-Guard each had a cavalry wing of 3,000 troops, how could the cavalry unit formed by the soldiers of the Celestial Dragon Empire be the opponent of the steppe cavalry who had lived on horseback since childhood?
If Bai Feng wants to defeat the 100,000 Eight Banners cavalry of the Jurchen tribe in Langxiang Province, there are only three ways to choose: first, gather a large number of hoplite troops, use several times the heavy infantry of the enemy, and push the 100,000 Eight Banners cavalry of the Jurchen tribe head-on at the cost of casualties.
Second, to form a cavalry unit that is more elite than the Eight Banners Cavalry of the Jurchen tribe, and use powerful cavalry to defeat the Eight Banners Cavalry of the Jurchen tribe; third, to use the phalanx legions of the Roman city, and use the Macedonian phalanx, which is most suitable for dealing with cavalry, to deal with the Eight Banners Cavalry of the Jurchen tribe.
Among the three ways available to Bai Feng, the first method is too unrealistic, Bai Feng, who lacks a major general, has not even solved the problem of the basic equipment of the five standing corps, where is there enough soldiers and weapons to form a large-scale hoplite unit.
The second way is more nonsense than the first way, the formation of cavalry is much more difficult than infantry, especially the elite cavalry is a bottomless pit that burns money and time;
Even in the Roman city where Bai Feng could do whatever he wanted, Bai Feng, who had been painstakingly operating for more than two years, still only formed an elite cavalry corps of 10,000 cavalry and an elite cavalry corps of 4,000 heavy cavalry, with a total number of only 14,000 cavalry.
This also includes a large number of cavalry captives captured by Bai Feng from Queen Boudicca, otherwise these two cavalry legions Bai Feng would not be able to be formed, so it can be seen that the formation of cavalry is by no means an overnight thing.
As for the last third way, Bai Feng, who had defeated the wolf cavalry with the Spartan Legion as the main force in the breakout battle, felt that it was not necessary to use the Spartan Legion again, but this time the appearance of the Spartan Legion must have a reasonable opportunity.
An army that came out of thin air, one use in times of danger may not be enough to attract the attention of too many people, and a second use will definitely become the target of public criticism, and if he cannot find a suitable opportunity, the cautious Bai Feng would rather not use Leonidad's Spartan army.
Thinking of the Spartan legion still stationed in Rome at this time, Bai Feng thought of the two special troops he had just summoned from the Great Temple of Apollo a few days ago;
So far, the special classes summoned in the Great Temple of Apollo, the highest initial experience level are the fourth-level Germanic berserkers, Spartan heavy infantry, and ironclad cavalry, and these two special classes have broken this record.
The Carthaginian War Elephant with an initial experience level of five is composed of twenty-four war elephants per team, not only the Carthaginian mahout warriors who control the war elephants are medium-sized great sword master level powerhouses, but even the war elephants have a powerful combat power comparable to that of the fifth-level Warcraft!
War elephants, which used to only attack the enemy by stamping and proboscosis, have a new way of attacking after coming to this different world, and the original insipid stampede has become a terrifying trampling skill, and the roar that was originally only a scare effect has become a large-scale sonic skill.
After personally experiencing the trampling skills and sonic skills displayed by the war elephants, Bai Feng, who had always been moody, could not help but show an ecstatic look, and these two teams of war elephants with amazing combat power would become one of Bai Feng's secret weapons against the Eight Banners Cavalry of the Jurchen Tribe!