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Of the 14,500 officers and men of the Tiger Legion, two elite infantry wings and two longbow wings, as well as three infantry wings, have completed special training, and only Bazel's 500 cavalry guards have not yet undergone special training.

The specially trained Tigers and the Governor's Guard could be seen in their performance on the march, and the silent warriors and uniform steps made the two advancing armies look like two black beasts that choose to devour people.

In fact, the barbarian army, which had received special training in urban barracks and shooting ranges, was no different from the Roman youth army in terms of discipline and battle formation, especially the elite infantry with better equipment and stronger individual combat effectiveness, and their combat power was even closer to that of the Roman heavy infantry.

The advantage of the regular Roman youth army and the Roman heavy infantry lies in the three javelins in their equipment, and never underestimate the three seemingly chicken javelins, battle formations, javelins and short swords, which are the true essence of the Roman army!

The reason why the ancient Romans in history commonly used javelins was because they believed that the bow and arrow were not a weapon that was in line with their bloody nature, and the javelin was not only powerful, but also in line with the nature of the Romans, and the ancient Romans were very similar to the Spartans in this regard.

The history of human warfare advanced to about 300 B.C., and the ancient Romans gradually formed a legion combat system based on the hundred-man team, which was the first time in human military history that soldiers fighting alone were liberated from the shackles of dense formations.

However, all this was achieved with the adoption and refinement of two weapons, the short sword and the heavy javelin, and it was thanks to the adoption and refinement of these two weapons that the ancient Roman legions were possible to form and show the world their formidable combat effectiveness!

The Roman army's standard dagger was more versatile and versatile than other weapons, it could be used as a stabbing weapon to cut off the heads of other units in the enemy phalanx, and it was more effective at killing enemies than a sword used for assassination.

In the era when there were no anti-inflammatories, any kind of injury (especially a slash wound) could be life-threatening, so it is very important that the sword has such an effect, and it is extremely powerful!

In his writings, Livy described the Macedonian soldiers as "frightened when they saw the Spanish soldiers chopping their bodies into pieces with their swords, chopping their arms off their bodies, stabbing their necks to bloody pieces, and exposing their internal organs."

Such obvious practical combat value and battlefield deterrent effect were precisely the reason why the Roman army absorbed the characteristics of the Spanish army and equipped the Roman army with short swords on a large scale, and the weapons of the Roman youth army and the Roman heavy infantry were also of this standard.

Among the barbarian armies of Rome, only the elite infantry wing of each legion was equipped with the finest weapons and equipment produced by the armor shop, that is, the armor, shield, and dagger used by the Roman youth army, while the other infantry wings still used long swords.

Although Bai Feng knew that the longsword was not as good as the short sword in close combat in battle, he still did not order all the barbarian warriors to change into short swords, this was mainly considered from the barbarian warriors' habits of using weapons, after all, they had long been accustomed to using the long sword.

The dagger, the standard weapon of the Roman army, was so foreign to the barbarian warriors that they did not know how to use the dagger or what its advantages were over the long sword.

Even the vast majority of barbarian warriors were adamant that the long swords they had used were more effective than the swords of Rome, on the grounds that the length of the weapons determined the value of the weapons.

Needless to say, there were many barbarian warriors who held this idea, and they were not wrong, but the battle of the army and the fighting of the guerrilla were two completely different concepts.

In the battle of the barbarian tribes, the battle between the barbarian warriors was the fighting between the warriors of the two tribes, without any formation and cooperation, while the strength of the Roman army was to fight in a measured and die-cut battle formation.

The fact that the city of Rome has grown and grown proves that the fighting power of the Roman army is far superior to that of the free and loose barbarian army, but it is not easy to completely change the habits of the barbarian warriors in using weapons, and Bai Feng can only achieve it by gradually changing his clothes.

In fact, the army of Rome is not all melee infantry with short swords, the phalanx infantry with super long spears, the longbowmen with longbows, and the cavalry responsible for maneuvering to attack the flank, the multi-arm combined Roman army is the real Roman army!

Of course, the short sword commonly used by the Roman army was not a perfect weapon, and it also had its own drawbacks that could not be concealed; because the short sword had a relatively close fighting distance, it could not repel the enemy from a long distance like a long weapon, and its protective function for soldiers was poorer.

In order to compensate for this shortcoming, the Romans made a major improvement on the original shield, which increased the diameter of the original small Greek round shield compared to the Macedonians, and changed the shield to a strong oblong convex body.

Somewhat similar in shape to the flat surface of a lute barrel, it was made of wood, covered with animal skins, and reinforced with narrow strips of metal, which made the Roman soldiers lighter and more protected.

The systematic armies recruited by the city of Rome, i.e., all the shields used by the Roman youth army and the Roman heavy infantry, were made of this wooden square shield, while others, such as the round shields used by the Roman light infantry, were similar to those used by the Macedonian army.

In addition, Roman soldiers needed about six feet of space in front of the right side of their battle formation when wielding short swords, and they had to get close to the enemy before they could stab them, so such a battle was a veritable hand-to-hand battle, requiring great courage and bravery.

The fierce Roman army and the fierce and brave barbarian warriors undoubtedly possessed this spirit, so the shortcomings of the short sword in this regard could be directly ignored at this time, and Bai Feng had never worried about this problem.

Another major development in Roman weaponry was the heavy javelin, which appeared in the third century BC, like the dagger, and in the armies of other countries, auxiliary units would use javelins to demoralize the enemy, open breaches, or harass their flanks at the beginning of battles.

The Roman army experimented with many different types of javelins, which were not formalized until the second century BC, and were made of half metal rods and half wood.

That is, a 4.5-foot-long iron rod is inserted into a 4.5-foot-long wooden pole with a total length of about seven feet, and in order to connect the two parts of the javelin, two pins are usually used to accomplish this task.

The javelins used by the Roman youth army and the Roman hoplites in the city of Rome were a smaller version of this stereotyped heavy javelin, or half the length of the javelin, but the actual combat effectiveness was still strong!