"Chapter 22: The Landing of the Great Army"
You don't grow up when no one says "no" to you.
- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (one of the most outstanding writers in the history of world literature)
After the swaying First Roman Fleet arrived off the port of Mutsu, Commander Nams's flagship Empire, the Seven Columns, and the fleet's thirty Three Columns did not go deep into the shallow inland seas, but remained in the open sea to take on the duty of guard.
The twenty twin warships of the fleet escorted the transports full of soldiers of the various legions to the outskirts of the port, and in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings caused by the unruly Lucy warriors coming ashore, the Sixth Roman Legion of Marcus landed first.
With the current scale of the port of Mutsu, only a maximum of four transport ships are allowed to dock at the same time at a time, which has to be said to be a kind of torment for the hundreds of transport ships waiting in line to dock at the port, and even Bai Feng himself decided to go ashore early after waiting for two hours.
Although the expanded port of Mutsu was already the largest port in the Yamato Empire, the Seven Columns of Warships such as the Rome could not stop in any way, and Bai Feng, who was forced to helpless, could only take his generals and row to the port in small boats.
In the course of two hours, only one of the four Roman wings and three longbow wings of the Sixth Roman Legion and half of the Roman Wing landed successfully, and at this rate, I am afraid that the landing of the Sixth Roman Legion alone would take ten hours!
Ten hours to land one Roman legion, two Roman legions would take twenty hours, plus two Lucy legions, each Lucy legion would take at least ten hours, and the landing of four legions would take two days and two nights!
The Lucian legions, which had no cavalry to do so, did not need to make time-consuming and laborious cavalry landings, but their legions numbered more than 35,000, more than twice as many as the full Roman legions, so that their landings would naturally be slow rather than fast.
After landing from the beach in a small boat, Hakumine first instructed Sanada Nobuyoshi, who had come with a large number of samurai, to arrange manpower to assist the soldiers on the transport ship to land, and prepare hot meals, drinks, and fresh fruits for the soldiers who had already landed.
The long voyage was a great test for all the soldiers, including the Roman soldiers, and if the long hours of wind and waves made them mentally tired, then the lack of hot meals and fresh fruits and vegetables all the time caused their physical condition to plummet.
In order for these mentally and physically exhausted soldiers to recover as soon as possible, it has become the easiest and most effective way to provide them with hot meals to replenish their physical strength, fresh fruits and vegetables to replenish vitamins, and drinks to relieve mental stress.
With the arrival of the Roman army and the Lucy army, the officers and men of the Yanhuang Standing Army, who had a heavy responsibility on their shoulders, could also spare time to assist the soldiers who landed, so as soon as the arrangements were made on the side of Bai Feng, Sanada Nobuyoshi's side immediately took the samurai back to make arrangements.
The 10,000 soldiers of the Yanhuang Standing Army who quickly arrived at the port, all they could do was to prepare food, vegetables, fruits, and drinks for the soldiers who were landing, or assist the cavalry who landed and lead their horses.
Facts have proved that even if it is to lead the horses for the landing cavalry, it is a difficult and arduous task for the officers and men of the Yanhuang Standing Army, because some short-tempered war horses, when they see a stranger approaching, directly raise their front hooves and kick the approaching person out!
When the Roman light cavalry belonging to the Second Wing of the Sixth Roman Legion landed on the shore, two soldiers of the Yanhuang Standing Army who stepped forward to help lead the war horse were directly kicked out by the slightly restless war horse and fell into the sea with a thud.
The officers and men of the Yanhuang Standing Army, who were busy next to them, immediately rushed over when they saw this; among the soldiers who rushed over, those who could swim hurried to take off their clothes and armor and jump into the water to save people, and those who could not swim ran forward to try to control the war horse.
The chaotic scene around made this already uneasy war horse immediately fall into panic, and the panicked war horse not only kicked the soldiers of the Yanhuang Standing Army who rushed up to cry and cry for their father, but even his own original master was kicked into the sea by him.
If it hadn't been for the centurion of this group of Roman light cavalry who came out in time to calm down this mad horse, God knows how much chaos would have been caused in the future, and even so, one of the dozen or so officers and men of the Yanhuang Standing Army who fell into the sea before and after was unfortunately killed.
Such an unfortunate event during the landing process is something that everyone does not want to see, however, since it has happened, what Bai Feng needs to do is to remedy it in time and take some measures to prevent similar things from happening again.
First of all, the unfortunate death of the Yanhuang Standing Army soldier, Bai Feng ordered someone to take out ten times higher than the Yanhuang family's death pension to posthumously give him a posthumous gift, and personally ordered Sanada Nobuyoshi to send someone to hand over the posthumous property to the family of the deceased soldier.
In addition, every officer of the Yanhuang Standing Army who fell into the water received a financial compensation worth three months' military salary, and the officers and soldiers of the Yanhuang Standing Army who sacrificed themselves to save people received a financial reward worth half a year's military salary, which was Bai Feng's timely remedy.
Later, in order to prevent similar things from happening further, Bai Feng let the soldiers of the Yanhuang Standing Army only be responsible for preparing meals, vegetables, fruits, and wine, and the landing of the Roman legions and Lucy's legions was carried out by themselves, and there was no longer a need for the soldiers of the Yanhuang Standing Army to come forward to assist.
Seeing that the speed of the army's landing was about to slow down again, Bai Feng, who came up with a new move, ordered someone to convey the order to the transport ships that were still queuing at the back, so that the sailors on these transport ships could first use the small boats equipped on the ships to transport the soldiers to land from the beach.
All the standard ships that survived in Roman harbors, from transports with more cargo capacity to merchant ships with higher comfort, were each equipped with five small boats for life-saving purposes, which were suitable for emergency landings.
After the successful landing of the first batch of 500 small boats carrying 500 officers and men of the 2nd Lucy Regiment, the number of small boats departing from the second group reached 100, and it is evident that twenty transports were already involved in this small but rapid landing.
On the way to the camp of the Yanhuang Standing Army, Bai Feng ordered Sanada Nobuyori to send people to Sanohe Castle and told Nanbu Nobunao to hurry up and make the flag.
The two Roman legions and the two Lucy legions that are about to land, the two banner legions and the two Essini legions that will land in the future, as well as the Tenglong legion in Bronno, all need a large number of Yanhuang Tangling banners of the Yanhuang family to camouflage, which is a necessary prop for the army.