"Chapter Eighty-Six: The Spartan Legion"
The world is simple, and so is life. It's not that the world is complicated, it's that you make the world complicated. None of us live in the objective world, we all live in a subjective world that each gives its meaning.
– Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist)
Leonidas was the second centurion in Rome to grow into a system general, and also the first system general from the Spartan heavy infantry, and the third Macedonian phalanx legion in Rome that he personally formed, was named Sparta!
Among the four field legions and the three phalanx legions in Rome, Leonidas's Spartan legion was the most special one, because the names of the other legions were earned by the achievements and merits, and only the Spartan legion was directly awarded.
If some people think that this kind of direct grant means that the Spartan Legion is not rich enough in actual combat experience, then Bai Feng thinks that this direct grant is his trust in the Spartan Legion and his trust in Leonidas.
Whether it was in the created Roman world or in this real world, the Spartan heavy infantry never lived up to Bai Feng's expectations of them, and Leonidas, as the best of the Spartan heavy infantry, he deserved Bai Feng's trust.
The situation in the eastern part of the Savage Land has been extremely stable: the Eastern Alliance, which has suffered greatly in strength, is recuperating on its own territory, and the Luxi tribe, which is still entrenched, has set their wary eyes on the Eastern Alliance, which once intended to invade them.
The Essini Kingdom, which was in control of the real power by Queen Boudicca, quickly recovered its strength with the support of the city of Rome, especially the Essini Kingdom's personal guard legions and the three major legions, which were successively equipped with more sophisticated weapons and equipment with the permission of Bai Feng.
In view of the actual development of the city of Rome, Luquis, who was in charge of handling the military affairs of the city of Rome, made appropriate adjustments to the garrison army.
At least two of the four elite field legions and three phalanx legions, as well as the two cavalry legions, were stationed in the city, and the other seven legions were stationed in various places, taking turns to replace them.
Wendell's Doge's Guard and Luculus's Guard Battalion were still stationed in Rome as the standing garrison of the city of Rome, however, only the Doge's Guard was a real garrison of these two troops, and the Guard Battalion had long been drained of all the elite by Bai Feng!
Recently, the legions that were stationed in Rome were Leonidas' Spartan legions and Bazel's Tiger legions, and the White Peaks, who hurriedly returned to Rome, could only choose to let Leonidas lead the Spartan legions through the teleportation array to the battlefield of the Sunset Fortress.
The Spartan Legion, with a full strength of 10,500 soldiers, was a standard Macedonian phalanx corps, and its corps consisted of four phalanx wings, two cavalry wings and two longbow wings, one infantry wing and one elite infantry wing, and a general guard composed of heavy cavalry.
The teleportation array in the White Spirit Ring can teleport up to 1,000 people at a time, which is almost the soldiers of a wing, and the huge Spartan legion only needs eleven teleportations to teleport the entire army from Rome to the battlefield where the wolf cavalry is coming.
When the first phalanx wing of the Spartan Legion appeared on the battlefield, all the attention was focused on the soldiers of the breakout army in front, and few people noticed the army that suddenly appeared behind them;
By the time the four phalanx wings and the two cavalry wings had been teleported to the battlefield, almost all the soldiers of the breakout army noticed the strangeness behind them, and with the white light, more and more black-clad and black-armored soldiers appeared on the battlefield.
After the fully equipped Spartan Legion teleported, Bai Feng, who was slightly pale, immediately changed into the Starfall Meteorite Battle Armor that had been stored in his White Spirit Ring for a long time, and then rode away on horseback; as for the command of the Spartan Legion, that was Leonidas' business.
Even the Spartan Legion that appeared out of thin air did not attract much attention from the soldiers of the breakout army, after all, the orc wolf cavalry in front was their real mortal enemy;
Leonidas, dressed in the red robes of the Spartan hoplites, first ordered his four phalanx wings to line up to form a spear line, and then deployed the longbow and cavalry wings behind the phalanx line, and the infantry wings on both flanks of the phalanx line.
Although the soldiers of the Spartan Legion have not participated in any major battles in a structured manner, they are all elite divisions specially trained by the system, even if they are the strongest Seventh Wing in the Breakout Army, they will definitely not be the opponent of the Spartan Legion in a frontal battle!
At this time, the 50,000 wolf cavalry charging were only more than 1,000 meters away from the breakthrough army, and a short distance of 1,000 meters was only a matter of an instant for the wolf cavalry galloping wildly.
Bai Feng, who was standing side by side with the Marquis of Rundstede, saw the endless wolf cavalry swarming in front of him, and a cold sweat even broke out on his back;
The soldiers of the 7th Wing, the Assault Wing, and the Reserve Force all erected their shields in their hands, wanting to use the shield wall to resist the charge of the wolf cavalry, while the Iron Guard, the Fire Legion, and other troops without shields could only use dense formations to meet the charge of the wolf cavalry.
Fortunately, the Imperial soldiers all have round shields as a standard configuration, and the Imperial soldiers who are closely lined up have coordinated the round shields in their left hands with the long swords in their right hands;
The wolf king Thack, who personally led 50,000 wolf cavalry, was not outstanding in commanding ability, but he was much stronger than ordinary generals; with his vision, he could naturally see through at a glance which part of the breakout army was easier to break through, and which unit was even less likely to be broken through.
The 7th Wing and the Assault Wing, which were distributed on both flanks of the Breakthrough Army, formed a relatively stable shield defense line, and compared to the Shield Wall Defense Line, the sword and shield defense line in the center of the Breakthrough Army was much weaker, or at least it looked less stable.
Therefore, the sharp-eyed Thacker directly chose the main army in the center of the breakout army as the breakthrough point of the wolf cavalry under his command; it turned out that Thacker's choice was very correct, and the iron-blooded guards at the forefront of the breakout army could not stop the fierce impact of the wolf cavalry at all.
The soldiers of the Iron Guard, who were waiting for the battle, even if they had a fearless spirit of fighting to the death, could not change the outcome of the defense line being torn apart by the wolf cavalry in an instant, and the rushing wolf cavalry directly crushed the defense line of the Iron Guard.
All the generals who surrounded Bai Feng and Marquis of Rundstead were so powerless in the face of the charge of 50,000 wolf cavalry, and the fierce and powerful wolf cavalry cluster was not an existence that the imperial soldiers could resist at all.
The Iron Guards, who performed well on the battlefield, were crushed by countless wolf cavalry in less than three minutes, and then the Fire Legion, which lost its commander, was crushed by the indomitable wolf cavalry without even resisting for three minutes.
Behind the Fire Legion is the main force of the breakout army composed of tens of thousands of elite city defense troops, and the city defense army is no less than the number of wolf cavalry, so that they are not easily crushed by the wolf cavalry, but the wolf cavalry that charges more and more fiercely is tearing apart the defense line of the city defense army little by little.