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After the brief exchange with Queen Boudicca, Bai Feng hurried back to the room to rest, and Queen Boudicca also returned to the room next to Yue'er to rest;

From Bronno's command and the 20,000 soldiers newly incorporated into the city of Rome, 12,000 soldiers were each transferred to supplement the vacant soldiers of the other legions, which was Bai Feng's established plan, and at the same time, Bai Feng needed to personally sit in charge to solve these things.

In addition, the formation of the 2nd and 3rd Tuntian Legions still needs to be carried out in the Tasya camp, and Isidor and Auston, who were appointed by Bai Feng as the commander of the legions, also returned to the Tasya camp early to form their legions, and by the way, Gamilios also returned.

Even without these affairs, the affairs of the other legions were enough for Bai Feng to be busy, especially the reconstruction of the Doge's Guard, before Antio recovered from his serious injuries, Bai Feng had to personally preside over the reconstruction of the Doge's Guard.

Fortunately, Wendell and Simpson's injuries were not too serious, and they recovered well, and they also helped Bai Feng solve a lot of problems, so that the affairs of the Governor's Guard were not all on Bai Feng alone.

After three days of continuous operation, the transfer of personnel and the replenishment of troops of the various legions of the city of Rome were completed, after which the three legions of Licinius and others went out to build the town, and Nelson's cavalry corps also set off for the border, and the city of Rome finally fell silent.

Bai Feng, who was idle, had to start preparing for another thing, that is, to help Gatus's Cheetah Legion improve its combat effectiveness; in fact, Bai Feng did not plan to change the composition of the Cheetah Legion, he wanted to use the Macedonian phalanx to arm the Cheetah Legion!

The Macedonian spear is usually held one to two meters from the end of the handle, and the spearheads of the four to six rows of soldiers in the front of the phalanx are aimed at the front, and the posture of the soldiers in the back rows of soldiers holding the spears is somewhat oblique, and some are perpendicular to the ground, which is different.

The first three and the last one in each column are in key positions, so brave and skilled soldiers are selected. In battle, the entire phalanx often ran forward in a sturdy and dense formation, like a battering ram ramming the enemy's ranks.

The Macedonian pikemen used a round shield no more than sixty centimeters in diameter, thirty centimeters smaller than the Roman infantry's square shield, which hung high above the neck, allowing the infantry to control the huge spears with two hands, and to keep each other's bodies close together.

Usually in phalanx ranks, each warrior was given a three-foot square space to wield his weapons, with a standard depth of eight or sixteen men, while the Roman infantry took great pains to protect each other, but the Macedonians were strict in their choice of equipment for the purpose of attacking.

The key to the survival of the soldiers is not their equipment (which has been reduced in size and weight to a considerable extent), nor their companions in the rear, but whether they are safe to stay in a huge spear formation that no enemy can hope to break through. The Macedonian phalanx was more vulnerable than its ancient Greek 'predecessors', but the attack was far more powerful than the former.

The first five columns of spears in the formation were in direct contact with the enemy in the early engagements, and countless spears collided with each other, forming a wall of spears, harpooning the enemy and powerfully rebounding the enemy's attack like a mane.

The men in the back and in the middle were not idle, raising their shields to block the arrows they fired, stabbing the enemy to the ground with the spires on the butts of their rifles, and advancing with their shoulders into the front row of soldiers.

The innumerable swinging butts of the rifles also inflicted inevitable damage on the enemy in the confusion while the soldiers in the rear were fighting, and at the front of the battle formation, as Levy writes about, each enemy was forced under the attack of ten spear tips, and the enemy soldiers who were the targets were simply 'in short supply' for those spear tips.

Therefore, it is crucial for each soldier to level his spear and find the most critical space in the incoming assassination, and the attacker should try to find a wedge between the gaps in the countless spear tips.

If the spear is too heavy, and the enemy is too resistant to advance, he will be exhausted in a few minutes, and rarely, if ever, a soldier thinks about who he actually stabbed and how many enemies he stabbed, and to advance is a success, and defeat will come with the paralysis and unresponsiveness that pervades the whole array caused by the deepening of the fear of goodness.

If the spear-wielding soldiers of the first array are defeated, if the enemy breaks into the phalanx with swords, or, worse, they have rushed in from the emptier side of the phalanx, then disaster has befallen them, and they will surely die.

The auxiliary weapon, the dagger, was as stupidly short as the spear, and it offered little security to the Macedonian soldiers, and the spear-wielding soldiers themselves could not turn around against an enemy who had come close to them.

But a disgraceful abandonment of the spear and a disgraceful escape to the opposing formation would only make the open gap wider, and at the same time, such a humiliating escape would not have been successful when one body pressed against the other.

Once they had successfully entered the phalanx, the enemy began to slaughter with their swords, cutting open the abdomen or groin of the phalanx soldiers, cutting off the limbs of the souls who had fallen into the trap, until the entire phalanx broke apart, and the bloodied soldiers were seppuku and still tried to hold on to their weapons.

Phalanx soldiers rarely heard orders to stop their advances, and in the final analysis, their combat operations were based mainly on contact, feeling, the level of pressure from the enemy, and at the same time shouts and rumors circulating in the formation.

Because the sea of dust, blood, and twisted corpses soon blinded the eyes of the soldiers of the phalanx, paralyzed their hearing, and made it impossible for them to make a correct judgment of the situation.

However, if the brave soldiers were able to maintain the impermeable wall of spears, while their companions behind them helped them to push forward, then the slaughter would be on the other side. Indeed, once the phalanx had moved smoothly and the spears had successfully begun their attack, there was nothing to resist the terrifying power of this iron weapon.

Imagine the unfortunate ones torn to shreds by a thousand stabs, the final "execution" of the vanquished by the victors, with only a brief break when they have to carefully avoid the remains of the enemy's weapons and mutilated limbs.

Because of the horror of this fight, it is no wonder that a general needs a warrior who is neither gentle and delicate youth, nor graceful and toned muscles, but a sturdy and dirty veteran who has the courage and experience and will never flinch in the face of such a task.

In order to protect the flanks and rear, before the battle began, the lightly armed spearmen were lined up in a horizontal column of about eight men in depth at the back of the phalanx, while the auxiliaries were lined up in a skirmish column in front of the phalanx, and the cavalry and a certain number of lightly armed spearmen were arranged on the flanks.